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Growth from flash array pusher Kaminario and sync 'n' sharer Syncplicity Private equity-owned file sync 'n' sharer Syncplicity and flash array shipper Kaminario both say they are doing well.…

It can't get any better, basically Guy Gratton, Brunel University London…

Groundbreaking research could help fertility treatment ... or create custom humans UK scientists have been given the green light to use the CRISPR gene editing technique to experiment on unused human embryos in what is described in a boon to biological research.…

Don't run rm -rf / as a laugh to clean your filesystem on a ham-fisted UEFI machine Here's a friendly warning from El Reg: don't wipe the wrong directory from your Linux system, or you may end up bricking the computer. This has happened to people, we're told.…

It looks like Santa stuffed chimneys with new PCs last year Windows 10 overtakes Windows 8.1's market share It looks like Santa stuffed chimneys with new PCs last year Windows 10 has overtaken Windows 8.1's market share, according to all three of data sources we use to monitor such matters.…

British-made winglets debut on new version of world's most popular airliner Plane-maker Boeing has conducted the first test flight of the 737 MAX, the next version of the world's best-selling passenger airliner.…

Stable door? Check. Padlock? Check. Horses? Oh … ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, has noticed that computers, cars, and communications can result in insecurity, and is calling for participants in a new CarSEC expert group.…

Cheap Chinese handsets ready to be rooted. Budget smartphones from Lenovo, Huawei, and other largely Chinese brands contain an accidental backdoor that grants intruders root access.…

Europe's ExaNeSt HPC pilot will start with a mere 1000 cores that Intel won't be making Europe's ExaNeSt project is looking behind the lounge for ten million ARM processors, to support its exascale supercomputing project.…

Alphabet subsidiary’s scaling its cloud, but won't say if sales are up, down, or sideways Google's a laggard in infrastructure-as-a-service: Amazon Web Services moved first and set agendas, then along came Microsoft with an unusually strong version 1.0 product that's just kept growing and adding features. IBM bought SoftLayer and is building cloud products at speed.…

Aeronautical agency will offer its small, speedy LCRD tech to industry NASA's preparing the next step of its lasers-in-space optical communications strategy, announcing the development of a silicon photonic modem for space applications.…

Happy days if you own a Nexus Five "critical," four "high" severity and one merely "moderate" bug make up the menu of Android security patches, which are now available for Nexus devices and will flow through to myriad other devices when it rains up instead of down.…

You. Will. Upgrade. You Will. Upgrade Microsoft said it would push Windows 10 upgrades onto people's PCs much harder this year – and Redmond has been true to its word.…

Harvard's internet arm frets about gizmo security Analysis The increasingly noisy debate over encryption is nothing to worry about, eggheads at Harvard have announced today: it's your toothbrush you need to worry about.…

Proposed Australian telecommunications security laws are a mess Australia's telcos are still, by and large, unhappy with the idea that Attorney-General Senator George Brandis wants to play uber-sysadmin.…

Plenty of doh-ray-mi from ads as Fiber et al gobble cash Alphabet, Google's new parent-holding-company-thing, has reported stellar end-of-year results: revenues in the final quarter of 2015 hit $21.3bn, and profit reached $4.9bn.…

NVMe fabric flash and deduping VSAN lead Analysis EMC has new storage products coming in both external shared array form and in its converged and hyper-converged systems lines of products, using new VSAN capabilities.…

Shaun Bridges arrested while allegedly getting ready to flee the US Shaun Bridges, the ex-US Secret Service agent who fleeced Silk Road drug dealers during a probe into the cyber-souk, has managed to find a fire hotter than the frying pan he was already inhabiting.…

Gang says intrusion was all about chemtrails conspiracy Hackers have released online 250GB of data purloined from NASA systems – and claim to have diverted a multi-million-dollar drone the agency uses to run high-altitude sampling missions.…

Einstein not so smart, wide open to old-days as well as zero-days The US government's firewall, named Einstein, is not as smart as its name would suggest.…

US, Euro officials still wrangling over security services' access to your personal data US and EC (European Commission) officials have until the end of the day today to reach a new Safe Harbor agreement or risk a breakdown of transatlantic e-commerce.…

def.json feature caused 'unexpected' behavior CFEngine has pumped out its latest update, v3.8.1, which should sort out some ongoing irritations with the def.json feature it introduced a couple of versions ago.…

Organizational changes wrecked last quarter's results A champagne bottle's crack, a splash, and cheers rang out as the good ship Veritas was launched on the banks of Symantec's river – sent off to steam the data storage seas own with a new owner: the Carlyle Group.…

The effects of high-speed broadband on radio electronics Analysis The vast cost of keeping up with demand for mobile data is intensifying the pressure on mobile operators’ capex budgets and accelerating their moves to improve their infrastructure cost base. Major agreements to share passive and active cell site equipment are becoming commonplace as regulators ease up on previous restrictions, accepting that, in the age of the MVNO, a common network need not reduce consumer choice at the services and pricing level.…

... says a vendor flogging kit to plug those holes, anyway Widely used WirelessHART-type industrial control products are wide open to exploitation, a security tools firm has warned.…

Former Co-op Bank man leaves on his own terms – unlike many of his staff The University of Manchester's director of IT, Gerry Pennell, has resigned after three years in the role – with no explanation as to why.…

They are 'cumbersome, confusing' admits software titan Microsoft has confirmed it is to gradually kill off Enterprise Agreements - volume licensing contracts so complex that a whole profit-making asset management eco-system sprang up off the back of them.…

March of the persuaders Oracle is expanding its platform-as-a-service cloud team in Europe, but denied it is a move to revive renewals.…

Talons out in the war against UAVs Dutch cops are mulling the idea of a drone-busting eagle squadron - one of a range of possible methods under consideration to wrest back control of the skies from UAV hordes.…

Mystery 'fizzy drink bottles' at 1,500ft The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) last week called for action to control the use of drones, citing several examples from the the latest UK Airprox Board report (PDF) of UAVs menacing airliners.…

What are you going to do about it, Alphabet? Samsung has added built-in ad-blocking capabilities to its Android browser in its latest OTA (over-the-air) update to its Lollipop 5.0 devices, which include the Galaxy S6.…

Automation vendor manually fixes Hosted Chef problem Chef fans faced going hungry on Friday afternoon as the automation vendor’s hosted service degraded itself by having a little lie-down in the back pantry.…

Brit industry regulator snuggles up to EU mummy Ofcom chief exec Sharon White has decided to tell everyone what she really thinks about the possible £10.5bn merger between O2 and Three – and it turns out the regulator-in-chief is not a fan.…

To be paid in Bitcoin, of course Lincolnshire County Council's IT is back up and running after the council shut everything down last week following a ransomware attack in which the attackers turned out to have asked for a mere £350.…

He's 'transitioning to the next chapter of his career', says firm CSC UK chief Sanjiv Gossain has joined the not-so-selective club of ex-execs, leaving the ailing integrator less than two years into his tenure.…

Third quarter results good but annual compare shows fall Storage connectivity card and ASIC supplier QLogic had a much better third quarter than expected as interim CEO, also chief financial officer, Jean Hu delivered higher revenues and a profits recovery.…

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Seesaw ups the ante Google has developed an open source infrastructure software build using its Go language.…

Android Pay now refuses to play ball on a rooted handset Google's crackdown on rooted Android devices continues. Citing security reasons, Google doesn’t want rooted 'Droid phones to use mobile payments via the Android Pay infrastructure.…

Points to Openreach and tells Ofcom it is already at 'arm's length' BT is to create a Frankenstein business unit on April Fools' Day worth £5bn out of old parts of BT Global Services focused on the UK, BT Business and EE's newly acquired business unit, it announced during "record" third quarter financial results.…

Delivers modestly boxed signage for HPE's private London boozer When readers recently decided that Hewlett Packard Enterprise's private London drinking club should be dubbed the "Hewlett You Inn?", we promised to knock up some artwork for the boozer and deliver it to the door of HPE's shiny new HQ at One Aldermanbury Square.…

'We would like to be seen to be paying the right amount' Google's communications veep has called for reform of the international tax system in wake of the backlash against the company's £130m tax deal with HMRC.…

Yep. Businesses' privacy is also at risk Businesses that use software and systems to collect, analyse and use data are increasingly vulnerable to cyber risks, according to a new report.…

It's just a phase ... (geddit?) Comment Once Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IM Flash) co-CEO Guy Blalock revealed that XPoint memory uses chalcogenide glass as its storage medium, people have been wondering if XPoint really is, contrary to Intel and Micron denials, phase-change memory (PCM).…

Judges go soft on cyber crime as hackers evade behind bars Two US hackers have escaped prison, receiving probation instead of time in federal coolers.…

Why schlep data cross-country when we live on the coast, near free cooling? Microsoft has revealed that it's trialled an underwater data centre.…

Prototype UC Berkeley fault-generating code finds flaws streamer's human fixers missed Video streamer Netflix has deployed a prototype University of California, Berkley, fault generating platform to find and fix five problems that otherwise could have affected users.…

MIT research suggests Intel's taking risks with its locked-down container tech A pair of cryptography researchers have published a graduate thesis that accuses Intel of breaking its “Software Guard Extensions” (SGX) security model by bad implementation decisions.…

Move along, nothing to see here says new owner Slashdot and SourceForge have been offloaded by owner DHI media, which has found them a new home at a company called BizX.…