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Second Virtzilla distribution is on the way and it looks like telcos are the target The content catalog for late August's VMworld San Francisco has yielded up another nuggetoid of vNews: a new version of VMware Integrated OpenStack.…

Wins in India and Australia give suits confidence for strong performance throughout 2015 Cray Computer's commanding footprint in the high-performance computing (HPC) market has pitched the venerable vendor back into profitability.…

Big T slings patch at man-in-the-middle diddle. Regional Australians could have their internet connections intercepted and data stolen through a remotely-exploitable vulnerability in a series of wireless terminals the nation's dominant telco, Telstra, deploys under its universal service obligation.…

EMC runs stream and block storage benchmarks You wait for a bus forever, then two come along at once. So it is with EMC and SPC benchmarks, and all of a sudden we have both SPC-1 VNX8000 and SPC-2 VMAX 400K.…

Security-enhancer HTTPS Everywhere switched off with this one weird trick Detectify researcher Mathias Karlsson says attackers can remove Google Chrome extensions, including the popular HTTPS Everywhere extension, if users do nothing else but visit a web page.…

Booting JSON from Android client puts cat vids in front of you in even less time Facebook has rolled out an open source project from Google to try and improve its ad-slinging performance on Android.…

In colossal co-incidence, eight-petaflop limit keeps China atop fastest supercomputer charts China has banned the unlicensed export of supercomputers and certain types of unmanned aerial vehicles.…

Japan driven to distraction, US can't sweeten Oz, NZ drowning in a milk lake The controversial and secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have stalled once again.…

Police move on boss of collapsed Bitcoin exchange French-born Mark Karpeles, head of the failed Mt Gox Bitcoin exchange, has been arrested in Japan.…

Think of the future, edit the past The biggest asset your organisation has is its data. And since IT is a world of compromises and paradoxes, the thing you have to work hardest to manage is...your organisation's data.…

Steady as she goes for Windows XP, 7 and 8.1, but 8.0 and Vista are just about dead Windows 10 has rocketed to account for 0.375 per cent of the world's PC-driven web traffic, according to ratings firms Netmarketshare and Statcounter.…

Meanwhile, nbn emnarks on AU$40m techie training cash-splash Remote communities in Queensland believe they've been dudded out of a promise to give them a connection to the long-haul fibre connections being built as part of Australia's National Broadband Network.…

Sunday, Bloody Sunday for one-time state monopoly Enraged BT Sport subscribers have moaned about severe online disruptions to the service – but the company was yet to explain what had caused the Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) incident.…

Odd asteroid won't come this near again for 40 years Vid NASA scientists have captured grainy radar pics of a peculiar-shaped, dark asteroid, dubbed "Space Peanut", which buzzed past Earth last weekend.…

Sometimes you get so lonely, sometimes you get nowhere Apple has reportedly been having secret confabs with car maker BMW – with scuttlebutt suggesting the companies flirted with the idea of a possible hook up.…

Aircon's down, servers frying … but COMPUTER SAYS 'NO' On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular tale of things that happen when readers are called in to fix big messes on weekends and evenings.…

It's not just Apple crazies who'll queue around the block (and then some) for a glimpse of a new gadget Pics It looked just like the queues you get outside Apple stores. But we were in South Of The River – in deepest Southwark – where Apple doesn't set foot. What was going on?…

Desirable data doublers for home or office Product Round-Up For a great many people, there is only one place to look when talking about storing data somewhere other than their local storage in their PC, notebook or tablet – and that’s to the cloud.…

Maybe this gig economy means we need to redefine work? Worstall @ the Weekend This rise of the gig economy might mean that we should redefine the whole concept of being an employee, as compared with being a contractor. There is a political argument going on around this very subject already.…

Plus: Wanna know who played Magnum PI? Don't dial Blighty's cops QuoTW We wrap up July with a week of Windows updates, camera controversy and an end to Internet Explorer.…

Artificial system replicates biological movement Vid Scientists have created a tiny, leggy robot that mimics the actions of a water strider.…

Ditches First Amendment legal argument, tries another approach Analysis When an entire page of a lawsuit is taken up just listing the lawyers on the case, you know you have hit some vested interests.…

You demanded more bacon, people, so here it is: domo arigato OK, sliced pork fans. In response to criticisms that our recent culinary trip to Hawaii – in search of the quite remarkable Spam musubi - simply did not feature enough bacon, we today present for your wobbly dining pleasure the very cutting edge of Anglo-Japanese fusion cuisine.…

New high-end motor just better than the old. At everything Vulture at the Wheel Too large, too ugly, too late. Luckily (for El Reg’s relationship with Audi) that’s my opinion of the outgoing Q7. Why anyone coughed up good money for a Q7 when for less you could have pretty much the same thing with a VW Touareg badge on the back was beyond me.…

Bad Vlad mad over 'propaganda' pixels The Russian government is reportedly looking to ban "gay" emoji symbols over fears the same-sex pictures could violate censorship laws.…

What I've got you've got to get it put it in you Something for the Weekend, Sir? Microsoft wants to give me Windows 10 for free! Hooray for freebies! OK, some of my software no longer launches or works quite the way it’s supposed to, but I got used to that after upgrading to Windows 8, and then again with Windows 8.1.…

Doctors told to stop using kit as open ports put patients at risk The US Food and Drug Administration has told healthcare providers to stop using older drug infusion pumps made by medical technology outfit Hospira – because they can be easily hacked over a network.…

'Strategic' funding round said to be about 'partnerships' Unlicensed taxi service Uber has plumped up its war chest with another $1bn, with much of the latest funding round reportedly coming from Microsoft.…

This one will be an 'absolute bastard,' say security bods People aren't good at waiting for stuff, and with, computer users queueing up to download Windows 10, ransomware purveyors have started to move in.…

Desktop drives, down. Notebook drives, down. Martinis to take away the pain, down In keeping with its warning, Seagate confirmed a revenue and profits decline as its mainstay desktop and notebook drive shipments tumbled for the third straight quarter.…

When 'unlimited' refers to a company's efforts to avoid liability AT&T has taken its four-year campaign to avoid liability for throttling its "unlimited" data plans to new heights by proposing that a $100m fine imposed last month be reduced to just $16,000.…

Yes, making crap up on the internet has consequences Actor James Woods is suing a Twitter troll for wrongly branding him a "cocaine addict." Woods, who says he is not a drug addict, wants $10m in damages.…

Someone gulped unencrypted login info from security biz One or more miscreants have been able to slurp and leak usernames and passwords from Bitdefender. The unencrypted login details belonged to some of the security biz's small business customers.…

A victory worthy of a eulogy Comment Targeting one million of anything is no longer cool, according to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Only one billion will do.…

Don’t keep taking the tablets, chip biz warns Nvidia has today urged gamers to stop using its eight-inch Shield tablets, and send them back to base, because they are a fire risk.…

Battery prices will fall says battery-car maker Analysis Gasoline-powered cars are a dying breed, and not because everyone will become a tree-hugging fossil-fuel-hating hippie, but rather thanks to cost.…

Nice board you got there, Mr DeNuccio. Be a shame if something happened to it Violin Memory’s board is under attack from the Clinton Group, an activist investor wanting to have talks about “a number of topics germane to creating shareholder value”, meaning an asset or company sale.…

Welcome to Microsoft's pay-pay-pay plan Comment Windows 10 is the last version of Windows that will ever be released. If this really is the last version of Windows desktop operating system ever, though, where will Microsoft make its money?…

Application of Cloud Access Security Broker features paramount, apparently Controversial and suspicious netsec outfit Blue Coat Systems has acquired Perspecsys, for the want of some weight in its cloud security portfolio.…

Master your domain – and kill it at source Windows 10 is here. Now, while I have Windows Upgrade Fatigue and I'm in no rush to make the change, plenty of people out there received the upgrade when it arrived. There will certainly going to be a mighty spike in net traffic that day – not least because the upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8 is a free one.…

What causes drought? Laziness Analysis That California drought - it's terrible, isn't it? But there's nothing to be done. If it doesn't rain for a few years, and doesn't snow up in the mountains, Californians must just yield to Mother Nature and stop watering their lawns, stop washing their cars, maybe even stop growing those delicious but thirsty almonds.…

Having a foundation doesn’t necessarily mean a great deal Feature Money isn’t new to open source. Capitalist pigs have always been quite at home amidst the unwashed developer masses, spinning up companies to capitalise on the success of JBoss, MySQL, and more.…

Knocked down, now up again, you just can't keep it down A satellite launched by the US military has gone rogue and is causing interference to radio hams across Europe.…

Lab coats on, pipes at the ready for European Space Astronomy Centre tour Pics "Are you really going to wear that into the canteen?" That was the perfectly reasonable question posed by Emmet Fletcher, communication officer at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) as my nephew Matt Haines braced himself for lunch sporting a Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) lab coat and pipe.…

Ideal for heavy plant, but could be overkill for mobes Canadian wireless power company Elix has announced a system which can generate and transfer 10 kW using magneto-dynamic coupling. It’s big, heavy and noisy, so is aimed at trucks and buses rather than small cars, and is certainly not suitable for desktop gadget charging.…

Have a great SysAdmin Day everyone Why not celebrate SysAdmin Day by worrying about a data breach at incident management peddler PagerDuty? An attacker managed to get into the company's systems on 9 July, and a belated 21 days later the company did the decent thing and informed its customers about the incident.…

Fiendish domination plans follow a billion big ones thrown at China Uber is to throw $1bn (£642m) of investment into the Indian market, in an apparent attempt to blast incumbent "sharing economy" taxi biz Ola out of the water.…

Looking at you, Beckedahl and Meister Two journalists have been threatened with jail time in Germany for publishing information about the extent of the country’s surveillance activities.…

Supermicro 2028GR-TRT quad GPU box Review Playing with cool technology is not why either of us chose systems administration as a career. Nor was it something we expected as part of our employment. That said, it is impossible to deny the attraction cool technology has. It is fitting, then, that on systems administrator day we get the chance to publish a review on the kind of hardware that lured us into systems administration in the first place.…

WikiLeaks exposes blanket snooping on Asian powerhouse The NSA spied on Japan's prime minister, central bank, finance ministry and major corporations, such as the natural gas division of Mitsubishi, according to documents released today.…