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38-year-old said to be appealing Greek court's decision A Greek court has approved the US extradition of a Russian national accused of running a $4bn Bitcoin laundering ring on the now-defunct BTC-e exchange.…

Managing the legacy and you “Legacy” is a word that we tend to associate with big companies. After all, they’re the ones who have vast piles of equipment that go out of date in no time at all but require big money and big projects to replace them with modern stuff.…

And it's all Microsoft's fault 'cos 'we aren't an OS company' – PC giant Canalys Channels Forum HP Inc has finally confirmed it is to kill off X3 device sales and support by the end of 2019, cutting short the proposed roadmap and hanging the blame on Microsoft's "change of strategy" with its mobile OS.…

Or so say a bunch of PC execs and Canalys CEO Canalys Channels Forum Microsoft will quit its loss-making Surface hardware business by 2019, according to execs from PC manufacturers and a channel watcher.…

EU competition commish cracks whip twice in a day The European Commission has ordered Amazon to repay €250m (£222m) for benefiting from illegal and unfair state aid courtesy of Luxembourg.…

Asteroid smacks chunks off a volcano... but not as we know it New research adds extra support for where exactly six meteorites that travelled from Mars to Earth millions of years ago, called "nakhlites", may have originated.…

Better late than never, I guess Google's controversial DeepMind has created an ethics unit to "explore and understand" the real-world impacts of AI.…

A pox on your proxy, seethe Excel-wranglers Microsoft's general one-stop URL for Office news and updates, blogs.office.com, is dead for some IP addresses in Europe and elsewhere in the world.…

This is not just a hut. This is an original Bletchley Park hut Block H has been declared one of England's "irreplaceable places", the National Museum of Computing has joyously announced.…

Decision 'extremely regrettable', says Irish government The European Commission has referred Ireland to the Court of Justice over its failure to recover illegal tax benefits from Apple worth up to €13bn (£11.5bn).…

I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question NetApp has reinvented Clippy with a Watson-powered chatbot called Elio, and is taking a leaf out of Nimble's book by using automated and predictive/proactive support called Active IQ.…

(Nearly) everything you wanted to know about machine learning and AI Whether you're wondering how to cope as your competitors embrace machine learning or are itching to embed AI into your company's DNA, you'd be doing yourselves a big favour by joining us at MCubed London next week.…

Early signs might be positive, but this is holy ground for some 1982 was a good year for sci-fi cinema. ET, Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, Tron, The Thing. All great in their own ways. It was also the year Blade Runner came out.…

Hyper-V-focused HCIA products pushed out by cloud services takeover +Comment A raft of sales execs, marketeers, architects and two co-founders have exited HyperGrid, the hyperconverged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) startup formerly known as GridStore, over the past nine months.…

Show you're not n00b with these slick analytical skillz Hello, wrong number Analytical skills are in big demand so it is really important not to make the basic, common, mistakes that show you up as a newbie.…

Just 53 per cent of the image made it home, so software thought it couldn't be a photo The European Space Agency (ESA) has been able to squeeze one last photo out of the Rosetta probe.…

Transtelecom can reach 256 North Korean hosts North Korea's very limited Internet has, for the second time in its brief history, obtained a redundant connection to the outside world.…

Larry E wants diverse log file formats tamed, so you can ask security questions in natural language OpenWorld 2017 Oracle’s founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison put on his best salesman act Tuesday during his second keynote at the tech giant's OpenWorld gabfest – this time playing up the impact high-profile IT security breaches have had on organisations and increasing concerns over state hackers.…

Someone failed to order the patch. If it was you, c'mere, have a hug. And a new identity Recently-and-forcibly-retired Equifax CEO Rick Smith has laid the blame for his credit-check biz's IT security breach on a single member of the company's security team.…

It's an international tug-of-war: Russia also wants to extradite Peter Levashov The 36-year-old Russian accused of herding pump-and-dump spambots will be tried in America, following a decision of a Spanish court.…

Gadgets that need Flash now have another alternative OS Version 10.4 of FreeBSD has landed, with the headline feature being support for eMMC.…

'Pairing colours, type and imagery' is the new creativity, apparently LOGOWATCH LogoWatch's formative computing experiences included using multiple fonts – nearly always Kawasaki and Chicago – sometimes with different shadings, in Aldus PageMaker on early Macs' nine-inch screens.…

At last, the leadership America desperately needs If you've never heard of Stonecrest, Georgia, you're not alone: the town on the outer fringes of Atlanta only voted itself into existence a couple of years ago. But it's now put itself on the map by offering to rename 345 acres of land “Amazon” in a bid to land Amazon.com's new headquarters.…

Wee small hours civil defence wake-in-fright text arrives on Vodafone mobes A time-zone mixup has resulted in about half of all New Zealanders being woken by civil defence and emergency management authorities sending a test text message overnight.…

We meant it, nothing matters any more. Nothing at all White House cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce has won the backing of Equifax's ex-CEO for a plan to stop using social security numbers as personal identifiers in the US.…

Cloud Firestore aspires to scale better Google's twin fetish manifested itself in its Firebase platform-as-a-service offering on Tuesday through the introduction of a second realtime NoSQL database.…

El Reg takes another spin on Redmond's VR headset support in Fall Creators release With the release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update just two weeks away, Microsoft showcased on Tuesday more of the virtual-reality headset support that will be bundled with the software upgrade.…

They're just trolling us at this point Shortly after we all learned of a massive security breach at Equifax in which the personal information of 143 million 145.5 million Americans and sundry Brits and Canadians was plundered by hackers, the US Internal Revenue Service awarded Equifax a no-bid contract – to provide identity verification services for the tax authority.…

Drivers' licenses pics shared with States? You ain't seen nothing yet: the private sector might get your mugshot, too Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has hinted that the expansion of the nation's facial recognition databases could include private sector access.…

Every user pwned, how's that $4bn looking now, Verizon? With Equifax testifying in US Congress today about its own massive security failings, someone at Yahoo! presumably thought now would be a good time to bury bad news – but some things are too large to hide.…

Unless of course your site is so dull that a little hacker defacement will cheer it up The plugin gurus at WordFence have this week found three critical security holes in third-party WordPress extensions that are being actively exploited by hackers to take over websites.…

For perhaps the first time ever, a JavaOne keynote was actually useful Analysis In the wake of a safe harbor disclaimer insisting Oracle could not be held to anything said during its JavaOne conference keynote on Monday, Georges Saab, veep of software development for the Java platform, talked his way through a Java victory lap.…

Engineering the Microsoft way Microsoft has explained how a cascading series of cockups left some of its Northern European Azure customers without access to services for nearly seven hours.…

Krzanich pays tribute to former Chipzilla supremo Former Intel CEO Paul Otellini died on Monday aged 66, the chip maker confirmed this morning.…

NFS as a service on-ramp to Azure NetApp is making NFS available as a service in Microsoft's Azure Cloud, enaabling on-premises NFS-using applications to move into Azure.…

Zürich bloke's neighbours send nasty letter over whiskey flag A man was reportedly asked if he was an Islamic State sympathiser after his neighbours mistook a Jack Daniel's flag for the black-and-white terrorist insignia.…

Oh, that's shingles. As you were WDC has released an Ultrastar 14TB disk drive with host application software managing its shingled writing scheme.…

What went down last week in Florida? Tens of thousands of tourists flocked to Florida's theme park town of Orlando last week, but they weren't there to see Mickey; they were there to imbibe the new wares at Microsoft's Ignite, which focuses on cloud computing and IT administration.…

$95m to satiate its appetite for gutbusting growth Analysis Moshe Yanai's Infinidat has gained $95m in third-round funding and wants us to know that it's not a debt-fuelled Silicon Valley extravaganza of a startup like others that have crashed and burned or gone through bought-at-a-discount acquisitions.…

Dude. Woah. The 2017 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three researchers crucial to the first detection of ripples in the fabric of space-time – gravitational waves.…

Dublin Judge asks European Court to look at data flows all over again Privacy activist and student Max Schrems has hailed an Irish Court decision today to refer cross-Atlantic data flows back to the European Court of Justice - all over again.…

ATSB wraps up, nine months after 'suspending' search Australian air authorities have published their final report into the MH370 mystery, concluding that they’re no wiser about what happened or why than when the Malaysian Airlines flight vanished three years ago.…

Yet another product cull raises questions about Microsoft's commitment to... anything, really Comment Ever since Satya Nadella took the helm at Microsoft in 2014, his PR people have been grooming him to be an Inspiration Thought Leader, preaching Transformation to the TED Talk classes. This took another step with the global launch of his book Hit Refresh, a "masterpiece" of how to scale up the "growth mindset”. [must-read]…

It must have been divine intervention Ubuntu's wiki page this morning temporarily played host to a bit of info from religious group Computers4Christians, whose aim is to propagate the use of its operating system to spread the word of the Lord.…

Developers hoping move will reinvigorate the community It's been a few weeks since it was announced that Oracle would move Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation and we're already starting to see indications of how it's shaping up.…

Goes native with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle Data-as-a-service firm Actifio has bumped its virtual data pipeline, Sky Platform, to v8.0, extending its coverage to a crowd of public clouds.…

125k refuseniks to have their say after all Parliament has rescheduled its debate on the BBC TV Tax, after it was quietly canned thanks to the snap general election earlier this year.…

Techies! Will you please stop patronising and sneering! ;_; UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has once again demonstrated she does not know how encryption works, this time by explicitly admitting it to delegates at a Tory party fringe conference where she also hit out at "patronising" techies that "sneered" at politicians.…

OpenIO talks us through how it's applying its software to SSDs Interview Will object storage using SSDs with embedded servers become a realistic storage/processing technology?…

Management, devs, ops, Bob too... just be freakin' reasonable Don't be like Bob. You remember Bob, right? Tasked with building the company's cloud. Sinking in a quicksand of managerial buzzword bingo and ever-changing requirements, burdened by a lack of resources. Bob was under pressure, which produced tension at home, and Bob quit the job resulting in the company's cloud project floundering.…