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Cupertino slings quick fix. Security researchers have disclosed an cross-site scripting vulnerability in Google France.…

Round holes, square pegs... or something like that HPE GPC '16 Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s latest EMEA chief has lined up his generals and the divisions they will run from the start of the new fiscal year beginning November.…

Promises ESX-to-KVM-to-AWS and back again without involving architects HyperConverged HyperContender ZeroStack has started connecting public clouds to its on-premises kit.…

Marketing budget a bit tight after EMC slurp Michael? Dell Technologies chose a bizarre, seemingly cheap way to hijack Hewlett Packard Enterprises Global Partner Conference this morning that involved gimps with big balls.…

It's 2016 and virtual printing can make a desktop hypervisor run almost anything Late last week VMware delayed the release of Workstation 12.5 because of a bug it felt needed squashing before the code went live.…

Javelin Spear phishing from Russia cracked admin account The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has confirmed that its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database has been accessed by a “Russian cyber espionage group operator by the name of Tsar Team (APT28), also known as Fancy Bear.”…

Windows, Win Server, Office, Edge, IE, Silverlight, Flash, iOS, watchOS... Mega Patch Tuesday Microsoft is wrapping up the summer with a dump of 14 bulletins for various security vulnerabilities in its products, while Apple and Adobe are following up with fixes of their own.…

Appeals court rules review site not liable for negative reviews Reprehensible review site Yelp is not responsible for negative views posted on its site, a US appeals court has ruled.…

Everyone's got a price The maker of ad-busting plugin Adblock Plus (ABP) has opened up a market to let publishers and advertisers link up on ads that it will not filter out.…

Letters flying in IANA transition showdown The decision whether to end US government oversight of the internet will likely come down to a personal decision by President Obama on Thursday.…

YouTube rippers elbow aside old favorites So long peer-to-peers, and farewell dodgy file lockers: young music fans now steal their music straight from YouTube instead.…

Platform as a Service for MS cloud: This one's for the Windows-wielding Linux lovers Microsoft's Service Fabric for Linux, an application platform designed for cloud-hosted microservices, will be released for public preview on September 26, 2016, at the company's Ignite event in Atlanta.…

Top profs and R&D bod make plea to Parliament Attracting and retaining EU talent remains a top concern for UK science following Brexit, according to today’s House of Lords Select Committee meeting about EU membership and UK science.…

We called it The Staines-based managed service provider Attenda has been sold to Ensono, and we called it.…

Exploding batteries to the left, exploding code to the right It's not been a good summer for Samsung. It packed its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones with detonating batteries, sparking a global recall.…

Mystery fake base stations around London will remain unexplained The secretive use of IMSI grabbers in the UK is set to receive oversight from the Interception of Communications Commissioner's Office (IOCCO).…

AND build more features, of course GitLab has pledged to Git-ify the world – or at least make the term an acknowledged verb – after pulling in $20m to fund its plans for building an end-to-end dev collaboration suite.…

Sarcos swaps cash for 4 board spots... that's going to end well RotM Sarcos Robotics has received $10.5m in investment from Microsoft, Caterpillar and other backers.…

Azure diversionary tactic to get 'em hooked For all its highs and lows over the recent years, one thing Microsoft has always had in its favour is developers – millions coding, first for Windows, then .NET.…

Ofcom ought to collect local data for local people ISPs should release data on broadband speeds at a household level so residents can easily compare speeds and switch providers, the representative body for 370 local councils has said.…

Good news: Oracle sneaked some patches out Updated Security holes in MySQL can be abused to gain remote root access on poorly configured servers, it emerged on Monday.…

When your finance guy is like, c'mon... At this point in the innovation curve for something like DevOps it’s fashionable to start asking “Where's the Return On Investment?”…

Tell us what you are seeing Reader survey Storage vendors suck; at least that's what many of you have told us over the years through various surveys and comments on articles.…

Phishing emails promise free money Fraudsters are phishing for what remains in fraud victims' bank accounts under the guise of British anti-fraud campaign Action Fraud.…

New machine-learning-tuned Pascal GPUs are gonna party like it's 1989 Analysis Nvidia has designed a couple of new Tesla processors for AI applications – the P4 and the P40 – and is talking up their 8-bit math performance.…

Usual drill, change passwords UK-based IP Telephony service VoIPtalk warned customers of a potential data breach over the weekend.…

After the headlong rush into HCI, where next? The glamour news in data centres for the past couple of years has been all about all-flash arrays, with converged systems providing a growing backdrop. The flash arrays provided hot performance while converged systems (CI) led by Dell EMC's CPSD (Converged Platforms & Solutions Division – formerly VCE) and Cisco/NetApp's Flexpods provided traditional virtualised server, shared storage array and network systems in integrated racks of components. Customers took to these because they were simpler to order, deploy, operate and manage than buying the three groups of components themselves.…

Is our innovation stale, asks pres at PC giant? No 'f*****g way' says a shopper HP Inc GPC HP Inc has launched a new sales tactic to take on Apple - hijacking worshippers of expensive iThings as soon as they step outside the altar of dreams to compare Macs with its slim and light PCs.…

Disruptive upgrade required ASAP if you care about your data ... or your job Microsoft's warned users of its StorSimple network-attached storage devices to update them ASAP, because they might not be finishing backups.…

Horizon beta for Continuum hits app store Bleeding-edge early adopters of Windows Mobile 10 have some more balm for their Continuum pains.…

One killer trojanised app or $100k of hardware is enough. A research trio has shown how thousands of malware-infected phones could launch automated distributed denial of service attacks to cripple the US emergency phone system "for days".…

vRealize Business Enterprise and IT benchmarking solutions to get old name, new owner VMware has sold vRealize Business Enterprise and IT benchmarking solutions, the financial management bits of its vRealize management suite, just four years after buying it.…

For absence of doubt, we mean birthday White smoke emanated from the towers at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s London-based digs yesterday as Marc Waters was ordained leader of UK and Ireland ops.…

Amazon CEO's rocket company reveals its orbit-and-beyond-capable boosters Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin has revealed designs for its first orbit-and-beyond-capable boosters.…

Users kind-of, almost told just how deep Dropbox goes into their accounts Dropbox has denied accusations that its Mac client stealing passwords.…

Teach-the-teacher content includes a 'Makey Makey Project Workshop' Google's efforts to help Australian teachers wrap their minds around the nation's digital technologies curriculum have expanded, with the Alphabet subsidiary's tax-efficient antipodean outpost flinging up more online courseware.…

There is no honour among clouds Microsoft's customer relationship management cloud is well-regarded, but most of the noise in the field is made by and about Salesforce and Oracle.…

South Korean giant sees $16bn figuratively do what the Note 7 literally does Samsung is continuing to take a beating in the market as it staggers from the global recall of its Galaxy Note 7 handset.…

Google Play services need constant location info Google, it seems, is very, very interested in knowing where you are at all times.…

Shameless exec invented companies to pocket invoices A former IT executive has been ordered to spend the next 45 months behind bars after he stole $1.3m from a charity in Virginia, US.…

'Autopilot' adds radar and driver prods Tesla is changing how its "Autopilot" super-cruise-control works in response to the death of one of its customers.…

Techie admits conspiracy A Volkswagen engineer has agreed to spill the details of his involvement in the VW emissions scandal.…

Natural selection algorithms to weed out web's crap design Silicon Valley machine-learning biz Sentient Technologies promises to bring the power of natural selection to marketing via AI, rather than digital marketers.…

Dell-EMC unloads ECM heavyweight for $1.62bn Dell has finally sold Documentum, one of the oldest and best-known names in storing and retrieving corporate information.…

Cracking the grey market in rent-a-borkers Analysis It’s not often an entirely new and thriving sector of the “digital economy” – one hitherto unmentioned by the popular press – floats to the surface of the lake in broad daylight, waving a tentacle at us.…

Join us to compare vision and reality Reg Events What will be the biggest bugbear in your professional life over the next few months? Managing an across the board operating system or application upgrade to Microsoft’s latest offering? Or dealing with an array of end-user devices, running multiple operating systems, most of which rarely come through the doors of head office?…

Noisy fire-fighting test cripples Romanian cash operation Sound waves equal to a jet fighter taking off, generated by fire fighting equipment during testing, has been blamed for taking down ING's banking operations.…

Movement without energy? Redmond puts its money where its mouth is Microsoft researchers have teamed up with physicists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, to show how time crystals might be possible.…

Skill and enthusiasm on the Iberian peninsula Hardware tech such as drones and energy reclamation technology predominated at the Startup Ole conference in Salamanca, Spain last week.…