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And not just for 'commercially viable' folk, chide MPs The government must do more to ensure high speed broadband arrives alongside the controversial £80bn High Speed Rail line, a Parliamentary select committee has warned.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14WSZ)
End-point protection for non-shared files? Wait, isn't that standard for everyone? HDS has extended its file sync and share offering, HCP, by adding end-point protection.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14WPP)
But he needs a history lesson… The date of the UK referendum on EU membership is set, and the campaigning has begun. Prime Minister David Cameron sees European mobile co-operation as a key part of the case for voting Remain. Today he chose Telefonica’s O2 HQ in Slough for a speech and public Q&A.…
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OpenStack, AWS support - Azure on the way Cloudbees has expanded its product range by 50 per cent, adding a Private SaaS version of its Jenkins-based continuous delivery platform that will run on AWS and OpenStack, with Azure support likely by the summer.…
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by Chris Williams on (#14WHS)
And pulls back covers on three new sets of system-on-chips for embedded gear AMD is going to reveal a significant customer win within the next few months – in the gambling world.…
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by Chris Williams on (#14WFM)
Well, er, the world of enterprise and its dog San Francisco tech darling Docker will today push its Docker Datacenter (DDC) subscription service into general availability.…
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Act now to claw back £££ There’s less than a week left to snag early bird tickets for Continuous Lifecycle, which will save you hundreds on three days of the best in Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Containerization and Agile.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14WAG)
Investor: Give 'em $185m, make 'em go away Western Digital is facing an investor revolt over its SanDisk buyout and has had the $3.8bn wad it expected from Unisplendour halted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.…
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Former Microsoft boss calls for public debate Bill Gates has weighed into the row between Apple and the FBI as to whether the fruity firm should unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino murderer, denying that such a move would create a dangerous precedent for “back doors.â€â€¦
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by John Leyden on (#14W5P)
World governments now primary sources of breaches Healthcare and government have overtaken the retail sector as most-targeted for data breaches, according to security firm Gemalto.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#14W4C)
Collapse cloud, containers and all silos... Comment Thanks to Gartner, we have a new buzzword: bimodal IT. It’s nothing special actually, just a new way to describe common sense, and the fact that the world – the IT world in this case – is not black or white.…
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by Lester Haines on (#14W1A)
Capsule's lean 3-screen control interface keeping it simple, though NASA has been putting its Orion capsule "crew display and control system" through its paces - a lean three-screen set-up designed as a user-friendly alternative to the "nearly 2,000 switches and controls" packed into the space shuttle.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14VZR)
ASICs provide network latency-killing RDMA and NVME fabric support with NVV too Prepare to get excited about an adapter: QLogic’s multi-protocol FastLinQ 45000 Ethernet controllers use an ASIC with up to 100Gbit/s Ethernet speed, RDMA and NVMe over fabrics support to virtually abolish external storage array network latency and support network virtualisation.…
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by Adrian Bridgwater on (#14VY6)
Playing to the full-stack orchestra When we talk about "full stack" software, we are most commonly talking about the disciplines and elements (and their associated competencies) that span the complete smokestack of software application development as we typically define it.…
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by Michelle Donegan on (#14VV1)
Kerstin Günther, DT Pan-Net MD, talks to El Reg MWC16 As Deutsche Telekom ramps up its virtualized all-IP pan-European network, dubbed Pan-Net, Europe’s fragmented set of privacy and legal interception laws could thwart the operator’s plans for a delivering cross-border services, according to a senior operator executive.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#14VRJ)
Move over Continuum: No customers yet, but Intel's ready and waiting MWC16 Intel is showing what it calls "Big Screen Experience" at Mobile World Congress, an Android smartphone which runs a full Linux desktop when plugged into an external display.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#14VQ4)
And they must do it before the processing occurs - ICO Organisations that provide Wi-Fi services to their staff or customers must notify device users of the potential for their data to be analysed before they begin to process their information, the UK's data protection watchdog has said.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14VMW)
As Amazon, Azure and Google cloud storage grows, so grows Nasuni Cloud storage gateway supplier Nasuni is growing fast as more and more file storage passes through its gateway.…
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by Amberhawk Training on (#14VJR)
The whole 95/46/EC deficiency thing? Still on the table Opinion “In†or “outâ€, the UK has to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This is important given that some organisations might think that a “Leave†vote might change matters with respect to the GDPR compliance (especially as the Cabinet minister responsible for GDPR implementation, John Whittingdale, is a prominent “outerâ€).…
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by Darren Pauli on (#14VFZ)
GM Bot can rip creds, steal SMS and phone two factor tokens Android users could be hit with a new wave of dangerous banking malware following the leak of source code for a capable Android trojan.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#14VF6)
Study into pilot incapacity incidents finds jet-powered rear ends, lasers, top the charts Australia's Transport Safety Bureau has published a study analysing incidents that incapacitated pilots in flight and found that gastrointestinal issues were the runaway leader.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14VBE)
Stop me if you've heard this one … If you're familiar with the Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle novel The Mote in God's Eye, get ready for a dose of Déjà vu: a NASA scientist has posted a video on the agency's NASA 360 YouTube channel describing how lasers could send a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in three days.…
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At least it's being used by someone At least two police forces have signed contracts to shift their tin to the the government's Crown Hosting shared data centre and close their existing server farms, the head of the Police ICT Company, Martin Wyke, has said.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14V7J)
Big Red's Barcelona broadsides aimed at carriers with congested cores MWC16 Oracle's parked its yacht near Barcelona and fired off the usual broadsides of product announcements that accompanies a major conference like Mobile World Congress.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14V69)
Twitter turns bit barns into veth lab to hunt obscure-but-critical flaw that crocked networks A chunk of code added to the Linux kernel to help inter-container communication turned out to mess up checksum handling on Ethernet networks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14V2R)
Universal messaging, carrier charges, lawful intercept: what's not to like? Google has run into a privacy furore with its acquisition last September of carrier messaging company Jibe.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#14TZ1)
Cloud hypervisor tech should make vaporous voyages to Uncle Larry's bit barns easier Oracle has acquired Ravello, purveyor of a cloud-spanning hypervisor.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#14TVB)
The State of Utah has the worst ... tenant ... ever Utah is being hit with up to 300 million security incidents a day, the state's public safety commissioner says.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14TR8)
Get ready for another launch, another attempt for water landing SpaceX reports that it's ready to roll for Wednesday's satellite launch, which will be followed by another attempt to get one of the Falcon 9 rockets to land on a water-borne platform.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#14TPJ)
New paper points to security protocol as vector for DDoS attacks The complex security protocol for the domain name system – DNSSEC – has another black mark against it: it is being used as a way to carry out denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.…
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by Chris Williams on (#14TMH)
Critter squeezes in between 64-bit A35 and older A5, A7 CPUs ARM has designed the Cortex-A32, another processor core for wearables, the Internet of Things, and anything else tiny and most likely battery operated.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#14TJP)
Not so smug about that gigabit pipeline now, are we? Residents of Austin, TX may be regretting the decision to bring Google Fiber to the city. The Austin American Statesman says that last year, 254 complaints were filed with the city over problems related to construction of the network.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#14TFG)
Cook and Comey vie for public opinion but look to Congress/America for resolution Analysis In the latest salvo in a very public war, Apple's CEO and the FBI's director have published letters arguing their cases over gaining access to a locked iPhone.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14TED)
'Cause the haters gonna hate, hate, hate Big Blue has used its IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas to announce cooperative deals with Apple, VMware and GitHub, as the venerable commuting giant seeks to suck in more cloudy business.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#14TDC)
Are you afraid of hijackers and are spending >$60k anually with CloudFlare? CloudFlare will set up its own internet domain registrar for wealthy customers who cannot have their websites hijacked.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#14T8J)
Ready or not, here comes new wireless broadband push Intel, Verizon and Facebook are among the big names trying to advance 5G wireless broadband networks this year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14T70)
22 jobs to go, which should make the Library 'more agile' Malcolm Turnbull's all-digital, all-agile government's cuts to the National Library of Australia will probably lead to a scaling back of its digitisation efforts.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#14T72)
Progress made, but bad compromises bake in dysfunctional org A final transition plan for the top level of the internet away from the US government to non-profit California corporation ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) will be published next month.…
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by John Leyden on (#14T1N)
Bootlegger tool posed as English language guide A dodgy application that evaded Apple's hardline code reviewers and made it into Cupertino's official App Store has been turfed out.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#14T1P)
Allan Endresz explains detail of Australian-footballer-fronted encryption scheme Following our discussion of the footballer Jason Akermanis-fronted startup Splitlock, founder Allan Endresz has made contact with The Register to offer some of the technical details of the technology – as well as to provide his perspective on the company's corporate history.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#14SXQ)
Rocket City will lease out its new network to ad giant Add Huntsville, Alabama, to the ranks of cities with the Google Fiber broadband service.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#14SVX)
Two others wounded in chilling Saturday night rampage An Uber driver suspected of killing six people and wounding two others in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Saturday night was picking up fares between the shootings.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14SQG)
But will in other countries – can't let those frickin' drones and lasers go to waste, huh? MWC16 Mark Zuckerberg says he'll find other ways to deliver connectivity to rural Indians, after his Free Basics program was rebuffed in India. But the program will press on in the other 37 countries.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#14SBC)
Microsoft says 'limited' number had 'intermittent access' to email. That's just tickety boo The exact cause of today’s periodic Office 365 blackout remains a mystery some eight hours after the service in EMEA first fell over.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#14S7Q)
Wheneverrrr MWC16 Nokia CEO said the company could return to making mobile devices this year or next, but isn’t in a hurry.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14S34)
Into the third dimension, beyond DRAM and flash Comment Micron entertained analysts at a briefing session and discussed 3D flash and 3D crosspoint (XPoint) memory technologies and plans.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#14S00)
In-memory startup denies Hazelcast's alleged porkies In-memory software startup GridGain has denied an allegation by Hazelcast that it committed benchmark fraud.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#14RWH)
The firm's CTO cautions against advertisers' haste... MWC16 “I’m incredibly bullish on virtual reality,†Facebook’s chief technology officer Mark Schroepfer tells The Reg.…
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by Lester Haines on (#14RSH)
'They come to your house, they kill you all', croons cheery chanteuse Ukraine looks set to put the Boom Bang-a-Bang back into the Eurovision Song Contest with a jolly ditty about Stalin's forced relocation of Crimean Tatars.…
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Firm wipes blood from blade, gets ready to swing axe again IBM is to cut 185 jobs in its Global Technology Services division in the UK – the latest swing of its corporate axe over the last 24 months.…
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