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by Gavin Clarke on (#BQCY)
Naked metal performance love promised Canonical has partnered with Joyant to spin up Ubuntu clouds minus the virtualisation.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BQA8)
Will IANA contract handover to ICANN miss deadline? The US government has signaled its concern yet again over plans to give ICANN full control of the vital mechanisms that keep the internet held together.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BQ79)
Men in black shrug off criticism of warrantless domestic spyplane fleet The FBI has told Congress not to worry about its shell-company-owned surveillance aircraft, which are decked out in the best surveillance tech, as they are engaged in an unclassified operation - which they were unwilling to talk about in a Congressional briefing.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BQ45)
'Employ machines, not people with PhDs,' say machine floggers with PhDs Twitter has acquired artificial intelligence start-up Whetlab, probably to assist with what it considers "barriers to consumption" by foisting machine-curated content on unsuspecting tweeters.…
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Banks' 600,000 missing transactions unrelated to 2012 mega-snafu The NatWest and RBS IT cock-up that caused 600,000 transactions to go missing this week was entirely unrelated to the 2012 mega IT cock-up, the bank has said in an not-too-reassuring update.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BPY3)
It's about SSAs, not AFAs – they reckon flash is not forever Comment Our earlier pop at Gartner's all-flash array methodology has generated a response from Gartner.…
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Turning the sharing economy air into gold Airbnb is shortly expected to unveil a valuation of $24bn (£15bn), meaning it will soon be worth more than actual hotel chain Marriott, according to reports.…
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by John Leyden on (#BPQ5)
NIST attempts to create some kind of ironic self-referencing meta-vuln The US National Vulnerability Database was itself left vulnerable to cross-site scripting last week.…
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by Lewis Page on (#BPN8)
Will some people be unimpressed? Is the Pope a Catholic? So that's it - the climate debate is over. Or it is provided you accept that the highest authority of the human race is Pope Francis, anyway.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#BPJ8)
Use of ad-flinger’s search function means echo chamber innovation Mountain View has announced "the biggest expansion of Google Trends since 2012" in a move set to thicken the already impenetrable walls of its media-baiting echo chamber.…
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by Drew Cullen on (#BPE4)
A plague on all your server racks Earlier this year I managed to sleep - somehow - through the Kent Earthquake. And in 2011 and 2012 about 30 centimetres of snow blocked my village for one or two days at a time. I also know someone who got flooded last year - she lives next to an estuary just a few kilometres away.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BPD6)
Hopes its skinny 4TB USB-powered portable drives will be a big hit Seagate’s Samsung unit has spun out the lightest, thinnest, 4TB USB-powered 2.5-inch drive in the world, with its M3 and P3 portable products.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#BPBE)
More polished, but a bit slow and buggy First look Microsoft has released Build 10136 of Windows 10 Mobile, part of the “One Windows†wave set to be released later this year.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BP8R)
Lawyer warns corporate crime fighters: 'Google will come after you' A judge will decide whether a fishing expedition by Google to uncover, and then request, documents protected by client-attorney privilege is legitimate, in the latest twist of the Mississippi Saga.…
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Providers hit back: Shut up, you tedious hype merchants More than 15 million households may not be getting their advertised broadband speeds, suggesting that providers are telling porky pies about how fast their services are.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BP5M)
Startup bulging with Google and Qualcomm's B-round cash Flush with cash, startup Cohesity is aiming to "eliminate the current fragmentation and data sprawl", and run MapReduce analytics using a claimed infinitely scalable, Google File System-type platform.…
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by Stuart Burns on (#BP43)
Exposing the hidden crisis of the virtual age Backup is a fundamental component of a healthy infrastructure. I admit backups are neither cutting edge nor sexy but they are important. It is an often-quoted statistic that of the companies that suffer serious data loss, one third go out of business within three years.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#BP1G)
Elop elopes from Redmond Comment The leadership of Nokia phones shuffled out of Microsoft yesterday, with phones VP Jo Harlow joining former CEO and Microsoft devices VP Stephen Elop in the taxi queue. The traffic wasn’t all one way: Meego UX guy Peter Skillman has joined Microsoft from Nokia’s HERE division.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#BP0T)
Why soft skills matter in the drive to shared services If you’re the guy tasked with breaking down silos, should you be breaking down the people who police those silos first? We explore how to de-mine your team ahead of your brownfield project.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BNXQ)
Someday you'll code for the web in any language, and it'll run at near-native speed Brendan Eich, the former CEO of Mozilla, has announced a new project that could not only speed up web applications but could eventually see the end of JavaScript as the lingua franca of web development.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#BNWD)
Company goes NUTS with enterprise add-on to open-source core In-memory open source NoSQLer Hazelcast has announced a caching update to its product range, claiming v3.5 of its High Density Memory Store offers “100’s of GB of near cached data to clients for massive application scalabilityâ€.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#BNVG)
Now you can rip it up and start again Fairphone, the crowd-funded mobe maker, has launched its second model, and in marked contrast to others (a sideways glance at you Apple) has literally taken the lid off.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BNT9)
Perhaps Norris will get his leg over Angelina Jolie after all? Systemax EMEA chief exec Pim Dale, the man who once dreamed of fashioning the biggest tech reseller in the region, is out following a run of negative results that were criticised by his bosses.…
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by David Gordon on (#BNR4)
Live today at 11 WEBCAST Register now to watch our live Regcast, where we look at why the human factor is an important internet security risk.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#BNMF)
Senior veep of operations Simon Taylor quits Simon Taylor, EMEA senior veep of operations at cloud-wannabe reseller Insight Enterprises, is the latest big cheese to quit the firm with the regional chief finance exec Russell Leighton taking on dual responsibilities.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BNJ9)
Strict Transport Security joins strict new anti-abuse policies Reddit will soon be served over HTTPS only as part of wider moves to secure the web.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BNH6)
And claims Uncle Sam would have hacked China's personnel database 'at the speed of light' Former National Security Agency director Michael Hayden this week told a conference about how little fallout the NSA has suffered after the Snowden leaks, and detailed how his former agency would hack other governments.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BNE8)
Chuck Robbins 're-goals' socket-slingers, tightens belt on commissions Cisco has instituted a cap on the commissions it pays to sales staff, The Register has learned.…
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by Lewis Page on (#BND8)
Men quaff lady-sourced 'natural superfood' purchased online Perhaps you don't think that there's a massive and highly lucrative trade in human breast milk on the internet, much of the milk apparently being quaffed by adult men? Perhaps you need to pull your head out of the "real" world, get back online and get up to speed, my friend.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BNB0)
Keep your containers close and your data closer ClusterHQ has inked an agreement that will see its Flocker container management code integrate with EMC's flashy fare.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BN8X)
Sleepy project hits nightly builds Mozilla looks ready to revamp its Firefox web browser so tabs and user interfaces can run in separate processes.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#BN60)
Clocks three billion sneaky searches a year.
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BN3X)
Square Kilometre Array testbed spots 100 BEEELLION SUNS worth of hydrogen It's not yet fully operational, but the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) is already giving astro-boffins surprises.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BN31)
Application to visit Ecuador's embassy lodged un-diplomatically late last Friday Extreme couch-surfing contender Julian Assange claims “Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny cancelled a prospective appointment to take my statement today.â€â€¦
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by Darren Pauli on (#BN0F)
Tech support fraudsters still booming Retail and finance call centre phone scamming in the US is up 30 percent according to research.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BN0H)
Serbia and Brazil give acquisition the thumbs' up too, who's next? The huge Nokia-Alcatel Lucent acquimerger transaction has cleared one of its major hurdles, with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) clearing the merger for takeoff.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BMXC)
Redmond reveals Azure's FPGA-powered NICs, pledges cloud-grade SDN on premises Microsoft's drip … drip … drip of information about Windows Server 2016 has revealed a couple more droplets of detail, and one big splash of news about Redmond's approach to the new OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BMWE)
Turnaround strategy: talk to the big boss, pay 'taxes' in form of local alliances and JVs Just days after emptying out some corner offices in China, Cisco says it's going to pour US$10 billion into developing business in the Middle Kingdom.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BMSJ)
Fitbit preps IPO to gobble up $730m from investors Health-monitoring wearables maker Fitbit has set the price for its initial public offering (IPO) at US$20 per share.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BMQY)
San Francisco upstart in series-B round Code-sharing website GitHub is pursuing a new round of venture capital based on a US$2bn (£1.26bn) valuation.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BMJM)
Business is way up – 5.4 per cent of it, that is Investors had their knives out for Oracle once again on Wednesday after the database giant's fourth-quarter results missed analysts' estimates on both earnings and revenue.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#BMJP)
DDoS hacktivism over Bill C-51, apparently Canada's government websites and email servers have been knocked offline in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BMED)
Top Gun, this is not The US Air Force has reduced the number of drones it keeps in the air because their stressed-out pilots are quitting in large numbers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#BMB9)
Upper house, upper case and on the outer limits of political stunts Australia's Senate has voted on an "order for the production of documents" demanding access to "a complete and unredacted copy of the NBN Corporate Plan 2015-18," plus "a complete and unredacted copy" of the 2014-2017 plan and an unredacted copy of the NBN Co Strategic Review.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BM9Y)
Thermostat biz rolls out new gear Pics Smart-tech poster child Nest has revamped two of its three products and updated its app to better integrate all three.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BM7C)
Miss Bell vows to fight watchdog's tap on the wrist The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined AT&T $100m (£63m) after accusing it of unfairly limiting "unlimited" mobile data plans. The telco insists it has done nothing wrong.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#BM7E)
Browser snuck proprietary voice-snoop code into distro The Debian Project thinks it's fixed an issue where Google's Chromium web browser snuck proprietary code into the fiercely Free Software oriented Debian Linux distro. That hasn't stopped Debian users from wondering how the issue got past project maintainers in the first place.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#BM1S)
Version 0.1 stars spotted by 'scopes Pic Astronomers have recorded the brightest galaxy yet seen in the universe. It was formed 800 million years after the Big Bang, and has evidence of an until-now theoretical type of star.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#BKV9)
Driver must be treated as employee, says labor commish A California labor commission has ruled that an Uber driver has won the right to be treated as an employee of the taxi app upstart, rather than as a contractor.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#BKGZ)
New ITU study group hopes to make sense of cluttered, confusing world The United Nations is joining the melee for a single "internet of things" (IoT) standard.…
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