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Tom Barton takes reins from Ken Klein Troubled all-flasher Tintri has found a new CEO, just a week after it revealed it was looking for one.…

Jun Ying 'dumped' shares before megabreach went public A former Equifax exec was today charged with insider trading for offloading almost $1m of shares before the company went public about the scandalous mass data breach.…

Users complain of static IP issues, world of admin pain Microsoft’s Tuesday patch-fest may have reacted quite negatively with Windows Server 2008 R2 running VMware, leaving servers offline and administrators scrambling to recover IP addresses.…

ICO probe: No legal basis for Facebook slurps WhatsApp has agreed not to share users' data with parent biz Facebook after failing to demonstrate a legal basis for the ad-fuelling data slurp in the EU.…

Also holibobs disruption from 2019 if aviation deal isn't struck Consumer charity Which? has called on the UK government to ensure consumers will continue to "roam like at home" while abroad in the European Union after Britain's withdrawal from the bloc.…

130,000 staffers moving out of Office Exclusive Airbus is to shift its entire workforce to Google’s cloudy productivity and collaboration tools, ditching Microsoft Office on-prem wares in the process.…

Infrastructure issues drove one firm to produce cars in Austria A lack of power remains a problem to electric car manufacturers in the UK – with one unnamed maker setting up shop in Austria over Blighty due to a dearth of capacity, MPs heard today.…

Serverless Computing London call for papers open now Events If you know your Lambda from your lambada, have turned all your functions into services, and avoided vendor lock-in in the process, we’d love to hear from you at the Serverless Computing London call for papers.…

There, there, never mind. There are plenty of other victims, er, fish in the sea Broadcom announced today that it has withdrawn its bid for Qualcomm.…

Livestock excreta generates excitement and power Despite emissions from intensive animal husbandry often being fingered as a cause of climate change, researchers have suggested a new way that manure could be a source of renewable power.…

Adds his 2 cents as PM, security council meet about Salisbury poisoning Former boss at Brit electronic spy agency GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, has called for the application of "unexplained wealth orders" and economic sanctions against Russia rather than cyber attacks.…

Bitcoin prices plummet Google has joined the Bitcoin-hating bandwagon with a ban on ads for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings from June.…

Teases FLOW product as alternative to NSX Nutanix this week teased analysts with a software-defined networking product called FLOW and made no secret of its intent to muscle in on VMware's turf.…

UK tat bazaar enters final death spiral Closing-down sale posters are being plastered over the shop windows of moribund Brit 'leccy tat emporium Maplin Electronics, but even now the discounted goods can still be bought more cheaply from rivals.…

There's more to success than sweat and STEM Comment Donald J Trump has been stoking xenophobia since he took office as President of the US, aiming his sharpest barbs at China. But he's not alone. Others, with better manners than the president, have too – they’re just more subtle about it.…

But we're still in bug country, so run in a VM The first beta of Ubuntu 18.04 is here. The finished article, due next month, will be a long-term support release and, for those who stick with LTS, the first time many see the new GNOME-based Ubuntu.…

All the calories you need but never knew you wanted Veritas is renewing its assault on Data Domain and the disk/cloud archive market, Nutanix has offered $3,000 rebates to resellers of a Dell XC Core product, and flash memory researchers are looking at 128-layer 3D NAND.…

Would ma'am care to supersize her order with an extra 200MHz of CPU? It is Pi day (assuming you live in a country that insists on writing dates in the frankly barking mad MM/DD format) and after a quiet two years, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have pushed out a new version of the tiny computer.…

Runs JavaScript on the edge, rather than make users schlep all the way to your server Cloudflare has launched a service that lets its customers run JavaScript at the edge of its cloud.…

It never really went away: Netflix picked up the ball and ran with it as others snoozed Ten years ago, the world of tech was waking up to three hot new technologies – Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualisation, and Information-Centric Networking. The first two are now sweeping the world, but what happened to the third?…

Patch or risk Revenge Of The Users Samba admins: get patching and/or updating. Unless you’re content to have your admin passwords overwritten by, well, anyone else using Samba.…

Physicist now has a new chance to truly know the mind of God Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.…

Jericho Capital says deal would benefit Dell alone, suggests VMware buy Red Hat instead Investment firm Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P has departed from its usual practice of not commenting publicly on deals by publishing a scathing letter addressed to VMware’s independent directors decrying a reverse merger between VMware and Dell.…

It's like Spy Vs Spy, but with neural network boffins Adversarial models, already known to defeat the artificial intelligence behind image classifiers and computer audio, are also good at defeating malware detection.…

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificates now live Let's Encrypt has updated its certificate automation support and added Wildcard Certificates to its system.…

Machine learning and AI could make the problem worse Voice recognition systems are sexist: they struggle to deal with female voices compared to male ones.…

And buries past flops as it pitches SaaS to slay Outlook and Excel for US$25 a month Salesforce has flicked the On switch for two new apps in its "Essentials" range, the cut-down and cut-price version of its SaaS platform launched last November.…

Crim cops to running illegal testbed A Russian coder who ran and franchised a dark web service that optimized malware and checked it against antivirus engines has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy and one charge of aiding and abetting computer intrusion.…

Copyright case puts royalty model under the microscope UPDATED Audio specialist Dolby Labs is suing Adobe for copyright violation as the two companies sit at odds over licensing payments.…

DoubleClick for Publishers has been exhibiting unexpected behavior for several hours Google's ad service DoubleClick for Publishers has been experiencing problems since at least 1000 Pacific Time (1700 UTC) on Tuesday.…

Holes useful for malware on completely pwned PCs, servers Analysis CTS-Labs, a security startup founded last year in Israel, sent everyone scrambling and headlines flying today – by claiming it has identified "multiple critical security vulnerabilities and manufacturer backdoors in AMD’s latest Epyc, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processors."…

ICANN throws itself under bus to hit GDPR deadline A plan by ICANN to let governments collectively decide who is allowed to bypass new European privacy rules over domain names has been blasted by its most powerful member, the United States.…

Plus plenty of other Microsoft and Adobe bugs to fix Patch Tuesday Microsoft delivered another hefty bundle of patches with its scheduled monthly update.…

Great, you're in space. But everything's all blurry An ophthalmologist studying astronauts in the International Space Station has found long-term structural changes in their eyes.…

But look closely and you'll note the PCLOB has no teeth The federal agency designed to ensure US spy agencies protect people's privacy and civil liberties has been revived two years after it was effectively killed off by Congress.…

Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf wants to demystify distributed ledgers Analysis At the Open Source Leadership Summit in Sonoma, California, last week, The Register caught up with Brian Behlendorf, executive director of The Hyperledger Project, and had a chance to chat about the state of open source blockchain technology.…

Ride these iron donkeys and everyone (else) will make a packet Toyota is to flog around 10,000 connected cars to vehicle hire biz Avis over the next three years.…

Lawless man sold lifestyle devices at Cash Converters A university IT technician stole Apple Macs valued at £22,200 and flogged them for £200 a piece at rail pawnbroker Cash Converters to fund his drug habit, a court has heard.…

Researchers develop method to sniff out forum conflicts A group from Stanford University says conflicts on Reddit forums follow a reliable enough pattern to be predicted before they happen.…

We're told Bruce Willis is standing by The next time a giant asteroid threatens the Earth, Russia may just know how many megatons of explosives are needed to blow the thing to smithereens.…

Less weird, less clunky, and a four day+ battery life Fitbit has taken the wraps off its second (or fifth, depending on how you're counting) smartwatch, Versa, claiming the new model has inherited Pebble DNA.…

Rocket veterans blame explosion on design flaw NASA has fingered design failings by SpaceX in a much-delayed report (PDF) on the 2015 explosion of a Falcon 9 on its way to the ISS.…

Flaws meant others could read, meddle with encrypted emails Recently resolved vulnerabilities in SecurEnvoy's encrypted email transfer SecurMail created a way for encrypted emails in users' inboxes to be read, overwritten and deleted by others.…

Survey finds almost half track students' internet use Privacy activists have called for more transparency and parental control over web monitoring in British schools after a survey indicated that almost half track their students online.…

Control. Control. Control The Mozilla Foundation has released a Firefox for Enterprise with sysadmin controls to manage deployment. F4E arrives in beta form today.…

Spring mini-statement for the UK: Who gets broadband cash etc UK Chancellor of the Exchequer* Philip Hammond unveiled the first areas to receive £95m from the government's full-fibre fund and suggestions for how the UK could tax large digital businesses - in a slimmed-down "Spring Statement" light on details.…

Court docs reveal women filed over 230 internal complaints of discrimination, harassment More than 230 internal complaints of harassment and discrimination within Microsoft were handled in a “lackluster” way by the business, according to documents made public yesterday in a class action lawsuit.…

Amid rumours that handset add-ons initiative is for the axe Motorola has acknowledged reports that it's cutting its workforce in the windy US city of Chicago – just not by the 50 per cent rumoured.…

Kitty Hawk is also personally backed by Larry Page A “self-flying” electric air taxi, as built by a startup backed by Google moneybags Larry Page, has reportedly been undergoing flight tests in New Zealand.…

'Cos the garden was soooo rosy before that Outsourcers are anxious their hard-earned reputations are being besmirched by the recent collapse of Brit multinational construction firm Carillion, so much so their representative organisation is seeking a drastic image rebrand.…