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Power cut crashes Delta's worldwide flight update systems

UpdatedThousands flightless after UPS proves pretty interruptible

Big Red alert: Oracle's MICROS payment terminal biz hacked

Shops, hotels worldwide warned after support portal pwned

Mars' 'little green men' buried alive by merciless meteorites – new theory

Organic compounds unlikely to have survived cosmic pummeling, say scientists

Eye of Sauron-themed trojan targets Russia, Sweden

Eye of Sauron with Mount Doom in the background. Still from the film version of JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. Copyright New Line Cinema
Storage

ExaFlash: Cheap, dense, energy-sipper will 'empower humankind'

+Comment So says vendor Nimbus
09 Aug 10:01
Operating Systems

London's Met Police has missed the Windows XP escape deadline

27,000 PCs still compute like it's 2001
10 Comments
09 Aug 09:05
Hybrid Delivery

The old public, private, or home school sorting bin

Blog Educating the British ... about the cloud/on-prem workload mix
09 Aug 08:43
News Bytes
Google sucks up SaaS cloud
09 Aug 09:58
Coraid man buys things back
09 Aug 09:12
Google deleting websites
09 Aug 06:04
Software

London's 'automatic' Tube trains suffered 750 computer failures last year

Rise of the Machines? Perhaps if they're not very good ones
14 Comments
09 Aug 08:34
Virtualization

VMware pulls buggy NSX release from distribution

Do Not Upgrade order escalated to Nuke It From Orbit It's The Only Way To Be Sure
09 Aug 07:32
Software

US.gov to open-source made-to-order software, allow contributions

Three-year code pilot to cut costs, lock-in
09 Aug 06:58
Science

'Alien megastructure' Tabby's Star: Light is definitely dimming

Boffins clueless about cause
34 Comments
09 Aug 06:33
Security

UK tops European charts ... for carder fraud

One more reason to stop worrying and love the Brexit
10 Comments
09 Aug 06:02

Don't miss 'Nigerian scammer' busted after he infected himself with malware

Security

Windows 10 Anniversary Update crashing under Avast antivirus update

Intel Skylake drivers + Avast = kernel panic, BSOD
23 Comments
09 Aug 05:26
HPC

Hot iron: Knights Landing hits 100 gigaflops in plasma physics benchmark

Russian physicists give Chipzilla's HPC star the elephant stamp
09 Aug 05:03
Networks

AT4 labs to put LTE-U to the test in Wi-Fi Alliance tie-up

Pushing ahead with 'coexistence' plan, while industry squabbles
09 Aug 04:03
Science

MIT's chip fires frikkin' laser at qubits

Another step towards miniaturising quantum computing
09 Aug 02:58
Cloud
Salesforce status page beta

The next time Salesforce goes down, you'll get six reasons why

SaaS-o-saurus Rex preparing more granular status service for September debut
09 Aug 02:31
Business
Smartphone showing Chinese flag

China forms 27-strong alliance to grow silicon standards

Government prods industry towards vertical integration
09 Aug 01:58
Security
Android icon desktop toys

Google password fill effort could kill Android malware's best tricks

Small boost to login speed could be a big roadblock for Marshmallow malware
09 Aug 01:33
Science

CubeSat Moon mission to test new Ion Drive

Mini-sats to buzz Luna and snap its sunny shores in 2018
09 Aug 00:58
Government

Uncle Sam set to flog Silk Road's Bitcoins

Previous owners won't be needing them any more
08 Aug 23:29
Security

Big Red alert: Oracle's MICROS payment terminal biz hacked

Shops, hotels worldwide warned after support portal pwned
08 Aug 22:57
Storage

Say hello to Samsung and Netlist's flash-DRAM grenade: HybriDIMM

Shoving NAND on a DIMM with a DRAM cache to speed access
08 Aug 20:09
Networks

AT&T dinged for $7.75m after letting scammers gouge customers (again)

DEA agents stumble onto billing scheme during bust
12 Comments
08 Aug 19:14
Science

Mars' 'little green men' buried alive by merciless meteorites – new theory

Organic compounds unlikely to have survived cosmic pummeling, say scientists
21 Comments
08 Aug 18:28
Storage

Dear Imation. It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black

Tenth straight loss-making quarter for Nexsan owner as sales plunge 37 per cent
08 Aug 17:22
Networks

Ofcom cans Virgin Media's Premier League live footy match probe

Punters are now getting more matches so we've got better things to do, says regulator
13 Comments
08 Aug 15:26
Science

Billion-tonne IceCube: Sterile neutrinos do not exist

We're, um, Straight Outta 'fourth' 'trons... 'trinos... you know what we mean – scientists
15 Comments
08 Aug 15:01
Government

Some benefits of digital health to NHS may be delayed by consent model consultation – expert

Opinion Care.data closed
13 Comments
08 Aug 14:01
Security
Pic of Garda car. editorial use only Photo by SHutterstock/abd

PCs’ PCs pwned: Irish cops probe mystery malware attack

En garde, An Garda
10 Comments
08 Aug 13:05
Security
Thanks, I suppose. Woman contemplates unwanted gift. Photo by Shutterstock

Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens

Aww, you shouldn't have. No really, you shouldn't have
80 Comments
08 Aug 11:48
Data Centre

Power cut crashes Delta's worldwide flight update systems

Updated Thousands flightless after UPS proves pretty interruptible
72 Comments
08 Aug 11:33
Security

Eye of Sauron-themed trojan targets Russia, Sweden

Necromancer-loving author wrote 'tricky' malware at its core
10 Comments
08 Aug 11:01
Storage

NVMe over Ethernet startup flashes 'system' as it preps for decloak

Pavilion Data Systems slowly doffing kimono
08 Aug 10:37
DevOps

Sysadmin-waker PagerDuty targets CEOs and Europeans next

Escalate, escalate
08 Aug 09:33
Operating Systems

Breaking 350 million: What's next for Windows 10?

Time to re-discover the lost art of selling PCs
133 Comments
08 Aug 09:05
Bootnotes

Violence, vandals and vomit: London's naughtiest tech Tube stations revealed

Here's what really goes down at Old Street after dark
46 Comments
08 Aug 08:34
Infrastructure

No supercomputer cash? Time for a systems squeeze

Some advice when you're trading off information for performance
08 Aug 08:08
Security

Stealthy malware infects digitally-signed files without altering hashes

Black Hat Grinding research finds gold in failed header checks
10 Comments
08 Aug 07:28
Security

If you use ‘smart’ Bluetooth locks, you're asking to be burgled

DEF CON The bad ones send passwords in plaintext, the good ones can't survive a screwdiver
43 Comments
08 Aug 07:02
Broadband

Again with the cheap internet access in India, Facebook?

This time with Wi-Fi, a state-owned telco on board and maybe the return of Free Basics
08 Aug 06:41
Security

Broken BitBank Bitfinex shaves 36% from all accounts

In the 'sharing economy' you pay when sites get hacked
29 Comments
08 Aug 04:58
Data Networking

Boffins tweak StreaMon for the NFV era

Monitoring code put through the virtualisation atomiser
08 Aug 03:02
Verity Stob
Command line icon

Linux 4.8 rc1 lands, with Surface 3 support promised!

10787 files changed, 612208 insertions, 272098 deletions and lots of doc updates
28 Comments
08 Aug 02:28
Security
Fish hook in a clear light blue tropical ocean. Photo by Shutterstock

'Nigerian scammer' busted after he infected himself with malware

Researchers able to watch wire-fraudsters operate in real time
14 Comments
08 Aug 01:58
Security

Latest Androids have 'god mode' hack hole, thanks to Qualcomm

Nexus users move right along. Everyone else, read on and hope your mobe-maker fixes it
42 Comments
08 Aug 01:25
Operating Systems

Windows 10 Anniversary Update is borking boxen everywhere

Microsoft's response: Have you tried uninstalling it and installing it again?
202 Comments
08 Aug 00:57
Science

China's moon rover dies of extreme old age, after two-and-a-half years

Yutu – aka Jade Rabbit – ground to a halt years ago, but is now pining for the craters
23 Comments
08 Aug 00:02
Security

Video surveillance recorders riddled with zero-days

Kit from NUUO, Netgear has face-palm grade stoopid
19 Comments
07 Aug 23:12

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