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Only a third of its revenues at most come from 'growth areas' IBM’s profits are in a “likely irreversible structural decline”, according to a house of analysts that isn't convinced the company is in a position to grow anytime soon.…

ARM64 and iOS 12 for devs, slow shuffle for venerable framework A third preview of Visual Studio 2017 15.9 made an appearance last night, along with teasers for what Microsoft has planned for its .NET Framework and Core products.…

No integrated 5G just yet Qualcomm's revamp of its mobile system on a chip Snapdragon is more than just a rebrand, according to a reliable German source.…

No integrated 5G just yet Qualcomm's revamp of its mobile system on a chip Snapdragon is more than just a rebrand, according to a reliable German source.…

It's easy to be serene from a throne of cash Today's captains of the tech set are just too arrogant, according to multimillionaire and Cisco-exec-turned-venture-capitalist John Chambers.…

Public Accounts Committee 'concerned' businesses haven't been told how to prepare British MPs have chastised HMRC over further slippage in the tax collector's efforts to replace the UK's customs IT systems ahead of Brexit, and its lethargic attitude to preparing traders for a no-deal scenario.…

Lenovo slides by a fifth, ZTE sinks too on back of server allegations The ripple effect of explosive claims that Chinese government agents slipped snooper chips into Super Micro servers used by Apple and Amazon today dented the share price of the Middle Kingdom's tech titans.…

Chipped tiles and a sweaty crew, but relief for the nervous space agency While NASA continues its 60th birthday celebrations and Russia gives a slight cough and gestures vaguely at the silver beach-ball sized Sputnik it flung into orbit 61 years ago this week, another anniversary ticked over: it is 30 years since the Space Shuttle returned to flight.…

Contingency plan in place if VMware investors don't like reverse merger proposal Dell Technologies has finally confirmed what the rest of the industry has suspected for some time: it is considering a straightforward IPO in addition to a torturously tangled reverse merger involving VMware.…

Belgium, home of fine chocolate, fries-with-mayo, and Wi-Fi key reinstallation attacks The Belgian researcher who last year gave the world the KRACK attack has returned with what he says is a refined version of the vulnerability.…

Shame they changed the name... Piles was more fun Now almost 35 years old, the desktop metaphor is so enduring, it's even migrated to the smartphone era.…

Techie solves the mystery as traders go into meltdown On-Call Welcome once more to On-Call, your weekly dose of tech support head-scratchers sent in by Reg readers.…

Not as Big in Blighty in 2017 but still plenty to be Blue about IBM UK split with more than 1,000 employees in 2017 but the reduction in overheads only went so far: the bottom line was bashed mostly by an impairment of investment charge and falling services sales.…

Not sure I like where you've put the speaker Something for the Weekend, Sir? Forget the stereotype: small is better. And as I get older, it seems to be getting smaller. Only last night I had to ask Mme D to help me look for it.…

Boffins take a good look at the cosmic formations – they won't be there forever Scientists are only beginning to discover just how complex Saturn’s ring system is after digging into the data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.…

Be careful who you read The best way to tackle fake news using artificial intelligence is to go straight to the source, according to a new study.…

Coding screwups for Prime Infrastructure and DNA Center admins to slurp up Cisco admins, maybe you'd like to clear your Friday, because there's a fresh batch of critical-rated vulnerabilities to assess and patch as needed.…

Largely pointless, since they're never going to stand trial In what's turning into International Cyber-Attribution Week, a US federal grand jury has indicted seven alleged Russian military intelligence officers – and accused them of hacking anti-doping watchdogs, sports officials, and others.…

'You can't just give Washington the finger,' says Jeff Immelt at Cloudflare Internet Summit In San Francisco this week, Cloudflare held its fourth Internet Summit to discuss the state of the industry, in keeping with the norms of navel gazing and self-fascination that afflicts Silicon Valley.…

Wait until the Veep finds out what Apple is doing for them US Vice-President Mike Pence has harsh words for Google over its involvement in the Dragonfly search platform, reportedly under development for use in the Middle Kingdom.…

Who's your money on? Bloomberg's sources? Apple? Amazon? Super Micro? Analysis Chinese government agents managed to slip spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple, the US government, and potentially others, that gave Beijing's snoops access to highly sensitive data, according to a bombshell Bloomberg report today.…

Russia hits back: Do not 'swallow these provocations' Four alleged Russian agents have been expelled from the Netherlands after they attempted to hack the chemical weapons watchdog probing the Novichok poisonings in Salisbury, England, and the chemical attack case in Douma, Syria.…

Sophisticated groups not always so easy to pick out Government-backed spies and hackers are increasingly using commercially available malware – thanks to a flourishing market of off-the-shelf software nasties – making it harder for researchers to identify who exactly is behind a cyber-attack.…

Classic. But in the meantime, folk can't make or receive calls Updated O2 customers have been reporting problems using their handsets on what's become a troublesome Thursday afternoon for the UK network operator.…

Squares up to Pure, NetApp, Cisco and Dell EMC HPC supplier DDN has joined the small but growing crowd of firms swimming out into the enterprise AI mainstream, twinning its storage with Nvidia's DGX-1 GPU server.…

Trial set for next January SCL Elections Ltd, the parent company of controversial data-mining outfit Cambridge Analytica, yesterday pleaded not guilty to a criminal charge of ignoring the Information Commissioner's Office.…

Driver snafu thrashes CPUs and guzzles batteries Barely a day into release and Microsoft has admitted there is a problem with its shiny new OS and chips from Intel.…

Threat detection outfit gets new owners Palo Alto Networks has gobbled Californian cloud security startup Redlock for $173m.…

NVLinking CPUs to GPUs chews through workloads GPU database-botherer SQream has said its DB runs up to 150 per cent faster when it uses IBM's POWER9 CPUs linked to the GPUs rather than x86 processors.…

We know it was GRU The UK government this morning pointed the finger at Russian military intelligence for a litany of cyber nasties.…

Tech services firm swallows Microsoft's favoured partner British Office 365 and SharePoint consultancy Content and Code has been acquired by UK technology services outfit IT Lab.…

Making machine learning work at work Event From CNNs to GPUs, there’s a whole spectrum of technologies and tools you can use to bring AI and machine learning into your business.…

Keeping code and cash flowing through the firm's pipelines DevOps darling JFrog has pocketed $165m of funding hot on the heels of acquiring technology consulting outfit Trainologic.…

Autonomous cars and smart clothes look like a dud, though Huawei last year denied reports that it's developing its own mobile OS to lessen its dependence on US giants like Google.…

Along came some spiders and saw the unsubscribers... Cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid has copped to blabbing customer email addresses, chalking it up to some overenthusiastic indexing without explaining why pages were public-facing in the first place.…

Oh, and we have Piles, I mean Stacks Review Apple takes great pride in shipping macOS annually, as regularly as clockwork.…

Countries agree to cooperate on satellite navigation as Blighty faces becoming a third country in Galileo The UK and Australia have announced plans to become the best of buddies in the space field, including the UK’s current hot potato: satellite navigation.…

Co-founders chat to El Reg about liability, data silos and raw data pain Interview Ninety-nine per cent of companies are struggling to make a success of machine learning, according to execs at analytics biz Databricks.…

Free, day-long event offers training, customer insights, and networking Promo Whether you're already taking your first steps toward the cloud, or just exploring the idea, AWS Transformation Day 2018 taking place in London on 30 October is a good place to start your journey.…

Good news: It's 7nm. Sad news: It's shipping 2H 2019 XDF Xilinx has packed everything but the kitchen sink into its new Versal family of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays).…

It's so big that it's possible that it could have its own little moons Scientists have spotted what may be the first Moon to be discovered outside the Solar System, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.…

Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax Wi-Fi, known for about two decades by its wonky Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers designation, IEEE 802.11, has adopted a new consumer-oriented naming scheme.…

It's good news, but overall a wasted opportunity Anyone manufacturing an internet-connected device in California will, from 2020, have to give it a unique password in an effort to increase overall online security.…

$5bn deal sends stock market Hadoop over heels The big data market became a little less competitive on Wednesday when two of the biggest players, Cloudera and Hortonworks, agreed to merge.…

Chipzilla's security through obscurity withers under scrutiny In its ongoing exploration of Intel's Management Engine (ME), security biz Positive Technologies has reaffirmed the shortsightedness of security through obscurity and underscored the value of open source silicon.…

Astroboffins are Goblin up Solar System sightings There is still no sign of the elusive Planet X, although astronomers have stumbled across Goblin along the way.…

Not covered: single-malt scotch and steak dinners The former CIO of the US federal government says companies looking to nab IT contracts with agencies need to bring more than just a sales pitch.…

Phantom Secure's Vincent Ramos faces 20 years in clink The CEO of a company that took Blackberry phones, stripped them of their cameras, microphones and GPS and then installed encryption software in order to create a secure phone, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with drug cartels.…

Customers in it for the long term get parity with the flighty Semi-Annual Channel crowd After a lengthy gestation period, Windows Server 2019 has arrived loaded with goodies to ease the journey to a cloudier world.…

Weakness not easy to leverage, but iDRAC exploit would mean game over for admins A pair of IT professionals have uncovered a potentially serious flaw in the hardware management tools for older Dell servers.…