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Safe to assume the money will keep getting better Some security-conscious organizations award hackers up to $900,000 a year, according to what's touted as the biggest bug bounty industry report to date.…

Halt and catch fire! Oops, all-flash storage array startup Tintri intended to go public today – during what has turned out to be the busiest week for IPOs in over a year – but abruptly halted its IPO intention late yesterday.…

More than one BEEEEELLION mobe sales to celebrate? Screw that twisted logic A decade ago to the day, the Jesus Mobe went on sale in the US: bereft of 3G connectivity, the iPhone had a relatively crappy two megapixel camera and 4GB of storage, not to mention a hefty price of $499. It was destined to be a failure.…

European Aviation Network connectivity project continues Inmarsat has successfully launched its latest satellite, which will form part of the grandiosely named European Aviation Network for putting faster Wi-Fi aboard airliners.…

Total Inability To Support Users' Packets Rackspace was hit by a major worldwide outage this morning, which appeared to last for nearly three hours.…

You should probably reset your password, says GDS Users of the UK government’s data dashboard have been asked to change their passwords after their information was made public.…

Getting IT out of everyone's way Sysadmin blog Organizations look at the cloud as an option because it was impossible to get their data centers to operate at the same efficiency. Now if you flip it over and get the data centers to behave the same way as the cloud, how would that change things?…

Getting IT out of everyone's way Sysadmin blog Organizations look at the cloud as an option because it was impossible to get their data centers to operate at the same efficiency. Now if you flip it over and get the data centers to behave the same way as the cloud, how would that change things?…

Ordinary decent cybercriminal... or? A Twitter user purporting to speak for the cybercrime group behind the original Petya ransomware has claimed they want to help "repair" the damage caused by this week's attack.…

Audit giant failed to spot frauds The UK's Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is to investigate PwC's audits of BT, following an accountancy scandal at the telecom firm's Italian unit.…

Defence ministry announces full inquiry A French general stands accused of using military fast jets for weekend commutes to his country pile in Provence on the country’s sunny south coast.…

Thinking ahead to save on artificial intelligence Events You’ve got a month to grab early bird tickets for MCubed London, our three-day exploration of all things Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Predictive Analytical this October, and save £100s in the process.…

Blow to Rupe as deal will be subject to further investigation The proposed £11.7bn takeover of Sky by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has been referred to the Competition and Markets Authority regulator today.…

Data centre control plane platform play by mad hyperconverger Nutanix is making a play to be a data centre control plane platform with a hybrid cloud game plan, buttressed by buddying up with the Google Cloud Platform.…

Worse than York, which is 'frankly embarrassing' The capital has "sub-standard" broadband and 4G speeds, causing it to lag behind smaller UK cities such as York, Coventry and Edinburgh - according to a report (PDF) today by the London Assembly.…

Kinetica CEO dreams of being the database Apple of the enterprise's eye Kinetica, the in-memory GPU-accelerated database, has pulled in $50m in its first major venture capital financing round.…

Hey Tosh, you're so frivolous and without merit Western Digital has hit back at Toshiba, its flash memory joint venture partner, which this week sued it in Japan for $1bn damages, alleging unfair competition and theft of trade secrets.…

Plus systemic underspending in IT. Imagine that A lack of accountability and investment in cyber-security has been blamed for the recent WannaCrypt virus that hobbled multiple hospital NHS IT systems last month, a report by The Chartered Institute for IT concludes.…

High-income countries told to help those that can’t afford to collect data The World Health Organisation has issued what it says is the first international framework for ethical public health data collection and use.…

If they’re a 'DevOps Expert', they probably aren’t Comment We’re almost halfway through this year, and how’s progress on those Digital Transformation Initiative slides doing? Maybe you need a quick jump in improvement to buy some time for August vacations, and then ensure you can get enough actual change and a few successful projects in place by the holidays.…

Jez 'Argonaut' San puts on his poker face for El Reg grilling One of the brains behind classic Nintendo game Star Fox is launching a blockchain-based online gambling service that could leave regulators stumped – and says he has raised $200,000 from the public to launch it.…

Separate compute and storage environments inside Analysis I have come to the conclusion that NetApp's new HCI system is more converged than hyperconverged: in essence the boxes just add compute nodes and networking to SolidFire (storage) nodes.…

Oldies will retain mobility and independence when Teslas can self-drive them to work or be sent out to do the shopping My uncle Amadeo turns 79 this week and bought himself a luxe Model S Tesla as a present.…

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has told a press conference ahead of a ministerial meeting tomorrow Brussels time that “cyber” is a “military domain” – and that a cyber-attack on one member can trigger NATO's Article 5.…

Tiny body moves similar to Jupiter – but travels in the opposite direction Asteroid 2015 BZ – also known as Bee-Zed – is the only asteroid in our solar system with a confirmed retrograde orbit lasting 12 years; the same orbital period as Jupiter.…

Attackers can dive out of the cloud to pwn admin passwords Microsoft is warning sysadmins to check their Azure Active Directory Connect configurations and implement a patch against a credential-handling vulnerability.…

End of an epoch, but dead trees live on O'Reilly Media, the preeminent publisher of tech titles for non-dummies, is exiting print distribution.…

Drivers' 'not-a-union' takes on 'not-a-taxi' company Scandal-ridden, leaderless not-a-taxi dudebro poster-child Uber is under investigation in Australia about whether its “independent contractor” drivers are actually employees.…

Outsourcing the unicorn hunt This week's five-eyes meeting has issued its communique, promising to get the tech sector to solve the problems of online terrorism and encrypted communications.…

PS, Alpine users, you need to get patching, too – for other reasons Systemd, the Linux world's favorite init monolith, can be potentially crashed or hijacked by malicious DNS servers. Patches are available to address the security flaw, and should be installed ASAP if you're affected.…

Toxic upstart accused of inaction amid assault claims Uber is accused of ignoring warning signs about an attempted murderer who signed up as a driver and then allegedly attacked a passenger before raping another.…

Peeps flying into US face 'enhanced screening' Folks flying into America must endure extra security checks if they want to bring their laptops into airplane cabins. In a press conference on Wednesday, US Homeland Security boss John Kelly announced the introduction of:…

Sit down Kitt, be humble The head of US trade watchdog the FTC has pushed for companies to loosen their ties over self-driving cars.…

Senior execs hired and flagging retail business canned Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron’s new CEO, is setting a whirlwind pace to make changes at the relatively staid old chipper.…

Also, update your Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server – before you get hacked Several employees of Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab got an unpleasant surprise on Tuesday night when FBI agents popped round to their residences for a chat.…

TNT Express systems blown up by, er, yeah, you get the idea FedEx has suspended trading of its shares on the New York stock exchange after admitting that its subsidiary TNT Express has been hit by "an information system virus."…

It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along Canada's Supreme Court says America's Hat has authority over Google results worldwide – at least in cases when someone's copyright has been stomped on.…

Tosh talks 4-level cell tech, too Just as we are getting used to 64‑layer 3D NAND chips, along come the warring flash joint-venture couple Toshiba and Western Digital. The pair say their JV has produced a 96‑layer prototype die, with Toshiba also introducing four-level cell tech.…

Malicious chats mostly came from India, say police Four Britons have been arrested on suspicion of helping organise fraudulent telephone support scam calls that caused “hundreds of millions of pounds” of losses worldwide.…

Managed cloud biz’s next move? Machine learning, obviously Managed cloud provider Rackspace has announced it is using Splunk to power its decision analytics engine - and plans to use the software provider’s machine learning tool next.…

VDI and HCIA software supplier Atlantis Computing is in middle of "delicate ongoing negotiations" seeking funding from investors.…

Integrated IT infrastructure is a good place to start Sysadmin blog The private clouds are coming. A few of them are already in place, lurking in the shadows, but in 2017 the Infrastructure Endgame Machines (IEMs) land and everyone starts being able to buy cloud-in-a-can. With private clouds moving along the hype cycle towards Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) solutions, the race to rebrand the concept for marketing purposes begins. Behold: the enterprise cloud!…

You could say the flash JV partners' relationship is at rock bottom Toshiba is suing WDC in a Tokyo court for ¥120bn ($1bn, £830m), alleging unfair competition.…

Catches up with https everywhere memo UK-based hosting and domains provider firm 123-reg has fixed an issue that meant access to some customers' databases ran over an unsecured link, creating a privacy risk in the process.…

Junior appointment more telling than non-expert status Comment The appointment of digital minister Caroline Nokes yesterday was met with some sniggering when it was revealed she was formerly the chief executive of the National Pony Society.…

You can buy it at consumer electronics e-shop. We're not joking Intel has hatched a new SSD, a 64-layer one, available in a lovely coincidence at etailer Newegg for $179.99.…

Airplane mode: Yes or no?

Ultimate Britishness experience – wet, grey skies and a huge wait just to be disappointed The AWS Summit in London has opened – and queues of several hundred people are already building around the venue as rumours of an IT failure on the ticket desks swirl.…

Record £500m full-year figure for borg Dixons Carphone reported a bumper year, with profits up 10 per cent to £501m for its preliminary results 2016/17.…

Never fear – they're moving to, er, Windows 8.1 instead Thousands of Metropolitan Police computers are still running Windows XP more than a year after the force promised to upgrade them, mayor Sadiq Khan has admitted in response to a Greater London Assembly question.…