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Begun, the browser battery wars have Microsoft's claim that its Edge browser is the thriftiest with power has drawn a sharp response from rival browser biz Opera, who called for open testing to work out which app provides better battery life.…

Storage Architect DataCore has been active over recent months with benchmarks based on their new SANsymphony Parallel Server offering. The most recent of these claims 5.1 million SPC-1 IOPS at $0.08/SPC-1 IOPS and 0.32 millisecond response time.…

Chocolate Factory kills any doubts about its national ISP intentions Google has acquired fellow ISP Webpass in a move designed to expand the reach of its high-speed Fiber service.…

The customer and staff company is no more Completed in 1983, IBM's prestigious South Bank office in London, on the banks of the River Thames, owes a lot to the Brutalist style of architecture, popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It makes heavy use of concrete: a solid building for a solid company.…

Particles, antiparticles and putting meat on bones of theory Physicists have built a quantum simulator to study the Standard Model of particle physics – a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, as well as classifying all the subatomic particles known. The simulator includes lasers and four calcium ions, according to new research published in Nature [paywalled].…

Mmm, lovely fresh new Pi The 64-bit Raspberry Pi 3 has topped a poll of 81 single-board Linux and Android systems among Linux folk.…

We're all trying to make hyperconvergence happen. But who's going to win? Here I am sitting at a bar at 4:50am (jet lag is my friend) after the Nutanix's annual event, .NEXT.…

Software, software, software... some hardware OPFVN 2016 Flexible tech such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation will be a prerequisite for our brave new 5G world, reckon Intel and Ericsson.…

Software bet looks great, but Priv apathy taxes the bookkeepers BlackBerry announced further losses today as its comeback plan snagged on adjustments to the books.…

Oh, we'll also shares our beach towels, be nice to your Royals and dump frothy beer Germany’s premier tabloid Bild has vowed to fulfil a series of promises if the Brits vote to remain in the EU, chief among them admitting Geoff Hurst’s disputed 1966 World Cup goal was over the line.…

Different doesn't always = good, but baby steps Comment Lately I've been worried about the lack of differentiation in the storage startup ecosystem, but two newbies have made me think again.…

But does running Win2003 make you a high-performer? “High-performing organisations” which have employed agile and devops methodologies are decisively pulling away from their fuddy-duddy peers in the number of software deployments they can manage.…

Industry experts hyper converge on Berlin, Tuesday 12 July PROMO The future is complicated, with a myriad of platforms and solutions promising to help you deal with disruption in any industry you choose to name.…

Biz that couldn't find buyer devises 3-year strategy plan - services and security Cisco Gold partner Intrinsic Technology has confirmed it is CEO-less - which Reg readers already knew - but that all is OK, everything is working out as planned. Honestly.…

But box biz will take a long time to die, says chief cloud architect OPNFV Summit Huawei is poised to make its big push into flogging pure software products next year - an area its cloudy chief architect believes will come to dominate other parts of the biz.…

Beehive state sends in the dogs to tackle porno public health crisis A sheriff’s department in Utah has spent $10,000 on black Labrador they say can sniff out porn and other illicit digital materials.…

Nasuni CEO: First outage in 3 years of this system being live A CTERA spokesperson kindly got in touch to tell us cloud storage gateway Nasuni's customers had an outage last week. Nasuni says you have to be a real service provider to have an outage.…

Listen up people, want to appear in our stores or website? Cough The private equity profiteers behind Maplin Electronics have turned the screws on suppliers to hand over bigger rebates to help pay for physical and digital store improvements or risk having their kit sidelined.…

London doctors warn of perils of in-bed, one-eye watching Taking your smartphone to bed won’t just leave you tossing and turning, it can actually make you go temporarily blind, a team of London-based doctors have warned.…

Moving as fast as embiggened bods can shift OPNFV Summit Network operators have a jealous eye on the likes of Facebook and Google and want to ditch their clunky networks to compete for "cooler" consumer services, the head of the open-source network function virtualisation (NFV) project has said.…

Our man Trev thinks 2016 is hyperconvergence's year Sysadmin blog Hyperconvergence, putting storage inside the individual hosts of a virtual cluster, was supposed to save us from the cost and expense of centralized storage. Thus far, mainstream providers of hyperconvergence have largely failed to deliver on this promise. 2016 looks set to be the year this finally changes.…

In procurement? Read this Procurement professionals in all sectors need to be aware of the risk of bid-rigging of contracts they tender, a procurement law expert has said.…

Entry-level box joined by new hyper-converged product Aiming to stem the Nutanix snd SimpliVity hyper-converged tide, HDS announced the UCP HC V240, its first hyper-converged UCP product, along with the entry-level converged UCP 2000, for its mid-market and enterprise customers.…

Homebrew movement counters update with gift to pirates The Oculus DRM system has been shattered, opening the door to modders and pirates.…

Genetics builder and breakers hope to bolster treatments A United States advisory committee has green-lighted use of the ground-breaking CRISPR gene-editing technique in human trials.…

It's 2016 and Usenet providers are still being used sued A Netherlands court has ordered two Usenet providers, Eweka and Usenetter, to hand over subscriber details over alleged copyright violations.…

Aussie bikini model had file accessed 1,435 times Police in the northern Australian state of Queensland have been busted accessing citizen's files a huge number of times, in some cases without authorisation.…

RFC gives route leaks names, to help netops explain why traffic goes missing Users are familiar with those occasional events in which a sysadmin fat-thumb results in traffic getting deep-sixed – like, for example, this week's huge Telia outage.…

Onion rings get more scrambled The University of California wants to defeat deanonymisation with a hardened version of the Tor browser.…

But unscrambling this egg will be painful Founding NBN CEO Mike Quigley has given a speech defending both his legacy and the original fibre-to-the-premises network plan.…

Adding more lock-down to Azure data The offering is based on Redmond's October 2015 acquisition of Israeli firm Secure Islands, whose technology is being integrated into Azure Rights Management (RMS).…

Latest round of MOSS cash splashed Mozilla has announced the latest round of awards under its Open Source Support (MOSS) program.…

Input validation bugs in 7zip, mtree and Rar handlers Users, developers, sysadmins – World+Dog, really – need to get busy patching libarchive, after Cisco Talos researchers turned up three new vulnerabilities.…

Instagram PR pic poses interesting questions A PR snapshot of Mark Zuckerberg's desk has shown quite how seriously the king of the information sharing economy takes his own privacy.…

The sleeping giant wakes up hungry Astronomers have identified a sleeping black hole that sprung back to life – after trapping a nearby star to be later consumed – due to the black hole firing X-rays into space, according to research published today in Nature.…

C-SPAN rebroadcasts Periscope feed after cameras turned off In an extraordinary intervention of app technology into modern democracy, TV station C-SPAN chose to rebroadcast streaming video from a mobile phone inside Congress during a representatives held protest after its cameras were turned off.…

What's your privacy worth? A few cents, apparently The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that mobile advertising giant InMobi will pay $950K to settle charges that it tracked "hundreds of millions" of people around the world.…

Fourth Amendment plays second fiddle to the Second The US Senate has struck down an amendment that would have allowed the FBI to track internet histories and communications without judicial oversight, but a re-vote could be called as soon as today due to Senate rules.…

And they're probably right to An extraordinary 77 per cent of employees simply ignore their company's social media policy, using Facebook, Twitter and other similar services how they wish.…

Will add replication and capacity next year to its single box Netshelf Datrium, the startup disaggregating a SAN by having host-based controller SW and flash caches, has added an Insane Mode to turbo-charge performance.…

King Battistelli faces ousting from his subjects Tension between staff and management at the European Patent Office (EPO) has descended into open warfare with the publication of an open letter by some staff, calling on the organization's Administrative Council to get rid of its president.…

Windows Mobile gets support for NFC payments Microsoft has launched its entry into the near-field communications (NFC) mobile payments space.…

RingCentral in the middle Google's going after Office 365 and Skype users in a cloud telephony partnership with Microsoft VoIP ally RingCentral.…

When Android goes proprietary, everyone will need a Plan B Just when you thought the platform wars had settled down into a cosy duopoly, Huawei is reportedly to be working on “an alternative mobile operating system”, according to reports.…

Interoperability, hallelujah The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Libcloud 1.0, the cloud service interoperability Python library, is now generally available.…

By massive we mean, er, not very big at all... Dell is charming PC punters with a promo and the reaction is much the same as that of the ambassadors' guests when they were handed spherical balls of hazelnut goodness in the Ferrero Rocher ads.…

Two retro treats for you, cartofans The Ordnance Survey celebrates its 225th birthday this week, and is commemorating it with two new custom retro-styled maps. Both marry historically accurate styles to modern data.…

Student cluster configurations stretch imagination, credulity HPC Blog This year’s ISC’16 Student Cluster Competition boasts the most diverse set of hardware in the near 10-year history of student cluster competitions. Student teams are running three different system architectures (x86, ARM, and Power) in both traditional and hybrid (hardware accelerated) forms.…

Fabricating array structure for more compute, storage separation Analysis All-flash array vendor Kaminario has been in business a year longer than Pure Storage but is some way behind in sales, size and funding. However, it has begun expressing a technology vision that could accelerate its growth dramatically.…