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Follow the money – or, at least, our projections Analysis Let’s fly up to 20,000 feet and survey the storage landscape from there, and then stay at that height until 2030. What will we see?…

Prices, practices, fullzinfo exposed Intel Security has published a study that aims to shed light on the business deals, negotiations and pricing involved in the hidden underworld of the cybercrime economy.…

OK, it was sorted within 30 minutes, but even so … Uber has accidentally exposed the personal details of hundreds of US drivers as the result of a software bug, revealing names, social security numbers, pictures of drivers' licences, tax forms, and other sensitive information, before the issue was resolved soon after discovery.…

Chipzilla bets farm on data centre growth after 6% profit fall Intel has bumped up its debt levels by $8bn (£5.2bn) to $20bn (£16bn), ahead of its $16.7bn (£10.4bn) gobble of data centre chip outfit Altera.…

Not about PCs this time Something is still amiss with disks, but not PCs this time: Seagate warns that its latest quarter’s revenues will be 23 per cent less than a year ago, continuing the revenue slide seen in the previous quarter, blamed on low PC sales.…

Replaces CEO, buys company and gets DroboMan in cheap day's work Imation has bought Geoff Barrall’s Connected Data startup for just $7.5m, and finally appointed a new, although interim, CEO.…

Full Windows Active Directory service now available in Azure Microsoft has announced a public preview of full Active Directory Domain Services running as a service in its Azure cloud.…

At last - Americans finally get to parallel park Updated Tesla has offered to make its customers more confident drivers by allowing them to hand over control of their vehicles to software.…

Telcos: Or ... you relax the merger rules After just one year in the job, Europe’s Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has already made a name for herself as being tough on telecoms mergers. Now her colleague, veep Andrus Ansip, has publicly backed her, telling industry representatives in Brussels this week that competition, not M&As, is the future.…

Execs prep teams for union EMC/Dell deal Michael Dell has named one Dell exec – Rory Read – and one EMC exec – Howard Elias – to oversee deduplication of the two companies’ product lines.…

And you can activate it using Windows 7 keys Microsoft's latest preview release of Windows 10, build 10565, adds several features and refinements as the company works towards a major update for all users.…

Government staff swallow news hook linked to poisoned bait Hackers behind a long-running cyber-espionage campaign have begun using a new Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in their latest campaign.…

Or survey-takers misunderstood the question... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released information suggesting cybercrime incidents are growing more prevalent in British society than traditional criminal incidents, and has noted that this may be due to more criminal enterprises transitioning to the digital world.…

Reselling deal for the bin? +Comment Head PC seller and x86 server shifter Lenovo has a storage reselling deal with EMC which could well be toast with Dell’s takeover of EMC, according to analysts.…

Fiat employee wrongly sacked for DVD ogle Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that Fiat was wrong to sack an employee for watching porn DVDs during his lunch break, LiveSicilia reports.…

Look for non-US alternatives, say Schleswig-Holstein officials The data protection authority at the German federal state of Schleswig Holstein has declared that any and all data protection workarounds for the transfer of data to the US after the European Court of Justice's Schrems v Facebook judgment are going to be illegal.…

Reg reader amazed at breathtaking velocity El Reg reader Jerry Vernon has been in touch to express his amazement that Vodafone can supply broadband to his Birmingham address at a 80Mbps, noticeably faster even than its 76Mbps Ultrafast Fibre package.…

Top Gun-inspired 1980s crowd pleaser Antique Code Show It was 1986, and the world went bonkers for Top Gun: that film about pleasant young chaps learning the flight ropes of F-14 Tomcats. New-wave synth poppers Berlin sang Take My Breath Away while straddling decommissioned aircraft; Tom Cruise apparently began a longstanding attempt to disguise his diminutive stature; and discussions abounded over the film's allegedly homoerotic sub-plot.…

Now would be a good time not to be in Dell's crosshairs Sysadmin blog In case you missed it: pretty much the entire IT industry's margins are collapsing. It is hitting all sectors from smartphones to desktops to servers, storage and even networking. Tech has reached "good enough" for most, and now price rules.…

The slope gets steeper Revenues for EMC’s traditional storage products are declining faster and faster as enterprises prefer converged/hyper-converged and cloud alternatives.…

Thankfully these plastic shields stop data penetrating the retina-consciousness interface Top security minds at HP have discovered that if you look at a PC, you can read what's on its screen. And if you're not the intended reader of that screen, it constitutes “visual hacking”, a terrifying menace that Must Be Stopped.…

Running the web without the US at the helm – and in Java When control of the internet's naming and numbering systems is handed over by the US government to domain system overseer ICANN, there will be one big change: it will be subject to a service level agreement drawn up by the internet community.…

Retail giant offers skeleton key to escape cloud lock-in from … oh, no cloud in particular Retail colossus Walmart has open-sourced its own cloud operations code.…

Middle Kingdom players want to breed next gen companies Alibaba's cloud division AliCloud has hopped into bed with with Apple manufacturer Foxconn, with the intention of creating a space to breed the next generation of companies to take over the world.…

Only Russia can balls up the mass standard now One of the standards world's toughest nuts, how to redefine the kilogram in terms of universal constants, is close to being resolved – unless a Russian experiment in 2017 throws a spanner in the works.…

No malware, no data slurp, but they still know where you live Cyber Defence Summit Researchers have spotted an attack campaign, possibly emanating from Russia, that is compromising Websites solely to conduct reconnaissance.…

eBay's Gumtree infested with dodgy 'sysadmin internship' ads Unpaid internships are on the nose around the world as even entry-level workers rebel against exploitation, but a "job" ad spotted by Vulture South takes the practice to new depths.…

Using headphones with a mic makes your mobe slightly hackable, in theory A group of researchers from the French government's Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI) have found a way to silently and wirelessly inject voice commands into unlocked iPhones and Android gadgets.…

And you thought big Unix was dead! Well it ain't. And it wants upgrading inside a year As well as the range of Linux servers it released last week, Big Blue also announced version 7.2 of its venerable AIX operating system.…

This one weird trick will stop your telephony server staggering If you've been wondering about the server performance in your Cisco Business Edition 6000/7000 telephony system, wonder no more: The Borg has issued a field notice that the system shipped with misconfigured RAID.…

It's got emoji and what else do you need when you're running a country? Australia's fully-mobile-enabled BYOD prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is reportedly working hard to keep discussions between members of Cabinet out of the reach of the country's data retention regime.…

Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to stagnation So why haven't the capabilities for each successive generation of devices increased exponentially?…

You should be able to run any software you like on your wireless box, say campaigners Vinton Cerf has added his name to a campaign begging the FCC to scrap plans to ban custom firmware on Wi-Fi routers and other wireless devices.…

Disable the plugin – or enable click-to-play Just a day after its monthly batch of security updates, Adobe has confirmed it will issue an emergency critical patch for Flash next week.…

Digital Transformation Office has given itself nine weeks to built a Gov.au prototype Australia's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has given itself nine weeks to built a prototype of an all-new gov.au and outlined its first lot of projects.…

Spending billions to absorb the competition? That's our job! US telecom giants AT&T and Dish Network are asking the FCC to hold off on approving the $78.7bn merger of Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable (TWC).…

Good luck cyber-attacking the stars, miscreants Sextants have been off the curriculum for naval officers in the US for over a decade, but now the swabbies have reinstituted celestial navigation classes over hacking fears.…

Jury says lifting out-of-order chip boffinry was out of order Apple's A7 processors in iPhones and iPads infringe a patent held by the University of Wisconsin, a court has ruled.…

Some folks just want to watch the world burn Vid An internet mischief maker has built a USB stick that delivers dangerous 220-volt shocks to PCs, destroying them in the process.…

Race to analytics-as-a-service SAP announced its brand new cloud analytics service under pressure from mighty Amazon.…

And 1,300 PCs running Win XP that it can't find Half of America's Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) servers are running Windows Server 2003, despite extended support for it ending in July.…

Democratising the build out of racks Portability and modularity in the world of data centres aren’t new: for years, they’ve been something unique to the military and others operating in either temporary or hostile environments.…

Check your generic detection techniques at the door Cyber Defence Summit enSilo founder Udi Yavo has detailed a new code injection technique he claims will become commonplace in coming months.…

Malicious malvertising makes mess of measly Mail, mentions Malwarebytes Net nasty numero uno, the Angler Exploit Kit, has infected advertising on the Daily Mail's website, causing the site to serve up malware to its readers' machines.…

Industry weighs in, reckons freemium's cool – but consumers won't be happy Security software firm AVG has defended changes in its privacy policy, due to come into effect on Thursday (15 October), allowing it to collect and resell users’ anonymised web browsing and search history.…

This moves comes out of ‘weakness, not strength’, claims CE Dietzen It would seem smaller scale storage outfit Pure is next in line – following IBM's CEO Ginni Rometty and HP's Meg Whitman – to give Dell a kicking over its $67bn (£44bn) EMC deal.…

Could amendments quell privacy fears? Cyber Defence Summit US Senate and House committee members are confident twin security bills will be passed in the coming weeks, making serious inroads into the perennial failure that is cyber security information sharing.…

It may not be two bricks tied together Podcast It's another episode of our weekly techcast, hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week it's a full house to talk about Dell and EMC, but there was also news from AWS re:Invent, Safe Harbor and Apple. Our special guests this week are Stu Miniman, senior analyst at Wikibon and Brian Gracely, Wikibon contributor.…

Exec roundabout In what almost looks like a tit-for-tat exercise, Violin Memory has gone and raided Pure Storage’s sales exec cupboard to recruit Carlo Wolf as VP sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.…

C&C malware factory The FBI has teamed up with security vendors to disrupt the operations of Dridex banking Trojan.…