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Problems present since Christmas, operator only coughs today Websites hosted by Easyspace have been dropping since Christmas with no explanation given to customers, whose complaints were only confirmed by the company this morning.…

Bank reckons it's getting closer to solving the problem Updated HSBC has pushed forward its chief operating officer to "profoundly apologise" for the online outage that began on Monday morning and which is continuing to cause havoc for millions of internet banking customers.…

Santa Baby, slip an order under the tree Booze quaffed and mince pies munched, it’s time to get one's nose back to the grindstone for the IT industry’s great unwashed. But fear not those of you with post-holiday blues, we have a visual cracker for your delectation.…

Beyond the tools: DevOps and you DevOps is the Holy Grail that could save your IT architecture – or so we’re being told.…

Hyperconverged infrastructure OEM deal in pipeline. Be still, our beating hearts! Cisco sources tell us the company has invested in hyper-converged infrastructure software startup Springpath and is preparing an OEM deal.…

Also stuffs free 2FA into slurped app LogMeIn is launching its first revamp of the LastPass password management app, three months after its controversial purchase of the popular utility back in October.…

Aiming for expense account impulse buyers Review Lenovo has announced almost two dozen new and refreshed models for 2016, including new arrivals to its staple Thinkpad X1, T series and X series business ranges. The most eye-catching of these is a serious Surface competitor, the X1 tablet.…

Fine panoramic postcard of migrating sand NASA's Curiosity rover has delivered a fine panoramic postcard of a Martian sand dune, snapped as the trundling explorer ascends the Red Planet's Mount Sharp.…

Want to make a payment? Ring us! Potentially millions of customers are still unable to access their HSBC accounts online, with the service outage now in its second day.…

X400 comes in 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors CES SanDisk has launched a super slim M.2 SSD at CES in Las Vegas, the 1TB X400.…

Dave Mosley to look after Global Markets and Customers +Comment A new heir apparent has emerged at Seagate, the world's number two disk drive manufacturer, which experienced an 8TB drive production quantity mis-step in 2015.…

Both pro- and anti-filter advocates thinking of the kids Poor implementation of internet-filtering policies in the UK's public libraries has damaged public access to exactly the kind of information local library computers are intended to provide, according to a just-released batch of data from a collection of library professionals.…

Pride might not come before a fall here Comment The intellectual firepower at the top of Rubrik’s founding engineering team is exceeded only by the relentless promotion of the company, its founders, engineers and prospects by CEO Bipul Sinha, a VC partner.…

We can’t name names, say consultancy, suffice to say they’re at risk Fifty per cent of UK high street financial institutions utilise weak SSL certificates on their secure authentication portals, according to a new study by Xiphos Research.…

Katherine Daniels on nodes, clusters, beer and hot sauce Re Events We’re really chuffed to announce that Etsy’s Katherine Daniels will be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle London next May as one of our keynote speakers.…

Ring buffers, it's supposed to sound like ring, oh forget it Seagate is showing three stylishly packaged external disk drive products at the CES 2016 hypemare in Las Vegas this week.…

Lab claims tech pair nabbed designs after meetings A US research lab specializing in wearable devices says Apple and FitBit are ripping off its inventions without paying a dime in royalties.…

Call centre scammers charge $10 to seal the deal Russians have delivered another blow to beleaguered love rats with the sale of automated and plug-and-play online dating scam packages.…

Wow, beats me A computer security researcher has probed the communication protocols used by her pacemaker – and hopes her findings will raise awareness of just how much info medical devices are emitting.…

HackerOne to open to noisy rabble later this year. Tor will this year investigate an exploit bug bounty paying researchers cash for flaws, lead developer Mike Perry says.…

'Leave our encrypted video alone' Intel and Warner Bros have lawyered up to stop a Chinese company flogging hardware that strips out 4K copy protection.…

It's sooty, it's sound, it's back down on the ground Pics + vid The first SpaceX rocket to land after launching a payload into orbit has been checked out and is ready for a test burn, according to boss Elon Musk.…

Automaker menaced by threat of billion-dollar fines VW's year just got a lot worse already. Not only has the US government filed a lawsuit over its emissions-cheating software: it's also emerged that different software was written for 2.0 and 3.0 liter engines.…

Broadcom whips out ARM SoC for 5Gbit/s internet firehoses It's not often that a couple of services create a market segment on their own, but that's what Google Fiber and Comcast's 2Gbps home broadband rivalry seem to have done.…

Now can you give us a break with these upgrade screens? Microsoft has kicked off the New Year – and the run-up to the annual CES hypemare in Las Vegas – with the latest figures on Windows 10 adoption, claiming that over 200 million devices now run the operating system.…

Phone giant picks through support company, finds some stuff worth keeping The once-controversial Carrier iQ phone support software has been acquired by AT&T.…

(With apologies to pop sysadmin Kenny Log-ons) A new version of OpenDNSSEC – an open-source implementation of DNSSEC – is hoping to plug a problem it is happy to have: increased use.…

Your gift cards will expire in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... are worthless Updated Troubled gadget retailer Dick Smith Electronics is teetering on the brink, with banks sending in receivers after the company requested a trading halt.…

802.11ah could be too expensive and too late The Wi-Fi Alliance has formally unveiled the 802.11ah Wi-Fi standard, dubbed HaLow, which has been designed for low-power, high-range uses by connected Internet of Things devices.…

Taxmen's backup goes AWOL Ohio's Regional Income Tax Agency (RITA) slipped out a quiet end-of-year confession that it has lost a backup DVD with information and documents on 50,000 individuals.…

Have any other Android device? You've got five new gaping holes Google has fixed 12 security bugs in its Android source code – including five that would miscreants to achieve remote code execution or root access.…

Get your NAS to Mars Document and data storer Iron Mountain wants to buy Recall – and the UK monopoly regulator is alarmed.…

People need encryption to be safe and secure, says ministry The Dutch government has formally opposed the introduction of backdoors in encryption products.…

Look at me, we're still here, we're still going, still making chips, still relevant In brief AMD says it will ship graphics chips using its next-generation "Polaris" architecture from mid-2016. Crucially, these processors will use 14nm FinFETs, which means they should have better performance-per-watt figures than today's 28nm GPUs.…

Our very own Trevor Pott does his best to cut through the marketing fluff Explainer Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) has, in a very short time, become a completely overused term. Roughly a year ago I discussed what SDI is. As the individual components of SDI have started to become automated the marketing usage of the term has approached "cloud" or "X as a Service" levels of abstracted pointlessness.…

Apple and Google are dictating the languages of the mobile and 'legacy' web Plans are afoot for Firefox to work with pre-complete web standards as implemented in rivals’ browsers.…

We have met the machine, and we LIKE™ it Having conquered the relatively simple matter of an organic intelligence, Mark Zuckerberg is now trying to master artificial intelligence – or, at least, create a snoopin', cookin' 'n' facial recog 'bot for his house.…

Names required for newbies 113, 115, 117 and 118 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has announced it's satisfied that elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 really do exist and can take their places on the periodic table.…

Not so quiet nights Things might have slowed down for Christmas and New Year in your workplace but the news did not take a break.…

Mock local delicacy chuchuck at your peril A British man is facing a possible five years in a Kyrgyz jail after ill-advisedly comparing local horse meat sausage chuchuck to a stallion's todger.…

Firm makes the usual Twitter noises, everyone else moans. Happy new year! Updated HSBC has apologised for an online banking outage which left customers unable to access their accounts.…

Joint biz gears up for market launch Nokia has today confirmed the completion its €15.6bn (£11.5bn) gobble of French rival Alcatel-Lucent.…

We've made a few changes we'd like to share We launched as an email newsletter in 1994, hit the web four years later and are now a multinational media entity operating on three continents. Millions of people read us every month, which is humbling.…

Out the door ahead of BT mega-merger Soon-to-be-swallowed EE has announced its chief exec Olaf Swantee is stepping down as CEO, ahead its £12.5bn acquisition by BT expected to close in March.…

And where's Violin Memory? Storage 2016 A period of quiet, rest and reflection is what the storage industry needs after a frankly hectic and very eventful 2015.…

New kit can't mess with digital TV though, warns regulator New UK regulations are set to come into force at the end of this year to allow telecoms providers to use special devices to provide wireless data services via "white space" - licensed portions of radio spectrum which remain unused locally.…

Work-in-progress at 'ugly' stage for now 32c3 There's a long way to go before it becomes an “anyone can do this” hack, but games console tinkerers fail0verflow have replicated their PlayStation 3 work, getting Linux to run on Sony's PlayStation 4.…

Maybe now they'll fix it. 32c3 A trio of Russian hackers say core flaws in rail networks are opening trains to hijacking and derailment and have published dozens of hardcoded industrial control system credentials to kick vendors into action.…

Happy new year - goodbye EMC's preparing for a huge round of layoffs, announcing last Thursday that it's set aside a quarter of a billion, US$220 million of it for cash payments.…

Sysadmins get a belated Christmas present 'Twas the night before Christmas, when sysadmins probably weren't watching their advisory feeds, that Cisco announced a vulnerability in its Jabber for Windows.…