The global outbreak was 18 months ago – but the self-propogating nature of WannaCry means it’s still attempting to infect thousands of systems a month. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Almost from day one OpenStack has been more than an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud. Moving forward it wants to address the whole gamut of open infrastructure. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Rival AWS fluffs US govt cloud, pops up in Italy Playing catch-up with AWS and Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud has pulled the EU dust covers off its cloud onboarding appliance.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Amazon bake-off for new locations for its new headquarters has concluded with a decision to go with two cities. Here’s how the move plays into Amazon’s business. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Optimised Office 365 performance also on cards Cisco has claimed to be “bringing intent-based networking into every domain”, the latest being branch offices which need software-defined WAN capabilities and security.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A recently discovered botnet has taken control of an eye-popping 100,000 home and small-office routers made from a range of manufacturers, mainly by exploiting a critical vulnerability that has remained unaddressed on infected devices more than five years after it came to light. Researchers from Netlab…

On yer bike, CJEU tells Dutch dairy dealer The EU’s highest court has rejected an attempt to use copyright law to protect the distinct taste of a food product.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Yes, here’s the story of the dark matter hurricane — a cosmic event that may provide our first glimpse of the mysterious, invisible particle. …read more Source:: CNet

A large chunk of the hijacked traffic passed through the network of a controversial Chinese state-owned telecom provider that was previously accused of intentionally misdirecting internet traffic. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The cathode-ray tube ruled the display world from the earliest days of TV until only comparatively recently, when flat-screen technology began to take over. CRTs just kept getting bigger over that time until they reached a limit beyond which the tubes got just too bulky to be practical. But there was action at the low…