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IoT: not always lots of traffic but plenty of signalling F5 Networks has added a 100 Gbps Ethernet blade to its eight-blade chassis range, targeting 4G and future 5G network deployments, along with high performance DDoS mitigation.…

Call your stockbroker: nothing's secure so everyone will be buying kit and services The information security market will hit US$170 billion (£120 billion, AU$227 billion) by 2020, a growth projection of some US$100 billion (£70 billion, A$134 billion) from current figures according to analyst firms.…

HTTPS content inspection box also needs a fix Cisco's joined the “residential broadband gateways with SOHOpeless security” club, announcing not one but three vulnerable systems.…

Big hurdle jumped, but flaws in IANA plan remain A plan to end US government control of the top level of the internet was formally approved Wednesday when six different internet groups voted to send it on to the board of DNS overseer ICANN.…

UK telco says everything back to normal now Everything Everywhere (EE) says it has resolved a problem that left many Orange customers in the UK unable to access their email accounts.…

N for Nougat, Nuts, or No longer doing sweetie references Developers usually have to wait for the Google I/O conference in May before getting their paws on the latest Android builds, but this year the Chocolate Factory has let its version 7.0, or N, build out of the bag well before the show.…

Notebooks will be fine if everyone just changes their definition of 'notebook' Growing sales of ultra-portables and Chromebooks will help to offset the drop in PC shipments.…

Time to get high on your own 48V supply OCP Summit Rather than loiter at the fringes of Facebook's Open Compute Project, Google has decided to enter the game.…

Gatekeeper nutmegged using dodgy cert The world's first fully functional OS X ransomware, KeRanger, is really a Mac version of the Linux Encoder Trojan, according to new research from Romanian security software firm Bitdefender.…

Apple co-founder figure to be unveiled at Comic Con Woz is going wax.…

That's cute, say Japanese Pics and video Big Blue is making another effort to make a business case for the Watson deep learning system, this time by porting it to a robot concierge in the Hilton McLean in Virginia.…

Chalk one up for Skynet – for now. Still time for Mankind to pull it back Google's DeepMind machine learning system has beaten South Korean Lee Sedol, the top-ranked Go player over the last decade. It is being hailed as a milestone in the development of artificial intelligence.…

Tell the execs what it's all about before some other klutz gets there first Some people are making very bold claims about what DevOps can deliver. Here’s one: “High-performing IT organizations deploy 30x more frequently with 200x shorter lead times; they have 60x fewer failures and recover 168x faster,” according to the first bullet point of the 2015 annual Puppet Labs State of DevOps report.…

Plus new Xeon D and libraries for Xeon+FPGAs OCP Summit Intel will reveal a bunch of tech today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose, California – from NVMe storage blueprints and new Xeon D system-on-chips to processors with builtin FPGAs.…

Two years late, but InSight will fly The much-delayed InSight probe's mission is back on, and NASA has set the launch date for May 5, 2018 and will (hopefully) land on the Martian surface on November 26 that year.…

Open-source toolkit for wrangling networks OCP Summit Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on network switches.…

Pure Storage takes primary data role with Cohesity mopping up the rest Cohesity and Pure Storage are now best buddies, collaborating to push Pure FlashArrays for primary data storage and Cohesity’s C2000 for secondary data storage.…

Big brands cede ground to contract manufacturers The march of Far East Original Design Manufacturers into a server industry traditionally dominated by the big brands continued in Q4, official stats revealed today.…

While Linaro slings data center ARM chips into new developer cloud Qualcomm and Red Hat are busy porting the latter's enterprise-friendly flavor of Linux to Qualy's upcoming 64-bit ARM server processors, we learned today.…

Team also chats to streaming startup about the nuts and bolts

Last seen in the company of a sloth and a giraffe London's finest have issued an appeal for help in tracing a chimpanzee in a top hat, which was last seen in the company of a menagerie including a sloth, a giraffe, a penguin and a couple of lions.…

Allege critical software vulns ignored in huge backlog Frustrated security professionals acting on behalf of equally irritated researchers unable to gain Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) numbers for their bugs have started an alternative numbering system to help triage what they describe as a huge backlog of ignored software flaws.…

Marshmallow ain't so sweet What’s the point of pouring billions into developing Android every year if users get the code years later? If you were a Google engineer, you could be forgiven for thinking you were on a desert island posting messages in a bottle.…

Compute and networking giants bang on trend Lenovo and Juniper have set up a strategic alliance to build converged, hyper-converged and hyper-scale data centre infrastructure products for enterprise and web-scale customers.…

18-month-long slurp grabbed expiry dates, codes – the lot US chain Rosen Hotels & Resorts has become the latest to confirm a malware-based breach of its payment processing systems.…

... in $/IOPs on Storage Performance Council benchmark China-based Huawei has posted a record-setting price/performance value in the SPC-2 benchmark.…

The biggest advance in cutting tech for 2,000 years The list of what the Romans ever did for us is impressive indeed, and apparently includes taking time between building aqueducts and making wine to invent the pivoting scissors, in around 100AD.…

CryptoWall most prevalent nasty – survey File-encrypting ransomware has eclipsed botnets to become the main threat to enterprises, according to Trend Micro.…

Fulsome flash developments feed fast progress Comment Is the flash storage business a hype-filled wonderland or is flash-based technology making real inroads into IT?…

Now, if they delivered on that promise... Review Microsoft admitted defeat in the phone wars last summer, but a mobile cut still remains strategic to the company – albeit more for tablets and "detachables" rather than phones, where full-fat Windows 10 is too bulky.…

Who's down with OCP? This Foxconn-made server line Nonupled? Yes, nonupled: HPE has nonupled the capacity of its Foxconn-made CloudLine server products with a 640TB CL5200, which has nine times greater capacity than the 72TB CL2200.…

Klagenfurt rebrand fails to impress LOGOWATCH The mayor of the Austrian city of Klagenfurt is taking a bit of a shoeing for spunking €40,000 on a "meaningless" municipal rebrand.…

Bounce Exchange flings sueball at UK biz Yieldify A British startup backed by Google stole code from a US startup after meeting them, a lawsuit alleges.…

Theresa May's plans run 'counter' to human rights standards, we're told IPB The UN's special rapporteur on privacy has used his maiden report to the Human Rights Council, which he presented today, to criticise the UK's potential Snoopers' Charter.…

Monthly report scripting special Line break Welcome back to Line Break, our weekly roundup of terrible code you've seen in the wild. Over the past six weeks, we've featured all sorts of broken or ugly source – from insecure web apps to write-once-read-never-again scientific programs.…

Blue Origin head honcho booked for top industry gig Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, will speak at the Space Foundation's 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on 12 April, sandwiched between appearances by the Air Force Space Command's top man General John E. Hyten, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O Work.…

600,000 servers are vulnerable to this little-known protocol Security researchers have discovered a new vector for DDoS amplification attacks – and it's quite literally trivial.…

Dubious digits means cash flow through small biz might actually be flat, not increasing Claims the government beat its target to pump more than 25 per cent of its largesse through SMEs in the last Parliament have today been critiqued by the National Audit Office, which says "it cannot be certain" spending increased at all over that period.…

Also signals stronger cross-platform tools, access to new markets Analysis Microsoft is porting SQL Server to Linux, with a private preview available now and full availability “in mid-2017”.…

International Women's Day? Pah, make me a sandwich Analysis In the technology field, many people like to think that they are at the forefront of human development, but it is becoming clear that the industry is failing when it comes to dealing with sexism against women.…

DNA-testing peripherals for smartphones are here. And DNA can change your day Last year, if you’d walked off a flight from East Africa running a high fever, you’d very quickly find yourself quarantined to test for the Ebola virus. The length of your stay in quarantine would depend on how long it took to run the required tests.…

Borkage leaves Firefox OS-based boxes unable to launch apps, punters demand refunds Owners of Panasonic smart TVs say their sets have been unable to access applications – including video-streaming apps – because backend servers keep falling over.…

OK if it's for bona fide research, but not for insurance biz or marketing A significant number of people remain uncomfortable with commercial bodies accessing their anonymised healthcare records, according to an extensive survey by health charity the Wellcome Trust.…

UCS E-series and ISR 4000 update due, NFV for SOHO kit on the roadmap Cisco will shortly announce enhancements to its integrated service routers that will make it hard to know if they're a networking appliance or a server. Or a hybrid of both.…

We can rebuild him… Technology has made great strides in building biomechanical systems for amputees, but using tech to replace touch has proven problematic.…

Permission under pressure isn't permission at all The Netherlands' Data Protection Authority has decided that even with consent, companies shouldn't use fitness trackers to monitor their employees.…

TV videocalls are so 2010 One of the big splashes of CES 2010, Skype for televisions, will start going gently into that good night in June.…

IP address behind thousands of bootleg Windows, Office, Server installations. Microsoft has asked a US court to issue a subpoena to Comcast, in a bid to obtain subscriber-to-IP address information on users alleged to have pirated en mass copies of Windows and Office platforms.…

Jailbreaker goes public, helping put penguins on PlayStations Fail0verflow has gone public with its Linux-on-PS4 loader, a little over two months after presenting an early and “ugly” version of it to the Chaos Computer Club conference in Germany.…