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Apophis will be inside satellite belt, visible to the naked eye from our home world, sweet release not imminent... An asteroid bigger than the size of three football fields is hurtling towards Earth – and will pass so close to our planet, it'll be visible to the naked eye and may pass through the band of human satellites in geostationary orbit.…

While customers apparently make savings from consolidated services? Analysis Database giant and cloud-dream believer Oracle on Wednesday invited members of the media to its Redwood Shores headquarters in California because, as global comms SVP Bob Winslow put it, "We need you to tell our story."…

Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial Two men accused of running a cryptocurrency scam have asked for the entire case to be thrown out – because prosecutors may have accidentally obtained and read Slack conversations the duo had with their lawyers.…

'Member when Microsoft tried this in 2017? It didn’t go well... Dell World Microsoft and VMware appear to have buried the hatchet, with the virtualization juggernaut's entire software stack now officially supported on Redmond's Azure.…

Latest development in long-running lawsuit over electronic device slurping Civil rights groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have pushed this week for a US judge to declare the search of mobile phones at America's borders to be unconstitutional.…

Oh no, sorry that was another quarter in a different year - top and bottom lines wobble amid corp procurement slowdown It isn’t a great time to be selling HDDs or flash drives, just ask Western Digital and Seagate. The pair posted less than flattering numbers for third quarter of their fiscal ’19 that were caused by floppy demand in corporate land.…

Denies wrongdoing, replaced by one-time junior MoD minister Penny Mordaunt Updated Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been sacked from the British government after apparently leaking the news that Blighty isn’t completely banning Huawei from its 5G networks.…

Dumpster, dumpster, burning bright / Data back-ups not alright? The great A2 Hosting Windows TITSUP* has entered its second week as the company continues to struggle to recover from a security breach that forced its System Operations team to shut down all its Windows services.…

Premium mobe makers suffer as sales shrivel Apple and Samsung are licking their wounds after reporting a double-digit drop in global smartphone sales for calendar Q1, as the sector plunged to the lowest volumes shipped in half a decade.…

That ought to help MPLS meet with a little, er, accident Cloudy networking startup Aryaka is set to expand its ops after netting $50m in its latest funding round, led by Goldman Sachs – the single largest investment in the company to date.…

Sing it with us: Thhhhaaat makes you lager than life... Shit hoppened for the Heart & Seoul karaoke lounge in Utah after the US state's alcohol control authority yesterday rejected its application to serve beer.…

He'll only spend 22 weeks in the chokey... but that's just the start of his legal woes Former WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has been sentenced to 11 months in prison after jumping bail and fleeing into Ecuador's London embassy for more than seven years.…

CLL doors open in two weeks Events We'll be opening the doors to Continuous Lifecycle London in just two weeks' time, so if you want to join us for the best in DevOps, CI/CD, Containers and Serverless, the clock is ticking.…

There's insecure and then there's insecure NordVPN has been told to stop misleading world+dog with claims in telly ads that public Wi-Fi is inherently insecure.…

Blockbuster quarter, eh, Tim? Apple crowed over its best three months ever for its services biz, including things like Apple TV and Apple Pay, in its reported results for Q2 ended March 30. Overall, however, Apple had a 5 per cent decrease in revenue from the previous year’s Q2.…

More flash squeezed into HyperDrive Density+ boxes Open-source storage enthusiasts at SoftIron are touting a hybrid storage array that combines a bunch of HDDs and SSDs with Arm64-compatible Seattle system-on-chips from AMD and free Ceph software.…

ISS power problems keep Dragon on the ground for a few more days The 17th SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station has been delayed to no earlier than 3 May as ground controllers work on a plan to deal with a power problem onboard the orbiting lab.…

Big Red rushes out software patch as ransomware scumbags move in IT admins overseeing Oracle's WebLogic Server installations need to get patching immediately: miscreants are exploiting what was a zero-day vulnerability in the software to pump ransomware into networks.…

Roadmap laid out for 7nm 'Rome' Epyc, Navi GPUs Chip second-fiddle AMD, a day away from its 50th anniversary, delivered better-than-expected Q1 2019 earnings on Tuesday, lifting its share price about four per cent in after-hours trading to $28.66 apiece.…

Nabbed in Thailand, extradited... and now formally charged A Russian citizen has been charged with defrauding US taxpayers out of at least $1.5m through a series of tax-return hacks.…

Same day Zuckerberg declares with a straight face at F8 event: 'The future is private' Microsoft has vowed to put an end to lengthy and confusing privacy controls and "give customers increased transparency and control over their data."…

Upstart enlists CapGemini to manage Docker Enterprise Container popularizer Docker on Tuesday opened its DockerCon 19 conference in San Francisco with an amiable video of Docker employees stumbling over obtuse platform lingo.…

'Many companies pay us for our work, and we do not publish data and help them to eliminate vulnerabilities' A service provider hired by the likes of Oracle, SAP, BT, and many others, to manage their IT systems has been hacked – and its client data held to ransom.…

For the diner that wants to chow down on ML and analytics data but can't stomach Tesla Volta V100 costs Google has become the first bringer of clouds to sell server instances equipped with Nvidia’s Tesla T4 GPUs in general availability.…

Misty water-coloured, er, smartphone biz didn't help either ... The roller-coaster nature of semiconductor demand caught Samsung napping in calendar Q1 (PDF) resulting in a 60 per cent dive in profits, the lowest haul since the fiery Galaxy Note 7 debacle of 2017.…

We all want to see hard proof of deliberate espionage. This is absolutely not it A claimed deliberate spying "backdoor" in Huawei routers used in the core of Vodafone Italy's 3G network was, in fact, a Telnet-based remote debug interface.…

It's all perfectly safe Has your hiking holiday in Kazakhstan fallen through? Not to worry. The UN has greenlit the opening of trails along the heavily, heavily fortified border that divides South and North Korea.…

Say it with us now: Despiiiiite Brexit Equinix has opened a £90m colocation facility in godforsaken Slough – its ninth around Greater London and 12th in the UK.…

AWS Outposts on horizon as infra giants look to cram their hardware in YOUR bit barn Amazon Web Services bulked up in 2018, jugging down a protein shake of $2.3bn in cloudy infrastructure services revenues – equalling Google's total haul for the 12 months.…

If it's Boeing, I'm not going Boeing has once again been shaken by its 737 Max saga, this time after it was revealed that safety features for the controversial airliner were inactive – which was not what the airlines flying the craft had been led to believe.…

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do 'n' route tech sales through the channel NetApp has laid off a bunch of staff in EMEA, shuttering certain offices and withdrawing a direct presence in the countries where it is deemed economically viable to sell only via channel types.…

Nvidia's fancy Volta V100 chips not always worth it If you’ve been thinking about building your own deep learning computer for a while but haven’t quite got 'round to it, here’s another reminder. Not only is it cheaper to do so, but the subsequent build can also be faster at training neural networks than renting GPUs on cloud platforms.…

Projects lose 'pilot' bit, bask in glow of top-level love The OpenStack Foundation has announced that Kata Containers and Zuul have been very, very good and so worthy of the moniker "Top-Level Open Infrastructure Project" after the teams met the foundation's lofty goals.…

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Server-cabinet-sized chunk has new management tools US data centre power biz Vertiv reports that li-ion cells are selling like hot cakes, and are now responsible for a third of its battery business - despite lingering concerns about their safety among some IT pros.…

Hapless soul repents 'unintentionally' sharing drone makers privates in repo A Chinese software developer who previously expressed suicidal thoughts has been jailed after putting one of drone company DJI's AES private keys onto Github in plain text.…

Automated cloud provisioning joins the mile-high club The OpenStack Foundation took advantage of its Denver shindig to emit version 1.0 of Airship, a collection of open source tools aimed at simplifying building cloud systems.…

'It was easy, for some definition of easy,' solver tells El Reg A cryptographic puzzle proposed two decades ago that involves roughly 80 trillion squarings has been cracked much earlier than expected – in just three and a half years.…

Alphabet quiet on cloud business results, other bets lose a small fortune Google parent Alphabet reported $36.34bn in revenue and $9.50 earnings per share on Monday for its Q1 2019 quarter, rather less than investors had anticipated.…

...let us bring you up to date on infosec bits and bytes Roundup Here's your quick-fire summary of recent computer security news.…

Click to read to disappointingly logical answer Comment The President's son Donald Trump Jr broke the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a US federal law.…

War over Middle Kingdom's 5G gear heats up Analysis Fallout over a leaked decision by the UK government to allow equipment from Chinese manufacturer Huawei into Britain's "non-core" 5G networks has continued into a second week.…

If you're getting HPE deja vu, so are we Dell Technologies World Hardware giant Dell and its software-slinging sibling VMware have unveiled a service that enables customers to deploy Dell-EMC-built IT infrastructure on-premises without having to buy it outright.…

Security bods ask for help figuring out who left Microsoft-hosted barn door open A pair of security researchers working on a web mapping project for security biz vpnMentor have identified what they claim is a database that exposes 80 million US households.…

Snitches get switches, apparently - as 802.11ax(ed) and sexy 6 moniker stitched Networking overlord Cisco has unveiled Wi-Fi access points and core switches supporting the latest wireless networking standard, the 802.11ax – otherwise known as Wi-Fi 6.…

A month late for April Fool’s Day Norwegian fishermen are being harassed by an apparently Russian-trained Beluga whale.…

It's about privacy, not competition, sniffs Jesus-phone maker Apple has smacked back at app developers moaning that their parental control apps were chucked off the App Store.…

Don’t be touching the DNS Updated Sky Broadband has rolled out a firmware update which is bricking users’ broadband hubs if they are not set to use the ISP's default choice of domain name server.…

Big hot machines for large customers, cheaper boxes for small biz French hosting and web services slinger OVH has squeezed out shiny new bare metal machines in its European data centres.…

BS's cloud software to manage Dell switch hardware The newly public Dell EMC is to OEM Big Switch Networks software and wrap it up in Dell's own Ready Stack converged systems.…