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Joining forces for cheap, fast 4K video Some of the largest companies in online media have banded together to battle back against excessive patent licensing fees for streaming video.…

Oh no! Biz needs cross-cloud abstraction to move data across borders VMworld 2015 Edward Snowden crocked the cloud for everyone, says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger.…

Dis-ARM-ing flaw can cook your console Xen has revealed details of bug CVE-2015-6654, which it warned about a couple of weeks back.…

Beetlejuice, Voldemort and now Julian How to solve a problem like Julian Assange™ was the veiled topic of debate on Monday when officials from Ecuador and Sweden met for the first time.…

Making good use of the things that they find ... Customers of Japanese banks are on the front line of attacks based on a new and sophisticated banking trojan, mashed together from leaked bits of malware code.…

Fossilised remains of 'bizarre' predatory beast uncovered in Iowa Scientists have unearthed the remains of a "bizarre" monster sea scorpion which 460 million years ago prowled the oceans covering what is now North America.…

Only 8 per cent want to watch Estonian footie in Brussels. Proles! Eurocrats' proposals to change how Europe's independent TV and film makers do business aren't needed – according to the EU's own research, released on one of the quietest Fridays of the year.…

No launches on the roster for another couple of months The SpaceX launch schedule has been knocked back by a couple of months as a result of the loss of its Falcon 9 CRS-7 mission rocket on 28 June, it has revealed.…

Hybrid storage bods make play into crowded market Surprise! Freshly uncloaked hybrid flash/disk array startup Reduxio says backup snapshots are a problem and its BackDating technology solves that problem. Admit it; you are surprised, aren't you?…

Okays SRA soiree – whatever will be will be Soon-to-be split CSC is merging its government services biz with US public sector IT outfit SRA for $390m (£254m).…

You haters are wrong – megabreach ’twas but a flesh wound Embattled adultery website Ashley Madison has launched a rearguard action, claiming new sign-ups and more female members in the aftermath of July’s megahack.…

The usual suspects for studious souls Product Roundup The summer’s been and gone already, and it’s the time of year when our brightest and best leave home to enter the hallowed halls of academia. Any young student will need a decent laptop to help them out with essays and other work, but the chances are that most students will also be on a pretty tight budget.…

Who says spinning rust is finished? Who says spinning rust is finished? Seagate has rolled out 8TB triplets and a 2TB mobile nipper, using shingled recording on its 8TB Kinetic.…

But no creepy Redmond robo-buddy for Windows 10 hold-outs – yet We recently mused, half seriously, whether the entire point of the Windows 10 upgrade was to harvest your personal information. With Microsoft suffering from a serious case of Google envy, perhaps it felt it had some catching up to do.…

German company is still looking for acquisitions, but may soon cash in its chips Former Siemens chip company Infineon may find itself on the shopping list of a bigger semiconductor company, thanks to its strength in automotive.…

There’s no skill in this, agency sneers The National Crime Agency's website has been hit by a DDoS attack, in an apparent act of revenge for the body's recent crackdown on users of Lizard Squad.…

Will hanging on the telephone help shift more iOS gear to enterprises? Apple has inked a deal with networking giant Cisco, as Cupertino beefs up its efforts to pull in more business customers.…

Is the balance of power still tipped towards large tech companies? Analysis UK performing rights society the PRS* has told its 111,000 members that it is now reluctantly suing SoundCloud after five years of fruitless negotiations, for refusing to properly compensating its members after streaming their works.…

Super stealth map app gains features – but needs more offline Hands On Satnav-style turn-by-turn directions are coming to the Ordnance Survey's stealth-mode Maps app.…

Adapt or die, says Trevor Pott Sysadmin blog You don't have to be a large enterprise to benefit from technology, though access to seemingly endless resources tends to help. I've worked in SMB IT my whole life and automation changes everything at this level.…

It's CLANG all the way in new RAD Studio Preview Embarcadero has released RAD Studio 10, including Delphi 10 and C++ Builder 10, a suite of development tools for Windows, Mac and mobile platforms.…

Well, we're pretty much doomed then When Britons do tech startups they don't hold back. London-based Massive Analytic is an artificial intelligence startup that has created Oscar AP, a product they describe as 'artificial precognition'.…

Don't make us choose between EU and US, beg Swedish companies Late last week, a group labeling itself the European Data Coalition called for Europe’s planned data protection law to be watered down.…

Database goliath reaffirms its stranglehold, despite cost-cutting efforts The Ministry of Defence was given the green light to splash £7.8m on Oracle licences this year, according to official gov info.…

Stone age anti-virus mitigated Mac malware using an exploit so small it fits in a tweet has been upgraded to avoid anti-virus checks.…

'Utopian' social network could go official – but then, it is on Google+ ... so Google has developed an internal utopian voting system for its office events, which its creator hopes to make an official product.…

Asian power plays ramp up The US government is reportedly mulling "unprecedented" sanctions against China in response to hacking.…

Duo finds a tidy profit pawning off cans of atmosphere A dynamic duo from Canada have claimed to have made thousands of dollars by selling cans full of air online.…

Construction starts on LSST's 3.2 gigapixel monster cam Having won its final funding approval during 2014, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has now been granted government approval to start construction.…

Attribution is harder than a taste in music Security researcher Brian Krebs last week named whoever is behind the Twitter account @deuszu as likely having had a hand in the Ashley Madison hack. But has Krebs named the right entity?…

Medical devices, smart cars, smart homes in sights America's National Science Foundation has noticed the dodgy security surrounding the Internet of Things, and has splashed US$6 million in two grants to improve, umm, things.…

As deadline looms, Govt offers email olive branch for non-compliant sector Telcos will be required to retain data on spam, failed email, and borked voice over IP phone calls under the Australian Federal Government's looming data retention plan.…

'Tapless' traffic analysis Brocade wants to give Fibre Channel storage infrastructure analytics and monitoring of traffic between servers and storage, to help benchmark application performance and diagnose application problems.…

15 users, one chip VMworld 2015 AMD has used the VMworld conference in San Francisco this week to take wraps off a new, hardware-based GPU virtualization tech for virtualized workstations.…

Google, Facebook, Cisco et al ready for RFP feeding frenzy In spite of being under investigation by India's competition regulator, Google has been named among the vendors vying to build Delhi's planned city-wide Wi-Fi network.…

Foundation flings cash at effort to craft old-school virtual machine manager OpenBSD kernel developer Mike Larkin has let it be known he's working on a native hypervisor for the operating system, with the OpenBSD Foundation's support.…

Cumulus Networks to provide switch OS for EVO software-defined data center VMworld 2015 With VMware planting its flag in the burgeoning hyperconverged market in a four-way deal with Cumulus Networks, Dell, and Quanta Cloud Technology, The Register speaks to Cumulus.…

Google app gives Apple gear a wristjob Google has released an app to allow Android Wear smartwatches to sync with Apple iPhones.…

Failing project passes half-billion mark A half-billion-dollar IT rollout in the New South Wales Department of Education in Australia has turned into a disaster – with a department official blaming incompatibility between operating systems and printers.…

Penguinistas pulling a long, cold draught of code Linux 4.2 hit the wires yesterday, marking the end of its cycle of eight release candidates.…

So says VMware as it reveals tiny hv and new cut of vSphere VMworld 2015 VMware has created a new hypervisor and a new variant of its flagship vSphere product, both aimed at containerised computing and “cloud-native apps.”…

Bought for a relative snip by Synacor Email and collaboration biz Zimbra has lost 93 per cent of its value in eight years, and has been bought by Synacor for just seven per cent of the price Yahoo! paid for the company in 2007.…

U ok hun? T-Mobile US CEO John Legere launched a tirade Sunday over subscribers who make heavy use of tethering on his network.…

Taking the 'auto' out of auto-play media Soon, Google's Chrome browser will only play media when a tab is in the foreground, even if it is set to play automatically.…

Ad giant accused of rigging results to squeeze out rivals Google has confirmed to The Register it is being probed in India over allegations that it unfairly promotes its own services over rivals in web search results.…

What's the noise from SF? VMworld 2015 There's been a whirlwind of supplier announcements in the run-up to VMworld, which takes place between August 29 and September 3 in San Francisco.…

EVO SDDC takes Virtzilla's best bits to build hybrid clouds VMworld 2015 For the last couple of years, VMware has been talking up the software-defined data center and saying it can deliver it with vSphere and flagship products like VSAN, NSX, and vRealize.…

Well, it's a start, at least Analysis Seagate R&D bigwig Jan-Ulrich Thiele says the first Seagate prototype drives built with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) will arrive in late 2016 and have just 4TB capacity.…

VMware's vCloud Air Object Storage with either Google or EMC ViPR VMworld 2015 VMware is launching a cloud object storage service based on either the public Google cloud, or EMC ViPR for a private cloud alternative.…

All abord the private cloud train Has the OpenStack loco got enough of a head of steam to leave the station? No one knows yet, but here is more evidence of suppliers rushing to support it: SolidFire's all-flash arrays can be integrated into Platform9's Managed OpenStack OSaaS – OpenStack-as-a-Service – offering.…