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Plans integration, not alteration, and promises no ‘swamp’ of ads GitHub’s future CEO Nat Friedman has conducted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session and outlined a little of what Microsoft plans to do with the collaborative code locker once the acquisition is formalised and admitted that “if Microsoft screws this up, we will lose the trust of developers for a generation.”…

But there was a network tech inside, wiring it up. And in the right bank, this time On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s Friday forage through readers’ memories of tech support jobs that became FUBAR.…

We're spying on you all the time, so why cry over a missing quadcopter – Feds The US government is worried about its capacity for discrimination, at least with respect to drones.…

Organic material and methane finds can’t be tied to biological processes NASA’s Curiosity rover has again found evidence that Mars was potentially capable of hosting life.…

Fixed now, as Receiver 4.12 for Windows deprecates unsound ciphers, if you want The basic premise of the Citrix products-formerly-known-as Xen App and Xen Desktop is that they deliver applications and desktops more securely than is possible if you run them locally.…

Single-host systems with 30-day self-destruct switch should make for an easier on-ramp VMware’s recognised that running its stuff on Amazon Web Services costs a bomb, so has reduced prices for your initial forays.…

Mostly minus... as Republicans and Democrats seethe at deal The US government will let ZTE use American-made electronics again, as the result of a settlement following the Chinese smartphone-maker exporting technology to Iran and North Korea.…

Latest privacy gaffe is nothing if not impeccably timed Facebook is having to douse yet another privacy blaze – as the social network admitted to inadvertently setting some of its addicts' private posts to public, meaning anyone could read them.…

FlexPods get application layers, managed service – and more NetApp is adding application layers to its FlexPod stack, and developing a managed service version.…

I stand by my claims of 100,000-plus at-risk sites, says defiant security researcher Drupal is playing down estimates that more than 100,000 websites are still vulnerable to months-old critical security flaws in its content management system.…

Swelling batteries causes headache for Cupertino Apple has been hit by another lawsuit claiming faulty manufacturing, this time over its Apple Watch.…

Cloud giants prefer drinking direct from servers than having tequila SAN-rise cocktails The storage market was hot, hot, hot in the first quarter of this year – according to IDC's bean counters, who reckoned shipped capacity rose 79.1 per cent, year on year, to 98.8EB and revenues 34.4 per cent to $13bn.…

Looks like Elon has a lot more explaining and/or work to do A Tesla with Autopilot engaged accelerated toward a barrier in the final seconds before a deadly crash, an official report into the crash has revealed.…

Got to keep the purse-strings tight on that power budget, innit? Analysis HPE Advanced Technologies veep Mike Vildibill has told El Reg that power budget limitations will end the current supercomputer model of having multiple independent nodes passing chunks of data between them.…

The internet's screen door gets kicked open once again Adobe has kicked out an out-of-band update for a security vulnerability in Flash – after learning the bug was being actively exploited in the wild by hackers to hijack PCs.…

US ISP giant claims service has been restored for most users Updated After a day without service, Comcast has suggested its business voice customers restart their modems if they're still having connectivity problems.…

Landing, roving, cratering. What could possibly go wrong? Hopefully, nothing Boffins at Japan’s space agency, JAXA, announced Thursday that their asteroid sampling mission Hayabusa2 was within sight of its target, Ryugu, with arrival scheduled within the month.…

EU auditors also reckon universal 30Mbps unlikely Insanely ambitious plans by the EU to connect half of the households in member states to 100Mbps by 2020, have unsurprisingly fallen by the wayside - according to a report.…

Results are in for open-source data software slingers Open source data software slinger Cloudera dramatically slashed net losses in the first quarter of its fiscal new year but only after hacking away at a string of company expenses from R&D to staff costs.…

2021 maturity deadline gets GAO hot under the collar Britain's first permanently based F-35B fighter jets have arrived at RAF Marham in Norfolk – as a US auditor warns that the aircraft won't be deemed "mature" until the year 2021.…

Second Time Lucky Hands On Warm reviews and good wishes didn't help the newly formed BlackBerry Mobile sell bucket loads of phones in its first year, but a strong second attempt might.…

Final 'droid P APIs, latest system images With Google freezing the Android P APIs yesterday, both major mobile platforms have shown their hand for 2018. The freeze comes as Google released "Beta 2", which is really the third Developer Preview release of Android P issued so far.…

Accused of creating UPAS Kit and lying to FBI WannaCry ransomware killswitch hero* Marcus Hutchins faces fresh charges in relation to separate malware the security researcher is alleged to have created.…

Believe nobody except Aleksandr Kogan! Sketch A defiant Alexander Nix has told MPs the Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal was caused by lying media and the only person to trust is the one who wrote the app that quietly harvested personal data on more than 80 million people.…

Chinos for the IT executive about town In an effort to reinvigorate a flaccid trouser marketplace, a Japanese fashion house has introduced a vaguely horrifying bit of detailing. Ladies and gentlemen, may we present the Wang Flap.…

From AlphaBay to 'Message me, hey!' Underground cybercrime marketplaces are in decline because cybercrooks have begun switching to chat channels to trade illegal goods, according to a new report.…

Second recent case of shit-and-run incident A corporate exec has resigned from his job after being alleged to be the "poo jogger" of Brisbane, after his neighbours set up a a night vision camera to catch the defecator with his pants down.…

Data bloat antidote hopeful pockets $90m in investor cash round Commercial scale-out filesystem startup Qumulo has scored $93m in a D-round of funding, taking the total raised past $233m.…

'There is no one who feels more for TSB customers than me' - CEO TSB's boss Paul Pester admitted that 1,300 people have been defrauded as a result of the bank's botched IT upgrade in April, in a second hearing in front of MPs.…

You see, it all becomes clear when you provide numbers Pure Storage's AIRI FlashBlade is faster than NetApp's A700 all-flash array, according to two AI benchmark runs.…

The web on your wrist... and elsewhere Analysis Features introduced in the latest version of Apple's wearable OS suggest Apple wants to produce more sophisticated small computing devices and avoid getting embroiled a straight fight with fitness trackers.…

London stock markets open an hour late due to a mystery technical fault Traders were given an hour's reprieve this morning from the tedious task of making and losing copious amounts of cash as the FTSE 100 failed to get out of bed following a technical "glitch".…

Calling all Bongs – this won't hurt a bit Millennials are notoriously fearful of handling raw meat – but EE hopes they'll be less wary fondling experimental radio equipment.…

Redmond asks for your help to rename its version of GVFS Microsoft is going to rename the Git Virtual File System to eliminate its clash with GNOMErs.…

Spacecraft gets mission extension to keep on gazing Data from the Juno spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter has shown the highly unusual nature of lightening on the gas giant, according to two new studies published in Nature on Wednesday.…

Economics boffin says we’re just playing with AI now and the payoff is years away Good news! Automation capable of erasing white collar jobs is coming, but not for a decade or more.…

More affected devices . More damage. And what looks like an escalation in attacks ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE: these are the vendors newly-named by Cisco's Talos Intelligence as being exploited by the malware scum running the VPNFilter attacks, and the attack's been spotted hitting endpoints behind vulnerable kit.…

Reveals cloud servers have CPU just for security, migration times cut to five months. Maybe Oracle’s launched a cloud migration service it says can “reduce the time and cost of cloud migration by up to 30 percent” and “enables customers with applications running on premises to upgrade to Oracle Cloud Applications in as little as 20 weeks.”…

Anti-SJW National Guard commander, cryptocurrency dev in deep trouble A cryptocurrency developer, occasional infosec researcher, and National Guardsman has been arrested after joyriding an armoured personnel carrier in what some US news sites are calling a “drug-fuelled rampage”.…

Feds finger 19-year-old for failed hacktivism effort A 19-year-old who goes by the handle Vigilance online has been indicted in a Saint Paul, Minnesota district court for allegedly breaking into and interfering with servers operated by the state.…

It's crazy how a little competition can cause that AMD this week promised to ship 32-core Ryzen Threadripper 2 processors in the third quarter of 2018 – one day after Intel bragged about a forthcoming 28-core part.…

Look – there it is. Sorry no time for trick questions Analysis After years of promises, augmented-reality hype-machine Magic Leap finally revealed its hardware… in the most bizarre way imaginable.…

Self-appointed privacy paladin Mozilla points out fatal flaws Amazon on Tuesday stopped selling CloudPets, a network-connected family of toys, in response to security and privacy concerns sounded by browser maker and internet community advocate Mozilla.…

Father of the Internet not impressed with slow rollout Co-inventor of TCP/IP and so-called "Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf has urged network nerds to "get with the program" on World IPv6 Day.…

'All these names were changing faster than I could memorise' SAP’s cofounder has admitted that its branding strategy confused customers and prevented staff from feeling like part of a team.…

Same price as sixty obsolescent flash Apple Watches It's question we've all asked ourselves: what should I do with that spare $600,000?…

And we don't want to pay for it! A study published today by the Pew Research Center has found that a majority of Americans reckon that staying on top of the space pile should be a US priority, with NASA still attracting a lot of love.…

Infosec guru 'surprised' if spooks weren't embedded in top firms BSides London "I would be surprised if all major intel agencies didn't have people embedded in Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and major cloud provers," infosec guru Mikko Hyppönen told a packed audience at BSides conference in London on Wednesday.…

We're still the good guys! Our AC is super eco-friendly! Market-leading data slurper Facebook is hoping to save energy and water by using indirect evaporative cooling in its data centres.…

Complains costs were 17% higher cos of where case was heard Rimini Street has urged the US Supreme Court to weigh in on its legal wrangling with Oracle as the costs awarded against it were "at least" 17 per cent higher because the case was heard in a Circuit court.…