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Tell the boss you're not slacking off – it's vital threat intelligence research A government survey of British businesses has praised those who read El Reg to keep up to date with security news – while claiming to have revealed that fewer firms have spotted cyber attacks against them over the past 12 months, when compared to last year.…

Ministry of Fun review likely to recommend happy shopping Huawei is girding itself for the results of a UK government review that could recommend telcos buy network equipment from different vendors.…

Schools told not to use it 'until further notice' Schools using Capita's information management system have been warned that there is an "incident" with its Spring release – just months after it 'fessed up to an issue with the same data-transfer mechanism in a previous release.…

Domestic hosts and servers are being used for major attacks, finds Bromium A collection of servers found in the US are responsible for some of the nation's biggest malware and phishing attacks.…

Brain-scanning boffins find no signals to differentiate real and spoofed speakers Human brains appear to be better at detecting fake images than fake voices, a distinction that bodes ill for security as voice spoofing technology becomes more effective and more accessible.…

A quick flash can light up the observable universe The photons streaming from mysterious gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic form of electromagnetic energy in the universe, break out from relativistic jets shooting out from dying supernova stars, according to the latest research.…

NASA and co confirm that Starliner won't be carrying crew until the end of the year Boeing's passenger spacecraft for deliveries to the International Space Station (ISS), already lagging behind SpaceX, has been delayed yet again.…

I see you're using adaptive algorithms. Step this way for some regulation please The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed a framework on how it might regulate medical devices that rely on AI and machine learning algorithms.…

Laid-off litigant must reveal source of damning document in age discrimination row IBM has demanded to the name of the person who leaked an internal document that appeared to show the company was deliberately targeting and firing older workers.…

App devs fail to lock down their databases, yet again The details of millions of Facebook accounts have been left ripe for harvesting thanks to a pair of careless developers.…

Rogue 'worker' processes can sneak in with elevated privileges at startup Apache HTTP Server has been given a patch to address a potentially serious elevation of privilege vulnerability.…

More research dosh and more legal immigrants please! The US Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has asked the government for “bold federal policies” that would enable it to maintain its grip on the world’s chip supply.…

Intel double-whammy: kit festooned with new Xeons Fujitsu has refreshed its entire x86 server portfolio, adding support for Optane DC persistent (aka non-volatile) memory from Intel, officially launched last night.…

But handle with care to dodge dominance of Google, Microsoft Schools have been told to increase their use of tech to ease the burden on teachers, better prepare their students for the world of work and bring kit into the 21st Century.…

Prospect cheers as members vote against telco's People Framework Members of the Prospect trade union at BT have voted overwhelmingly to reject the telco's so-called People Framework proposals to overhaul the pay and grading structure.…

Dell/VMware and Nutanix dominate, HPE best of the rest Number crunchers at IDC told the world this morning that international converged systems market revenue grew 14.8 per cent year-on-year to reach $4.15bn in the final quarter of 2018.…

19-year-old also accused of breaching sex offence order, money laundering The teenager who hacked TalkTalk three years ago has been hauled before court charged with computer misuse offences after allegedly amassing a Bitcoin fortune worth more than £300,000.…

US spy agency plans to award multibillion-dollar deal in 2021 The CIA is reportedly planning to award a multibillion-dollar contract to extend its cloud services for the intelligence community to more than one vendor by summer 2021.…

Increase in tax payout comes as UK.gov threatens digital sales tax on revenues Google's UK business paid £65.3m tax into the British government's coffers in its 2018 financial year, almost 40 per cent more than in the previous 12 months.…

MCubed call for papers extended Events We’ve extended call for papers for our MCubed conference to April 15, meaning you've still got time to tell us how you've made AI and machine learning work in your organisation.…

Gulps down firm for undisclosed number of kronor All-flash array supplier Pure Storage has bought Compuverde, a Swedish scale-out filer software business, giving it an entrée into the classic file storage market.…

Expanding its vendor-agnostic support service in the UK Data centre maintenance giant Park Place Technologies has gobbled MCSA Group, a British IT services business headquartered in High Wycombe.…

Fun fact: We haven't dismantled a single one. Ever Storing Britain's obsolete nuclear submarines has cost the nation £500m – with some 1960s boats having been in storage for longer than they were in service.…

Screwdriver-botherers put the hurt on Apple's little tablet Despite being rated way behind Apple's iPhones in build quality due to copious glue squirted under the componentry, Cupertino's latest fun-sized tablet was praised by teardown gurus iFixit for actually having a headphone jack. Yes, it has come to that.…

That's 15 March btw, when Micro Focus dumped profitable bits SUSECON '19 SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann could scarcely contain his glee as he bounded on stage to deliver his keynote before the thousand or so attendees at this year's SUSECON summit in Nashville, Tennessee.…

Prepare to scale the cookie wall Adtech industry body IAB Europe is facing down another data protection complaint from Brave browser bod Johnny Ryan, this time over the all-encompassing cookie wall stalking its site.…

Smart strategies for ambitious humans Elon Musk dreams of life on Mars, but why stop there? Why not dream really big? What would it take for a group of creatures – not necessarily those living on Earth – to colonise the entire universe?…

Slack motherboard firmware controls leave machines open to deep-rooted malware Gaming PC specialist Razer has been singled out for leaving its motherboards vulnerable to a well-known and critical firmware vulnerability.…

Take your media viewing ideas somewhere else In theory, the open source nature of web technology should allow anyone with the appropriate skills to innovate and implement an alternative browser.…

Sad news: It's probably not down to alien microbes The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft caught a massive whiff of methane from orbit, confirming an earlier gas detection on the Red Planet by America's Curiosity rover.…

Robot rides slow down but keep moving Intel Capital "My greatest fear is that we will hit the winter of AV (autonomous vehicles)," says Jill Sciarappo in response to an unwelcome question at the Intel Capital conference in Arizona – the US state that saw the first self-driving car death last year.…

What do you think I am? A chartered accountant? Autonomy Trial Ex-HP CEO Léo Apotheker had not read any of KPMG's due-diligence reports on Autonomy ahead of his company's $11bn acquisition of the British software maker, he told London’s High Court on Tuesday.…

npm uninstall iarna The cultural turmoil at JavaScript package management outfit NPM Inc, brought on by a leadership change and staff shakeup, has claimed another employee: product manager Rebecca Turner.…

Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America's border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone.…

She faces two federal charges after apparently getting as far as reception A Chinese woman was caught sneaking into President Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club with a thumb drive of malware, it was claimed yesterday.…

Striding into its third decade, dev suite is now ready to Share It's a big day for Microsoft developers as Visual Studio 2019 for PC and Mac emerged, blinking, into the light of General Availability.…

To view this content, please click on the headline This week AR hype machine Magic Leap will finally – finally! – start selling its headset to the public but you'll need to go to one of three AT&T stores in Boston, Chicago or San Francisco, to buy them. And fork over more than $2,000 to get a pair.…

Airlines will have to wait few more weeks to get new code as engineers need more time Boeing yesterday warned it will take longer than expected to overhaul the anti-stall system in its 737 Max aircraft, the infamous safety mechanism that likely caused two deadly crashes.…

Give me sockets, give me DIMMs, give me Optane, give me all the speed Server slinger Supermicro has dropped the veil on its range of second generation Xeon SP servers with Optane DIMM support – just as Chipzilla itself reveals all the gory details on its latest chippery.…

New entry-level and mid-range bring NVMe fabric acceleration IBM has replaced its entry-level Storwize arrays with faster boxes and introduced an NVMe-oF accelerated mid-range.…

Amazing what some competition can do: Kicking Chipzilla up the data cache In a highly orchestrated global maneuver, Chipzilla today launched, to much of its own fanfare, its second-generation Xeon Scalable Processors for servers – chips previously codenamed Cascade Lake.…

Firm pushes its customers to containers, recoils from Hadoop Users might want containerisation to separate compute and storage for data analytics but few fully understand it, according to MapR, which has launched a set of integrations with Kubernetes.…

Running HPE Helion? Time to start thinking about that 'seamless' transition SUSECON '19 At its Nashville SUSECON gathering, the German open-source software maker told more than a 1,000 attendees that version 1.4 of its Cloud Application Platform (replete with Kubernetes goodness) and its take on OpenStack Rocky will be inbound before the month is out.…

Bad guys are settling in, putting their feet up for the long haul Network intruders are staying longer and going after wider swathes of machines with their attacks.…

Find out at Continuous Lifecycle London this May Events Adopting DevOps, Containerisation and Continuous Delivery doesn't mean compromising on security - and if you want proof, just check out the conference sessions at Continuous Lifecycle London, 2019.…

Damian Collins' band just can't quit fake news, babe UK Parliament's digital committee, keen to ride its post-Facebook probe publicity wave, has launched a sub-committee on disinformation to dig into the issues raised during its high-profile report.…

Fulfilment promise fulfilled Amazon staffers – one dressed as a Big Red piñata – have taken to Twitter to celebrate shutting down their last Oracle database used in the retail side of the organisation.…

Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate Brit energy company Centrica's Hive smart home devices went missing in action this morning with a major outage confirmed across much of the app estate, forcing users to tweak manual controls for heating, hot water and surveillance cameras.…

UK taxman's digital boss talks living with Amazon OpenInfra Days UK 2019 The British tax man loves the cloud, but anyone who thinks public infrastructure can be run by a skeleton crew should think again: HMRC has no fewer than 4,000 IT staff who deliver around 140 digital services.…

And that's a quote from its 2010 accounts Autonomy Trial Former HP top man Léo Apotheker told the High Court yesterday morning that Mike Lynch described Autonomy to him as a "pure-play software company".…