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Helion a 'real environment for production' OpenStack Summit Hewlett Packard Enterprise has polished its open-source cloud bundle ready for those returning from public cloud or perturbed by off-premises services.…

Sour taste ahead for professional drivers A truck using Uber’s latest automated driving system has made its first commercial delivery after shipping 45,000 cans of beer Bud on public freeways with no one at the wheel.…

Jamboard is a cheaper Microsoft Surface Hub Pic Google's latest tablet, the Jamboard, weighs 93 pounds (42 kilograms). It could inflict grievous bodily harm if it toppled onto you. But Google made sure to have the four-wheeled stand that supports the unwieldy screen certified by safety testing firm UL.…

CPU designer touts cloud to push updates securely to all devices ARM TechCon Processor designer ARM will squirt security fixes directly into internet-connected gadgets to hopefully keep them defended from hackers.…

We win! Boo-yeah! First place out of three? ARM TechCon Suse is claiming victory over Red Hat by announcing – and these caveats are all crucial – "the first commercial enterprise Linux distribution optimized for ARM AArch64 architecture servers."…

Fine, but you really should consider replacing it by now Samsung is issuing a software update to all its Galaxy Note 7s across Europe, limiting the maximum battery charge to 60 per cent, in an attempt to quell its explosive safety issues.…

Switch to asymmetric keys, stat! Pager communications in industrial environments often run over unencrypted channels, creating a hacker risk in the process.…

Now go forth – and develop armies of soulless stenographers Microsoft has released a catalogue of AI software under Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit on GitHub today.…

Lack of cohesion Exclusive Cohesity has parted ways with its chief operating officer, Riccardo Di Blasio, one year after he joined the startup.…

Q: What happens when a one-disk-failure-tolerant RAID fails? A: So do new applicants King's College London suffered its seventh consecutive day of IT woes today. According to our sources in Blighty's capital, this was down to a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) which was running virtualised systems failing during a hardware upgrade.…

Yeah yeah. Humanity is unnecessary. We're sick of experts shoving it in our faces Once upon a time a public sector job was a golden ticket: little actual work, less accountability, and a job for life. Not any longer.…

Why are you screaming and tearing your hair out? IoT World Congress Putting Internet of Things sensors into electricity distribution grids works just fine - and security is catered for by existing broad standards, Luc Hossenlopp, CTO of Schneider Electric’s energy division, told the Internet of Things World Congress today.…

Guidelines issued on ensuring the public is protected, not spied on “There is a gap between what exists and what should exist,” according to the UK's commissioner responsible for ensuring that surveillance cameras are protecting members of the public, rather than spying on them.…

Shame about the name Hands-on Review Available for order this week, BlackBerry’s penultimate own-brand phone is a luxurious but light big sibling to its DTEK50. That was the first to marry a reference design, from TCL, to BlackBerry’s own “hardened” Android. The DTEK60 – not a name that rolls off the tongue – also uses BlackBerry’s Android, but aims for the boardroom rather than the shop floor. It’s one of the year’s nicer surprises.…

Yep. That sounds about right Honesty in job ads is rarity. When employers talk of "exciting admin management opportunities", they really mean: paper-pushing drones wanted.…

That's plenty for Remote and Branch Offices, says firm Scale Computing is set to announce a single-node configuration of its HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA).…

Well knock us off our unicycles, we had no idea! Reg Standards Bureau Ever wondered what the equivalent weight of a tram was in skateboarding rhinoceri? The answer is apparently 30, as any Aussie will tell you.…

Or is that what the Matrix wants us to think? Star physicist Stephen Hawking has reiterated his concerns that the rise of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems could spell the end for humanity. Speaking at the launch of the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Future of Intelligence on 19 October, he did, however, acknowledge that AI equally has the potential to be one of the best things that could happen to us.…

Envisioning provisioning Sysadmin blog In the 10 years since the modern form of public cloud computing went mainstream, it has changed the entire industry's approach to IT. In response, IT's top vendors have had to change as well. Like any technology, however, the public cloud has adapted, evolved, and become something much different than was ever originally envisioned.…

But 'illegal activities might continue to be financed' Plans to bring virtual currency exchanges and digital wallet providers within the scope of EU anti-money laundering (AML) legislation have been backed by the European Central Bank (ECB).…

Scammers: 'Gunna be lit, fam' Microsoft is warning of fake copies of its Security Essentials that if executed will throw a fake blue screen of death, pwn machines, and lead users to technical support scams.…

Bike-mounted cams on the ground are just fine, though The Swedish judiciary has ruled that camera drones are surveillance devices, meaning their pilots will have to get a seldom-issued permit to use them for private flights.…

Kid schools telco: 'So have you heard of access controls?' Virgin Media has shuttered a kindergarten-grade bug in a third party website that exposed up to 50,000 résumés it's received over the years, complete with names, street and email addresses of applicants.…

Brian Ridpath has 419 problems, but the potentially fictional Lisa Johnson ain't one A lonely beancounter has been jailed after he fell for what appears to be a classic Nigerian email scam, and conned £150,000 out of a friend so he could bankroll his fake damsel in distress.…

Erm … didn't Amazon just make a deal with VMware for something similar? Yes, it did Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed a new on-prem-VM-to-cloud teleporter that aims to help organisations take virtualised workloads to its cloud.…

Wi-Fi Alliance certification program kicks off with Intel, Qualcomm chipsets to the fore The WiFi Alliance reckons it's bestowed on a waiting world the first hint of what 5G will look like, and apparently it's a radio link that can manage 8 Gbps over 10 metres.…

Aggressive data protection services needed, as every business's data gets hyperscale Comment Acronis CEO Serguei Beloussov thinks data protection services have to stop being reactive and become active managers of data integrity, security and storage.…

Manifesto silent on copyright, calls for privacy, anonymity and open data in open formats The Pirate Party looks set for a successful outing in the coming weekend's Icelandic elections.…

300 staff to get their 140-character farewell Twitter is going from “troubled” to “beleaguered”, with reports that after it failed to flog itself it's going to cut loose as many as 300 staff.…

Bishop Fox report says Merlin@Home vulns are real and deadly St Jude Medical has suffered another setback in its lawsuit against Muddy Waters and security company MedSec.…

Patch to drop 1400 UTC, Tuesday. And the haste of its release suggests this is scary The world's second-favourite content management system, Joomla!, is warning of a critical security hole so bad its developers aren't saying what it fixes.…

Big Blue in compensation talks with Australian government IBM has tried to explain why trivially-small denial-of-service attacks took out the systems it provided for Australia's Census, causing a 40-hour outage.…

♬ 'Cause tonight is the night when two become one ♬ IBM has started sublimating the SoftLayer brand and will henceforth put its own Bluemix brand front and centre.…

Alleged Playpen perverts win a concession A US judge overseeing an FBI “Playpen case” has told agents to reveal whether or not their investigative hacking was approved by the White House.…

Head of chip giant's VC arm bullish about exits Pretty much everyone can agree that 2016 has been awful all round, but hey here's something we can look forward come January 1: 2017 is going to be the year of new tech IPOs, according to the CEO of Intel's venture capital arm.…

Lowell McAdam talks acquisitions, 5G and IoT Verizon is going to decide how much it is willing to pay for Yahoo! next month when an investigation into its massive security breach is completed.…

Unsuspecting investors given full Brazilian from TelexFree scam operation The CEO of VoIP telephone service TelexFree has confessed that his company was a front for a $1.8bn pyramid scam.…

Russia hoping to block accused miscreant's extradition The US Department of Justice has unsealed its indictment against a Russian bloke accused of hacking high-profile websites.…

Get patching now Apple has distributed a fresh round of security updates to address remote-code execution holes in iOS, macOS, Safari, and the firmware for Apple Watch and AppleTV.…

Apple still rules the roost – but it's not a popular perch The latest figures on smartwatch shipments have shown a dramatic decline in interest among consumers.…

Chip giant puts $38m into next generation of digital tech Intel has launched a new group to cozy up to pro-sports, aimed at working with the major leagues to introduce the next wave of technology from virtual reality to data analytics, tracking and image capture.…

No matter who wins US prez race, merger faces rocky ride AT&T's proposed $84.5bn acquisition of Time Warner is already facing a gauntlet of opposition from government officials and activists.…

But babies can start video chatting early The American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its recommendations for children's use of electronic media, and has cut the overall time it recommends that tots spend on-screen.…

Hardware vuln strikes 18 of 27 tested mobes Security researchers have demonstrated how to gain root privileges from a normal Android app without relying on any software bug.…

Looks past pesky shareholders to joyful Ellison marriage NetSuite closed in typical fashion what promised to be the final quarter before it is subsumed by Oracle - growth in turnover continued, as did operating overheads and losses.…

Astronomers will have to wait until 2028, according to predictions A rare gravitational lensing event will give researchers a precious chance at hunting new planets in Alpha Centauri in 2028, astronomers have predicted.…

Soz, you'll just have to get in your car and pick up a basket Asda customers were bereft of their weekend deliveries after a server glitch cancelled 15 per cent of online orders.…

US products compromised by Mirai mischief in another Internet of Things success Chinese electronics firm Hangzhou Xiongmai is set to recall swathes of webcams after they were compromised by the Mirai botnet.…