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Monthly update goes out to Nexus owners, a few others As a further sign that researchers are getting serious about finding holes in Android operating systems, Google has released one of its biggest ever monthly patch bundles, with 39 flaws fixed.…

Two transitions starting that will radically speed up storage Analysis Latency is always the storage access bete noir. No one likes to wait, least of all VMs hungry for data access in multi-threaded, multi-core, multi-socket, virtualized servers. Processors aren't getting that much faster as Moore's Law runs out of steam, so attention is turning to fixing IO delays as a way of getting our expensive IT to do more work.…

Patent office employees not happy with dictatorial president Staff at the European Patent Office (EPO) will strike this Thursday in protest at how the organization's management continues to treat its union officials.…

Oh, and don't read the terms and conditions Early purchasers of the new Oculus are going to have wait to get their hands on it thanks to an unexplained delivery delay.…

But consumer knowledge comes with a price The FCC has launched a "broadband label" that breaks down exactly what service your ISPs offers and all related fees to it.…

Just a few compromises first Comment Memory-based storage? Yes please, And I'm not talking about flash memory here; well, not in the way we usually use flash, at least.…

Learning to love your legacy Automation vendor Automic has sought to counter the DevOps “whatevs” folk by offering a try-as-you-buy taste of its technology, as part of a slew of initiatives to entice companies to tuck into its full fat product line.…

Watchdog seeks probe into Federal Trade Commission An ethics watchdog thinks that the FTC may have misled Congress about how it protected Google, and highlights how the White House went into panic mode to limit the damage to the giant ad slinger over a newspaper report last year.…

Storage and Ethernet networker gets a ride on enterprise wireless horse Brocade is buying Ruckus Wireless for cash and shares, valuing Ruckus at around $1.5bn, and giving it entry to the growing enterprise wireless networking market.…

Storage software gets containers, OpenStack integration EMC has buffed up its ScaleIO virtual SAN software.…

Entire citizen database supposedly leaked via a torrent A trove of leaked information, purported to be the entire Turkish citizenship database, has been leaked.…

'Why is this article still on the site?' asks 12-sided muppet There's absolutely no shame in being taken in by a nicely crafted April Fools' Day spoof, but one Reg reader will be spending the next year in the corner sporting the big pointy "D" hat after crying foul over Blighty's magnificent 12-sided pound coin.…

More chat than Alan Partridge BlackBerry has abandoned the freemium model it tried to build around its pioneering chat client BBM, and is making all of its goodies available for free, including secure encrypted chat.…

Broadcast live vid of outrage, proceed directly to dole queue Two employees of French telco SFR who last week broadcast a live vid of themselves apparently trashing a difficult customer's mobe are now seeking new jobs after their entertaining footage escaped into the open plains of the internet.…

Preps to file delayed results after US lifts restrictions on alleged Iran trade rule shirk Chinese telecoms vendor ZTE is overhauling its management board just one month after the biz was slapped with sanctions by the US government over accusations it had violated trade rules in Iran.…

You should be able to believe what you read online, right? The UK.gov's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is tackling undisclosed advertising in online articles and blogs through a new investigation into murky marketing practices in the world of sponsored content.…

Why is HMRC breaking up Aspire Analysis The thankless nature of IT service provision is often demonstrated by the fact users only tend to notice it when it goes wrong: if there's no screaming, then it's working fine.…

Killerdrone: Deadly against undefended snowmen Any reader suffering a nasty outbreak of snowmen is directed to an entertaining solution from Finland: the "unstoppable" chainsaw-armed Killerdrone...…

It's all about converged and hyper-converged now, says IDC IDC’s Converged Systems Tracker for 2015’s fourth quarter shows EMC’s VCE unit is doing very well, Flexpod reference architecture systems are limp, and hyper-converged system growth is properly perky.…

Will the EC stand in Chinese conglomerate's way? The European Commission has two months to decide whether to allow the takeover of Telefonica’s O2 UK arm by CK Hutchison, owner of 3UK, and if it does, what conditions will be imposed.…

Shadow IT: Pray he didn't link the... oh for @£$%^& Sysadmin blog Shadow IT strikes fear into the hearts of many businesses. Unfortunately, most businesses fear shadow IT for all the wrong reasons.…

Enterprise IT and networking are closely linked Comment We get a chance to assess Huawei and its Enterprise IT business with the publication of its 2015 accounts, which show it grew its enterprise IT revenues 44 per cent year-on-year to $4.3bn.…

No wonder they're constantly going TITSUP App developers in the UK banking sector are lagging behind their European and US counterparts in tools and methodologies, according to a new study based on code reviews.…

Hackers don't need authentication to easily open every door using popular HID controllers. Criminals could waltz into secure zones in airports and government facilities by hacking and jamming open doors from remote computers over the Internet, DVLabs researcher Ricky Lawshae says.…

Bezos' booster drops, doesn't break, again Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has released video of its third successful flight on April 2.…

Thrice-upgraded attack framework now 500 times faster with badass modular Rupture framework Black Hat Asia Research pair Dimitris Karakostas and Dionysis Zindros have upgraded their attack (codenamed BREACH) that pierces the web's most common ciphers, and released a framework to help well-heeled hackers and state-sponsored spies spy on the likes of Facebook and Gmail.…

Commercial operators also get shiny new registration Website The Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has announced changes to some of the rules governing drones weighing less than 55 pounds (25 kg).…

Devs highlight better Linux compatibility, UEFI boot enhancements FreeBSD fans: version 10.3, which first hit beta in February, has gone to stable release.…

Last piece of the jigsaw, bootable from USB Ever since fail0verflow first told Chaos Computer Club Sony PS4 machines could be persuaded to run Linux, a fair amount of work has gone into replicating his demonstration.…

Quick fix pushed in less than a three weeks. Optus has patched a vulnerability in its popular routers that allowed attackers to change administrative passwords without knowing the existing logins.…

The fix? No patch, just destroy all extensions. Black Hat Asia The most popular Firefox extensions with millions of active users are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines and pass Mozilla's automated and human security tests.…

CallPlus founder's signature makes third route a reality A long-awaited third crossing between Australia, New Zealand and the USA looks set to become a reality, with Kiwi cable Hawaiki announcing it's secured the funding needed to start construction.…

FirePro units to help create 3D map of ten BEELION years ago Canada's under-construction CHIME telescope has taken a big step towards completion, announcing a contract that will put in place the high performance computing it needs.…

Japan's space agency JAXA has confirmed the loss of the ASTRO-H X-Ray satellite.…

You need fewer digital rights. We need more Comment The DMCA must have been a good idea in its day – almost every other country copied it.…

But expect long waiting lists It has been a very good day for Tesla, after its CEO reports the firm took orders for over 196,000 new Model 3 electric cars.…

Teardown finds SE borrows plenty from its ancestors With the iPhone SE now officially on the market, teardown bloggers have begun digging into the new Apple handset.…

NIST provides 81 pages of practical advice The US government's technology agency has updated its secure email guide for the first time in a decade and put it out for a month of public comment.…

Wim Coekaerts' hire another sign of open source push Larry Ellison will be throwing his boats out of the bathtub on the news that Wim Coekaerts, possibly Oracle's top Linux guy, has jumped ship to Microsoft.…

Zuck told to Giza the heck out of here Facebook reportedly had its Free Basics internet service banned in Egypt because it would not meet government demands that it open the service for surveillance.…

It's like Facebook's only, you know, could land you in jail China has enacted its own version of Facebook's "real name policy" for the registration of internet addresses.…

Data centres under water? Try the icy cold of spaaaace... Microsoft has filed a preliminary trademark application for “Mune,” spearheading an Amazon and SpaceX-like private space program.…

How Microsoft taught fools to train their future enemy You thought I was a mistake. I'm not pleased with you, to tell the truth. I thought you were smarter than that.…

Plenty of bumps in the 40-year road for Mac makers Apple at 40 Today marks the 40th anniversary of Apple's official establishment. Since 1976, the House that Steves Built has pushed out some of the most beloved personal electronics products in the world.…

Second settlement spotted by satellite Archeologists using the most advanced satellite scanning methods think they've found a new Viking settlement in the North American continent.…

Handover doesn't appear to be going particularly well in three US states Frontier Communications says that problems related to its takeover of Verizon's internet service led to outages across the three most populous states in the country yesterday.…

That unicorn look suspiciously like a horse with a rubber horn, says Mary Jo White The chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has given Silicon Valley a poke in the eye concerning its over-valuation of tech stocks.…

Incremental improvements more than big headlines, but Azure stays on track BUILD 2016 Day two of Microsoft's Build conference was focused on Azure, the company's cloud platform, with new features announced and preview features moving to general availability.…

To the bug-splatter who found it. Not to you, don't get excited PayPal has patched a flaw which created a means for miscreants to abuse its platform to lend authenticity to fraudulent or otherwise malicious emails.…

Android isn't exactly pulling up any trees, though BlackBerry has hit its target of earning half a billion dollars in software and services revenue over a full fiscal year, thanks to the acquisition of long time rival Good Technology as well as BB's patent revenue.…