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by Tim Anderson on (#1FTD5)
Tasty new stuff from Microsoft – but you need Enterprise Edition for full use Microsoft has released SQL Server 2016, adding new security features, improved query profiling, Hadoop integration, hybrid cloud capabilities, and R analytics to its database server, along with numerous other improvements.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FTD7)
EzChip digested, Tilera tech targets network offload Fancy a high core count ARM system-on-a-chip? That's what Mellanox is packing into the BlueField SoC processors it hopes will give it the edge in the hyperscale market.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1FT70)
Worse – extortionists will reveal you had a MySpace page, too The FBI has issued an unusual warning about a new breed of scammers looking to get rich off the back of recent high-profile data breaches.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1FSWB)
Things only 80s kids will remember: Doing NP equations with a D-pad Completing a game of Super Mario Brothers is the mathematic equivalent of solving complex mathematical calculations, according to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1FSTK)
And Republicans in Congress backing it for the same reason Donald Trump has already started bringing America together by forging an unlikely alliance between Republicans in Congress and Silicon Valley.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1FSQP)
Remote-control tool wobbles offline, blames bad passwords for compromises Updated TeamViewer users say their computers were hijacked and bank accounts emptied all while the software company's systems mysteriously fell offline. TeamViewer denies it has been hacked.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1FSHS)
Up 15 per cent, but ISPs are still bottom of list for consumer satisfaction Comcast sucks less than last year, but still has a pretty miserable customer rating, according to the annual American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).…
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by John Leyden on (#1FS7V)
Worst of the internet smashes through failed filters Microsoft's Outlook and Hotmail spam filters went off piste on Wednesday, dumping an avalanche of unwanted bumf in inboxes.…
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by John Leyden on (#1FS03)
Research reckons Mossack Fonseca hack may have been thanks to CMS vulns Many of the UK's biggest firms are running outdated versions of their Drupal and Wordpress Content Management Systems (CMSes).…
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by Lester Haines on (#1FRW2)
Jamming tech will 'detect, track, disrupt and defeat' flying menaces The US's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will trial the "world's first fully integrated detect-track-disrupt-defeat Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS)", developed by a trio of British companies.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1FRRB)
Ex-friends in Intel's old Itanium alliance reboot hostilities Oracle is back in court, this time fending off a $3bn case brought by Hewlett Packard Enterprise.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1FRJQ)
Change of plans? Mission-critical upgrade to run first? Tough Microsoft’s Windows 10 nagware campaign has entered a new phase, with all options to evade or escape an upgrade finally blocked.…
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by John Leyden on (#1FREV)
The jokes write themselves Corporate IT managers ought to pick up tricks from spies and place Operations Security (OPSEC) at the heart of their security policies and practices, cyber intelligence outfit Digital Shadows argues.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1FRCX)
New non-exploding RD-181 engines a success Orbital ATK yesterday took a significant step towards getting its Antares lifter back in the air with a successful test fire of the rocket's revamped first stage propulsion system.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FRCZ)
Advanced computational algorithmic compute engine. Got it? Analysis Symbolic IO is a startup that claims its storage and compute technology can run database queries 60 times or more faster than other systems, and offers â€limitless enterprise storage.â€â€¦
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FR7D)
Not that massive a capacity – they top out at 2TB Micron has announced its first 3D NAND SSDs, triple-level cell (TLC pr 3bits/cell) 1100 and 2200 products.…
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Biggest smartphone vendor in China eyes global domination Xiaomi has agreed to buy 1,500 patents from Microsoft in a move that has been framed as an "expansion of their global partnership".…
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Just when you thought it was about to turn a profit... Cloudy CRM biz Salesforce has slurped up e-commerce provider Demandware for $2.8bn (£1.9bn) in a bid to broaden its portfolio.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FR2H)
Where are Dell, HDS and Violin Memory? IDC has issued all-flash array revenue numbers showing EMC is the belle of the AFA ball, with Pure fourth in the market, behind EMC, IBM and HPE, while NetApp and Huawei are wallflowers.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#1FR0E)
Enough to make room for AMD and ARM rivals in 2016? Amazon, Google and other giant cloud companies are buying server CPUs in huge numbers, helping to increase global shipments in 2016 for x86 and ARM server class microprocessor by 3.5 per cent to 22.9 million shipments.…
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Gotthard got harder: Blasting and digging through mountains Tunnel nerds, rejoice. The Swiss are today celebrating the opening of the world's largest underground passage to mark its completion 17 years after construction began.…
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by Lester Haines on (#1FQWD)
Exoplanet theory for mysterious trans-Neptunian object Astroboffins have boldly suggested that the hypothetical trans-Neptunian Planet 9 is in fact an exoplanet captured by our young Sun from another star.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1FQTB)
The Metal on Metal sampling case explained Analysis Have you noticed that with copyright, the people who complain loudest and longest about how unfair it all is often the least talented? Grumbly bass players. Science fiction "novelists". Otherwise-unemployable "academics".…
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by Team Register on (#1FQQJ)
Plus: Are people losing patence with Yahoo!?
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FQP5)
Vampire Squid rides to the rescue as IPO delay grows Hyper-converged startup and IPO wannabe Nutanix finds itself in hock for $75m to Goldman Sachs after it was forced to take out a loan because its fund-raising IPO was delayed.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#1FQHT)
If not, you're a long time falling Comment Last week, your correspondent attended SFD10 and I met with a lot of interesting storage startups. Most of them have a good level of integration with VMware (who doesn’t today?), but one in particular built its entire strategy around it: Tintri.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#1FQEZ)
Do business, not time, across the Pond Back in the day I used to work for a multi-national company with a big presence in the US. I learned a lot there, from the usefulness of a BA silver card to how to run the tendering process for a big global WAN.…
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by Chris Williams on (#1FQD3)
RISC-taking bods branch out with new low-power, high-performance ideas Analysis For its latest top-end smartphone processor core – the Cortex-A73 – ARM designed its microarchitecture more or less from scratch.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1FQBT)
New survey: Just want a nice corner couch, me A new survey by PwC shows that British homeowners are more concerned with practical applications and financial advantages rather than the need to be “tech-tastic†when it comes to smart technology at home.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FQ98)
When all the features are bugs Auscert Oracle has a 'huge, massive, ginormous' attack surface, according to one prolific and proven researcher who reckoned he gave up looking because there are too many vulns.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FQ8B)
Don't go dissing DevOps: a supplier has 'fessed up to a website vuln Scrum.org, the Scrum certification and training site run by Scrum co-creator Ken Schwaber, appears to have contacted users to warn them of a nasty security breach.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1FQ77)
Independent voices speak out against continued powergrab Undeterred by staff cutting his brakes, president of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoit Battistelli, has now enraged his organization's Boards of Appeal.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FQ4R)
Malware an opportunity to Edge out Redmond rivals Microsoft is warning of a wormable ransomware that infects removable drives on versions of its operating system below Windows 10.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FQ2D)
Pre-orders open for Blighty deliveries in July The long-awaited BBC micro:bit computer is now available for pre-order to retail and reseller customers, with single-unit orders starting at £12.50.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FPYQ)
Xeon E3-1500 v5 plans to 4k-up video and VDI, even more so with 3D Xpoint Intel's again trying to make the argument that integrated graphics trump dedicated graphics processing units, by cooking a new Xeon tuned to processing video.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FPWB)
Agency releases analysis of why the satellite broke up Japan's space agency Jaxa has detailed the litany of errors that ended with the failure of its Hitomi (Astro-H) spacecraft.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1FPVF)
Priv esc exploit makes hackers admin from Windows 2000 and up A Windows zero day vulnerability granting hackers deeper access to compromised machines is being sold for US$90,000 (£62,167, A$124,348).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FPSP)
White box fans, rejoice Cumulus Linux is touting a bunch of heavyweights as supporting the latest iteration of its white-box Linux.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1FPN9)
Wiwynn to sling 60-drive PCIe-packing monster Chinese server-maker Wiwynn will bring Facebook's latest JBOF (just a bunch of flash) devices to all comers by Christmas.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FPKD)
No, we're not kidding Two Australian councils are out-of-pocket after funding an attempt to use water divining to help top up Lake Albert near the southern NSW town of Wagga Wagga.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1FPJ4)
And what to do if you get hit At least 30 companies have been hit in the past year by so-called "bug poaching," where hackers break into corporate servers, steal data, and then demand a fee for showing how it was done.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FPDB)
Armada 7000/8000 now sampling Marvell Semiconductor is sampling its Armada 7000 and Armada 8000 system-on-chips (SoCs), based on the ARM Cortex-A72 architecture.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1FP8P)
Consultancy giant opens wallet, pulls out some notes, tells Feds to go away Deloitte will pay $11m to settle allegations it overcharged the US government for IT services.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1FP70)
Does new 14nm ThunderX2 pack enough punch to take on Chipzilla? Cavium has used Computex to push out its next round of ARM server system on chips (SoCs), the ThunderX2.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1FP3Y)
Perfect for the gamer with money to burn Intel has unveiled four new processors at Computex in Taipei, including its first desktop-grade 10-core processor – yours for the bargain price of $1,723 plus tax.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1FP1D)
The great privacy farce continues Facebook wants to hear what you have to say. Literally.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1FNZW)
Location info not covered by 4th Amendment A US Court of Appeals has ruled that police do not need a warrant to track the whereabouts of a person's mobile phone.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1FNQ6)
More VVol goodness +Comment DataCore has accelerated its Parallel IO technology's performance by 50 per cent with a v10 PSP5 software release, when run in its SANsymphony and Hyper-converged Virtual SAN software products.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1FNH4)
Shares were worth 20%+ more than buyout value, says court A small number of former shareholders in Dell could be getting a sizable payout after a Delaware court ruled the IT biz was undervalued when it went private.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1FNCG)
while(1) { copy_from_stackexchange(); } Computer science (CS) students in the US aren't being taught properly, and their classes are too limited in scope, says one IT think-tank.…
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