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Bad guys are settling in, putting their feet up for the long haul Network intruders are staying longer and going after wider swathes of machines with their attacks.…

Find out at Continuous Lifecycle London this May Events Adopting DevOps, Containerisation and Continuous Delivery doesn't mean compromising on security - and if you want proof, just check out the conference sessions at Continuous Lifecycle London, 2019.…

Damian Collins' band just can't quit fake news, babe UK Parliament's digital committee, keen to ride its post-Facebook probe publicity wave, has launched a sub-committee on disinformation to dig into the issues raised during its high-profile report.…

Fulfilment promise fulfilled Amazon staffers – one dressed as a Big Red piñata – have taken to Twitter to celebrate shutting down their last Oracle database used in the retail side of the organisation.…

Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate Brit energy company Centrica's Hive smart home devices went missing in action this morning with a major outage confirmed across much of the app estate, forcing users to tweak manual controls for heating, hot water and surveillance cameras.…

UK taxman's digital boss talks living with Amazon OpenInfra Days UK 2019 The British tax man loves the cloud, but anyone who thinks public infrastructure can be run by a skeleton crew should think again: HMRC has no fewer than 4,000 IT staff who deliver around 140 digital services.…

And that's a quote from its 2010 accounts Autonomy Trial Former HP top man Léo Apotheker told the High Court yesterday morning that Mike Lynch described Autonomy to him as a "pure-play software company".…

Fancy a slice of SLES for SAP? SUSECON '19 Veteran Linux slinger SUSE kicked off its Nashville shindig, SUSECON 2019, with a slew of new tech to gladden the hearts of enterprise fans.…

Violent Fierce Lion makes $5m in Middle Kingdom compared to Prooi's $260k at home Move over Disney superheroes and endless reboots – a three-year-old B movie has proven that Narnia can tell what's going to be the mane attraction (sorry – Ed), and that China is the market to crack.…

Devs strip code from toolkit amid blogger dramarama A British web-dev outfit has denied allegations it deliberately hid code inside its WordPress plugins that, among other things, spammed a rival's website with junk traffic.…

And from all different angles you want Intel Capital One of the most maddening aspects of live sports may not just disappear in the next two years but may actually become, well, awesome.…

You satmad, bro? Misinformation coming from Russia isn't merely an internet phenomenon; it also affects navigation systems.…

His Muskiness praises Tencent's car hacking boffins for the warning, fixes bugs Video The Autopilot feature in Tesla Model S vehicles could be fooled into swerving across lanes into oncoming traffic by mere stickers on road, researchers discovered. The eggheads also found a way to take control of the flash motor's steering with a wireless gamepad.…

One panellist quits, another decides to stay and listen Over a thousand Google employees and members of the machine-learning community have signed a petition urging the ad giant to remove Kay Coles James, president of conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, from its external AI ethics board.…

Meanwhile, another Edge, IE zero-day emitted online Google has released the April edition of its monthly Android security updates, including fixes for three remote-code execution vulnerabilities in the mobile OS.…

IT cloud baron's device pillaged, Feds told, while mag denies any hacking, spying Remember that sordid and strange tale of the National Enquirer publishing Jeff Bezos's sexts sent to his new girlfriend, and then trying to blackmail the billionaire biz baron?…

Chipzilla no longer a passive investor, we're told Intel Capital Remember when "disruption" was the big buzz word – before tech bros managed to ruin it for everyone? Well, like denim jackets, it's back, baby!…

Layoffs at JavaScript package registry raise questions about fate of community resource NPM, Inc, the company behind the widely used NPM JavaScript package repository, stands for Node Package Manager. Inside the small but vital biz, the name gave rise to an alternative de-abbreviation, Nice People Matter – but that might be about to change.…

Firm warns of $1.1bn deficit, continued net losses after Hortonworks merger Cloudera has an accumulated deficit of $1.1bn and warned in this year's annual report that it expects to continue making a net loss "for the foreseeable future", especially as it splashes extra cash on its merger with Hortonworks.…

'Are you serious?' replies lawyer Autonomy Trial Former HP CEO Léo Apotheker has claimed that if controversial British software company Autonomy's accounts were accurate, "I doubt that HP would have pursued an acquisition of Autonomy at all" – even as he admitted he himself hadn't read its quarterly results before getting HP to buy it in 2011.…

Besieged Autonomy CEO, CFO both had fingers in the startup Darktrace, the security startup backed in part by Mike Lynch, the exec currently involved in a big civil fraud case being heard at the UK's High Court, has nearly doubled turnover and reported deeper losses.…

Seeks willing body to 'take services live' plus another senior type for networks role The UK's taxman is looking for a head of networks and a boss for Crown Hosting and enterprise cloud services and have offered each taker between £90k and £115k to become part of its IT and digital services teams.…

Engineer didn't show? Service later than planned? Providers need to cough up from today Relax, alopecia sufferers or those unfortunate enough to be genetically pre-disposed to baldness. You'll never again – or at least not nearly as much – need to pull your hair out in frustration over crap broadband services.…

Big Red flag: UK transport biz made to pay £800 after tech vendor wins appeal Croydon biz Oracle101 has been ordered to change its name and pay Big Red £800 after the tech titan complained about the upstart's moniker.…

China's OneSpace smiles through explosion and 'nauts change out ISS batteries Roundup While US vice president Mike Pence directed NASA to put boots on the Moon before Trump's second term 2024 is out, last week demonstrated how hard space can be.…

Also: Microsoft publishes an analysis into a third party vulnerability. Which third party? Hint: it rhymes with "My Way" Take some time to ease yourself into Monday with a round-up of some tales from Redmond in the last week that you may have missed.…

Stunt photo sensation fails everyday people Special Imaging Report Swaggering with cash, flashy and vulgar – Huawei has barged into the high-end smartphone market, upsetting the duopoly like a new "noisy neighbour". Huawei issued a challenge to Apple and Samsung – "welcome to smartphone photography". They were the real imaging champs until recently.…

Community work order slapped on infosec biz MD Paul Cox The managing director of security reseller Quadsys, who pleaded guilty to stealing sensitive data from a rival some years back, has again appeared in front of a judge, this time to admit assault.…

Machine-learning updates in a digestible chunk Roundup Here's a quick roundup of what's been going on in the world of machine intelligence.…

Let's be honest, probably for the best no one could buy the record Who, Me? Monday mornings are your time to grimace with other Reg readers over their technical mishaps in our weekly column – Who, Me?…

Read on for free visitor passes to Europe’s largest ITSM expo Promo Celebrating its 25th anniversary, The Service Desk & IT Support Show (SITS), Europe's leading IT service management exhibition and conference, takes place on 1-2 May, 2019, in its prestigious new home at ExCeL.…

A quick summary of infosec news to start your week Roundup Last week we saw someone admit hoarding NSA documents, a Huawei patch bungle, and an axe looming for DXC security employees.…

From nowhere to somewhere with numbers coming any time now, promise, maybe, um... An industry analyst has claimed that revenue numbers for NetApp's hyperconverged product, absent so far, could appear soon.…

From the folks that had nothing to do with the 2017 BA outage CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, has launched a speciality brokerage focused on data centres.…

Watch a flying shotgun blast capitalist scum balloon, socialist devil model airplane Video Russian engineers have turned a humble drone into a formidable terrifying cataclysmic weapons platform, by, well, strapping a gun to it.…

Gizmo axed because it wasn't good enough, ran too hot Apple's latest foray into wireless charging has ended with the cancellation of the AirPower, the white disc that was supposed to be able to power multiple iThings simultaneously.…

VISA: It's everywhere (on the system bus) you want to be Researchers at the Black Hat Asia conference this week disclosed a previously unknown way to tap into the inner workings of Intel's chip hardware.…

Ax falls on staff as customers seemingly slow to embrace subscription model Virtualization and networking biz Citrix has been quietly cutting jobs in California, North Carolina, and Florida, in the US, The Register has been told, but the company refuses to comment on the claims.…

26 and 24-year-olds slapped with suspended sentences, community work orders The Brit who ran the BuildFeed website of Windows leaks has been handed a suspended prison sentence – along with a former Malwarebytes bod who hacked into Microsoft's internal OS development networks.…

But only if trade talks are successful Chinese government could open the local data centre and cloud market to US firms as part of a deal aimed at ending the ongoing trade tariff war between the two countries.…

Handing over info on migration status deters crime reports, say rights groups UK cops' sharing of data with the Home Office will be probed by oversight bodies following a super-complaint from civil rights groups, it was confirmed today.…

It's not Irn-Bru, but you can't have everything Dutch liquid cooling specialist Asperitas and British systems integrator Boston have linked arms on a range of server systems based on "immersion cooling" – with the hardware submerged in giant tubs of mineral oil, a dielectric compound very similar to Vaseline or baby oil.…

Plus: Next week Mad Leo's on the stand Autonomy Trial If Autonomy's accounts were fraudulent, an awful lot of people must have been part of the scam, its former CFO Sushovan Hussain's barrister told the High Court in London yesterday.…

That unmanageable thicket of info is a gold mine for your business Sponsored webcast The volume of data many organisations have to deal with today is becoming so vast that they can barely make sense of it.…

Mobile app down, website 'may be working slowly or unavailable' "Exciting, revolutionary UK high street bank" Metro Bank is having an exciting, revolutionary lie-down today as its mobile app falls over and its website totters.…

Rotating CEO calls out US's 'loser attitude' as smartphones sell like hotcakes Hard-pressed Huawei today chortled at the US government's "loser attitude" as it reported (PDF) healthy double-digit bounces in both its top and bottom line, lifted by the rise of its smartphones and enterprise gear.…

Only took five months, and look, 19H1's almost here Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 1809, aka the Update of the Damned, is now ready for "broad deployment."…

Scheme to test compliance of innovative products accepting applications until 24 May The UK's data protection watchdog has said it wants to "get its hands dirty" as it launched a scheme that will help it figure out how to regulate innovative products using personal data before they get on to the market.…

Remember the space station so big you could fly a jet-pack inside? Film review As NASA gears up to celebrate to 50 years since the first Moon landing, another anniversary is rolling around. It is 45 years since the last crew left Skylab and 40 since the station spread itself over a chunk of Australia.…

Firm to prise its platform away from Spanish owner Sabadell IT meltdown bank TSB is taking control of its technology and banking platform amid speculation about the bank's relationship with Spanish owner Sabadell.…