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Building internet mousetraps and enchanted umbrellas Reg Lecture Every inventor wants to build a better moustetrap, so it’s no surprise that IBM master inventor Andy Stanford-Clark make sure he applied his IoT expertise to inflicting mayhem on his unwanted mursine visitors.…
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Power outage in London fingered A raft of BT customers were knocked offline this morning due to a power problem at one of its web peering partners’ sites in London.…
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by Andrew Cobley on (#1MX1X)
Hint: It's relational Comment Microsoft grabbed the headlines this week when it announced a Professional Degree Program at its annual partner conference. It starts with data science.…
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Blue/Green also a deployment option Electric Cloud has promised a raft of new deployment options in the latest release of its application deployment platform as it looks to bring the joy of DevOps to even the most crusty and sprawling customers.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1MWX9)
Just don't go on Facebook, people. You're giving yourself up to crims Unrestcon It takes nothing more than a home address for hacker "Nixxer" to find enough information to ruin your life.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1MWVN)
Ideas dreamed up by BitTorrent and Google people should speed Windows Microsoft has announced it will add five new features – some experimental - to the TCP stack it will ship in Windows Server 2016 and the Anniversary Update to Windows 10.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1MWTQ)
Your cryptic storage crossword clue of the day Spectra Logic has added direct archive to Amazon's S3-accessed public cloud from its BlackPearl object storage gateway.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1MWRS)
The two companies are now collaborating nicely, thanks in part to an intern When VMware acquired Nicira and released its NSX product, it looked like Virtzilla and Cisco were on a collision course. But now Cisco has added a vCenter plug-in to the new version of its own software-defined networking (SDN) software, one of several signs that the two companies are working together while also competing to manage networks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MWPJ)
Google, Microsoft won't have to block searches for 'les torrents' The High Court of Paris has decided there's a limit to France's unpopular anti-copying regime: Google and Bing can't be required to block the word “torrent†from their search results just because BitTorrent is sometimes used for piracy.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1MWM1)
A Big Red Oracle Quarterly Patch Dump, that's what! Oracle has emitted its quarterly patch payload, along the way claiming an unwanted record by squashing an all-time-high 276 problems across 84 products.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MWHV)
400,000 submissions received, some critical of carriers claiming 5G costs justify fast lanes It's hard to work up a good lump in the throat in sympathy for a bureaucrat, but staff at the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) probably need just a little: they're going to have to work through 400,000 submissions about Net Neutrality in the EU.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#1MWFF)
Patch frenzy imminent, say researchers, thanks to bad use of code hooking Hundreds of security products may not be up the job, researchers say, thanks to flawed uses of code hooking.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MWBV)
Royalties rumble could cost chip-maker US$880m, a bit less than LG and Samsung pay South Korea's Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has Qualcomm in its sights again, telling the Korea Times the company could be up for a trillion-won fine (nearly US$880 million) over anti-trust violations.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MWB2)
'Genie' test simulated pocket nukes' potential to evaporate bombers Vid The date was 19 July, the year was 1957 and America was worried that the Soviet Union could amass too many bomber squadrons to be stopped.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1MWA7)
Win some, you lose some: profit up, revenue down Analysis All eyes were on Microsoft's cloud business today as it published its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MW7D)
P0wnage party pops plugins, providing plenty of party-pooping projects The Dutch hacking community's Summer of Pwnage (SoP) has disclosed three vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, including an XSS in the popular Ninja Forms.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1MW6G)
Rocketeers apply for two more landing pads, but faces NIMBY challenge SpaceX has applied to local authorities for permission to build two new rocket landing pads in Florida ahead of the launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket later this year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MW5S)
National shut-down starts Tuesday, just in time for the Olympics The standoff between Brazil's legal system and Facebook's WhatsApp messaging platform continues, after a Rio de Janeiro judge ordered all carriers to block the app as of next Tuesday.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1MW11)
German software house says sailors are just the wurst A German software developer has accused the United States Navy of illegally copying $596m worth of its product.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1MVV8)
China, Russia, Iran will 'devour' the web after IANA transition The planned transition of the internet's critical technical functions from the US government to a technical body may come under further attack after the Republican Party officially agreed to block it on Monday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1MVNM)
Oh, and BamBrogan's a childish drunken misogynist, allegedly An extraordinary fight at tube-travel company Hyperloop One has hit warp speed with a court filing filled with more wild claims.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1MVMA)
Cupertino pondering cellular broadband tech in laptops Apple has been granted a patent that suggests its future MacBooks will come with built-in phone hardware, giving the notebooks mobile broadband connectivity.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#1MVG1)
Flaws also squashed in Safari, iTunes and iOS Apple has released a bundle of patches to fix security holes in OS X, iOS, iTunes and Safari.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1MVG3)
You WON’T BELIEVE THE ANSWER Sketch So, what, if anything, keeps former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani awake at night? Actually, he told a BlackBerry event today, there is this one thing.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#1MVB1)
World's biggest tech merger is on EMC shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to accept Dell's $67bn offer to merge the two companies into a new entity called Dell Technologies.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#1MVB3)
Judge picks friends of court in case studying info safeguards An Irish high court judge has accepted the US government into a high-profile case involving Facebook and mass surveillance – but rejected a number of civil liberties groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#1MV6P)
If you see what I mean. Do you? Does anyone? BlackBerry CEO John Chen said his company has an internal project to bring Android security up to the level of its BlackBerry 10 platform, which should bear fruit after the release of Android N.…
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by John Leyden on (#1MTZ9)
10Gbps is the new norm, warns Arbor Networks DDoS attacks once again escalated in both size and frequency during the first six months of 2016.…
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by John Leyden on (#1MTW3)
Will confer new name on Confer Endpoint security firm Carbon Black has bought "next-generation antivirus" firm Confer.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1MTSZ)
Container biz blames downtime on traffic flood Updated Websites running on the Docker Cloud hosted container management and deployment service were taken down by an apparent DNS outage on Monday.…
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by John Leyden on (#1MTQQ)
UK watchdog barks at careless consumers Lessons have not been learned from an incident where a Russian website provided links to access baby monitor cameras, according to the UK’s data protection watchdog.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1MTMA)
Quarterly storage hardware revs continue slow slide +Comment The storage hardware portion of IBM's quarterly revenues continued its long-term decline, with a 13 per cent annual drop.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1MTJN)
Administrator's Statement of Affairs doc confirms AV distie owed £6.7m at collapse Unsecured creditors of audio visual distributor Steljes that are owed £6.72m by the fallen specialist will likely receive just three pence in the pound, according to the company’s administrator.…
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Control centre staff reverting to pen and paper, says union Ambulance service union the GMB has called for an urgent review of the UK's South East Coast Ambulance’s computerised dispatch system for control centre staff handling emergency calls.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#1MTAX)
Eyes NVME, flash farms with 128 Gbps-capable ports Brocade's having none of this FibreChannel doomsaying, with the launch of its FibreChannel Gen 6 director family.…
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As Reg news team snare art desk menacing Charizard Suspicions are rising that Pokemon Go is some sort of massive Darwinian experiment, after HM Coastguard was forced to warn the UK populace about the dangers of attempting to capture waterborne varieties of the non-existence pocket monsters.…
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How are the government's beancounters going to audit 'agile' now? Sally Howes, the executive lead responsible for scrutinising government IT projects at the UK National Audit Office, has stepped down after six years in the role.…
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by John Leyden on (#1MSZD)
If you seek ... trojans Crooks have once again targeted users downloading Ammyy's remote access software as a conduit for spreading malware. The tactic – which has been witnessed before, specifically in the infamous Lurk banking trojan – has been in play since early February, 2016.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#1MSW9)
EU court opinion in lead Brexiter's Gov legal challenge Bulk collection of data from phone calls and emails by carriers acting under government orders could be permissible in the pursuit of “serious crimeâ€.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#1MSS1)
Fancy a 24-day year? An international team of astronomers has confirmed a treasure trove of new exoplanets spotted by NASA's Kepler spacecraft during its K2 mission.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1MSMG)
Standalone VMware cacher's dream is over Breaking news PernixData CTO and technology evangelist Frank Denneman has confirmed Nutanix has bought PernixData.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1MSMJ)
NVMe over fabrics flasher finds fund The NVMe-over-fabrics flash array startup Mangstor has had a $5m funding round.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1MSKG)
There's a third way, cash-flingers Comment There surely must be an alternative to the two preferred exits for VC-backed startups – IPO or acquisition – in these times of near-VC funding drought and what seems like IPO fatigue.…
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Server records deletion causes website woes Cloud management biz Scalr.com was yesterday hit by an outage which knocked customer websites offline.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#1MSF4)
Shareholders... it's Dell or, er, Dell, right? EMC-Dell deal EMC saw totally flat revenues in its second quarter but profits rose 19 per cent. It could have been better as late orders couldn't be fulfilled.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#1MSAT)
Profiteering PC peeps? Nah, it's the 'special' relationship with US ASUS has confirmed the UK list price of computers are expected to rise on average by nine per cent in the Christmas quarter due the weakening of the British pound versus the US dollar.…
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'Compelling evidence' BT Group 'exploiting... vertical integration' BT has "significantly under-invested" in IT infrastructure subsidiary Openreach and a full split should go ahead if it fails to offer "appropriate reforms and investment assurances", according to a report by MPs.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#1MS6W)
Software suppliers can be forced to pay damages Software suppliers can be forced to pay damages to self-employed intermediaries they contract with to promote their products under UK commercial agents regulations, according to a recent High Court ruling.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#1MS44)
Chocolate Factory welcomes 'improvements' in surveillance laws Google has published its latest “Transparency Reportâ€, the disclosure in which it reveals how many times governments asked it to cough data on users. And this time around there's mixed news.…
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by John Leyden on (#1MS1R)
Now that's a little rude A web browser developed by Chinese company Maxthon has allegedly been collecting telemetry about its users.…
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