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Four-legged robot will scuttle a grand total of 10m Roundup In a week where the space-faring community said goodbye to death-defying cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Skyrora upped the ante with its rocket testing, Elon Musk and Jim Bridenstine kissed and made up, and Britain said it would be sending mech-spider nightmare fuel to the Moon.…

Choo choo mothertruckers With its OpenInfrastructure summit mere weeks away, the OpenStack gang is emitting its next release in the form of "Train" with a focus on data protection and machine learning.…

No next-gen mobile internet for you but, hey, no cancer either Brighton and Hove has been claimed as the latest victory in the battleground against common sense, with the council agreeing to ban the erection of three 5G masts.…

Corporate expansionism to blame for issues, claims bossman Getronics' CEO has opened up on its recent and "very, very embarrassing" winding-up petition from HMRC over non-payment of VAT, claiming it was an unintended by-product of corporate expansionism.…

Behold the Samsung Family Hu- oh, bugger The connected refrigerator has long been the fever dream of many an IoT enthusiast, and Samsung's Family Hub has demonstrated the power of such a concept by falling over in a heap on a John Lewis sales floor.…

HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast Cray has landed a £79m deal to construct Blighty's 28-petaFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer, which will use second-generation AMD Epyc processors.…

Join us at a Nuance-powered morning briefing to discuss modern workflows Promo Voice-controlled assistants are popping up in kitchens and living rooms across the world – so what’s stopping us using this technology to take control of our day-to-day working environment?…

Boffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it Analysis Chemistry boffins at the University of Hawaii have found, rather disturbingly, that different computer operating systems running a particular set of Python scripts used for their research can produce different results when running the same code.…

Let us put it this way: One of your parental units is somewhat obese and has been rather amorous towards me Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that, it hopes, will filter out rude words in messages sent from Xbox Live users in a bid to make the gaming platform “a place where everyone can have fun.”…

Oops I did it again. And by it, we mean, ripped people off Internet celeb Siraj Raval’s reputation continues spiraling downward – after he admitted plagiarizing real scientists' work to produce a paper on neural qubits.…

All it takes is -u#-1 ... Wh%& t#e fsck*? It's only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.…

Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown Responding to concern that its Safari browser's defense against malicious websites may reveal the IP addresses of some users' devices to China-based Tencent, Apple insists that Safari doesn't reveal a different bit of information, the webpages Safari users visit.…

Venerable stamp-machine maker stalled by server infection Pitney Bowes, the US stamping meter maker, has been infected with ransomware, leaving customers unable to top-up their equipment with credit nor access the corporate web store.…

You want this web tech to be independent? Sure, we'll just put it in an org we bankroll Google's AMP project will join the incubation program of the OpenJS Foundation, which is part of the Linux Foundation.…

Firm admits it has considered a bricks-as-a-service biz model Beloved brick maker Lego is considering a rental service as part of a drive to improve sustainability in a world where hatred of plastic is threatening their attractiveness as a toy.…

You know, co-founder of the Belfast-based reseller Munich-based Cancom Group is paying £70m to acquire public-sector reseller Novosco.…

But without a majority, it's more likely to form basis of Tory manifesto than law The UK government has promised to roll out new legislation to achieve nationwide "gigabit-capable broadband" among 26 bills set out in Parliament's State Opening today.…

Apple flogs Microsoft hardware and Puppet's CTO has a... notepad.exe tattoo? Roundup In a week that left the Windows Insider team facing a leadership vacuum after its Ninjacat-in-chief jumped ship, Microsoft's army of gnomes continued to toil ahead of the company's impending Ignite shindig.…

Cos that's always gone really well... Exclusive The University of Nottingham has announced it will outsource some of its IT operations in a long-awaited shakeup of the department.…

If that floats your boat SoftwareONE, one of the world's largest Microsoft resellers, has started pre-booking its shares ahead of an initial public offering on the Swiss stock exchange later this month.…

Looking back on Voskhod, Salyut, Soyuz, Apollo and having the right stuff Obit Alexei Leonov, the first man to float out of a capsule and into space, has died at the age of 85.…

And a release date – sort of Microsoft has given the next version of Windows 10 a name. 19H2 will now be known as the November 2019 Update and is due to land any day now.…

Bills as high as £9k, but don't worry – they're working on it Vodafone has apologised for a "technical error" that left customers abroad facing thousands of pounds in roaming fees over the weekend.…

Will join McAfee, Barracuda Networks, Veracode Software in Thoma Bravo's tum Brit security software slinger Sophos has accepted an all-cash offer from US suitor private equity group Thoma Bravo of just over £3bn.…

Why Teams is a key product despite its frustrations – and yes, a Linux client is on the way Analysis Microsoft continues to plug Teams as the "fastest growing application" in the company's history, though it is not sold separately, only as a feature of Office 365 (there is also a free version). At the same time, there are major feature gaps that are only now being plugged, and it is not easy to manage. What is the attraction?…

Attention has shifted away from VMs, however, COO tells El Reg OpenStack chief operating officer Mark Collier told The Reg that while SUSE's decision to abandon its OpenStack Cloud product is "obviously disappointing", adoption is "strong and growing".…

When 95 + (5 * RAND()) is all your spreadsheet needs Who, Me? Monday has arrived once again and with it the sweet, sweet music of a reader's darkest IT misdeeds in The Register's weekly Who, Me? feature.…

Storage is no longer 'snorage' Survey results Storage is no longer snorage. And long gone are the days when enterprise storage could be taken for granted, or at least forgotten about until either users noticed access wasn’t speedy enough or the IT team realized space was running out.…

Read the latest in the amusing world of AI Roundup It's another Reg summary of recent AI news.…

Including: Visual Studio Code debug hole found Roundup It's time for another security news catch-up.…

Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall Perl 6 should soon be known as Raku, now that Perl creator Larry Wall has given his blessing to the name change.…

Zuck-bucks dead in the water as payment giants snub currency tech Updated The Facebook-backed Libra crypto-currency project was dealt a crushing blow Friday when eBay, Stripe, and others yanked their support.…

Devs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release Comment Amid Apple's attempt to fend off criticism for its removal, restoration, and re-removal of an app used by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the company is also facing particularly voluble criticism from users of its latest desktop operating system, macOS Catalina.…

Plus: Dumb hipsters spaff $3,000 on 'Jesus Shoes' A vicar has said there's no room for ghosts in the UK's "most haunted village" of Prestbury, Gloucestershire – unless it's one of the Holy variety.…

£59bn boost – 'if we can get right conditions to invest' BT's pipe laying subsidiary Openreach has published a list of proposals it claims will help Britain gain full fibre by the mid-2020s.…

Not that it was moving quickly to begin with Ambitious plans to digitise Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service via a £1bn modernisation programme should be slowed down even further, MPs heard this week.…

Switchzilla's online presence beset by mysterious outages Cisco has suffered an odd series of outages that briefly KO'd its website and corporate blogs.…

Extra $37bn levy on notebooks, slabs pushes American retailers to panic buy, buy, buy Businesses heading for the Windows 7 escape hatch and US retailers panic-buying ahead of the next round of trade tariffs helped PC shipments rise globally in Q3 at the fastest rate in seven-and-a-half years.…

Tweets written in African-American English slang more likely to be considered offensive The internet is filled with trolls spewing hate speech, but machine learning algorithms can’t help us clean up the mess.…

Subspace communication over, enterprise commander out SAP's chief executive Bill McDermott will not renew his employment contract at the German database software maker.…

Much, much worse than a vicious circle Something for the Weekend, Sir? I've got myself stuck in a ring. Yes, again. Medical assistance may be required.…

Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights The British government should make it a crime to disable geofencing and electronic conspicuity on one’s drone, according to MPs from a parliamentary committee looking at future drone regulation.…

You shoved your documents where, exactly? On Call Friday is that special time of the week when clocks seem to slow to a crawl and software giants drop their buggiest code. It is also the time when The Register pokes a talon into the sack marked "On Call".…

Be the first to see tech giant’s global trends report Promo Cisco is inviting the world’s IT leaders to join its Networking.Next Virtual Event on 24 October, offering up a panel of experts who will examine the diverse trends of today, that are shaping tomorrow’s network.…

Redmond's bundled group chat app draws fire from Slackville Several months after Microsoft crowed about how its Teams group chat app has reached 13 million daily active users, rival Slack has fired back with figures of its own.…

Turmoil in Redmond over deals with US immigration agents Microsoft and its GitHub subsidiary are under fire from some of their own employees over service contracts with America's controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.…

That's the way the Cook, he crumbles: HKmap banned again Apple has once again taken down an iOS app aimed at helping Hong Kong protesters avoid police crackdowns in the troubled city.…

'If only you could see what I've seen through your eyes'... A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived by analyzing geographic details in an eye reflection captured in one of her social media photos.…

Media giant says it can now pay back subscription fees Adobe has reversed course on its decision to withhold refund payments from customers in Venezuela.…

Haben sie nicht von dem Streisand-Effekt gehört? Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that reported them to criminal prosecutors over allegedly illegal malware exports.…