He'll get a year on ice to think about why that was such a bad idea to delay takeoff A Canadian idiot has been sentenced to a year behind bars after he was found guilty of calling in a bomb threat because he was running late for his flight.…
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Lees meerAnd that's just one of last night's Ig Nobel Prizes The annual Ig Nobel Prizes were handed out on Thursday night, as always “honoring achievements that make people laugh, then think”.…
Lees meerCollaborates with Australia's Megaport on software-defined links between big bit barns Bit barn baron Digital Realty has decided it needs to be a player in the cloud connection caper. The company's therefore cooked up something called “Service Excha…
Lees meerMega-breaches and spiking smartphones malware mean crims can crack you, yesterday Enterprises are almost universally open to intrusion attempts with stolen credentials, and are at increased risk from compromised smartphones thanks to a spike in devi…
Lees meerOur policies are gonna be the best, ignore all the rest The US Department of Homeland Security has announced plans to make the internet-of-things just a bit more complicated – by trying to shove itself into the market with a new security framework.…
Lees meerCruz 'profoundly disappointed' as attempt to screw country fails The attempt to prevent the US government from moving control of the internet's technical functions to a technical body appears to be over.…
Lees meerRimini Street will have to foot $46m legal bill Oracle has been awarded $46.2m in its copyright battle with Rimini Street.…
Lees meerEmail addresses, phone numbers, hashed passwords, DoBs, security Q&As swiped Hackers strongly believed to be state-sponsored swiped account records for 500 million Yahoo! webmail users. And who knew there were that many people using its email?…
Lees meerSoftware Assurance licensing tags along Microsoft Ignite Software giant Microsoft is set to officially launch its next-generation server platform next week, but the firm faces growing competition from Linux as corporate customers shift more toward …
Lees meerNot so interested in lengthy subscription contracts Analysis Linux and open-source cloud supremo Red Hat is looking at adapting its licensing to please enterprise customers who want greater flexibility in the way they pay for software and services,…
Lees meerDepartment of Justice cash will develop Minority Report-style tool using social media data Researchers from the University of Cardiff have been awarded more than $800,000 by the US Department of Justice to develop a pre-crime detection system.…
Lees meer'We stand by our figures' says defiant company mouthpiece You might have noticed that El Reg has suggested Intel and Micron’s non-volatile XPoint memory claims are a tad overblown – for example here and here. Now Charlie Demerjian is giving Intel a …
Lees meerFailure to declare was an 'admin error' she says The EU's former top corporate enforcer sat on a Bahamas-based business without declaring her interest.…
Lees meerScreenscraper rebranded Google is rebranding its screen-scraping data guzzler Now On Tap, as it buries the entire Now initiative under the onslaught of its multiplatform chatty “Assistant” project.…
Lees meerPsst, chief. You've probably not heard of backdoors – this is a seriously bad idea Metropolitan Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe wants the capital's cops to be able to remotely disable people's cars, he told the London Assembly's police an…
Lees meerHere's a webpage of infographics. Now stop whinging, peons BT's Openreach is today releasing a service dashboard for customers in an attempt to be more transparent about its “performance issues” over areas such as missed appointments.…
Lees meerSelf-serving organization simply incapable of admitting fault Internet overseer ICANN has responded to allegations of mismanagement, opaque decision-making, and an institutional lack of accountability by launching a review.…
Lees meerSurvey shows a storage tidal wave coming our way Comment A new phase of disruption is hitting the performance data storage array market, giving new, old, startup and struggling all-flash array vendors a shot at making it big by using NVMe flash dri…
Lees meerIf MS bricked your box, MS oughta cough up, says consumer org Microsoft has been given a roasting by consumer group Which? over Windows 10 woes reported by users, with the organisation calling for compensation for those who found their PCs bricked a…
Lees meerComment Software-defined storage (SDS) is one of those terms that has been readily hijacked by vendors over the past few years.…
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