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Circuit breakers broke bad, workload moved but array flipped out under heavy load Salesforce.com has revealed that a bug in the firmware of its storage arrays was behind last week's data loss incident.…

Australian team uses Sir Isaac Newton's parlor trick to suck more photons from sunlight University of New South Wales boffins have laid hands on another record, with a solar cell demonstrating 34.5 per cent conversion efficiency.…

Solar storms and sky-high nukes could black out America America is still under dire threat of an electromagnetic pulse sending it back to the dark ages, according to Chris Currie of the US Government Accountability Office.…

Twelve bucks a month to make the ads go away and allow offline viewing Google has flicked the switch on the Australian version of “YouTube Red”, the twelve bucks a month version of the service that features no ads and allows online viewing.…

Taxi payment company knows where you live ... and so can anyone who runs Shodan Researchers from Risk Based Security have Shodanned up a Cabcharge database that was running without security.…

Surprisingly, 'rollup' not just code for a Windows 10 installer Microsoft says it will simplify the update process for older versions of Windows by switching to once-a-month "rollup" bundles.…

Ever thought about just banning phones? The Iraqi government is repeatedly shutting down the country's entire internet to prevent students from cheating on their exams.…

Law enforcement eagerly examining Nulled database In a deliciously ironic turn, the dark web hacking forum Nulled.io has had its user database stolen and published for all to see.…

I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you print that IBM has filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a patent on a printer that checks for copyright violations.…

Girls who beat boys who test boys like they're girls who test boys worse than girls A study from the US government's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has found that girls test higher than boys in engineering and technology.…

Screenshot replaced by moonshot replaced by Psalm quote Congressional candidate Mike Webb had an immediate explanation for the porn tabs in his browser: he was conducting his own malware experiment.…

Original gangster Skimer goes global Cybercriminals have retrofitted a strain of ATM malware first discovered in 2009 to create an even more potent threat.…

Of course it is YOUR decision Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have nailed their colours to the EU mast as UK government applies pressure on firms to encourage employees, customers and channel people to support the Remain camp.…

That's for the entry-level model. Going up the food chain will cost ya The first of HP Inc’s much-delayed (and cynics might say over-hyped 3D printer) is to hit the market “late” this year – launching into a crowded space with a challenger device the firm hopes will brighten its future.…

HANA for Microsoft Azure, Office 365 onramp for SAP Microsoft and SAP are renewing their decades-old business intelligence and data partnership for cloud.…

Mighty bird sets claw in UK for first time Brit birdwatchers are all a-tizz at the news that a bearded vulture has been spotted in Wales and Devon - the first time Gypaetus barbatus has set claw on UK soil.…

Flash boost and predictive analytics for 3-layer club sandwich Tintri has made a triple-play for its future with enlarged flash capacity, the addition of scale-out and predictive analytics so customers never need get surprised by space running out.…

Still no WhatsApp or Facebook, though... The Home Office has issued guidance demanding that immigration detainees are provided with internet access so they can maintain “links with friends, families and legal representatives and to prepare for removal.”…

Tab sales crash and loss of Samsung retail gig smacked it The once seemingly unstoppable distribution juggernaut DCC Technology hit some unmovable barriers in fiscal ’16 caused by slumping tab and smartphone sales and the loss of a retail gig.…

Eye in the sky launched from International Space Station The pupils of St Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, Virginia, watched yesterday as their diminutive STMSat-1 was ejected from the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first time an elementary school CubeSat has been deployed into space.…

But you'll probably get Stephen Fry Five per cent of Britons would choose the voice of Nigel Farage as their in-car virtual assistant. And 3 per cent want to be advised of traffic jams ahead by the Chuckle Brothers.…

Footage from £2m evidence-gathering scheme to go to cloud Just a few days after a counter-terrorism incident which involved precisely zero terrorists, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has started to deploy 3,000 body-worn video (BWV) cameras to its coppers.…

But relax, Shed Bloke. That really doesn’t mean you. Exclusive A new Digital Bill due to be announced in the Queen’s Speech tomorrow will contain a new 10-year maximum sentencing guideline for online copyright infringement, The Register has learned.…

Maybe, but will blockers pay a middleman? Ad-blocking threatens to snuff out growth in the digital display advertising market, reckons Optimal, a startup with an interest in talking up the Adpocalypse.…

Could the biz still be eyeing up a Brit merger with Virgin? Communications provider Vodafone posed a 3.5 per cent fall in UK sales to £6.2bn for the full-year 2016, while fourth quarter revenue in Europe grew for the first time in five years.…

HPE has a look at the business of hacking Credit card fraud is in decline while ad fraud is poised for growth, according to a new study on the business of cybercrime out Tuesday.…

RC2 release includes new tools, extended API and... telemetry by default Microsoft has released RC2 (Release Candidate 2) of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, the next-generation version of the .NET platform which is open source and cross-platform.…

Unexpected items in the inbox area Numerous UK surfers were left confused on Monday after receiving email confirmations for insurance products with Sainsbury’s Bank that they never bought.…

Almost 250 staff at risk of redundancy Wimbledon is around the corner, the hippies are getting ready for Glasto and sickly integrator CSC is cutting jobs again - the summer season is upon us.…

It does simplify the hardware setup, whatever it is Opinion The big announcement at the recent EMC World was VNX3 – or EMC Unity as we now have to call it.…

And dozens of staff directed to exit told 'we were hasty, can you hang on for longer?' Hewlett Packard Enterprise is hiring temps to cover gaps caused by the exit of hundreds of techies it recently axed, some of whom provided services to clients including the Department for Work and Pensions.…

And why are Fibre Channel fans so, er, stubborn about movements Storage Architect One of the questions posed to the “ask me anything” storage panel at this week’s TECHunplugged event was whether we will ever see a single storage protocol develop.…

Update crushes low-level lockscreen hole ... then wreaks havoc Apple's latest iOS 9.3.2 update appears to be bricking iPads.…

The FBI's advice to suffer and lose data only makes sense if you're the FBI COMMENT It's not your job to defend the world against criminals, so the decision to pay a ransomware demand is all about business.…

Enlist phones in ad fraud, premium SMS, loser DDoS Malicious Android applications have bypassed Google's Play store security checks to enslave infected devices into distributed denial of service attack, advertising fraud, and spam botnets.…

Windows-as-a-service will require more frequent testing of everything you run The advent of Windows-as-a-service means that businesses adopting Windows 10 will need to ensure they can monitor their software portfolio for compatibility with Microsoft's latest updates.…

Better the devil you know as malware replaces Alphabet ads with less sanitary banners About a million computers have been enslaved into a newly-identified botnet that is plundering Google advertising revenues, a security trio says.…

New bigness metric: Gasbag said to be 'as large as 92 Goodyear blimps' NASA's latest attempt to launch its Super Pressure Balloon (SPB) in New Zealand has gone off without a hitch.…

Deprecated almost everywhere, researchers crack open 'smart grid' ancient crypto suite AGAIN The Open Smart Grid Protocol's custom RC4 encryption has been cracked – again.…

Ukrainian faces 20 years behind bars for trying to filch financial news A Ukrainian ne'er-do-well who broke into market computers for an insider trading scheme has entered a guilty plea in the US.…

Cross-platform nasty is simplicity itself to exploit, so get patching peeps British white hat hacker and Google Project Zero chap Tavis Ormandy is making life miserable for Symantec again: the bug-hunter has turned up an exploitable overflow in “the core Symantec Antivirus Engine used in most Symantec and Norton branded Antivirus products”.…

Tax return exposure threat fizzles. Anyone wanna try this on The Donald? A self-confessed hacker who sought a million-dollar Bitcoin payment in exchange for then-US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax records has been found guilty of extortion and fraud.…

30,000 hot Pis in stores now and factory ready to bake plenty more The Raspberry Pi Zero has added a camera connector.…

It's not a DaaS-aster, but not better or cheaper than VDI, yet Desktop-as-a-service in 2016 is about as mature as infrastructure-as-a-service was in 2008, so waiting until it matures is more sensible than diving in now.…

'CAMELOT!' … 'It's only a model' Nokia Networks has applied the paddles to the chest of cable broadband, pumped in the volts, and sent it sprinting at 10 Gbps.…

Monstrous FCC blasted for floating notion of 'competition' US cable carriers are crying foul against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over what they say are overbearing and heavy-handed regulations being placed on their market.…

Silicon Valley episode 4: leopard or gazelle? Silicon Valley, HBO's satire on the eponymous tech haven, is at its best when it takes the brilliance and idealism of engineers and contorts them to fit the barmy business end of the industry.…

Frustration goes over lingering connection issues More than a month after promising to smooth over migration issues, ISP Frontier Communications is still being criticized for spotty service to former Verizon customers.…

Not happy with registration requirements The Chinese government could fragment the internet if it pursues new registration rules for online addresses, the US government has warned.…

Judge fails to see the funny side of YouTube stunts Four men that staged two art gallery thefts and a kidnapping as part of a "prank" for their YouTube channel have been jailed by a judge in the UK.…