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by Neil McAllister on (#8EWB)
The big D is still going its own way CoreOS Fest There was an elephant in the room at the inaugural CoreOS Fest in San Francisco this week, although like most such purported pachyderms it took a while before anyone would mention it.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8EVS)
Streaming giant wants changes to proposed mega-merger Netflix is lobbying US watchdog the FCC to reject the proposed merger between AT&T and DirecTV.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8ESJ)
And oh look, we've got loads of mobile ads to sell, what a coincidence! The majority of Google web searches in America, and a few other nations, now come from phones and tablets – outpacing PCs for the first time, we're told.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8EQC)
Cupertino jostles again with patent troll over cloudy media Not content with a $533m payday, patent troll Smartflash is asking a US federal court to triple the infringement verdict it won against Apple and iTunes earlier this year.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8EN4)
And it was churning out suns like crazy a long time ago Pic Astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii say they have spotted the farthest galaxy known to humans – a galaxy 13 billion light-years away that formed 670 million years after the Big Bang.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8EEX)
Looking at the possibilities Comment Does an EMC-HP merger make more sense now than last year when the two titans' inability to agree on a price put a stop to the idea?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8EBX)
Silicon will lock off shared RAM so you don't have to do it in code Intel has given its Xeon E7 processor family its annual refresh, this time emphasising analytics at scale.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8EB3)
'Emotional tribulations' within software giant on open-sourcery Surprise, surprise; snake-charmer EMC is open-sourcing its ViPR Controller product.…
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by Team Register on (#8E9X)
We heard you liked disruption, so we're disrupting the laws of physics A new Apple iPhone 6 case harvests energy from the smartphone's radio transmissions and use it to charge the battery, its developers claim.…
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by John Leyden on (#8E9Z)
Somebody's got a problem and doesn't want it known Updated Researchers at IOActive have been slapped with a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) gagging order a day before they planned to release information about security vulnerabilities in the kit of an as-yet unidentified vendor*.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8E7K)
Back to the cat pics and slack-jawed drooling, netizens The Internet Archive is still sharing 2,600 blast-from-the-past DOS games, and these are still playable in web browsers - but no longer so via Twitter.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#8E5G)
Redmond-owned OTT jabbernet looks set to go down for the last time British broadcaster BSkyB has won round two in its trademark infringement battle with Skype.…
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We're doing fine without spending $45bn on TWC Broadband sales boosted profits at US cable goliath Comcast by nine per cent to $3.9bn (£2.6bn) for the company's first quarter, compared with the same period last year.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8E32)
Samsung push may be more for non-phone devices, but it's coming A second Samsung Tizen phone has been leaked showing that the nice mobile OS - which has the great merit of not being Android - hasn’t been forgotten by the Korean Company.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8E12)
Suppresses dissent, stifles criticism of detention camp - but takes down Facebook too The Pacific nation of Nauru has been accused of censoring internet access to stifle opposition to the ruling government and possibly to suppress communications at an Australian detention facility for asylum seekers on the island. However it appears that the Nauruan net crackdown has also freed its people from the menace of Facebook.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8DYZ)
Weve fails to generate workable tapcash fabric Weve, the mobile marketing consortium of EE, O2 and Vodafone, is being sold to O2. The organisation, which was formed with £38m from its wealthy parents under the codename “Project Oscar†fought significant regulatory hurdles with the aim of building a common technology for mobile NFC payments.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8DWT)
Rubber-band nerve lets them gulp straight down throats Marine mammal boffins are less baffled by blue whales, having discovered that stretchy nerves allow the beasts to gobble the gallons upon gallons of water and food they are famous for guzzling.…
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by Team Register on (#8DTR)
Your child makes the machine, we just sell you a box of bits Educational hardware startup Kano announced on Monday that it had raised $15m from a Series A funding pot.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#8DS1)
Meanwhile: iGadgets can talk secretly among themselves Apple has been granted a couple of patents (here and there) on pairing two devices using a moving graphic on the display of a watch. A camera on the device which is being paired reads an “invisible†image.…
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by John Leyden on (#8DR0)
Firm hopes you'll squirt some of its sealant gunge into leaky apps Metasploit firm Rapid7 has snapped up web and mobile application security testing company NT OBJECTives (NTO). Financial terms of the deal, announced Monday, were undisclosed.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8DQB)
Butch bezelled cut-price bruiser Atlantis has a software-defined, butch-bezelled, all-flash hyper-converged appliance radically cheaper than EVO:RAIL, Nutanix and SimpliVity alternatives, even the hybrid flash-disk ones.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8DN7)
Now you can get HERE, there Facebook, mentioned as a potential buyer of Nokia's HERE business unit, isn't waiting around for a sale and has signed a deal to integrate the Finnish corporation's maps on the mobile version of its site, as well as in Facebook Messenger and Instagram on Android.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#8DM8)
It'll stay up diddly up up, promises Redmond Microsoft has turned to Equinix to deliver stable and reliable Office 365 services for enterprise customers.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#8DKE)
No matter how I scrub, stench of death still on me Google+ has not only, er, joined Twitter in the past few days – it also unveiled a desperate-looking new feature dubbed Collections.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8DHT)
Interpol alert issued for supposedly naughty boy An Australian man facing 25 hacking charges has fled to Europe ahead of a court hearing for his alleged involvement in an international hacking operation targeting Microsoft, Valve, Epic, and the US Army, according to reports.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#8DG5)
PC-as-tellybox just not a popular enough idea, it seems Windows Media Center has come to the end of the road with Windows 10.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#8DF9)
AWS not the boss of you? Try these VPS options... Running your own virtual private server (VPS) was once limited to either profitable side projects or those with money to burn. The relatively high monthly costs (often $40-$60 per month) made it too expensive for personal projects that didn't generate income and more serious endeavors often used dedicated hardware, leaving VPS as a kind of no man's land in the middle.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#8DCZ)
The future is coming, Still Review Systemd is here. It’s arrived in Vivid Vervet, the latest, just-released distro of Ubuntu – 15.04.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#8DBA)
No Geordi LaForge lookalikes here - it's cypherpunk goggles all the way A photovoltaic visual prosthesis developed by a French team of cyborg shepherds will be powered by the infrared light it receives as it sits inside your eyeballs.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8DA0)
Automated incident response for the rest of us Netflix has released source code for its automated incident response tool to help organisations cut through the noise of security alerts.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8D9F)
MAVEN and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had near miss last January NASA has “beefed up†the processes it uses to stop orbiters around Mars from colliding with each other, after two orbiters came within two kilometres of each other in early January.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8D73)
Say goodbye to your master boot record and home directory if you try to stop it Cisco researchers Ben Baker and Alex Chiu have found new malware that destroys a machine's Master Boot Record and home directories if it detects meddling white hats.…
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by Lewis Page on (#8D6D)
Mini Star Wars scout walker attacked Morning Vid For your amusement this morning we have this video of a walker robot being attacked by a gang of boffins in a park:…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8D4X)
Yes it's slow, but it's enough to leak data to another Android The better your Android smartphone's audio, the worse its security – the audio channel is the latest path for “low and slow†data leak attacks.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8D2E)
'I'm using it to tell you how many people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard' Carly Fiorina, once the boss of HP and today a US Presidential candidate, just learned the hard way that you can never be too thorough when it comes to hoarding domains, particularly when you're planning to run for public office.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8D1S)
The deck is stacked and the designers want it that way Mozilla has revealed how it reckons Firefox should look when it's on the tellie.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8CZV)
The man who defeated crosstalk The man who put the “asymmetric†in front of DSL has died aged 82.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8CXR)
'USBKill' fries your machine to foil forensic sniffing Criminals, activists, and whistle-blowers have a new tool to help foil police by shutting down laptops before they are examined.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8CVV)
Top that, David Cameron and Ed Miliband Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has decided to reveal the source code of the Sudoku-solving app he personally coded.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8CVF)
Security makeover required Colossal US cosmetics retailer Sally Beauty Supply has broken its silence and admitted it was breached for the second time in a little over a year.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8CSW)
CEO's 20-year stint was built on belief in TCP/IP's destiny Analysis Cisco has finally made the long-anticipated decision about a replacement for long-time CEO John Chambers: 49-year-old Chuck Robbins.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8CRP)
Lavazza's latest brew, with a slight psychological hint of urine The ISS now has a functioning espresso machine and it was Italy's first woman in space, astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who got the first shot – although not before donning a Star Trek uniform for the occasion.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8CR4)
Some fire off 2,000 HTTP requests in a few minutes Security researchers have developed an Android application that's capable of alerting when other apps on a phone or tablet are covertly tracking users and connecting to ad networks.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8CNW)
Call in the choppers, this one's designed to be uplifted anywhere Rackspace's Australian tentacle has decided the time is right to expand its main bit barn and open a disaster recovery site.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8CJ0)
New policy verges on apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Ignite 2015 Microsoft has shown off some of the new security mechanisms embedded in Windows 10, and revealed a change to its software updates.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#8CFT)
Encryption not allowed through Internet.org's service Facebook's Internet.org has loosened the stranglehold on its free internet service in India and other countries.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#8CC4)
And DIY Azure on the verge of summer release Ignite 2015 Microsoft has shipped the second Technical Preview of what it's now officially calling Windows Server 2016 and has announced Azure Stack, a new offering that bundles up Redmond's public cloud infrastructure into a version that can run in customers' own data centers.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#8CBC)
Microsoft on the verge of autumn launch, plus: world's biggest fondleslab Ignite 2015 If you want to get your hands on Office 2016, Microsoft has made it available now for download – but be warned, you'll have to take Office 2013 off before you do.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#8C9A)
Plus VMAX and Data Domain developments EMC World 2015 EMC has doubled the capacity of its XtremIO all-flash array X-bricks – and increased the cluster count taking it up into higher-performing application areas.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#8C6H)
Microsoft on the verge of hybrid cloud, plus encryption, JSON and more Ignite 2015 Microsoft has today announced SQL Server 2016 at its sysadmin-focused Ignite conference in Chicago. The software will be available as a preview release this summer.…
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