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Gemini reels in Sailfish Sailfish has become the fourth OS to be officially supported on Planet Computing's pocket computer, the Gemini PDA, and eager beavers can download an image from Planet today.…

£13m thing aims to get newbies playing with the big boys Matt Hancock, the only UK government minister to have his own social networking app, opened a £13m London infosec creche this morning.…

Hadoop-flinger aims to win over devs with shiny analytics tools MapR is to further embed AI and analytics in its data platform, with more support for apps and a boost in data science tools for developers.…

$79.99 gets you a single USB-C port for your costly computer Lovers of USB-C who have had a Surface device inflicted upon them may soon find their long wait for dongle-based delight is at an end, according to reports.…

Changed often, never shared? Prevailing wisdom suggests otherwise Israel's newly appointed cyber chief has raised eyebrows by offering questionable password advice during a high-profile presentation.…

'Largest single deal' for storage upstart, says analyst Nutanix has scored a $45m contract, via an unnamed channel middleman, to supply hyperconverged kit to US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)*.…

Earlybird tickets now available We’ve hit the button and announced the first tranche of speakers for Serverless Computing London, our three day conference on all things, well, serverless, next November.…

Source shack says it's chasing reliability and Kubernetes tech From the department of "yeah, right" comes news that GitLab is shifting its platform from Azure to Google in order to take advantage of the ad giant's Kubernetes technology.…

Sales of computers rebound across Western Europe Less than six months ago forecasters were predicting continued gloom for the European PC market.…

And Backup Exec and Business Critical Services headcount to fall Exclusive Veritas's support services unit, overseen by executive veep Lenny Alugas's Customer Success organization, will reduce its headcount and redeploy workers, company insiders have told The Register.…

A cross-vendor framework for edge functionality is no small task If one thing stood out at OpenStack's Vancouver summit in May, it's that the open-source project isn't just about data centre-based cloud computing any more.…

11 member states grassed on to European Commission – including the UK More than 60 privacy groups and activists have demanded that member states still engaging in blanket data retention of communications info – despite it being ruled unlawful – are referred to the EU's top court.…

'America wants to destroy us for defusing its cyber weapons, but we're clean' is the story Kaspersky Labs is on a "Transparency Tour" in which the company attempts to persuade us all that it is not a danger to anyone except cyber-criminals and will soon open a "transparency lab" to prove it.…

Amazon challenge winners roll out neural net for droids that need to grab stationary stuff Artificially intelligent software can drive robots to perform the most menial tasks, such as reaching out and gripping objects.…

Google puts Mavericks on a cargo plane outta Hong Kong Apple fans who still run macOS Mavericks and earlier on their computers won't be able to run Google's Chrome browser any more.…

Oh it's for a calculator app? OK, wink wink, say no more Trusted code-signing certificates are being sold to miscreants by allegedly unscrupulous vendors, fueling a growth in digitally signed Windows malware, a study has claimed.…

So much more than a network map, so much more still to do CAIDA, the University California, San Diego-based internet infrastructure research operation, has taken a look at what the next few years might hold foe the information superhighway – and is worried that its model of the 'net might be starting to creak.…

Oracle Linux and VM get their innoculations Oracle has released fixes for Spectre v3a, Spectre v4, and the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability.…

And so it's trying to kick off an effort to fix that up, because security and privacy matter Having successfully pushed for universal HTTPS Web encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's next protocol push is for “STARTTLS Everywhere”.…

Alexa? Siri? Do you know what's up? Asking cos Splunk says replacements will target 'different form factors' Splunk’s cooking up something new and mobile, which means its old mobile stuff is about to get sunk.…

Chinese DRAM drama – what you need to know Analysis Micron is alleging United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) of Taiwan blatantly stole its intellectual property and gave it to a Chinese DRAM foundry startup, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…

Only in EU land – tough luck for the rest of the world Four of the world's biggest online retailers have agreed to pull goods flagged as dangerous within a week – but only in Europe.…

Microsoft, Mozilla veteran will also handle external researcher work Intel has recruited noted computer security exec Window Snyder into its ranks to help improve its fortunes in the cybersecurity space.…

Now you can splash out on tons of GPUs if you really need to Nvidia has added nine new GPU-charged supercomputing containers to its cloud service.…

How third-party services can knock out three out of four online properties Internet infrastructure may be fairly resilient thanks to its distributed nature, but the web we've built on top of it appears to be rather fragile.…

Chip slinger stocks dip as US investment crackdown turns out to be completely true The White House has decried as fake news reports that the Trump Administration will institute a ban on Chinese companies investing in US tech companies.…

Protip: When freshly paroled, don't immediately trash your victim online Sometimes it's best to just let old grudges go.…

IBM's Power9, Nvidia 122.3 HPL petaflops monster overwhelms competitors At the apex of the newly revised list of the world's Top500 fastest publicly known supercomputers is IBM’s aptly named Summit.…

And a lot of smart machine-learning coding, of course OpenAI's video-game-playing bots are getting much better at mastering sci-fi strategy war game Dota 2, seeing off semi pro players with ease in team matchups.…

AI team is set to enter major annual comp in August OpenAI's video game bots are getting much better at playing sci-fi strategy war game Dota 2, seeing off semi pro players with ease.…

You gotta shore it up before you put it to work, says researcher Misconfiguration of a commonly used Java web server component puts websites at risk of attack, web dev and security researcher Mat Mannion has warned.…

Rose-tinted spectacles ON. Nope, not doing anything Windows 98 turns 20 today. However, rose-tinted spectacles still don't make a hybrid 16 and 32 bit OS tottering on top of MS-DOS any more appealing.…

Amid Greyball and hack cover-up, app biz isn't endearing itself A contrite Uber told Westminster Magistrates' Court today that it "fully accepts" last year's decision by Transport for London (TfL) to revoke its taxi operating licence as "justified".…

If you're wondering about versions 13 and 14, ask superstitious folk SUSE today announced the impending release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, featuring a boatload of new toys and a leap in version numbering.…

We've been living a lie! If you think we're living in the Golden Age of the Entrepreneur, think again.…

Push to boost supplier diversity after Carillion – but no plans to ditch private sector entirely The UK government has revealed plans to rate outsourcers on "social value", require them to publish KPIs and meet higher cybersecurity standards to tackle the fallout caused by the collapse of Carillion.…

Neil Muller leaves corner office, chairman takes controls again Hot on the heels of the latest acquisitions, Daisy Group CEO Neil Muller has told employees he is exiting as the business, which had been in the frame to IPO or sell up, initiates a refinancing deal.…

Big Brother Watch questions legal basis for data retention Campaign group Big Brother Watch has accused HMRC of creating ID cards by stealth after it was revealed the UK taxman has amassed a database of 5.1 million people's voiceprints.…

UK taxman urges tribunal to throw out reseller's appeal Reseller Aria PC's managing director "must have known" that 11 disputed deals his company made a decade ago had a "connection to fraud", an HMRC barrister has told a tax tribunal.…

Overheating data centres, Bing Visual Search, acquisitions – it's the week at Redmond Microsoft had a week of acquisitions, almost-apologies and Azure absenteeism as 2018 ground to its halfway point.…

And for heaven's sake, don't fall in love with the data The Internet of Things is going to solve climate change, fix our political system, and ensure that you can always find a parking spot. Some see a future of 15 billion connected devices.…

Double up or quit, double stake or split – the storage roundup If we've played our cards right, you'll be up to date on the storage goings-on of the week. Otherwise you'll be lost in the shuffle. Here's a hand full of aces, kings and queens – and don't forget the joker.…

Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts HPC storage supplier DDN has bought Intel's Lustre file system business, including its dev teams and support contracts.…

WTF were they thinking? Review "There will be no HTC U12," the man from HTC told journalists in briefings ahead of the launch of this year's flagship. "And no U12++." Company executives stressed that, for 2018, there would be just one flagship, and the HTC U12+ was it.…

… and we still aren’t accepting EU users A month after the enforcement date of the General Data Protection Regulation – a law that businesses had two years to prepare for – many websites are still locking out users in the European Union as a method of compliance.…

Brief didn't call for two-digit dates. What to blame? Bad brief or lousy testing? Who, me? Welcome again to Monday, and therefore to a new edition of “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional column in which readers own their errors.…

Dev kit leak seemingly backed by techies' job descriptions Qualcomm is seemingly working on another high-end 64-bit Arm-compatible system-on-chip for Windows 10 PCs – the Snapdragon 1000.…

Power trace sniffing, a badly-designed API and some cloudy AI spell potential trouble A group of researchers has demonstrated that smartphone batteries can offer a side-channel attack vector by revealing what users do with their devices through analysis of power consumption.…

Big Red wants ‘very viable server/cloud platform for Arm’ so adds MySQL, Docker, Java efforts under way too Oracle’s announced that the version of its GNU/Linux for Arm processors is now generally available and signalled its intentions to help “build out a very viable server/cloud platform for Arm.”…

This matters because right now there's no formal structure, which makes things tenuous The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another step on its road to independence, publishing a for-discussion proposal covering its likely administrative arrangements.…