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How many letters in AMD? Wow, what a coincidence. Same number of quarters of straight sales growth AMD CEO Lisa Su was in ebullient form on Wednesday when her company reported better-than-expected growth in the first quarter of 2018, and forecast a strong year for the chip design firm.…

Let's take a peek at your cosmic Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria Students and eggheads are designing a futuristic spaceship from an empty asteroid shell capable of housing astronaut crews as they slowly move between stars on trips that could last hundreds of years.…

Plus: Xen admins – you need to get patching your patches, too If you're not up-to-date with your Intel CPU Meltdown patches for Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2, get busy with that, because exploit code for Microsoft's own-goal flaw is available.…

Let us pour you some of this CloudSpin juice, upstart says Secondary storage hyperconverger Cohesity has extended its on-premises appliance products range with software now running in AWS and Azure, and able to spin up backed-up VMs direct in the two cloudy places.…

Punters less amused by inbox-clearing glitch A gremlin within the spam filters in Microsoft's Office 365 today caused the cloud-based service to toss all incoming emails into the junk folder.…

Web scrubber accused of ignoring obligation to mitigate misuse of its code Netsweeper, a maker of online-content-filtering software in Canada, has been called out for allowing its tools to aid internet censorship.…

Three-day outage sparked by bungled software rollout for data-center gear A botched network switch firmware update caused school IT systems to fall over in the US state of Washington, it is claimed.…

Alaska and California moving forward, Colorado not so much Efforts to impose net neutrality protections before federal rules are repealed are taking place across the US, but are currently very hit-and-miss as the big ISPs swing lobbying dollars against them.…

Open letter throws heavy shade on social network's research initiative Facebook’s API lock-down will hurt legitimate researchers and damage scrutiny of social networks, a group of boffins have warned.…

Third flaw fix in a month evokes déjà vu After scrambling to patch a critical vulnerability late last month, Drupal is at it again.…

Experts complain of shoddy tech specs and personal attacks Two new encryption algorithms developed by the NSA have been rejected by an international standards body amid accusations of threatening behavior.…

E-waste activist's appeal fails as Redmond scores a win PC reseller Eric Lundgren will spend up to 15 months behind bars after a US Court of Appeals upheld his sentence on charges of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and criminal copyright infringement.…

Redmond unleashes DMCA barrage on ElDewrito team Microsoft has come down hard on ElDewrito, a community-made mod for the cancelled Halo Online, lobbing DMCA takedown notices and sending its legal team to have a "brief conversation" with the modders.…

Eggheads craft skeleton cards to unlock doors in global chains Infosec outfit F-Secure has uncovered security vulnerabilities in a hotel keycard system that can be exploited by miscreants to break into rooms across the globe.…

Web banking still down for half of customers In the latest update from TSB about its continued web wobbles, the British bank has told us that while it knows everything is working, punters might not realise that fact because... internet banking still isn't entirely working.…

Webstresser.org taken down by Europol plod and chums Cops yesterday cuffed IT admins behind the "world’s biggest DDoS marketplace", webstresser.org, Europol confirmed today.…

Are you a hoopy frood? Today, 25 April, marks exactly one month until a truly momentous milestone - but an exclusive El Reg analysis* has revealed that as many as 42 organisations are not yet full of froods.…

As toys fly from prams over post-Brexit access to sat system, UK.gov is reminded: You agreed to this The furore over Britain's potential loss of access to Europe's Galileo satellite system post-Brexit turned up a notch this week – as a report blamed British officials' iffy approach to negotiations.…

Life sentence for inventor who lured journalist aboard crowdfunded vessel The Danish submarine innovator who murdered journalist Kim Wall has been handed a life sentence by a Copenhagen court.…

Users report creaky systems, load balancer errors Embattled bank TSB has claimed its IT systems are now "up and running" – despite many users still reporting they can’t get into their accounts.…

You've got to use your time much more wisely if you want to stay employed Research Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, the fourth industrial revolution – we’re hearing a lot about how technology is going to automate everything and render whole cohorts of fleshy, fallible and inefficient humans surplus to needs.…

But that doesn't mean it's spilling all your beans, data audit finds Chinese drone firm DJI is pushing back against claims it quietly beams user data back to the homeland by releasing the results of an audit it paid for – which found the DJI Go 4 app indeed sends some data to Hong Kong.…

Acquisition for undisclosed sum latest in Big Red's foray into marketing Oracle has bought a UK biz that claims to help firms avoid putting their ads next to dodgy images or content – just as the marketing tech industry faces increased scrutiny and uncertainty.…

Continuous Lifecycle puts real business at heart of the agenda If you’re ever wondered whether traditional companies are at a disadvantage when it comes to exploiting the latest software development and deployment strategies, you should get yourself down to Continuous Lifecycle London in three weeks time.…

Think tank reckons public sector has over 1,000 contracts The British government has received a grilling over its exposure to 1,000 plus Capita contracts, following a pre-tax loss of £515m reported by the outsourcing giant yesterday.…

Gizmo ideal for diagnosing disease in remote areas Researchers have come up with an optical gadget which, when attached to a smartphone, can check samples for 12 infectious diseases at once.…

Spear and LeComber stumbled on the thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display 40 years ago Every time you use a smartphone, glance at your smart watch, fire up a computer, watch TV or endure a PowerPoint presentation, you experience a little bit of Dundee.…

Didn't realise IT was only thing were supposed to refurbish A dastardly duo running IT recycling businesses that pilfered nearly £145,000 in VAT and laundered cash for a gang of fraudsters face years behind bars, HMRC confirmed today.…

Ahhhahaha, had you going then The European Space Agency (ESA) is all a-quiver at the prospect of the second Sentinel-3 satellite launch, due this evening atop a Russian Rockot launcher.…

Cook's Cupertino crew corrects coding cock-ups Apple has issued a trio of updates to patch security vulnerabilities in Safari, macOS, and iOS.…

Rude awakening – yet again – for American DNS supremo ICANN has been told for a second time that it must fundamentally change its Whois service to become compliant with Europe's incoming privacy law – and do so within the next month.…

ESA wants to solve crucial riddle: What really happens when accidents occur in orbit? The European Space Agency is launching a new research project to study satellite collisions in space.…

A return to mobile, bloat-busting build or something else? Pics Microsoft's Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17650 (Redstone 5), released last week via the Windows Insider program, includes a stripped-down version of the operating system called Windows 10 Lean.…

The only thing 'private' was the parts you were leering at, friend Netizens have the wrong idea about what their web browser's "private" or "incognito" mode actually does.…

The only thing 'private' was the parts you were leering at, friend Netizens have the wrong idea about what their web browser's "private" or "incognito" mode actually does.…

Conductive material touted by Mickey Mouse boffins Vid At about $20 per square metre, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have devised a way to turn walls into a touch interface.…

Conductive paint and circuit boards make walls into touch screens and sensors For about $20 per square meter, boffins from Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have devised a way to turn walls into a touch interface.…

Cambridge Analytica’s PR crisis man claims ‘morale is pretty good now’ in office The egghead behind the mass slurp of Facebook users’ information has said the social network is in “PR crisis mode” – as Cambridge Analytica enacted a crisis management of its own.…

New US RAND report predicts a grim technological future AI could kick start a nuclear war by 2040, according to a dossier published this month by the RAND Corporation, a US policy and defence think tank.…

New Bezos scheme opens up vehicles as drop-off points Amid worries about social network and ad-related privacy invasions, Amazon is asking for invitations into people's homes and cars.…

Now, who wants to take a look at the revamped Yahoo Mail? The Disaster Formerly Known as Yahoo! has been fined $35m by US financial watchdog, the SEC, for failing to tell anyone about one of the world's largest ever computer security breaches.…

Audacious BGP seizure of Route 53 IP addys followed by crypto-cyber-heist Updated Crooks today hijacked internet connections to Amazon Web Services systems to ultimately steal a chunk of alt-coins from online cryptocurrency website MyEtherWallet.com.…

Plucky MVNOs snag top five spots for customer satisfaction You can stuff your VoLTE and Notched iPhones – bargain-conscious Brits are shunning the big mobile operators for cheap-as-chips virtual network operators instead.…

Revenues up 41 per cent, industry in 'recovery mode' Streaming revenues rose 41 per cent to become the largest source of income for recorded music in 2017.…

Salesfor.... who? CEO predicts CRM crown will be his Top brass at SAP are finally walking with some swagger after recording the firm's first ever €1bn-plus revenue cloud quarter, so much so that they even felt compelled to fire some warning shots at rival Salesforce.…

Plus: No one will say whether Huawei, ZTE are the baddies Banks could plug their security vulnerabilities by simply improving password protections, the deputy CEO of the Prudential Regulation Authority has told the House of Lords.…

We want to suck your... data up into our cloud The storage enterprise trade is simultaneously hoping what happened in Vegas does and doesn't stay there as the news of new products, tech developments, company changes and people moving jobs flooded out of the NAB conference in Nevada.…

Color-coded stellar searcher seeks out young stars AI systems can be trained to help astronomers identify if galaxies are still active in producing new stars, according to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal.…

Platform fka Java EE gets new governance model, hopes for bigger community The Eclipse Foundation has today released the new governance model for Jakarta EE, with an emphasis on creating a cloud native, code-first and community-led project that is faster and more innovative.…

Hacking campaign goes after care providers and equipment If there's one thing security vendors love it's a catchilly-named piece of malware to whip up fervor over, and boy is it a good day to be Symantec.…