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And if it can't do it, (other) ReRAM can Analysis Since the virtual dawn of computing, storage – where data puts its feet up when it's at home – has been massively slower than memory, where data puts on its trainers and goes for a quick run.…

Brave claim from big data business boss: We will make money Interview Hortonworks CEO, Rob Bearden, told The Register that “clearly there's a lot of work to do” as the business attempts to stop burning cash by the end of 2016.…

Someone reverse the polarity on these declines Mobile chip designer Qualcomm typically channels Star Trek's Montgomery Scott, the chief engineer who under-promises to appear a miracle worker when he eventually delivers.…

Patented keys have high-quality drawings in plain sight Bsides Canberra A group of Melbourne lock-pickers have forged a creative method for popping so-called restricted locks by 3D printing keys found on freely-available designs on patent sites.…

Airline dumps PINs for passwords to harden MileagePlus accounts United Airlines has renovated the security on its frequent flyer scheme "MileagePlus" by requiring users to answer one of five security questions and enter a password when they log on.…

The Xenial Xerus want to get cloudy, but first: let battle be joined in GPL hell Canonical will today (April 21st) launch version 16.04 of its Ubuntu Linux distribution, Xenial Xerus, the new long-term-support version of the project.…

Blighty's classified manuals on mass snooping revealed Classified mass-surveillance manuals for UK spies have been published today amid a legal battle against the British government.…

Tape still not dead: it will die in the year N where N is this year plus 1 Google and Iron Mountain are trying to hasten the never-quite-imminent death of tape as a storage medium with an LTO-to-cloud migration collaboration.…

It seems like just yesterday Google released that slightly odd comic Google's Chrome browser has reached its 50th release.…

The magic's in the integration between OS and hypervisor, not just a smaller virty layer VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger yesterday hinted that the company is close to revealing its complete cloud-native applications stack, but The Register's virtualisation desk today learned that the yet-to-be-revealed part - the “microvisor” dubbed “Photon Machine” - probably won't be all that micro.…

New Cyber Security Strategy pours money on collaboration centres, industry The Australian Government has today launched an information security strategy under which AU$230 million will be spent over four years to improve critical infrastructure defences through private and public sector information sharing, innovation security centres, and by bankrolling support for 5000 security tests for businesses.…

Can't fault their work ethic. Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura says more than 400 malicious advertisements have been shipped through ad network AdsTerra in two weeks.…

Microsoft's cloudy new media services aim to automate video and voice analysis Microsoft has taken the wraps off Azure Media Face Detector, a cloud service that can recognise people and determine their moods.…

Need a district court warrant to infect suspects? How did the Feds NIT see that coming? A ruling by a US federal judge could unravel as many as 1,200 criminal prosecutions of alleged pedophiles by the FBI.…

We didn't build all this for you to goof off on AWS Microsoft has offered up a grab bag of goodies for IT administrators looking to add cloud skills to their resume, including free trials of Azure and Office 365, plus support and training credits, along with some career advice.…

Google could feel heat stateside after Europe laid down the law Advocacy group Consumer Watchdog is calling on the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to follow the European Union's lead and bring antitrust charges against Google Android.…

RansomWhere? suspends untrusted processes An Apple security expert has developed a free-of-charge standalone ransomware defense tool for OS X.…

EFF sues US DOJ over FISC FOIA, OMG The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is suing the US government to reveal just how it compels tech companies to help agents spy on people.…

How about an appeal? Nope Hopes that reform to the US government's mass surveillance infrastructure would yield real results have been dealt a blow after the opinion of a public advocate to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) was rejected.…

There's a fight brewing The US government has poured cold water on the idea of making changes to the new Privacy Shield agreement that will cover transfers of people's private data between the US and Europe, potentially putting the entire agreement at risk.…

President hangs head in shame Tetsuro Aikawa, president of Mitsubishi Motors Corp (MMC), gave a deep bow of apology at a press conference on Wednesday after admitting his firm had falsified fuel efficiency tests on at least 635,000 vehicles.…

Large library supports LTO, IBM and Oracle formats SpectraLogic has announced the largest tape library in the world, the TFinity ExaScale Edition, with an exabyte of capacity in a single footprint storage system using current media technology.…

Reputation versus the Amazonian hordes Cloud killing on-premises kit for enterprise IT providers? Yes if you’re IBM, no if your name’s Red Hat. At least, according to Red Hat.…

Where's the competition? Analysis Google says that its tight control over Android is necessary to keep Android great, and safe for consumers, adding that it's not all that heavy-handed. Honest.…

Latin America revenues could be a concern, though EMC saw a slight revenue decline year-on-year in the first 2016 quarter, with Latin America a trouble spot.…

Java SE, MySQL are most in need of fixes, so you know what to do... Oracle has released its latest quarterly Critical Patch Update on Tuesday, releasing updates to Fusion Middleware, Peoplesoft, E-Business Suite, MySQL, and several other products. Java SE also got patched.…

Same capacity, a bit less thick Toshiba has thinned is L200 500GB internal drive, shaving off 26 per cent of its thickness, so it takes up less space in notebooks and gaming consoles.…

Why break into Fort Knox when you can get a data treasure trove from hospital? Cybercrooks are switching up targets moving away from retail and financial services onto healthcare and government last year, according to figures from IBM’s security business.…

Don't worry, yells CEO, we have a data centre in the EU GitLab has struck a deal with Digital Ocean to offer autoscaling to ease the build and test bottleneck associated with Continuous Integration.…

Data centre nearline disk drive brand emerges with some HGST tech WD has set up a new data centre nearline disk drive brand, Gold, with three drive capacities matching and topping the Re brand’s capacities.…

Innovative concepts invited to bridge art and science The European Space Agency (ESA) is seeking a resident artist with the Right Stuff to "explore the fertile ground between art and space science".…

Amazon improves its cloud while competitors talk up 'customer choice' Amazon has announced numerous updates to its cloud platform at its AWS (Amazon Web Services) summit in Chicago on April 18 and 19.…

And its cloud is embiggening at a ridiculous rate SAP has confirmed a sudden and sharp drop in sales of its software with continued, escalating sales of cloud.…

Oh, M8. Let's just say it sounds good Review It’s only two years since HTC was the darling of the fanDroids. Distinctive, thoughtfully made and a cut above the rest in style, the HTC One M8 gathered the kind of plaudits an obscure band gets.…

Amongst all the jargon, forks must thrive The EU's competition authority thinks it has a smoking gun against Google. Consumers suffered because Google’s contracts with phone OEMs prevented the market from creating a better Android, the EU Commission alleged today.…

Health & Social Care Information Centre also gets 'NHS Digital' rebrand More than one million patient opt-outs have been implemented for the controversial Care.data scheme, the Health & Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has said today.…

Shares up despite FTSE 100's moody Wednesday Chip designer ARM has reported revenue and profit increases in Q1, with its shares trading up despite a moody FTSE 100 this morning.…

Boost for development of future deep space propulsion NASA has announced it has awarded a contract worth $67m to Aerojet Rocketdyne to "design and develop an advanced electric propulsion system that will significantly advance the nation's commercial space capabilities, and enable deep space exploration missions".…

Firm claims service is being restored to the majority Angry customers of hosting biz 123-reg, who have been left without websites after a major cockup by the firm over the weekend, are continuing to report problems.…

Whether pure or mutant, both have their upsides The hybrid infrastructure. People have been banging on about them for a few years now – not least the vendors who want to sell you kit that will let you spread your infrastructure between on-premises, private data centres and the cloud.…

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Hot Sauce and a whole lotta interweb greybeards Industry talk has it that Apple is working on "something" to do with virtual reality.…

Down the memory hole: Chocolate Factory Orwells itself Google has never liked privacy laws, and it really hated Europe’s “Right to be Forgotten” ruling in 2014.…

Get off xHamster and get married, thunders legislature The US state of Utah is trying a different approach to its long-standing campaign against online smut, passing a resolution that says pornography is a “public health emergency”.…

Rich text pwnage. Malware writers are exploiting four RTF vulnerabilities, in a long-running campaign to target journalists, human rights activists, and Tibetans across Hong Kong and Taiwan.…

Support and sales continue for current users, but Dell's looking over the (VMware) Horizon Dell has decided to cease further development of its vWorkspace product, a desktop virtualisation (VDI) tool it acquired along with Wyse back in 2012.…

Software as an instrument of transparency has the potential to scramble politics for good It’s often said that you can’t fight City Hall: the concentration of power and politics makes even the most open of political systems fight change tooth and nail. You have to work within the system, it’s said, or the system will fight you - and win.…

Projectors and credit card readers under consideration LG has conducted a developer day to interest gadget-makers in developing third-party modules for its LEGO-like G5 smartphone.…