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Accidental project managers in the crosshairs with the latest cloudy collaboration release Microsoft has announced a single redesigned service to take on duties from Project Online and Project Server – but not right away.…

My box is bigger than your box AWS has wheeled out a fresh version of EC2 with high amounts of memory available – up to 12TB today, the firm says, with promises of 24TB by next year.…

Firm failed to monitor CRM system thousands could access International health insurance business Bupa has been fined £175,000 after a staffer tried to sell more than half a million customers' personal information on the dark web.…

Alphabet-owned VT upgraded for corporate threat hunters Alphabet-owned malware aggregator website VirusTotal has given itself an enterprise-focused makeover.…

Energy, telecoms, banking sectors in the firing line The UK government is pushing telcos, banks and energy firms to improve data portability in a bid to tackle the scourge of consumers everywhere – confusing, complicated and hard-to-escape contracts.…

Not much to learn on 9 October bar price and release date The launch of the Google's Pixel 3 has become the leakiest since an Apple employee left a prototype iPhone 4 in a bar.…

Remember remember the first of November Skype 7 (aka Classic) has finally run out of lives. Microsoft yesterday announced plans to kill it off once and for all in an update to a two-month-old blog-post.…

Warns troops 2018 will 'bomb' if they don't turn it around Sopra Steria's UK head of the Government division has delivered a motivational speech to his staff in which he, er, blames them for a multimillion-pound shortfall in forecast profit for 2018 and demands instant results.…

Warns troops 2018 will 'bomb' if they don't turn it around Sopra Steria's UK head of the Government division has delivered a motivational speech to his staff in which he, er, blames them for a multimillion-pound shortfall in forecast profit for 2018 and demands instant results.…

I'm a nonentity, get me out of here Something for the Weekend, Sir? I stumble on a large root. At least that's what I think it is. For all I know, it could be a low fence, a rotting corpse or a very hardy badger. Some dodgy software has led me here, maybe some even dodgier software is waiting to mug me behind the next tree.…

HSBC joins TSB Updated It's Friday, it's payday, and UK online banking has once again come under fire, though if you're with TSB or HSBC you'll already know this.…

Encrypted sync and faster – up next is Mail and a phone version, CEO promises Interview This week the Vivaldi browser received its biggest update, adding secure sync across devices and making many operations speedier.…

Engineer ecstatic that late night solved his team's circuit board head-scratcher On Call Hello, Friday, El Reg’s old friend. We’ve come to talk with you again… because the vision that has softly crept in must be the latest instalment of On-Call.…

Cupertino company's culture turns to crap under Cook, complaint carps Analysis A former Apple engineer is suing his old employer to force it to acknowledge his role as the inventor of "Find My iPhone" and to compensate him for unfair dismissal.…

Chip cost fixing scandal is still dragging through the chambers It is possible that Infineon was not as deeply involved in a price-fixing cartel as previously assumed, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

There's Norway you can escape detection, thanks to computers, software, and skills Researchers from the University of Oslo in Norway have developed a system that tries to combat rogue employees and inside jobs – by combining cyber and real-world security knowhow.…

The wireless Oculus Quest and a Star Wars tie-in will do it Virtual reality is going to be huge. That's the official word – again – from the annual Oculus conference in California, USA, this week.…

Phosphine tests hint at development of DNA, RNA Molecules essential to life on Earth may have been delivered to our home world by meteorites and comets, according to the results of experiments.…

We'd assume sysadmins knew this, if SamSam wasn't still rampaging through nteworks The FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security have added their voices to warnings of insecure deployments of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services.…

Deep dive into motherboard firmware-lurking code A UEFI rootkit, believed to have been built by Kremlin spies from an anti-thief software program to snoop on European governments, has been publicly picked apart by researchers.…

'Competition' and 'alternatives' offered to change Papua New Guinea government's mind Australia is once again trying to get Huawei removed from a submarine cable contract in the Asia-Pacific.…

Good thing Congress has been so forceful in improving security Hackers probing America's electronic voting systems have painted an astonishing picture of the state of US election security, less than six weeks before the November midterms.…

What goes up, Musk come down, says SEC: Now CEO may have to pay high price Tesla and SpaceX supremo Elon Musk has been accused of fraud by America's financial watchdog – after he mused on Twitter about taking his automaker private.…

NASA mapping data educates computers for safe landings MIT boffins reckon they can use old-school artificial intelligence to do much of the grunt work in the tricky task of picking suitable landing spots for spacecraft.…

Hackers share general public's love of popular programming language Python, either the world's most popular programming language or a close runner up, turns out to be the most widely used language for hacking tools.…

Stay decrypted, San Diego The Port of San Diego in California has shipping in outside help to deal with a crippling ransomware infection that is now in its third day.…

Hadoop? Spark? Teradata? Oh my! Ignite SQL Server 2019, the latest version of Microsoft’s venerable database, dropped into preview at the company’s Orlando shindig, Ignite, this week.…

Top US court will resolve circuit courts' split over non-taxable costs The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear third-party support outfit Rimini Street's appeal against Oracle in the long-running battle over copyright violations.…

You thought you were buying better security, right? Enterprises buying TLS proxies to improve their network security could easily be making things worse, according to Canadian research out this week.…

Larry et al miss out on performance-based stock options for 2018 – must console selves with $3m cash bonus Oracle is hoping stockholders will finally approve its executive pay plan – having failed to get the thumbs-up for six years running – at its annual meeting in November.…

Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle Hackers can blow holes in Apple's managed service technology and sneak their own rogue devices onto corporate fleets of mobile iThings.…

Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson takes the reins Julian Assange has stepped down and named one of his former mouthpieces as WikiLeaks' new editor-in-chief.…

Learn the dos, don'ts and dangers - plus Q&A session for Reg readers Broadcast On October 11 at 11am we'll be broadcasting a live discussion on the challenges of multi-cloud. If you aren’t one of the organisations lucky enough to be shifting all of your IT onto a single cloud provider, you might just find this useful.…

Damning report shows Uncle Sam falling behind Comment A cybersecurity czar has been a long-established presence in US government – until recently. Against a rising tide of attacks on the nation's infrastructure and election systems, Donald Trump eliminated the post through an executive order in May.…

All the sights, all the sounds, none of the smells Virtual reality, the technology that is forever an answer seeking a question, has found a new use in the UK: recruiting prison officers.…

And they'll keep winning while everyone still wants Gmail and YouTube Comment Google has received massive fines for its recent stewardship of Android, but there was no conspiracy or underhand tactics about how it got there: Google won this monopoly on merit.…

Get patching – except for the ones where you, er, can't Cisco's six-monthly security update contains a baker's dozen of vulns and flaws in its IOS and IOS XE suites – including a backdoor that "could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to bypass Cisco Secure Boot validation checks and load a compromised software image on an affected device".…

Fancy something a bit lighter? Fill your books with Azure Sphere hardware Microsoft has released 1.0.2 of its Azure IoT Edge, which now allows Edge devices to function offline "indefinitely" while finally tipping its Azure Sphere service into public preview.…

Nice. Ride-hailing app firm also vows to comply with law Uber will pay $148m to US state authorities in a settlement for the 2016 data breach that saw hackers steal information on 57 million people.…

Really, people are sending them 'junk' mail Online gift store Moonpig has implored its customers not to keep customising greetings cards with photos of their bits.…

Orchestration for the Internet of Things Two high-profile open-source collaborations are putting their heads together to work out how to take Kubernetes, more familiar in hyperscale environments, out to Internet of Things edge computing projects.…

The world's first iron-framed building will return to service soon Geek's Guide to Britain The top of Flaxmill Maltings' Jubilee Tower makes you feel like you're standing on the highest turret of a massive castle built to command Shropshire. You can look down on suburbia and ahead to the centre of Shrewsbury, while in other directions the Wrekin is to the east and the Welsh hills are to the west.…

Bartender says: Why the tent pose? Review The Yoga form factor has been one of Lenovo’s biggest successes, and in 2013 the company slapped a business suit on it and brought the it into the Thinkpad fold. Three years later it added the X1 branding, and a premium OLED display.…

Impact power sent electrons shooting off into space The volume of bombs dropped by the Allied Forces in the Second World War were powerful enough to send shockwaves that rippled throughout the skies, weakening the Earth’s ionosphere.…

Talos turns up obfuscation, lateral attacks, and proxies Cunning malware VPNFilter remains under active development, and is acquiring ever more dangerous features.…

Claim your £25 reward for doing Western Digital’s Storage survey Promo In this rapidly changing, data-centric world, relentlessly driven by new technologies and applications, IT decision makers are increasingly having to anticipate developments and implement solutions that harness the power of data to drive productivity.…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS users at risk A new Linux kernel vulnerability that can only be locally exploited is nonetheless proving a bit of a nuisance.…

Recruitment effort based on popular meme called out for gender discrimination A job ad using the ubiquitous distracted boyfriend image, fodder for countless social media posts, has been declared sexist by Sweden's advertising ombudsman following a handful of complaints.…

Just worms for Oracle as integrated platform market tanks in Q2 Nutanix, Dell and VMware are walking away with the hyper-converged infrastructure market as converged systems and reference architecture setups continue to suffer from shrinkage.…

2020s cloud contract demands 1990s delivery method The Pentagon's JEDI system, a cutting-edge cloud platform designed to take the US Department of Defense well into the next decade of technology, will require companies to utilize a delivery system straight out of the era of dial-up modems and pagers.…