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National Cyber Crime Unit spills on pre-2015 megahack convo Prior to its disastrous 2015 mega hack, UK ISP TalkTalk had told British spies at GCHQ that should an attack occur, its main focus would be to restore "online sports streaming", according to the head of operations at the country's National Cyber Crime Unit.…

Delisted storage firm now trading stock on OTCQB Struggling storage software company Falconstor has been delisted from the Nasdaq Stock Market and its shares are now trading on the OTC Market Group's OTCQB marketplace.…

Blue-sky thinking... no, you shut up... EasyJet has given its blessing to a mildly bonkers plan to replace airliners with electrically propelled aircraft on short-haul flights.…

65-yr-old woman being held in London The Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of a government contractor after a tip-off.…

Hundreds earmarked for the chop Cisco is saying farewell to 310 more staff from its corporate HQ in California, according to a filing with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system.…

Yeah. We can do that. No problem. Regulators are warming to Google's preferred remedy to the European Commission's vertical search competition investigation, according to a briefing given to Bloomberg.…

Microsoft's general manager talks to Reg about cross-platform SQL Server Ignite “It’s a big milestone for us as a company,” general manager Rohan Kumar told us, referring to the release of SQL Server on Linux, “the biggest server product from Microsoft”, announced here at the Ignite event in Orlando.…

Gas-free drive war with WDC and Seagate ramps up again Toshiba has reached the 10TB disk drive capacity level without the help of helium, providing OEMs with an alternative to Seagate and WDC.…

Or a little historical insight for those not going OpenWorld When reports emerged early in September that Oracle was shedding hundreds of workers, it might have been dismissed as just the latest in a series of such moves. What caught the attention of industry watchers was where the axe was falling. Sources indicated those being laid off included many of the engineers responsible for its SPARC processors and Solaris operating system.…

AWS is way in front, Azure a solid second, server-makers in trouble Google is the world's number four infrastructure-as-a-service vendor, according to analyst outfit Gartner's first ever attempt at calculating market share in the field.…

In-cabin gear gets NAND assist for driver help and infotainment Samsung has 128GB and 64GB eUFS flash cards for automotive use.…

Broadcom sampling chipset that should let navigation apps tell you which lane to drive in Broadcom is now sampling silicon it says will make smartphones' SatNav systems accurate to a centimeter in 2018.…

Dot-cat referendum webpages censored amid brazen internet crackdown As a controversial referendum on the independence of Catalonia draws near, the Spanish government has expanded efforts to shut it down, even blocking access to some websites.…

Project Zero reveal you really shouldn't skip the upgrade to iOS 11 iThing owners, do not skip iOS 11: it plugs a dead-easy-to-exploit drive-by WiFi bug.…

Chap inhaled tiny toy traffic cone 40 years ago and he's been spluttering ever since The British Medical Journal has revealed a mistaken diagnosis of cancer was caused by Playmobil.…

Vacuum-maker to spend £2bn on 'radical battery electric vehicle' due on the road in 2020 Vacuum-cleaner maker Dyson has announced its intention to build a “battery electric vehicle.”…

Also says it's not the best way to save money for most people Google's decided to join AWS in the per-second billing club, point out that it's actually had this constant cloudy ka-ching thing under control since 2013 and offer advice that recommends not using its new billing scheme as your number one cost-cutting tactic.…

Code Citrix sold becomes multi-hypervisor hybrid cloud wrangler full of bursty goodness Accelerite has finally revealed what it's done with Citrix's CloudPlatform, which it acquired in January 2016.…

Full region coming in 2019. Keeping it cold should be fun! Amazon Web Services has announced it will open bit barns in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).…

Mirrors price relief offered to consumer market Updated nbn™, the company building Australia's National Broadband Networ (NBN), has adjusted its wholesale prices so that retailers offering business plans get the same price relief as previously offered for the consumer market.…

Big Red issues out-of-band patch for Apache and a few other urgent issues Oracle has stepped outside its usual quarterly security fix cycle to address the latest Apache Struts 2 vulnerability.…

Ad giant has an 'Identity Vision' and now sees it more clearly Google's acquired cloudy single-sign-on outfit Bitium for the usual undisclosed sum.…

Clinton calls hypocrisy but somewhat misses the point The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has sent a letter [PDF] to White House lawyers demanding details of how many of its staffers have been using private email for government business.…

President Trump can now trigger nuclear Armageddon in half the time Twitter is preparing to double its 140-character limit on tweets to 280 characters.…

Feared patent bomb defused, for the time being Facebook on Tuesday freed its React JavaScript library and its GraphQL query language from its unloved license scheme.…

Landmark build promises to be faster, slimmer, better at multi-threading Mozilla has pushed its much-hyped "Firefox Quantum" browser build into public beta.…

Dead or alive, preferably dead, you're coming with me In its ongoing quest to trap and kill Android malware, Google has, as usual, turned to machine learning – and is reporting some success.…

Could 'significantly impair cross-border transfers of information' The United States government is attempting to limit extraordinary online censorship efforts by China, complaining to the World Trade Organization that such measures will damage global trade.…

Aviation chums want personal flying device that can be flown by 'anyone, anywhere' Boeing and its pals today offered a whopping $2m (£1.49m) in prizes to anyone who can design and build a working “personal flying device."…

Yes, that's Gartner’s security consultancy of the year Monday’s news that multinational consultancy Deloitte had been hacked was dismissed by the firm as a small incident.…

Group demands compensation after scandal after scandal burns '$18bn' in investment Uber's wild ride-sharing past has returned to haunt the biz in the form of yet another lawsuit in the US.…

Next release promises nice offline features, Matlock before bedtime Microsoft has shed light on next year's preview of Office 2019, talking up the new productivity suite as a boon for those who may prefer to work outside of the cloud.…

Dedupe and hot-swap drives with monitored telemetry and predictive analytics X-IO has moved on from its ISE sealed array of disk drives to a 60-slot, hot-swap deduping all-flash array with monitored telemetry and predictive analytics.…

Sir. Have you no, er, shame? Microsoft founder Bill Gates has admitted to switching to an Android phone but he still won't entertain using the Jesus Mobe iPhone.…

Collaboration with NTT Comm creates data centre safe space Dell and cloud managed services provider NTT Communications have launched a specialised server that lets IT departments test apps for Microsoft's Azure Stack.…

Well, what else could he do? Equifax's chairman and chief exec today resigned, weeks after the consumer credit reporting agency admitted a massive security breach.…

Don’t think that just because you’re not a behemoth, they won’t see you The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25 2018, enforcing a strict set of new rules concerning privacy and data security and imposing strict penalties on violators. Enterprises are having a tough enough time coping with it. How will small businesses with fewer in-house IT and legal resources fare?…

Not today, and not soon Analysis Apple releases a systems nerd nirvana today, a new OS that’s packed with more profound and interesting under-the-hood technology features than Apple has released for years. But should you rush out and upgrade to macOS 10.13 High Sierra?…

Parallelising IO is like punching hyperspace button DataCore has crafted a driver for SQL Server that runs IO requests simultaneously and increases throughput.…

Ofcom would have done this itself but didn't have the power Security minister Ben Wallace has signed a direction banning commercial multi-user phone gateways in the UK over terrorism fears – barely a week after the only ever prosecution for operating one flopped following years of Kafkaesque wrangling.…

Did someone just nick your shares? Mobile stock trading apps are riddled with security bugs.…

Guess triggering World War 3 is also 'of public interest' Twitter has defended its position of potentially providing a platform for triggering World War 3, describing President Donald Trump's infamous North Korea tweet as "newsworthy".…

Just 25 conference tickets left for MCubed There are just 25 tickets left for MCubed, our machine learning, AI and analytics conference, so if you want to spend two days learning how those technologies could change your business, you need to secure your ticket now.…

Analytics biz eyes up fraud and IoT markets Analytics firm Splunk is making machine learning central to the next generation of its enterprise solution, and claims it performs 20 times faster than before.…

Openreach stuck on upgrading legacy copper-based network The UK has been ranked the third-worst country in Europe for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage, according to a comprehensive study of speeds from 28 countries across the continent.…

If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it it on a ring Apart from actually performing computations, one of the most difficult quantum computing challenges is getting qubits to scale.…

Expect multi-OS gear next year HP, the only phone vendor with a serious commitment to Windows 10 mobile, has refuted reports that it will kill off its HP Elite x3 enterprise phone this autumn.…

Cupertino dithers over part in purchase, WDC rubs its hands Apple has not agreed terms for participating in the Bain Capital-led consortium to buy Toshiba's flash chip business, holding up the deal.…

No, the data isn't centralised... What do you mean confusing? Enterprise giant SAP is taking on silos with its latest offering that aims to centralise data processing and governance - but not storage.…

Looking to the AI future JavaScript has become the interface to the web thanks to browsers, it's leaked onto servers with Node.js, and is now carving out a small niche in Machine Learning – but JavaScript just wouldn’t be without ECMAScript.…