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Not betting the house, but it's plausible, boffins say Scientists think the recent discovery of gravitational waves observed from the collision of two black holes may have also detected signatures of the astrophysics mystery of dark matter.…

'Project Ukai' would automate multi-region cloudy config Juniper Networks seems to have big plans for its OpenContrail SDN controller: it would like to see it act as a kind of “meta-controller” for multiple cloud and data centre controllers.…

Silent maintainers put on notice An unpatched remote code execution hole has been publicly disclosed in the popular Swagger API framework, putting users at risk.…

Infringed three out of five Cisco patents Ethernet switch vendor Arista faces a possible import ban, after losing a key round in its ongoing patent battle with Cisco.…

Redmond offers hardening ideas to Cupertino Objective-C programmers should use message authentication codes to protect sensitive objects and data structures, according to research presented to this week's Usenix Annual Technical Conference (ATC).…

'Unusal' pairing hopes to attract new hacking blood The Department of Defence has tipped A$12 million (£6.1 million, US$9.1 million) into an information security facility to attract new blood by housing signals spooks alongside Australian National University academics.…

Have you tried turning it off, and turning it back on again? In one of the creepiest bits of science Vulture South has ever encountered, a US scientist has identified 1,000 genes that become active after death.…

'Fansmitter', a cool way to steal passwords Pity the weary sysadmin who's just finished silencing the loudspeakers in the company's computers to keep data behind the air gap: processor fans can also be used to whisper your secrets.…

The Mega Processor is done... er, like we ever doubted it Have you ever seen an up-close view of how a computer processor works?…

Boards of Appeal excoriates EPO president over threats The attempt to dismiss a patent judge from his position – including unsubstantiated claims that he possessed Nazi memorabilia – has led to fierce formal criticism of the president of the European Patent Office (EPO).…

NVMe fabric-attached all-flash array coming in August with 10 million 4K IOPS Backgrounder If hero numbers are what you want then E8 Storage's 2U box filled with 24 NVMe SSDS can provide them; 10 million 4KB IOPS using RDMA over an Ethernet fabric connecting up to 100 servers.…

Comodo lays claim to cert authority's moniker The group behind the Let's Encrypt certificate authority (CA) says that its name could be in doubt thanks to rival CA Comodo Group.…

National Labor Relations Board releases details of employee's complaint Managers at Google-owned Nest threatened their employees, asked co-workers to report on each other, carried out unlawful surveillance of phones and laptops, and unlawfully interrogated staff.…

Begun, the browser battery wars have Microsoft's claim that its Edge browser is the thriftiest with power has drawn a sharp response from rival browser biz Opera, who called for open testing to work out which app provides better battery life.…

Storage Architect DataCore has been active over recent months with benchmarks based on their new SANsymphony Parallel Server offering. The most recent of these claims 5.1 million SPC-1 IOPS at $0.08/SPC-1 IOPS and 0.32 millisecond response time.…

Chocolate Factory kills any doubts about its national ISP intentions Google has acquired fellow ISP Webpass in a move designed to expand the reach of its high-speed Fiber service.…

The customer and staff company is no more Completed in 1983, IBM's prestigious South Bank office in London, on the banks of the River Thames, owes a lot to the Brutalist style of architecture, popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It makes heavy use of concrete: a solid building for a solid company.…

Particles, antiparticles and putting meat on bones of theory Physicists have built a quantum simulator to study the Standard Model of particle physics – a theory concerning the electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions, as well as classifying all the subatomic particles known. The simulator includes lasers and four calcium ions, according to new research published in Nature [paywalled].…

Mmm, lovely fresh new Pi The 64-bit Raspberry Pi 3 has topped a poll of 81 single-board Linux and Android systems among Linux folk.…

We're all trying to make hyperconvergence happen. But who's going to win? Here I am sitting at a bar at 4:50am (jet lag is my friend) after the Nutanix's annual event, .NEXT.…

Software, software, software... some hardware OPFVN 2016 Flexible tech such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation will be a prerequisite for our brave new 5G world, reckon Intel and Ericsson.…

Software bet looks great, but Priv apathy taxes the bookkeepers BlackBerry announced further losses today as its comeback plan snagged on adjustments to the books.…

Oh, we'll also shares our beach towels, be nice to your Royals and dump frothy beer Germany’s premier tabloid Bild has vowed to fulfil a series of promises if the Brits vote to remain in the EU, chief among them admitting Geoff Hurst’s disputed 1966 World Cup goal was over the line.…

Different doesn't always = good, but baby steps Comment Lately I've been worried about the lack of differentiation in the storage startup ecosystem, but two newbies have made me think again.…

But does running Win2003 make you a high-performer? “High-performing organisations” which have employed agile and devops methodologies are decisively pulling away from their fuddy-duddy peers in the number of software deployments they can manage.…

Industry experts hyper converge on Berlin, Tuesday 12 July PROMO The future is complicated, with a myriad of platforms and solutions promising to help you deal with disruption in any industry you choose to name.…

Biz that couldn't find buyer devises 3-year strategy plan - services and security Cisco Gold partner Intrinsic Technology has confirmed it is CEO-less - which Reg readers already knew - but that all is OK, everything is working out as planned. Honestly.…

But box biz will take a long time to die, says chief cloud architect OPNFV Summit Huawei is poised to make its big push into flogging pure software products next year - an area its cloudy chief architect believes will come to dominate other parts of the biz.…

Beehive state sends in the dogs to tackle porno public health crisis A sheriff’s department in Utah has spent $10,000 on black Labrador they say can sniff out porn and other illicit digital materials.…

Nasuni CEO: First outage in 3 years of this system being live A CTERA spokesperson kindly got in touch to tell us cloud storage gateway Nasuni's customers had an outage last week. Nasuni says you have to be a real service provider to have an outage.…

Listen up people, want to appear in our stores or website? Cough The private equity profiteers behind Maplin Electronics have turned the screws on suppliers to hand over bigger rebates to help pay for physical and digital store improvements or risk having their kit sidelined.…

London doctors warn of perils of in-bed, one-eye watching Taking your smartphone to bed won’t just leave you tossing and turning, it can actually make you go temporarily blind, a team of London-based doctors have warned.…

Moving as fast as embiggened bods can shift OPNFV Summit Network operators have a jealous eye on the likes of Facebook and Google and want to ditch their clunky networks to compete for "cooler" consumer services, the head of the open-source network function virtualisation (NFV) project has said.…

Our man Trev thinks 2016 is hyperconvergence's year Sysadmin blog Hyperconvergence, putting storage inside the individual hosts of a virtual cluster, was supposed to save us from the cost and expense of centralized storage. Thus far, mainstream providers of hyperconvergence have largely failed to deliver on this promise. 2016 looks set to be the year this finally changes.…

In procurement? Read this Procurement professionals in all sectors need to be aware of the risk of bid-rigging of contracts they tender, a procurement law expert has said.…

Entry-level box joined by new hyper-converged product Aiming to stem the Nutanix snd SimpliVity hyper-converged tide, HDS announced the UCP HC V240, its first hyper-converged UCP product, along with the entry-level converged UCP 2000, for its mid-market and enterprise customers.…

Homebrew movement counters update with gift to pirates The Oculus DRM system has been shattered, opening the door to modders and pirates.…

Genetics builder and breakers hope to bolster treatments A United States advisory committee has green-lighted use of the ground-breaking CRISPR gene-editing technique in human trials.…

It's 2016 and Usenet providers are still being used sued A Netherlands court has ordered two Usenet providers, Eweka and Usenetter, to hand over subscriber details over alleged copyright violations.…

Aussie bikini model had file accessed 1,435 times Police in the northern Australian state of Queensland have been busted accessing citizen's files a huge number of times, in some cases without authorisation.…

RFC gives route leaks names, to help netops explain why traffic goes missing Users are familiar with those occasional events in which a sysadmin fat-thumb results in traffic getting deep-sixed – like, for example, this week's huge Telia outage.…

Onion rings get more scrambled The University of California wants to defeat deanonymisation with a hardened version of the Tor browser.…

But unscrambling this egg will be painful Founding NBN CEO Mike Quigley has given a speech defending both his legacy and the original fibre-to-the-premises network plan.…

Adding more lock-down to Azure data The offering is based on Redmond's October 2015 acquisition of Israeli firm Secure Islands, whose technology is being integrated into Azure Rights Management (RMS).…

Latest round of MOSS cash splashed Mozilla has announced the latest round of awards under its Open Source Support (MOSS) program.…

Input validation bugs in 7zip, mtree and Rar handlers Users, developers, sysadmins – World+Dog, really – need to get busy patching libarchive, after Cisco Talos researchers turned up three new vulnerabilities.…

Instagram PR pic poses interesting questions A PR snapshot of Mark Zuckerberg's desk has shown quite how seriously the king of the information sharing economy takes his own privacy.…

The sleeping giant wakes up hungry Astronomers have identified a sleeping black hole that sprung back to life – after trapping a nearby star to be later consumed – due to the black hole firing X-rays into space, according to research published today in Nature.…

C-SPAN rebroadcasts Periscope feed after cameras turned off In an extraordinary intervention of app technology into modern democracy, TV station C-SPAN chose to rebroadcast streaming video from a mobile phone inside Congress during a representatives held protest after its cameras were turned off.…

What's your privacy worth? A few cents, apparently The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that mobile advertising giant InMobi will pay $950K to settle charges that it tracked "hundreds of millions" of people around the world.…