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It's on a smashing orange gig with an Optane silver bullet Analysis NetApp hopes to have a MAX Data server persistent memory product announced before the end of the year, with single digit microsecond latency using Optane DIMMs, and tiering data to NVMe over Fabric-attached ONTAP all-flash arrays.…

Twelfth time's a charm Apple on Friday issued its 12th developer beta version of iOS 12, which should see general release in September, just days after the previous version began spamming beta testers and developers with errant update notifications.…

Boasts of passing billion buck annual revenue milestone "We expect to achieve Red Hat-like sales* by fiscal 2021," said Nutanix CEO and chairman Dheeraj Pandey in an earnings call as the company reported its Q4 and full year fiscal 2018 results.…

John McAfee-backed crypto-coin wallet eats humble pie Bitfi finally and reluctantly retracted its unhackable claim last night in the face of a new cold boot attack.…

Get the White House on the line – it's not even cubic IFA Alexa is built into so many appliances being demonstrated at IFA this week, you need a map* to them all. Basically it's everywhere, and on a global scale appears to be decisively winning the platform battle with Google.…

CFO asked to take the wheel Sage Group chief exec Stephen Kelly has unexpectedly stepped down from his director and CEO roles.…

Five Eyes to tech: We have ways of making you comply The Five Eyes nations have told the tech industry to help spy agencies by creating lawful access solutions to encrypted services – and warned that governments can always legislate if they don't.…

Featuring the world's fastest modem IFA Four major companies design the key chips for smartphones, and Huawei's HiSilicon became the first to announce its 7nm designs today at the giant IFA show in Berlin.…

Porridge for pic purloiner The last of the four hackers collared for stealing and leaking people's private nude photos from their online accounts back in 2014 has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.…

If this was full-touch, price tag would be eye-watering Hands On Out of thousands of smartphone vendors, TCL's BlackBerry Mobile unit represents one of a tiny handful targeting enterprise users. But its two QWERTY models to date have been priced at a premium, north of £500. Unveiled at IFA this week, budget model the KEY2 LE cuts costs in a bid to attract the corporate bulk buyers.…

MEPs remind everyone Facebook wasn't hauled off list. Roll on, review 2.0 Analysis More than two years in, Privacy Shield still isn't fit for purpose – and data protection experts and politicians want to see a bigger commitment ahead of its second annual review.…

Hands-on with the latest mobe kit from Berlin show IFA Sony Mobile showed off its first product under its new boss Mitsuya Kishida today. Compared to the other jaw-dropping electronics Sony produces, though, the Xperia XZ3 could be its least impressive product. Because it's a phone – an Android phone – and we all know what they look like.…

Lambda, Azure Functions, OpenWhisk? Take your pick Events Serverless is the next wave of computing change, but what does it mean for your existing infrastructure and legacy applications?…

Deployment in 'less than 30 min' – but not including reading the manual NetApp has produced a verified architecture for VMware on its Element hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), promising deployment in under 30 minutes if its rules are obeyed.…

Full Windows on new Qualcomm silicon at last IFA Microsoft's long journey away from Intel reached escape velocity this week, as the first traditional laptop machine with Qualcomm's Arm processor was revealed by Lenovo, in the shape of the Yoga C630 WOS.…

Emails hiding dodgy scripts designed to plant backdoors A notorious hacking group suspected in attacks across dozens of countries has launched a campaign against banks in eastern Europe and Russia.…

No, don't unplug that cabl... On Call Welcome once more to On Call, where Reg readers share the tech support moments that really made their eyes roll.…

Bypassing permission protection on network info Security researchers have found a way to sniff Android system broadcasts to expose Wi-Fi connection information to attackers.…

Winged critters can travel over 9 miles in a single evening Fruit flies may have tiny brains about as big as poppy seeds, but their noggins are complex enough to the remember the Sun’s position to help with navigation, according to a new study in the journal Current Biology.…

Crypto library mainstreamed as version 1.2.0 lands on GitHub Last year, a group of Google engineers emitted an “unofficial project,” a cryptographic library called Tink. Now, the Chocolate Factory has decided the software's good enough to carry its name.…

It's easy to for hate speech to slip past dumb machines New research has shown just how bad AI is at dealing with online trolls.…

Moogsoft lays out its pitch On Thursday, Moogsoft, maker of an AI platform for IT automation, invited a few corporate customers and like-thinking vendors to testify to the saving grace of AI-driven IT automation.…

SB 822, passed by Senate and Assembly, now has to be passed by, er, the Senate again California’s net neutrality bill SB822 has cleared another hurdle on its way to becoming a state law.…

But nothing is what is seems when it comes to Section 702 programs A closely watched case covering the constitutionality of a spying program has been thrown into disarray after a US government lawyer claimed an assertion at the heart of the lawsuit simply never occurred.…

Browser will stop asking nicely for privacy protections Mozilla says it will soon be modifying its Firefox browser to block all user tracking on websites by default.…

Hackers shouldn't quit their day scams if they want to eat Cryptojacking, the hijacking of computing resources to mine cryptocurrency, turns out to be both relatively widespread and not particularly profitable, according to a paper published by code boffins from Braunschweig University of Technology in Germany.…

High-tech duct tape fixed it NASA ground controllers received some disturbing readings from the International Space Station on Wednesday - air pressure inside the craft was falling.…

Mapbox acts quickly to wipe hate speech attack from site Update Mapping service Mapbox says that a breakdown in its filtering process was responsible for an incident that briefly saw the company’s map of New York City renamed to ‘Jewtropolis’ by vandals.…

Big Red files additional protest over JEDI contract The Pentagon is no longer taking questions on its controversial cloud contract after making last-minute amendments to the deal – and has received another complaint from disgruntled prospective bidder Oracle.…

The world outside your typical computer, basically *shudder* Semiconductor giant Micron is investing $3bn in its Manassas, Virginia foundry to develop DRAM and flash for autos, IoT, drones and industrial automation.…

Would be good to see some independent tests, though StorONE has claimed its TRU storage technology and S1 storage software ran at 1.7 million IOPS in a two-node ESXi server system.…

Underground forums alight with Struts chat, we hear A recently uncovered critical vulnerability in Apache Struts is already being exploited in the wild.…

Portable drive harnesses NVMe and Thunderbolt 3 Samsung has teased its X5 2TB portable SSD, which can transfer data at 40Gbit/s, four times faster than USB 3.1's 10Gbit/s.…

Don’t worry, they’re only in charge of catching visa and passport fraud A branch of the US State Department charged with detecting visa fraud was found to be ignoring basic information security practices.…

Benioff: CEOs just want to spend, spend, spend Salesforce is launching an office for "ethical and humane" tech less than a week after it was heavily criticised for supplying software to the US Border Patrol, which is itself overseeing an abusive immigration policy.…

Akonia Holographics gets bitten by Apple and moves into paradise Apple has reportedly snaffled holographic glassware biz Akonia Holographics for an undisclosed fee, presumably to use its tech in augmented reality gadgets.…

Small catch: You'd have to move to California Cisco chief Chuck Robbins is flogging his Californian mansion for a cool $13.8m – or about eight hours of Cisco’s quarterly profits.…

Collapsed firm to be reborn as DDN division punting enterprise arrays In potentially sphincter easing news for Tintri customers facing abandonment after the company's collapse, DDN is finalising its acquisition of the failed business.…

Unpatched, outdated software abounds, say researchers Russian researchers armed with Shodan and Censys have identified nearly 5,000 SD-WANs with vulnerable management interfaces.…

Smith exits abruptly after booking firm's 'biggest' quarterly numbers Cloud data management biz Rubrik has split with its worldwide sales boss who, according to the company, hung up his boots to spend more time with his family after breaking quarterly "booking" records.…

While Japan mulls own action against Chinese comms giant Huawei has pleaded with the US Federal Communications Commission to come to its rescue in the ongoing debate over whether its kit can compromise national security.…

Mandalay Bay, restaurant hit with lawsuit after Las Vegas gathering axed mid-bite VMware has been accused of slyly shutting down and evicting a partner's four-day tech event running this week alongside the VMworld US conference in Las Vegas.…

North Yorks-based Bytemark slipped into trolley Exclusive AIM-listed iomart has carved out the umpteenth notch on its bedpost, so to speak, buying UK managed hosting and cloud minnow Bytemark.…

Microsoft and Proofpoint servers ushered in 15,656 malware attachments Inhouse email filters still miss millions of attacks – including malware attachments, impersonation and malicious links – the latest quarterly stats from cloud provider Mimecast have found.…

Google's ex makes another play at the midrange Hands On Ailing HTC has given the midrange market a kick with U12 Life, announced today. It's a far more impressive offering than its predecessor, the HTC U11 Life.…

'Pale Blue Dot' snaps pale in comparison to most distant pics ever taken Pic NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has peeped its next flyby target: Ultima Thule.…

K8s becomes captain of its own fate, in Google Cloud cabin Now that the Google-born open-source Kubernetes project has come of age, its proud corporate parent is setting it free on the path to maturity and independence with sizable wad of cash to get it started in its new home.…

One is more equal than the other, but deal makes sense as NBN rollout continues One of Australia's most acquisition-hungry telcos, TPG, is to merge with mobile carrier Vodafone Australia.…

Privacy-protecting domain name system standard closer As the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) secured domain querying draft creeps towards standardisation, Mozilla has run a test to see if applying encryption brings too heavy a performance penalty.…

130 million could be impacted by Huazhu Group hack China’s largest hotel chain is investigating an apparent data theft that is said to involve as many as half a billion pieces of information.…