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Software maker buys virty firm Data management platform DataGravity has been bought by HyTrust which has also pulled in a $36 million funding round.…

Decision ahead of auction falls short of calls by Three Telecoms regulator Ofcom has capped the maximum amount of mobile spectrum a company can own at 37 per cent, ahead of its auction of mobile spectrum later this year.…

Site hosting claimed 'leaks' disappears A row over data security is gripping India, with Reliance telco brand Jio denying claims it has leaked the details of 120 million customers.…

Full transition to take four years Openreach has finally started removing BT's logo from its 22,000 vans, "unveiling its new branding" four months after the former state monopoly agreed to a legal separation of its broadband division.…

Here's what really happens when ex biz partners threaten to publish and be damned A dental app entrepreneur and his former business consultant ended up in a playground war of character smears conducted via attack websites in each other’s names – and one even sent an associate with a warning to the other’s home where his wife and newborn child were present.…

Newly minted chairman speaks of 'changes' to the IT dept's role The new chairman of the UK and Ireland's SAP User Group (UKISUG) is looking to boost its number of line-of-business users, in response to "changes" in the IT department's role in organisations.…

Behold my mighty 5PB racks and tremble Viking Technology is shipping a 50TB SAS SSD. Yes, you read that right.…

Public sector big hitter to persuade G-cloud bods to inhale its product Former director of Common Technology Services at the Government Digital Service, Iain Patterson, has rocked up at UKCloud as chief digital officer. Notably, he's one of the few ex-GDS crew not to have left for the Co-op.…

Well, if you are going to leave debug code in production apps Drone hackers are busy at work exploiting the application security shortcomings of a major manufacturer to circumvent restrictions, including flight elevation limits. DJI says it has pushed out a firmware update to nip the problem in the bud, but one expert The Register spoke to maintains that hacking is still possible.…

Yes, there was a lot of cheese Interview Hewlett Packard Enterprise has almost concluded its corporate cleansing with the Enterprise Services division spun off to form DXC Technologies and the Software unit about to become part of company history.…

Firms should also carry out regular ‘stress tests’ Insurers whose policies could give rise to claims for damage as a result of cyber attacks may have to adjust their policies or premiums to better reflect these risks, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has warned.…

If you need new servers or hypervisor licences, there's a new model to consider ANALYSIS Microsoft's formal announcement of Azure Stack changes the cloud market forever, by giving us three distinct types of cloud.…

International Entrepreneur Rule paused for at least 9 months, probably forever US president Donald Trump's America First slogan has been extended to StartupLand after the Department of Homeland Security announced a delay to the implementation of the International Entrepreneur Rule, aka the “Startup visa”.…

Mitigate if you must, patch if you can Open source devops platform Cloud Foundry has disclosed a potentially nasty bug in its User Account and Authentication server software.…

Code host also seeking crowd comment on new T&Cs GitHub's taken a leaf out of Google's Chromium book, introducing a feature that puts review requirements under the control of someone designated as a code owner.…

SOCRATES shows off space-to-ground entanglement Japan has become the latest country to demonstrate quantum communication with a satellite, in this case a micro-satellite named SOCRATES.…

If SambaCry escaped your notice in June, get busy HPE NonStop users running Samba need to get busy applying workarounds to a pair of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.…

75 year-old chap funnelled more than AU$1m offshore Police in the Australian State of Queensland have arrested a man they say set up bank accounts to collect ransoms from victims of tech support scams, and funnel funds to scammers.…

Or in other words, access to encrypted messages Comment The meeting of G20 leaders decided to do something about the internet.…

Heavies team up to form patent-reform lobbying supergroup Some of the biggest names in IT are joining forces to create a lobbying effort focused on patent reform in the US.…

This is getting stupid now – time to dump SMS and switch to code-generating apps or tokens A software developer says a thief siphoned cash from his PayPal account – after a dumbass AT&T rep handed control of his cellphone account to a hacker, thus defeating his two-factor authentication.…

Want to control over 270,000 websites? That'll be $96 and a handover cockup, please A blunder during a handover of the .io registry allowed a security researcher to potentially take control of more than 270,000 .io domains.…

It's hoped cutting-edge tech will bridge broken senses The US military's research nerve center DARPA on Monday awarded contracts to five organizations and one company to develop brain interface technology.…

It's Pimms O' Clock somewhere in the world right now An international team of chemists has set the new record for crafting near-perfect cubic ice crystals. Sadly, the ice cubes are so small, they are invisible to the naked eye.…

Ad giant's head sucked into self-driving car trade secrets saga Google's cofounder Larry Page has been told to submit himself to four hours of questioning from Uber's lawyers in the Waymo self-driving vehicle trade secrets battle.…

Your quick guide to today's Redmond info blurt Microsoft did more than just mash up Office and Windows on Monday at its Inspire conference in the US.…

Bloke's Amsterdam odyssey ends up in hardship When Bernd Dorfmueller was offered a job in Amsterdam with Oracle, he thought he had lucked into a dream situation that would boost his professional career in IT.…

All Redmond's major business offerings have become The One Microsoft is squishing its major biz products into a single solution called – wait for it – Microsoft 365, CEO Satya Nadella announced at Inspire, Redmond's annual event for businesses that flog its wares. Not a single chair was flung, we can report.…

When we said 'Credit Card details have not been compromised', we meant… UK motoring organisation The AA belatedly admitted late on Friday, July 7th that customer data – including in some cases partial credit card numbers – had been exposed in a recent breach. Security experts gave the confession a frosty response while a specialist IT lawyer said incident response handling of this type would risk severe sanctions when new data protection laws come into effect next May.…

'Cut-price' car could be yours, in a year or more, for 'just' $35k Elon Musk's Tesla has delivered its first Model 3 electric car – straight into the hands of Elon Musk.…

Please, for the love of god, keep your plans switched on! Virgin Mobile is allowing customers to access Twitter without paying up for data, in what some might see as one way to ensure users keep using their data allowances.…

Target the target's device, advises former spy chief Former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan has spoken out against building backdoors into end-to-end encryption (e2) schemes as a means to intercept communications by terrorists and other ne'er do wells.…

Brit on bail for nearly a decade hopes crim case will be binned The UK's communications watchdog Ofcom has overturned its ban on the use of GSM gateways (COMUGs) for overseas phone calls – leaving one of the longest prosecutions in modern English legal history hanging in the balance.…

Rejects SK Hynix partnership Court documents filed by WD in response to Toshiba claims show that it has made six bids to acquire Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC), the spun-out Toshiba NAND memory business.…

Ripping teens leave the file sharing to Sad Old Dads Fathers can now add "file sharing" to the list of things they do to embarrass their teenage children - alongside dancing badly in public.…

Claims 3D XPoint headed for niche use as 3D NAND storms ahead Intel's Optane 3D XPoint drives could be doomed to fail in the mass market because their performance and endurance advantages over 3D NAND SSDs are "nominal".…

Don't boil the ocean Artificial intelligence isn't going away. Even if the hype abates its presence will have succeeded in raising awareness of a smorgasbord of interlinking concepts, technologies and ideas – neural networks and machine learning, cognitive intelligence, recommendation engines, big data, statistics and analysis – that together let computers and software do more of the thinking and acting for us.…

Complaint lodged with Judicial Conduct Investigations Office Concerns have been raised over a judge's use of his personal email address to send out a ruling in a family court case, which contained sensitive personal information.…

Once the tap turns on again, GPUs will restore PCs and edge computing to glory Last month, one of my friends noted he’d been having enormous trouble trying to buy the components to assemble a virtual-reality-ready PC. Motherboards, memory, CPUs and solid state drives were easy to find, but the one absolutely essential component - a beefy GPU to drive a head-mounted display at a vomit-preventing 90 Hz - he couldn’t find anywhere. Every online vendor seemed to be out of stock, with long waiting times and stern warnings restricting purchases to ‘ONLY TWO PER HOUSEHOLD’. Why would anyone need two graphics cards? One for each eye?…

Scott Guthrie talks to The Reg about Azure Stack and the changing developer platform Exclusive Microsoft’s investment in cloud services is also improving its on-premises software, claims Azure and SQL Server boss Scott Guthrie.…

Seminal time-sharing OS needs emulator for ancient Honeywell DPS8M CPU Seminal time-sharing OS Multics - the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service - has been resurrected in a new simulator.…

17 annual pricing tiers – that's not a typo – now on offer Fresh from encouraging users to buy bundles of its stuff, Atlassian is changing the way it charges for cloudy versions of its software and says the result will be that “the majority of customers will receive an increase in their bill” of about US$2/month/user for JIRA and Confluence products.…

Mobile base stations have compute. These APIs will let you tap it The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has unveiled the first APIs created under its Multi-Access Edge Computing project.…

Four times as massive as a proton, a way to check out the strong nuclear force What happens if you get two charm quarks together in one baryon? Something four times as heavy as a proton that can help the world understand the strong nuclear force, according to boffins at the Large Hadron Collider.…

Open source is only for two-thirds of a life, says veteran Open source luminary Roland McGrath has decided “enough is enough” – after 30 years on the GNU compiler library project.…

Goes from #MAGA to 'can't happen' in eight tweets Trump winds back idea to create 'impenetrable Cyber Security unit' with Russia Goes from #MAGA to 'can't happen' in eight tweets and thirteen hours US president Donald Trump has revealed that he and Russian opposite number Vladimir Putin discussed creation of a joint “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” at the G20 Leaders summit, but then displayed Modern Presidential behaviour by quickly dismissing the chances of the unit ever materialising.…

Insider with a login, rather than an outsider with a hack, seems culprit for darkweb privacy panic It looks like the government's figured out how Australians' Medicare numbers were leaking and ending up on a Tor trading site: an insider abusing a login.…

Signups remain at <50%, revenue isn't right and don't forget Turnbull promised we'd all be connected in 2016 nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has announced it's passed the half-way point of its mission to re-wire the nation.…

Avanti Markets 'fesses up to cafeteria heist A US payment kiosk vendor has been stung by malware scum.…

Loews Hotels also added to data leak list Two more hotel chains are warning customers they were caught by the breach of Sabre's "SynXis" hotel booking service that emerged earlier this year.…