Friday, 28 June 2019

cPanel unleashes price hikes on its most dense customers

Yeah - because hardware is better these days, we're going to need to charge you more. Much, much more...

cPanel has dropped a bombshell on its customers with a price hike for its services that has left some running for the door marked exit.…


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America's latest 5G drama: Spectrum row bursts into the open with special adviser fingered as agent provocateur

Next-gen 24GHz cellular broadband roll-out stalls amid 'personal animosity' claims

Special report  A growing inter-agency row over America's use of particular radio frequency bands for 5G phones has burst into the open – with a senior US Department of Commerce adviser fingered as the main source of problems.…


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Pitch of the week: Helping to stamp out e-cigarettes while removing hurdles to digital learning

Buy our networking gear and get rid of vaping. Think of the children!

Comment  From the department of "Just what can't IoT do?" comes plans from Ruckus to both aid digital learning while also stamping out vaping.…


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Thursday, 27 June 2019

Roll up, roll up, you want machine learning in a box? Google Cloud Platform's service enters beta

Chocolate Factory play catch up to AWS and Microsoft... again

Deep Learning Containers (DLC) has entered beta stage, according to Google's Cloud Platform team.…



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You know whose kit for 5G is Huawei better? Go on, have a guess, says UK mobile player Three

Warns deployment will go up spout if UK.gov pulls plug on controversial supplier

Huawei has the most advanced tech for 5G deployment, Three's director of network strategy has said - ahead of the government's pending review into the controversial supplier's UK telecoms footprint.…


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There's Huawei too many vulns in Chinese giant's firmware: Bug hunters slam pisspoor code

More than 1 in 2 products have serious flaws, some potentially backdoors, we're told

Huawei, the Chinese manufacturing giant targeted by the Trump administration as a national security threat, has some of the least secure networking products in the industry, according to Finite State.…


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Wednesday, 26 June 2019

FCC adviser and fiber telco CEO thrown in the clink for five years after conning investors out of $270m with fake deals

Funnily enough, she was keen to slash infrastructure investment red-tape

A telecoms CEO and one-time adviser to FCC boss Ajit Pai will spend as much as the next half-decade behind bars after being convicted of wire fraud and eight counts of aggravated identity theft.…


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Weather forecasters are STILL banging on about 5G clashing with their sensors. As if climate change is a big deal

Now gimme that 4K HD live stream of kittens

Analysis  The weather forecasters responsible for letting millions knowing about weather patterns, including hurricanes and tornadoes, have warned yet again that plans to auction off radio spectrum for 5G mobile networks could have a dangerous impact on their efforts.…


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Tuesday, 25 June 2019

RIP Dyn Dynamic DNS :'( Oracle to end Dyn-asty by axing freshly gobbled services, shoving customers into its cloud

Meanwhile, staff face cuts – and doesnotexist.com really won't exist by next year

Oracle is sharpening its ax for the Dyn networking biz it acquired in 2016, with plans to slash jobs and switch off services.…


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FedEx fed up playing box cop, sues Uncle Sam to make it stop: 'We do transportation, not law enforcement'

Feds are asking Huawei too much from us, complains shipping giant upset it has to police every package

FedEx is suing the US government to escape the burden of policing packages (cough, cough, tech materials) sent abroad (ahem, ahem, China).…


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AWS Security Hub takes half-hearted bite out of SIEM vendors' lunches

SIEMless pitch, amirite?

Amazon Web Services has wheeled out its Security Hub – a SIEM aggregator product – in an effort to snaffle some of the lucrative cloud SIEM market for itself.…



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Monday, 24 June 2019

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet'

Verizon sent a big chunk of the internet down a black hole this morning – and caused outages at Cloudflare, Facebook, Amazon, and others – after it wrongly accepted a network misconfiguration from a small company in Pennsylvania, USA.…


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Oh how embarrassing: Cloudflare suffers a route leak

Happens to us all at some point

US network services provider Cloudflare has been celebrating its impending tenth birthday with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP*, er, knees-up.…



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Friday, 21 June 2019

Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig

More delays ahead for troubled programme

The UK Home Office has extended its Emergency Services Network contract with Motorola, intended to shift blue-light services to 4G.…


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Comms room, comms room, comms room is on fire – we don't need no water, let the engineer burn

Figuratively, of course

On Call  As you shut down and wait for Windows or macOS to spend the usual hour installing updates before your weekend can begin, spare a thought for those on the other end of the phone in The Register's weekly On Call column.…


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Thursday, 20 June 2019

NetApp wraps Elements HCI and Google Cloud Platform in Data Fabric

New cloud services weaved into portfolio

NetApp has wrapped up Elements HCI and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) into its Data Fabric en route to building a hybrid multi-cloud orchestration or operating system.…



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Net-sweet! Oracle cloud shows some signs of life, just don't ask about the on-prem stuff

Meanwhile, database giant preps free as-a-service program to entice developers

Database giant Oracle beat market expectations for its fiscal Q4 2019 and FY 2019 financial results, reporting $11.1bn in quarterly revenues and $39.5bn for the full year.…



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Tuesday, 18 June 2019

HPE: We will throw all of our products into a GreenLake by 2022

'Customers want tech as a service, they also want it on their terms' – at least 50% correct, there, Ant

HPE – the company that failed to cut it in the public cloud and offloaded its Enterprise Services biz a few years back – wants to make its whole portfolio available to buy as a service by 2022.…



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Ahhhhh! What year is it?! Users left without direction or clue after Google Calendar 404s

Hint: The pub is that way >>>

Google Calendar has gone TITSUP* with no sign given as to when it should be unborked.…



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Video: The future of faster enterprises

The benefits of cloud in a fast-moving future

Promo  Amazon Web Services is launching a series of videos to illustrate the various ways its cloud can help businesses innovate and prosper.…



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