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by Simon Sharwood on (#8BZD)
Cisco keeps the networking gig with VMware's EVO:RACK EMC World 2015 VCE will today announce the “VxRackâ€, a rack-scale converged infrastructure product that will use Quanta servers.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#8BYK)
Building 'Google-like' data centers now easier than ever CoreOS Fest Cloudy Linux startup CoreOS kicked off its inaugural CoreOS Fest event in San Francisco on Monday with word that its homegrown rkt (pronounced "rocket") container runtime software will be integrated into the Google-derived Kubernetes container orchestration software.…
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by Brid-Aine Parnell on (#8BMN)
Monument to a trio who left their mark on Blighty Geek's Guide to Britain When you mention Brunel to most people, they think of the one with the funny name – Isambard Kingdom Brunel. A few folks will know that his father Marc Isambard Brunel was the first famous engineering Brunel, but not many will know that Isambard's own son, Henry Marc Brunel, was also an engineer and finished some of Isambard’s projects after his death.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#8BBS)
It's time to drop out of over-hype space There's a horrible, horrible thing I get asked at least three times a week: "What is hyper-convergence?" This is like an icepick into my soul, because I consult with almost all of the current hyper-convergence vendors in one form or another and the truth is, “hyper-convergence†is a meaningless marketing term as wishy-washy and pointless as "cloud".…
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by Phil Strongman on (#8B7P)
The 100 year ‘artistic anniversary’ of the man who made stand-up stand up Feature One hunded years ago this week on May 7 1915, a U-boat of the Imperial German navy torpedoed the vast ocean liner known as the RMS Lusitania – with 1,962 people on board over a thousand civilians drowned, including many from the US, which was then still neutral in World War One.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8B5V)
Core checker a defensive wrecker Seculert CTO Aviv Raff says a nasty piece of malware linked to widespread destruction and bank account plundering has become more dangerous with the ability to evade popular sandboxes.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8B3F)
Why is the orbit so big, and why is it there? A bunch of high-school students has turned up a record-setter in the world of astro-boffinry: a pulsar with the biggest-ever orbit around a neutron star.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8B29)
Insecure sites relegated to Firefox Stone Age Insecure websites will be barred from using new hardware features and could have existing tools revoked, if Mozilla goes ahead with a push towards HTTPS.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8AYX)
Kids these days prefer pics to acronyms says Instagram analysis Emoji are killing off traditional internet slang, according to a probe by Instagram's engineering team.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8AWA)
The second stage is about to fire space agency's compute power to the stars The rolling upgrade at NASA's Centre for Climate Simulation (NCCS) is nearing completion, with the agency just about ready to flick the switch on the second of three new SGI systems.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8ATQ)
New methodology would put an end to tax-shifting madness Australia's Economics References Committee, which has been conducting hearings into corporate tax avoidance, looks to have made a breakthrough by eliciting a new method for taxing multinationals from the nation's Taxation Office.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#8AR1)
Malware infestation sees credit cards popped at Vegas hotel and gaming venue Carders have hit the Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel and Casino stealing credit card numbers, names, and addresses, according to reports…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8AQG)
Internet pros unhappy with site-block legislation Geoblocking content should be banned under international trade treaties, according to the Internet Society of Australia.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8AP6)
Elon Musk's revolution will not be electrified It's pretty and batteries are ugly – but Tesla's Powerwall is more like an incremental change than a radical disruption.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#8AM8)
When Irish eyes are smiling, there'll be lower tax to pay Dropbox has joined the ranks of tech companies domiciling services in Ireland.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#8AF6)
April desktop OS usage stats show XP's really sinking fast now If it's the first Monday of the month, and it is, it must be time to have a look at desktop operating system market share as recorded by StatCounter and Netmarketshare.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#8A5P)
Euro customers: 'Well, that was unexpected' Google has surprised European fans of its Chromecast TV dongle by suddenly acknowledging a screw-up with the vid-streaming device, after effectively stonewalling complaints late last year.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#8A2N)
Prelim probe into allegations against BND incoming – report Germany was in a tizz this weekend, in the wake of spying allegations that could harm the country's thorny relationship with surveillance of its citizens.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#89VZ)
The good news? Only a third of the 30 that responded hate it The effort to create a new global internet governance body has been dealt another blow after just 30 people responded to a critical month-long comment period, a third of which were hostile to the program.…
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by Brid-Aine Parnell on (#89S5)
Nick Bostrom explains his AI prophecies of doom to El Reg Exclusive Interview Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom is quite a guy. The University of Oxford professor is known for his work on existential risk, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks and transhumanism. He also reckons the probability that we are all living in a Matrix-esque computer simulation is quite high.…
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by Team Register on (#89PZ)
Plus: 'Apple Watch Apps whose primary function is telling time will be rejected' QuoTW This week brought us faulty dreamliners, a frigid Pluto pic and a very unfortunate Facebook captcha.…
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by Lester Haines on (#89MR)
Cunning culinary plan involving turnip – from the land of Clan Blackadder It's been far too long since we at the El Reg post-pub nosh team ventured north of the border in search of the very best wobbly dining haute cuisine, and indeed it was way back in 2012 that we served readers the very pinnacle of Scottish fusion cuisine – the quite remarkable haggis pakora.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#89J7)
I know you're only trying to help. But ... Page File Special Think of some of the ways the Enlightenment helped advance the human individual. The ability to shape your identity. The ability to own and control your stuff. Economic autonomy. All three help to define the modern world, they’re ways we know that ‘now’ is not like ‘before’. All three are founded on the sanctity of the individual. And all three are interlinked.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#89FZ)
'SYS Brit Noseflashes' mailing list welcomes migrants to Redmond The eXpat files Welcome to another eXpat Files, in which Reg readers tell of leaving home and hearth for career upgrades only available elsewhere.…
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by Tim Worstall on (#89DG)
As Brenda rightly says, no one even predicted the crash Worstall @ the Weekend As Her Majesty the Queen remarked a few years back, why was it that no economist actually saw the crash coming? There's actually two answers to that. First, the cute one: that sort of violent change cannot be predicted. If it could be predicted then prices would move before it happened, meaning that it would have already happened. This is a bit cute, though, however true it might be.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#8968)
Zuck leads tributes to Silicon Valley biz man David Goldberg SurveyMonkey boss David Goldberg – the husband of Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg – died suddenly on Friday night.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#88Y3)
Counterfeit havens shamed by American trade body The US government is looking to shame China and India for their lax attitudes toward intellectual property law enforcement.…
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Four ways to crush friends and enemies alike Product Roundup The Bank Holiday weekend is upon us, so why not prepare for a wet weekend, as is the tradition, and go in search of some backstabbing board games? These games can involve working co-operatively with my fellow players, which can be rewarding, but you can always change your mind and there’s nothing like sadistic satisfaction of pretending I’m not a Cylon.…
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by Kelly Fiveash on (#88SF)
Blood is thicker than digi ink Microsoft has scooped up Surface Pro 3 pen maker N-trig, after partnering with the outfit for several years.…
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by Mark Diston on (#88N2)
Hard Sci-Fi with Alistair Reynolds, Tracey Thorn on singing and more Page File El Reg bookworm Mark Diston reviews the latest from the literary world with Alastair Reynolds' latest – the final instalment in a sci-fi trilogy. Tracey Thorn delivers an amusing and insightful perspective on the lot of the singer, and journalist Christina Lamb gives a personal account of her life and work in Afghanistan.…
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by Nigel Whitfield on (#88JH)
A brimming beany buzz As many Reg readers will know, between the start and end of a project there’s often an awful lot of coffee. However you make it, a coffee is essential for many of us. It’s become such a part of our life – in many places supplanting the good old cuppa – that there’s a huge industry of coffee shops, roaster, machine makers and so on. All of those are on show at the London Coffee Festival, in Shoreditch’s Old Truman Brewery this weekend.…
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by Brid-Aine Parnell on (#88H7)
Buffering is not a good device for building on-screen tension Film Review Few movie genres see as much innovation as horror, pioneer of the found-footage style and master of the macabre comedy. Just because something is new and clever doesn’t actually mean it will make a better film.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#88EV)
Cosmic rays and brain cells don't mix, in mice anyway A NASA-funded study into the effects of long-term space travel has a troubling conclusion: astronauts flying to Mars could arrive with brain damage.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#88CR)
Dabbsy was spawned in that slime of Cain Something for the Weekend, Sir? The eye-rolling comes first. This is followed by a resigned sagging of the shoulders. Then comes a theatrical slump forward, often accompanied by an equally melodramatic groan, as each user in turn puts head on desk and covers same with arms.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#87ZY)
Sergey Aleynikov nailed for fleeing vampire squid with crucial trading tools An ex-Goldman Sachs programmer has for the second time been found guilty of stealing code from the vampiric financial giant.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#87YA)
Apple, Google encryption is giving the people what they want, say politicians Video FBI agents and US Department of Justice officials perhaps thought they were in for an easy ride during a congressional hearing on crime, terrorism and encryption. If so, they were mistaken.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#87WY)
Bare-metal provisioning leads features of 11th major release The eleventh version of OpenStack appeared on the project's official download servers on Thursday, arriving on time and bringing with it hundreds of new features for cloud-builders.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#87VX)
Ink on pink will knacker rinky-dink sensors, says iGiant Apple has confirmed that its Watch gizmo does not work well on tattooed skin.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#87TP)
Our Friday youth engagement Spotify has reportedly raised $350m in a new round of funding that puts an $8bn valuation on the London-headquartered company.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#87TQ)
Reg man spends 90 minutes with headwear so you don't have to Build 2015 The first rule of Microsoft's HoloLens is you do not talk about HoloLens. When you're given a demo, you may not take photos, you may not shoot video, and you may not record audio.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#87RY)
We spent 90 minutes with HoloLens so you don't have to Build 2015 The first rule of HoloLens is you do not talk about HoloLens. When you're given a demo, you may not take photos, you may not shoot video, and you may not record audio.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#87MP)
Operating system will be released in 'waves' – and Windows 7 users are the priority Build 2015 At the Build conference in San Francisco this week, Joe Belfiore – Microsoft's corporate veep for operating systems – talked The Register through the release of Windows 10: when it will arrive, how it will arrive, and why you should use it.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#87JP)
Good news, everyone! A law bill to mildly curb the NSA's blanket surveillance of innocent Americans has taken an important step toward being passed.…
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by Team Register on (#87HG)
Inside the world of absolute-zero computing Physics upstart D-Wave has shed some light on its work simulating quantum computer processors to improve their performance and capabilities.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#87AH)
We must have IANA! We must have IANA! Behind-the-scenes efforts by ICANN's lawyers to force the internet community to grant it perpetual control of critical internet functions have been exposed.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#879W)
Did he misread 'an album cover' as 'anal bum cover'? Russian prosecutors have been asked to probe Apple to see if the American giant broke Russia's "gay propaganda" laws by forcibly thrusting ludicrous boy band U2's album Songs of Innocence into iThings.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#8787)
Web lessons in bullet-proofing the container class Containerisation has taken the data centre by storm. Led by Docker, a start-up that's on a mission to make development and deployment as simple as it should be, Linux containers are fast changing the way developers work and devops teams deploy.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#874G)
The story for Objective C is great. Android, less so Build 2015 Microsoft has shared more details of its plans to enable Android and iOS apps to be ported to Windows 10 at its Build developer event in San Francisco.…
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by Lester Haines on (#872K)
Jacobs family down to $1.52 and leftovers as finishing line approaches As the El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse nears the finishing line of the Live Below the Line challenge, Stateside member Richard Jacob reports that he and his family are "desperately short of money", reduced to just $1.52 to fuel them to the finishing line.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#870K)
BSkyB and TalkTalk also miss Brussels' lobby register deadline Twitter could soon find itself cold-shouldered by top European law-makers.…
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