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Train to outwit the cybercriminals Promo No organisation can afford to sit back and relax, trusting its IT systems to be impenetrable. However thorough you are, your cyber security measures may be insufficient to protect you from the growing numbers of cybercriminals who know how to get past most monitoring tools.…

You can take the plunge a bit early... if you dare The Windows 10 May 2019 Update has been plopped into the Release Preview ring as promised.…

HMRC seeks AI, voice, digital engagement bods as part of tech group's overhaul The UK's taxman is attempting to reposition itself as user-friendly, advertising a set of "customer experience" roles – including AI and voice – in its tech group as part of an overhaul of its operating model.…

SimpliVity, meet your Nutanix stepbrother ... bringing hypervisor choice Despite HPE's previous public efforts to distance itself from a hookup with Nutanix, it will, in fact team up with the punchy storage startup to ship a subscription-access hyperconverged box.…

aaS version of software promises faster deployments Juniper Networks has recast Contrail SD-WAN as a fluffy white service for software-defined networking in branch offices, dragging itself into the 21st century tech world.…

Slingshots? Hawks? Anything that will stop airports grounding planes during holibobs, really With one eye on the pre-Chrimbo debacle at Gatwick Airport, the Ministry of Defence has flung £2m at a "counter drone" fund to address the "threat to national security" posed by remote-controlled aircraft.…

But Chocolate Factory hopes Kurian's business chops will help win over the enterprise Google's new cloud chief, Thomas Kurian, has talked up plans to win enterprise customers by expanding his sales team, boosting its dealings with other businesses to shift kit and taking a "sympathetic" approach to legacy tech.…

The Vulture hooks a talon into Microsoft's Edge-y take on Chromium Having gripped our claws on Microsoft's shiny new Edge browser we have... thoughts. And they aren't all good ones.…

Gee, ya think? In what could be understatement of the week, a Connecticut town has admitted that "a poor decision was made" when 24 'merkin gallons (90 litres) of petrol were poured on a baseball field and set on fire.…

Then talks cloud, devs and Functions as a Service with engineering boss Interview Some might say we had it coming, but as newly minted SUSE Engineering boss Thomas Di Giacomo's keynote came to an end, this Reg hack took a chameleon to the face.…

Joe Beda keynotes at Continuous Lifecycle London Events If you’re working with containers, there’s a strong chance you’re working with Kubernetes. And if you’re working with Kubernetes, you really should be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle next month.…

We read thousands of pages of legalese so you don't have to Autonomy Trial With the Autonomy trial well and truly under way, what is each side saying about auditors' reports and due diligence? The Register has been through the legal papers to distil it down.…

Lunar Trump and other news from the rocket world Roundup SpaceX has set tomorrow as the launch date for the second Falcon Heavy, which was hauled up to pad 39A last week and its first stage engines ignited briefly as part of a routine static test.…

NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse Cloud data biz NetApp, pizza purveyor Prezzo and the UK arm of games developer Ubisoft have been named among a list of firms that haven't paid data protection fees to the UK's overstretched watchdog.…

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's hard. But so is my foot in your ass The US government has warned the organization that oversees the domain name system that it needs to hurry up and finalize privacy rules for Whois internet addresses or Congress will back replacement legislation.…

A metaphor for Brexit or IT admin's ineptitude? Generally a system crash is a private affair, but the BT Tower, one of London's tallest landmarks, spent much of the weekend displaying a Windows error message in a very public fashion.…

But let's ignore the shouting and dig into reality Analysis The UK government has started the legislative process for new online content laws that would make internet giants like Google and Facebook liable for the material that appears on their platforms and establish a new regulator to oversee them.…

Automated assembly of articles on lithium-ion battery research tests technology and patience Writers looking to make their names typing impenetrable technical tracts be warned: the machines have arrived and they're already penning scholarly books few will ever read.…

You say Edgium, they say Chredge, we say Chrexplorer – let's call the whole thing off Hands on After weeks of leaks, Microsoft has finally dropped the first official preview build of its shiny new Chromium-based browser.…

Spectre of GDPR continues to haunt the halls of Redmond The European Union's Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has announced an investigation into Microsoft products used by EU institutions.…

It's a pay-as-you-go world Teradata – the American hardware and software maker traditionally associated with reassuringly expensive, sprawling data storage and analytics systems – continues to slowly wrap its arm around the cloud.…

Proposal seeking to halt sale of Rekognition to US agencies to be heard at annual meeting The Securities and Exchange Commission has blocked Amazon's efforts to prevent shareholders voting at next month's Annual General Meeting on the sale of its facial recognition tech to the US government.…

Three decades of experience gone as staff voice fears for HANA platform SAP veteran and cloud president Robert Enslin has quit as the German enterprise software firm forges ahead with restructuring, amid industry talk that its in-memory data platform HANA is in trouble.…

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.…