Next time, ask for your pint in 'minute straw shapes' A team of researchers has ventured deep into the physics of spilling to uncover why pints of beer splash everywhere but liquid in straws do not when positioned horizontally.…
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Lees meerHelion a 'real environment for production' OpenStack Summit Hewlett Packard Enterprise has polished its open-source cloud bundle ready for those returning from public cloud or perturbed by off-premises services.…
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Lees meerCPU designer touts cloud to push updates securely to all devices ARM TechCon Processor designer ARM will squirt security fixes directly into internet-connected gadgets to hopefully keep them defended from hackers.…
Lees meerWe win! Boo-yeah! First place out of three? ARM TechCon Suse is claiming victory over Red Hat by announcing – and these caveats are all crucial – "the first commercial enterprise Linux distribution optimized for ARM AArch64 architecture servers."…
Lees meerSwitch to asymmetric keys, stat! Pager communications in industrial environments often run over unencrypted channels, creating a hacker risk in the process.…
Lees meerLack of cohesion Cohesity has parted ways with its chief operating officer, Riccardo di Blasio, one year after he joined the startup.…
Lees meerQ: What happens when a one-disk-failure-tolerant RAID fails? A: So do new applicants King's College London suffered its seventh consecutive day of IT woes today. According to our sources this was down to a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID)…
Lees meerYeah yeah. Humanity is unnecessary. We're sick of experts shoving it in our faces Once upon a time a public sector job was a golden ticket: little actual work, less accountability, and a job for life. Not any longer.…
Lees meerWhy are you screaming and tearing your hair out? IoT World Congress Putting Internet of Things sensors into electricity distribution grids works just fine - and security is catered for by existing broad standards, Luc Hossenlopp, CTO of Schneider E…
Lees meerGuidelines issued on ensuring the public is protected, not spied on “There is a gap between what exists and what should exist,” according to the UK's commissioner responsible for ensuring that surveillance cameras are protecting members of the publi…
Lees meerYep. That sounds about right Honesty in job ads is rarity. When employers talk of "exciting admin management opportunities", they really mean: paper-pushing drones wanted.…
Lees meerThat's plenty for Remote and Branch Offices, says firm Scale Computing is set to announce a single-node configuration of its HC3 hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA).…
Lees meerWell knock us off our unicycles, we had no idea! Reg Standards Bureau Ever wondered what the equivalent weight of a tram was in skateboarding rhinoceri? The answer is apparently 30, as any Aussie will tell you.…
Lees meerAnother one bites the dust The head of Capita’s technology solutions division Simon Furber is the most recent capo to leave the biz.…
Lees meerOr is that what the Matrix wants us to think? Feature Star physicist Stephen Hawking has reiterated his concerns that the rise of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems could spell the end for humanity. Speaking at the launch of the Universi…
Lees meerEnvisioning provisioning Sysadmin blog In the 10 years since the modern form of public cloud computing went mainstream, it has changed the entire industry's approach to IT. In response, IT's top vendors have had to change as well. Like any technolo…
Lees meerBut 'illegal activities might continue to be financed' Plans to bring virtual currency exchanges and digital wallet providers within the scope of EU anti-money laundering (AML) legislation have been backed by the European Central Bank (ECB).…
Lees meerScammers: 'Gunna be lit, fam' Microsoft is warning of fake copies of its Security Essentials that if executed will throw a fake blue screen of death, pwn machines, and lead users to technical support scams.…
Lees meerKid schools telco: 'So have you heard of access controls?' Virgin Media has shuttered a kindergarten-grade bug in a third party website that exposed up to 50,000 résumés it's received over the years, complete with names, street and email addresses o…
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