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Mark Bates exits biz after search for a buyer proves elusive The high office revolving doors at Intrinsic Technology are clearly still swinging - the company is on the hunt for its fifth CEO in five years after attempts to find a buyer ended unsuccessfully.…

Sour grapes, DataCore chairman fires back Comment The DataCore SPC-1-topping benchmark has attracted attention, with some saying that it is artificial (read cache-centric) and unrealistic as the benchmark is not applicable to today's workloads.…

People do care about privacy... don't they? Comment At its WWDC developer event last week, Apple strongly emphasised the difference between data harvesters such as Google and Facebook, and its own privacy practices. It isn’t a new line, as Apple hasn’t been on reliant on digital advertising as these consumer data processing giants.…

It's all about 'composable' infrastructure Backgrounder DriveScale is a startup that emerged from a three-year stealth effort earlier this year with hardware and software to dynamically present externally connected JBODS to servers as if they were local. The idea is to provide composable server-storage combos for changing Hadoop-type distributed workloads.…

Russian lawmakers want encryption backdoors Russian media outlets report that laws mandating encryption backdoors have been tabled in the Duma.…

Respected spook group finds early Washington, Beijing pivoting left China hackers clean and focused The US-China pledge to put an end to state-backed intellectual property theft was made when Middle Kingdom hacking groups had been receding for more than a year, researchers say.…

Million dollar scam club flubs, cops get lion but no cubs The Russian ringleader of a carding group has pled guilty to selling US$1.6 million (£1.1 million, A$2.1 million) worth of tickets to major events, bought using credit cards stolen from StubHub accounts.…

What will the space 'flight deck' of the future look like? DARPA wants to out-Star-Trek the Trekkies and create the kind of flight deck it reckons it'll need to cope with a future when hostilities could extend to space.…

Partners gather around the Big Blue Linux block The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Project has another big name on board: Intel.…

CrowdStrike's Mike Sentonas talks IoT security with El Reg With CrowdStrike kicking off its Australian office, the company's freshly-minted VP of technology strategy, Michael Sentonas, took time out for a chat to Vulture South.…

Researcher reports flaws, proffers screencaps. Closed-door meetings by Canada's Quebec Liberal Party were exposed to trivial eavesdropping thanks to flaws in its video conferencing software.…

We'll tell you what was wrong once it's no longer news Apple has run out a security update for its AirPort routers, to fix a nine-month-old DNS parsing vulnerability.…

Shrink-wrapped software stack for big ironmongers Along with its Knights Landing chips landing, Intel has unveiled its first implementation of the Open HPC environment.…

Foreign investment "30 per cent local content" rule relaxed Indian tech consumers might soon be able to savour the rich, human experience of making a Genius Bar booking to try and sort out a problem with an iThing, after that country relaxed the rules that have kept companies like Apple from opening their branded stores in that country.…

Big Apple puts the kibosh on scalper scripts A New York State law will make it illegal for resellers to use bots that snap up tickets for events en masse.…

Windows 10 browser can save over 50% of battery, says Redmond Microsoft has published new research in which it claims that its Edge browser, bundled with Windows 10, can outperform the competition when it comes to battery life.…

Top exec criticizes high prices, marketing and partying The internet exchange industry is ripping customers off, charging too much for features people don't need, and spending millions on staff salaries, unnecessary marketing and social events.…

Unemployment is down because of our 10Gb pipeline … and also the new auto factory The mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee, is crediting the city's recent economic surge to a decision to defy national ISPs and build its own broadband network.…

Lesson 1: Don't confuse Europe with Hong Kong Swedish infrastructure company Telia is to blame for a massive internet outage today after an engineer apparently misconfigured a key router and sent all of Europe's traffic to Hong Kong.…

Among fastest group to recover from impact Over 90 per cent of mammals were killed in the same impact event that caused the dinosaurs' demise after a gigantic asteroid came crashing down on earth, according to recent research published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.…

Next up: Michael Dell's sock drawer to largest bidder Dell has confirmed rumors that it is selling off its software division to private equity firms Francisco Partners and Elliott Management.…

Developer admits vessel-watching iSea wasn't using live sat images Update The developers behind a much-hyped, headline-grabbing humanitarian smartphone app are in damage control mode after their software was found to be junk.…

Sparc dumped in high-RISC maneuver? ISC Fujitsu has signaled it will use 64-bit ARMv8 cores in the whopping exascale supercomputer it's building for Japan's boffins.…

Automated enterprise-class storage provisioning and services for containers DockerCon StorageOS is a UK-based startup offering simple and automated block storage to stateless containers, giving them state and the means to run databases and other applications that need enterprise-class storage functionality without the concomitant complexity, rigidity and cost.…

Venus' electric field explains why planet lacks moisture A team of planetary scientists has found that an 'electric wind' whisks away water in Venus' atmosphere, which explains why the terrestrial planet is so dry, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters.…

French authorities reportedly suspect money coming from shell companies The offices of telecoms giant Lycamobile have been raided in France amid allegations of fraud and money laundering.…

Plus: Container orchestration tools coming this July in v1.12 DockerCon Docker will kick off its DockerCon 2016 conference in Seattle this morning with a bunch of announcements: its OS X and Windows Docker clients will be made publicly available as beta software for anyone to try out; out-of-the-box orchestration is coming to Docker 1.12; and integration with Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure is in the works.…

Humanity about to swap tedium of work, for tedium of idleness ISC (RotM) Artificial intelligence is about to transform society in the same way electricity did 100 years ago, but researchers are nowhere near producing the sort of self-aware sociopathic systems beloved of sci-fi writers.…

Just secure your own networks, firms. Leave the big stuff to us The US and Israel and due to announce a bilateral threat sharing programme involving co-operation between the two allies' Computer Emergency Response Teams.…

Company confirmed Cabinet Minister was set to give staff reasons to ignore Brexit Exclusive Microsoft invited a UK government cabinet minister from the Remain camp to give its troops the big sell on why Blighty should stay in the EU – but shelved the meeting following the murder of MP Jo Cox, the company confirmed.…

Get to use virtual server storage you never knew you had Formation Data Systems says there is stranded storage capacity in virtual server environments., The firm says it can locate this in servers and storage across a data centre, pool it, and provision it as a flexible shared storage pool, giving extra storage capacity with no extra hardware purchase.…

Big claims from UC Davis’ Kilocore caper Six years after University of Glasgow researchers first achieved the feat, an American university has demonstrated a 1,000 core processor.…

ES14K can be all flash or a disk-flash combo and has Intel SW inside ISC DataDirect Networks' ES14K is claimed to be four times faster than other suppliers' laggardly Lustre kit.…

Lovely portrait of man painted with meat, veg... and gravy What better way for Major Tim Peake to celebrate his homecoming after six months in space than with buckets of meat and veg - a roast dinner - strategically placed on a giant plate to look like him.…

Three-node cluster setup has flash and disk tiers Storage startup Scale Computing is offering a hyper-converged three-node cluster for less than $25,000, and undercuts Nutanix's Xpress SMB entry-level offering by $500.…

Execs scratching heads for ways to fund the EMC deal Dell is close to agreeing the sale of its software division for more than $2bn as it digs behind the settee cushions to fund its mega-acquisition of EMC.…

It definitely didn't crash into a lake or something, oh no It seems Elon Musk's transformation into James Bond – albeit Alan Partridge's favourite* 007, Roger Moore – is now complete.…

Data Protection Commissioner to the rescue The data-haemorrhaging payroll system for Ireland's civil service is to be audited by the nation's Data Protection Commissioner.…

CEO Dido Harding did say infosec was her responsibility... A Parliamentary inquiry into the TalkTalk hack has said that telco CEOs' salaries should be garnished if their firms' cyber security practices are lacking.…

Chucking money, engineering talent at HPC pays off ISC For the first time since the Top 500 rankings of the most powerful supercomputers in the world was started 23 years ago, the United States is not home to the largest number of machines on the list – and China, after decades of intense investment and engineering, is.…

But gives bonus to charity Dido Harding, the chief exec of beleaguered firm TalkTalk, was handed £2.8m in salary this year, despite the company suffering a catastrophic cyber attack last year.…

Find out all about it in our Reg lecture Space may be the final frontier, but it’s also site of the next landrush for the more buccaneering end of humanity, as new technology and new money change the dynamics of space exploration. Whether the prospect of Bezos and Musk reaching out beyond the planet thrills or appals you, it’s unquestionable that space is becoming a place for business and profit, not just governments and science.…

'Advanced technology for those where cost is not an issue' El Reg got hands-on with the Solarin $14,000 ultra-high-end Android smartphone during a trip to Tel Aviv this week.…

It's not like my boss painstakingly nurtured the contacts, right? You spend months or years building up a client list for your employer. You nurture the relationship and build up personal ties with the client. When you leave the employer, naturally the client goes with you. And so does the client list, via a USB stick or Dropbox or your webmail account. If you don’t get all the details before you leave, you can simply log back in later and copy the rest.…

Roaming charges and the EU, or how to play a zero-sum game One thing the Brexit debate hasn't been short on is hyperbole, with much talk about a potential economic Armageddon triggered by a leave scenario.…

Lib Dem peers plan serious opposition to bill in House of Lords IPBill The Liberal Democrats are planning to meet the Investigatory Powers Bill with strong resistance in the House of Lords, a list of key issues shared with The Register reveals.…

Clients might get even more spam, MD says A million and a half customer records have strolled out the door of T-Mobile Czech Republic in an employee's pocket.…

Gravitational waves provide key to some of the universe's greatest mysteries The first time physicists announced that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves, on September 14, 2015, it was breaking news. The discovery coincided with the 100-year anniversary of Einstein's theory of General Relativity, which predicted the existence of gravitational waves.…

Demands $250, steals passwords for good measure New ransomware written entirely in JavaScript has appeared encrypting users files for a US$250 (£172, A$336) ransom and installing a password-stealing application.…