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Object storage startup readying itself for a prospective IPO in 2017 Object storage startup Scality has picked up $45m in D-round funding and is heading for a 2017 IPO.…

Chipzilla backs OpenStack vendor as part of collaboration lunge Chipzilla Intel has led a funding injection of $100m (£64m) into open source cloudy operating system Mirantis, part of its move into the world of OpenStack.…

Failures in exploit discovery process are cold comfort for IoT fridge owners Security researchers have discovered a potential way to steal users’ Gmail credentials from a Samsung smart fridge.…

Slow and steady rise of disk archiving Spectra Verde DPE is a Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)-based NAS disk platform for high-density bulk storage at costs as low as 9 cents/GB raw.…

Beerproof flagship lookalike topples Moto G from its perch Review Read any technology site and the advice is pretty unequivocal: if you want an Android smartphone for less than £200 that’s not an import, then buy the Mk 3 Motorola Moto G.…

Not-Chrome -not-Firefox browsers popped with remote code execution. Mobile security guy Rotologix has popped two popular not-Chrome not-Firefox Android browsers, gaining the power to commit remote code execution using zero-day flaws.…

The 1990s called. It wants its breach classification system back Gartner: Super hackers basically don't exist, your incident response plan sucks, and you should relish the opportunity to drown in data: such are the lessons from incident response fanatic Anton Chuvakin.…

Microsoft's Twitter clone spammed staff, gave trolls a home and ampliified risk leak America's Veterans Affairs inspector general has sideswiped the department for what it says is “improper” use of Yammer, Microsoft's inside-the-firewall Twitter clone.…

Social engineering with very obvious assets blinds you to techno-toolkit Mildly nsfw A Chinese hardware hacker has built a penetration testing toolkit built into high-heeled shoes.…

'Small percentage of devices' take fuzzy photos, says Cupertino Apple is asking owners of its iPhone 6 Plus phablet to check the device's serial number, because some batches of the device are producing blurry photos. Cupertino says the problem is attributable to “a component that may fail causing your photos to look blurry.” If that's the case, entering your serial number here will reveal if you own one of the faulty devices or just need to find yourself a microfibre cloth and buff your phablet's lens.…

Comms Minister Turnbull says it's taken two years to do the sums on true construction costs Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has presented a cost overrun greater than AU$10 billion in the National Broadband nNetwork's (NBN's) peak funding requirements as a win because the former government's plan would have been worse.…

There's good news and bad news for Microsoft because Windows 8.1 is slipping fast Windows 10 now has 5.95 per cent of the desktop operating systems market, according to the folks at StatCounter.…

Sky, schmy: it's all about one GUI everywhere this time Back in 2012, unified communications outfit ShoreTel acquired a rival named M5 in order to get itself into the cloud. M5 had unified communications as a service (UcaaS) at the time and ShoreTel didn't.…

Bcache author says it's nearly ready for prime time Former Googler Kent Overstreet has announced that a long-term project to craft a new Linux file system is at a point where he'd like other developers to pitch in.…

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, Adobe Amazon – the retail juggernaut, not the cloud juggernaut – has flicked Flash ads citing the increasing number of ways they're blocked at the browser as its reason.…

Trust us, says network-builder, we're ready to ramp up and our 2015 results prove it nbn, the company building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has released its results for FY 2015 and says it has met all of its targets.…

Not Teltra's fault, but not a good look for the Big T either Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, has been serving one of the world's most dangerous hacking tools after its news site was infected with malvertising.…

Live chats! Breakout sessions! Keynotes! Promo Want to go to VMworld but can’t afford the fare to San Francisco or get the boss to sign it off on expenses?…

'Uber for private investigators' accused of harvesting search data Part of the near-inevitable wash-up from the Ashley Madison hack has begun, with people reporting getting e-mails offering to save them from embarrassment, and a possible suicide in the USA.…

Cyber security expert joins HP roadshow in Sydney and Melbourne Promo Have you ever wondered how the bad guys think? HP wants to show you exactly how they think at its Security Innovation Tour.…

Joins Big Red's new converged infrastructure team and old mentor Dave Donatelli Chuck Hollis, VMware's chief strategist for storage and availability, and former EMC global marketing chief technology officer, has announced he's leaving the EMC Federation for a gig as senior veep at Oracle.…

Instant messaging app Pooductive let's you reach like minded 'friends or strangers' Ever wanted to shoot the shit with “friends and strangers” while on the bog? Fear not because the Pooductive app has emerged that allows you to do just that, AND it’s free.…

They're willing to pay for value they created themselves Worstall @ the Weekend El Reg treated us last weekend to the tale of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park in Palo Alto, where the owner has a small ethical dilemma to deal with. The 4.5 acre site is apparently worth $55 million and the city council would like to buy it, but they've only got $39 million. The dilemma is that if he sells to the city council, then the people who live in the mobile homes get to stay there in affordable housing and if he sells at market value, then they all get turfed out and the new development will presumably be populated by stock rich techie types.…

Cartidges still some years out from commerical release, but for the cost of a coffee... Brit-based hydrogen fuel cell maker Intelligent Energy (IE) reckons it has developed an iPhone that can run for a week after one charge of the battery - which might just help massage the loss-making firm’s bottom line.…

'If I ever see this bloke on a job I'll punch him in the face' says Reg reader On-call And that's one of the easier chores our reader found himself faced with in a new temp job. Most weekends, our On-Call feature looks at the odd situations readers find themselves in when called to do something on a client site or in the dead of night.…

We hit Africa in search of classic tubular street grub Our latest expedition into wonderful world of wobbly dining takes us to Uganda, where street vendors punt the popular "rolex", according to one Reg reader who, having tried one in the capital Kampala, reckoned it was a good fit for post-pub dining.…

Get your motor moaning, head out on the highways For some the car is a functional thing that gets them from A to B, for speed demons getting behind the wheel is like a drug, but for many folk in Germany going for a ride has an entirely different meaning.…

Prasad Rampalli joins list of ex-execs 'pursuing other opps' QLogic's president and CEO Prasad Rampalli has abruptly left the building to "pursue other opportunities" in the time-honoured euphemism used by company boards when axing a senior exec.…

The hivemind does not forget, nor does it easily forgive Comment As Canadians settle in for the longest general election campaign since 1867, some uncomfortable incidents that had been ignored by commercial media outlets are gaining new exposure.…

Stop hackers from walking on the eggshells protecting your datacenter Sysadmin Blog In case you hadn't noticed, IT security sucks. There is a chronic lack of people trained in IT security, people who will listen to IT security, and even a lack of agreement on how best to go about IT security. Fortunately, a new generation of startups are helping to tackle the issues.…

Married former Police Minister says 'nothing to do with me' Ex-Tory bigwig Damian Green has got caught up in the hack of AshleyMadison.com after it emerged a private email address seemingly linked to him was found on the site for love rats.…

SUV shows potential, but maybe not for backward Blighty Vulture at the Wheel Ask me what my ideal electric car would be and I’ll probably tell you one with a range of 400 miles and a three-minute charge time. Shame no such car exists, I hear you say. Not so. I drove just such a vehicle last week.…

Our correspondent gives five noise-cancelling headphones a flight test Review Yes, noise-cancelling headphones are useful in all manner of times and places, but they really shine during air travel by blocking some of the endless bass rumble that jet engines emit.…

Self-checkout blows innuendo-fuelled trumpet Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Please wait while we verify your bags." Oo-er, sounds a bit rude!…

Innovation: all is not butter that comes from a cow Comment Innovation, eh. Don't we all love it? But what is it?…

Leonard Iventosch joins upstart hybrideer Flash storage vendor Nimble has secured the services of one of the grand old men of the industry with the appointment of Leonard Iventosch as vice president of worldwide channels.…

Browser vulnerabilities and unpatched Flash flaws set the stage Miscreants managed to squirt malware at users of dating site PlentyOfFish after planting malicious code in tainted ads.…

Conduct unbecoming of a gentleman/woman US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said the military will investigate email addresses signed up to the Ashley Madison website to determine if improper conduct has taken place.…

Redmond raises stakes as ITC verdict looms in decade-long battle Microsoft has sued for relief from patent demands made by InterDigital ahead of a decision in August by the US International Trade Commission that could see Lumia phones barred from crossing America's borders.…

Blood-sucking asset stripper may yet be fatal Sysadmin Blog In the frenetic run-up to VMworld, it's easy to forget anything else exists in the tech world at all except VMware and its orbiting ecosystem. Cutting through the acquisition rumours and flurry of meaningless minor-version bumps by startups, big things are happening and need consideration. With that in mind, let's talk about Citrix.…

Fibre Channel comes good again for storage biz, and it's all the customers' fault Sustained Fibre Channel revenues were the bedrock of Brocade's latest results - again.…

Revenues rose but infernal currency rates turned it into a fall With its latest results, HP's third-quarter storage revenues went down 2 per cent on the annual compare, not being pulled up by industry standard servers' revenue which rose 8 per cent. But at constant currency – ignoring foreign exchange rate changes over the year – they rose 7 per cent.…

Red-faced affair enabler says innocent customers were just excercising legal rights The second data dump from Ashley Madison has prompted renewed speculation that the whole hack was an inside job.…

Founder says the whole thing was just a BIIIIIIIIIIG misunderstanding. Right Spotify will clarify its position on its wide-reaching terms and conditions. In a post entitled “SORRY”, company founder Daniel Ek said: “We have heard your concerns loud and clear. We are also going to update the new Privacy Policy in the coming weeks.”…

No monkeying about with this one, you guys Caption competition That's mainly because gorillas are not monkeys, although this ape – who is definitely holding it right – must have an opinion on the iPhone. We want to know what that is, and in the process give you a Western Digital Black 6TB hard drive.…

But Belgian deputy PM tells them to suck it up and improve their own service Brussels taxi drivers have threatened to bring the city to a standstill if the authorities don’t start arresting Uber drivers.…

Something extremely unpleasant is gushing out of the Watermain Cyberspies have been snooping on Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, seeking information on border disputes as well as general diplomatic intelligence.…

Airline denies rumours of catastrophically exploding BlackBerry British Airways has denied that an exploding BlackBerry was to blame for a flight diversion this afternoon.…

'But is it secure?' experts ask, as forces prepare to sign contracts worth millions Fears have been raised over the security of information from the new police bodycam recordings held in the public cloud by US company Taser.…