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Enterprise+: One toolkit to deliver them all DevOps darling JFrog has snapped up cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) outfit Shippable.…

NVMe drives speed VMs, but be warned – it ain't persistent AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure's – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when the VMs are killed.…

There's a PhD position in it too, if you want to get involved NCC Group and the University of Surrey have set up a "Space Cyber Security Research Partnership" to investigate the security issues faced by satellites.…

Ad giant plans reshuffle to focus on privacy, anti-trust – reports Facing down an increased interest in tech regulation, Google is said to be rejigging its global lobbying efforts and upping its focus on privacy and competition.…

Rest of the portfolio couldn't keep up with Nimble HPE storage revenues – like NetApp's – grew just 2 per cent year-on-year in the firm's first 2019 quarter, with Nimble all-flash arrays leading the charge amble.…

The iceberg has begun to change course Stinging from British criticism over its slow pace, Huawei has promised to start addressing security fears from the country's spy agency, GCHQ, by June.…

Search giant lifts ban on out-of-court talks, class-action suits Google has said it will end forced arbitration next month and lift a ban on class-action suits after intense pressure from staffers.…

If it works. Comms sat also along for ride, but there are loads already so... SpaceX has sent the first privately funded lunar lander on its way to the Moon following an evening launch from Canaveral Air Force station.…

It's not big and it's not clever. Well, not clever, anyway Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Where's the intelligence?" cried a voice from the back.…

'The perils of wrist-based motion sensors' Ah the perils of a connected society were evidenced once again this week when some techies we know took on a pimply faced, smartwatch clad youth as an apprentice.…

Uhhh... we can't log in. Doughnut, anyone? On Call After a long, hard week, what better way to start Friday than with a dose of On Call, El Reg's weekly column for tech traumas, mishaps and eureka moments.…

It's time we rise up against these AI overlords and overthrow their useful technologies Neural networks have proven surprisingly adept at detect radar signals – and could help the US Navy and civilian mobile networks better share their overlapping radio spectrum.…

Ad giant must divorce IoT subsidiary, privacy warriors tell sleepy watchdog Following Google's acknowledgement that it made a mistake by failing to mention that its Nest Guard alarm hub includes a microphone, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to force the ad biz to sell its Nest division and surrender data snarfed from Nest customers.…

Looks like someone's thought ahead this time The Carnegie Institution for Science, a research hub headquartered in America's capital, is asking for the public’s help to name five of Jupiter’s newly discovered moons.…

CEO Antonio boasts of big earnings to come HPE got a boost from Wall Street Thursday even after falling short on revenues for its latest financial quarter.…

Also: Letting people pay to stop FB snooping wouldn't be fair on the poor, apparently Facebook is not going to give people the option to pay it to stop gathering and selling their private information because it wouldn't be fair to those that can't afford it.…

Don't need reason, don't need rhyme. Ain't nothing I would rather do: going down, party time US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that Uncle Sam will no longer provide top-secret intelligence to countries that use Huawei equipment in their core networks.…

Plus: How Microsoft Edge helps Facebook Flash files dodge click-to-play rules in Edge Adobe is taking a second crack at patching security bugs in its Acrobat and Reader PDF apps.…

Lawsuit accuses Big Red of fraud, breach of contract Software giant Oracle was sued on Wednesday by Worth & Company, a Pennsylvania-based mechanical contractor, over a failed enterprise resource planning (ERP) software deal.…

Meanwhile, .gay comes out of the commercial closet Google has launched a new internet extension specifically for developers but if you want to get a good name, you're going to have to pay for it.…

As experts worry about the potential for rapid unscheduled in-flight rocket disassembly NASA this week set a date for the launch of the much-delayed Demo-1 – the first test flight of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule that will, fingers crossed, eventually ferry humans to the International Space Station.…

We're Europe's tech hub, crows minister, but investment weedy compared to the US and China Google's DeepMind is among 11 companies to fund artificial intelligence masters degrees in the UK under a government-backed range of training programmes, including fellowships and PhD centres.…

Cybercrims aren't just raking it in – they're dishing it out too Extortionists are promising salaries of more than a quarter of a million pounds to skilled infosec folk willing to put on a black hat, according to research outfit Digital Shadows.…

For the BOFHs: Admin Center preview loaded with Software Defined Networking goodness In a busy week for Windows Insiders, Fast-Ring fans got a fresh build of Windows last night, hot on the heels of a new preview of the Windows Admin Center.…

App piracy fighter Tapcore strenuously denies involvement A major ad fraud operation could be sucking your phone of juice and using up more than 10GB of data a month by downloading hidden vids, Oracle has claimed.…

But... but British Gas customers are making cost savings, though The British government is "sugar coating" its smart meter project and pretending that "everything will turn out alright in the end", according to Parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (BEIS).…

Worse to come as market doldrums deepen An abrupt quarter-on-quarter revenue cliff drop affected all the main flash vendors, except Intel, which saw revenues rise despite falling prices.…

If you like that then you'll just LOVE our 365 range Microsoft has updated the My Office app and would like to remind users that there's a free, online version of the suite.…

Breakaway MPs accused of making off with info The UK's Labour Party has been forced to lock down access to membership databases and campaign tools over concerns the info was being sucked up by breakaway MPs, in a possible breach of data protection laws.…

It's patching time again for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 Updated Oops! Microsoft has published an advisory on a bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) product that allows a malicious HTTP/2 request to send CPU usage to 100 per cent.…

Innovation? In my smartphone market? It's more likely than you think Some day in the future you'll have a piece of material you can fold neatly away in your pocket, a canvas that just happens to be a communication and information device. Until that day, "foldable" phones will be transitional things, reminding us how far short we fall of the ideal.…

Just one week to save a bundle with our early bird tickets Events If you're gearing up supercharge your software development and deployment operations, whether by adopting DevOps, getting serious about containers, or adding serverless into the mix, you should be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle London in May.…

Also makes vendor-luring pledge to take its fair share of risk The UK government has outlined a series of safety nets designed to prevent another Carillion disaster in what it is calling an "Outsourcing Playbook".…

Great recruiting tool there, folks A crafty joker seized control of the British Army's "influence and outreach" Twitter account – and labelled the military unit "fun sponges" when they tried to get it back.…

Chinese upstarts fill in the gaps The two biggest brands in the West are the two biggest losers as the smartphone slump continues, analyst Gartner has found.…

Hilarity ensues Big companies love to have social media "influencers" touting their wares – time-rich millennials who have turned product placement into a moderately lucrative lifestyle, often thanks to an agency.…

Where would madam like madam's Kubernetes? Cloud? On-premises? Both? Google's hybrid Cloud Services Platform (CSP) emerged blinking into the light today, in beta form at least.…

All rocks can produce water if irradiated in the right way Thirsty astronauts living on the Moon may be able to extract water from the barren body, thanks to the power of the solar wind, according to NASA.…

Software framework teases shortcut to GDPR compliance Computer science boffins from Harvard and MIT have developed a software framework for building web services that respect privacy, provided app developers don't mind a minor performance hit.…

Some tips on how to avoid miscreants deceiving your code Adversarial attacks that trick one machine-learning model can potentially be used to fool other so-called artificially intelligent systems, according to a new study.…

Patches available now spread across more than a dozen advisories Cisco emitted on Wednesday a bunch of security updates that, your support contract willing, you should test and roll out to installations as soon as possible.…

Or Acid Burn? Or Lord Nikon? Weak IT security may end in disaster at sea... one day Poorly maintained IT systems on container ships are leaving the vessels open to cyber-attack and catastrophe, it is claimed.…

Besides it's a security issue. Or is that just American insecurity? Analysis 5G mobile networks have been held out as the future of not just mobile communications but also smart cities, the internet of things, rural broadband access, and countless other future innovations.…

PUT, PATCH, POST, PWNED! Website admins are today urged to update their Drupal installations following the disclosure of a potentially serious vulnerability in the web publishing software. And when we say potentially serious, we mean, someone can potentially hack and hijack your site via this flaw.…

Lawyers gotta lawyer A black critical-facilities engineer at Facebook claims his boss repeatedly called him a "lazy n*****" and described other African-Americans at the tech giant "monkeys and chimpanzees."…

Bet all two of you who paid to activate your copy are feeling a little cheesed off at this 14-year-old undetected flaw CheckPoint infosec eggheads are today laying claim to discovering a Windows archiving security flaw that appears to have been lingering since 2005, if not earlier.…

Worried devs list Manifest v3 problems they need tweaked Makers of ad blockers, content filters, and privacy extensions for Google's Chrome browser have drawn up a list of desired technical fixes to undo the anticipated damage from pending browser platform changes.…

Owners having a connection 'mare in the Internet of Trainers Buyers of Nike's eye-wateringly expensive Adapt trainers appear to be having difficulties with the accompanying app.…

Another cock and balls story An Australian pilot has earned his coveted Register wings by telling the world how boring flying can be through the medium of flight trackers.…

Not secure enough for UK.gov use either Huawei has not showed British government overseers a “credible plan” for dealing with security shortcomings flagged in a report issued last year, the technical director of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.…