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From The Register on June 24, 2019, 9:17 a.m.
Driving Xtreme Cuts: DXC Technology waves bye bye to 45% of Americas Security divison
50 roles shifted off to India
DXC Technology is sending hundreds of security personnel from the America's division down the redundancy chute and offshoring some of those roles to low-cost centres, insiders are telling us.…
From The Register on June 24, 2019, 8:17 a.m.
I got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one
It was acceptable in the '80s
Who, Me? Sunday is gone and Monday is here. To ring in the week, please join us in welcoming the latest addition to the shedload of shame that is The Register's Who, Me? column.…
From The Register on June 24, 2019, 7:17 a.m.
Discount offer expires tonight so hurry, hurry, hurry
Event If you want to learn how organisations like Lego, Well pharmacy and Bayer are putting AWS Lambda, Function as a Service (FaaS), and Azure Functions to work, you should join us at Serverless Computing London this coming November.…
From The Register on June 24, 2019, 7:17 a.m.
...And more, including dual 4K monitor outputs that you'll need new cables for
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has multiplied 3 by 3 and come up with 4: today a new Pi, the Raspberry Pi 4, officially launches with three times the grunt of the previous generation, the Raspberry Pi 3.…
From The Register on June 22, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
Also Waymo is releasing a data set for you self-driving car nerds
Roundup If you wanna know what's been happening in AI this week beyond what we've already covered, here's a quick roundup...…
From The Register on June 22, 2019, 1:17 a.m.
Canary channel will let programmers experience tough new limits on extensions
Analysis An early version of Manifest v3 – Google's controversial revision of Chrome's extensions system that will affect ad and content blockers – should appear in about a month.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 11:17 p.m.
Yes, we too would lose our mind over *checks notes* page caches and storage IO
Linux kernel chieftain Linus Torvalds owes the swear jar a few quid this week, although by his standards this most most recent rant of his is relatively restrained.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 9:17 p.m.
Plus: Chinese supercomputer maker Sugon, related orgs added to trade blacklist
Patent attorneys are hopping mad at another effort by US lawmakers to undermine Chinese giant Huawei – this time by excluding it from the American patent system.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices
Cough. I believe you have my stapler
People spend an average of two bloody weeks a year just looking for a frigging desk to work at, thanks to hot-desking.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
Enterpise hardware makers cry out as hyperscalers clip infrastructure spending
Still said to be worth around $66.9bn in 2019
IDC has clipped 2019 sales forecasts for the infrastructure kit used to power hyperscalers' cloud services – the one area of the market that helped to prop up old world vendors' hardware revenues.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 6:17 p.m.
There's that phrase again: JP Morgan CIO told Autonomy's first HP boss it was 'a shit show'
Eye-opening VP evidence sheds light on state of post-buyout biz
Autonomy Trial Autonomy staff were so paranoid under Mike Lynch's leadership that they feared their offices had been bugged, former head of HP Software Robert Youngjohns told London's High Court – adding that JP Morgan's CIO reportedly told him: "Autonomy is a shit show."…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 5:17 p.m.
UK.gov must sort out its crap data and legacy IT, warns spending watchdog
Never mind the robotics and AI bullsh*t
Government plans to throw money at automation and AI to develop public services risk "magnifying" problems around data quality residing in its own legacy systems, the National Audit Office has warned.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 4:17 p.m.
IF (DateTime.Now > Spring) { WHILE (Windows != Done) Spring++; }
Microsoft enlivened an otherwise deadly dull Windows 10 Insider build by revealing the corporation now defines its own seasons.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
Welsh chip slinger IQE's shares drop by a third after blaming Huawei ban for falling revenues
Chief points to strain on global supply chains as earnings miss analyst estimates
Welsh chip and wafer maker IQE's shares fell by almost a third this morning when it warned that the impact of the United States' Huawei ban is likely to be worse than expected.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Bloody vultures! Cheeky Spanish paraglider firm pinched El Reg's mascot
Dios mío, eso es nuestro buitre!
An, er, eagle-eyed Reg reader holidaying in Spain has spotted an uncanny resemblance between this organ's beloved mascot and an equally vulturine logo being used by a peninsular paragliding concern.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Red Hat signs off last set of numbers before it is likely gobbled by IBM
Only the Chinese now to sign off $34.5bn slurp
With the EU tipped to approve IBM's $34bn slurp of Red Hat next week, the open-source software house started Q1 of fiscal '20 with double-digit hikes in sales and profit, though its top line fell short of analyst estimates.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
Hot desk hell: Staff spend 2 weeks a year looking for open-plan seats
Cough. I believe you have my stapler
People spend an average of two bloody weeks a year just looking for a frigging desk to work at, thanks to hot-desking.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will
God money I’ll do anything for you
Something for the Weekend, Sir? "People love being sold to."…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
Good old British 'fair play' is the answer to vexed Huawei question, claims security minister
He then doubled down on spies' 'ghost user' backdoor plan
Solving the Huawei 5G security problem is a question of convincing the Chinese to embrace British "fair play", security minister Ben Wallace said yesterday without the slightest hint of irony.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
Are you deploying this storage tech – or is it barely on your radar? We want to hear from you either way, please
Reg survey We've all seen more than enough marketing hype in IT by now, and probably more enough to last several lifetimes.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
DXC: We've told UK government that up to 2,150 heads could roll in latest job cuts
'Expect actual number to go to be much less' says firm, as 1k put hand up for voluntary redundancy
Exclusive DXC Technology has told UK government and Unite that – in a worst case scenario – more than 2,000 locals could be made redundant in the latest round of expense cuts, which could also include the closure of one site.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
Urgh, OK Google, call 9... Can you hear me?! CALL 9...arghgh
Digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home may be able to automatically detect when someone is having a heart attack, and call for medical help, one day, according to this latest research.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 8:19 a.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 7:17 a.m.
Phone bone grown from shoddy body tone, it's shown
Young people are developing "horn-like" bone spurs, it's claimed, and smartphone-induced posture problems are apparently to blame.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 6:17 a.m.
Cluster of rock and ice a sweltering 77K, we're told
Astronomers have measured the temperature of one of Uranus’s rings, dubbed Epsilon, for the first time. The result: the cluster of ice and rock is a nippy 77 kelvin.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 2:17 a.m.
Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image
'Why use a copy when the original is free, proven and battle-tested?'
Google is planning to reimplement parts of libcurl, a widely used open-source file transfer library, as a wrapper for Chromium's networking API – but curl's lead developer does not welcome the "competition".…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 2:17 a.m.
Don't panic: Dixons Carphone's share price crashes 30% after statutory losses hit £329m
CEO talks of 'more pain', 'substantial losses' in Mobile amid industry-wide handset sales meltdown
Beleaguered retailer Dixons Carphone has warned of "more pain" and "substantial losses" in its mobile business in the year to come after reporting a sharp fall in group profits for fiscal '19 ended 27 April.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 1:17 a.m.
If you've dreamed of advancing human obsolescence, your time is at hand
Facebook's software can't catch all the vile content uploaded to its servers by its addicts, which is why the multibollion-dollar antisocial network relies on relatively poorly paid contractors, who work in living hell, to cleanse its pages.…
From The Register on June 21, 2019, 12:17 a.m.
Can't spell SupportAssist without 'ass' and 'u' – other makers may be hit, too
Dell's troubleshooting software SupportAssist, bundled with the US tech titan's home and business computers, has a security flaw that can be exploited by malware and rogue logged-in users to gain administrator powers.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 11:17 p.m.
Goodbye Sex.com: Voice.com now #1 at $30m
Comment This week saw the greatest sum ever paid for a domain name: Voice.com was sold in an all-cash deal for $30m to a company called Block.one, more than doubling the previous, longstanding record of $13m for Sex.com.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 10:17 p.m.
Patch released after crypto-currency biz sounded alarm
The development and release of a critical Firefox security patch this week was, in part, triggered by an attempted cyber-heist of crypto-coin exchange Coinbase.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 10:17 p.m.
Apple issues voluntary recall for godforsaken laptops, again
Apple has urged its fans to stop using certain MacBook Pro models, and has issued a voluntary recall of the notebooks, after they were found to be prone to battery blazes.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 8:17 p.m.
Microsoft, you should look away now: Google's cloud second only to AWS in dev survey
Mountain View's white stuff used more than Azure among 7,000 code monkeys
Coders use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) more than Microsoft Azure, though Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a comfortable lead, according to a Developer Ecosystem survey conducted by tools vendor JetBrains.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 8:17 p.m.
Must watch: GE's smart bulb reset procedure is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity
Read this for 2 seconds. Pause 8 seconds. Read for 2 seconds. Pause 8 seconds...
Video Being an early adopter can be a frustrating experience as kinks are ironed out, bugs are squashed and interfaces are improved. It comes with the territory. But there is simply no excuse for what General Electric (GE) has done to users of its smart bulbs.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
Kubernetes goes in for nip and tuck, comes out with 25 'enhancements': We take a look at v1.15
New release is easier to customize, better performance, complex as hell
A new release of Kubernetes, version 1.15, has gone live with 25 enhancements including support for go modules in Kubernetes Core, a new Events API in alpha and High Availability (HA) improvements.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
Hipster yap app chaps Slack finally strap into NYSE: Shares of 'WORK' open at $38.50 apiece
More like 'SHIRK' amirite
Messaging outfit Slack has finally done the deed and gone public with an initial valuation of about $16bn.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 6:17 p.m.
Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS?
Or you could run it on-premises three times cheaper says University of Cambridge bod
Descartes Labs, a company which analyses big data, has managed to nab the 136th spot on the top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers with $5,000 and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 4:17 p.m.
Autonomy integration was a 'sh!t show', HP director tells court
We're honestly not making this up
Autonomy Trial A former HP senior director told London's High Court yesterday that the company's post-buyout integration of British software firm Autonomy was referred to internally as a "shit show".…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
HPE downs Nimble-ful of HCI, lobs third hyperconverged system into its portfolio
The 'd' in dHCI is for 'disaggregated'
HPE has generated a third hyperconverged system from its acquired Nimble Storage tech, providing yet another ProLiant server route to market.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS?
Or you could run it on-premises three times cheaper says University of Cambridge bod
Descartes Labs, a company which analyses big data, has managed to nab the 136th spot on the top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers with $5,000 and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Shut the barn door: UK data watchdog tells MPs mass slurping by firms is a huge risk to privacy
You need to rifle through my photos why, exactly?
Regulators and campaign groups have warned a UK Parliamentary inquiry that the increasing collection, use and storage of data by corporations poses a serious risk to privacy and security.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Don't panic: Dixons Carphones share price crashes 30% after statutory losses hit £329m
CEO talks of 'more pain', 'substantial losses' in Mobile amid industry-wide handset sales meltdown
Beleaguered retailer Dixons Carphone has warned of "more pain" and "substantial losses" in its mobile business in the year to come after reporting a sharp fall in group profits for fiscal '19 ended 27 April.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Tech jocks tell Trump: Tariff tiff with China will not achieve what you think it will achieve
Think of the children (and our revenues)! plead Dell, HP, Intel and Microsoft
US tech giants Dell, HP, Intel and Microsoft have submitted a plea to have laptops and tablets excluded from the tariffs imposed by the US government on Chinese imports.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
Vodafone urges UK.gov to get on with it and conclude review into Huawei
One-third of network dependent on Chinese kit maker
Interview Vodafone's CTO has urged the government to release the results of its delayed telecoms supply chain review, so that it can get the green light for use of Chinese supplier Huawei in its non-core 5G network.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
It looks like your OS goes out of support in seven months. Would you like a new browser?
The Edge gang has finally grafted versions of Microsoft's take on Chromium into Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
Let's hope it goes better than the Comet 67P mission, eh?
The European Space Agency is embarking on a new mission to a faraway comet floating on the outer edges of the Solar System that is yet to be discovered.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image
'Why use a copy when the original is free, proven and battle-tested?'
Google is planning to reimplement parts of libcurl, a widely used open-source file transfer library, as a wrapper for Chromium's networking API – but curl's lead developer does not welcome the "competition".…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
Bureaucratic cockup leads to porn block delay for UK
What a ballsup!
The British government is expected to announce an indefinite delay to its controversial legislation requiring age verification from porn users.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 9:17 a.m.
Vivaldi to give abusive sites the middle finger with built-in ad blocking
Same digit could be extended at Google as browser chaps 'evaluate the situation'
Amid Google's huffing and puffing over ad blockers, an update to Chromium-based browser Vivaldi puts privacy squarely in its sights.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 8:17 a.m.
Arrays in a mangler, need new storage bed: Huawei and the US tech block
A tired Ren Zhengfei'll seek read-and-write heads
Analysis If the US persists with Huawei's inclusion on its tech export block list, the Chinese firm's storage array production could be hit hard, effectively leaving it scrambling for components after the reprieve ends in August.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 7:17 a.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 3:17 a.m.
YMMV – and the second M is doing a lot of heavy lifting, here
Analysis YouTube is understood to use machine-learning algorithms to identify copyrighted material in user-uploaded videos, so that, in theory at least, any artists featured are properly compensated for their work. This system works more or less, though it is not without its controversies.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 1:17 a.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 20, 2019, 12:17 a.m.
Senator urges NIST to do something about it
Influential US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is not happy about Uncle Sam's employees using insecure .zip files and other archive formats to electronically transfer information.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 11:17 p.m.
Plus: MongoDB crams end-to-end crypto into database tech
Google on Wednesday released source code for a project called Private Join and Compute that allows two parties to analyze and compare shared sets of data without revealing the contents of each set to the other party.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 10:17 p.m.
The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks
Ajit Pai turns logic on its head while doing Big Cable's bidding
America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, has unveiled its latest harebrained effort to boost the availability of internet access across the nation: restrict competition.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 9:17 p.m.
Tech giant Tyco finally settles for $5m with 'stiffed' staff
Tyco Electronics – a multi-billion-dollar manufacturer of sensors, connectors, and other rugged equipment for defense, aerospace, automotive, IT, and similar industries – has agreed to cough up millions to workers who claimed they were stiffed over lunchtime pay.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 8:17 p.m.
Emergency security fix emitted for remote code exec hole exploited in the wild
Oracle has issued an emergency critical update to address a remote code execution vulnerability in its WebLogic Server component for Fusion Middleware – a flaw miscreants are exploiting in the wild to hijack systems.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 6:17 p.m.
When is semi-annual not semi-annual? Never mind that - check out our WAC, SAC and um... never mind
Microsoft continued its rich tradition of baffling users with its release dates by dropping a fresh build of the semi-annual channel edition of Windows Server vNext unlikely to actually hit until next year.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 5:17 p.m.
Adobe chomps down more fat subs revenue, points sucking straw at all your delicious customer data
CEO: Stitching together customer profiles in real time is the game-changer
Price increase or new customers? That was the question analysts quizzed Adobe on last night as subscription profits swelled in Q2 ended 31 May - the response from its chief bean counter was "both".…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 4:17 p.m.
Microsoft, you should look away now: Google's cloud second only to AWS in dev survey
Mountain View's white stuff used more than Azure among 7,000 code monkeys
Coders use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) more than Microsoft Azure, though Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a comfortable lead, according to a Developer Ecosystem survey conducted by tools vendor JetBrains.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
PowerPoint to start telling you that your presentation is bad and you should feel bad
Ugh. Fly In, again? Really? And step away from the Comic Sans
Microsoft PowerPoint is set to strip away the last vestiges of humanity from presentations with tweaks to its Designer functionality and a coach to help users "deliver the perfect presentation".…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Office of the Inspector General brings lab back down to Earth
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still has "multiple IT security control weaknesses" that expose "systems and data to exploitation by cyber criminals", despite cautions earlier this year.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Collaboration software hot with investors
Mattermost, the open-source take on enterprise instant messengers like Slack and Teams, has trousered an impressive $50m in funding, less than five months after pocketing a cool $20m.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Azure flock can stop faffing over bastion hosts: Microsoft has made it noob-friendly
PaaS the parcel: Click-and-forget fortification of Redmond's cloud
Those suffering sphincter-tightening terror when opening a port to their VMs have been soothed by Microsoft in the form of Azure Bastion.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
UK's GDS head Kevin Cunnington leaves to tell world+dog how (not) to do digital
Verify not mentioned in list of Government Digital Service man's 'achievements'
The boss of the gaffe-prone Government Digital Service, Kevin Cunnington, is leaving to head the newly created International Government Service – presumably to tell the rest of the world how to talk a lot about digital while actually doing very little.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare
Tick, tick, boom?
Column Last year I bought one of those nifty new fitness tracker wristwatches. It counts my steps and gives a me bit of a thrilling buzz on when I've reached my daily goal. A small thing, but it means a lot.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
Brave urges UK's data watchdog to join Ireland in probing claim Google adtech breaches GDPR
Privacy browser reckons personalised advertising = personal data processing
Lawyers for the privacy-focused Brave browser have written to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) with what they claim is evidence that Google's online ad-selling policies break the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – namely Article 5(1)(f).…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
*Spits out coffee* £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k
And guess who picks up the bill
Comment A government database intended to store the personal details of around 150,000 drone fliers is set to cost around £4m plus to buy and £2.8m to maintain – despite a similar database costing Defra just £300k a year.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 9:17 a.m.
As above, so below: El Reg haunts Scaleway's data centre catacombs 26 metres under Paris
Going underground, where the servers are caged and there's water around
Feature Parisian cloud and web-hosting outfit Scaleway invited The Register to poke around an underground data centre last week as part of the company's inaugural ScaleDay shindig.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 8:17 a.m.
Agenda revealed – get your tickets today for November conference
Event We’re thrilled to announce the first tranche of conference speakers for Serverless Computing London, which will return to the UK capital from November 6 to 8.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 7:17 a.m.
Ubuntu says i386 to be 86'd with Eoan 19.10 release: Ageing 32-bit x86 support will be ex-86
Think we're at RISC of overdoing the Intel puns
Ubuntu is set to drop support for the i386 processor architecture beginning with its next release.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 6:17 a.m.
Massive data dump, code release for E.T. hunters
After years of listening to the cosmos, scientists have failed to pick up any sign of alien civilizations. So, the experts have dumped online a petabyte of signals picked up from the Breakthrough Listen project so nerds like you and me can rifle through the readings and have a crack at finding E.T.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 3:17 a.m.
Follow us down the rabbit hole in uncovering who is possibly responsible
Google has removed a Chrome extension called Youtube Queue from its official online store for violating its program policies following complaints it was hijacking users' web searches.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 2:17 a.m.
Watch Rasputin sing like, uh, Beyonce, Einstein natter away...
Videos Remember that artificially intelligent software that could transform lifeless still images, such as portrait paintings, into moving heads? Well, you can now take a single photo or picture of someone and animate it to make them say specific words and sentences, using AI algorithms.…
From The Register on June 19, 2019, 12:17 a.m.
150,000 personal records on people, including US veterans, upset with their healthcare
In what has become a depressingly common occurrence, the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people may have fallen into the wrong hands because yet another organization did not secure a cloud-hosted database.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 11:17 p.m.
HPE: Since y'all love cloud subs so much, we'll throw all our boxes into 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.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 11:17 p.m.
Just make sure you're running the latest version
Mozilla has released an emergency critical update for Firefox to squash a zero-day vulnerability that is under active attack.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 10:17 p.m.
We can't decide if Primera sounds like a Thundercats character or a 1990s eurodance hit
HPE has pitched Primera, a new high-end storage platform, at mission-critical applications, and may eventually edge out the 3PAR line.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 9:17 p.m.
Digital currency tokens coming to WhatsApp, Messenger next year
Comment Facebook – the global ad business pilloried repeatedly over the past 15 years for privacy disasters – on Tuesday announced a scheme to allow account holders to buy credits and spend the digitized funds online through a network of partners, under a "strong commitment to privacy."…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
Fancy a fondleslab dab? Adobe pulls oilcloth off new iPad-first Fresco painting, drawing app
Photoshop-compatible files, 3 types of brushes in touchy app
Adobe has unveiled Fresco, the new drawing and painting application – previously known as Project Gemini – that should be out later this year.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 7:17 p.m.
The tables are turned, database tables that is
The healthcare debt collector ransacked by hackers, who gained access to millions of patients' personal information, has filed for bankruptcy protection.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 6:17 p.m.
DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5
Up to hundreds of petabytes per filesystem, thanks to Lustre
Tintri's California-based data-nomming daddy, HPC player DDN, has squeezed out the latest crop of appliances in its EXAScaler product family, EXA5.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 5:17 p.m.
Home devices are so poorly guarded, attackers don't even need sophisticated tools
While netizens and journalists worry about criminals and spies using sophisticated cyber-weapons to hijack Internet of Things devices, basic security protections are being overlooked – and pose a far greater threat.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 5:17 p.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 4:17 p.m.
Get your coat, you've pulled a Pull Panda: GitHub goes home with code collab specialists
What next? Tugging the Test Plans? Grappling with GitLab?
Microsoft-owned GitHub has waved a big bunch of bamboo shoots at code collaboration outfit Pull Panda.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 3:17 p.m.
UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros
What? We're not afraid it'll attack us in our sleep. Are you?
Blighty's Ministry of No Fun Allowed* has continued to live up to its nickname by slapping an export ban on a fugly crab ornament that by all rights should be locked in a chest and slung into the deepest abyss never to be seen again.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Dev darling Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
Microsoft's risky strategy: Develop on Windows, deploy to Linux
Docker has published details of what its container technology will look like for developers working on Windows, after the release of Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) that is currently in preview.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 2:17 p.m.
Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious
Well, oil be damned. Faster computers, faster apocalypse?
French oil and gas supermajor Total will be seeking to pump even more flammable stuff out of the ground after purchasing the world's most powerful commercial supercomputer from IBM.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Virty boys Parallels bring machine learning, Windows Server 2019 support to RAS VDI line
AI know what you did last summer
Windows-on-Mac flinger Parallels gave its Remote Application Server (RAS) a slapping with the wet fish of AI this morning with the release of version 17, featuring Session Pre-Launch.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 1:17 p.m.
Parliament IT bods' fail sees server's naked OS exposed to world+dog
Contents were cached by Google so we can all point and giggle
Someone in the Parliamentary Digital Service managed to leave a server so completely exposed to the internet that Google indexed the Windows machine’s operating system.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
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.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
Home devices are so poorly guarded, attackers don't even need sophisticated tools
While netizens and journalists worry about criminals and spies using sophisticated cyber-weapons to hijack Internet of Things devices, basic security protections are being overlooked – and pose a far greater threat.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 11:17 a.m.
GoDaddy offspring admits to security breach, takes sweet time with emergency patching
UK hosting provider tsoHost is recovering from a week of major service disruption, after discovering "unauthorized code" was "injected into servers" in one of its data centres.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 10:17 a.m.
What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present
Also: The Bennu Thrill Show - coming to an asteroid near you
Roundup What price a boot on the Moon? Or maybe six robot wheels? There's a number for the former in this week's round-up of all things spacey.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 9:17 a.m.
Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis
Software trained from patient transcripts. The 'normal' dataset? From, er, Reddit
Machine-learning algorithms can help psychologists predict, with 90 per cent accuracy, the onset of psychosis by analyzing a patient's conversations, according to this research here.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 8:17 a.m.
Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper
Video Artificial intelligence built by Adobe can detect how an image may have been manipulated using, er, Adobe Photoshop, and predict what a doctored picture should have looked like.…
From The Register on June 18, 2019, 7:17 a.m.
Smash GandCrab: Free tools released to decrypt files scrambled by notorious ransomware
Bitdefender teams up with FBI, cops to rescue Windows PC documents
Victims of the latest incarnations of the GandCrab ransomware now have a way to reclaim their files without paying a penny to extortionists, thanks to the release of a decryption tool.…