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by Chris Mellor on (#D4VH)
Quick dip under a distributed storage platform's covers +Comment Hedvig decloaked from stealth recently, saying it’s producing converged block, file and object storage for enterprises with Facebook/Amazon-level scale, costs and efficiencies.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#D4TN)
Says websites should switch to HTML5-based playback as netizens snub plugins Microsoft is encouraging companies that use its Silverlight media format on their web pages to dump the tech in favor of newer, HTML5-based media playback systems.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#D4TP)
FCC, DoJ both said to be nearing approval on mega-merger AT&T's $48.5bn acquisition of DirecTV looks to be heading toward approval by the US government.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#D4PW)
Step aside, Musk, we've got this covered (fingers crossed) Astronauts on the International Space Station will cross their fingers and toes that Friday's resupply mission doesn't suffer a similar fate to the last three attempts.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#D4K5)
Will assume role of CEO of another company in January Intel president Renée James is leaving the silicon giant to become chief exec of another firm as part of a set of leadership changes announced by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich on Thursday.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#D4EA)
VM-level QoS should reduce vMotion disturbances Reinvigorated hybrid array startup NexGen is pushing out quality-of-service (QoS) goodies for vCentre and VMware VMs, saying it will cut the need for vMotioning VMs from one server to another when performance slows.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#D4D2)
This week can't end fast enough Marcelo Claure Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has had enough of T-Mobile US chief John Legere.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#D4BD)
There’s a way to end this, guys – just release your test results Round two in the VMware-versus-Nutanix blog war has opened up with a full-frontal assault by a Nutanix exec, who claims Nutanix wants to be open about its performance advantages over VSAN, but is prevented from going public by VMware’s end user license agreements, or EULAs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#D49V)
Cupertino hopes you forget to unsubscribe before the payments start? Quick look Apple Music is finally here. The bit-of-everything music service was debuted last month at WWDC as the headliner in CEO Tim Cook's keynote address.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#D458)
'Listen people, calm down and carry on' Top brass at Kelway this week scotched talk on the shop floor of a pending deal with NASDAQ-listed CDW, claiming it will not be acquired outright by the US giant any time soon.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#D42W)
Server friend finds love in big, bouncy AWS cloud Having put SAP’s HANA in-memory database on its Linux, Red Hat has gone off-premise with Amazon.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#D414)
Misattribution was my snafu, not GCHQ's, sez prez The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has published its emails with claimants in a case, brought against GCHQ, apologising for and correcting an error in its findings in last week's NGO spying case verdict.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#D3Y8)
But doesn't have to pay up, rules German court #2 YouTube is responsible for, yet not liable for, user-uploaded videos on its service, according to two separate court rulings in Germany this week.…
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by Lewis Page on (#D3NV)
As in a lizard that walks on water, not as in 'David Icke was right about Our Lord' Hallelujah! The Lizard Jesus (or jesus lizard if you prefer) has been found hidden in Wyoming in the United States.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#D3JJ)
OCP-S caught in no-man's land between enterprise and hyper-scale Interview Did you know there was a storage part of the Open Compute Project? If not, you do now.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#D3GR)
So change your password now ... and again in a few weeks Harvard University, the alma mater of more US presidents than any other educational institution, slipped out a "Cyber Alert" on Wednesday afternoon confessing it had been pwned.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#D3E3)
Fruity programming language makes headway A new programming language survey shows Apple’s Swift breaking into the top 20 for the first time, while the future of Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) in the top rankings is now “unclearâ€.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#D3CN)
Thing that won't happen definitely won't happen. Shocking, innit Wikipedia has launched another anti-copyright campaign – but it's one that experts say is bogus and misleading. Thousands of pages on the site are now plastered with an appeal to "Save the Freedom of Panorama", a crusade minted by copyright activist and Europe's only Pirate Party MEP, Julia Reda.…
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French firm sets its sights on US takeover Atos has completed its acquisition of Xerox's outsourcing biz as the French firm gears up for an American invasion.…
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Time for a power trip Enterprises are shuttering their smaller data centres, but are opting to shift to larger upgraded facilities rather than shifting the whole shebang to the cloud.…
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Firm: Chil – no credit card data went AWOL and the rest was hashed and salted Hackers have accessed the forum and blog server of TV software biz Plex, gaining access to IP addresses, private messages, emails and encrypted forum passwords.…
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Company waves credit card, splashes $890m to 'broaden market' PayPal has scooped up digital money transfer provider Xoom for $890m (£570m), ahead of its split with eBay later this month.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#D31D)
Banners and browser settings are not enough, you muppets French privacy watchdog CNIL has snarled at 20 websites for failing to comply with EU cookie laws.…
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by David Gordon on (#D302)
On demand now Register here to watch our on-demand Regcast, where we look at why the human factor is an important internet security risk.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#D2XF)
AG alarmed at pre-emptive Chocolate Factory legal moves Attorneys General representing 40 US states have filed an amicus brief backing Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood's investigation into Google.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#D2V3)
3D hip replacements and in-factory stuff finder also earn applause The inventor of Microsoft’s F# programming language is among those being awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering’s prestigious silver medal.…
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Was Baroness McDonagh pushed or did she jump from sinking ship? The chair of the government's controversial smart meter programme, Baroness McDonagh, has left her post after recently criticising the roll-out of the widely hated scheme.…
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‘Failed projects have long been an expensive cliché … this is no exception’ The towering scrapheap of NHS IT failures may about to rise further, with the increasingly expensive GP Extraction Service IT system deemed not fit for purpose by the government's spending watchdog.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#D2KY)
Still white on blue, now with custom typeface with some flourishes Facebook has revealed its new logo, somewhat bizarrely in a Tweet.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#D2K0)
Zeus creator has $3m on his head, may be boating on the Black Sea The mastermind of the Zeus trojan; a car scamming screwball; an identity thief; a malvertiser, and a keylogger monger: nail these five net crims to the wall and the FBI will pay you US$4.2 million.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#D2GX)
Snooping could cost lives, group claims The British government has admitted that its spook agency GCHQ spied on Amnesty International, according to campaigners at the human rights group.…
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Not interested in punishing companies 'left, right and centre' The total value of fines issued by the UK Information Commissioner's Office has halved compared with last year – despite the watchdog receiving roughly the same number of complaints about data protection.…
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by Lester Haines on (#D2E1)
And as soon as we order some toner we’ll print you a fully functional office Dubai has announced it will erect "the world’s first fully functional 3D printed building", hoping to establish the United Arab Emirates "as the global centre of technology in architecture, construction and design".…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#D2AW)
It looks like the world wants freebie Windows 10 upgrades Here we are again in the early days of a month, so off we go to Netmarketshare and StatCounter to see what the world's computers are running.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#D292)
Smartmobe bloatware goes from annoying to dangerous AND annoying The the Budapest University of Technology and Economics' Security Evaluation and Research Laboratory (SEARCH-LAB) says "malicious attackers controlling the network are able to install arbitrary applications" on LG's Android phones, thanks to a flaw in their software update mechanism.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#D25Q)
Who cares about OPSEC with slack laws and busy cops? A 20 year-old Brazilian kid has pumped out more than 100 banking trojans selling each for around US$300 a pop, Trend Micro researchers say.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#D23Y)
State Government commits to iiNet's NetApp/Cisco/VMware cloud The Australian state of South Australia has signed up for cloud services offered by local internet service provider iiNet.…
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Operator error, not Skynet, is early suspect A 22 year old man was yesterday killed by a robot at a Wolskwagen plant in Baunatal, Germany.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#D220)
Researcher finds 500+ vulnerable systems, some at banks and military users ERPScan researcher Alexey Tuyrin says hundreds of Oracle PeopleSoft users, including banks, are running publicly-exposed services that are open to a token-plundering vulnerability.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#D1ZN)
Streaming services to carry 9% fee ... but is it legal? New changes to tax law in the city of Chicago have effectively raised the prices of online streaming and cloud services in the Windy City, beginning on Wednesday.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#D1YY)
AWS promises bit barn splashdown in India next year Indian tributary to come online in 2016, but the source of the headwaters Amazon Web Services (AWS) has TEXT signalled it will open a “region†in India some time in 2016.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#D1WM)
SEC docs show shape of tomorrow's HP after breakup Hewlett Packard Enterprise, one of two new companies that will emerge once the current HP splits off its PCs and printers business from its enterprise IT offerings, has filed Form 10 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, an important milestone in the separation process.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#D1TB)
Crooks said to have pilfered payment info from resorts Payment systems used by Trump Hotels might have been compromised, allowing copies of credit cards to fall into the hands of fraudsters, it is feared.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#D1RN)
Redmondian outpost feels it's catching AWS, fast Australia's financial year ended on Tuesday, and Vulture South understands that when the F9 key was pressed to do all the sums, the number in the cell marked “Azure revenue†came in at about AU$50m, plus or minus $5m (about US$38.2m, £24m).…
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by Simon Rockman on (#D1QS)
Two phone makers carve up the market In figures for the three months to the end of May, Kantar Worldpanel says that Samsung took a bite out of Apple's US market share to overtake the fruity firm. This is as much down to continued strong sales of the Galaxy S5 as to the introduction of the Galaxy S6.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#D1NY)
100Mbps service and rapid repair turnaround promised nbn, the entity charged with building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN) has released a new product roadmap.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#D1DC)
Comet 67P is collapsing from within The Rosetta probe, currently in orbit around Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has spotted what appear to be massive sinkholes on the comet's surface that are thought to be caused by the cosmic snowball melting in the Sun's rays.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#D1BV)
At 1/10 the size of OpenSSL, it should be easier to spot bugs Amazon Web Services has released a new, open source library that implements TLS encryption – the standard behind the secure HTTPS web protocol – using far less code than the prevailing OpenSSL library.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#D180)
And can someone replace our brakes? That U-turn we just pulled was hella US telco Sprint has killed off its attempt to strangle internet video streaming on its so-called "unlimited" phone plan.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#D15T)
Freshness AND familiarity Review The underlying packages in Linux Mint 17.2, just released, are largely unchanged. What you will find are a lot of improvements and added polish in everyday tools like the update manager, login screen and the Software Sources app.…
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