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Good times in spookland as biz gains $20bn valuation for latest funding round CIA-backed Big Data analytics outfit Palantir is about to embark on a fundraising round that will value the biz at $20bn (£13bn), according to reports.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#CA2V)
You won't believe No.8 (OK, you will) Despite my apparently youthful good looks, I've been in the IT industry since 1989. Which means I've been around the block a bit, and have learned rather a lot of lessons – some of them the hard way. To avoid you having to find them out yourself, here are ten to be going on with.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#CA1D)
And the phone outage means you can't even connect to 911! Imagine that All of US carrier Verizon's services have been struck down by an outage across Delaware, New Jersey, and New York since 5:27am EDT.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#C9Z0)
Shake off your sluggishness and learn to live with shadow IT Your users are probably using cloud-based services that you’re not even aware of to organise their files and collaborate with each other. What are you going to do about it?…
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Integration of technology and cloudy moves prompt action IBM and Box are hopping into bed together, a move intended to satisfy their respective desires for cloud and scale.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#C9VB)
‘Unique challenges in Europe in the post-Snowden era’ The hedge fund that outgoing NTT Com Security overlord Simon Church is joining has $125m to splash on new investments in cyber defence and data services.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C9QT)
Belfast blaze takes down public transport, police ombudsman's sites Update A fire on the fourth floor of Belfast's Telephone House tore through a BT data centre, burning the customers of affected ISPs, as well as those seeking to access several government websites.…
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by Team Register on (#C9P0)
And while we’re at it, why do music labels still even exist?
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by Lester Haines on (#C9MK)
While Walter White tops TV rankings... Reg reader movie buffs will doubtless have an opinion on the news that Indiana Jones has been voted "greatest movie character of all time".…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C9JV)
Poor security practices and lack of 2FA responsible for leakiness, says report A threat intelligence report into the availability of login credentials for US government agencies has identified 47 agencies across 89 unique domains may be compromised.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C9G2)
Also, shill scientists refuse to research whether jet fuel can melt steel beams The Illuminati have revealed themselves once again, this time through their "intelligent personal assistant" Siri, which immediately reports device owners to the police when they ask about 9/11.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#C9G4)
Innovation meets the law, comes a distant second Worstall on Wednesday Matt Levine tells us the story of the Sand Hill Bitcoin Exchange, another one of those bright ideas that turned out not to be so bright and ended in a $20,000 fine from the SEC.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#C9DC)
Mystery shoppers find "life events" a challenge on the move Sick of repeating the same information every time you need the authorities to help you out? So is the European Commission.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#C9BY)
Photo-sharing service comes up smelling of Zuck, seeking ad cash Facebook has beefed up Instagram's search functions to pull the photo-sharing service into line with the rest of Mark Zuckerberg's siloed empire.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#C9AJ)
Hopeful Actifio also receives kind words in Magic Quadrant Data virtualiser Delphix has had a Gartner boost by appearing in the leaders’ box of its Magic Quadrant report for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C98E)
Parliamentary lower house pushes it through, no worries The lower house of the Russian‬ Parliament has given its approval to a new law which will resemble the European Union's controversial "Right to be Forgotten" legislation, but which critics have warned is stricter, arbitrary, and open to abuse.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#C95A)
Latest boardroom trophy hire brings AFA vendor more corporate cachet Pure Storage is at it again: the all flash array startup has raided bitter rival EMC's reservation and made off with chief marketing officer Jonathan Martin, who will fulfil the same function at his new paymaster.…
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by Rachel Willcox on (#C92K)
Nice devices, now speak 'enterprise' to me A decade of “consumerisation†of IT has, according to Gartner, succeeded in shifting the balance of power within organisations — across departments and from hierarchies to individuals.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#C902)
Firm dismisses break-up or sale talk but something's got to give Under-the-weather chip maker AMD is denying that it is mulling a break-up or spin-off – but both analysts and channel customers agree something has to change if the firm is to survive prosper.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#C8Y9)
Euro Parl, Commish, EU countries slip on singlets The EU will take a big step towards finalising measures to protect its citizens' privacy today, as negotiators from member states, the European Commission, and the European Parliament will come together for the first time to thrash out an agreement on the EU’s planned data protection law.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C8VF)
Google Project Zero bod drops 15 remote code execution holes Get patching: Google Project Zero hacker Mateusz Jurczyk has dropped 15 remote code execution vulnerabilities, including a single devastating hack against Adobe Reader and Windows he reckons beats all exploit defences.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8RK)
1995 called, wants its vulnerability back Intel-owned embedded software outfit Wind River has been caught with an embarrassing bug in its VxWorks OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8QP)
More Xeon in less space Dell's fired its next HPC gun, announcing the PowerEdge C6320 which it says targets big data and heavy workload applications.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C8NN)
Employer DNA demand evidently not the dung thing An Atlanta jury has wiped away the troubles of two warehouse workers who had been accused of devious defecation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8KC)
Dr Kerry Hinton ticks off seven key energy-saving techs for El Reg At the end of last week, the GreenTouch telco energy-efficiency consortium told a presumably-glittering event in New York that its five-year project to design more energy-efficient telecommunications has been a success.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8GH)
Chocolate Factory takes a trip in the self-driving DeLorean Google side-project Sidewalk Labs is buying the companies running New York's LyncNYC project that offers public WiFi from payphones, in the hope of one day achieving World Domination.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C8D3)
Radar and comms failure pushes Welly to manual A trinity of network failures led to the grounding of all aircraft in New Zealand yesterday.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C8AQ)
TV broadcasters build crumbling wall around New Zealand New Zealand ISPs' experiment with bundled VPN services is over: CallPlus has settled a lawsuit by agreeing to axe its Global Mode service on September 1.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C896)
Could affect millions Get patching: new vulns in the RubyGems developer distribution platform could expose millions of users to malicious redirects.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#C86Q)
Bad news Oz: you may have lost even more Cryptowall authors have wrought some US$18 million in damages on US users and businesses alone, according to the FBI.…
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by Joshua Gliddon, Sydney on (#C83V)
Internet Society Sg takes aim at Dallas Buyers Club letters Singapore's Internet Society is fighting back against lawyers for sending speculative demands on behalf of Dallas Buyers Club.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#C82Y)
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys call emergency meeting A diplomatic storm is brewing in France after WikiLeaks published evidence that the NSA has spied on at least three French presidents and their senior staff for the last nine years.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C7ZZ)
Wants to net financial phishers America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has joined the hunt for the FIN4 hacking group.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C7Z9)
No, this doesn't mean Ross Ulbricht is getting out of jail. Ever. The agent accused of extorting Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht out of his Bitcoins while investigating the case has agreed to a plea deal.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#C7X9)
US government tells ICANN to ignore government attempts at influence. Um… The US Congress has had a second stab at trying to get Amazon its own internet extension in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#C7XB)
No regrets after six-year beta Mountain View has decided that the “Undo Send†feature in Gmail, which it first unveiled in Gmail Labs in 2009, is ready for prime time.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C7HR)
Welcome to MacinWatch An Apple Watch tinkerer has managed to get his wristslab running an operating system that hasn't been updated in nearly two decades.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#C7HT)
Web giant hopes to upset the Apple cart A week before Apple launches its streaming music service, Google has sneaked out a free-to-use rival.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#C76R)
Cosmic super-prang end to mission in late 2016 The European Space Agency's Rosetta space probe will continue to study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko until September 2016 – after which the craft will be sent crashing into the mysterious rock.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#C75K)
Ninety-nine problems and staff retention is one The troubled celebrity-backed music-streaming website Tidal has lost another CEO: Norwegian Peter Tonstad has quit after just three months in the job.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#C72F)
Patch now, or just dump the thing Adobe is advising users and administrators to patch its Flash Player after yet another remote-code execution vulnerability was discovered in the plugin.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#C70T)
More are coming – this horse isn't dead yet BlackBerry CEO John Chen told shareholders at his company's AGM today that he’ll stay in the handset business as he reckons he has a good chance at making money from it.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#C6Z0)
Calderoni traverses extremes from tech giant to healthy Linux distro Cisco’s departed financial chief Frank Calderoni has landed as CFO and operations chief at Linux distro kingpin Red Hat.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#C6VZ)
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and verify Managers and customers love statistics and metrics. Companies can live or die by how good their metrics are and the potential penalties for failing to meet the required service levels as defined in agreements.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#C6R7)
Feds play security whack-a-mole across holey govt IT systems The US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has discovered illicit activity on three of its desktop computers, which may have been compromised in much the same manner as those of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).…
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by Paul Kunert on (#C6M1)
CEO Church, chief beanie Luntz out by end of next month Top brass at NTT Com Security are hot footing it out of the organisation at the end of next month, the company confirmed today.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#C6GS)
Perky licensing revenues offset by slow decline in hardware sales Rising software revenue helped make up for continuing falls in phone hardware income at BlackBerry in the past quarter, with the waning giant booking revenue of $658m for first quarter of full year 2016, and reported a non-GAAP operating loss of $7m.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#C6D4)
Not only were rumours of its death exaggerated – now it's cheaper too FlashRay lives! All-flash FAS is now a price/performance beast – which now comes with a substantial price cut.…
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Good news for readers with short attention spans Amazon is switching to a “pay-per-page†royalties model for self-published Kindle authors, a move likely to be welcomed by all readers with attention deficit disorder.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#C66F)
Sentinel-2 will track terrain, ocean and environmental changes The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a second satellite for environmental monitoring in the early hours of Tuesday morning from French Guiana.…
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