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Management for Penguin-powered things, phones, and other skinny stuff Microsoft has added another piece to its Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) jigsaw, publishing Unix/Linux code that implements the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF) models and standards.…

Big names launch CBRS Alliance. Think of it as truckers-versus-tech Another industry alliance is gearing up to pitch mobile phone spectrum access to spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band – this time using frequencies formerly devoted to Citizens Band (CB) radio users.…

Wait, there's more: it's also an accelerometer The United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has thinks it can use a cloud of atoms as a gyroscope.…

Group scored $79k a month with infect-o-tronic rent-a-bot An alliance of cops and anti-malware experts have doused the Wildfire ransomware that plagued users in Belgium and the Netherlands.…

NSA cache dump keeps patches pumping Hungary-based security consultancy SilentSignal has ported a public exploit to newer models of Cisco's Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA).…

Right hand, meet left hand. Then both do a facepalm Google has explained an August 11th brownout on its cloud as, yet again, a self-inflicted wound.…

When fabs go rogue Scientists at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have designed a new form of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed to spot hidden vulnerabilities deep within a processor's design.…

Canadian and Australian privacy watchdogs bite, hard Ruby Corp, the rebranded parent company of illicit-affair-arranging outfit Ashley Madison, has had to enter into court-enforceable orders with privacy authorities in Canada and Australia, following the findings of a joint investigation in the two countries.…

Former comms minister Conroy calls on cops to back off, current minister says they're just following orders The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is resuming its hunt for documents associated with leaks about the financial position of the National Broadband Network.…

Needs work on the branding Denizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka Best Korea) get precious little internet access as it is, but the luck (and loyal) few will now have a Netflix-style streaming service to match similar systems in the decadent rest of the world.…

And it only costs $10,000 (if you've already spent $110,000) Tesla has launched a new power pack that it claims will make its Model S sedan the third fastest road car ever produced.…

'Parker' robo-ride processor design revealed Hot Chips Nvidia is channelling Thunderbirds legend Parker for its latest system-on-chip for self-driving cars.…

Coalition sends letter complaining about 'highly invasive' proposal A proposal to ask people to provide details of their social media accounts before entering the United States has been criticized as "highly invasive" by privacy advocates.…

Workers of the world, you have nothing to lose but your train seats Video So, Jeremy Corbyn recorded a message in which he was sitting on the floor of a train traveling between London and Newcastle, claiming it was "ram-packed" (as exampled by his floor sitting) and that was why all of the trains needed to be renationalised.…

Someone likes fragging servers Blizzard, the game developer behind World of Warcraft and Overwatch, was hit by another DDoS attack on Tuesday.…

DR firm's VI-part VAS, VAL, VAM, VAO, VAC and VCC embiggening The astonishingly successful backup and disaster recovery firm Veeam has announced an updated Availability Suit, and the Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud.…

Bridging the gap with Brit software biz gobble Big iron, big data and cloudy tools biz Syncsort has bought UK software biz Cogito to help it bring IBM mainframe database data into Big Data analytics, and to make the mainframes run better.…

No phone taps on WhatsApp is whack, moan spymasters European ministers are debating a clampdown on encryption and a further increase in surveillance in response to mounting terrorist threats.…

And app-aware SQL Server backup, double VDI count SimpliVity has announced an all-flash hyper-converged system and upped its single system VDI count from 2,000 to 4,000.…

Locked and loaded baby Lenovo’s signed a second patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, loading Redmond’s productivity software on its Android devices.…

Three levels of in and out filtering used to produce buyers' list Analysis Conversations with DCIG have revealed why seemingly obvious companies and their products were left out of a mid-range storage array buyers' report.…

But Deep Space Network brought her back online NASA has managed to reestablish a connection with the STEREO-B spacecraft after contact was lost in October 2014.…

The road from 2008 bust, bailout and 'no new staff' Ireland was hit hard by the global financial crunch of 2007 and 2008. It was the first of the EU member states to slip into recession immediately following the bursting of the economic bubble.…

Another benchm... WAIT! I mean a workable, realistic... Comment The storage benchmarking world is broken because there are no realistic and pratical storage benchmarks with realistic workloads customers can apply to systems.…

Hopes for tasty earnings as it dines out on share spike Data-visualisation business Tableau has announced that a former AWS executive, Adam Selipsky, is to come in as the new president and CEO in September as the company seeks to transform itself into a grown-up business.…

Wants to see a department for digital. Good luck with that Interview One month after Theresa May swept into government, former culture and digital minister Ed Vaizey is relatively sanguine about getting the sack.…

Entertaining archival store for media and oil-slinging types An Ovation Data Services private storage cloud for media and entertainment and oil and gas industries is based on HGST's Active Archive System and Versity Storage Manager.…

Four-year build results in OS that aims to secure industrial control systems, мы думаем Kaspersky Labs has finished building its eponymously-named operating system after four years of quiet development.…

Seven new logo candidates run from Monsters Inc to completely mad LOGOWATCH Poll Mozilla's attempt to find a new logo has reached the point at which it is willing to share seven new hot spring/summer looks with the world.…

Linguist says perps of zero day dump wanted to pose as gramatically-incorrect aliens The perpetrator behind the dumping of tools penned by the probably-the-NSA hacking squad called"Equation Group" appears to be a native English speaker, according to linguistic data researcher Shlomo Argamon.…

Centrify's strategy man says attack re-use is an opportunity for better security Interview Attackers like to re-use code, but vendors don't find out because they don't share, according to Centrify's David McNeely.…

Sales conference leaks also hint at mightier UCS and new customer portal Cisco is having its super-colossal global sales conference this week and some of the 20,000 staff are letting some details of future Borg strategies slip onto social media.…

Deprecation starts in October Google's decided that web-views should no longer be able to use OAuth requests, and is deprecating them in Android, iOS, Windows and OS X as of October.…

Unreal Engine chathaus had unbelievably bad security Information on some 808,000 Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum accounts, including email addresses, birth dates, and private messages, have been stolen from Epic Games.…

'Know Your Enemy' scheme uses switch flow tables to design attacks Software-defined networking (SDN) controllers respond to network conditions by pushing new flow rules to switches. And that, say Italian researchers, creates an unexpected security problem.…

Bing Maps relies on Wikipedia? Even a bit? Umm, guys, you do know anyone can edit it? Microsoft has laid part of the blame for Bing Maps' mis-location of the Australian city of Melbourne by a whole hemisphere on Wikipedia.…

Clue: When was the last time you heard nice things about SPARC Linux? Hot Chips Fujitsu chose 64-bit ARM CPU cores for its upcoming exascale supercomputer for two reasons: Linux and the ability to customize its own processors.…

PowerShell applause sours as devs say they don't care much for Redmond's curl alias either Well, that didn't take long: within a week of applause for Microsoft's decision to open-source PowerShell, a comment-war has broken out over curl and wget.…

Banks, government given 30th September deadline for tax announced three weeks ago National Goods and Services Tax means everything needs tweaking India recently introduced a national goods and services tax (GST) and the nation's techies are now scrambling to prepare for its implementation.…

Apparent jet and drone export plot foiled A sting operation by the US Department of Homeland Security has netted one California woman a 50-month sojourn in prison after she was found guilty of trying to break the US Arms Export Control Act.…

Centralise the decentralised. Magic happens, then profit A prominent privacy consultant has criticised Australia Post's intervention in the Australian State of Victoria's inquiry into electronic voting.…

How to make your own virtual reality brain Hot Chips Microsoft today revealed a first look at the inside of its Holographic Processing Unit (HPU) chip used in its virtual reality HoloLens specs.…

Newer Nexus owners get it first, the rest will have to wait Google is starting its rollout of Android 7, codenamed Nougat, but you're only going to get it if you're running one of the newer models of the firm's Nexus devices.…

Full-featured software comes with no support, and node count and capacity restrictions Determined to stand clear of the noise in the hyper-converged market and forge itself a distinctive identity, Maxta has announced a freemium business model for its MxSP hyper-converged software.…

Secrets of Exynos M1 cores spilled Hot Chips Samsung has revealed the blueprints to its mystery M1 processor cores at the heart of its S7 and S7 Edge smartphones.…

New guy bows to FoxConn demands The new CEO of Sharp Electronics has warned that there will be job losses at the consumer electronics company amid a broader restructure.…

First retrieved Falcon 9 goes on permanent display SpaceX has retired the first rocket it managed to land in one piece and erected the remains on Sunday outside the company's US headquarters.…

Germans a little verärgert at Outlook bug A bug in Outlook 2016 is making it harder for German users to get their email.…

Dumb passwords and phishing the main threats Video Weak passwords and phishing offer far easier mechanisms for breaking into most organizations than exploiting software vulnerabilities.…

Everyone has to be everything these days Actifio has added replication to its copy data management software, calling it StreamSnap.…