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by Chris Mellor on (#WHC9)
His ‘passion has been a critical part of our founding vision’, says CEO Tad Hunt, the chief technology officer and co-founder of startup Exablox, which makes OneBlox, a clustered SMB storage array presenting a NAS interface on top of an object storage foundation, has left the company.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#WHB0)
According to court, ISP's policy at issue Analysis We now know why US cable ISP Cox Communications lost the "safe harbor" DMCA liability protection afforded to those who disconnect high volume P2P file sharers.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#WH7N)
So … erm, that’s a good thing, probably CloudFlare is introducing HTTP/2 support for all of its users, to be available on all SSL/TLS connections – while still supporting SPDY – so netizens can spend more time with their families instead of waiting for pages to load this Christmas.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#WH4T)
Call me mister bombastic, say me fantastic Microsoft's biggest individual shareholder – its erstwhile CEO Steve Ballmer – has complained in classic ballsy fashion about the software giant's lack of disclosure about its cloud biz.…
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Then immediately plugs XSS hole Chef has pushed out a brace of updates for its management console, one of which fixes a newly unearthed vulnerability in the product.…
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by John Watkinson on (#WH0P)
The analogue shift disguised its original purpose Big Data and All That The media appear to suffer from a congenital compulsion to simplify everything down to a level they can grasp. Big data is one of those simplifications: something that can be shoved down a Fat Pipe. Enid Blyton passed away before the IT explosion and only got as far as Big Ears.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#WGZC)
Free content ad network complies with ruling – for now Facebook has confirmed that it will temporarily comply with an order from a Belgian court to stop tracking people who don't have accounts on the free content ad network.…
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by Cash'n'Carrion on (#WGVQ)
Fill your stockings at Cash'n'Carrion In case you hadn't noticed, the annual orgy of capitalism that is Xmas is almost upon us, and in the spirit of giving and goodwill to all men, El Reg's merch tentacle Cash'n'Carrion is offering a tasty 10 per cent off absolutely everything.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WGTH)
Dietzen as pleased as punch. Don’t mention the losses though All-flash array startup Pure Storage enjoyed a pretty good first post-IPO quarter, with triple-digit annual growth, a double-digit sequential revenue rise, and lessening losses, as it secured hundreds of new customers.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#WGQW)
Microsoft speaks. As do office workers now … to each other! Alas, poor Redmond has acknowledged the Azure Active Directory is "having issues" alongside the disappearance of its Office 365 service in the UK and Europe.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#WGN3)
Status page says all systems go, users cannot log in Updated Microsoft's Office 365 service has gone offline for many users in the UK and Europe, though the cause and extent of the outage is not yet known.…
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Even so, some ‘valuable capabilities have been added to our defences’ The UK government's spending watchdog has slammed the £830m, 12-year e-Borders project – intended to collect details from passenger lists of all people entering and leaving the UK – as having failed to deliver value for money.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#WGF9)
Also resulted in exposure to financial risk The Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) has fined a bank more than £1 million after finding that faults with its outsourcing arrangements helped rogue employees at a third party service provider to move money out of its bank accounts without its knowledge or consent and put the bank's own financial health at risk.…
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by Nick Longrich on (#WGEE)
Scraps of bone lead to scientific curiosity Most of what we know about North American dinosaurs comes from the western half of the continent, while those of the east are something of a mystery. So little is known, in fact, that even a scrap of bone can shed light on their diversity.…
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by Jack Skinner on (#WGCD)
You get to play with a T_SPACESHIP operator, and much, much, more PHP 7.0 was launched today, so we've asked @sydphp organiser and #phunconf convener Jack Skinner to explain its significance. Over to you, Jack ...…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WGBJ)
Skilled VXers have built 25 plugins, made 4000 variants, say crack security team Botconf One of the world's most successful, oldest, and largest botnets is an underestimated and largely-unknown threat that has over time infected 15 million machines and made millions plundering bank accounts.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WG9F)
You did kill that diagnostic account, yes? If not, naughty folks know how to kick it hard Brocade is reminding users of some of its storage area networking (SAN) kit to shoot down default diagnostic accounts.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WG83)
Supposed sekrit crimeware den can be searched through Google. Even HackForums makes you sign in The FBI-scuppered Darkode crime forum appears truly dead after a promised resurgent site failed to surface and a recent spin-off has proven horribly insecure.…
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by Enrico Signoretti on (#WG6A)
Our man goes to the Supercomputing Summit and likes what he sees Comment Here I am on day 3 at the Supercomputing Summit.. I think I’ve been waiting for more than 15 or 20 years to re-live this kind of experience, which is very similar to what it was like going to conferences back in the 1990s.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WG2Z)
Plesk and Virtuozzo to live ordinary, mortal, independent companies You read it here first, folks, Ingram Micro has indeed acquired service-provider-centric virtualiser Odin from Parallels.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WG11)
Take the great gig in the sky to Mars Months after its July fly-by, New Horizons is still squeezing its images down pipe measured in bits-per-second – and that's a problem space boffins would like to solve in the future.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WFY4)
Terrible puns not as terrible as storage biz's latest quarter Disaster! Violin Memory completely failed to report recovery-level third-quarter revenues. In fact things went from bad to worse at the Santa Clara storage biz.…
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by Team Register on (#WFSY)
Metasploit module released to make 0day pwnage easy Rapid 7 security man Todd Beardsley says new firmware released to patch hardcoded SSH keys in Advantech EKI industrial control system gateways contains known brutal flaws including Shellshock, Heartbleed, and buffer overflows.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WFQ1)
SOHOpelessness is the new normal Cellular modems from four vendors have been popped by security researchers, who have documented cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), remote code execution (RCE) and integrity attacks on the products.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WFP3)
But they're also a two-edged sword for the ALP Australia's shadow communications minister ALP's Jason Clare is pimping a leak of a March 2015 internal document penned by nbn , the entity building Australia's national broadband network (NBN) to prove another cost blowout in the rollout. But his arguments may not add up to much.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#WFMR)
Open-sources model and API The Wikimedia Foundation has a problem with new editors: the tools it created to help with quality control was hostile to newbies, and rejected too much of their work.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#WFK7)
Unfortunately also want controls over 5G and things like VoIP It's no secret that people are getting increasingly jumpy about poor security within the Internet of Things.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#WFFF)
It's not the internet, stupid! It's our managed network Comcast has started bending the intent behind net neutrality rules with a new service, just as those rules are heading to a DC court this week.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#WFEG)
Proposed law lets companies sue others across state lines US Senators are mulling a bill that aims to change the way companies file claims of trade secrets theft.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#WF9A)
Other presidential candidates seem to think the internet is just for raising money Analysis Hillary Clinton has announced a $250bn plan to build out the United States' broadband infrastructure and ensure that everyone has fast internet access at an affordable price by 2020.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#WEYD)
Internet of Wrongs too lame for Wassenaar Kiwicon Hipsters and selfie addicts beware: infosec man Steve Lord has crafted a tool designed to sever your line of addiction to Instagram by quietly blocking it over public Wi-Fi.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#WEQA)
London bloke claims (extremely) small victory in court A London pensioner has defeated Apple in court, bagging £1,200 ($1,791) from the tech goliath.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WEP1)
HDD uses its head for gen 3 Helium drive areal density boost Western Digital Corporation (WDC) has updated its Ultrastar He to the He, providing the same capacity as the shingled HGST Ultrastar Archive Haannounced in June but without the shingling, meaning standard write speeds.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#WEJ1)
Lost – no reward for finding it, though Nimboxx, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance startup, appears to have gone AWOL.…
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by Liam Proven on (#WE8N)
It's more kid-friendly... No really Two tiny, inexpensive, single-board educational computers just shipped. One has had lots of coverage already, but the odds are you've never heard of the other machine. However, the idea behind the obscure one is more important.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#WE12)
Grumble release valve LogMeIn's purchase of LastPass password manager service was not well received by LastPass users. In fact that outrage was sufficient that LastPass quickly shut down comments on its blog. Why the outrage and who is LogMeIn?…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#WDXP)
Think of the... oh never mind Google has been collecting data from schoolchildren as young as seven years of age, according to a complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), despite the Chocolate Factory's legally enforceable commitment to refrain from such activities.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#WDQH)
Risk, reward baked into 10-year Helion private cloud deal Hewlett Packard Enterprise has a risk and reward element hard wired into the 10-year cloudy infrastructure deal with Deutsche Bank and will lose money if things don’t go as planned, an exec has confirmed.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#WDP5)
Don't say you've never heard of it BlackBerry is dumping one of the more attractive features of its enterprise software comeback plan only a year after launching it.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#WDJJ)
Life after (the Other) Safe Harbor Special Report A court case that begins this week will define new boundaries in the relationship between US ISPs and creators, regardless of which way it goes.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#WDFG)
Mama, if that's movin' up then I'm movin' out Bohemian Coding, developer of the well-regarded Sketch application for the Mac, is pulling out of the Mac App Store, citing several annoyances and limitations.…
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by As told to Andrew Orlowski on (#WDD1)
What do you mean, I can't get off Facebook? Comment Yesterday Mark Zuckberg accompanied the birth of his first child, a daughter Max, with a long open letter.…
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by Dominic Connor on (#WDAB)
Register roundtable looks into... the future CIO Manifesto Whether you believe in five year plans, or think forecasting for 2016 is something best done next January, we all should have some feel for how next year is going to pan out.…
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Five minute wait time not fair ... on Uber, says CMA The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has today dismissed proposals by Transport for London to introduce new regulation to tighten its grip over private hire companies such as Uber.…
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by Team Register on (#WD73)
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by Paul Kunert on (#WD4T)
Sector is 'bifurcating' between Meg's biz and Texan Mick's server ops The EMEA server market looks to be a two-horse race between Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell, according to Gartner.…
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by Mike Plant on (#WD2B)
Mike Plant thinks not... Game Theory Battlefront is DICE's love letter to Star Wars fans. It's for all of us who grew up manually marching AT-ATs across the back garden, or making swooshing noises as we smashed our Luke and Vader figures together.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#WCZA)
Ye olde HP said was too busy to sell EVO:RAIL appliances Comment Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today beamed Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in for a video chat at its Discover conference, and in so doing basically stabbed VMware in the front.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#WCX1)
Publicly-listed reseller doing just fine in Q1, thanks very much Cuddly-named unstoppable reselling machine Softcat keeps on growing in double digits, is hiring more staff and setting up shop north of the border, according to its first trading update as a publicly traded entity.…
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by Lester Haines on (#WCVT)
Ah, the miniature joy of Xmas We're obliged to expat reader Neil Tragham for alerting us to a forthcoming Playmobil Christmas celebration in his home village of Tivissa (Pop.: 1,500 + cattle).…
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