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Speeds of 100Mbps to reach rural areas – for a fee EE is launching a "shoebox"-sized 4G antenna, which it claims could bring coverage to 580,000 UK homes in rural areas.…

4bit/cell SSDs coming soon to attack nearline disk drive sales Later this year Micron plans to release quad-level cell flash drives that encroach on the nearline disk drive market.…

Comms providers dodge bills for six years of customer entries BT has quietly withdrawn its threat to charge communications providers millions in six years' worth of back bills for special-entry listings in its phone book.…

A blinga, a blanga, a bippety bop, I'm going down to the record shop YEAH! Something for the Weekend, Sir? I once tried to do it standing on one leg, arms pressed against the wall for stability.…

Are you going to power and cool the lot? For all of its advances, the IT sector’s first five decades could be characterised as the electronic storing of systems of record.…

And somehow the goofball sci-fi franchise is still going strong On a cold, dry evening of February 9, 1968, cinemagoers at New York's venerable Capitol Theatre were the first members of the public to be taken to a new but worryingly familiar world.…

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will write and produce series set in bits of the Lucasverse Game of Thrones fans hoping that show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss might spend more time in Westeros will have to visit a galaxy far, far away instead after Disney signed the pair for a series of Star Wars flicks.…

Don't blame AI, blame the creeps who put famous heads onpr0n actors' bodies Fake AI-generated pornography has been banned by sites including Reddit and Pornhub, but others operations say they're fine with the practice of putting celerities' faces on porn actresses' bodies.…

Whois and ICANN – the Sonny and Cher of internet policy Incoming European privacy laws which carry a global impact for anyone doing business in the Union are continuing to cause an epic policy meltdown at internet overseer ICANN.…

You drained the air-conditioner where, exactly? And now I've stepped in it ... On-Call Welcome once more to On-Call, in which The Register celebrates users' many, many failures by sharing your stories of being asked to clean up behind them.…

But cryptocurrency not growing for the GPU giants Nvidia’s grip on the GPU market continues to strengthen as it reported its excellent quarterly and full year revenues compared to last year.…

Chefs scramble after mistake turns 1,500 into 15,000 A group of Norwegian chefs blames Google Translate after the applications improperly ordered 1500 eggs to 15.000.…

Brushes off latest $121bn bid as too low, too risky, but is willing to discuss deal Qualcomm's rejected Broadcom's latest attempt to buy it, but has also said it is willing to discuss doing a deal.…

Proper patches under way, but for now - to your command lines, vAdmins! VMware's advised on how to mitigate the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws in several of its products.…

First Semi-Annual release lands with lots of fun for Windows admins and the hybrid cloud crowd Microsoft's delivered the first Semi-Annual Chanel version of System Centre.…

Container storage tech gets adopted by Cloud Native Computing Foundation The organization overseeing container juggling system Kubernetes has decided to befriend a storage project.…

Get patching – there's this auth bypass and loads of other bugs If you're using a Netgear router at home, it's time to get patching. The networking hardware maker has just released a tsunami of patches for a couple of dozen models of its kit.…

Open Source Security balks at 'outrageous' lawyer rates Having defeated a defamation claim for speculating that using Grsecurity's Linux kernel hardening code may expose you to legal risk under the terms of the GPLv2 license, Bruce Perens is back in court.…

Now both halves of Congress consider banning Chinese goliaths' tech within govt Both halves of the US Congress are now mulling draft laws that would ban American government workers from using phones, network switches and other gear built by Chinese communications giants ZTE and Huawei.…

AGs cry foul over Google's $8.5m class-action settlement A group of 16 US state attorneys general are urging America's Supreme Court to tear up an $8.5m legal settlement from Google – because none of the cash will go to the folks the class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of.…

Mining Monero on SCADA networks? Why can't you kids be normal and just DDoS Updated Infosec bods say they have uncovered what's thought to be the first case of a major industrial control system network infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware.…

139 months. How fitting for an originally 140-character blog biz After 11 years and seven months in operation, and billions and billions of dollars in losses, Twitter today said it is, at long last, a profitable business.…

Shame! Shame! says carrot-dangling Google Three years ago, Google's search engine began favoring in its results websites that use encrypted HTTPS connections.…

Google Chrome will warn HTTP websites are 'not secure' this summer Three years ago, Google began weighing whether websites implemented HTTPS security as a signal in its search ranking algorithm.…

$250k went into orbit with that Roadster Elon Musk may be entertaining world+dog with his impressive space invasion but back on terra firma his electric car biz Tesla has just reported its fattest ever quarterly loss.…

Thousands of personal details taken unlawfully, court finds A staffer at an accident repair biz has had to pay almost £1,000 after he sold customers' personal data to cold-calling firms.…

There was supposed to be more to 'hyper-connected' standard than that A European commissioner raised concerns in a private letter to mobile operators and the network infrastructure industry – seen by The Register – that the 5G project is not working out according to plan.…

Cyberlibertarian and Grateful Dead lyricist passes away at 70 Obit John Perry Barlow, a co-founder of the US Electronic Frontier Foundation, and also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, has died aged 70.…

Too many staff, too few claimants, in-house ID system with 50% success rate... Many Brits are still unable to access the "digital-only" version of Universal Credit, the delayed and much-derided welfare reform intended to roll six benefits into one single payment – according to MPs.…

Arbitration in ongoing age bias battle can be fought together, says judge A group of ex-HP staffers who claim they were discriminated against due to their age have been granted the right to together keep fighting an arbitration case against the IT giant.…

Welcomes new CFO too It's boom time in Micron flash and DRAM land with increased revenue expectations for the current quarter. And it has hired a new CFO.…

New event for infosec pros Promo Are you confident you could defend your IT systems against an unexpected attack? Could you spot the early signs of an incursion coming from any direction, as roving bands of hackers, data thieves and other miscreants grow ever more ingenious and determined?…

So laggy, no likey Part 1 Bringing compute to data sounds like a great way to bypass storage access bottlenecks but progress is difficult because of software issues, the need to develop special hardware and a non-x86 environment.…

Shares drop 12% as biz slashes dividends to raise capital TalkTalk plans to bring full fibre speeds of 1Gbps to three million premises, by creating an independent company with a total investment of around £1.5bn.…

Joe Public has gone off smart machines, but biz is mad for it When British Prime Minister Theresa May bigged up AI at the World Economic Forum in Davos last month, it was as if she had nothing better to talk about.…

If you want a crash course in learning Arm code, now's your – hm, maybe not The confidential source code to Apple's iBoot firmware in iPhones, iPads and other iOS devices has leaked into a public GitHub repo.…

Cisco's Cloud Index says we're headed for ~700 colosso-bit-barns and not much else The latest iteration of Cisco's Global Cloud Index has painted a picture of an even more massively oligarchic future cloud.…

For now, have some code that won't crash Skylakes and stay close to your Telescreens Intel's offered the world some helpful advice about how to handle the Meltdown and Spectre chip design flaws it foisted on the world.…

Class-action seeks compo for crappy phone components Google has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over hardware failures in its Pixel smartphones.…

Don't worry, it's not as terrifying as it sounds Video Boffins have taught a robot how to imitate the way someone handles objects after watching them just once.…

Circles within circles make it easy to find the midpoint Analysis by mobile device management outfit Wandera has suggested that newly notorious exercise-tracking app Strava's “location privacy” feature isn't very good at hiding users' homes.…

US Senate probes Uber's hacker hush-hushing Analysis Remember when Uber tried to cover up the fact its AWS datastore containing records on 57 million riders and drivers had been hacked? And that it bunged the hackers $100,000 to shut them up, and then disguised the expense as a bug bounty payout?…

Huawei, ZTE, Wind River, Nokia first to fly 'OPNFV Verified' flag The community working to develop open network function virtualisation has crafted a solution certification suite and published its associated test software.…

Wait, this bank-card-stealing ring is called Infraud? Infraud? Not exactly subtle, people Thirteen out of 36 individuals indicted for their alleged involvement in a transnational cybercrime group know as Infraud have been arrested, the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.…

Prepare for some tech bro Analysis According to former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, a "cheat code" is tech bro slang for a hack. Or, in his words, "elegant solutions to problems that haven't already been thought of."…

Still just 1.53 Mbps per user, so let's not let that distract us from the ongoing build bungles Australia's internet service providers have responded to discounts in the Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC) by buying more bandwidth for their users, but the news isn't all good because they're still offering just 1.53 Mbps per user.…

A $3.45bn loss in a single year – buy buy buy, yell investors Snapchat maker Snap's stock price is through the roof today after the self-destructing-image flinger managed to lose only slightly less money than analysts predicted.…

Where's a sat-nav when you need one? Pic The final rocket burn of the SpaceX craft carrying Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into the cosmos pushed the billionaire's flash jalopy much further than anticipated. It's now heading out toward the Solar System's asteroid belt rather than swinging close by Mars as planned.…

It's so unreal, didn't look out below. Watch the time go right out the Windows Microsoft has glued LinkedIn and Office 365's Word together so it can automatically help folks write or update their résumés – and find them new jobs at the same time.…

These critters might soon be airdropping your shopping Four British cities have been picked as testbed areas for drone operators hoping to work out new business models for their wares.…