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Meanwhile Apple seeks to plug its declining phone profits with new markets Not content with its current world domination plans, Amazon is now seeking to control the skies and has unveiled its own airline. Well, kind of.…

It's a power-sipper, apparently Seagate has added a read-optimised SATA SSD to its Nytro line – the XF1230.…

Revenue up in Blighty, but still playing catch up with BT on triple play Sales at Virgin Media rose 3.2 per cent to £1.2bn for the broadband provider's second quarter compared with the previous year - as it signed up record ultrafast broadband subscribers.…

Service is still running, but you need an app for it now Yahoo! is to kill off the desktop client for its once-popular instant messaging service Messenger today.…

OCZ Z-Drives live on as furiously fast NVMe flash drives Toshiba has made a 7.68TB version of its dual-port ZD6000 NVMe flash drive available and DDN storage is using the drive in its IME14K burst buffer product.…

Fremen knows, I'm miserable now Something for the Weekend, Sir? My computer crashed every five minutes this morning. Please can you check what's wrong with it when you get home?…

Even Salesforce knows the score here Salesforce has splashed out $582m on what some hail as its alternative to MS Word. Without spending anything, Microsoft has shown the true meaning of power.…

IP infringement case defense to include non-infringement and invalidity aspects It's IP war in hyper-converged storage land. SimpliVity is suing Springpath for wilful patent infringement and has won an early round in the case. But Springpath wants us to know that it is early days and it’s going to defend itself vigorously.…

Arbitrary code execution and XSS messes may need to be done before the weekend VMware's just announced two significant bugs that need attention, sooner rather than later.…

WTF is... oh there's no such... but it works, right? Gartner defines Bimodal IT as: “the practice of managing two separate, coherent modes of IT delivery, one focused on stability and the other on agility. Mode 1 is traditional and sequential, emphasizing safety and accuracy. Mode 2 is exploratory and nonlinear, emphasizing agility and speed”.…

First 'Cyber Grand Challenge' shows software can eat itself DEF CON A quest to build a smart computer system that finds and patches bugs faster and more efficiently than humans is off to a good start with all the teams in DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge performing very well indeed.…

Malware Learnings Make Hideous Detriment People of Kazakhstan Black Hat The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has accused the Kazakhstan Government of sending malware-laced phishing emails to two investigative journalists in the country, along with activists, and family members to help spy, locate and extradite targets.…

Reader scores shonky NetWare support job where he had to share monitors On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday wallow in jobs that are nastier than yours.…

Moon Express' MX-1E lander cleared for 2017 missions The United States' Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared private moon-shot aspirant Moon Express for a 2017 lift-off.…

Virtually, that is. Zeus trojan ported to bash Brazil banks Criminals are ramping up their online presence in Rio de Janeiro, where the Olympic Games will open on Friday, August 5 – with IBM and Fortinet reporting new banking trojans and cyber crime activity in Brazil.…

Redmond's hostility to cloud desktops eases a little, at least for graphics-heavy apps Microsoft's taken the wraps of some new, GPU-infused, Azure compute instances that it's aiming at heavy compute users and the emerging desktop-as-a-service market.…

Just. Don't. Click. On. Dodgy. ShortURLs. People. Black Hat Twitter scammers have a new weapon with the release of an effective spear phishing tool that lands a victim almost two thirds of the time, dwarfing the usual five-to-fifteen-per-cent-open-rate for spam tweets.…

Parts-maker to the stars Magneti Marelli could power Exynos-powered Tizen-mobiles Samsung Electronics is considering an acquisition of Magneti Marelli, the Fiat-Chrysler-owned automotive parts supplier.…

Just a re-alignment of talent, no need to panic, move along, nothing to see here ... Fortinet has laid off 100 sales and marketing staff along with an unknown number of executives, as part of a company wide restructure that has axed about two percent of its workforce…

Describes high-efficiency 48v racks it offers as Open Rack 2.0 standard Google has for the first time shared some of its data centre designs with the OpenCompute Project (OCP).…

No middleman required to ding sites for info Black Hat Malicious ads can potentially masquerade as people online and grab their personal information from HTTPS-protected websites, two boffins have shown.…

Cupertino will match bounties if hackers donate them to charity Black Hat Security researchers can win up to US$200,000 in Apple's new bug bounty program, announced by the company on Thursday at the Black Hat security convention in Las Vegas.…

$1,500 up for grabs for those bold enough to bash browser Microsoft has opened a remote code execution bug bounty for preview versions of its Microsoft Edge browser.…

Break through the web's annoying HTTP dead ends Mozilla is trying out a new experimental feature in Firefox that lets you smash through annoying 404 dead-ends.…

Clue: It involves physically breaking into a ride this time Black Hat Last year, the Black Hat presentation by Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek caused Chrysler to recall 1.4 million vehicles to install a software update after they proved they could remotely hack Jeeps.…

Public transport execs ordered to push back against abuse Far from gently wading in the cesspool of Twitter, a Canadian arbitration body has told employers they need to actively push back against trolls.…

150GB of patient, internal files stolen? You gotta be kidney me – no, urine for a shock A medical group in Ohio has confirmed it was ransacked by miscreants who leaked hundreds of thousands of medical files, financial documents and patient records – but offered little else in the way of an explanation.…

Is that you mom? No, it's my idiot ex-husband A man who faked the caller IDs of his ex-wife's contacts in order to harass her will be fined $25,000.…

Both stubbornly refusing to confirm acquisition of engineering talent Analysis Amid mounting evidence that Nutanix has bought PernixData, both companies are still keeping their lips firmly and officially sealed.…

Hippy Golden State would be first to limit machines sold within its borders California could soon become the first US state to pass laws limiting the power consumption of computers sold within its borders.…

Dot Registry CEO reacts to extraordinary judgment against DNS overseer Interview It has been four years since Shaul Jolles, as CEO of Dot Registry, filed applications for five new internet extensions – .corp, .inc, .llc, .llp and .ltd – and wrote a check for just under $1m to have them considered by domain name system overseer ICANN.…

What's Philbin's plan for storage crown jewel? Comment It was recently reported that Manish Goel, HPE’s head of storage, had left the company. This seems to be one of a number of changes, including the departure of cloud head Bill Hilf.…

If you don't care, then this probably isn't for you Review There’s something immediately odd about BlackBerry’s second Android phone, apart from the geeky Sci-Fi name. Something you can’t at first put your finger on. It’s the first BlackBerry ever not to have the BlackBerry name on the front.…

Also picked up 5½ years' stripey suntan time for illegal possession of firearms A London man has been jailed for almost six years after being caught with two illegally held revolvers – and refusing to reveal to police the PINs for his mobile phones.…

Plus British honesty checker Top execs at ARM are facing a £54m stock payout after Japan giant Softbank swooped to scoop up the Brit-tech success.…

Into the third tablet solid state dimension with ballsy BiCS chippery Toshiba has produced a tiny but bigger SSD for tablets and ultrathins by adding TLC 3D NAND to its BG1 SSD card product line, and doubling its capacity.…

Dead dove dumping just latest avian abstruseness to afflict UK Devon and Cornwall police are investigating the mysterious placement of 40 dead pigeons at regular intervals along the the middle of the A35 near Honiton.…

Capitalism, free markets, competition, whoop-de-doo The UK's energy regulator is creating a database service that farms out information on Britons' energy tariffs to rival companies for the sake of ensuring a “competitive market”.…

It's the Cyber Grand Challenge Researchers at the US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, will host the final round of the world’s first AI hacking tournament in Las Vegas today, where seven teams will take their custom-built autonomous cyber reasoning systems into battle.…

Why, you bizarre individuals? Around 15 million people have actively turned their back on having the world's information at their finger tips in preference of talking to boring old humans instead.…

Rest of industry still sitting on its hands over 9-year-old threat Elements of the payment card industry have introduced a new contactless payment card security feature, designed to defend against relay attacks.…

Remember (Sad)Badlock? They do Black Hat It’s Black Hat time and that means the Pwnie Awards ceremony, honoring the highlights and bottom feeders of the IT security industry.…

Sailplane en route to Argentina for sky-scraping test flights Euro airliner firm Airbus is sponsoring a glider capable of soaring to greater altitudes than the famous SR-71 Blackbird spy aircraft.…

Breaking Bad was the most-streamed series of 2015 Total UK telecoms revenues grew for the first time in five years – increasing by £0.2bn to £37.5bn between 2014 and 2015, according to research from communications regulator Ofcom.…

Sipping gently, if you can... Today’s cities, transportation networks and even theme parks are filling up with wireless sensors designed to sniff, hear and feel what’s going on in their environment. They’re generating an unprecedented amount of data on everything from temperature to rainfall, vibration and location, and they’re sending it all back to central systems that are supposed to do smart things with it.…

CP/M and BIOS inventor adds to story of how Microsoft's IBM deal shaped the PC forever The Computer History Museum has revealed part of an unpublished memoir by Gary Kildall, a programmer and entrepreneur who made critical contributions to the personal computer industry in its formative years.…

Kernel carnage bashes browsers and punishes plug-ins Black Hat Zero Day Initiative researchers have detailed the winning hacks of this year's Pwn2Own competition, painting a picture of broken browsers and owned systems.…

Ready-to-ship systems canned after equipment failure at factory Cray has revealed that its products' Q2 profits have literally gone up in smoke.…

Everspin says it has 256Mbit chippery ready to roll to system builders Non-volatile RAM outfit Everspin says it's almost ready to ship non-volatile 256-megabit DDR3 chips and expects they'll soon find a home in your next server or array.…