American tech giant coughs up $9m for shipping vulnerable crates of crap to Uncle Sam Cisco finds its bank balance $8.6m lighter after it agreed to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit in the US over its video surveillance software.…
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Lees meerNandu Thondavadi reaches agreement with America's financial watchdog The former CEO of IT consultancy firm Quandrant 4 has agreed to pay back the $2.9m he embezzled from the now-bankrupt business, in a deal [PDF] that finally closes the book on a lo…
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Lees meerWhat, under its actual name? Microsoft has confirmed its long-rumoured plan of building massive data centres in Arizona. The company lifted the lid on three giant Sun-powered server farms in the state, shockingly all listed under its own name.…
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Lees meerThe tech has been around for years – why aren’t we using it? A consortium of European organizations has launched ELIoT, an EU-funded project that hopes to develop commercial applications for visible light communications.…
Lees meerRIPE approves new policy that shouldn't really exist If you want IPv4 addresses in Europe, there is now a literal waitlist to join.…
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Lees meer2.6 million customers hit... over period of nearly 8 years UK comms watchdog Ofcom fined Brit MVNO Giffgaff £1.4m today for overcharging around 2.6 million users to the tune of around £2.8m.…
Lees meerMore cloud polygamy for Dell EMC's Virtzilla VMware enthusiasts will be able to lift-and-shift their virtualized workloads directly into Google Cloud before the end of the year, after the two businesses agreed a deal.…
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Lees meerTurns out the PHYS not the limit DRAM pioneer and serial litigant Rambus is set to acquire Northwest Logic, primarily known for dreaming up IP cores used in ASICs and FPGAs.…
Lees meerJapanese manufacturer could help bring down co-conspirators in rip-off caper A Japanese manufacturer that makes parts for hard disk drives has admitted to racking up millions in profits from a price-fixing scheme.…
Lees meerHPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November Australia's most powerful supercomputer is - we are told - about to get 10 times faster in November, thanks to an AU$70m (£39.4m) cash injection from the government.…
Lees meerRisks posed by Chinese bogeyman 'manageable' Germany's data protection and security regulator is not too stressed about the supposed threat of using Huawei equipment in 5G networks.…
Lees meerCEO finds it 'painful'. Affected coders, more so Microsoft-owned GitHub has slapped restrictions on users residing in certain countries as the company bows to restrictions resulting from US sanctions, according to a hand-wringing tweet from CEO Nat …
Lees meerOr how a Reg reader battled the dark heart of Active Directory and lived to tell the tale Who, Me? The weekend is over so ease yourself into the working week with a few words guaranteed to strike fear into the bravest Who, Me? reader: "We were movi…
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Lees meerComing to an FPGA near you, soon, maybe, hopefully? Analysis Chinese tech giant Alibaba claims to have designed the fastest RISC-V processor to date, and reckons it will open source at least some of the blueprints for others to use.…
Lees meerOne thing is certain: it's not China paying for the new round of tariffs Networking giant Juniper has had another challenging quarter – this time it was service providers, not cloud vendors, causing Cisco's nemesis grief.…
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