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'Not us' says network builder Job ads in Ireland seeking “copper jointers” and “copper gurus” for the National Broadband Network have been pulled from Monster.ie after they were spotted by Australian media.…

FLocker malware shows regional preferences Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of ransomware code that can be used to lock down Android-powered smartphones and televisions.…

The Apple internet of things arrives, in theory, with iOS 10 Apple has finally launched its internet-of-things (IoT) smart-home service with a new mobile app called "Home." The only problem? A distinct lack of products to work with.…

Limits lifted on patent payouts The US Supreme Court has struck down rules limiting patent infringement damages in a decision opponents fear will embolden trolls.…

Basslink: repairs complete, time to pull the big red switch The saga of the Tasmanian electrical and telecomms interconnect Basslink is due to end today.…

Cook 'modernizes' OS name by going back in time 20 years Apple WWDC Apple has rolled out its plans for updating all four of its major operating systems.…

Arise, Professor Michael Ralph Fellows and Professor Brian Anderson, plus pals Australian technologists have scored awards in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours.…

Parallel server software supercharges commodity servers DataCore has answered criticism of its Parallel Server SPC-1 benchmark [PDF] – that it was not applicable to enterprises, as it lacked high availability (HA) – by running an HA version that is the fifth-best SPC-1 benchmark performer ever.…

Unlikely to be the last time In the wake of the murder of 49 people in Orlando on Sunday morning, Facebook users in the US got their first real taste of the company's Safety Check service.…

All about growth, culture and unique total addressable markets "Remember that dystopian view of the future in which technology displaces millions of people from their jobs? It's happening."…

Ireland again the battleground between American surveillance and Europeans' Human Rights The US government has asked the Irish High Court to hear its information in the case between a privacy activist and Facebook.…

Until we price our personal data we'll keep on being fleeced Analysis How can you explain the $25.4bn price tag for Microsoft's acquisition of widely-loathed social network LinkedIn? It's easy. It's all about your personal data, of course. But the price Microsoft puts on your personal data is of particular interest here.…

Kepler 1647-b bigger than Jupiter, circles two stars... just like Tatooine A team of astronomers led by NASA have discovered the largest circumbinary planet on record, according to the American Astronomical Society.…

Compacting multiple small IOs into a single 4KB block in ONTAP 9 COmment NetApp announced compaction as an extra form of data reduction in ONTAP v9.0. What is it?…

'Are you trying to sign in? Maybe you need help with Windows 10?' Microsoft is swooping in to buy CV and soapbox site LinkedIn, in an all-cash deal worth a whopping $26.2bn.…

Beat on the brat with a baseball bat Soda drinks are under attack in the US and the UK, but the weapons employed on the two fronts are different.…

Commvault anointed king of data centre backup Magic Quadrant Gartner’s magic quadrant-producing gurus have awarded Commvault the data centre backup and recovery Iron Throne.…

The film will be used for rollable and expandable smartphone screens Researchers have created a new flexible nanomaterial film that boasts a “world record” combination of transparency and electrical conductivity, making it an ideal candidate for roll-up touchscreens.…

It's just been upgraded and everything... Crooks behind exploit kits have switched from using the Angler to favouring Neutrino in recent attacks.…

Vacancies open all over the Continent, new offices across rest of world We’re hearing Moshe Yanai's high-end storage array startup Infinidat has made workforce changes at its European operation.…

Brother boss says spots, white socks and a BTEC no barrier to success The UK IT industry was plunged into paroxysms of modesty, humility and genuine self-effacement today, as the PRs got to work in the wake of the Queen’s birthday honours list.…

Threat detection outfit hands research results to Feds The Lazarus Group of hackers, blamed for a recent run of attacks against mainly Asian banks linked through the SWIFT network, is now suspected of targeting a mid-market US bank.…

With privacy and security for all Free certificate authority Let's Encrypt has spaffed the email addresses of up to 7,618 users to each other in an email informing them of updates to its subscriber agreement.…

Top management's attention snagged TalkTalk customers are getting caught up in the TeamViewer remote-control PC seizure storm.…

Decides not to throw bad money after good dismantling hybrid-fibre coax Australia's opposition Labor Party (ALP) has released its national broadband network (NBN) policy (PDF) the centrepiece of which is a pledge to replace as-yet-unbuilt fibre-to-the-node sites with fibre-to-the-node.…

Sets up DBM Cloud Systems with former Violin staff Jon Bennett, co-founder and CTO of Violin Memory, has left Violin and set up DBM Cloud Systems, where he is CTO.…

We can go it alone, in spaaace... If you’ve had it up to here with politicos arguing how we should redefine our relationship with Europe, join El Reg at our summer lectures where we’ll be discussing how to redefine the relationship between Earth, space, technology and humanity itself.…

An deartháir mór is watching you The Garda Síochána has proposed to expand its surveillance on Irish citizens by swelling the amount of data it collects on them through an increase in its CCTV and ANPR set-ups, and will also introduce facial and body-in-a-crowd biometrics technologies.…

Options for data centres when Belarus isn't an option As we all know, the cloud isn't an amorphous, non-geographical blob of computing. Which is a good thing, because there are plenty of legal implications around where your data lives and where it moves both to and from.…

December leave date mooted as Tata outsourcing deal looms, say sources Almost half the application delivery techies at British Airways (BA) might be pushed out of the company in December under redundancy plans outlined to staff.…

Android P: P is for Proprietary Analysis Google could use defeat in the Oracle case to take Android proprietary, reckons analyst Richard Windsor, who thinks development for this watershed event is already well underway, as we reported last week.…

Target abandons IPO Blue Coat has scrapped its IPO plans in favour of a $4.65bn takeover by IT security rival Symantec.…

Email safeguards catch a bullet, too A sly attempt to grant the FBI warrantless access to people's browser histories in the US has been shot down by politicians.…

'Genius Bar' didn't quite live up to its name this time A thief in New York City was able lift more than $16,000 worth of Apple merchandise by dressing up as a store employee.…

A clear and simple guide to get from implosion to success Howto With the news that Twitter is looking for yet another head of product – the fifth in under three years – it's clear the social media company is still at a loss over what to do next with its service.…

No need to panic, says British astroboffin The Chinese space agency has apparently lost control of its Tiangong 1 mini-space station, which is expected to return to Earth as a fireball.…

Telcos to be grilled over 'deceptive' internet services The US Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has called on the nation's cable and satellite providers to testify about their customer service failings.…

Brilliant investor, lousy social commentator Obit Tom Perkins, seen by many as one of the grandfathers of Silicon Valley, has died at the age of 84 after a prolonged illness.…

Hopes Intel Skylake CPUs, Windows 10 will draw in punters Dell had an unremarkable Q1 of fiscal 2017, with its parent Denali Holding Inc today reporting revenues down 2 per cent year on the year to $12.5bn, but greatly reduced operating losses, trimmed 52 per cent from $335m to $161m.…

While Obama slow-jams his arguments in favor of international agreement Global ad provider Google has come out in favor of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.…

Alsup is so done with this copyright battle An early attempt by Oracle to reverse Google's victory in the Java API copyright saga has been shot down.…

Hyperconvergence? Pfft, whatever, sniffs CMO Comment Yesterday, at a TechLive event in London, Tegile said connecting arrays to servers across low-latency NVMe over Ethernet was the way forward.…

Systems 'too critical to allow programmers to do as they want' Infosec 2016 Government regulation of the Internet of Things will become inevitable as connected kit in arenas as varied as healthcare and power distribution becomes more commonplace, according to security guru Bruce Schneier.…

Problems with French firm Cegedim's systems, it appears The NHS electronic prescription service (EPS) has barely been working since Monday, and is still suffering a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance in many parts of the country.…

Researchers unzip genes to find out The secrets that explain how a swarm of female-only honeybees living in South Africa can carry out deadly invasions on other bee colonies have been unravelled by a team of researchers, according to research published in PLOS (Public Library of Science) Genetics yesterday.…

Seagate, QLogic and pals speak out Analyst haus Stifel Nicolaus' MD, Aaron Rakers, has had some fireside chats with senior execs from Brocade and QLogic, Pure and Nimble, Seagate and WDC at a Stifel Nicolaus Technology, Internet & Media Conference in San Francisco.…

Meanwhile, in Galway, Apple bit barn planning row goes nuclear An Irish property company is expected to secure planning permission for a 25,550 square meter facility on the outskirts of Cork City that will offer much reduced data latency times between the US and Europe.…

Just think how many airline meals that is... Dimension Data CEO Brett Dawson has quit with immediate effect after 12 years at the top, hundreds of thousands of air miles travelled and sales quadrupled.…

Garda need 5 years to tackle it... and the help of the FBI As part of its new five year plan, the Garda Síochána will up its efforts to tackle cyber crime after “a lack of investment in technology and resources has led to a widely reported back-log of cases”.…

Tianhe-2, sit down. We've... we've built a simulator Physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology have created a quantum simulator designed to model complex quantum mechanics phenomena that even the fastest supercomputer could not compute.…