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Production ramped up to meet hyperscaler demand The country-sized electronics factory that is Taiwan has ramped up its production of li-ion cells designed specifically for data centre applications to meet growing demand from American cloud vendors.…

App services has now thawed, and of course energy supplier is very, very sorry Centrica has pinned last week's 36-hour freeze of its Hive app estate – the one that coincided with the plunging temperatures in Britain – on a server fault it claims happened, er, a day after the outage actually began.…

Data watchdog: All our staffers are 'aware' of policies... The UK's data protection regulator has failed to follow its own advice, admitting a privacy notice for its own staffers – one of its key recommendations for GDPR compliance – remains "under construction".…

SABRE sucks up ex-Phantom back-end gases, chills them delightfully Brit firm Reaction Engines has successfully tested its engine design's precooler heat exchanger – a key step on the path to getting its SABRE donk up and into space.…

For those moments when four rings just aren't quite enough More bafflement for long suffering Windows Insiders, the gang showing off Visual Studio's hipper cousin and Kaizala going global are just three of the wonderous things in the latest Microsoft round-up.…

And they won't save the tanking device market in 2019 Gartner has predicted foldable phones will capture a puny 5 per cent of the flagship market by 2023.…

MPs also voice concerns about accuracy of status-check tool MPs have warned the UK government to pay close attention to the effect IR35 tax reforms will have on the private sector, and questioned the efficacy of HMRC's status-checking tool.…

It's a good, nearly great phone. But then so is the Mate 20 Pro Review In 2018, four years after The Reg predicted (to much derision from readers) that Huawei was coming to eat Samsung's lunch, the Chinese giant appeared trotting over the horizon, wearing a bib and waving a steak knife. Huawei has run HTC, Sony and LG off the British high street, but the Korean electronics giant is clearly foremost in Huawei's sights.…

Finds his security pass doesn't work the next day Who, Me? Hello readers! You’ve found your way to the sickest of El Reg’s columns: Who, Me? This is where readers share their most embarrassing moments for the pleasure of everyone else.…

Meanwhile, Apple is drinking Google's AI milkshake Roundup Hello, here's a quick lowdown on what's been happening in the machine learning this week.…

Intelligent Tracking protection arrives as off switch for website tattling trait is removed Apple recently released Safari 12.1 for iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4, bringing with it both privacy improvements and an unexpected regression.…

Plus, JavaScript card sniffer's go under the microscope Roundup This week had an Apple engineer fighting the government, an Apache update release, and a security scare at Mar-a-Lago.…

Because it won't have any impact and the FTC probably won't collect the money A robocalling scheme that ripped off business owners by claiming to be collecting fees on Google's behalf to improve their search engine results has been fined $3.4m.…

Long-dead Helios probes' data still opening up new science The Sun is a weird place, where massive bubbles of plasma, bigger than the size of Earth, are blown out from its surface every ninety minutes and hot rain splashes down in loops.…

.inc offers to remove domain name hassles with three-month giveaway and a hefty bill If you are one of the 300,000 people or organizations based in the UK that owns a .eu domain, then the madness that is Brexit has come with an extra dose of frustration.…

YuGiOh takes brave stance of requesting basic hygiene in competitions Competitive YuGiOh players have been given a literal breath of fresh air, thanks to new rules mandating anyone in a competitive game not reek.…

Network that can't control ads or content turns out to have trouble with illegal activity Dozens of groups composed of around 385,000 people convened to discuss and participate in dubious or illegal services - not on the dark web but on Facebook - according to Cisco's Talos security team.…

This is local storage for local people Developers targeting Azure with Spinnaker have had their lives made a little easier this week, as deployments to Microsoft's cloud got integrated into the delivery platform, and Microsoft also had news to interest Blighty-bound devs.…

When Irish eyes are prying A family staying at an Airbnb rental in Ireland made an unsettling discovery when they found their unit had a hidden camera livestreaming their stay.…

Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack OpenInfra Days UK 2019 Open-source software developers at Red Hat are working on a tool that would simplify deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal servers.…

Did someone say perfect storm? Well, here we are Slowing smartphone sales and low demand for DRAM and NAND memory have taken their toll on Samsung.…

Skyrora seeks spaceport operators for its next three rocket tests Edinburgh-based Skyrora, flushed with success after getting its Skylark Nano rocket off the ground in 2018, is on the hunt for a location for its next three engine tests.…

Yes, this will complement SAN flinger's DM array line nicely Despite having its own line of SAN arrays, Lenovo is to globally resell Excelero's NVMesh software to add fast access NVMe-over-Fabrics virtual SAN software to its storage lineup.…

AWS shucks... they've only gone GCP Commercial scale-out filesystem startup Qumulo's Core scale-out distributed file storage software – available on-premises and AWS – has now been ported to Google's cloud too, and should be available from the GCP Marketplace later this year.…

Chocolate Factory says it will have to find 'different ways' of getting outside opinions Google has canned its AI ethics board after just a week due to outcry over its choice of panel members, claiming it would find "different ways" to bring in outside opinions.…

Meanwhile, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet scooped by Moon Japanese probe Hayabusa2 has shot a 2kg copper bullet at Ryugu in order to get a glimpse of the asteroid's interior.…

As politicos struggle over deal, firms continue bracing for Britain's departure Google Pay has this week shifted its service provision for all non-UK users in the European Economic Area from Britain and into Ireland ahead of Brexit.…

Vodafone blesses Birmingham New Street station with amazing network tech of far-flung future Vodafone has proclaimed Birmingham New Street as the UK's first railway station to have 5G connectivity. There's just one minor problem – the lack of actual 5G devices necessary to use it.…

Body plans to stick data experts on cancer, mental health teams The NHS has named the overlord of its digital health quango and talked up plans to put data specialists on cancer and mental health policy teams as tech support.…

Microsoft's latest update for its ageing OS due to hit Soon™ The Windows 10 May 2019 Update is inbound, but not before it has spent a bit more time in the hands of testers excluded from the disastrous October 2018 Update.…

Vaccination GOOD. Spread of easily preventable illness BAD An oddly specific health warning has confirmed a case of measles in the Canadian capital of Ottawa – and patient zero is believed to have merrily sauntered through the offices of, er, antivirus maker Trend Micro.…

Hackers are raising their game. You need to do the same Promo Organisations can no longer afford to sit back and hope their security measures will protect them from determined and inventive adversaries who know how to get around most of today’s security and monitoring tools.…

No way you're never gonna shake me... Ooh darlin' cause you'll always be my baby Something for the Weekend, Sir? I fell in and out of love yesterday. It was a wild, stormy relationship that could never last, and it's only now by relating to you the sequence of events that I will feel ready to move on with my life.…

Hello everyone. We brought dip Quantum, like IBM Storwize, will be using a classic 2U, 24-bay chassis for its excursion into end-to-end NVMe array land, The Reg can reveal.…

Cops £145k fine for blabbing deets on 200 people Newham Council has been fined £145,000 after an employee sent out a mass email containing an unredacted version of the police database that ranks people's likelihood of gang-related violence.…

Radio enthusiasts argue signals must travel in the open, for the sake of national security Some people have been using ham radio frequencies for communication that's encrypted or difficult to decipher and others argue that's a threat to national security and a violation of the spirit and rules of amateur radio. Really, it's a fight over whether the amateur radio spectrum remains a hobbyist space or develops as a medium for data traffic.…

Another day, another user failing to figure out basic IT kit On Call The weekend is nearly upon us again, and there's just Friday between you and some cold, cold beers. Let's ease the transition with On Call, in which readers regale us with tales of well-solved tech conundrums.…

We talk to specialist chipmakers about binning the BUS and secrecy It seems the answer to every problem these days is artificial intelligence. Want to reduce traffic congestion? You need AI. Cut down on fake news? AI. Understand your business better? AI. Create next-generation sliced bread? AI.…

Solid small satellite where a year lasts for just two hours Astronomers have discovered an object that orbits dangerously close to its parent white dwarf star. It should have been crushed to death by the dying star’s gravitational pull, but has miraculously stayed intact somehow.…

Proposed bill would bring immediate sanctions for tampering with democracy The US Senate is mulling a bill that would call for sanctions on any country caught trying to hack or influence American elections.…

Pharmaceutical brand says no data lost in Winnti outbreak German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer says it has been hit by malware, possibly from China, but that none of its intellectual property has been accessed.…

Bigots, racists and haters rejoice! You are going to get bias out of the box Facebook has been taking a lot of stick over discrimination on its platform but a new paper suggests that the problems with the platform could go deeper.…

Addictive social media should be banned says man who just launched a his and hers Instagram account Opinion The game Fortnite should be banned, according to Britain's own Prince Harry, because it's "addictive" and "irresponsible."…

Top tech uni also dumps Huawei, refuses money from China, Russia, and Saudis The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says it will no longer work with ZTE or Huawei as part of a larger ban on doing business that have been accused of nefarious behavior.…

Plus, it’s now actually two hypervisors in one Open source hypervisor Xen has reached version 4.12, bringing major improvements in resource footprint and security, and revamped x86 architecture support.…

Toying with UI, burstin' bubbles Google has added some cosmetic changes to the second beta of this year's version of Android to go with the plumbing it introduced in the first beta.…

'Shadowy' data-sharing deals undermine public trust, says pressure group Frontline public sector workers have been urged to fight against backroom data-sharing deals as campaigners warn the British government wants to build a massive data set for automating immigration checks.…

Picking up slack from doomed Accenture IT contract i6 Outsourcing badass Capita has gulped down a tasty £13.2m morsel dished out by the Scottish Police Authority: namely, the deal for Police Scotland's Core Operational Solution (COS).…

Promised prelim investigation should be out this week Ethiopia's transport minister has said the national carrier's pilots were following published Boeing procedures immediately before the fatal crash of a 737 Max 8 in March, citing an unpublished government report.…

Software giant's Brit limb reaps pre-tax earnings of £137.5m Microsoft's UK operation has published its annual report for the year ending June 2018, which showed the company cracking the £2bn barrier in turnover but, er, paying a bit less tax than last year.…