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by Iain Thomson on (#6RX7)
Lhassi how they'll like this Police are increasingly using drones these days to snoop on activists and track down demonstrators plus the occasional criminal. Now Indian police are going to use them for riot control by loading up the aerial gizmos with pepper spray.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#6RVY)
Kernel-level code helps gamers to vanquish anti-cheatware Security boffins Joel St. John and Nicolas Guigo have developed a rootkit-like gaming cheat system they say bests anti-cheating mechanisms.…
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Spat turns pygmy marmosets into the cutest political pawns ever A quartet of confused Swedish monkeys have been denied entry to Saudi Arabia – the latest development in an escalating diplomatic row between the two countries.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6RRS)
Government science outfit's glyph deemed distinct from Borg's bridge badge Cisco's suffered a legal reversal in Australia, where the nation's Trade Marks Office has ruled the logo of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is not an attempt to imitate or cash in on the Borg's bridge badge.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6RQS)
Big Blue working to add cold storage to OpenStack Swift VIDEO IBM and FUJIFILM have demonstrated new technologies they say crams 123 billion bits into every square inch of tape, to deliver a 220 terabyte (probably LTO) tape cartridge.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6RNM)
And by No-SQL we mean a flat-file antique somehow still spaffing $290m daily That sound? The first drops of a cool billion Australian dollars (US$770m, £520m) that the nation's government has started pouring into a honeypot for the world's technology community.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6RJC)
Dell dives as Lenovo and HP pull away from the pack 68.5 million PCs trundled off the world's production lines in 2015's first quarter, the lowest number since 2009 according to box-watcher IDC.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#6RG9)
Unless you're happy with an odd root 'backdoor' lurking on your machine, that is Swedish hacker Emil Kvarnhammar has reported a since-fixed four-year-old local root 'backdoor' OS X that allows remote attackers to increase the damage of their hacks.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#6RFB)
New marketplace brings subscription software to WorkSpaces AWS Summit Amazon Web Services cut its teeth providing data center infrastructure in the cloud, but lately it's made some coin serving up virtual desktops, too. Now it has expanded that offering with new services that allow IT admins to purchase and manage desktop applications via AWS.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6RD8)
Where'd that US$25m go? Our re-org was a bit trickier than planned says CEO Citrix has announced that it will not deliver the financial results it promised the markets.…
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by Neil McAllister on (#6RAD)
Google, who? AWS Summit Amazon piled on the new cloud features at its AWS Summit event in San Francisco, including new services for file storage and machine learning and updates to features that debuted last year.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#6RAF)
The krush grooving, the body moving, the record making, AND the record breaking The bods behind the Guinness World Records has awarded Xiaomi one of its certificates for selling the most mobile phones within a single day.…
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Monster Aurora machine to slurp 13MW crunching numbers on fuel and more Intel and Cray have landed a $200m deal to build a 180-petaFLOPS supercomputer dubbed Aurora for the US Department of Energy.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#6QZF)
Dedupe directly on the array, promises CTO Storage startup Coho Data thinks Docker containers could help its arrays run storage MicroServices directly on the array, like snapshotting, transcoding and deduplication.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#6QZH)
DARPA's Hundred Years' War on bugs, upgrades and rewrites The US military's nerve-center of secret-squirrel boffinry DARPA wants to write software capable of running for a full century without becoming obsolete.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#6QW9)
Space boffins reckon our world's twin, not a wandering planet, created lunar body Our Moon was born after a young Earth smashed its twin Theia, scientists writing in three studies just published by Nature have suggested. Their intriguing evidence reveals the Moon's origins may have been more incestuous than previously thought.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#6QWB)
Disk drives much cheaper to build – who knew? The flash industry is going to have to dig deep – really, really deep – to fund the fabs needed to build 3D NAND.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#6QS7)
Avoiding data stream traffic jams Classic dual-controller drive array supplier Dot Hill has uprated its AssuredSAN array to deal with thousands of incoming variable data streams from the growing Internet of Things (IoT) sensor sources, and thus avoid data stream traffic jams.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#6QQD)
'We're still trading in line with market estimates' says firm A year on the job for Phoenix IT Group CEO Steve Vaughan and company sales and profits aren’t dropping nearly as quickly as they used to.…
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by Simon Rockman on (#6QNH)
You say you want a Resolution? LG and Intel have announced new mobe camera tech which - for once - concentrates on something other than how many little dots you can squeeze into a photo.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#6QJ6)
'Recommended update' turns Windows 7, 8 into new OS ad Microsoft is installing an update on Windows 7 and 8 machines which will push users to upgrade to Windows 10.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6QFV)
DevOpsify your boring Ethernet Cumulus Networks, home of a Linux-of-choice for white-box switches, has linked arms with Puppet Labs and joined its Puppet Supported Program.…
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by Lewis Page on (#6QEW)
Four things ye must know of the fruity stroker bracelet FOUR THINGS you must know about the Apple Watch:…
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by Chris Mellor on (#6QD7)
Less primary storage needed Quantum has added another layer to the onion that is its StorNext file management and archiving product set. It now has Arkivo software selecting primary storage files on a policy basis.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#6QB8)
Server? Check. Network? Check. Storage? Mmm When you are doing the spec for some new server hardware, what do you consider?…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#6Q8M)
Encryption tables to trip up rogue data Google is dropping encryption into MariaDB, the fork of Oracle’s MySQL, to help shut out SQL injection attacks.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#6Q6W)
French broadcast signal affected, social media disturbed TV5Monde was prevented from broadcasting last night, and claims to still be working on a return to its regular programming schedule, after "hackers" interrupted its transmissions for a couple of hours.…
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Academics: legislation goes ‘well beyond what is needed’ A spat has erupted between US universities and the trade body representing the $286bn (£193bn) consumer electronics industry, over a proposed crackdown on patent trolls.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#6Q3K)
Featuring DevOps Kung fu - and how open source Windows is "definitely possible" ChefConf 2015 took place last week in Santa Clara, with around 1500 attendees focusing on DevOps using Chef software to automate infrastructure configuration and application deployment.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#6Q2P)
Chocolate Factory plans to cash in on SMUT VIDEOS Google is planning to launch a subscription service for YouTube, offering viewers the opportunity to avoid advertisements for a monthly fee.…
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by Team Register on (#6Q25)
Like tech? Like investing? Like ‘free’? Read on… Promo The Register has partnered with the Master Investor Show to give you the chance to enjoy a whole day learning how to turn your nous and cash into...even more nous and cash. The upfront cost to you? Precisely nothing.…
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Alleged violation of citizens’ 'fundamental rights' with data moves A class action against Facebook over alleged breaches of European privacy laws is being heard in a Vienna district court today.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#6PYW)
Large currency swings see tech spending estimates fall The mystics at Gartner have changed their mind: the value of the IT spending isn’t going to grow this year after all, and it is all the fault of the pesky tea leaves US dollar.…
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by John Leyden on (#6PWR)
And most of it is your fault for not caring enough about what you open The volume of malware threats is actually on the decline despite the increase in breaches, according to a study from Websense Security Labs.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#6PT5)
Vestager: Rotten in the state of Denmark? Not on my watch The European Commission is worried that a proposed merger between TeliaSonera and Telenor would be bad for consumers, and is now pondering whether to approve the deal.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#6PRG)
Winning strategies for selecting a new server centre Your company has decided, quite sensibly, that it wants to move its application infrastructure to a data centre rather than living with the risk of an on-premise approach. So how do you choose the data centre you should move to?…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#6PQH)
Fingers crossed, let's hope they’re the Spielberg ones First contact with alien life is looming, claims NASA's Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan.…
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by Jennifer Baker on (#6PP5)
Lawmakers rattle sabres, Commish doesn't blink, for now MEPs have called on American and European negotiators to guarantee citizens’ right to privacy in an international trade deal.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#6PM0)
Apple patches OOB boob to stop API noobs being duped Kenton Varda has found a 'weird' kernel bug used in Apple gear that could result in trivial denial of service by remote attackers.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6PK6)
SOHOpeless router tosses your internet connection into the DMZ for max p0wn potential Researchers at Rapid7 have turned up a set of typically dumb vulnerabilities in Motorola's DOCSIS/EuroDOCSIS 3.0-capable SURFboard SBG 6580 cable broadband modem.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6PHE)
When the fighting stops, the loving starts Microsoft and Getty Images have resolved a dispute by getting into bed together.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#6PG7)
Plus: BT engineers 'denied access' to torched electricity and internet cabling Last Wednesday's blaze in Holborn, which knocked out power and internet access across London, could have been sparked by thieves pulling a daring heist to pocket £200m in precious stones and metals.…
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Kiwi drones on about how good it is. Just wait until it wants more life While technology has helped cats take over the world (in terms of video clips at least) it is now simultaneously contributing to the demise of a small, yet respected, section of their canine foes, namely sheepdogs.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6PDS)
Your plastic pal who's fun to be with will be a downloadable theme in Google's future Someone at the Chocolate Factory doesn't realise that Douglas Adams wrote satire, and has patented replaceable robot personalities.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#6PCY)
Mismatched clocks allow poison packets to prevent synching, and sink you Red Hat security chap Miroslav Lichvar has revealed two vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol (NTP) that allow attackers to get clients to execute unauthenticated packets.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#6PAZ)
Also: vCloud Air expands down under to help things along VMware's tried for years, without much success, to sell productivity apps. Now it's having another go by getting out the twine to bind three of AirWatch's offerings into a “collaboration bundleâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6PAH)
Open the pod bay door, Echo Having started capturing what you say in your home and sending it to the cloud in November, Amazon has decided that its Echo product needs to do more than just read the news.…
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Reg named virty pros' number one news source A small bottle of champagne has been opened at The Reg's globe-spanning virtualisation desk, as news has reached us that we're apparently virtualisation professionals' “Favorite News/Information Websiteâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#6P89)
28,000 punters in its sights The law firm that secured an Australian Federal Court decision against iiNet and other ISPs says it's widening its field of fire to target a further 23,000 individuals.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#6P7N)
Life's Good for malware German developer Christopher Bachner has alleged LG monitor software is quietly disabling User Account Control (UAC), putting Windows punters at risk of malware infection.…
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