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End well: Will it, dear readers? The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is moving some of its IT to the public cloud, in a move to "embrace the opportunities that modern IT can bring".…

Going soft in the USA Salesforce has blamed currency fluctuations and deferred deals in the US for hitting its business.…

Make Box Simple. Make Platform Open. White-boxing doesn't scare us... The jargon changes, and the rhetoric can get ecstatic, but Huawei’s Cloud adventure is really just a highly elaborate way of saying “please upgrade your network”.…

The EU's coming for your government, froths tech titan Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook has claimed that the European Commission made up its claims about the business’ tax payments in Ireland.…

Your attention please – speakers sought for super new tech event CFP If you’re really doing the Internet of Things, we’d really like to hear about it at Building IoT London next March.…

Penalty amounted to roughly one hour of CEO's billable time TalkTalk has lost its appeal against the Information Commissioner's Office decision to fine the company £1,000 for a data breach last year.…

vCloud Air is now a going concern, and an R&D resource VMWORLD 2016 VMware's own cloud is now profitable and spinning out innovations the rest of VMware can use, according to Ajay Patel, Virtzilla's exec responsible for all product development and operations for vCloud Air.…

Long-serving workers in US, UK and beyond lose their jobs amid ongoing months-long shakeup More IBM staffers found out they are losing their jobs this week in another wave of layoffs at the IT giant.…

and more Berlin IFA madness IFA 2016 August 31st was press day one ahead of the IFA event in Berlin, which means vendors lining up to show off their latest efforts in (mainly) consumer electronics.…

Alphabet soups up Android with more IoT Another month, another Alphabet attempt to restructure its Internet of Things businesses into something coherent and successful.…

Medical unicorn spins FDA concerns as a 'positive interaction' Now that the Olympics is over, there's no apparent athlete-borne Zika pandemic, and the virus doesn't guarantee a headline, Theranos has withdrawn its emergency application to have the Food and Drug Administration approve its blood test for the virus.…

Buggy defaults in SNMP This week's Cisco patch round includes a critical vuln in the kind of product least likely to get patched – a small business Ethernet switch.…

Apologises for 'screw-up' of slow move to Flash VMWORLD 2016 NetApp founder Dave Hitz has apologised to a VMworld 2016 audience for being slow to produce proper flash arrays.…

PC Master Race rig? Get ready to crack passwords FIVE HUNDRED times faster! Ancient famed Windows cracker L0phtCrack has been updated after seven years, with the release of the "fully revamped" version seven.…

Huawei's IoT vision will expand at this week's Huawei Connect 2016 Shanghai Promo The Internet of Things (IoT) creates possibilities to transform every industry, and some of those possibilities will emerge this week at Huawei Connect 2016, the company's flagship conference in Shanghai.…

No conclusive evidence of bricked devices, say uni experts Researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) have poured doubt on one claim by MedSec that St Jude Medical's implanted pacemakers and defibrillators are remotely breakable.…

It's supposed to end in tears. Then you can file a bug report If you're a chronic complainer and nit-picker with a spare machine and a willingness to suffer multiple crashes, weird screen artefacts and possible data loss: Fedora 25's alpha has landed ahead of its anticipated November 2016 release.…

It's supposed to end in tears. Then you can file a bug report If you're a chronic complainer and nit-picker with a spare machine and a willingness to suffer multiple crashes, weird screen artefacts and possible data loss: Fedora 25's alpha has landed ahead of its anticipated November 2016 release.…

Back to the drawing board for TV airwave sell-off The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will have to change its plans for the 600MHz radio spectrum auction for mobile broadband – after the latest stage of bidding raised just $22.4bn of an $88bn goal.…

You can't avoid the cloud, so Virtzilla says how you manage it will matter VMworld VMware opened its VMworld 2016 conference asking its customers to “Be tomorrow,” a couplet that was introduced at the event's opening keynote with a performance of poetry that felt like the work of a slick self-help spruiker.…

Inspector Cluseau called: he wants his bumbling schtick back As was inevitable, the fate of the “NBN documents” is off to the Australian Senate's privileges committee.…

American Half-Life developer in hot water with UK telco over tech rip-off allegations UK telecoms goliath BT is suing games developer and publisher Valve, alleging the Steam service infringes multiple patents.…

How about f**k off – is that adult enough? FBI Director James Comey is gathering evidence so that in 2017 America can have an "adult" conversation about breaking encryption to make crimefighters' lives easier.…

Amended complaint outlines alleged takeover attempt The extraordinary legal fight at Hyperloop One has grown even crazier – with the company claiming former CTO Brogan BamBrogan planned a detailed coup of the business.…

Plucky climate-change probe fends off cosmic intruder The European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite has been hit by an unidentified flying object while in orbit. Panic not: the probe remains fully operational.…

New compression library and MySQL fork open-sourced Facebook engineers today emitted a bunch of open-source compression and database tools during its @Scale conference.…

We're now reliant on the FCC, God help us The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown the issue of who can protect American consumers into confusion with a decision for AT&T and against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).…

Telco takes a victory lap as ad giant's broadband plans collapse With Google deciding to cut back on its Fiber workforce and reconsidering its plan to deliver broadband service, competing ISPs are cackling with glee at the Chocolate Factory's misfortunes.…

South Koreans getting hot under the collar Reports of the new Galaxy Note 7 exploding while being charged has caused Samsung to halt shipment of the high-end "phablet."…

Stromatolites are evidence of changing chemistry on Earth The world’s oldest fossils have been discovered in Greenland after a layer of snow on ancient rocks melted, revealing stromatolites embedded in the Isua supracrustal belt.…

Plus more juicy snippets from EMC, Panzura and QLogic VMworld saw EMC making a series of supportive announcements related to VMware. Panzura added cloud storage gateway facilities to all-flash arrays and hyper-converged products while QLogic focussed on links to NVMe drives and NVME over Fabrics technology.…

Voluntary blocklists will be, er, blocked themselves Analysis A single paragraph slipped into yesterday's net neutrality guidelines suggests they don't quite deliver the consumer protections that many people think.…

God help humanity if Wi-Fi goes down Running out of bog rolls or prophylactics and can’t be bothered to hot foot it to the local shops? Fear not lazy 21st century human, for Amazon has found a solution to a problem that - for most of us - doesn’t exist.…

Set your watches for tomorrow's skylight extravaganza Tomorrow’s morning sky will be temporarily blotted by an inky blackness as the Sun disappears behind the moon, leaving a dazzling ‘ring of fire’ in an annular solar eclipse over Africa.…

Given final kiss in Glasgow as fitters climb on board The Royal Navy's newest offshore patrol vessel, HMS Forth, is now fitting out in Glasgow – and we're told she weighs as much as 120 London buses.…

C'mon, marketing droids, tell me what's new VMworld I love VMworld, as I do VMware. In the last few years VMworld has been “the IT show” if the infrastructure space is your thing. However, it is clear that something is changing and it is changing very quickly.…

HDD failure led to 'split brain event' – for systems and techies alike A failed storage controller caused a protracted outage at hosted desktop and cloud slinger Vesk - not that this factoid has made its way onto the company’s website, where it boasts of 100 per cent uptime for the past 1,583 days.…

Plus: Uber, your burning-cash-as-a-service startup

Start prayin' Huawei Connect Tech metaphors are getting ever more explicitly spiritual. Take Huawei, for example. Today Huawei waxed ontological as one of its time-sharing CEOs described a “digital brain… always wise, never aging ... evolving in real-time.” That sounds like a God-cloud.…

Graphing IDC numbers and looking the market ain't pretty Opinion Earlier this year I was at HPE Discover in Las Vegas and talking to Calvin Zito about the latest IDC Storage Tracker results.…

Kasperksky's chief malware sleuth solves the mystery of the doomed exploit juggernaut Ruslan Stoyanov was right: what could be history's most advanced financially-driven malware was the progeny of some 50 jailed hackers known as the Lurk group.…

Microgravity does little to life's secret sauce, experiment confirms DNA has been sequenced in space for the first time during a series of experiments performed last weekend by biologist-turned-NASA astronaut, Kate Rubins.…

SONEAR sees 25-metre-plus rock when it was, well, so near A small asteroid made a rare, close pass between Earth and the moon on August 28.…

Biz has signed up Fujitsu as a licensee for its technology Two Fujitsu semiconductor businesses are licensing Nantero NRAM technology with joint Nantero-Fujitsu development to produce chips in 2018. They will have several thousand times faster rewrites and many thousands of times more rewrite cycles than embedded flash memory.…

BEREC final guidelines land on the side of civil society Net neutrality activists are claiming victory following the publication of final guidelines by European regulators.…

Upstart start-up assimilated into cloud biz The container market just got a new 900-pound gorilla: Switchzilla has landed in the segment with its acquisition of eighteen-month-old ContainerX.…

Yet another chatbot to train Microsoft has pushed out a C# software development kit (SDK) for its in-beta language parsing API, LUIS.…

lighttpd also gets a fix HPE customers have just been issued patches related to the lighttpd daemon and OpenSSH for remote access devices.…