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Board should fire her but can't: She owns controlling stake It's game over for controversial blood-testing company Theranos with the news that its CEO Elizabeth Holmes will be banned from owning or running a medical laboratory for two years.…

Thanks, O bomber Police in Dallas, Texas, used a bomb-carrying robot to blow up a cornered sniper who earlier shot 12 officers during a protest.…

BTIG analysts ponder Pure's position and fall in (qualified) love Analysis BTIG analysts attended Pure Storage Live, a customer and partner event, in New York City on Thursday, June 27, and came away thinking Pure is the real deal and not another ultimately doomed storage wannabe.…

Selling services in the cloud sea is paying off Revenues grew 11 per cent year-over-year to $86.7m in Barracuda’s first fiscal 2017 quarter, confirming its return to growth. Net income was $2.8m.…

It's the cloud, with go faster stripes Notoriously secretive F1 team McLaren-Honda is set to race into the cloud with a worldwide tech partnership with Japanese teclo NTT Communications.…

Hey, this isn't the way to Chad's house... and who unlocked the doors? Two unpatched vulnerabilities in BMW's ConnectedDrive web portal create a mechanism to manipulate car settings, a security researcher warns.…

Last of Steve Ballmer's old guard heads for the exit Kevin Turner’s departure as Microsoft’s chief salesman after 11 years marks the final passing of the Redmond old guard.…

No watermark in build 14383 though it isn't finished yet Microsoft has released build 14383 of Windows 10 Anniversary, for both PC and mobile, in preparation for its public launch on August 2nd 2016.…

A million pirates yelled 'splice the mainbrace, me hearty!' Comment Rolls-Royce and the Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) believe the future of cargo transportation is autonomous – and they have published an 88 page white paper (PDF) to prove it.…

Satisfy your need for data-intensive speed Promo IBM has created a virtual hackathon for all you lovely developers to test drive your data-intensive applications on the OpenPOWER server, GPU and accelerator platform. And there’s $27,000 worth of prizes on the table. Want to give it a go? Check out the competition rules and register for the OpenPOWER Developer Challenge.…

And seeing what happens to your bones in zero-G Three new astronauts currently rocketing up to space in the Soyuz spacecraft will be conducting new experiments, including sequencing DNA and blasting computers with radiation.…

The secret's in the special HBA hardware sauce Backgrounder Apeiron Data Systems' external ADS1000 array uses NVMe media to deliver block storage access using NVMe over Ethernet (NOE) but not NVMe over fabric technology, (NVMeF) which can use Ethernet. How does this subtle distinction work and what is the difference between NOE and NVMeF?…

That's a pretty large ring A total of 105 credit card fraud suspects have been arrested in Asia and Europe following a complex months-long investigation across two continents.…

That'll fill just a third of our new 70,000-tonne aircraft carriers The UK is “on target” for its new F-35B fighters to reach initial operating capability by 2018 – and will own a whopping 24 of the state-of-the-art jets by the year 2023, junior defence minister Philip Dunne told a briefing at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) this morning.…

Peering into the nooks and crannies of the storage ecosystem Sysadmin blog What's the difference between a refurbished server and a new one? The term refurbished has a negative connotation, conjuring images of open box returns and non-existent warranties, but in at least one case – Dell's ecosystem – that narrative doesn't quite fit.…

I can’t stand up for falling down Something for the Weekend, Sir? I don’t know what to do with my arse.…

Exits loss-making company for pastures new Eighteen months after joining Micron as VP of Advanced Storage Solutions, Rob Peglar has thrown in the towel and resigned to take up a post elsewhere.…

Github, your ticket to world domination The ultimate copy paste slacker hacker group has busted security controls in some 2500 corporates and government agencies using nothing but stolen code.…

Maybe God told her to do it The UK's possible future prime minister thinks all websites should be classified with minimum age ratings, just like films.…

If only his dad had been firing blanks Pic Cops at Stansted airport in Essex, UK, couldn't believe their eyes when a passenger turned up for a flight with what looked like a gun in his bag.…

New iPhone or GTFO Travelling executives should use modern iPhones with burner SIMs, no PINs, and minimal apps, CloudFlare security boffin Filippo Valsorda says.…

Footage vanished on command, not by a tech gremlin The deadly shooting of 32-year-old Philando Castile by a cop during a routine traffic stop in Minnesota on Wednesday just got murkier.…

5G Manifeston 'welcomed' by digi commish Günther Oettinger Europe's telcos have found a reason to shed any ambivalence they had about 5G, waking up with a shared vision that the technology can help them fend off Internet neutrality rules.…

Head-hunted into the Building 8 skunkworks Facebook has head-hunted one of Tesla's prize head-hunts: Rich Heley, which the 'leccy car maker lured from Apple back in December 2013.…

Waiting for the worms to come Shodan has turned up half a million D-Link devices exposed to the internet, and subject to easy hijacking using zero-day vulnerabilities.…

Hands back ad award, says attacks were unfair Ad agency Grey Singapore has thrown a tantrum and handed back the Cannes Lion bronze award it won for its now-infamous “I Sea” app.…

Microsoft and genetics boffins predict genetics in the datacenter Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) and Microsoft have managed to write data directly onto DNA, a format with dramatic storage densities and a very long life.…

Pwned POS was a real POS, it seems Wendy's has 'fessed up that the malware infection in its cash registers, first thought to have impacted 300 restaurants, hit more like 1,000 outlets, and says an unnamed service provider let the attackers into its systems.…

First planet spotted by SPHERE is a weird one A newly discovered planet is wedged in-between three stars and experiences triple sunrises and sunsets every day, according to new research published in Science.…

Law attempting to catch up with technology Analysis A teenager will stand trial for sending dozens of texts to her boyfriend encouraging him to take his own life.…

To wit: Pics of a burping supermassive black hole Hitomi, the failed X-ray observatory sent up to space by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency, peered deep into the heart of a galaxy to reveal hot bubbling plasma before it died.…

Starry lineup for Tech Expo at AT&T Park Promo Shape, a jam-packed Tech Expo, takes over AT&T Park in San Francisco on July 15 and 16.…

Blames 'technical glitch' on disappeared shooting footage When Minnesota police shot and killed Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop on Wednesday evening, his girlfriend broadcast his final moments alive using Facebook's video-streaming service.…

Hyper is the new cyber Hyper-V-based hyper-converged startup Gridstore has bought DCHQ and renamed itself Hypergrid.…

Hyper-converged? More like hyper-choice, says Chad Sakac Exclusive VCE president Chad Sakac has confirmed EMC will pick up Dell's Nutanix-powered XC hyper-converged system, even though EMC's own VxRail hyper-converged system sales are "on fire."…

Stringing us along with BiCS and noble gas Analysis Toshiba is looking to boosted flash and disk capacities to grow storage revenues and help returned the troubled company to growth.…

Shared services centres and 'tower' contracts on the ropes The UK government has £8bn locked into IT contracts which are at high risk of failure, according to an analysis of the Infrastructure Project Authority's accounts by The Register.…

That's most of it. Oh, yes, Biz Department asked to use 1984 warrants An oversight body has revealed that secretaries of state for the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office have issued at least 23 secret orders to telecommunications companies on national security grounds since 2001.…

IBM finds popular stock and mod ROM pwnable through loose over-the-air updater The most popular stock and third-party Android ROM – used by 170 million people – contains a dangerous since-patched remote code execution hole that could hand attackers total control of handsets.…

Published at the polite request of his lawyers EMBARGO 15:00 7 JULY 2016…

UK region still on way despite Gartner warnings AWS Summit 2016 Amazon has urged customers to keep investing in cloud in the wake of British voters’ decision to leave the European Union.…

Less peddling of comedy dot-whatever names, more actual infosec UK-based infosec consultancy NCC Group is withdrawing from the domain services biz while retaining domain security capability.…

It's the luvvies who went mad for fMRI neurobabble Special Report If the fMRI brain-scanning fad is well and truly over, then many fashionable intellectual ideas look like collateral damage, too.…

Merger is to corner market rather than snaffle rival's tech Avast is offering to buy anti-virus rival AVG for $1.3bn. AVG shareholders are being offered $25.00 per share in cash, a 33 per cent mark-up on the closing share price on Wednesday.…

Tech responsible for £500bn in gov revenues. Think about that Risky plans by HMRC to overhaul its expensive £10bn IT systems with Capgemini - which underpins government's £500bn in annual revenue collection - have been flagged as high risk of failure.…

Beetle boffins chop up horny insects to discover secrets of their giant penises An international team of researchers have discovered how beetles with hyper-long penises make the beast insect with two backs.…

Part one of El Reg's Chris Mellor deep probe into storage upstart Profile After three years of flat and declining revenues, NetApp needs to regain its mojo and George Kurian is the CEO tasked with doing just that.…

Taking new chips for a test drive Sysadmin Blog Recently, I reviewed Supermicro's Microblade system. One of the goals of this review was to compare the new Intel v4 (Broadwell) Xeons to their predecessor v3 (Haswell) Xeons. This was not as easy as it should have been.…