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Want to build a storage cloud? How many trucks can you unload in a day? It's not something the average sysadmin has to worry about, but when you're rolling out terabyte after terabyte into a data centre with a presto time signature, the loading bay becomes a bottleneck.…

No choice but to use American gear, grins spymaster CIA director John Brennan told US senators they shouldn't worry about mandatory encryption backdoors hurting American businesses.…

Big Red's net income tumbles despite mighty cloud push Oracle is talking up soaring sales for its cloudy operations – while the IT giant's profit has taken a big hit over the past 12 months.…

SAP parrot didn't 'voom' when they put half a billion dollars through it The NSW state government has squibbed in its valiant bid to operate the country's most wasteful IT catastrophe, canning a miserably-awful SAP-based system after spending a paltry half-a-billion dollars.…

Guccifer 2 posts files as 'proof' – says rest sent to Wikileaks A lone hacker claims to have been the person who broke into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) servers, and has posted several files online as "proof."…

Successful scheme derailed after folks got greedy, it is claimed A former SAP executive and his associates allegedly ran an insider trading ring to net hundreds of thousands of dollars.…

So libraries can lend them without author permission In a seemingly commonsense but important decision, the top advisor of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided that electronic books (e‑books) are legally equivalent to their printed versions when it comes to lending them through libraries.…

One bug being exploited right now in the wild Adobe has released an update for Flash that addresses three dozen CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…

Labour MP brands issue confusing after foggy answers from minister UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has made an assurance that consumers will be able opt out of having their smart meter energy data shared with companies, in a letter to Labour MP Chi Onwurah seen by The Register.…

Turns commodity hardware into converged storage, firm says Portworx's PX-Enterprise package is persistent storage for containers. The firm claims it can reduce costs by 70 per cent compared to so-called legacy storage products.…

Mystery hackers look to harness password reuse and take control of accounts GitHub has reset the passwords of users targeted in an attack this week that relied on using stolen credentials from a breach at a third party site.…

'Mountain Views of a different kind' quips gros fromage Google has announced a dedicated machine-learning research group in Europe, based in its Zurich office.…

And it has sent ripples through spacetime An international team of physicists has announced that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has detected gravitational waves from a second pair of colliding black holes.…

Also exposing bare naked IP addresses Elements of the Anonymous hacking collective have switched tactics in a campaign against supporters of the self-style Islamic State by attempting to shame and humiliate jihadists by adding pornographic images to their social media profiles.…

Life's about to get a whole lot more dangerous for Deliveroo drivers Not content with disrupting classical transportation services, Uber is now disrupting the disruptors in launching its own food delivery app, UberEats, in London today.…

Register Special Projects Bureau chief dies aged 55 It is with incredible sadness that El Reg must report that Lester Haines, one of our finest story-tellers and an all-round good bloke, passed away on Monday.…

Dot-com pirates play dirty while trading elderly digits IPv4 addresses are now so valuable that criminals are setting up shell companies so they can apply for addresses, then resell them to users desperate to grow their networks.…

So near (shore), so far Britain outclasses anywhere in the EU for attracting inward investment, partly because it is in the EU, and Brexit will leave some of those tens of billions looking for a new target. Since Ireland already does well in this, Brexit could turn out rather well for the emerald isle.…

Students race to build biggest, baddest cluster from off-the-shelf kit HPC Blog The world's attention will be focused on Frankfurt, Germany next week for the kick-off of the fifth annual ISC'16 Student Cluster Competition.…

Hybrid HCIA, all-flash tier, separate capacity upgrade Pivot3 has a new vSTAC product combining its hyper-converged infrastructure appliance tech with NexGen Storage’s all-flash array technology and quality of service functions.…

From hacking PHP to embibing ERP, Graze.com gets strategic “Graze is doing the reverse of most companies,” co-founder and chief technology officer Edd Read tells me.…

But a third of us – a whole third! – would give it to UK.gov The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published a survey into the British public's approach to personal data, showing widespread distrust in others' handling of it.…

Move slowly. Break things. Then break a few more Sketch The high profile collapse of the Government Digital Service’s voter registration site last week only shows how brilliant the Government Digital Service is, says the minister responsible* for it.…

Don't run our stuff on soft networks, Siemens chimes The US computer emergency response team is warning of weak credentials in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC flexible that can be remotely exploitable.…

Done right, they can be a training tool that engages and produces rapid results Glancing up from our smartphones, we catch sight of a world that has suddenly become almost entirely different. Surface appearances haven’t changed very much - buildings and cars and all that infrastructure - but behind the scenes nearly everything has been transformed.…

Project Bletchley takes shape Microsoft might not be keen on Bitcoin, but it's cock-a-hoop about the backend blockchain the currency uses and has given the first details of Project Bletchley, a plan to add the tech into Azure services via some new middleware.…

Mobile division the new container for Silicon Valley container biz Container pioneer and Sun alumni lair Joyent has been bought by Samsung.…

Complex codes top most used password lists Some 45 million logins for 939 popular sites including motorcycle.com, autoguide.com, and mothering.com have been stolen.…

Jailhouse Big Blues A Chinese national first arrested in December will face expanded charges over stealing source code in a Manhattan court on Thursday.…

Ninth Circuit fails to quote Star Trek in upholding fines A Ninth Circuit US Court of Appeals judge has tossed an appeal by the masterminds behind the notorious Prenda Law copyright trolling activity.…

Stop us if you've heard this one: bad HTTP sanitisation in smallbiz boxen A range of SOHO-targeted network kit from Cisco, pitched as “highly secure”, isn't.…

Chip designer plonks US$1.3 billion on table for data centre push Cavium's hoping to launch a big data centre push on the back of its US$1.3 billion acquisition of server and storage networking outfit QLogic.…

Checked C lands on Github The zombie bugs in programs and libraries at the heart of the Internet's infrastructure often have the C programming language in common.…

Decaying flesh dropping off the Web's zombie plugins Apple has taken its turn at the hammer, and added its own i-Nail to the coffin of Flash.…

Benchmark blows record to hell and gone The Fort Lauderdale boys have struck again, with a record-breaking run of 5 million IOPS, and maybe killed off every other SPC-1 benchmark contender's hopes for a year or more.…

Latency, capacity, reliability and new network architectures won't be easy to deliver Any time the politics of the National Broadband Network arises, someone with a bagful of buzzwords and a spoonful of clue will claim that wireless is going to make fibre obsolete.…

King Battistelli out of control President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoit Battistelli, has been caught threatening an independent appeals board looking into the case of a judge he summarily dismissed.…

It's all about expectation violation Using a plastic container, some magnets, three iron balls, two video cameras and 30 cats, researchers from Kyoto University have concluded that felines understand the laws of physics.…

Suit claims Chocolate Factory stole idea for airborne ISP Google parent company Alphabet has been hit with a lawsuit that claims the Mountain View ads giant stole the idea for its Project Loon network.…

You've got until the end of the year to tighten up security, devs Apple says that iOS app developers will need to adopt HTTPS security before the year is out.…

But he does want Facebook in your mind Mark Zuckerberg has denied that he is a lizard during an hour-long Q&A session online, when questions from the internet got a bit silly – who'd have thought it.…

No computer and a mental health evaluation for Sanford Wallace The self-proclaimed "Spam King," Sanford Wallace, has been given a 30-month jail sentence, a fine of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and five years' probation.…

After Patch Tuesday comes Facepalm Wednesday Microsoft's most recent security update is causing problems with Windows Group Policy settings.…

Musk reports Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly SpaceX's winning streak came to an explosive end with one of its rockets blowing up during its attempted landing.…

Requests submitted during outage are stuck in limbo, we're told The issues affecting the NHS electronic prescription service (EPS) which began on Monday 6 June have still not been fully resolved, despite supplier Cegedim anticipating they would be “completed over the weekend.”…

We shouldn't have drunk the Kool-Aid, moans founder G-Cloud pioneer and small hosting biz Memset has slammed the framework as failing in its original vision to "punch through archaic government procurement requirements" with an online “App Store”.…

US gov employee sent dodgy attachment by 'foreign ministry' A hacking group linked by researchers to the Kremlin has switched its tactics as part of a new attack against the United States government.…

Russian miscreants are behind the xDedic marketplace Cybercriminals are buying and selling access to compromised servers for as little as $6 each.…

While prudish Italians run scared of budgie-smugglers It is official: Austrians are the most likely to get their kit off on the beach this summer.…