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by John Leyden on (#16R7E)
Java bug splatted. Patch, update, you know the drill A Java application from SAP that allows downloading of software packages and support notes needs patching following the discovery of a serious security flaw.…
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by Lester Haines on (#16R4E)
Live Baikonur Proton launch coverage on Monday morning The European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up for Monday's launch of its ExoMars mission, which will soar aloft from Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a mighty Proton-M lifter.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#16R1C)
Permanent marker works for me Something for the Weekend, Sir? My desk-side wastepaper basket is full. OK, sure, first world problems and all that, but it’s 8am and I have only just walked in to the office. Why would my bin be full? I haven’t put anything in it yet.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#16QZD)
If we vote to leave the EU we'll all become poor and unemployed, allegedly Analysis Immigration is one of the main concerns for advocates of Brexit. Some IT firms from Britain and abroad who we spoke to share this concern – but in the other direction.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16QXH)
French firm reckons your HDDs could become object storage nodes French open source object storage startup OpenIO is talking about having its software do work above and beyond basic storage and operating on, or rather, inside Kinetic drives.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16QTE)
Google-derived container code transferred to Foundation as its first project The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) formed last December has fired its first shot in anger, by deciding that Kubernetes is worthy of its community-coddling and standard-creating assistance.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16QSG)
Never do tech support for your mates. You learn too much about their lives On-Call Welcome to Friday and to On-Call, our weekly regurgitation of readers' real-life tales getting stuff done in the field.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16QQD)
And one of them looks like it shows ads to suggest a Windows 10 upgrade Microsoft has added “non-security updates†to an Update Tuesday patch.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#16QNJ)
An explosive combination of Safe Harbor and Snoopers' Charter Analysis If the UK decides later this year to leave Europe – the so-called "Brexit" – it would have a severe knock-on impact on sharing people's personal data between Blighty and Euro nations.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16QHK)
Shipments up. Revenue up. Cloud up. Midrange up. Non-x86 down The global server industry is in rude health, clocking up a record 9.7 million shipments in 2015 and hauling US$55.1 billion through the door along the way.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#16QDM)
Like Nessus, for Things. Because there's password gold in them thar chips Nullcon Penetration testers Julien Moinard and Gwénolé Audic have produced a security testing framework to automate vulnerability scans for Things used on the internet of things.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#16Q9T)
Get ready for multiple accounts within your smart-home Smart-home poster child Nest has joined the maturing market for automated smart-tech products by offering "family accounts."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#16Q6R)
If servers can pre-fetch all the cruft linked inside a page, browsers will go faster Latency plus complexity, rather than bandwidth, are what strangles Web performance, and a bunch of MIT boffins reckon browsers haven't kept up.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#16Q3T)
Or that mobile USB dongle could let an attacker take over your PC! Hooray! Nullcon Russian security tester Timur Yunusov has found critical vulnerabilities in routers and 3G and 4G modems from Huawei, ZTE, Gemtek, and Quanta. The flaws mean attackers could completely compromise machines and intercept SMS and HTTP traffic.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#16Q2D)
US DoJ files fresh objections to iGiant's refusal to cooperate The US Department of Justice has filed fresh claims against Apple in the ongoing battle over whether the FBI can force the iGiant to help agents unlock a killer's iPhone.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16PT4)
No sign of a sale, either Violin Memory has become a sub-$50-million-run-rate company with its latest loss-making quarter, and announced a 25 per cent head count cut in a restructuring exercise.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16PJT)
Networking being added to the mix. Hi Mellanox, are you the one? Hints, hints, hints. Scale Computing – the virtualization upstart in San Francisco, not the buzzword – hinted away at a press presentation today that product news is coming, and so we went on a dot-connecting exercise.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#16PG3)
Flash, I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save everyone's computers Adobe has urged users to patch their Windows, OS X and Linux editions of Flash Player to address 23 security vulnerabilities, including one that is actively being targeted in the wild.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#16PAJ)
Cue warns of repercussions from San Bernardino case The FBI could turn on your phone's camera or microphone by remote control to spy on you, according to top Apple exec Eddy Cue, if the Feds win their case to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino killer Syed Farook.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#16P7X)
Free licensing offer if you convert from Big Red Pic In an aggressive move, Microsoft has told Oracle customers: migrate to SQL Server 2016 and Redmond with give you free licensing for the lifetime of the product plus technical support.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#16P6B)
Purple Palace adds former Broadcom man and Morgan Stanley director to board Two new members have been added to Yahoo!'s board of directors as the web biz continues to ponder its future.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16P50)
No customer interest, we're told DataDirect Networks has no plans to support Kinetic disk drives in its WOS object storage products.…
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by John Leyden on (#16NYF)
An unwelcome PITSTOP Glitches at distributed denial-of-service mitigation biz Incapsula left the websites it defends offline twice on Thursday. Incapsula blamed "connectivity issues" for the global PITSTOP, aka the worldwide degradation of its services.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16NHW)
App Engine to be object of his object expertise Co-founder and ex-CTO of enterprise NAS firm Exablox Tad Hunt has become a Technical Lead/Manager at Google for its App Engine activities.…
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Debuts improved Nomad too. Be still, our fluttering hearts! App delivery firm Hashicorp has given its Atlas application delivery platform a wash and brushup, and thrown in an overhaul of its pricing plan to boot.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#16NC9)
Jobs to be bundled on a plane and flown to lower labour cost countries Up to 14,000 IBMers worldwide could leave under the latest redundancy programme, according to Wall Street moneymen.…
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Coppers: A 'cyber' says what? An MP has urged the government to consolidate the current 31 pieces of legislation touching on the misuse of digital devices into a single bill in order to tackle the growing number offences.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16N2Q)
All-embracing unstructured data management software startup Backgrounder Startup Tarmin has developed an object storage system with a data management system layered on top to provide single and all-embracing access to an enterprise's secondary data.…
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by John Leyden on (#16MZQ)
Oncology patients' diagnoses, treatment details slurped US cancer clinic 21st Century Oncology has admitted that a breach on its systems may have exposed private information on 2.2 million patients and employees.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#16MW4)
A life post-HPE beckons for 780 techies Around a quarter of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s current IT Outsourcing staff are expected to be made redundant at end of next month, according to company insiders.…
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Look here, Farmer Jones, we're building this mast whether you like it or not David Cameron has hinted a law change will be introduced in the budget next week to make it easier to erect mobile phone masts in “not spot†areas.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16MNN)
HCIA slinger happy to get the nod again Commvault has extended its Commvault Data Platform (CDP) with support for Nutanix hyper-converged appliances and improved on-premises-to-public-cloud mobility and protection.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#16MKZ)
Next-gen LTE is making a monkey out of Wi-Fi US consumers love to moan about their internet providers, but in reality they enjoy superior LTE speeds to Europe. A vendor’s global survey of mobile broadband performance highlights some intriguing trends - and tips India to leapfrog into the future.…
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by John Leyden on (#16MJK)
Not on version 4.1.1 of libotr? Now is a good time to upgrade Security researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in libotr / Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR), a popular library used in secure messaging software.…
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Fill up on conference sessions and dive deep in workshops You may have missed the early bird pricing, but there are still plenty of good reasons to snap up some of the remaining tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London.…
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by Lester Haines on (#16MGM)
Cue the traditional firemen bearing angle grinders A Munich man has set what may prove an unassailable record for the number of steel rings lodged on a penis after presenting himself at a local hospital with no less than 13 engorgement aids encircling his swollen member.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#16MCG)
Biting the hand that feeds you – in this case, your own Ad slinger Opera is to add ad blocking to its eponymous web browser – but the company insists there isn’t a conflict.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#16M9G)
Happy with your deal? You won't be after this The UK’s competition regulator wants to see a new database of utility customers set up so they can be bombarded with “targeted marketingâ€.…
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'Department just wants to get money out the door' The National Audit Office has criticised the haphazard approach of the department for Business, Innovation and Skills in how it invests its multi-billion funds in big science projects, such as supercomputers.…
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by Frank Jennings on (#16M5N)
Know the law? Read the contract? No? Stop confusing yourself How many times have you spoken to someone in a call centre who refused to give you information on the basis that the "Data Protection Act" prevents them?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#16M29)
Speed, price, efficiency: You can have any two HPE’s all-flash StoreServ 8450 flier has notched up some impressive SPC-1 benchmark results.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#16KZS)
New Euro court is almost ready to go, it says Companies will be able to opt out an "unlimited" number of their EU patents from the jurisdiction of the new Unified Patent Court (UPC) at one time, it has been learned.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16KXM)
Cisco's not tearing up scripts, but can hero NetAdmins deliver automation and orchestration? Cisco thinks the command line interface (CLI) should be the interface “of last resortâ€, according to Dave West, the company's chief technology officer for systems engineering and architectures across Asia.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16KWW)
And both of you who use Tab Groups can get outraged now Mozilla's decided that enough is enough for old versions of Android, and will stop supporting its browser on Gingerbread and Honeycomb.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16KSM)
Perlan glider's cockpit ready for piloted stratospheric 90,000-foot mission VIDEO Airbus has conducted a new test of a glider it thinks could one day fly on Mars.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#16KRH)
Users told to quit webmail, go POP 3, mail @vodafone.com address for help The United Kingdom's Criminal Justice Secure Email (CJSM) system has been browning out for months, and in the 18 months an upgrade is expected to take users have been asked to stop using the service's webmail and revert to conventional email clients.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#16KNE)
A dozen kids have seen the light after a trial hailed as step towards regenerative medicine Chinese scientists have used stem cells to regrow eye lenses and implanted the results in a dozen children.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#16KK2)
Companies asked to prepare docs to send to Google: reports The European Union has taken early steps towards opening an antitrust investigation into the Android operating system.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#16KGQ)
R Tools for Visual Studio, in da house There's no longer any particular surprise to hear the words “Microsoft†and “open source†in the same sentence: in the latest addition to its stable, Redmond is wrapping the venerable statistical package R in its warm embrace.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#16KFV)
Networks market outlook: boring with occasional squalls of routing excitement The global Ethernet switch market has stirred and started tapping messages on the underside of its coffin-lid, according to prognosticator IDC, managing measurable growth in Q4 2015 rather than the of-late-usual shrinkage.…
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