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But it will earn £50 from it, so that's nice The University of London has lost a Court of Appeal attempt to block a new mobile phone mast that would have served Vodafone's London HQ.…

Is that true, Mummy? The age-old deception that is Christmas has been unravelled for a bunch of tots in Nottinghamshire after an ill-conceived comment by the Mayor of Rushcliffe.…

More than a little Chipzilla off its previous expectations Dell has lopped more than $1bn off its revenue estimates for the current fiscal year on the back of Intel's protracted CPU shortages, continued weakness in the Chinese economy and enterprises tightening their belts.…

Latest preview will also 'crash less'! Hooray! A fresh preview of Microsoft's open-sourced Windows Terminal landed overnight with a couple of standout features to make the app a handy addition to the toolkit of Windows 10 shell-botherers.…

Great and good of pentesting chew the fat with El Reg Ethical hacking is a "redundant term" but to be a "hacker" is no longer a bad thing, according to proponents of the cybersecurity art form known as "penetration testing".…

Spices up your life with change to naming conventions Microsoft crossed the streams last night as both the Fast and Slow Rings of the Windows Insider Program synchronised ahead of the final fit and finish of next year's Windows 10.…

Memories of missiles on the moors of Cumbria Geek's Guide to Britain Of all the monuments to Great Britain's efforts to maintain its pre-war status as a global superpower in the post-war world, the remnants of the Blue Streak intermediate-range ballistic missile project are among the most bathetic.…

My, what beautiful curly braces you have Stob Oh hey, Verity, how's it going? What have you been up to? Busy, busy, busy?…

With the help of what looks like vibrating dinner plates Have you ever wanted to land a drone on your arm as if the gizmo were some sort of metallic bird of prey? Well, if so, you’re in luck. Sort of.…

Is ISOC 'severely harming' its reputation or ushering in a bold new future? Analysis At this year's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Berlin, the opening ceremony, featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was immediately followed by an hour-long session on the “future of internet governance.”…

Never complain about installing a printer again The Irish parliament is under fire for recklessly splashing €808,000 on a gigantic printer that it couldn’t even fit through its doors.…

Meanwhile, VMware had a bumper third quarter HP Inc presented pretty unexciting fourth quarter and end-of-year financial results – and stayed strictly silent about the elephant in the room: the threatened hostile takeover by Xerox.…

Tech giant shocked at non-profitable abuse of info Comment Google is under fire for sacking four staffers it says electronically stalked colleagues working on technology for the US Customs and Border Protection.…

* And by you, we mean slain or injured Amazon warehouse workers Amazon, a gigantic cloud provider with a department store in the basement, is having a crazy news week. Here's a quick summary.…

Execs accused of inflating advert views and sales on fondleslabs, signs installed in medical offices Four execs from a US medical tech upstart have been charged with bilking investors to the tune of more than $1bn.…

Just you wait, we'll do it, we'll force a merger, any moment now – face the fax, pal Xerox has vowed, again, to launch a hostile takeover of HP Inc by sidestepping the board and going directly to shareholders.…

Find out how Kubernetes simplifies DataStax deployments Webcast Growing numbers of enterprises are turning to hybrid and multi-cloud solutions for the advanced capabilities they can bring to IT operations. However, to make the most of these solutions, organisations must be able to handle workloads seamlessly across a range of different providers.…

Market: We're happy with that. (Cue 20% share price boost) Hyperconverged infrastructure purveyor Nutanix posted the biggest quarterly loss in its short history last night – but still got some love from Wall Street, with shares jumping 20 per cent in overnight trading.…

COOK, CUPERTINO: Well, um, things are looking up? 2019 was forecast to be a deflationary year for smartphone makers, and calendar Q3 didn't turn up any surprises – sales shrunk 0.4 per cent globally.…

Back in blacklist: Microsoft not keen on firm's IP addresses UK hosting outfit tsoHost (the artist formerly known as TSO Host) continues to suffer the blacklist blues as email woes have continued to beset the company.…

Coffee machines will listen to you if vendors implement it AWS has unveiled a flurry of updates to its IoT platform, including secure tunnelling, fleet provisioning, Docker containers on edge devices, and Alexa voice support on devices with 50 per cent less power than was previously required.…

$21.75m acre of Gone-with-the-Wind chintz in the Valley While moving house and changing job remain among the most stressful things in life for mere mortals, Bill McDermott is swapping Palm Beach for Silicon Valley weeks after leaving SAP to run ServiceNow.…

Did somebody say strategic diversification? BT's pipe-laying division Openreach is looking to further dilute its reliance on Huawei by issuing a tender seeking an additional infrastructure supplier to help build an FTTP broadband network.…

Customers don't want open-source K8s in production, claims Google Interview Kubernetes (K8s) is everywhere, so how do cloud vendors differentiate their offerings? Google's answer is Anthos, but this is a brand as much as a product.…

Unanimous decision of board to up sticks from Delaware The RISC-V Foundation, which directs the development of an open-source instruction set architecture for CPUs, will incorporate in Switzerland. Currently it is a non-stock corporation in Delaware, USA.…

KSQL gains point-in-time queries, becomes ksqlDB Kafka-flinger Confluent has had another crack at persuading relational holdouts that stream processing isn't all that scary, by way of the SQL-like ksqlDB.…

Soundbar slingers make faulty ear things too Owners of Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones are still trying to get the company to either fix or roll back a firmware update that removed noise-cancelling functions from their over-ear gear.…

Flaws are 'far beyond merely inconvenient', writes Janelle Shane Book review Everyday AI has the approximate intelligence of an earthworm, according to Janelle Shane, a research scientist at the University of Colorado but better known as an AI blogger.…

Technically possible but there's no way to check... for now Giant planets up to ten times the mass of the Earth can form around violent supermassive black holes without the need for stars, according to research accepted into The Astrophysical Journal.…

Protests kick off, Vint Cerf tells folks everything's fine One week after the news the non-profit .org internet registry was to be sold to a private equity firm, the board of the organization that has to approve the purchase met in private to discuss the situation.…

Rogue SDKs covertly harvested personal info, it is claimed Twitter and Facebook on Monday claimed some third-party apps quietly collected swathes of personal information from people's accounts without permission.…

Financial numbers fall short of already modest Wall St predictions HPE tried to make the best of a rough quarter and year as the enterprise IT giant turned in lackluster numbers for fiscal 2019.…

Who's a good cyber-boy? Now, please don't kill anyone Vid Massachusetts' bomb squad have put a Boston Dynamics Spot robot through its paces, making the cops the first US force to deploy the four-legged machine in the field.…

So will you all please move to IPv6? World: Nope. Analysis It happened four years ago. And again two years ago. And last year. But this time, on November 25, 2019, we have finally, finally, finally run out of IPv4 addresses.…

Plus: AMD teases third-gen 64-core Threadripper and more Intel today tapped up MediaTek to integrate 5G modems into next-generation PCs, due to hit the shelves in early 2021.…

Keeping score? So far it’s Apple 3 VirnetX 8 with more to come Apple has won the latest round in its nine-year patent mega-battle with VirnetX – with a US appeals court rejecting a $600m jury decision and sending it back down to the district court to redecide.…

Sheepish staff apologize after it turns out securing government comms is hard work British officials scrambled to apologize this afternoon after the official Twitter account of the Welsh arm of the UK government was clocked retweeting links to, and videos of, hardcore porno.…

Learn from top-tier execs about when it comes to digital transformation, monogamy doesn’t pay Promo There’s some truth in the old adage “don’t put your eggs in one basket.” For years, cloud vendors have bombarded corporate decision makers with heavy-handed marketing tactics, insisting businesses should use their cloud platforms — and their platforms alone. Those who heeded their words often lived to regret it.…

Golden boy to start new job next month VoIP tech and services outfit Vonage has snapped up an exec who formerly worked for European software giant SAP to fill the role of president of its applications group.…

Running for more than three years? Check the firmware Updated Using an HPE solid-state drive? You might want to take a look at your firmware after the computer outfit announced that some of its SSDs could auto-bork after less than four years of use.…

CEST la vie: Still pooh-poohs MoO. Reform just months away With the deadline for IR35 assessment fast approaching, the latest update to HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax tool (CEST) is still not fit for purpose.…

Also: India admits Vikram had 'hard landing', 'nauts continue ISS repair job, and more Roundup The Arianespace launch may have been delayed, but there remained plenty to bring delight to the hearts of rocket fans last week as Starliner neared launch and Boeing bit back at NASA.…

iPhone sales still in doldrums Retailers in Europe – perhaps burned by excess inventory issues this year – have yet to rekindle their love affair with the iPhone as Apple failed to catch a lift on the back of a regional Q3 upswing in demand across the wider market.…

Ancient IBM gear in new home thanks to power of the internet The team behind the mission to rescue a pair of aged IBM mainframes are celebrating after finally getting the hardware back to Blighty.…

Also: Teams and Slack get the handbags out Roundup Though there won't be any Surface Earbuds in stockings this year, a Release Candidate of PowerShell 7 is looking likely and maybe, just maybe, we'll get a nearly finished Windows 10 20H1.…

String of failures put passengers at risk, says city transport authority Transport for London has ruled that Uber is not fit to run a minicab business in the capital.…

Do your homework then get back to us HP's board has snapped back at Xerox over its "hostile" $33.5bn takeover threat, saying the copier giant's refusal to answer lingering questions about the merger only magnifies their "concerns" about any tie-up and Xerox's future prospects.…

It's down there somewhere, let me take another look The UK's data watchdog has confirmed it failed to collect up to £7m worth of fines dished out in the past four years.…

How to query the telemetry from 1 trillion queries a day You may recall that Azure SQL Data Warehouse got a blasting with the Redmond rebrandogun at the company's Ignite event earlier this month. The Reg caught up with corporate veep for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, at the recent Big Data event in London to find out more.…

Bet that won't have been cheap IBM has paid off 281 people who brought age discrimination claims against it in UK Employment Tribunals – leaving four more cases outstanding.…