Red Hat banishes Btrfs from RHEL

ZFS On Linux adds the proper crypto Google wants before considering Btfrs for Android Red Hat has banished the Btrfs, the Oracle-created file system intended to help harden Linux's storage capabilities.…

When is a Barracuda not a Barracuda? When it's really AWS S3

Now you can replicate backups to Barracuda's actually-Amazonian cloud Barracuda's backup appliances can now replicate data to Amazon’s S3 cloud silos.…

Red Hat banishes Btrfs from RHEL

ZFS On Linux adds the proper crypto Google wants before considering Btfrs for Android Red Hat has banished the Btrfs, the Oracle-created file system intended to help harden Linux's storage capabilities.…

When is a Barracuda not a Barracuda? When it's really AWS S3

Now you can replicate backups to Barracuda's actually-Amazonian cloud Barracuda's backup appliances can now replicate data to Amazon’s S3 cloud silos.…

Russian malware scum post new rent-an-exploit

Unpatched browser, plug-in bugs targeted by and with 'Disdain' kit WebEx on Firefox is among the targets of a new exploit kit that's started circulating on Russian nastyware exchanges.…

Azure Stack will need special sysadmins, says Microsoft

'Operator' to wrangle on-prem cloud, with paid course coming soon, natch Microsoft reckons its forthcoming Azure Stack on-premises cloud needs a special breed of sysadmin to keep it humming.…

Azure Stack will need special sysadmins, says Microsoft

'Operator' to wrangle on-prem cloud, with paid course coming soon, natch Microsoft reckons its forthcoming Azure Stack on-premises cloud needs a special breed of sysadmin to keep it humming.…

Creepy backdoor found in NetSarang server management software

Do you use this suite? If you answered yes: You're screwed if you installed a July 18 update Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a well-hidden backdoor in NetSang's server management software. If you have this suite installed on your infrastruct…

Intel's diversity numbers are out – and that 'push' has become more of a 'gentle nudge'

Plus: 10nm+ 9th-gen Core family codenamed Ice Lake Intel says it is still on track to meet its 2020 workplace diversity targets even as the pace of its efforts to include women and underrepresented minorities slowed.…

Swinburne Uni slings SGI, picks DellTel for new 4,140 core super

'OzSTAR' to speed search for gravitational waves using LIGO data Australia's Swinburne University has signed up for a new supercomputer, to help spearhead efforts to detect gravitational waves.…

Swinburne Uni slings SGI, picks DellTel for new 4,140 core super

'OzSTAR' to speed search for gravitational waves using LIGO data Australia's Swinburne University has signed up for a new supercomputer, to help spearhead efforts to detect gravitational waves.…

A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A

Human cell study AMA on Reddit all cleaned up Money can't buy you love, but it can remove criticism, at least in the hallowed world of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.…

Revealed: The secret CEO texts that tell the tale of Uber-Waymo's self-driving tech spat

Court docs give insight into execs' relationship Analysis  Hundreds of unsealed text messages between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and self-driving engineer Anthony Levandowski have revealed an intriguing insight into the relationship between the…

Taken a while but finally here's the first proper smart-home gizmo

And it's a light bulb from Ikea Comment  It's been three years since we, here at El Reg, first started taking the introduction of a new generation of "smart home" devices seriously – and that was mostly focusing on the security implications.…

The Pixel 2 will do things when you squeeze it, FCC filing confirms

Hunger Games and Twilight are getting theme park lands in South Korea

Qualcomm verwerkt techniek voor actieve dieptecamera in komende high-end socs

Qualcomm heeft bekendgemaakt dat de image signal processor voor toekomstige high-end socs in staat is om dieptebeelden te verwerken. De techniek kan ingezet worden om bijvoorbeeld bediening met handen in vr-games mogelijk te maken.

Uber to bend over, take privacy probe every two years for next 20 years

FTC forces taxi app upstart to let in auditors after complaints of data security cockups Uber and America's trade watchdog have reached a settlement following claims the taxi app maker lied about the extent to which its staff can mine customers' per…

Razer komt met kleine draadloze Atheris-muis voor gamelaptops

Razer heeft de Atheris uitgebracht, een compacte draadloze muis die volgens de fabrikant bedoeld is voor laptopgebruikers en ook geschikt is voor gaming. De muis kan verbonden worden met een 2,4Ghz-ontvanger of via bluetooth en kost 60 euro.

Slurping people's info without a warrant? That's OUR JOB, Google, Facebook et al tell US Supreme Court

Tech giants lobby against warrantless phone spying A group of technology companies with a fondness for data collection have banded together to ask the US Supreme Court to stop the American government from snooping on cellphones without a warrant.…

Outage outed: Bing dinged, Microsoft portal mortal, DuckDuckGo becomes DuckDuckNo

Like it or not, it's back to Google for now Microsoft's Bing fell over on Tuesday morning, Pacific Time, causing a ripple effect that crippled other search engines.…