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by Chris Williams on (#10Q5A)
Computers? What are those? We make internet-connected skateboards In brief Intel today revealed its sales and profit numbers for the final quarter of 2015, and its full financial figures for the year.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#10Q2R)
New type of stellar explosion or alien pressing the wrong button? Supernovae are nothing new in the universe, but scientists have spotted the largest yet seen, some 200 times as bright as anything recorded previously.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#10PYW)
Joins Google and Facebook in trying to grab market share Chinese search-and-everything-else web giant Baidu has joined Google and Facebook in open-sourcing its artificial intelligence (AI) code in a bid to become a standard in an increasingly important market.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#10PXS)
Amid push to bring internet to everyone, digital divide widens for developing countries Efforts to expand IT and internet connectivity in developing countries are producing results that are "far less than expected," according to the World Bank.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#10PS2)
Yep, the classic cc/bcc cock-up The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has put in a strong bid for the 2016 Ironic Idiocy Award when they sent the details of every attendee to one of its conferences to every other attendee. The conference? Privacy CON.…
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by Lester Haines on (#10PP8)
Diminutive PXFmini shield for the Raspberry Pi Zero Those who believe that less is indeed more are directed to the PXFmini autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi Zero - a seriously bijou bit of kit measuring just 31mm by 73mm and weighing in at 15g.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#10PJW)
And consider regenerating your keys just in case Malicious OpenSSH servers can silently steal people's private SSH keys as they try to login, it emerged today.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#10PH0)
Social networking ban should be struck down, says one-time ombudsman An independent review into the welfare of immigration detainees has suggested that current restrictions on internet access – including preventing access to immigration claims help sites, and blanket bans on Skype and Facebook – are irrational and counter-productive.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#10PEJ)
Don't worry whoever Yahoo's 20m users are, it's 'anonymised' Yahoo! has publicly dumped a sample dataset for machine learning enthusiasts based on "anonymised" user interactions with the news feeds of several of its properties, ostensibly extending the research bridge between industry and academia.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#10PD5)
Pete Lorant, EMEA director calls it a day at the choclate factory Workday has hired Google veteran Peter Lorant to run its alliances business in Europe.…
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by John Leyden on (#10PBF)
Yet another firm fragged by bcc screwup Hundreds of UK video game fans became unwitting recipients of each others’ email addresses this week following a messaging cock-up at online retailer GAME.co.uk.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#10P8E)
Chats up disties but direct sales 'will continue' Hadoop challenger Hortonworks is formalising links with channel folk to spread open source gospel to a wider audience – and maybe, just maybe, help it turn losses into profits.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#10P6J)
Severely narrow view of AFA industry +Comment Research house IDC has put out an all-flash array marketscape which deliberately excludes most of the available all-flash arrays. HPE tops its AFA list.…
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by John Leyden on (#10P2N)
Malware masquerading as 33 real bank apps Cybercrooks have put together a dynasty of Android Trojan apps in a bid to imitate the legitimate apps of 33 financial management institutions across the globe.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#10NYQ)
Massive EMEA recruitment drive Oracle today unveiled a massive EMEA recruitment drive for its “cloud sales work forceâ€.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#10NV4)
Putting a cache in front of object storage as a solution Comment Last year I wrote many times about object storage, flash memory, caching, and various other technologies in the storage industry. And I also coined the term “Flash and Trash†(see video here) to describe a trend of two-tier storage built on latency-sensitive, flash-based arrays on one side and capacity-driven, scale-out systems on the other.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#10NP3)
Now with added simplicity (and Windows-isation) Review Linux Mint 17.3, recently released, will be the last release of the Mint 17 line.…
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by Chris Williams on (#10NM9)
Long-awaited CPU in build systems, SDN gear for now AMD is at last officially shipping its 64-bit ARM-based server chip, the Opteron A1100 aka Seattle. This wee beastie packs a load of networking and storage interfaces, and is seemingly eyeing up hyper-converged boxes in data centers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#10NER)
Who's that trip-trapping over my bridge... a teen on hoverboard? The mania for hoverboards is causing an outbreak of painful patent ignorance, says a top litigator.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#10NAK)
It's hyper-converged all-flash appliances. Phew! Software biz Atlantis has announced a pint-size hyper-converged appliance for remote and branch offices.…
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by Lester Haines on (#10NAM)
Transformers Peterbilt 379 tractor heads to auction Film buffs with deep pockets and a really big garage should consider moseying on down to the forthcoming Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale auction, where the 1992 Peterbilt 379 Optimus Prime tractor will go under the hammer.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#10N7K)
Very much like having ‘enough server time to explore solutions’ NoSQL startup MapR is offering a free taster of its partners' technology through AWS's Test Drive, to be launched from MapR's site.…
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No dial tone doesn't necessarily mean you can't TalkTalk Hapless mobile operator TalkTalk's phone network has been hit by an outage, leaving customers without dial tones – and without service – on landlines.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#10N3N)
Apart from that it was a sweet 12 months for penguinistas For the desktop Linux user, 2015 was a great year. There were major updates for nearly every single desktop available, launches of brand new desktops, even an impressive new distro that's forging its own path.…
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Biz plans to bring fibre to just 40,000 new homes British telco minnow Gigaclear has topped up its coffers with a €25m (£19m) loan from the European Investment Bank, a move it reckons will help treble its rural broadband network in the UK this year.…
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by Iain Connor for OUTLAW.COM on (#10MYV)
A legal expert explains how robust rights support innovation Opinion The existence of database rights does not hold back EU businesses from developing innovative new uses for data, despite what a recent report backed by two European Parliament committees says.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#10MWV)
Martin Hess, veep of Enterprise Services out at month end Hewlett Packard Enterprise veteran Martin Hess will pin the green rectangle badge to his lapel for last time at the end of this month - the UK, Middle East, Africa and Israel veep for enterprise services is off.…
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by Andrew Cobley on (#10MTP)
No one talks about the network Two of the hottest buzzwords in the industry at the moment are DevOps and microservices – both are riding high on the hype cycle and we're starting to see gurus emerge telling us that they will save the IT industry (or at least save the industry a great deal of money).…
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The dept's wide spectrum of users is... well, problematic The Department for Work and Pensions looks to be developing its own version of an online identity tool intended as a way to ensure a secure transaction with government services, according to several sources.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#10MN4)
Microsoft open-sources Chakra, seeks community karma and code POLL Microsoft has followed through on its December 2015 promise to open-source Chakra, the JavaScript engine in its Edge browser.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#10MMD)
The stealth war against Chairman IBM The fact that IBM filed more patents in 2015 than anybody is about as usual as Alexander Lukashenko sweeping to a fresh presidential term in Belarus.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#10MJM)
SaaS-y shadow IT sniffer addresses old problem with new jargon Cisco has launched a software-as-a-service-based attack on shadow IT.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#10MGW)
Home-brew 200Mhz Pentium FreeBSD box ran custom code that made replacement painful The Register has learned, thanks to a post to a semi-private mailing list, of a server that has just been decommissioned after running without replacement parts since 1997.…
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by Team Register on (#10MDF)
Unless, uh, they're hit with Linux.Encoder crapware. Some companies will pay hackers up to US$1 million in ransoms to claw back stolen data according to a poll by the Cloud Security Alliance.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#10M9E)
Who wins with the new Scheduled Reserved Instances: you or Amazon? Amazon Web Services has just done something rather interesting, in the form of making it possible to reserve servers in advance for short bursts of computing.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#10M57)
Kaspersky reveals story behind nasty Patch Tuesday fix Kaspersky has revealed how it tracked an exploit developer's debug signature over months to find and report to Microsoft a dangerous, then zero-day vulnerability in Silverlight that could have placed millions of users at risk of compromise.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#10M0P)
Mobezilla bulks up on tech from baseband to antenna Qualcomm is going to sling around US$1.2 billion into a joint venture with TDK to build radio chipsets.…
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by Chris Williams on (#10KYY)
This is like the Night of the Living Dead Microsoft's relentless campaign to push Windows 10 onto every PC on the planet knows no bounds: now business desktops will be nagged to upgrade.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#10KXG)
Telco pushed by Arjuna for more details on government requests An activist investor is pressing AT&T for more details about how it handles government data requests.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#10KWA)
Immersive cameras are mainstream, but our networks aren't built to deliver the content At the end of my holidays, as I waited for a for a flight to Sydney, I ran to a bloke I know who has a very healthy business as a marriage celebrant. Two hundred couples a year say their vows under his auspices, and he’s always looking for ways to keep his business fresh, to keep those engagements coming.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#10KWC)
A VC with startup agenda slams established suppliers. Surprised? Neither were we Comment Billionaire, venture capitalist guru and Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla thinks the merged Dell-EMC will result in a rusty innovation pipeline. Unsurprisingly, EMC CTO John Roese says Khosla's all wrong.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#10KSC)
Buggy code blamed for drained batteries, failed heating Owners of Nest's space-age thermostats are boiling with rage after a software update left them frigid – and facing a long process to get the devices back up and running.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#10KSE)
Incumbent's NBN conversion rate only so-so, but will accelerate Telstra's been accused of putting a stranglehold on National Broadband Network (NBN) connections. Our take: not quite yet.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#10KP4)
Theresa May tells committee: 'I want to be more open ... I'll write you a letter' IPB UK Home Secretary Theresa May was grilled on Wednesday by a Parliamentary committee scrutinizing fresh powers proposed for GCHQ.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#10KMN)
File under: 'good luck with that' Convicted Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht has launched a fresh appeal to have his case heard once more.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#10KHZ)
Letter to Indian says Free Basics spurs web adoption without market distortion Facebook has provided a passionate defense of its controversial Free Basics program and its approach of "zero rating."…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#10KE8)
US Homeland Security guy fed up with critical stuff accessible on the 'net Utilities opening their infrastructure to the internet are creating an irresistible honeypot for criminals, says the US government's Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team. .…
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by Iain Thomson on (#10KBM)
Wife's Yahoo! webmail inbox also penetrated An investigation is underway after someone managed to infiltrate webmail and home broadband accounts belonging to the family of US spymaster James Clapper.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#10KA0)
Wi-Fi gear, WLAN controllers, ISE get security patches Cisco sysadmins have a busy day ahead of them, with vulnerabilities announced in wireless LAN controllers, the Cisco Identity Services Engine, and Aironet access points.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#10K79)
The Veeam of DR keeps zooming along +Comment Startup Zerto has picked up $50m in a fifth round of funding.…
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