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One-day conference to help your storage buying decisions Promo The traditional hard disk array market is declining but the flash storage market is recording huge growth, with All Flash Arrays (AFAs) sales growing over 75 per cent annually and hybrid flash systems seven per cent year-on-year, according to IDC. This shift is affecting buying decisions in all kinds of businesses with the full impact yet to be realised.…

Not the security, we hope. It's a 'priority' Security vendors have welcomed plans to trial digital versions of the UK’s driving licence.…

Armageddon postponed? Draconian new regulations on vaping come into effect today – but for many vapers, it won’t feel like a crackdown, at least, not right away,…

Kali Linux, laptop, coffee - hack on! Have you ever bothered to look at who your browser trusts? The padlock of a HTTPS connection doesn't mean anything if you can't trust the other end of the connection and its upstream signatories. Do you trust CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Centre). What about Turkistan trust or many other “who are they” type certificate authorities?…

Pick a partner Analysis IBM has demonstrated a 3-bit Phase-Change Memory chip with IBM Zurich researcher Dr. Haris Pozidis talking about it in a YouTube video and not mentioning 3D XPoint once.…

Country's highest temp ever recorded in Rajasthan Those readers with a tendency to wilt with rising temperatures are advised to steer clear of the Indian state of Rajasthan, where the mercury yesterday hit a blistering 51°C.…

Cabinet Office lacked 'accountability', 'experience' Moves to shift departments' back office tin and ERP systems into two privately owned shared services - which had been touted as set to save the taxpayer £128m - have failed to prove "value for money", according to a report by the National Audit Office.…

You’ll like this (but not a lot) Something for the Weekend, Sir? I’m on stage with a gun pointing at my heart. There is the sound of nervous shuffling as those sitting in the stalls squirm in their seats. Then silence: the audience quickly falls still and holds it breath. The man armed with the musket is raising the muzzle to take better aim before slowly squeezing the trigger……

Verily, they did make support for the Internet of Things Stob Editor's Note: Verity Stob's Chronicles of Delphi [King James ed.] began in 1996. The most recent translations can be found here: The Sons of Kahn and the assembly language of the internet, here: The Sons of Kahn and the Pascal spring and here: Sons of Kahn: The Apocrypha.…

Thank goodness the internet's where the fail whale lives Analysis Anyone hearing this week that Britain’s BBC is set to launch against Netflix with a service touted as “BritFlix” will almost certainly get the wrong idea and believe it is actually going to happen. The move is being touted merely because the recent government review of the BBC encouraged the ancient British public broadcasters to produce an Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) service.…

Yet again, the fix would be proper vetting of code in Google Play and other app stores Duo Security researcher Kyle Lady says attackers can compromise more than half of enterprise Android phones by chaining two operating system and chip vulnerabilities.…

Help desk deals with PC exploded in Iraq. By people shooting at the owner ON-CALL ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, our end-of-week waltz through readers' memories of odd jobs they've been asked to do.…

Connected diabetes monitors show the more you share, the more you can be helped An average-looking chap in a suit in hotel lobby takes out his phone and makes a call. “Hi. You ok?" he asks. “ I got a notification that you’re at 60."…

Cisco to stay in vBlocks and Microsoft detente coming VCE's new VxRail hyperconverged appliance sold 146 units in its first 44 days on sale and the EMC server unit's new leader Chad Sakac says that impressive start means he's betting the outfit will become the leading hyperconverged systems vendor by the end of 2016.…

Next-gen 'Beluga' heavy lifter due in 2017 The A380 may be able to haul hundred of people across oceans and continents in considerable comfort, but aerosexuals find it hard to love on aesthetic grounds.…

Penetration testing wing to launch next year Japan will from next year conduct mock hacking exercises with governments including the United States and private sector organisations ahead of the 2020 Olympic games.…

.gov.bd sites used by parties unknown to spawn phish from UK host Netcraft security man Paul Mutton says the Bangladesh Government has been used in banking phishing attacks targeting customers of Wells Fargo, Google, and AOL.…

End-of-sale date will be April 30, 2017 Cisco will retire its Nexus 6000 switches in mid-2017.…

Tiny number of users were losing data from forms, so Chrome's stopped going backwards going forward Google's Chrome browser no longer lets you go back to your previously-used page with the Backspace key.…

Confirms target was Labor members, rejects claims the timing of the raids was political Australian Federal Police (AFP) has confirmed it raided the office of Labor senator Stephen Conroy and the home of a staffer of opposition communications minister Jason Claire over leaked documents pertaining to Australia's NationalB Network (NBN).…

Two asteroid strikes had huge consequences Scientists think they have spotted the remains of two huge tsunamis on Mars caused by asteroids striking the planet back when it still had water.…

Software trial nearing home stretch... we hope Google CEO Larry Page took the stand Thursday in the latest edition of the Chocolate Factory's long-running legal case against Oracle.…

Long-expected marriage of operating systems Google I/O 2016 Google has pulled the move the software market has been waiting ages for, and built a system to run Android apps on its desktop operating system.…

Bill gets bipartisan support A bipartisan bill introduced to Congress this week will aim to set new limits on the ability of the FBI to access private computers.…

IANA contract getting unwelcome attention Republican congressmen are increasing their efforts to delay transition of a critical piece of internet infrastructure from the US government to a non-profit organization based in California.…

But you'll need a new phone to do it Google I/O 2016 Google has been outlining plans for kickstarting its virtual reality portfolio this year, including new hardware, software tools, and developer support.…

We can't publish the visual storytelling version of this due to the community guidelines Adobe has launched Spark in a hope that its graphics software can be tooled for the mobile age.…

Chocolate Factory wants to play Katamari IRL Google has been granted a patent on a system that would adhere victims of car strikes to the vehicle for their own safety.…

Can blood-testing company survive latest revelation? The controversial blood-testing company Theranos has voided two years of results and issued tens of thousands of corrected reports, further undermining its credibility and raising serious questions over its future.…

Going Nuclear Security researchers have lifted the lid on the Nuclear exploit kit, rated the second largest malware-as-a-service toolkit in the world.…

Ads slinger's Diane Greene reckons Google is a force Google is “very serious” about enterprise cloud – according to Google’s head of enterprise cloud.…

HUST busts out HPC Blog For the first time in student cluster competition history, a hometown team has won the Overall Championship award. The team, from China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology, captured the crown at the recently concluded Asia Supercomputer Community 2016 Student Cluster Competition.…

Electro-wallet hit by malware worries Android Pay's UK launch is promising but could be held back by malware concerns, security and payment experts warn.…

The Bot Wars are proof the Valley is bust Comment Look no further for proof that Silicon Valley is now running on its own exhaust fumes than the latest hype: The War of the Clippys.…

Investigatory Powers Tribunal puts pen to *redacted* The only court where you may appeal our spies' illegal activities in the UK has finally published a report covering its activities from 2011-2015, defending itself against accusations that it is a “star chamber” which “always meets in secret and never rules in favour of complainants”.…

More Salesforce on more AWS promise Salesforce has claimed its “best ever” year opening - at the expense of Oracle and SAP - while committing a growing portion of its cloud to AWS.…

Hours of fun: Free/Libre Open Source Software draws 'em in Despite an extreme gender gap in the free/Libre and open-source software community - even more extreme than in general IT - women who work full time in FLOSS stick with it longer than men, according to a recent report.…

All encryption isn’t created equal, says expert LinkedIn has responded to the recent sale of users’ data - apparently the fruits of a 2012 breach - on the dark web.…

Meaty customer conference, May 26 Promo Want to know more about Extreme Networks? You have a great opportunity on May 26 to meet key executives, researchers and customers in London, at the software-driven networking solutions vendor’s latest Extreme Forum.…

National Broadband Network documents apparently sought as Feds probe leaks The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has searched the offices of Senator Stephen Conroy, the former Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.…

So far so good for Super Pressure Balloon mission The NASA Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) which lifted off from New Zealand earlier this week is heading for the open Indian Ocean, having traversed the south of Australia.…

Plain pack rules set to come into force tomorrow A motion has been tabled in the House of Lords to annul the UK implementation of the EU’s new tobacco directive, which comes into effect tomorrow, potentially triggering a debate and a vote.…

PS and SC manager to unify 2 environments - oh and we've added compression, dedupe Dell says its Storage Center OS v7.0 adds deduplication and compression to make more efficient use of flash memory.…

Lockey still 'getting feet under table' at SAM consultancy Microsoft enterprise licensing slinger and software asset management biz Crayon has finally filled the empty seat at the top of its UK organisation after grabbing former Di Data’s local sales director Richard Lockey.…

Not even moist? OK. And he's pro-encryption, pro-security UK digital minister Ed Vaizey has denied government plans for a universal service obligation of 10Mps are a "damp squib" but admitted the government will keep the target "under review".…

Targets dev-friendly skittles SAP has released a beta version of its Hana Cloud Platform for Cloud Foundry.…

Have we reached Peak Smartphone? Analysts disagree One-third of phones worldwide are now sold SIM-free, Gartner reports today in its latest quarterly smartphone market numbers. The move to SIM-free online sales has benefited Chinese upstarts and left former favourites like Sony and HTC in the dust, analyst Anshul Gupta told us.…

Fine cloud-free view from Europe's Sentinel-2A satellite Boffins have used 7,000 images from Europe's Sentinel-2A Earth-watching satellite to construct a fine mosaic of Africa, shown entirely cloud-free in all its continental glory.…

Maybe identity doesn't have to be linked to continuity... A trial to see if it is possible to regenerate the brains of patients who have been declared clinically dead has been approved. Reanima Advanced Biosciences aims to use stem cells, injections of peptides, and nerve stimulation to reverse “brain death as noted in clinical examination or EEG”, a project which at least scores highly on ambition.…

How has open source changed it - and can it survive Windows PC decline? Exclusive interview At Xamarin's Evolve conference in Orlando, at the end of April 2016, I had a rare opportunity to sit down with Mads Torgersen and Dustin Campbell to discuss the future of the C# programming language.…