UK NHS 850k Reply-all email fail: State health service blames Accenture

Cause was system 'bug,' not user error, claims mouthpiece National Health Service Digital has tried to blame IT outsourcer Accenture for its ongoing email Reply-all woes, even though the cause is almost certainly a combination of user error and a tr…

Apple releases third developer beta of macOS Sierra 10.12.2

Apple has released the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sierra 10.12.2 update to public beta testers about a week after releasing the first public beta of 10.12.2 and one day after seeding the…

Google will soon ban fake news sites from using its ad network

Some 'Enhanced' games are having framerate issues on the PS4 Pro

Microsoft’s Black Friday deals include Xbox One and Surface discounts

Marshall mixes old and new with its latest Bluetooth headphones

Origin of the beasties: Mirai botnet missing link revealed as DVR player

CCTV cameras? You've been looking in the wrong place Security researchers have discovered a "missing link" in the Mirai botnet that may prompt a rethink in what makes up the zombie network.…

Hadoop for joy? ODPi 2.0's available, but questions persist

Welcome focus on Hive standards... but how many more components to go? The Hadoop standardisations body, ODPi, has today made its 2.0 release generally available.…

The FBI just got its hands on data that Twitter wouldn’t give the CIA

20th Century Fox komt dinsdag met virtual-realitygame op basis van The Martian

20th Century Fox brengt dinsdag een virtual-realitygame uit die gebaseerd is op de film The Martian. In de game worden verschillende scènes uit de film in virtual reality nagebootst en moet de speler zelf een aantal problemen oplossen.

UK.gov has 18,000 IT contractors on its books due to dearth of skills

And IR35 changes could mean thousands down tools The government currently employs 18,000 digital contractors and 12,000 "in-house" tech folk, according to a leaked draft outline of the Government Digital Transformation Strategy seen by The Register.…

Samsung Pay now has its own rewards program

Nederlander achter Spamhaus-ddos krijgt voorwaardelijke celstraf

De rechtbank Rotterdam heeft een celstraf van 240 dagen opgelegd aan een 39-jarige Amsterdammer, omdat hij in 2013 'het goed functioneren van het internet in gevaar bracht' met een omvangrijke ddos-aanval op Spamhaus. Eerder bleek dat het daarbij ga…

Adult FriendFinder users get their privates exposed... again – reports

The sequel Hundreds of millions of Adult FriendFinder (AFF) accounts appear to have been exposed once again.…

Fear of Staxit: What next for ASF's Cassandra as biggest donor cuts back

Fill the DataStax-sized hole with big ideas I've been a user of Cassandra for quite a number of years. I've suggested fixes for Apache Cassandra and – I believe – was the first to build a small cluster on Raspberry Pi computers. This year I was luck…

Gotta speed up HPC arrays. Flash or disk, flash or disk. Let's do both – Seagate

Hybrid set-up plus Nytro caching software sends small I/Os to SSD Seagate’s ClusterStor 300N storage array for high-performance computing is a hybrid flash/disk array, lifting sequential bandwidth by 33 per cent and small, random I/O by up to 1,200 …

McDonald’s has a Nutella burger that oozes chocolate

Will I ever stop writing headlines about the hottest months on record?

How much should the Nintendo Switch cost?

I'd rather tie my own shoes than pay $720 for Nike's self-lacing sneakers

LG belooft fix voor probleem oled-tv's met PS4 Pro

Televisiefabrikant LG heeft een fix beloofd voor een probleem van zijn oled-tv's met de PlayStation 4 Pro. De tv's kunnen niet omgaan met het hdmi-signaal uit de Sony-console en bezitters van de tv's kunnen de gloednieuwe gamemachine vooralsnog niet…