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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.…

Clears self of bias on basis someone else read and sent contentious messages A retired judge presiding over an Australian Royal Commission into corruption in the union movement has admitted he is incapable of sending email and does not own a computer.…

Containers, Docker support are big new features, but the current preview is rough First Look Microsoft has released Technical Preview 3 of Windows Server 2016, including the first public release of Windows Server Containers, perhaps the most interesting new feature.…

China sleeps no more ... and she could get tetchy Analysis China has been threatening to up-end the phone business for a while, without coming up with a convincing end product. Finally, though, it has, and I expect to see a rapid shakeout of top tier handset manufacturers, already reeling from years of losses.…

Cheaters, tweakers, hackers and crackers torn up by nasty Cydia bundle. The largest Apple credential raid in history has seen nearly a quarter of a million accounts compromised by malware targeting app pirates.…

Benchmarks today, real hardware tomorrow? It's a kitten rather than a roar right now, but if the MIAOW project unveiled at last week's Hot Chips conference can get legs, the next year could see the launch of the world's first “open GPU”.…

Hipsters to take on steampunks US brass-hats have decided when the F-35 “Joint Strike Fighter” will finally be ready to take on the ancient A10 “Warthog”: in another three years, give or take a little.…

WinCC HMI control platform used in Natanz, Large Hadron Collider. Ilya Karpov of Russian security outfit Positive Technologies has reported nine vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control system kit used in critical operations from petrochemical labs and power plants up to the Large Hadron Collider.…

Workstation security tips for system administrators. Linux Foundation project director Konstantin Ryabitsev has publicly-released the penguinistas' internal hardening requirements to help sysadmins and other paranoid tech bods and system administrators secure their workstations.…

Your malicious payload is cool with Google, just call it something else. An armada of university researchers have devised a novel method of detecting malicious applications on Android app, and by way of demonstration have dug up 127,429 shady software offerings, including some bearing exploits for a whopping 20 zero days.…

Quick and quiet transfers as HR bods rush to pub. Fake email supplier scams are booming and have inflicted $1.2 billion in damages to businesses globally in the past year according to the FBI.…

Web portal access needs to be restricted Cisco's identified a bug in its Identity Services Engine: its admin portal doesn't properly authorise HTML requests, and that can let an attacker see custom pages an admin has created.…

Just another BEEELLION miles to go before probe reaches interesting Kuiper Belt object NASA has tentatively named the next target for its New Horizons' probe.…

VDI-focussed for now, but the street finds its own use for things VMworld 2015 NVIDIA has announced the second version of its Grid desktop virtualisation software, complete with a pair of GPUs for blade servers.…

Redflow tweaks telco electron-buckets to take on Tesla Australian battery researcher and manufacturer Redflow is hoping to get a jump on Tesla, prepping its own entry into the residential battery market.…

Finger trouble? Firm blames routine maintenance on downtime cockup Dropbox suffered a major outage across the globe today – the company blamed "routine internal maintenance" for the significant wobble, which appears to be ongoing.…