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Andrew Tridgell serves up choppers, quadplanes and rocket-powered tomfoolery Our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) mission took to the stage at the linux.conf.au 2016 in Geelong last Friday, as Linux guru and Vulture 2 spaceplane autopilot wrangler Andrew Tridgell gave an entertaining speech on his currently UAV endeavours.…

But will house builders do their bit? The Government has brokered a deal between BT Openreach and The Home Builders Federation (HBF) which means “new build homes [are] to have superfast broadband connectivity”. This is a tad optimistic as there is no legal compulsion for house builders to comply with the new arrangement.…

After months of mud-slinging and open letters The Indian Telecoms Regulatory Authority (TRAI) has permanently banned Facebook's Free Basics project on "net neutrality" grounds.…

Three weeks left to save a bundle There are 21 days until our early bird offer on tickets for Continuous Lifecycle expires, so if you want to save £100s on the best in DevOps, Agile Development and Continuous Delivery, consider yourself warned.…

Info exploited, say customers A number of TalkTalk customers have had their maintenance visits data breached by fraudsters in an attempt to gain remote access of their computers, it has emerged.…

Sucked down into the well of misery DataGravity has laid off the director of DataGravity Labs and other staff, and is the fourth storage startup to lay off staff this month.…

Longest serving British tech CEO walks the plank One of the longest-serving tech chiefs in the world, Imagination Technologies’ CEO Sir Hossein Yassaie, has stepped down, with non-exec director Andrew Heath filling his shoes as interim chief.…

Latest departure in executive exodus BT has confirmed that its long-serving finance director Tony Chanmugam is to step down – the latest executive exit from the newly formed BT/EE.…

Depends how you define DevOps The DevOps market is not overhyped – except for container technology and other bits that are, the head of Puppet Labs told us last month.…

Leavin' it to the Netflixes... for now If you’ve ever had the misfortune to work as a systems administrator (and it doesn’t matter if it’s a Windows or Linux shop) you’ll know the feeling of logging on on Monday morning, checking a few log files and noticing something’s not quite right.…

Some rather impressive claims here Bridgeworks says it can make communicating with offsite tape libraries vastly faster than physically shipping tapes, and vastly cheaper if you are using a remote Fibre Channel SAN or site-to-site replication before transmitting data to the tape library.…

New law deals with expected growth in mobile internet traffic New legislation could force EU countries to make sure the 700 MHz band of spectrum is made exclusively available for mobile services by the middle of 2020.…

Win for IBM as Judge rules attempt to move case away from contract law is a no-no The SCO Group has suffered another reversal in its long-running attempt to squeeze some cash out of IBM for allegedly pinching its code and tossing it into Linux and maybe AIX too.…

'Crack security team' didn't notice attempt to log in 99 million times Up to 21 million accounts on Alibaba e-commerce site TaoBao may have been compromised likely thanks to stolen credentials reused on breached third party sites.…

And Accenture and Atos and ... wait, no Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure? The European Commission has announced what companies will supply the organization with its new cloud services.…

Yes, Java fixes are a dime a dozen. But this one prevents 'total compromise' of machines Oracle's fired off an out-of-cycle emergency Java patch to plug a during-installation vulnerability on Windows platforms.…

You'll never think of 'Cisco Live' in quite the same way again Cisco is recalling a bunch of industrial Ethernet switches because it discovered the power source wiring could potentially short to the case.…

And rather better than a US$35 tablet, if you need a Windows 10 machine lurking around Among the many bizarre and stupid mistakes Microsoft made with Windows 8.x was the decision to require screens to have resolution of at least 1024 x 768.…

Glorious starving peoples' rocket attracts UN sanctions and presidential palpitations The UN Security Council has threatened North Korea with the terrors of the Earth after its weekend ballistic missile test.…

Deputy Mayor for Transport Isabel Dedring says Google has met city officials The Greater London Authority has approached Google to seek local trials of the company's autonomous cars.…

New code's already run at VMworld Europe, so this looks to be the icing on the cake VMware is looking for people to indulge in some beta testing for a new version of vSphere.…

TMZ taken down by malvertising misfits Celeb goss and dross site TMZ has been serving the world's worst exploit kit to its 30 million monthly visitors after malvertising scum compromised its advertising chain.…

492-mirror loses permit to build on Hawaiian sacred site Hawaii's planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project has been formally sent back to square one in its construction approval process.…

LTE speed data from 15 million phones puts New Zealand ahead of USA, UK and Australia If you're reading this on your phone, pray you're in Singapore, New Zealand, Hungary or Israel, because they're the four nations where LTE networks deliver the fastest downloads. Clasp your hands and look heavenwards again if you live in the United Kingdom or United States , as those nations come in 29th and 55th respectively in Open Signal's State of LTE report for 2015's fourth quarter.…

Claims blast broke windows One man is dead and three injured following a reported meteorite strike in India.…

Ex-CTO unpicks growth numbers Last Friday, nbn congratulated itself on a positive user experience and a record number of activations.…

Tablet, schmablet, this is a converged experience. Or something Canonical is hoping to put Ubuntu into the hands of slab-fondlers who want something that can double as a near-desktop.…

Metasploit modules unleashed. Two dangerous un-patched remote code execution vulnerabilities that allow access to God-mode system privileges have been reported in Netgear's ProSafe Network Management 300 management software.…

All done bar the paperwork Foxconn's CEO Terry Gou says Sharp will be slurped into the Chinese manufacturer's maw by the end of February.…

Hints of new curated timeline leads to #RIPtwitter chatter, followed by smackdown Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has mostly quashed rumours that the struggling social network is introducing an algorithmically-curated timeline.…

The PPC-1 cable us out of service until March ... if a ship to fix it can be found Another of the submarine cables connecting Australia to the world, for data, has broken.…

CEO says it's just business as usual Hyper-converged software supplier Atlantis has cut its staff numbers.…

Heats hydrogen more than three times hotter than the sun Days after the German chancellor triggered the creation of hydrogen plasma for less than a second, China has announced that one of its fusion reactors has broken the record for plasma creation.…

Pair settles in case of legit app gone bad The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled its case against a pair of developers accused of purchasing an Android game and turning it into an adware faucet.…

But oddly enough it's not as bad you think. Plus Salesforce, Tableau and others fall A rough start of the year for tech stocks was amplified Friday when job-based social media company LinkedIn saw its shares plummet over 40 per cent, wiping $10bn off its value thanks to weak earnings.…

Troubled smartphone biz's latest recovery plan: Paying fewer people One-time smartphone giant BlackBerry has laid off 200 of its remaining employees in a pair of cuts.…

Quaffs oil at the 19th hole Vids and pic A robotic golfer has pulled off a feat that most fleshy humans have never managed – scoring a hole-in-one at one of the most famous golf courses in the US.…

Much easier when you know the answers GCHQ has posted the answers to its Xmas puzzle, a five-part crypto extravaganza that saw 600,000 people start but just three win – and even they didn't get it all right.…

Relive simpler times for some Friday fun The Internet Archive has opened a new collection dubbed the Malware Museum that lets you run old DOS-era viruses in your web browser.…

And American agents would get access to UK systems The US and UK authorities are holding secret negotiations that would allow British domestic spies to tap into servers in the Land of the Free when investigating Her Majesty's citizens.…

Bloke bricked his handset after running afoul of Apple security policy An iPhone owner says his handset bricked itself after it was repaired and updated to the latest version of iOS.…

Yeah, we guess ... that's useful EMC can now simulate the interactions going on inside a data center using virtual servers.…

5,000 customers before this move. How many after? Backup software supplier Asigra is shipping its software with Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance hardware.…

Mugs, phone cases…and hats A Russian man who has volunteered to undergo the world’s first head transplant has begun selling souvenirs to fund the op, after the world’s billionaires failed to pick up the tab.…

It's a fraud world after all The University of Central Florida (UCF) has admitted that hackers who broke into its systems may have snaffled the personal details of more than 60,000 staff and students.…

Five hour lockout caused by errant stored procedure Microsoft has posted a resolution report on a recent problem with Visual Studio Team Services, a cloud-based code repository and developer collaboration platform.…

Liberty, security, granularity Docker pushed the latest version of its eponymous containerization platform out the door late yesterday, with a heavy emphasis on security.…

Cascading feedback loop advoidance for the 99 per cent Cloud computing was meant to solve the reliability problem, but in practice, it still has a long way to go. Is that an endemic problem with the complexity of cloud computing, or a problem with the way people use it?…

Eyes up prospect of tasty 4G Virgin Media has weighed in to give its blessing over the controversial £10.5bn proposed merger between Three and O2, hoping such a move would give it greater network access.…

The company's stance on lavender locks? 'Just rock it!' The faceless drones among you whose workplace misery is compounded by the need to adhere to a strict dress code are invited to gaze with envy upon this blog post revealing that Cisco is - in contrast to its reputation as "a boring, stodgy company" - actually a hotbed of individuality, personal freedom and radical hair colour.…