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FCIP, faster Nexus switch, management software extensions announced Cisco is updating its storage networking gear to hopefully improve data protection, increase bandwidth and simplify end-to-end storage management.…

'It is out of control,' think tank thinks Images representing 117 million American adults – almost half the grownups in the country – can be found in the facial recognition databases maintained by US law enforcement agencies, according to a study conducted by the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School.…

Millennials turn out to be digital naïfs, not digital natives Millennials are more likely to fall for tech support scams than baby boomers, Microsoft says.…

'Digital Badges' will tell the world you drank Redmond's certification=credibility Kool Aid Microsoft's ongoing efforts to make its certifications something that shows bosses how very clever you are have given us some new “Digital Badges”.…

De-anonymising 'secret' chat app not that hard, really A little machine learning can de-anonymise Yik Yak users, according to researchers from American and Chinese universities.…

Industry verticals, busy trying to make money, aren't paying attention to the telco biz's future 5G is on the way – no, really, it's on the way, stop giggling – but outside the telcos and their suppliers, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is having trouble getting industries to care.…

Reg finds tech needle in a haystack of stupid Expect an outbreak of denials from whoever's got the credentials to @Wikileaks at the moment: Hillary Clinton has said no fewer than 17 civilian and government intelligence agencies point the finger to Kremlin interference in the election.…

Copy data virtualisation gets a flash boost +Comment Actifio's AppFlash DevOps Platform will run on Pure Storage's FlashArray.…

Twin bug bombs perish with patch Lexmark has patched two dangerous vulnerability in its Markvision enterprise IT analysis platform that grants remote attackers god-mode system access over the internet.…

Shiny new on-board computers won't actually work while Tesla figures out how to auto-drive Behind the smokescreen of its new onboard hardware announcement, Tesla is quietly killing off its controversial (and in some countries illegal) Autopilot feature.…

Uncle Sam asked to come clean on what info it sought. Good luck with that Yahoo! has asked the US government to break its silence on the secret court order that forced the Purple Palace to scan its webmail users' messages for specific keywords.…

How to spend $10 million A DAY fixing a web site Australia's AU$700k-per-year chief statistician has told a Senate estimates committee that the August 2016 Census crash lopped $30 million off the hoped-for $100 million savings to be had from taking the survey online.…

Phones, cars, VR goggles ... the Chinese are coming for your profit margins, America Pics Chinese tech maker LeEco (pronounced Le Echo) has made its entrance into the US market – with a lavish press conference in San Francisco that showed the Middle Kingdom isn't afraid to take on some of the biggest names in technology.…

Martian probe goes silent mid-descent, Juno also goes dark It's not a great day for space watchers. The European Space Agency's Schiaparelli Mars lander may have failed during its descent to the Red Planet.…

Disk arrays and flash still minor league stuff, though Seagate's latest quarterly revenues benefited from an upsurge in disk drive demand – but still declined slightly year-on-year. The biz managed to bank a five-fold increase in profits, though.…

Upshot of US government meeting to tackle IoT security The big outcome of a one-day special IoT security session run by the US government? A new labeling system for your smart home devices.…

Arrest caught on cam as chap enjoys lunch in Prague with his squeeze Vid Czech Republic police have arrested a Russian believed to be the hacker behind the massive 2012 theft of more than 100 million LinkedIn user credentials.…

Compute-storage wrangler is working with Morgan Stanley from here to IPO +Comment Hyper-converged infrastructure appliance vendor SimpliVity is working with Morgan Stanley to get more private funding and to launch an IPO possibly in 2017. It has also laid people off.…

Twitter bots make a lot of noise but thankfully can't vote in elections Hillary Clinton may have the most human supporters among those running for the US presidency, but Donald Trump has an edge among automatons.…

Telco coughs up cash to make throttling complaints go away, will drop 'unlimited' from ads T-Mobile US has agreed to pay the US comms watchdog the FCC $48m to settle claims that it illegally throttled the connections of some unlimited-plan data users.…

Everyone agrees: Our group has the best solution for patching bugs There are two things that everyone agrees on when it comes to the internet of things (IoT). First, security is a problem. And second, their approach is the best one.…

Avere, Qumulo and Pure's FlashBlade facing pushy eager-beaver of a product Dell EMC is launching the Isilon All-Flash system which is designed to handle extreme high-performance NAS workloads.…

Lawyers weep as retirement plans go AWOL and Dell gets payment The IP dispute between Pure Storage and (Dell) EMC is over with Pure paying some cash to Dell and getting a licence to the disputed patent.…

Software-only Data Domain gets 6X capacity expansion Dell EMC has extended its data protection products with more scalable Data Domain software, Azure support by Networker and extended cloud tiering.…

But he's got a yuge firewall, folks... the best kind of firewall US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of rival Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while Secretary of State appeared to have rebounded on him.…

Must be hoping its biz hookup mojo will see off Amazon, S3 Dell DMC has updated its ECS object storage product, adding support for PowerEdge servers, bigger disks, and claiming a 60 per cent cost advantage over public cloud alternatives like Amazon.…

Suck it up, folks, you'll have to take responsibility for yourselves out there The Internet of Things is “dangerous”, according to some bloke trying to rebrand it as the “Internet of You” – and the government ain't going to pass new laws to sort it out.…

Compelling development for SC, much less so for PS Series Dell's SC Series (ex-Compellent) arrays are getting EMC data mobility and protection facilities as they are brought into that side of the Dell storage house.…

SoHopeless Cybercrooks are increasingly targeting routers in consumers’ homes.…

EMC's HCI gear gets a Dell server invasion EMC's VxRail and VxRack hyper-converged infrastructure systems are getting wholesale Dell PowerEdge server transplants.…

A tale of the spy ship Yantar, tinfoil hats and that pesky bugger we call reality Rumours abound on odder corners of the internet that a Russian signals intelligence ship has tapped into one of the main internet cables serving Syria. Sadly for the conspiraloons, it's almost certainly not true.…

Muslim child's Facebook holiday snap farce a case in point Prevent is “not only unjust but also counterproductive” according to a study into the human rights impact of the strategy, which revealed how a 14-year-old was targeted over a Facebook photograph.…

How interesting that you'd say that, Gavin BT's chief exec Gavin Patterson has claimed an Openreach split would make future broadband investments more challenging and increase the firm's already-ballooning pension deficit.…

Pricey, but cheaper than a pub full of BOFHs HP Inc has disclosed pricing for HP Workspace, the Windows app-streaming service that allows its new Elite x3 business phone to fully replace a PC.…

Floating space lab will back up to full capacity Three new astronauts are due to board the International Space Station, after blasting off to space this morning.…

Well at least timetables, payrolls, library systems... King's College London has been borked over the last day or so due to a failure at its Strand data centre.…

Softcat warned of storm cloud in UK ahead of referendum, now says it blew over The storm clouds Softcat pointed to gathering over the industry in the months prior to the EU referendum didn’t rain on the firm’s parade after all, judging by financial results outlined to the City today.…

When diving your U-boat, check all hatches are shut A sunken German submarine from World War One has been found at the bottom of the Irish Sea – and excitable folk are claiming the Loch Ness Monster sank it.…

Your inflatable buddy in the cockpit Good news. DARPA’s ambitious project to recreate Otto, the autopilot from Airplane, is finally bearing fruit.…

UK.gov 'working with fibre providers to find a solution' Digital minister Matt Hancock has said pure fibre and 5G are the priority for Blighty's digital infrastructure over the next decade - but has indicated the government won't be paying for it.…

Well, it's hanging on in there, but why didn't it conquer the world? Analysis Does European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager's team pay close attention to the tech news? If not, perhaps they should.…

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Not quite sure how the new mechanism works? Mull it over here HPC Blog How does 10x faster server performance sound to you? Not in five or six years, but in late 2017? Ground breaking things are afoot in the server world. IBM’s new OpenCAPI mechanism, and the accompanying organization, promises to make this vision reality.…

More than a mere RHEL release testbed Comment Red Hat is the biggest – and one of the oldest – companies in the Linux world, but despite the difficulty of accurately measuring Linux usage figures, Ubuntu and its relatives seem to be the most popular Linux distributions. Red Hat isn’t sitting idle, though. Despite its focus on enterprise software, including virtualisation, storage and Java tools, it’s still aggressively developing its family of distros: RHEL, CentOS and Fedora.…

Promise to save £600m per year was all talk and no trousers MPs have urged the Cabinet Office to get a grip on its embarrassing efforts to consolidate departments' back offices into two privately owned shared services centres.…

Between two stools one falls to the ground Discussions of information security tend to revolve around keeping confidential information confidential: preventing intruders from compromising the protection of the systems and gaining access to data they're not entitled to see. But there's more to security than just keeping information secret: it's a three-pronged concept.…

Small, large, fast and slow – take your pick from Seagate's latest range Seagate has announced six new Guardian Series disk drives for internal use in portables, desktops and gaming rigs, with BarraCuda and FireCuda branding and a variety of form factors.…

Transcriptionist, your days are numbered, it seems Microsoft on Tuesday said that its researchers have "made a major breakthrough in speech recognition."…