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Entanglement in the EMEA geo Analysis More details have emerged about the Fujitsu NetApp NFLEX converged system and about Fujitsu's HCI strategy, which might preclude it selling the NetApp HCI.…

Maybe Zuck and Musk do have it all figured out, but powers that be will need to see some proof The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) unites a strange mix of people. “We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things,” Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech at Harvard University in May. “And yes, giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose isn’t free. People like me should pay for it,” he added.…

'Splunk App for Build Analytics' is in closed beta, but if you ask nicely ... Exclusive Splunk has developed a prototype product to measure productivity in DevOps teams.…

Managers told staff to report 40 hour weeks even if they worked more, lawsuit claims Oracle was sued on Tuesday by a former sales rep for allegedly failing to pay overtime wages, in violation of America's federal Fair Labor Standards Act and Texas state law.…

Assistant and Home can now save you shouting at the kids when dinner's ready Vision of a connected speaker in every room to save shouting at the kids when dinner hits the table Google has taken on the might of the intercom industry with a device that makes shouting at your kids to get them to come to the dinner table redundant – for perhaps a couple of hundred dollars.…

Secretive Sandia Labs, US military seeks a few good guinea pigs for hack contest The US Department of Defense is funding research into how hackers hack, with an interesting twist. It wants to wire them up with body monitoring equipment to measure how they react while hunting down and exploiting security flaws.…

Thanks for coming, TensorFlow Mobile, TensorFlow Lite is what the cool kids will code with now Google's released an Android/iOS version of TensorFlow.…

ETSI goes MANO et MANO et MANO for better NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published the third release of OSM, its open source management and orchestration (MANO) stack for network function virtualisation.…

Astroboffins prepare for cosmic data deluge starting in February 2018 A sky survey destined to add yet another firehose of data to astronomy saw first light in early November.…

They'd say more but Eugene K's loading the sueball-flinger Only 15 per cent of US federal agencies still have Kaspersky Lab software anywhere on their networks.…

As Homeland Security hacks 757 on the tarmac At least some commercial aircraft are vulnerable to wireless hacking, a US Department of Homeland Security official has admitted.…

From the same people who turned Yahoo! into Oath, the end of an era CompuServe has announced it will remove its forums on December 15th, 2017.…

Not enough? How about a few dozen PDF remote code holes? Microsoft and Adobe are getting into the holiday spirit this month by gorging users and admins with a glut of security fixes.…

Premium Search API targets businesses on a budget Hoping to extinguish its eleven-year cash bonfire and finally turn a profit, Twitter has introduced premium APIs to allow businesses to make better use of its trove of troll tweets – for a fee.…

FCC commish wants more than one-page updates on recovery Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the commissioners at America's broadband watchdog the FCC, has reiterated her call for hearings into what is happening with communications on the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico.…

Who left 'wipe the engineering toolkit' off the factory checklist? Updated An apparent factory cockup has left many OnePlus Android smartphones with an exposed diagnostics tool that can be potentially exploited to root the handsets.…

Ride-hailing biz blamed for indifferent security Two unnamed women allegedly raped by Uber drivers sued the transit app biz today for sexual assault and unlawful business practices.…

Even the US Department of Justice can't decide They are the most dissected, repeated and analyzed statements in the world – but are Donald Trump's tweets formal statements by the President of the United States, or his own personal reflections?…

Gotta plug that £14bn deficit somehow BT is proposing to close its defined benefit pension scheme for 11,000 managers and slash contributions to 21,000 frontline staff in a bid to plug a looming £14bn pension deficit.…

Jet plane, meet bike Analysis NetApp's E570 array supports NVMe over fabrics yet it does not use NVMe drives, potentially slowing data access.…

Boffins write browser extension for anonymous authentication Boffins have harnessed privacy-preserving crypto to create a browser extension that allows users to authenticate to services without being tracked.…

Offers free Docker integration File sync and sharer Panzura says containers are stuck executing locally unless the persistent storage they need moves with them to different on-premises or public cloud data centres. But, as luck would have it, it has got the tech to do just that.…

Benchmarks for HP laptop with Snapdragon CPU spotted It's a milestone in Windows history: the first benchmarks for a new generation of ARM-powered Windows hardware have been sighted in the wild. Geekbench has recorded an instance of a box running Windows 10 on the "Qualcomm CLS" platform.…

InfiniBox release 4 ticks more o' them mission-crit array boxes Big-iron array supplier Infinidat's fourth major version of its software adds sync (block) and async (file) replication, file directory quotas and quality of service features to quiet down noisy neighbours.…

Tick-tock, motherclockers An expensive and clunky-looking watch that can’t tell you the time* is once again clear winner in the failing smart wearables space.…

20-year-old is not an agent, Russia retorts Russia has denied that a person nabbed by Estonian local authorities was one of its spies. Estonia alleges the suspect had been intent on hacking into the Baltic country’s computer network.…

Adds faster RAID rebuilds, cross-product checks, no pricing detail... DataDirect Networks (DDN) has added a smaller burst buffer product, decreased RAID rebuild times and introduced a cross-product monitoring and management facility to its HPS/supercomputing storage product set.…

Oh rats! SSE inks deal to run fibre through Thames Water's subterranean empire London's Victorian sewer network is to be made accessible to fibre cables under a deal between SSE Enterprise Telecoms and Thames Water.…

'Unknown persons' spin up 244 VMs at cost of $64k. Whoops Miscreants racked up a $64,000 bill on DXC Technologies' tab after a techie accidentally uploaded the outsourcing firm's private AWS key to a public GitHub repo.…

More Apollo 2000 and 4510 power with wee Apollo 70 entering stage Some of HPE's supercomputer Apollo servers are Skylaked and can now say hello to an ARM-powered infant sibling.…

Schrems 1 - 1 Facebook Ireland in latest legal opinion Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems' bid to bring a class-action lawsuit against Facebook has been dealt a blow by the advocate general advising the European Court of Justice.…

Which? found this year's hot playthings lack basic security Consumer advice outfit Which? has today published a report detailing how easy it is to hack some of the most popular "connected toys" on the market and has called on retailers to stop selling those with "proven security issues".…

Not known if electric car's autopilot was in use An 80-year-old man has died in County Durham after being struck by a Tesla Model S.…

Builder's merchant tells punters their privates might be out in the cold Builders merchant Jewson has confirmed in writing to customers that their privates could have been exposed in a cyber break-in that occurred late this summer.…

Food could be left rotting in trucks at the border MPs have today warned of the "catastrophic" scenario of HMRC failing to have a back-up system in place if its Customs Declaration Service (CDS) programme is not ready in time for Brexit.…

Industrial chic 48-Hour Test The oddly named "Motion" – not an odd word, just an odd choice – is BlackBerry Mobile's second phone as a new venture, a quasi-startup housed within Chinese giant TCL. It's a hefty slab of durable, full-touch, midrange metal modelled after a Scandinavian industrial workshop.…

Facial recognition isn't the most reliable authentication right now Apple's iPhone X is one of several technologies bringing facial biometrics into the mainstream. It seems to have everything bar a heat scanner; the TrueDepth camera projects an impressive-sounding 30,000 infrared dots on to your phiz, scanning every blackhead in minute 3D detail.…

If you’re looking for power, you probably haven’t got any Reg Lectures Reg readers were introduced to a who's who of digital power players last week, from Kosovo’s king of fake news, and the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs planning floating startup countries, to, of course, grumpy cat.…

Money spent, money invested and money to be made Business – it's all about making bigger pies, either by buying in pie and adding it to your own, building a new pie-making plant, or supplying your filling as part of somebody else's pie. Which brings us to Barracuda, Toshiba and WANdiso plus a few short news bites.…

'Myca' has staff eating cognitive dog food, which may taste better than prevailing bitterness IBM staff are being asked to eat the company's dogfood in the form of an AI-infused career advice chatbot named “Myca”.…

ICOs meet advertising in the end-game for the gig economy Cryptocurrencies open the door to a world where everyone has their price.…

You didn't miss a new standard: CMF is 'colour, materials and finish' and PC-makers use it to make us fashion victims HP Inc says it has flipped its relationship with the PC supply chain, and made colour, materials and finish as important to PCs as CPUs, screen sizes and disk capacities.…

Bezos' cut price bit barns sell to comply with local laws Amazon Web Services has sold some of its infrastructure in China.…

Less than a quarter of world has freeish internet communication While America explores quite how much its election was interfered with by outsiders, the news isn't good for the rest of us, according to independent watchdog Freedom House.…

Assange .org tried to help coordinate Trump's election campaign Julian Assange's WikiLeaks – that bastion of fiercely independent journalism – privately urged the Trump campaign to not concede the 2016 presidential election, to contest the result as rigged, and asked for one of Donald's tax returns so as to appear impartial and nothing whatsoever to do with Russia's meddling in the White House race.…

This could work: Gandalf, Aragorn and Sauron all get busy between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring Amazon's television limb has announced it will make multiple series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of The Rings.…

RHEL now ready for power-efficient server-grade chips Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM reached general availability Monday, underscoring the growing competition confronted by Intel's x86-64 platform in the data center.…

When supermassive black holes collide, we'll feel it The most violent gravitational waves in the universe from supermassive black hole prangs will be detected to within ten years, according to research published on Monday.…

Duopoly guys do duopoly thing US telco giants AT&T and Verizon are joining forces to install cellphone towers throughout America.…