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Line of business people will do the buying. IT departments still get to do the rest People outside the IT department will control more than half of IT budgets from 2019 onwards, according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Some bloke called Elon slurped $500m of it It’s been a bumper few months for the commercial space industry with the torrent of cash from starry-eyed investors showing no signs of slowing, according to investment outfit, Space Angels.…

Commissioners take to the stage to hate on one another amid $4bn media merger Vid Internecine fights at America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have broken out in public at an industry event in Las Vegas.…

Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…

Zuck shows curious amnesia about his own business Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used today’s grilling in Congress to point the finger at dodgy app developers and Cambridge academics – but appeared to expose huge holes in his knowledge of the way his own business works.…

Invites devs for tour amid ongoing construction Mozilla has released a preview version of WebAssembly Studio, its browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) for creating code touted to be the future of internet software.…

We pull the covers off latest problems within Oz 'net body Australia's .au internet registry members have called for the scalps of its CEO and three Board members as part of an ongoing dispute over how the organization is being run.…

It's not just you, VoIP app is prone to failures Microsoft has confirmed that some versions of its Skype for Business app are prone to crashes, and the issue won't be easy to resolve.…

It's not just you, VoIP app is prone to failures Microsoft has confirmed that some versions of its Skype for Business app are prone to crashes, and the issue won't be easy to resolve.…

Hashtag game over crooks question mark question mark Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd has launched a crackdown on criminals who exploit the dark web.…

We can install a new OS from 150 million kilometres away, but Windows 10 1803 is delayed? The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter is getting a software refresh as a reward for 14 years spent circling the red planet.…

Plus: El Reg's handy guide to all those pesky UAV abbrevs Preparing the ground for remotely flown and autonomous aircraft – drones – of the near future is a challenge. How much effort has gone into clearing radio spectrum for vital command-and-control links?…

Cross-border databases to tackle fragmentation, speed drug R&D Thirteen European countries have agreed to link up genomic databases in a bid to give boffins access to a research cohort of more than one million genomes by 2022.…

Don't say you'll send somebody, MEPs plead Mark Zuckerberg has been warned not to treat European Facebook users as "second class" as pressure mounts on the CEO to face the music from politicos on the other side of the Pond.…

Resident: 'We can see those potholes coming now' A Cambridge-based protester has been heralded for daubing penises around potholes - the latest in a rising trend of phallic crater painters.…

Altitude Angel founder talks to El Reg Interview Drone flight management app Altitude Angel is quietly cornering the challenging market in connecting drone traffic management to traditional air traffic control systems, its founder has told The Register.…

Only the inbox owner had to consent to it, though... not the people they conversed with Facebook has admitted that some apps had access to users’ private messages, thanks to a policy that allowed devs to request mailbox permissions.…

MS 'toy lovers' create sensor mat with NFC-tagged thesps Despite a failure to consult Reg Playmobil academia, Microsoft Research has unleashed new toy findings: a playmat for little ones that combines capacitive sensing, Near Field Communication (NFC), a kid-friendly user interface and Playmobil.…

Potential deal said to be at an 'advanced stage' Google looks set to expand its horizon according to reports that claim the ad giant is in talks to buy Nokia's airplane broadband biz.…

We're thirsty and comfy and there's work to do and it's faaar The Register needs to build a robot capable of transporting multiple pints of beer without spilling a drop. Can you help?…

1,000 accounts compromised Great Western Rail is urging all customers to change their passwords after identifying a successful attack to access GWR.com accounts over the last week.…

Bleeding edges in the cloud Analysis Following last week's announcement that Microsoft's Azure planned to reinvent MAID disk arrays, The Reg took a deep breath and dove into Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s presentation.…

WannaCry was a wake-up call for healthcare, but the sector is still terribly vulnerable to attack As memories of last May's WannaCry cyber attack fade, the healthcare sector and Britain's NHS are still deep in learning.…

If it looks like, walks like and quacks like a Psion, is it actually a penguin? Review Planet Computing’s Gemini is a middling Android phone integrated with a Psion Series 5-style keyboard and clamshell case. Since our exclusive hands-on with a real production device, I’ve spent a few weeks in its rattly, plasticky company. And I’ve also managed to get Linux installed. So what’s it like?…

See? We really are a software company now! Just in case you doubt Cisco’s intention to become a software company, it’s now shrunk its Tetration analytics software and spawned a SaaS version.…

Posts hit hyper-partisan r/the_donald, CEO says most crimped before 2016 election While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress, Reddit confessed to its own Russian problem.…

Future wars will be fought with physical and cyber robots As US Army researcher believes that wars will be fought with human soldiers commanding a team of ‘physical and cyber robots’ to create a network of “Internet of Battle Things” in the future.…

But the US patent office will probably save the day. Again Intellectual property hoarder VirnetX has had another win, probably to be short-lived, against Apple in the two companies' everlasting patent spat.…

WebAuthn and CTAP published this week A pair of authentication standards published this week have received endorsement from Mozilla, Microsoft and Google: the WebAuthn API, and the FIDO Alliance's Client-to-Authenticator Protocol.…

Small problem: world faces big shortages of air freight capacity Poll Airbus has revealed a plan to put beds in passenger planes’ cargo holds.…

And that's the worst of ten patches awaiting lucky, lucky SAP admins SAP has issued its >April security update, which brings a waiting world news of ten patch-worthy problems.…

Apparently someone still uses src to suck content into web pages from FTP servers Mozilla developers have decided to block requests for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) subresources inside web pages.…

Image boffins readying streaming codec for VR, cars, drones The Joint Photographic Experts Group's image compression standard, JPEG XS, has started to turn up in implementations ahead of its slated April 2019 completion.…

Bug allows hijack of city, army and nuclear warning systems Researchers have uncovered a remote hijacking vulnerability present in the systems many cities and organizations are using to manage emergency sirens and alerts.…

Bolstered by a booster, Robo-Zuck sits firm before senators, parries away mild questions A few hours after the introduction of Facebook's newly launched Data Abuse Bounty program – an admission the social ad network has no idea what's become of its illicitly harvested data – CEO Mark Zuckerberg reprised his long-running mea culpa show before America's lawmakers.…

Masshole 'targeted women, families, friends with abuse' A US bloke accused of cyberstalking and harassing his former housemates has been hit with two dozen more criminal charges.…

Internet registries and registrars provide terrible timeline The internet's domain name system is going to miss a May 25 deadline to become compliant with new European privacy legislation by, um, a year or so.…

Adobe's Flash also up the spout Microsoft has released the April edition of its monthly security update, this time addressing a total of 63 CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…

Warns six major companies, refuses to name names America's Federal Trade Commission has told "six major companies" to cut it out when it comes to trying to force consumers to only use their replacement parts for repairs.…

As Cambridge Analytica launches new site 'CambridgeFacts' Continuing its charm offensive, Facebook has published the details of its data abuse bounty, ahead of Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances in front of US lawmakers.…

Well, if you can't beat rivals at public cloud, advise.... Hewlett Packard Enterprise has gobbled Red Pixie, a Brit cloud consultancy and app developer, for an undisclosed sum.…

More IO, less space, faster NVMe and better automation In what it has called its Hoth release, Broadcom said it enhanced its gen 6 Fibre Channel products with new NVMe technology, automation technology, and higher density hardware.…

Audit and sales departments to be split up too SAP has changed its pricing model following mass confusion among customers and fears of litigation over indirect access.…

Signal still off the rails The London Waterloo to Southampton train line is today named the worst major commuting route for frustrated wage slaves desperate to get a signal on their way to and from the office.…

Two people in one changing room? Nein und €600 fine A steamy romp in a sauna – like there's any other kind – has landed two alleged canoodlers in hot water.…

But it'd be tricky: Teardown folk give mobe 4/10 for repairability Armed with tools to send most smartphone manufacturers into a cold sweat, the team at iFixit have found the Huawei P20 Pro is going to be a tricky beast to repair. So best not drop it, OK?…

Let's be honest, $100m was never going to cut it Dell's cloudy native software production house Pivotal expects its initial public offering to raise up to $592m.…

France et al can ban illegal taxi services without having to give Brussels a prior legislative heads-up Updated The EU’s top court has ruled against Uber in France, in a judgement that allows it and other member states to ban illegal taxi services like UberPop more easily.…

Competitive eater bit off more than he could chew A man had to be taken to hospital after eating one of the world's hottest peppers in an eating contest, it has emerged.…