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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.…

Home of CRN UK, Computing and others warn remaining readers to update their freakin' passwords Updated UK events and publishing outfit Incisive Media today urged subscribers to change their account passwords after it found an open port on a server had left it exposed to a buffer overflow or another remotely exploitable vuln.…

Plus: Azure Kubernetes world and Army cash for services Roundup While last week the Microsoft headlines were all about bonzer financial results, storage problems and, er, Microsoft Paint, other things were afoot in Redmond.…

Oh yeah? You’re busier than Bill fricking Gates?? Melinda Gates has written a book looking at gender inequality around the world through her experiences with the Gates Foundation, within the US and her own marriage.…

Hipsters rejoice as shares prepped for debut on New York Stock Exchange Slack - the collaboration software provider for hipsters - has filed to sell its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).…

Ooooh, and lets not forget Manx Moon Stamps 'cos everyone loves an anniversary Round-up SpaceX's next ISS-bound launch was delayed, a new asteroid crater was made and some stamps for Apollo nostalgia fiends landed. El Reg has collated the past week's event in space for your delectation.…

What's Japanese for annus horribilis? 悪い年? Not a literal translation but you get the point 2019 is not looking to be a vintage year for Fujitsu, what with spending millions bidding for a mega-outsourcing contract it failed to win, shuttering offices in 19 countries in EMEA and now a redundancy programme causing trouble.…

Join the institute this June to up your cyber game Promo High-profile cases of successful attacks on critical industrial control systems show the growing importance of protecting your organization or facing a turbulent future. Malware delivered by ever more creative methods can find its way to plant floors, encrypting critical files or wiping them altogether.…

GCHQ offshoot shares infosec hair-raisers CyberUK 2019 If your hair isn't already grey enough, GCHQ staff have revealed a handful of infosec incidents that, in their words, "surprised us".…

Techie swiftly looks for a new job – but takes the 'embellishments' off his CV Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? your weekly shot in the arm with other readers' ugly tales of lost jobs and near-misses.…

Also, Mozilla looks at how healthy the internet really is Roundup Let's start the week with some bits and bytes of machine-learning news.…

TurboTax and H&R Block find robots.txt to hide in plain sight Updated The United States' tax-filing software industry actively prevents search engines from discovering their free-filing versions, it has been discovered, adding further criticism to an industry that drives Americans toward unnecessary paid-for products.…

Six incident reports prompt wall wart withdrawal Apple has issued a voluntary recall of some of AC wall adapters and travel adapter kits designed for the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore out of concern customers could get a jolt.…

Virtual currency exchange's response probably tells you all you need to know The price of Bitcoin has dropped seven per cent after New York's Attorney General accused leading exchange Bitfinex of trying to hide $850m in missing funds.…

That’s a lot of servers Northern Virginia – the bit barn capital of the world, the beating heart of our digital universe – has become the first regional market to reach 1,000MW of wholesale colocation capacity, according to real estate specialist CBRE.…

Storage requirements embiggened in Redmond's upcoming OS emission Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10's voracious appetite for storage remains undiminished in the upcoming May 2019 Update (1903).…

Scientists get ready to rewrite the cosmological rulebook Hubble boffins have confirmed that the universe is expanding about 9 per cent faster than expected thanks to new measurements taken by the venerable space telescope.…

Hopes to berry woes of slow Q1 '19 Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim has said the company will be "focused on delivering a return to growth later this year" amid shrinking revenues and weak product demand for its first quarter of fiscal 2019.…

Developing nanophotonic disk read-write heads Seagate is to help pump £57.4m ($74m) into its plant at Springtown in Derry, Northern Ireland, to get its next-gen disk heads dealing with smaller bits.…

A subtle rebranding exercise might be needed A chap who runs a B&B an actual stone's throw from the US-Canada border has been ordered to put up a sign warning guests not to cross as a bail condition.…

An unexpected extended Easter break Bewildered customers of A2 Hosting have endured a multi-day outage this week as the company battled to clear some pesky malware from its fleet of Windows Servers.…

Word of self-braking supermarket product pram reaches Vulture Central Finally a solution has surfaced to compensate for parents that simply refuse to say no to their little darlings: a self-braking supermarket trolley.…

Er, do you have your original password written down somewhere? Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have been propositioned at midnight at a hotel door. "What's your room number?"…

Firm explains but security folk not appy with clarifications Weird things are afoot with NordVPN's app and the traffic it generates - Reg readers have spotted it contacting strange domains in the same way compromised machines talk to botnets' command-and-control servers.…

As solid as ever, but not such a bargain any more Review Perhaps it's an English thing about being fair to the underdog, but I quite warmed to Huawei's "ordinary" P series model last year, while its attention-seeking big brother P20 Pro hoovered up all the attention.…

Bruce v Sheila: Episode Two On Call It's that time again: Friday morning, and your weekly dose of On Call, where we gather round to share a laugh at someone else's expense.…

The domain name system is going to get more expensive and probably less competitive The internet is about to get a whole lot more expensive.…

And before Half-Life 3 arrives The hunt for dark matter has been fruitless so far, but scientists searching for the elusive particle have discovered another rarity: the radioactive decay of xenon-124.…

And 10nm still on for Xmas 2019, sometime 2020, depending on CPU model Intel's CEO Bob Swan told Wall St on Thursday he had "the best job in the world," though it can't have felt like it as he announced his first full quarter's financial figures as the official head honcho.…

Ignoring privacy laws, storing plain text passwords, slurping millions of contact details come back to bite web giant Here's a triple Thursday whammy: Facebook has been accused of breaking Canada’s privacy laws, and is being investigated in the US and Ireland for seemingly mishandling people's private data.…

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks – is set to end as it's no longer worth the hassle.…