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Lees meerWeather, 1: electricity infrastructure hackers, 0. And let's not even start on the 'wind farms broke the world' theory An “unprecedented” storm in South Australia blacked out the entire state yesterday, and the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) is warning…
Lees meerAttorney-General Brandis says it's important for privacy - but what about researchers who probe privacy, George? Yet again, the Australian government has announced a proposal that could outlaw academic research.…
Lees meerInc's ink stink merely a 'miscommunication' HP Inc is trying to spin its way out of the mess it created when it decided it would be a fantastic idea to brick unofficial and refilled printer cartridges.…
Lees meerStep two: Keep doing that While venture capitalists have been tightening their belts over the past year, there’s still a lot of love and funding for security startups – especially if you’re working in the right areas.…
Lees meerSustainable biz, welcome – the rest of you, not so much Google has opened a 14,000 square foot developer space in the heart of San Francisco to encourage the next generation of startups to use its products.…
Lees meerMotor City bad man on $142,000-a-year swung contracts amid cutbacks The head of IT for the city of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted taking bribes from a pair of tech contractors.…
Lees meerVCE and VSAN very very virtuous for newly joined duo Dell EMC rules the converged systems roost in IDC’s latest storage tracker converged systems revenues in the second 2016 quarter.…
Lees meerIt is all in the numbers Apple may have dampened down expectations when it released the last set of quarterly financial figures, and predicted revenues down again year-on-year for the current quarter, but at least one analyst disagrees.…
Lees meerICO delivers £130k fine to Mancunian credit card broker Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a financial firm £130,000 after it sent out over seven million spam texts flogging credit cards.…
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Lees meerChinese market is growing fast Gartner gave the 4-socket server market lead to a surprising vendor in its recent worldwide server market report*.…
Lees meerCambridge Wireless event chews the fat over key questions “Defence is only as strong as the weakest link,” said Tim Phipps of Solarflare at today’s Cambridge Wireless event on security within the Internet of Things.…
Lees meer2006 called, it wants its technology back US military lunacy department Darpa has begun offering a podcast.…
Lees meerServer shake-up through 4TB, 2u latency NVDIMM tech that could use XPoint and ReRAM Early-stage startup Xitore says it is developing bigger and faster non-volatile flash DIMMs to give servers a performance boost so they could run more VMs and contai…
Lees meerApplication Guard aims to defeat malware served up from web sites Microsoft is developing a technology for Windows 10 designed to combat the threat of malware served up from web pages penetrating corporate defences and slurping sensitive data.…
Lees meerI got BILLS I gotta pay... Customers at Natwest have been struggling to make online payments this afternoon.…
Lees meerTim Cook moves in opposite dog’s home? Pigs will fly... Apple is moving into a shiny new HQ at the revamped Battersea Power Station in London - just as soon as developers have finished wrecking rebuilding the iconic Southside brick masterpiece.…
Lees meerOh yes, and keep the auditors happy When you get to a certain age, and you've been in the IT industry for enough years, you start to get an idea of what auditors are looking for when they descend on you and ask you pointed questions about your syste…
Lees meerPity the poor reporter who had to shadow Mark Hurd Our attention has been drawn to the work of a plucky reporter Julie Bort from Business Insider, who spent a day shadowing Oracle CEO at its OpenWorld jamboree in San Francisco. Finally – a chance to…
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