SaaS Google's crash canaries' muted chirping led to load balancer brownout 45 per cent of load balancers threw 502 errors for an hour last Thursday 19 Oct 00:38 | 6
Channel Cisco swallows Worklife to Spark-up collab suite Heroik Labs to become part of Cloud Collaboration Technology biz 19 Oct 00:58 |
Software South Australia blacked out by bad bespoke software, not wind farms 'Non-credible event' triggered safety settings 19 Oct 01:30 | 14
Networks DNS infrastructure sprinting to IPv6 while users lag More than one third of queries hit v6-capable servers, says 'net boffin Huston 19 Oct 01:54 | 21
Software Oracle's quarterly security release offers 253 patches 15 are critical, some allowing complete system compromise over HTTP 19 Oct 01:59 | 3
Storage 100Gbit/s Mangstor array blows interconnect cobwebs right away Mangstor's MX-Series drives enter the vSphere to soup up VM performance 19 Oct 02:52 | 1
Networks Vodafone Australia promises fixed-line broadband over NBN Let battle be joined with Telstra and Optus. And let's see how weak-in-mobile TPG responds 19 Oct 02:59 | 3
Security Crims cram credit card details into product shots on e-shops Just Save Image As to exfiltrate data, safe in the knowledge webmasters trust JPGs 19 Oct 03:57 | 17
Science China's Shenzhou-11 capsule docks with Tiangong-2 station A month in space is the plan as China's ambitions escalate 19 Oct 04:29 | 12
Networks Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and BT bid for Indian cricket online Indian Premier League TV audiences top 100m, online audience barely tapped 19 Oct 05:03 | 11
Networks Swisscom claims world's first G.fast broadband service Copper-extender can hit ~500Mbps, CTO says users will settle for 100Mbps 19 Oct 05:27 | 13
Science Probe boffins: Two balls deep in Uranus's ring Voyager data raises possibility of pair of new moons 19 Oct 06:03 | 33
Legal Australia's new data breach disclosure laws have a rather floppy definition of 'breach' If someone doesn't think you can be harmed by a breach, they can stay quiet 19 Oct 06:11 | 9
AI + ML Oh God, here comes the artificially intelligent boss bot – look busy! IT biz hires new decision-making CEO – a code-executing officer 19 Oct 06:19 | 22
Updated Microsoft keeps schtum as more battery woes hit Surface sufferers Look on the bright side – at least they're not exploding, right Samsung? 19 Oct 06:41 | 61
Science Skin tattoo will tell your phone when you've had a skinful Government-sponsored sweat analyzer gets speedy 19 Oct 07:02 | 35
AI + ML This speech recognition code is 'just as good' as a pro transcriber Transcriptionist, your days are numbered, it seems 19 Oct 07:21 | 41
Personal Tech No shoes for little Timmy, Mama needs a new 10TB hard drive Small, large, fast and slow – take your pick from Seagate's latest range 19 Oct 07:43 | 14
On-Prem Data integrity and failover in the hybrid cloud Between two stools one falls to the ground 19 Oct 08:04 | 1
On-Prem Buck up, UK.gov. You need to get a grip on failing shared services centres - PAC Promise to save £600m per year was all talk and no trousers 19 Oct 08:32 | 5
Comment Red Hat eye from the Ubuntu guy: Fedora – how you doin'? More than a mere RHEL release testbed 19 Oct 09:09 | 35
HPC Blog 10x faster servers? Pop a CAPI in your dome Not quite sure how the new mechanism works? Mull it over here 19 Oct 09:42 | 11
Podcast Speaking in Tech: Is OpenStack really a threat to VMware? Plus: Marketecture, cloud and more 19 Oct 10:01 |
Analysis Who killed Cyanogen? Well, it's hanging on in there, but why didn't it conquer the world? 19 Oct 10:24 | 89
Channel Digi minister Matt Hancock: Britain needs go full fibre. And we're not paying for it UK.gov 'working with fibre providers to find a solution' 19 Oct 10:52 | 32
Bootnotes Soz, folklore fans! Negligence, not Nessie, sank WWI German sub When diving your U-boat, check all hatches are shut 19 Oct 11:29 | 38
Channel Brexit? No impact at all, chuckles reseller juggernaut Softcat warned of storm cloud in UK ahead of referendum, now says it blew over 19 Oct 11:50 | 23
On-Prem Let's all go down the Strand (our data centre). King's College London goes TITSUP* Well at least timetables, payrolls, library systems... 19 Oct 11:59 | 13
Science Three new 'nauts launched to the International Space Station Floating space lab will back up to full capacity 19 Oct 12:11 | 2
OSes Here's how much HP's 3-in-1 PC replacement will cost you Pricey, but cheaper than a pub full of BOFHs 19 Oct 12:42 | 11
Channel Openreach split could damage broadband investment, says BT's chief exec How interesting that you'd say that, Gavin 19 Oct 12:57 | 55
Legal Report: UK counter-terrorism plan Prevent is 'unjust', 'counterproductive' Muslim child's Facebook holiday snap farce a case in point 19 Oct 13:21 | 42
Channel Copyright zealots FAST to pursue 'far greater' fines for historic piracy Not-for-profit organ looking for wider income streams - sources 19 Oct 13:30 | 13
Networks No, Russia is not tapping into Syria's undersea internet cables A tale of the spy ship Yantar, tinfoil hats and that pesky bugger we call reality 19 Oct 13:45 | 21
Channel VxRack and VxRail systems feel the Edge of Power EMC's HCI gear gets a Dell server invasion 19 Oct 14:08 | 1
Security It's finally happened: Hackers are coming for home routers en masse SoHopeless 19 Oct 14:18 | 56
Storage EMC storage wranglers to cuddle Dell SC arrays Compelling development for SC, much less so for PS Series 19 Oct 14:41 | 3
Edge + IoT The Internet of Things is 'dangerous' but UK.gov won't ride to the rescue Suck it up, folks, you'll have to take responsibility for yourselves out there 19 Oct 15:03 | 17
Storage EMC Dell deal: ECS object store gets new server, storage hardware Must be hoping its biz hookup mojo will see off Amazon, S3 19 Oct 15:17 |
Security Donald Trump running insecure email servers But he's got a yuge firewall, folks... the best kind of firewall 19 Oct 15:39 | 91
SaaS Data Domain explodes into floods of cloud tiers Software-only Data Domain gets 6X capacity expansion 19 Oct 16:06 |
Storage Dell-EMC, Pure Storage disengage from legal brawl Lawyers weep as retirement plans go AWOL and Dell gets payment 19 Oct 16:14 |
Channel Brexit killed any hopes of growth in global technology spending Gartner, aka the Ministry of crappy forecasting, strikes again 19 Oct 16:41 | 15
Storage Isilon Nitro all-flash dragster filer to hit the streets in 2017 Avere, Qumulo and Pure's FlashBlade facing pushy eager-beaver of a product 19 Oct 18:05 |
Edge + IoT IoT insecurity: US govt summons tech bosses, bashes heads together Everyone agrees: Our group has the best solution for patching bugs 19 Oct 18:46 | 22
Networks Whinge on: T-Mobile US docked $48m for limiting 'unlimited' data plans Telco coughs up cash to make throttling complaints go away 19 Oct 19:04 | 11
Legal Third of Donald Trump's debate deplorables are mindless automatons Twitter bots make a lot of noise but thankfully can't vote in elections 19 Oct 19:35 | 49
+Comment SimpliVity sheds staff, rattles tin for another $100m from investors Compute-storage wrangler is working with Morgan Stanley from here to IPO 19 Oct 19:54 | 1
Vid Czech, mate: Cops cuff Russian bloke accused of LinkedIn mega-hack Arrest caught on cam as chap enjoys lunch in Prague with his squeeze 19 Oct 20:23 | 7
Edge + IoT Coming soon to smart home devices? Best Before labels – with patch cut-off dates Upshot of US government meeting to tackle IoT security 19 Oct 21:27 | 46
Channel Wow, everyone loves our drives, says Seagate sitting on a pile o' cash Disk arrays and flash still minor league stuff, though 19 Oct 21:39 | 4
Science Just what Europe needs – another bungled exit: Mars lander goes AWOL Martian probe goes silent mid-descent, Juno also goes dark 19 Oct 22:55 | 63
Pics China's LeEco eyes up US, takes on, er, Apple, Samsung, Netflix, Tesla Phones, cars, VR goggles ... the Chinese are coming for your profit margins, America 19 Oct 23:26 | 14
Legal Australia's IBM-assisted Census fail burned AU$30 MEEELLION How to spend $10 million A DAY fixing a web site 19 Oct 23:39 | 12