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All aboard the PCIe bus for Nvidia's Tesla P100 supercomputer grunt
No NVLink CPU? No problem ISC Nvidia has popped its Tesla P100 accelerator chip onto PCIe cards for bog-standard server nodes tasked with artificial intelligence and supercomputer-grade workloads.…
New York decides not to tinker with vendor lock-down for now
'Fair Repair Act' returned in its original packaging Another US state has missed a legislative deadline to make third-party tech product repair legal.…
Open MPI gets closer to exascale-ready code
Next version release candidate drops, stable gets bug-fixes Big iron sysadmins: there's a significant upgrade to OpenMPI in the works.…
Oz doctors develop surgical robot designed to operate on your wallet
The Terminator comes to your bank account If your wallet is too heavy by AU$10,000 or so, relax: Australian doctors can relieve your pain with a robot surgeon.…
Apple's 'lappable' iPad Pro concept is far from laughable
We've taken the nine-inch iPad Pro and instant global broadband for a spin ROAD TEST “Lapable” is not a word I would ordinarily use, save for the fact that Apple’s applied it to the new iPad Pro nine-incher.…
Filet-O-Phish: Insecure NFC tag relics hidden under Maccas tables
Now bad for your phone's health. MacDonald's New Zealand and Australia restaurants reportedly have unused and insecure NFC tags glued under tables.…
Medicare payments privatisation dumped, but IT refresh is imminent
That sound you can hear? Big integrators are rubbing their hands together Australia's Medicare will have to contract its own systems to replace the current payment processing iron, with politics killing off the idea that payment processing could be privatised.…
Telstra's 'future of medical diagnosis' needs just 5Mbps
If the future happens at 5Mbps, we need fibre to the what exactly why? A couple of weeks ago, Telstra breathlessly announced “the future of medical diagnosis”, namely “haptically-enabled robotics” that mean ultrasound examinations can be conducted remotely, complete with force-feedback so that a sonographer can guide their instrument over a distant body's lumps and bumps.…
Bezos' Blue Origin's first live Webcast a no-explosion yawnfest
Short-chuted crew capsule just fine, thanks In spite of the SpaceX hard landing last week, successful booster landings are becoming almost routine, but if you haven't already watched Blue Origin's successful test over the weekend, it's at the bottom of this story.…
Tor torpedoed! Tesco Bank app won't run with privacy tool installed
Money software blubs at the sight of onions UK supermarket giant Tesco's mobile banking app refuses to run on handsets where the Tor app is also installed, it emerged this weekend.…
Get-rich quick trick Twitch snitch: Bots sued for fake video views
AI bots are the new hype – just not money-making, chat flooding bots Gameplay video streaming biz Twitch has had enough of bots on its network and, after failing to find a lasting tech solution, has started throwing sueballs instead.…
Watch as SpaceX's latest Falcon rocket burns then crashes
We ran out of fuel, admits Elon Video SpaceX supremo Elon Musk's hopes of adding a fifth rocket to his collection of pre-used space hardware were dashed on Wednesday when the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket suffered a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. Now we know why.…
Dad of student slain in Paris terror massacre sues Google, Twitter, Facebook for their 'material support' of ISIS
No tweets, no YouTube, no likes, no killings, court told A grieving father has sued Google, Twitter and Facebook, alleging the web giants enabled the Paris terrorist attacks that killed his daughter.…
Apple faces Beijing blackout for iPhone 6
鸡爪蒂姆·库克! Apple has lost a patent infringement lawsuit that could see the iPhone booted from China's capital.…
A month to save digital currency Ethereum?
$50m hack leads to reset proposal before stolen money can be cashed Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live.…
FBI's iPhone paid-for hack should be barred, say ex-govt officials
Cybersecurity bods argue for formalizing zero-day disclosure rules The FBI's purchase of a hack to get into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone should have been barred.…
You Acer holes! PC maker leaks payment cards in e-store hack
Lost info includes names, addresses, numbers and security codes Acer's insecure customer database spilled people's personal information – including full payment card numbers – into hackers' hands for more than a year.…
Swede who spent 28 years vacuuming in the nude to be evicted
Neighbours had enough of man picking up fluff and laundering in the buff A sweep-silly Swede is being turfed out of his studio apartment following complaints from hard-pressed neighbours upset about his gratuitous vacuum cleaner usage – and nude laundering.…
Tim Peake to return to Earth after six months floating around in space
Brit astronaut gets back on terra firma at 0900GMT tomorrow British astronaut Major Tim Peake and the rest of the crew aboard the Soyuz spacecraft will be zooming back to earth after a six-month long mission in space.…
Softlayer embiggens its cloud VMs
Not quite at AWS or Azure scale this time around, but engorging nicely Softlayer has announced new and larger cloud VMs.…
Dell sockets it to 'em with Xeon server upgrades
New PowerEdges for all you dual-socket fetishists and a new box suggested for Ceph You know the drill: Intel pops out a new Xeon ( in this case the E5-2600 v4 and over the following weeks all the major kit-makers find ways to put it to work.…
Apple and Android wearables: What iceberg? It’s full steam ahead!
This watch now has even more added computer Many analysts were expecting big improvements to Apple’s watchOS platform last week. Just like they were expecting big announcements around Android Wear last month.…
When Capita job ads go BAD
Tee-hee Thanks to an eagle-eyed reader who chanced upon the latest job ad for a network technical architect at everyone’s favourite public sector parasite Capita - we enjoyed the irony too.…
Fat fibre taxes strangling us – UK broadband providers
'A real kick in the cabinets', moans Virgin Media exec Broadband providers have hit out against a forthcoming hike in business rates which will dramatically increase the tax paid on fibre optic networks.…
Quantum is shutting down sync'n'share biz Symform in July
Extract your cloudy stuff before the end of next month Storage firm Quantum bought the Symform cloud consumer/small business file sync and share business in August 2014 – and is going to close it down on July 31. It has gone from acquisition to closure in 23 months.…
Outsourcery sold after Dragon runs out of puff
Around 100 jobs saved as GCI steps in, as for investors' cash... Something positive was salvaged from the crash at cloud biz Outsourcery - 100 employees have transferred with the business in a pre-pack sale to new owners GCI Network Solutions.…
Chinese numerologists are betting Dell/EMC deal will make them rich
Singapore's state investment company is buying the lucky number of 18,181,818 shares The Register can reveal that Chinese numerology is playing a part in Dell's acquisition of EMC.…
YouTube sharecroppers start world’s most useless trade union
Comrades! You have nothing to lose but your prerolls and blipverts! YouTube stars have started a labour guild to represent low paid video producers for sites like YouTube. But it promises to be really, really polite and it won’t be asking Google for more money.…
Vanishing EMC golden handcuffs could cause brain drain
Dell buying EMC causing goodbye to EMC stock option incentives Stock option-incentivised EMC staff could brain drain out of the company as the Dell acquisition will cash-out their stock options, de-incentivising them.…
Should we teach our kids how to program humanity out of existence?
It'd be logical Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Kids tend to spend far too much of their childhood in an unproductive way," it says here.…
UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits
Middle-class terror of engineering also part of problem Immigration is an issue swaying electorates around the world, including Britons, who will next week decide whether to leave the European Union and Americans, who will soon decide whether to vote for Donald Trump as president in November. While this is generally assumed to affect low-pay, low-skilled jobs, it can affect those in IT too.…
London Mayor election day bug forced staff to query vote DB by hand
OK, who registered their name as Jane Smith'; UPDATE votes SET choice=Sadiq;-- The confirmation of Sadiq Khan as Mayor of London last month was delayed for several hours by a database application bug.…
Fly to Africa. Survive helicopter death flight to oil rig. Do no work for three weeks. Repeat
Pro tip: Ship kit and clear customs before you send people to oil rigs On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our end-of-week wander through readers' reminiscences of being asked to do dumb things in nasty places and unsociable hours.…
Edgier Edge pledge: TLS fledge no speed wedge, Redmond man said
Faster, stronger crypto comes to baked-in browser Microsoft will speed up HTTPS encryption in its Edge browser with support for TLS 1.3 and performance extensions.…
Official: Microsoft goes to pot, gives weed growers fix they need
Listen up bud, high times ahead for cloud-puffing Redmond Put this in your pipe and smoke it: Microsoft is offering pot growers software tools to help them stay on the right side of America's relaxed laws.…
Google to shower 50%+ more gold on code-bearing bug hunters
Annihilating Android flaws now scores $50k Google will pay out potentially 50 per cent or more cash to bug hunters who couple software vulnerability reports with proof-of-concept exploit code or patches.…
Feds warn of skyrocketing business compromise scams
Scams up 1,300 percent says FBI The FBI is warning that businesses have handed some US$3.1 billion to email scammers, a whopping 1,300 percent increase in 18 months.…
Finnish court slaps Peter Sunde with €350k fine
Pirate Bay cases grind on Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde has been hit with a fine worth nearly US$400,000 by a court in Helsinki.…
Kiwis prep 'permissive' space laws to help Rocket Lab get off the ground
Rocket Lab scores launch pad on North Island New Zealand's government has announced plans to relax the regulatory rules surrounding commercial space ventures, in a move it hopes will help local outfits and attract launches to the country.…
Keep on trucking: Dropbox's Magic Pocket and the curse of the loading bay
Want to build a storage cloud? How many trucks can you unload in a day? It's not something the average sysadmin has to worry about, but when you're rolling out terabyte after terabyte into a data centre with a presto time signature, the loading bay becomes a bottleneck.…
Non-US encryption is 'theoretical,' claims CIA chief in backdoor debate
No choice but to use American gear, grins spymaster CIA director John Brennan told US senators they shouldn't worry about mandatory encryption backdoors hurting American businesses.…
Stopped buying Oracle's kit? You've literally decimated its profit
Big Red's net income tumbles despite mighty cloud push Oracle is talking up soaring sales for its cloudy operations – while the IT giant's profit has taken a big hit over the past 12 months.…
TAFE's troubled TITSUP tech terminated AT BLOODY LAST
SAP parrot didn't 'voom' when they put half a billion dollars through it The NSW state government has squibbed in its valiant bid to operate the country's most wasteful IT catastrophe, canning a miserably-awful SAP-based system after spending a paltry half-a-billion dollars.…
Lone hacker claims to have broken into US Democrat servers
Guccifer 2 posts files as 'proof' – says rest sent to Wikileaks A lone hacker claims to have been the person who broke into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) servers, and has posted several files online as "proof."…
Ex-SAP exec and pals accused of $500,000 insider trading scam
Successful scheme derailed after folks got greedy, it is claimed A former SAP executive and his associates allegedly ran an insider trading ring to net hundreds of thousands of dollars.…
E-books the same as printed ones, says top Euro court egghead
So libraries can lend them without author permission In a seemingly commonsense but important decision, the top advisor of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided that electronic books (e‑books) are legally equivalent to their printed versions when it comes to lending them through libraries.…
Kill Flash now. Or patch these 36 vulnerabilities. Your choice
One bug being exploited right now in the wild Adobe has released an update for Flash that addresses three dozen CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…
Energy companies aren't going to slurp your personal data. Honest
Labour MP brands issue confusing after foggy answers from minister UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has made an assurance that consumers will be able opt out of having their smart meter energy data shared with companies, in a letter to Labour MP Chi Onwurah seen by The Register.…
Persistent containers from Portworx's PX-Enterprise package
Turns commodity hardware into converged storage, firm says Portworx's PX-Enterprise package is persistent storage for containers. The firm claims it can reduce costs by 70 per cent compared to so-called legacy storage products.…
GitHub presses big red password reset button after third-party breach
Mystery hackers look to harness password reuse and take control of accounts GitHub has reset the passwords of users targeted in an attack this week that relied on using stolen credentials from a breach at a third party site.…
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