Meet Zenko: No, it's not a discount super hero. It's Scality's benevolent, celestial fox... er?

It's an open-source public cloud gateway in diguise Object storage slinger Scality has announced an open-source public cloud gateway and controller called Zenko.…

Meet Zenko: No, it's not a discount super hero. It's Scality's benevolent, celestial fox... er?

It's an open-source public cloud gateway in diguise Object storage slinger Scality has announced an open-source public cloud gateway and controller called Zenko.…

Microsoft is closing its Surface Hub manufacturing plant in the US

LG looks set to introduce its V30 flagship phone in August

Luxury phone maker Vertu is shutting down its UK manufacturing operation

IO, IO, it's off to Weka.io we go: Let's take a look at a file system upstart

Holds up versus IBM, Oracle in benchmarks... whether it's worth the cost is another thing Weka.io claims its file storage device can scale out to billions of documents. Rather than rely on object storage to cope with this kind of data, you just need…

IO, IO, it's off to Weka.io we go: Let's take a look at a file system upstart

Holds up versus IBM, Oracle in benchmarks... whether it's worth the cost is another thing Weka.io claims its file storage device can scale out to billions of documents. Rather than rely on object storage to cope with this kind of data, you just need…

Afghan girls granted US visas for robotics competition after twice being denied

AGFEO smart home controllers need patching

Five months passed between notification and patch Smart-home controllers from German company AGFEO have adopted best practice internet things security by offering an unsecured Web admin interface.…

Flight Centre leaks fliers' passport details to 'potential suppliers'

Travel co. says human error to blame for Australian mess, won't reveal numbers Human error at travel company Flight Centre has resulted in a leak of personal information, including data of customers' passports.…

ATO phone hacking 'tutorial' is tame unless you use a Nokia 1100

Supposed evidence of potent cracking powers actually reports well-known public documents The “how to crack mobile phones” tutorial posted by an Australian Taxation Office employee appears not, as widely reported, to be evidence that the agency has t…

An AI can replace what a world leader said in his video-taped speech. This will end well. Not

Final stepping stone to irrefutable fake news? Video  Researchers have crafted algorithms that can take an audio recording of someone talking and map it to a video clip of them speaking to create a new convincing lip-synched video with the replaceme…

Blue Cross? Blue crass: Health insurer thought it would be a great idea to mail plans on USB sticks

Sure, teach people it's OK to plug in random drives A US health insurer is taking heat for its decision to mail USB drives containing coverage information to businesses that offer its plans to employees.…

Ready, aim... Ignition! Valley VC bigwig ejects after conduct complaints

Firm needs a new anti-harassment trainer after blowup Frank Artale, managing partner at Ignition Ventures, has resigned at the request of the board following multiple claims of inappropriate behavior.…

Guess who doesn't have to pay $1.3bn in back taxes? Of course it's fscking Google

Dieu merci, nous n'avons pas mis en place un bureau à Paris, le grand fromage of ads sighed Google has narrowly avoided a massive €1.12bn ($1.28bn, £990m) back-tax bill for earnings in France, thanks to not setting up an office in Paris.…

Good news: Samsung's Tizen no longer worst code ever. Bad news: It's still pretty awful

TVs, phones, watches, you all get Sammy's bugs Samsung's Tizen appears to have more holes than a screen door, but the mobile operating system, which powers Samsung watches, TVs, and a few phones, may not be as disastrous as it seems.…

Hey, remember that monkey selfie copyright drama a few years ago? Get this – It's just hit the US appeals courts

And, surprise, surprise, everyone's still baffled Analysis  Remember that selfie of the grinning monkey way back in 2014?…

Brickbat unwraps in lap of crap Snapchat yap app technocrat brats after stock splat mishap

Have we just reached Peak Register? Snap Inc is being sued by its shareholders who claim that executives misled investors about the value of SnapChat app maker ahead of its IPO earlier this year.…

Amazon laat gebruikers Fire TV besturen met Echo-speaker

Amazon voegt met een update een functie toe aan zijn Fire TV-settopbox en Fire TV Stick om video's te besturen via spraakcommando's die een verbonden Echo-speaker kan opvangen. De functie werkt met de Echo en de kleinere Echo Dot.

14 MEEELLION Verizon subscribers' details leak from crappily configured AWS S3 data store

US telco giant insists only infosec bods saw the info Updated  Another day, another leaky Amazon S3 bucket. This time, one that exposed account records for roughly 14 million Verizon customers to anyone online curious enough to find it.…

Dial S for SQLi: Now skiddies can order web attacks via text message

Katyusha scanner targets web servers with instant chat Hackers are touting a tool that allows any idiot with a smartphone to conveniently order up mass SQL injection attacks against websites.…