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New roadmap for Teams does everything but name Skype's death date Microsoft appears to have edged Skype for Business closer to the edge of a cliff.…

PIN 'ignored' – no wonder T-Mob has put out an alert A bloke from Washington is suing T-Mobile USA after miscreants were able to steal his phone number and take all his crypto-coins.…

There's a problem with America's internet? La la la can't hear you, la la la Analysis Fifteen million Americans don't have access to broadband internet. For those that do, the United States has close to the slowest speeds among advanced economies. And for that, Americans pay more than almost anyone else.…

Coders want more than merely moolah, poll finds Analysis Technology platform companies depend on third-party developers to such an extent that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously turned his company's codependence into a mantra, repeating "Developers! Developers! Developers!" as a sign of appreciation.…

Now we've cashed out, here's why everything is terrible A group of ex-Facebook and Google workers, along with venture capital execs, are campaigning to stop their former employers from further screwing up humanity.…

'Mad' Mike living up to his nickname Video An American bloke, who reckons Earth is flat as a frisbee, is on a quest to send himself into space to verify his theory. And on Sunday, he failed to even launch a rocket to a few hundred feet.…

More like Ohsh-itcoin China has become the latest nation to attempt to cripple crypto-coin trading within its borders.…

Language tool maker scrambles to patch info leak flaw A critical flaw in the Chrome extension of Grammarly – the grammar-checking software with online ads second only to Geico in terms of their ability to annoy – has left all 22 million users' personal records available to all.…

Because girls don't like to lick their fingers or drink the crumbs Poll The boss of PepsiCo – the parent company of Doritos – has suggested women need their own lady crisps, apparently so they can keep their mouths quiet and their fingers clean.…

Brit, US prosecutors aren't out of options yet Analysis Accused hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited from the UK to America to stand trial on accusations that he hacked into a number of American government agencies, the High Court ruled this morning.…

'Active defence' strategy review says all is peachy one year on GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre claims that its strategy of "actively defending" the UK against high-volume commodity attacks is working.…

Refreshes SMB-sized deduping backup-to-disk box Down in the Dell there is a new Data Domain box – a smallish, entry-level one – the DD3300.…

Where do you start? The IT department's transition from being an on-premises owner and manager of an IT equipment stack which provisions and plans data compute, storage and networking to being a responsive services provider is a 2018 priority for many.…

B-b-b.. is that the sound of a bubble bursting? Lloyds bank has stopped credit card customers from buying bitcoin, amid concerns of a credit risk surrounding the cryptocurrency's rapidly falling value.…

Korean flasher poised to enter enterprise SSD market SK Hynix, currently focused on client SSDs, is posed to enter the enterprise SSD market with 72-layer 3D NAND tech.…

Reports say it wants to slap $120bn-$145bn big ones on table Chip slinger Broadcom has turned up the heat on its hostile bid to take over rival Qualcomm today, with the semiconductor biz expected to raise its offer by between $15bn-$40bn (£10.7bn-£28bn).…

Cams on in Cardiff as activists decry 'infringement' of rights South Wales Police deployed facial recognition technology in Cardiff this weekend, making multiple arrests using the controversial kit.…

High Court nixes earlier legal order that would have sent him abroad Accused hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited to United States to stand trial, the High Court of England and Wales ruled today.…

Lee Jae-yong to challenge remaining corruption allegations The heir to Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, has been freed with a suspended sentence after spending a year in jail on charges of offering bribes to the disgraced former president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye.…

Data wrangler seeks injunctions for 'breaches of duty' Hortonworks is suing a former sales manager accused of taking contracts for himself and his next employer, according to court documents seen by The Register.…

How'd data leave country? Yep, control-V'd into a rando app the user set up Once upon a time, you’d go into the office, do your work during the day at your desk, then leave everything behind and go home. Well, end users would - IT workers have been lugging home the on-call laptop since the dial-up modem was invented.…

£10m revamp warms up Cold War site – but chunks of it are still a holiday lodge The Royal Air Force has moved one of its air defence radars onto the northern tip of the Shetland Islands as Cold War-era fears about Russian military movements start warming up again.…

Calls to iron out age-verification method and appeals process Peers have rubber-stamped the British Board of Film Classification as the regulator for age checks on porn websites, but voiced concerns over delays in issuing guidance.…

OS-detection services disagree on which Windows reigns Web analytics outfit StatCounter last week trumpeted news that Windows 10’s market share overtook Windows 7’s for the first time in January 2018. But other ratings services didn’t find the same result.…

Guarding the kernel against unauthorised changes The folk at OpenWall have called for assistance to create a security module to watch Linux kernels for suspicious activity.…

240-seat A321LR takes to the skies with 7,400km range Airbus has flown a new version of its A320 jetliner that it hopes will take the twin-engine workhorse onto long-haul routes.…

There’s a reason racks are parallel, not L-shaped Who, me? Welcome for the third time to Who, me? The Register’s new column in which readers ‘fess up to messes of their own making.…

Gravitational microlensing helps astroboffins spot planets 3.8 BEELLION light-years away The Kepler Space Telescope has found oodles of exoplants, but now astroboffins have spotted the first exoplanets outside our galaxy.…

This is no joke – chap seems to have cracked Amazon’s latest toy Video The security of Amazon.com’s “Key” door lock has again been called into question.…

Fibre, schmibre: existing cable TV networks edge closer to symmetric 10 Gbps capabilities US standards outfit CableLabs has added another piece to the Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 jigsaw, with the release of the key MAC layer specification for the standard.…

Who knew sharing would transform an industry? Feature Twenty years ago, the Open Source Definition (OSD) was published, providing a framework for the most significant trend in software development since then, and building upon Richard Stallman's prior advocacy for "free software."…

It's this week in machine learning Roundup It has been an interesting week in the AI world. There's a whole treasure trove of research papers to read, fresh AI problems to crack, and a new fund for startups.…

Your weekly dose of infosec odds'n'sods Roundup Here's a summary of this week's infosec news beyond what we've already covered in detail.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Two ISPs mull tie-up Brit-based comms colossus Vodafone is mulling snapping up wedges of European networks owned by American telecoms giant Liberty Global.…

Claim of 'sovereign immunity' laughed out of court A tiny village in America has been ordered to pay back more than $3m in speeding fines it collected from motorists – after its claims of "sovereign immunity" were laughed out of court.…

The day Congress becomes a supermarket tabloid Analysis Friday morning, as expected, the US House Intelligence Committee released a four-page memo outlining what it claims is evidence that the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the FBI illegally requested that a former advisor to President Trump be put under surveillance.…

300k Euro fundraising leads to privacy NGO EU-based campaigner Max Schrems – famous for taking Silicon Valley to task over citizens' privacy rights – has set up a non-profit outfit called Noyb, having exceeded a crowdfunding target.…

SEC doc follows IPO, reverse-merge rumors Tech titan Dell has confirmed in paperwork submitted to America's financial watchdog that it is mulling returning to the stock market as a public company, combining with its subsidiary VMware, or, er, doing nothing.…

Former HPE exec Andy Isherwood strolls into Bezos country Exclusive Amazon Web Services has turned to an old-world IT exec, former Hewlett Packard Enterprise bigwig Andy Isherwood, to run its ops in Europe, the Middle East and Africa – and inject some enterprise tech experience into the cloud biz.…

Right outta the Big Blue IBM's on-premises Cloud Object Storage has come out on top in Gartner's latest industry rankings.…

Yep, it's yet another dildon’t Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in smart sex toys that open up the potential for all sorts of mischief by hackers.…

Would you eat it? Tell us why and you could win some Reg merch Giveaway Brit supermarket chain Morrisons has sacked 1,500 middle managers – but fear not, they’ve also vomited out an unholy creation that is part pizza, part Yorkshire pudding.…

No economies of scale = piss-poor adoption Analysis The prospects of XPoint and other persistent memory technologies becoming a standard part of servers' design is being held up because the darn stuff costs too much, an analyst has said.…

Apparently, senior NHS Trust managers will be held accountable... stop giggling The WannaCry outbreak has forced the UK's national health service to overhaul its crisis planning to put new measures in place to avoid further crippling cyber attacks.…

Will no one rid me of this turbulent beast? BT's problem child Global Services once again dragged sales down, this time by 3 per cent for the third quarter to £5.97bn.…

Facial recognition app promises to verify your age to bouncers Five clubs in Bournemouth are now accepting ID in the form of an app that verifies who you are through facial recognition – to the disdain of privacy activists.…

Driverless tech not ready, to shock of nobody Mercedes' driverless cars need human intervention approximately every 2.08km (1.3 miles), and other makes are totally reliant on frequent switching to manual, according to figures from the Californian Department for Motor Vehicles.…

It was not contractually obliged to forward them so... The National Audit Office is investigating a backlog of 162,000 undelivered items of clinical correspondence on the watch of Capita's £700m Primary Care Services contract.…

How to bake in security to DevSecOps, er SecDevOps ... Imagine you're an organisation that is looking to implement a DevOps approach to applications and services, or perhaps you’ve already started, but you’re worried about security.…