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She's in the pipe, five by five NASA's New Horizons space probe has fired its thrusters for the last time to get it into position before it buzzes Pluto on July 14. The little science lab has also detected evidence of methane on the halfling planet.…

Chopping up cables is one way of stopping mass surveillance The FBI is investigating a series of physical attacks on internet cables in California, and revealed that at least eleven have taken place in San Francisco's Bay Area within the last year.…

Hyperconverged systems will reduce your technical debt Mid-sized companies can reduce technical debt and free up IT budgets by switching to hyperconverged infrastructure systems (HCIS) in their next data centre refresh.…

'Interesting change' seems to mean 'baked-in silliness' Just one day after releasing Build 10158 of Windows 10 to its Insider "fast ring", Microsoft has replaced it with Build 10159.…

Tech firms evading ‘basic limits on their ability to collect, monetise data’ Alvaro Bedoya, the founding executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, has claimed that industry lobbying is shutting down Washington’s ability to protect privacy in the face of the commercial exploitation of consumers' data.…

With memory based on the orientation of electrons, scaling is clearly not an issue Startup Avalanche is sampling an STT-RAM chip offering DRAM/SRAM speed, persistent storage, unlimited endurance and scalability beyond 10nm.…

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way... Pics It might be hard to believe that during the hottest week of the year so far, the great and the good of the PR world (is that an oxymoron?) are setting out their stalls with Christmas fare. Yet it’s not as daft as it sounds: the magazine world, in particular, needs to plan its spreads and this is a way for the great and the good of the press to get a glimpse of what’s coming.…

It's what infrastructure is really for Sysadmin blog Companies more familiar with technology are more likely to use the reporting and analytics features of their software. This isn't something new, and it didn't start with computers. Computers make reporting and analytics easier, but every business needs hard data if they are to grow.…

Tweets mistimed, AWS outed, yet world somehow continues turning. Albeit more slowly The leap second did not break the internet, it wasn’t the second coming of the Y2K bug and nor did it challenge the world’s financial markets or make the Greek situation any worse.…

National Barrier Asset set to appear across the Channel Four kilometers of Blighty's National Barrier Asset – a collection of temporary security barriers – has been deployed to Coquelles, the location of the Channel Tunnel terminal in France, to provide additional border security to the UK.…

Machine learning is hard AND deeply offensive Google has apologised after its new Photos app automatically labelled images of two black people as "gorillas".…

But other tech can simply do the job better, sorry Monolithic storage arrays may well claim that rumours of their death have been exaggerated, but that doesn't mean that they aren't entering the digital care-home for the soon-to-be-departed.…

Meanwhile, SCOTUS is getting it all wrong. Again

Chief exec’s crowd-pleaser didn’t go down at all well Orange has been caught in a political storm after trying to stop Israeli mobile network Partner Communications from using its name.…

All dressed up and no one to blow? Stab yourself in the head with a penis Bioboffins have found a flatworm, Macrostomum hystrix, that can reproduce by injecting its own head with sperm.…

Court cock blocks corporate cock blocking attempt A court in South Korea has rejected an attempt by US activist fund Elliott Associates to overturn a merger between Samsung and Cheil Industries.…

Grand old warhorse finally out to grass – last chance to see Visit a British air show before September and it's possible you’ll get the opportunity to witness the last Vulcan bomber in flight - and this is definitely the last year you'll get the chance, this time.…

Leaving the premises might just work Organisations continue to buy storage. In fact, I was talking to a storage salesman not so long ago who was telling me that one of his customers regularly calls asking for a quote for “a couple more petabytes."…

Fine, you think up a better idea Worstall on Wednesday The latest of the X-Prizes is an attempt to increase adult literacy through the power of the mobile phone. Given that our own Prime Minister has been known to think that LOL means “lots of love”, it might not be a bad idea to update digital literacy.…

Lobbyists wail and gnash teeth over deal born of darkness The EU negotiators' proposed new rules on net neutrality – reached in the early hours of this morning – have caused serious concerns among digital rights activists, who cite loopholes and vagueness.…

New high-end beast summoned with old one squashed a bit Fujitsu's modular array line is being refreshed at the top end, with a third-generation ETERNUS DX8700 S3 product and a new DX8900 S3 array.…

Pony-tailed CEO spills beans on his firm's rather racy system DataDirect is building WolfCreek, a 5 million IOPS converged compute and storage appliance, with vastly enhanced IO processing and 60GB/sec bandwidth.…

That is a VERY expensive LTE option Microsoft's UK store is offering a £77,777.77 version of the Surface 3.…

Masques off: Researchers detail five ways to wreck Apple stuff A trio of FireEye researchers have reported twin 'app-demolishing' iOS vulnerabilities Apple has partially fixed in its latest update that could wreck core apps such as the App Store and Settings.…

Bored analysts consult 'extensive in-house database' during research In the year 2020 everyone on the planet will on average watch at least 200 porn videos annually - a 55 per cent increase from 2015 - according to crystal ball-gazers Juniper.…

Project Raisin spits out external components to stop developer whining The Xen Project has revealed “Project Raisin” a new offering it hopes will clarify the boundaries between the core of the project and third party components.…

Whitelisting tool was too trusting, by far Detectify security researcher Linus Särud has reported a weakness in popular Firefox security tool NoScript that allows attackers to have their malware whitelisted.…

Web-based CLI is yours for the scripting Microsoft has powered on PowerShell for Office 365.…

Kiwi parliament passes 'Harmful digital communications bill' outlawing online nasties New Zealand has become the latest country to think bad online manners are amenable to legislation.…

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss The NSA can continue to monitor when and where millions and millions of Americans use their cellphones, and who they're calling and texting.…

Finnish engineer sends last TXT Matti Makkonen, a figure widely held to have influenced the development of SMS, has died at the relatively young age of 63.…

Expanded wireless footprint eases satellite woes ... when there's no trees in the way While debate continues in Australian cities about the technology employed to build Australia's national broadband network (NBN), a regional specialist reckons things are on the improve beyond the sandstone curtain.…

'This login will self-destruct in 15 minutes' Let's file this under “what could possibly go wrong?”: blogging platform Medium has decided to skip passwords in favour of a one-time-pad* single-use-token approach.…

Obama lures hacker out of the roof with gig establishing software transparency lab Mudge, a once-feared and now-respected member of the "L0pht" hacker collective, is headed to Washington to set up a software version of Underwriters' Laboratory.…

Refer-a-friend page gets new 'feature' Security researchers Eric Taylor and Blake Welsh have disclosed a cross-site scripting vulnerability in US identity protection company LifeLock.…

Virtzilla and partner Carahsoft to pay US$75 MEELLION in overcharging settlement VMware and Carahsoft, a company that bills itself as “Your Trusted Government IT Solutions Provider”, will repay US$75.5 million to the US government for what the Department of Justice (DoJ) characterises as “misrepresenting their commercial pricing practices and overcharging the government on VMware software products and related services.…

600Kbps cap strangles streaming to snail's pace US phone carrier Sprint is offering an unlimited data plan that carries one important caveat: throttled data rates for video.…

Takes questions from Schwarzenegger and The Hawk Not content with wading into virtual reality with his Oculus buy, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to be able to update your Facebook status with the power of telepathy, the Behoodied One said in a Q&A session on Tuesday.…

Your OS X box can still be owned by, well, just about everything Apple has released a series of security updates to address 77 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in OS X Yosemite.…

US regulators furrow brows, frown, nod IBM looks to be in the clear to sell off its ailing chippery division to GlobalFoundries after US regulators gave the deal the nod on Tuesday.…

Give the key to a pal ... and it'll be sent to their FB mates, too A Windows 10 feature, Wi-Fi Sense, smells like a security risk: it shares access to password-protected Wi-Fi networks with the user's contacts. So giving a wireless password to one person grants access to everyone who knows them.…

The fact that you broke the law? Apple has lost its appeal of a federal court decision that found it broke antitrust law by colluding with publishers to fix the prices of ebooks.…

Antonio Neri ascends to top of Enterprise Group Bill Veghte, the HP exec who since October has led the company's effort to split into two separate businesses, is parting ways with the firm.…

Uberpop = explosion de la bulle French prosecutors have charged two key Uber executives with deceitful commercial practices, operating an illegal taxi service, and illicit storage of personal data.…

Small funding but big ideas - and a patent for co-operative flash memory control Stealthy upstart Radian Memory Systems is coming out at the Flash Memory Summit in August, and is developing storage memory software to be used in enterprise, hyperconverged, and cloud computing environments.…

Mentions for wine, wiener dogs and wetsuits also possible during presentation Comment Oracle is giving a keynote pitch at the Flash Memory Summit, indicating it's got something NAND-like up its sleeve.…

Shai-Hulud of the Cambrian oceans was first animal to develop armour A worm which walked on legs and was adorned with vicious spikes is likely to have been one of the first animals on Earth to have donned armour for its own protection, say palaeoboffins who have identified the wee beastie.…

Internet of Everything creates ‘vast new wave of opportunities for security breaches’ Cisco will buy privately held net security firm OpenDNS for $635m in cash, to make good its cloud security portfolio, and boost the networking giant's "security everywhere" approach.…

Classic tale of crime-agency-meets-bank-to-tackle-cybercrime EU law enforcement body Europol and Barclays have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise their cooperation in combating cybercrime targeting the financial sector.…

Get lost, Microsoft. If you have to type 'W' to find Paint it's still far from perfect Microsoft has released build 10158 of Windows 10 as part of its Windows Insider preview programme, with general manager Gabe Aul stating that “we don’t have any significant known issues for this build.”…