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KubeCon Europe While customers gawped at the shiny bauble of Windows 10, Microsoft trotted out the 1903 version of its workhorse big brother, Windows Server.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 3:45 pm
The US Air Force has opened an investigation into a "malware" infection – which it is blaming on lawyers employed by the US Navy who are working on a war crimes case.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 2:59 pm
EE unveiled a lineup of launch devices this morning for when it flicks the switch on 5G services in six cities, with one notable absence: Huawei.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 1:19 pm
Updated Brit chip designer Arm has now severed its links with Huawei in accordance with US sanctions, depriving the Chinese smartphone maker of a crucial supplier.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 12:41 pm
Compelling evidence for the existence of UK cryptid "the badger" has been recorded in the south-coast town of Gosport – and it appears to have a penchant for ice lollies.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 11:59 am
Kubecon Europe The ongoing game of tit-for-tat feature updates among the Big Three cloud players continued this week, with Google confirming support for Windows Server Containers at Kubecon.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 11:30 am
Pure Storage sales for its first fiscal 2020 quarter grew 28 per cent on last year, but losses were deeper than expected as those sought after large enterprise wins eluded an expanded salesforce.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 10:50 am
KubeCon Europe Darling of the OpenStack world Mirantis has continued its march into Kubernetes with a Bring Your Own Distribution support.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 10:05 am
The machine-learning-performance beef between Intel and Nvidia has stepped up a notch, with the GPU giant calling out Chipzilla for spreading misleading benchmark results.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 9:06 am
Comment Facebook and Google used grants and other funding to academics and journalistic organizations to pressure a group of experts in Europe to water down proposals on fake news, it was claimed yesterday.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 8:03 am
KubeCon Europe At the Linux Foundation's KubeCon this week cloudy services biz Mirantis gave some sneaky previews of its upcoming Kuberentes-as-a-Service product, a technology aimed at self-managing and provisioning multi-cloud clusters.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 7:00 am
DARPA, the US military's boffinry nerve center, is trying to fulfill the science-fiction dream of developing non-surgical brain-machine interfaces so soldiers can comfortably control weapon systems with their minds.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 6:12 am
The UK Space Agency has flung open the doors on a mighty £2m fund aimed imbuing Blighty with spaceflight capabilities.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 5:03 am
A bug-hunter who previously disclosed Windows security flaws has publicly revealed another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's latest operating systems.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 3:59 am
Microsoft on Tuesday released Windows 10, version 1903, aka the May 2019 Update, without forcing it on folks.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 12:58 am
Google admitted Tuesday its paid-for G Suite of cloudy apps aimed at businesses stored some user passwords in plaintext albeit in an encrypted form.…
Posted on 22 May 2019 | 12:00 am
Apple developers are becoming increasingly vocal about their displeasure with the state of the iGiant's programmer documentation, which they depend upon to craft iOS and macOS software.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 9:11 pm
Analysis It's taken seven years but online mega-mall Amazon will finally get its hands on the .amazon top-level domain name.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 8:25 pm
KubeCon Europe The shadow of Microsoft loomed large over KubeCon with the version 1.0 release of its serverless container tech, Virtual Kubelet.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 7:30 pm
KubeCon Europe Microsoft took to the stage at KubeCon in Barcelona today to push its take on the proliferation of mesh technologies that have sprung up around the container-happy tech.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 5:10 pm
A US government agency has claimed drones pose a threat to national security in an echo of its wider campaign against all things Chinese.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 4:20 pm
Updated UK mobile operator EE has been struggling to get its VoLTE services back on their feet, after a seven-hour flood of angry complaints from customers unable to place voice calls over the 4G network.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 3:21 pm
Storage roundup It's a garage sale of storage info this morning, including faster IBM object storage, Rubrik hiring a Google veteran, Nakivo backup supporting Nutanix AHV systems and much, much more.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 2:20 pm
KubeCon Europe Something odd happened at KubeCon 2019. Rather than snipe at each other from the safety of Twitter, two very similar open-source projects opted to pool their ideas into one: OpenTelemetry.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 1:22 pm
Most of us not fortunate enough to dwell in gated manors in the countryside hive to endure a simple truth – noisy neighbours can bee annoying. One Spanish couple had 80,000 of them, living in their bedroom wall.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 12:23 pm
Your iPhone can be uniquely fingerprinted by apps and websites in a way that you can never clear. Not by deleting cookies, not by clearing your cache, not even by reinstalling iOS.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 11:25 am
CrashPlan has banned a bunch of file formats from its online backup system aimed at small businesses.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 10:26 am
Part two As you sup your evening pint or enjoy some lunchtime refreshment, depending on your timezone, cast your mind back 50 years to when Apollo 10 did the "everything" part of "everything but land" and nearly ended NASA's lunar ambitions for good.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 9:26 am
Three men we can safely call geeks are looking for help to restore an IBM 360 mainframe they rescued from a soon-to-be-demolished factory in Germany.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 8:10 am
Deep learning algorithms can help doctors predict a patient’s risk of lung cancer, according to fresh research published on Monday.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 7:03 am
Silicon printer Toshiba Memory Holdings is reportedly planning to buy out major shareholders including Apple, Dell, Kingston and Seagate, as it prepares to try its luck in the public markets.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 6:04 am
The US government on Monday gave Huawei temporary permission to obtain technology from American organizations so that the Chinese giant can continue to maintain and repair existing deployments of its products around the world, and push US-sourced software updates to people's phones.…
Posted on 21 May 2019 | 1:19 am
Analysis Drivers for ride-hailing apps Lyft and Uber have organized for better pay through collective action – and not by unionizing.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 11:48 pm
Analysis New legislation that would put teeth into the web's Do Not Track option for internet users, by fining companies that ignore it, will be introduced this week in the US Senate.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 9:16 pm
Analysis America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is likely to approve a controversial $26bn merger between the third and fourth largest US mobile carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint, sparking claims of regulatory inconsistency and coziness with the mobile industry.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 8:27 pm
Three days on, Salesforce.com has yet to fully recover from an outage that began on Friday.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 7:25 pm
Benchmarks of engineering samples of AMD's second-generation Zen-based server processor silicon, codenamed Rome, have once again found their way online.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 6:24 pm
UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced an Espionage Bill, charging ahead with new laws intended to criminalise any British copycats of Edward Snowden – and allowing a future crackdown on Huawei.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 5:29 pm
Brit security software slinger Sophos has advised its customers to uninstall Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday run – the same patches that protect PCs and servers against the latest Intel cockups.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 3:15 pm
Boeing has admitted that pilot training simulators for the controversial 737 Max did not accurately reproduce what happened if the infamous MCAS system went gaga.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 2:28 pm
Vodafone, O2, Three and EE have won a case against Ofcom claiming that the UK comms regulator's increase in spectrum fees was unfair.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 1:58 pm
Open-source storage enthusiasts at SoftIron have trotted out a low-cost hardware accelerator designed to take over from the CPU on erasure coding duties.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 1:30 pm
From the department of "and about time too" comes news that Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers, in preview form at least.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 12:58 pm
Sweden's deputy director of public prosecution Eva-Marie Persson has asked a district court for a detention order for Julian Assange on suspicion of rape.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 12:29 pm
Roundup While SpaceX twiddled its thumbs and NASA salivated at the prospect of a return to the Moon, last week China put another satellite into space and the New Horizons gang published its first batch of findings.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 11:59 am
Following a substantive restructure across EMEA, NetApp has hired Chris Greenwood - its now former director of north east Europe, Russia and Turkey - to head up operations in the UK and Ireland.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 11:26 am
Roundup Monday is here once again, an excuse to take a look at the news from Redmond that you might have missed in the past seven days.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 10:52 am
Analysis The technology industry has numerous terms for sneaky software, including malware, adware, spyware, ransomware, and the ever adorable PUPs – potentially unwanted programs. But there isn't always a clear difference between malware and less threatening descriptors.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 10:05 am
Microsoft has made numerous updates to its Azure Portal, partly to accommodate new features announced at its Build developer conference, and partly in an attempt to improve the user interface.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 9:12 am
Roundup Let's get you up to speed on the latest AI news, beyond what we've already covered lately.…
Posted on 20 May 2019 | 8:40 am