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And it only took them 10 months to realise Italian bank UniCredit admitted on Wednesday that a series of breaches, undetected for nearly a year, exposed the personal data of 400,000 loan applicants.…

Uses FPGAs as drive controllers Fast NVMe over Fabric access to flash arrays needs direct access to the target drives, bypassing the X86 array controller, for the lowest latency. FPGAs are being developed to do this.…

Probe finds widespread abuse of cop IT systems by personnel A freedom-of-information request by Huntsman Security has discovered that UK police forces detected and investigated at least 779 cases of potential data misuse by personnel between January 2016 and April 2017.…

Enterprise kit to enable hyperscale and HPC Toshiba SSDs are being used to speed Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers.…

Nope, says PR, Meg 'plans to stay ... until her work is done' Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman is reportedly high among the names shortlisted to take over as the boss of Uber.…

Customers whinge it's 'roaming at home like 2012' Three has said it has yet to fix a date for customers to have access to 4G when using its data roaming service.…

Not before a push from Oz small biz techie QNAP has put out a critical NAS firmware fix notice after prolonged pushing by a small business tech IT pro guy in Australia.…

Really? Internet ballot-stuffing has existed for as long as Rickrolling, if not longer, but it used to be a serious endeavour requiring a certain level of commitment, however misguided.…

In which Chronicles of Delphi scribe Verity gives praise to post-book world Stob The best way to acquire a programming skill - by "skill" I mean a working understanding of a framework, a language or, shudder, very very bad word coming up, engaging shatter-proof scare quotes, a "paradigm" - is by modifying a colleague's well-written code and making it do something different that you actually need it to do. With the colleague on hand to explain it all, natch.…

£1,200 upfront cost denied the public access to justice The Supreme Court has ruled that current employment tribunal fees are unlawful, opening the floodgates to hacked off employees (and ex-employees) across the country.…

RSA reckons crooks know predictability equals death Machine learning and artificial intelligence will improve security technologies and outcomes, but “won’t move the needle as much as people think”, according to RSA chief technology officer Zulfikar Ramzan.…

Cook, Pass, Mockridge The mere mention of Virgin Media's chief exec Tom Mockridge is enough to trigger the profanity filter in the firm's customer forum, El Reg has discovered.…

Beeb bigwig reckons £75m saved in IT could help pay parity. What? Exclusive Hundreds of IT roles at the BBC are to be offshored to cheaper wage locations, under a £560m contract renewal coming into force with its incumbent outsourcing giant Atos.…

Naughty text still online days after they were told to kill it Currys PC World has been ordered not to "exaggerate the capability" of its Knowhow Cloud backup after an aggrieved buyer found out the hard way that he had to restore each individual file one by one.…

Bid to raise discipline's profile after hitching it to big data hype Whitehall is looking for a geography aficionado to emphasise the role the discipline plays in the UK government's work.…

Plus, crappy UK broadband, meeting Theresa Bae, drone regs and more

This is not how Redmond got devs hooked on Windows Hands on Microsoft made a big deal of Cortana skills at its Build developer conference earlier this year – the business of creating voice interactions with users via the digital assistant built into Windows 10 and also available for iOS and Android.…

'Temporary measure' to cope with demand, apparently O2 has admitted to deliberately throttling its network as a "temporary measure" to combat the demand of Brits using free data roaming abroad.…

Simple model reaches 75% accuracy Analysis Scientists have had a crack at using simple machine-learning software to make psychiatry a little more objective.…

Eleven arrested over malicious browser plug-in that netted nearly US$12 million Chinese police have moved on the developers of the Fireball adware that infected millions of computers earlier this year.…

Quantum random number generator in a 5 mm chip Quantum random number generators aren't new, but one small enough to provide practical security for Internet of Things applications is interesting.…

Targeting oil demo may have been training exercise for snoops, it is feared For the past year or so, protesters in North Dakota, America, have been trying to prevent an oil pipeline from being built through Native Americans’ sacred land.…

These blokes spent two years studying and warning retail giants of fraud danger Gift cards' lousy security makes it easy for crooks to spend marks' money, researchers said Tuesday night.…

Roomba biz hopes to ink deals with Amazon et al Analysis Roomba maker iRobot recorded soaring sales and banked rising profits in the three months to July, according to figures revealed on Tuesday.…

Move your data or lose it by August 24th or lose it, then ask if this would happen on-prem We all know cloud is evolving fast, but IBM's just given us the downside of that speed: a service it switched on in December 2015 will be switched off in August 2017.…

It woz the switches and the cloud wot done it – sales of both soared Juniper Networks has turned in a solid second quarter, reporting growth in revenue and profitability.…

Facebook uses it for AR apparently. What? That's a positive? Our bad Qualcomm's decided to open up its year-old AI, by making its Neural Processing Engine (NPE) available to all.…

Confused? We can explain What should govern the behavior of huge multinationals like Google: the law Google makes for itself, or the laws that people make?…

NVMe gives you the speed and reach cloud needs Promo Cloud computing has raised the bar for all organisations. Users now expect to be able to spin up big workloads and that those applications will be able to go fast with big quantities of data, on-premises and off.…

Ryzen gets desktops back in the black AMD wasn't able to turn a profit this quarter, but analysts are bullish on the chipmaker's solid Ryzen CPU sales.…

But it might be hard to persuade the government When nbn™', the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network, decided to revise its backhaul price book back in June and the the move was rightly welcomed. But the topic remains so controversial CEO Bill Morrow has flagged further possible changes.…

Move over, Mayweather and McGregor The American spectator sport that is net neutrality has just got its own Rumble in the Jungle.…

Cool stuff but no breakthrough (yet) Analysis Google and Tri Alpha Energy, a Californian energy company, say they have come up with an algorithm that appears to help scientists generate hotter plasma more efficiently for nuclear fusion experiments. Keyword: experiments.…

Trust the hookers, don’t trust the Wi-Fi DEF CON Businesses in Las Vegas are locking down their systems as hackers fly into the fetid hell of Sin City for a trio of security conferences.…

IT titans dragged toward court by class-action sueballs The two offshoots of Hewlett Packard are being sued in the US for allegedly discriminating against African Americans and older workers.…

Massachusetts jail to kill off in-person meetings for more profitable solution A jail in the US has taken its embrace of technology a little too far by putting an end to in-person visits – and requiring family members to video conference with their locked-up loved ones instead.…

'Technology shifts present demand variations for the storage industry' Seagate revenues fell 9.1 per cent in the three months to June 30, aka the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2017 year. It has also changed its CEO, and announced a headcount cut for good measure.…

Translation: It's all yours, ARM. Take it away Intel's flirtation with the maker community appears to have fizzled out, although the chip giant insists its passion remains.…

Buggy multimedia nightmare won't see President Zuckerberg's inauguration Adobe has officially set a kill date for its beleaguered Flash.…

But don't hold your breath for when it'll start recruiting Amazon today announced it plans to "double" its R&D roles in the UK capital. However, it doesn't know when these mysterious new roles will be recruited.…

Takes small loss as it vows to deliver the goods later this fiscal year Commvault grew revenues by 9 per cent year-on-year in its fiscal first 2018 quarter, ended June 30, 2017.…

... which is absolutely not what US gov audit-type folk expect F-35 software development will be finished by the end of this year, Lockheed Martin has said – which contradicts the view of various American government audit agencies.…

Japanese firm wants to tighten grip on Asian ride-share market Japanese firm SoftBank is reportedly aiming to take a multibillion-dollar stake in Uber, just days after it stumped up cash for Singaporean ride-sharing biz Grab's latest investment round.…

CopyKittens persistent but easy to find, monitor and counter Security researchers have lifted the lid on a new cyber-espionage crew that has targeted the German Bundestag and Turkish diplomats.…

Stop saying it’s scary, Elon, pleads Zuck. You’re an idiot, replies Musk Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has told Elon Musk off for scaring people about “AI”. Musk has responded by saying Zuckerberg's understanding is "limited".…

Israeli newcomer has so far raised $48m Data analytics startup Iguazio has raised $33m in a B-round.…

Waste money in the airport, or save money with us...your choice If you want to get on top of machine learning and learn how AI is leaping from the lab to the world of businesses, you could buy "something" for Dummies at the airport en route to the beach...…

If you want good trains, go to Hull Grumbling commuters are more likely to moan about Southern than any other train line, according to the latest national passenger survey (PDF) from the transport watchdog.…

According to this 'ere poll, anyway Software developers have almost no interest in creating applications for wearables or smart TVs, but they're keen on web and hybrid apps, so much so that native-only developers are dwindling.…

Pen-testing service delivered alongside Watson IoT platform IBM says its X-Force Red security pen-testing brand is now offering connected car and IoT sweeps.…