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NVMe-FC, predictive analytics and roadmap away from VIMMs Violin Systems is making the most of being rescued by private equity, with new hardware and software, and a focus on tossing its hat into the all-flash array performance ring.…

Slams Home Office's lack of engagement with privacy fears The UK Home Office's alleged indifference towards civil rights groups' concerns over the creation of a mammoth policing database has caused Liberty to ditch the government-run consultation group on the project.…

With Nvidia CUDA 10 comes great AI power and VS compatibility Inhabitants of the Venn set overlap between Microsoft Visual Studio users and Nvidia CUDA developers, rejoice. CUDA 10 is once more compatible with Visual Studio.…

Serverless changes everything... 'cept for the things that stay the same Events Embracing Serverless isn’t just a question of writing a couple of functions, flicking a switch and keeping half an eye on your costs.…

Intel's Grinch that stole Christmas might make for a softer end to the year The ongoing transition to Windows 10 by corporates offset weak consumer demand to keep PC sales ticking over with a modest 3 per cent increase over this time last year, according to figures released by channel box-counters Context.…

Sucks up $4bn in Q2 alone Stats from analyst house IDC show that the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) server revenues are growing even as fewer units are shipped.…

Does a review by an 'imagineer' in 2003 invalidate a patent filing? Take a guess A commercial rival of email virus-scanning software firm Glasswall has lost its High Court attempt to use a bulletin board post from 2003 written by a former MessageLabs "imagineer" to have a patent declared invalid.…

Philip Hammond says US reforms slowing progress The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has blamed US tax reforms for slow progress towards an international levy on tech giants' revenues, and warned that the UK is considering going it alone.…

Internet architecture stalwart wants DNS Service Discovery rewritten to protect privacy Privacy consultant and former Internet Architecture Board president Christian Huitema has said he reckons hotspot users should be given better privacy protection.…

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Someone's gotta service that embiggening backup burden HPE has beefed up its data protection product set, adding extra capacity and performance grunt, better Nimble array support and a fresh integration deal with Commvault.…

Now fancies being struck off before data watchdog can collect A sweary Mancunian biz has been fined £150,000 for making almost 64,000 nuisance calls to people who had opted out of automated marketing.…

GhostDNS in the machine A DNSchanger-like attack first spotted in August on D-Link routers in Brazil has expanded to affect more than 70 different devices and more than 100,000 individual piece of kit.…

Acrobat, Reader get patched up against dozens of new holes Adobe has posted an update to address 85 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader for both Windows and macOS.…

Security rules demand more from devs in the New Year Weary of dealing with malicious Chrome extensions and user complaints, Google is asking developers to lock down their accounts and tightening up security in its Chrome Web Store.…

Carrying bits again, for now The troubled Sea-Me-We-3 cable is back online, for now.…

Fingers crossed that the wee probe has enough energy to send something back Kepler’s resurrection from hibernation has been short-lived - NASA has put the veteren space telescope back in sleep mode after it was up and running less than a month ago.…

Land of the Long White Cloud's new 'digital strip-search' law Customs laws in New Zealand now allow border agents to demand travellers unlock their phones or face an NZ$5,000 (around US$3,300) fine.…

Gaze at the computer-created horror of Dogball Pics Images generated by AI have always been pretty easy to spot since they are always slightly odd to the human eye, but it’s getting harder to differentiate what’s real and fake.…

Chip timing could be as effective and harder to hack Hardware-based random number generators (HWRNGs) for encryption could be superseded after a Philippines-based researcher found that side-channel measurement of the timing of CPU operations provide enough entropy to seed crypto systems with the necessary randomness.…

Hi, Vinod, is that permit application in your pocket or are you just unhappy to see us? The US Supreme Court has put an end to the embarrassing eight-year legal battle over access to a California beach by refusing to hear an appeal from Sun Microsystems co-founder and obstinate billionaire Vinod Khosla.…

Like the blueprints we gave away last time... but... better XDF If you've ever wanted to embed cheap-and-cheerful Arm Cortex CPU cores into your Xilinx FPGA designs, well, now's your chance.…

Researcher earns $2,000 for unmasking flaw Telegram has paid out a €2,000 bounty to a researcher who uncovered a vulnerability that caused the messaging app to expose users' IP addresses. The programming blunder has been fixed in the latest version.…

Ding-ding, round three in the internet access battle begins Analysis Within minutes of California signing a net neutrality bill into law on Sunday, the US Department of Justice sued the state claiming the new legislation is illegal.…

Big Blue will 'consider' giving staff access to e-voucher biz offers through corporate plan Groupon has managed to secure a money-off deal in its court battle with IBM over e-commerce patents.…

What's that coming over the hill? Is it a robot? A Windows robot? RoTM The robots are coming, and they will be powered by Windows. The Robot Operating System for Windows, that is.…

WWW daddy punts decentralised internet project WWW creator Tim Berners-Lee has taken aim at the internet giants with his new decentralised web project Solid, which pushes for individuals, not firms, to control their data.…

Private equity holdings shuffle Kaseya has bought in-cloud backup supplier Spanning as Insight Venture Partners, which owns the latter and has a controlling stake in the former, shuffles its holdings pack.…

Every little helps: Penalty slashed with 60% discount The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has slapped a £16.4m fine on Tesco Bank for the security vulnerabilities that led to millions of pounds being pilfered from thousands of customers’ online accounts two years ago.…

Remember 1981? You should... As Microsoft gears up to unleash the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Rich Turner, guardian of the command line at Redmond, took a moment to remind us of simpler, MS-DOS-based times.…

Dieselgate car maker goes all SaaSy on us Volkswagen is plugging its cars – and your data – into a cloud built on Microsoft Azure.…

Great Scott! It's the week at Microsoft Roundup While Microsoft partied the week away in Orlando during its annual Ignite shindig, there was a significant lack of build news as Windows 10 crested an important milestone. And as Skype Classic reached the end of the road, other Microsoft apps also faced the axe.…

Newbies to join CC staffers in the land of baseball Computacenter has flipped on its head the old phrase about Americans being oversexed, overpaid and over here. Well the last bit of it anyway. The reseller has bought US dealer biz FusionStorm.…

While Nadine Dorries' website extols 'block-chain spanning the 499km Irish border' The UK's Conservative Party has kicked off its annual conference by exposing its MPs' phone numbers to anyone able to guess their email addresses.…

Spends three hours recreating the device tree by hand, leaves with heart in throat Who, Me? Welcome once again to El Reg’s weekly instalment of Who, Me?, where readers get monumental cock-ups and heart-stopping near-misses off their chests.…

Re-discovering the final frontier with Professor Mark Hannam If you think the revolution in our understanding of the final frontier ignited by the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015 is over - think again.…

Tomorrowland technology yours for a few million quid and a bit of patience Interview A British startup has proposed combining the "maybe one day" technology of fusion power with the "slowly, slowly" tech of ion propulsion to create an engine capable of sending humanity to the stars.…

The view from space and your pocket Analysis It was 40 years ago that the first experimental Block-I GPS satellite was launched to help test the viability of a global positioning system.…

Net vendors at Ignite, Barefoot wanders into programming, Intel transceivers and more Microsoft's Ignite conference attracted some attention in the networking biz this week, with Fortinet and Riverbed putting up the jazz hands to get attention.…

Field both embraced, feared by enterprise Comment We're hearing more about AI or machine learning being used in security, monitoring, and intrusion-detection systems. But what happens when AI turns bad?…

DeepMind also collaborating with Unity Roundup Welcome to this week's AI Roundup. It looks live the US government does care about AI, and four Senators are urging the government to use more of it in new legislation. Microsoft had a few announcements at its Ignite conference, and DeepMind is collaborating with Unity for its research.…

BBFC gets a side job shilling shoes Roundup One or two things happened this week on the security front, like the elimination of the White House cyber czar, the massive leak of code from Aeroflot , and the debut of UEFI rootkits.…

Client and server, meet 'originless' apps Content delivery biz Cloudflare on Friday added distributed key-value storage to its Workers service, making a greater range of network-hosted applications possible.…

Friday afternoon – a great time to bury bad news, like the exit of your product president It's Friday afternoon on the US West Coast, and everyone's playing pingpong in the office. The East Coast is ordering the next round of martinis. The Europeans are stumbling home from the pub. The Australians are hitting the beach.…

The new method destroys rubbish naturally A group of scientists have proposed a new method to clear up space junk using a satellite that shoots out powerful beams of plasma.…

Horn-dog developers red-faced over avatar antics Video The maker of super-hit video game Fortnite issued a red-faced apology on Friday after its new female character was seen to have some extra wiggle.…

PC sales surge, cloud demands complicate Chipzilla's struggle to produce 10nm processors Intel on Friday published a letter from CFO and interim CEO Robert Swan reassuring customers that the chip biz will be able to make enough processors to satisfy its customers.…

Translation: No jail time for Oz Apple file teen thief The Australian teen who last month admitted hacking into Apple's internal network and stealing data from the Cupertino giant has been spared jail.…

Miscreants harvested tens of millions of profiles via 'View as...' feature, dodgy API Updated Facebook confessed today that buggy code potentially exposed all of its users' accounts to hackers over the past 14 months. It reckons miscreants snooped on least 50 million people's private profiles, and perhaps as much as 90 million.…

Miscreants harvested info from tens of millions of profiles via 'View as...' feature, dodgy API Facebook confessed today that buggy code potentially exposed all of its users' accounts to hackers over the past 14 months. It reckons miscreants snooped on least 50 million people's private profiles, and perhaps as much as 90 million.…