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Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates in the summertimeAnd a plan to have users of Sun hardware upgrade to get Solaris 11.4 and proper patches
Oracle will deliver “update releases” of Solaris every northern Summer, under a new plan it revealed this week along with news of the Solaris 11.4 beta and a hurry-along for users of old Sun hardware.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Will Dell eat VMware? Or will Carl Icahn snack on Dell? And where does Uber fit in? Yes, Uber!Let’s get up to date on the crazy world of reverse mergers
The “what will Dell to/with/for/about VMware” rumour mill has started spinning again.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Qual-gone: 1,200+ axed from Snapdragon, Centriq giant QualcommChip designer pushes hundreds out the door in cost-cutting drive
Qualcomm says it is planning to eliminate more than 1,200 positions in an attempt to cut overhead costs.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Oracle whips out the swatter, squishes 254 security bugs in its gearJava fixes lobbed out, Spectre Solaris patches issued
Oracle this week emitted its April security update, addressing a total of 254 security vulnerabilities across dozens of products.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Google kills off domain fronting so secure comms just got tougherCloud tech tweaks end anti-censorship workaround
Google has made technical changes to its cloud infrastructure that have caused collateral damage to an anti-censorship technique called domain fronting.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Nominet drains mug of tea, leans back, calmly explains how to make Whois GDPR-compliant.UK registry not entirely sure what all the fuss is about
The operator of the .uk domain-name registry has outlined the changes it plans to make to its Whois domain registration system to bring it in line with incoming European privacy legislation.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy timesCloser to human beings than previously thought, clearly
A new study reveals that male fruit flies enjoy the sensation of ejaculation, and are more likely to turn to alcohol when sexually frustrated. Sound familiar?… Categories: Industry & Technology
Male fruit flies like ejaculating and turn to alcohol when starved of sexual pleasureFlies closer to human beings than previously thought
A new study reveals that male fruit flies enjoy the sensation of ejaculation, and are more likely to turn to alcohol when sexually frustrated. Sound familiar?… Categories: Industry & Technology
Facebook puts 1.5bn users on a boat from Ireland to CaliforniaSocial media giant continues its loving embrace of GDPR privacy rules
Facebook is quietly changing its terms of service to shift 1.5 billion users away from Europe to the US while continuing to claim it wants to offer greater privacy protections.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Yahoo<i>!</i> webmail<i>!</i> hacker<i>!</i> faces<i>!</i> nearly<i>!</i> eight<i>!</i> years<i>!</i> in<i>!</i> the<i>!</i> cooler<i>!</i>Prosecutors ask judge to give Baratov 94 months for stealing accounts on behalf of FSB
The Canadian hacker who helped Russian agents by breaking into more than 11,000 Yahoo email accounts could spend the next eight years behind bars, if American prosecutors get their way.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Yahoo<i>!</i> Hacker<i>!</i> Faces<i>!</i> Nearly<i>!</i> Eight<i>!</i> Years<i>!</i> In<i>!</i> Prison<i>!</i>Prosecutors ask judge to give Baratov 94 months for stealing accounts on behalf of FSB
The Canadian hacker who helped Russian agents by breaking into more than 11,000 Yahoo email accounts could spend the next eight years behind bars, if prosecutors in the California Northern District Court get their way.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Eight months after Equifax megahack, some Brits are only just being notifiedI'm fsck-ed off it took this long, rages affected Reg reader
Some of the 15 million Britons affected by the Equifax mega-hack are only now receiving letters notifying them that they were affected by the breach, eight months after the event.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and errorYou can fake diagnoses with adversarial examples
Medical AI systems are particularly vulnerable to attacks and have been overlooked in security research, a new study suggests.… Categories: Industry & Technology
BBC extends Capita Audience Services contract to 25 yearsNothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and Auntie's Capita deals
Capita's fortunes of late may be in general decline but the UK's much loved IT outsourcing biz can always rely on the British Broadcasting Corporation – propped up by license fee payers – to dish out cheques.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Millions of scraped public social net profiles left in open AWS S3 boxPoorly configured cloud buckets strike again – this time, Localbox fingered
US social network data aggregator LocalBlox has been caught leaving its AWS bucket of 48 million records – harvested in part from public Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter profiles – available to be viewed by anyone who stopped by.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Musk: I want to retrieve rockets with big Falcon party balloonsNASA: Been there, done that
While waiting for TESS to get off the launchpad on Monday, chief exec Elon Musk joked on Twitter about how SpaceX might set about recovering the second stage of the booster.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Mad Leo tried to sack me over Autonomy, says top HP Inc beancounterCourt hears Catherine Lesjak recall vicious infighting over doomed $11bn buyout
Hewlett Packard's chief beancounter, Catherine Lesjak, was at "war" with former CEO Leo Apotheker, who tried to fire her immediately before he himself was defenestrated, a US court has heard.… Categories: Industry & Technology
BT pushes ahead with plans to switch off telephone networkConsultation next month following plan to shift Brits over to VoIP
BT is forging ahead with plans to shut its traditional telephone network in Britain, with the intention of shifting all customers over to IP telephony services by 2025.… Categories: Industry & Technology
Evolving elephants: Hortonworks trumpets its '3.0 vision' of global data managementCTO Scott Gnau on open source, partnerships and simplifying Hadoop
Hortonworks – once known simply as a Hadoop-flinger – is these days pushing itself as a modern data architecture company.… Categories: Industry & Technology
SpaceX finally Falcon flings NASA's TESS into orbitBooster hurls probe, has nice sit-down on boat in the Atlantic
NASA’s TESS spacecraft is in orbit following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40.… Categories: Industry & Technology
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