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by Chris Mellor on (#2QKMD)
What are they banging on about? Analysis Having acquired Nimble Storage and its hybrid and all-flash arrays, HPE is positioning it as a kind of secondary storage. What does that mean?…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2QKJ8)
(And everything you've seen) Welcome to 'Closing the Loop' In a move with echoes of the fictional internet giant described in Dave Eggers' The Circle, Google's has begun trawling through billions of personal credit card records, matching them to your browser, location and advertising histories.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2QKEP)
Also, here's why LTE-M gained ground over NB-IoT in Europe Some customers are expecting more than can be realistically delivered with licensed spectrum Internet of Things connectivity technologies, a major European telco has warned.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2QKAM)
Gloom and doom? Consumers still shopping with us, trills CEO Political uncertainty haven’t put punters off purchasing electronic gadgets, Dixons Carphone CEO reported today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2QK8K)
Partners with state-backed Japanese funds +Comment WDC is partnering with a state-backed Japanese fund and bidding ¥2 trillion ($17.9bn, £13.8bn) to buy Toshiba’s Memory Business.…
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by John Leyden on (#2QK04)
Upgrade and they will come The volume of 64-bit malware in the wild remains low even though computers running 64-bit operating systems became ubiquitous years ago.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2QJYF)
Some might say this is fake news. It isn't An American company implausibly named AnalTech – no, really – has been slammed hard enough for a hazardous materials response team to be called out to deal with the smell.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2QJV9)
Shopping as a constant poker game Analysis "AI" could soon be making petrol more expensive at times of peak demand like the start of a bank holiday weekend or the school run.…
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by Team Register on (#2QJRJ)
At least we'll always have #catsinteslas
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by Mark Whitehorn on (#2QJPH)
Use and abuse of figures If statistics were a human being, it would have been in deep therapy all of its 350-year life. The sessions might go like this:…
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by Mark Pesce on (#2QJK2)
Sort of. Leia's a New Hope Star Wars New Hope @ 40 When Lucasfilm recently unveiled its tribute reel to the late Carrie Fisher, one of the most memorable monologues in cinema sat right in its center.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2QJGS)
Test management and debugging at scale become a bit less daunting Facebook on Wednesday plans to introduce a set of open source developer tools to streamline app development testing and bug hunting.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2QJEF)
IPO? Ticked. 1,079% growth in 11 years? Ticked. Lost the tightness? Nah Martin Hellawell, the McDonald's-card-toting CEO at mega reseller Softcat isn't quite sailing off into the sunset just yet, but he is preparing to handover the operation once a successor is found.…
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by Marcus Gibson on (#2QJC1)
Sure, there are hurdles, but no £18bn hole on the other side like Hinkley Point For the first time ever in April, the UK's data centres and clouds ran on electricity generated without burning coal.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#2QJ9V)
When two 'innocent' events on the network are anything but IT teams can get away with poor service management, outdated software development methods and outdated apps running on legacy tin, but they might want to think twice before skimping on cybersecurity. If you don't stay on top of this stuff, while you might not be found out today or tomorrow, eventually, your customers’ personal details might just turn up on Pastebin.…
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by Shahin Khan on (#2QJ7T)
What's a tensor? Glad you asked... HPC blog Last week, Nvidia held its biggest ever GPU Technology Conference (GTC). The big walk-away is that GPUs are rapidly becoming an expected and standard component of computing, table stakes in many cases, across the computing platform. Big deal right there and hence the frothiness of much of the coverage.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2QJ5F)
Facebook, Google, Twitter and friends face clampdown European Union ministers have approved new rules for video that will oblige Facebook, Google, Twitter and others to remove hate speech and sexually explicit videos online or face stiff fines.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2QJ29)
Lobs deployment tools at sysadmins, complete with Silverlight and ActiveX support Google is trying to give businesses a reason to ditch Internet Explorer by giving sysadmins a new set of tools for mass deployment of its own Chrome browser.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2QJ03)
Stacks up against Open Compute with one design for data centres of all sizes plan LinkedIn wants you to brick it in the data centre by following it and its friends with a new standard for data centre hardware that pushes its ambitions to the edge and into competition with the Facebook-derived Open Compute Project.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2QHTB)
Cloud's just 'recommended', for now, as local industry plans 50 per cent growth by 2025 India's issued three “Guidance Notes†outlining its government's policies for procuring software and entering into alliances and running RFPs.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2QHTC)
World's biggest advertising company needs to prove ads are worth the money Google wants stores to gather purchase data on its behalf, to bolster its case that advertising on the platform works.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2QHQ5)
Emissions software scandal flares anew Fiat-Chrysler, accused of the same kind of software defeat as landed Volkswagen in hot water, is now the subject of a Department of Justice lawsuit.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2QHH1)
Active Deploy binned in favour of Kubernetes and/or Cloud Foundry IBM's announced a swift retirement of its Active Deploy service, a facility offered to those who want frequent updates to cloudy applications.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2QHCP)
Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows Google Project Zero's Windows bug-hunter and fuzz-boffin Tavis Ormandy has given the world an insight into how he works so fast: he works on Linux, and with the release of a personal project on GitHub, others can too.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2QHBD)
Iris-scanner defeated with a camera in night mode, a contact lens, and a printer Chaos Computer Club's "Starbug" has taken a look at the Samsung Galaxy S8's iris-scanning authentication feature and found you can beat it with a photograph.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2QH8J)
He left Oracle years ago so this is no biggie, but clearly cloud is where big brains want to roost Java creator James Gosling has announced he now works for Amazon Web Services.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2QH77)
And it's a nasty one if the user you crack has admin rights French security outfit Sysdream has gone public with a vulnerability in the admin interface for OpenVPN's server.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2QH3S)
One small bag for a man, one giant check for Sotheby's The bag Neil Armstrong used to carry home lunar samples from the Apollo 11 mission could fetch up to $4m at auction next month.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2QH1V)
Fines equal around 8 hours of profit, that'll teach them Target, the shopping behemoth for people who are too classy to go to Walmart, has today reached a settlement with 47 states and the District of Columbia over the 2013 hacking incident that saw 70 million customers lose their personal information.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2QH0Q)
Axions still a no-show over at CERN Axion Telescope The hunt for axions – a potential dark matter candidate – at the CERN Axion Solar Telescope have been fruitless. But scientists refuse to give up as they set a new limit that calculates the probability of finding these elusive particles.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2QGWQ)
Kiss goodbye to that Android bike and Transformers car It has all gone pear-shaped for Chinese conglomerate LeEco after the firm told nearly 70 per cent of its US staff that their services will no longer be required.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2QGSR)
Dial-a-ride house admits underpaying New York drivers Uber said today that it will hand drivers back pay that could add up to tens of millions of dollars.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2QGN6)
Metadata confirms what we all suspected A "toolkit" provided to House Republicans to defend US comms watchdog the FCC's recent decision to tear up net neutrality rules was written by the cable lobby.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2QGG2)
Two sets of judges rule for citizens and against government The US National Security Agency has been hit by two legal losses that may put the last part of its controversial spying program on US citizens under threat.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2QG8N)
Activists say they got cease and desist threat for pointing out astroturfing An activist group says it was threatened by Comcast lawyers after it pointed out the cable giant's efforts to astroturf the FCC with fake comments on net neutrality.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2QG4Y)
Middle Kingdom mandarins get their own OS While much attention has been focused on the new Surface Pro laptop Microsoft has launched in Shanghai on Tuesday, the company also announced a special build of its operating system for China.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2QFFR)
Boutique fondleslab gains SIM slot... but not until later this year Microsoft has revamped its Surface tablet, which at last includes a SIM card slot.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2QFBG)
Cities sick of being used as techies' sandboxes Cities are tired of being the "guinea pigs" caught in the middle of the Internet of Things' ongoing standards bunfight, London's LPWA conference was told this morning.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2QF7P)
Won't somebody think of the savings? Oh, they have, and now the dream has died The long-running and highly criticised joint venture between Capita and Birmingham, England, City Council is being rubbed out, reportedly saving taxpayers around £44m.…
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by John Leyden on (#2QF45)
VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Stremio were all vulnerable Hackers have gone back to the future by attempting to infect targets with booby-trapped subtitle files.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2QF0V)
Global biz is flying to fast-access frames of flash Analysis Amadeus, the global travel booking business, is testing Micron's SolidScale NVMe flash arrays, thinking they can provide vastly better realtime access to the terabytes of flight information it holds on behalf of airlines and travel operators.…
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Telco argues payment isn't covered by reorg scheme The widow of an Avaya employee has said the troubled UK telco should not terminate her death benefits following its bankruptcy filing in January.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2QEGR)
Anyone interested? NHS? Bueller? Bueller? National Health Service trusts can consolidate their data in readiness for GDPR by buying an Analytics Private Health Data Vault service, based on Commvault's Clinical Archive product, says its maker.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2QEE9)
Firm will kill live in-flight streaming unless you hand over your details Chinese drone maker DJI is forcing all new users of its drones to register their devices through its app - and is throttling flight performance if they don't comply.…
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But don't let poor proof of concept and insecurity put you off... As many as three-quarters of IoT projects are a flop, according to Cisco. But rather than having fewer crappy connected devices, Switchzilla reckons what's needed is a better IoT architecture. If only someone could help...…
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by John Leyden on (#2QE9D)
Only few bad apples at internet badness hotspots, though The .science domain has become a “hotspots†of malicious or abusive activity on the internet, according to a new study out Tuesday.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2QE5J)
Unspecified lump sum heading for Finland Nokia and Apple have made peace after a brief but vituperative legal stand-off. The two settled all their outstanding issues over intellectual property rights, with an unspecified lump sum heading from California to Finland, as well as royalties.…
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That's rich, coming from an audio-branded-call-handling biz Self-serving research published with the sole aim of flogging wares is a fairly standard PR tactic. But every now and then something so artfully shameless pops up it transcends the genre. Step forward, PHMG.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2QDYY)
Huawei breathing creepily down Apple's neck Huawei is breathing over Apple's shoulder as Chinese brands make inroads into Western smartphone markets.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#2QDXZ)
Get the basics right IT services are rubbish. It’s a fact of life – or at least it is in the eyes of the average user. Of course the nature of IT is that you get far more negative feedback than you do positive: you seldom get people calling the IT service desk to say: “Hey, my webmail is superb todayâ€. But people wouldn’t be phoning if everything was working as the users want it to.…
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