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Actually, it's easy, you just have to pay attention Australian public sector agencies have a persistent problem trying to redact PDFs: this time, the guilty party is the Medical Council of NSW.…

We speak to key techies, men and women, who shaped our online world Special report Thirty years ago today, 16 January 1986, the Internet Engineering Task Force – IETF – was born at a meeting in San Diego.…

Reuse plans looking good ahead of Sunday's launch Elon Musk has confirmed that the Falcon 9 rocket his firm landed last month has successfully completed a test firing with almost no problems.…

Sysadmin MMORPG needs your cash Kickstarter-funded developers are trying to create of a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game based on the world of data centers.…

Wir haben Möglichkeiten, die Sie schwanger Video Scientists at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Dresden, Germany, have successfully tested a tiny motor that can be attached to sperm to give them an extra push to meet a human egg.…

And rival Mandiant sticks the boot in: 'Woefully inadequate' probe cited in court allegations IT security biz Trustwave is being sued by a Las Vegas casino operator for allegedly bungling a hacking investigation. Trustwave denies any wrongdoing.…

Wow, beat that, Docker Amazon may well launch a maritime shipping operation that will allow the retail giant to ferry tons of cargo.…

Zero-grav liquid discovery ends space station repair job NASA called an early halt to a British astronaut's spacewalk after water leaked in his American colleague's spacesuit.…

Did patch really tackle the underlying problem? A: No Apple has flubbed attempts to patch flaws in OS X's anti-malware system Gatekeeper, leaving the defenses still easy to bypass.…

Minister brands crypto skeleton keys 'vulnerability by design' – is the US listening? The French government has rejected an amendment to its forthcoming Digital Republic law that required backdoors in encryption systems.…

Oh Timmy boy… the tax, the tax is calling… An upcoming European Commission ruling on tax laws could result in Apple having to pay as much as $8bn (€7.33bn, £5.6bn) in back taxes.…

Brits' offer snubbed Microcontroller gurus Atmel look set to be acquired by Microchip – and not by the UK's Dialog Semiconductor.…

Harnessing software to topple bricks and mortar Search the term “DevOps” online and you get a plethora of stuff. The problem is not lack of content – the problem is sifting the wheat from the chaff.…

Number crunching exercise shows what we all suspected IDC abacus acrobats have worked out that a third of IT infrastructure spend is going to the cloud, up from just under a quarter a year ago.…

University of Michigan, Big Blue in $4.5m cognitive collaboration IBM and the University of Michigan have launched a $4.5m project to replace some human roles in education by developing a cognitive system to function as an academic adviser for undergraduate compscis and engineers.…

But testing tool's taking flak from top infosec bods A security developer has released a coding tool that aims to help websites test their defences against a China-style GitHub attack.…

Paediatric hospital unimpressed with fundraising strip-off Staff at Stockholm's Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital have landed themselves in hot water after stripping off at work for a charity 2016 calendar, The Local reports.…

What a week! From NOOOO... to LOL... to WTF? ¡Bong!

There's no going back... Windows Phone users beware: Microsoft has quietly begun rolling out the Windows 10 system update in various territories. Until such a time as the new software platform reaches maturity, users may experience a loss of features, diminished battery life and unexpected bugs.…

This will help in ‘dramatically lowering false positives’, says Big Blue IBM has assimilated a German payment fraud prevention business, IRIS Analytics, a provider of a real-time fraud analytics engine using machine learning algorithms, for undisclosed terms.…

Could a reverse stock split be the answer? We take a look Violin Memory is under notice of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange because its stock price has been less than $1.00, on average, for 30 days. The company has said it will regain listing compliance.…

Driving licence victory - but there's a catch A Russian follower of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has won the right to wear a colander on his head in his driving licence photo, although this great leap forward for Pastafarian rights comes at a price.…

Hearn: No better 'than the existing financial system' now The destiny of Bitcoin, like that of Apollo 13, shall never be realised, at least according to one of the cryptocurrency's most well-known developers, who has announced that "the experiment has failed".…

People love ‘sharing economy’ outfits and they won’t go away Interview Veteran software pro Tom Slee was one of the first critics of so-called “Sharing Economy” outfits like Uber and AirBnB. His forthcoming book What’s Yours Is Mine: Why The Sharing Economy Isn’t draws attention to the dark side of their operations – and strongly argues for regulation.…

Oh no RBS - not again Updated Customers of RBS and Natwest have complained they are unable to access their online banking accounts.…

New frontiers in containers? There's growing interest in VMware’s Photon. Essentially, Photon lets highly optimised Docker containers into VMware Land.…

'Dream Chaser' contracted for unmanned ISS deliveries NASA looks set to get back into the space shuttle business with the announcement of three International Space Station cargo delivery contracts, one of which has been handed to Sierra Nevada Corporation and its "Dream Chaser" vehicle.…

Dave Farley, Chris Jackson join the programme Reg Events The schedule for Continuous Lifecycle London is filling up, with 24 speakers now announced and more to be revealed shortly for our DevOps, Continuous Delivery and Agile conference.…

UK data centre biz waves goodbye, newly-formed US entity says howdy Former UK-owned data centre outfit Telecity has today delisted from the London stock market, having formally been subsumed by US co-location giant Equinix following its £2.3bn acquisition.…

Fear inhibits change, but it's also a great motivator Fear is a great motivator. Fear pushes adrenaline. It primes our "fight or flight" response. It primes us for a confrontation. Fear shuts down our higher cognitive functions, priming us for a visceral response, on top of which we layer rationalisation.…

Would you like that email account and Office installation a la carte? In the 1950s, we imagined a world where everything was automated. Robots would clean for us, and small boxes would instantly produce hot food. Now, we have the Roomba and the microwave, and shortly, cars that drive themselves. Even Zuck is preparing his electronic butler. To top it all, there’s not a dodgy-looking Jetsons costume in sight.…

Virt giant pulls Phull Virtualization giant VMware’s UK and Ireland operation has bagged a new managing director – from SAP.…

Employers want to track your junk Something for the Weekend, Sir? My prospective client is staring at my nuts. The quality of my work is apparently not too important. What really matters are the warm bits that dangle between my legs.…

Just as expected The UK's competition watchdog has today cleared the £12.5bn takeover of EE by BT, finding that the merger will "not cause significant harm to competition or the interests of consumers."…

Chucking a copy of The Phoenix Project at the team ain't the answer You’ve no doubt heard of DevOps. This is the process of getting developers and sysadmins working together closely on the same team to support a company’s custom-written software.…

There's a reason some stuff is not safe for work On-Call It's Friday, your correspondent is back from summer holidays and it is therefore once again time to welcome you to On-Call, our regular reader-written tales of things that went bump when off-site.…

Redmond's also teaching it to speak hipster with Slack integration Microsoft has delivered its promised real time translation service in Skype.…

Perp apparently behind MegalodonHTTP popped Five hackers arrested last month in a sting coordinated by Norway police have been revealed as running the MegalodonHTTP remote access trojan.…

Azure price cuts set up a new sales scramble Microsoft's cut Azure prices again, while also making it plain that it thinks Amazon Web Services (AWS) is weak in the hybrid cloud.…

Special pleading by 'sharing economy' biz Self regulation can be a "more effective way" of addressing issues that arise in online markets than passing new legislation, Airbnb has said.…

It's so cute creepy and violent Animal-lovers have run the gamut of emotions after a cute photograph of a Kangaroo was re-interpreted by experts as likely depicting a murderous necrophiliac Kangaroo.…

Half price petrol? There's an app for that. Kiwicon New Zealanders could print their own non-expiring 40c fuel discount vouchers thanks to a shoddy algorithm that a hacking duo has broken.…

Mounting evidence attacks are handiwork of elite Russian hacker team. It is 'clear' the power outages experienced in the Ukraine last December were caused by a series of network-centric attacks against multiple utilities, says SANS industrial control system expert Michael J. Assante.…

2018 is when the propaganda and science will flow China has let it be known its Chang'e-4 lander will touch down on the dark side of the moon some time in 2018.…

'Protecting customer info is critically important,' says company that got pwned in 50 countries Hyatt Hotels says a total of 250 of its resorts were hit last year in a massive malware infection that stole customer payment card information.…

Streamer will clamp down on geo-hopping customers who go in search of un-crimped content Netflix has announced it will clamp down on users who access it through virtual private networks (VPNs). Or as the company puts it, in a masterpiece of Orwellian PR-talk, “Evolving Proxy Detection as a Global Service”.…

US Inspector General makes flying nerve-wracking again The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is failing to ensure that American pilots can manually fly passenger jets if the automated systems controlling the aircraft fail, a report by the US Department of Transportation Inspector General has found.…

This week's crazy sue-ball roundup It's an unfair stereotype that America is the home of crazy lawsuits.…

Travelers stranded, planes grounded amidst network chaos US discount airline JetBlue is warning of delays and cancellations to flights after a number of its systems were knocked offline Thursday.…