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We'll give it to you when it's ready – and it is not Microsoft has urged non-tech-savvy people – or anyone who just wants a stable computer – to not download and install this year's biggest revision to Windows by hand. And that's because it may well bork your machine.…

Beating flash on $/TB in nearline drives a core strategy Seagate made a canine evening meal of its third 2017 fiscal quarter – with flattish revenues on the annual compare greeted by a disappointed Wall Street expecting more and marking the shares down 15 per cent. The full year revenue is likely to show an annual decline as well.…

In short, stop flogging players with pirate add-ons Europe's highest court has made it easier for member states to halt the sale of media sticks with preloaded pirate streaming links and add-ons.…

Silicon Valley has a problem with IP. And it won't grow up Comment Thanks to the World Intellectual Property Organization, today is World Intellectual Property Day 2017. Perhaps this celebration needs a dark companion – World Hypocrisy Day. Here's why.…

Orange County loses disk and flash fabber’s HQ as jobs go in transformation opportunity Western Digital Corp is moving its HQ from Irvine, Orange County in southern California to San Jose in the north of the state, with job losses in both areas.…

MPs find BBC job creation offsets redundo positions The BBC has given up trying to cut the number of its employees paid more than the British Prime Minister, the UK's National Audit Office has discovered.…

You're helping terrorists, shrieks Amber 'Hashtags' Rudd Twitter has reportedly blocked a third-party firm used by the Home Office from accessing its firehose, prompting the government to complain that the social network is siding with terrorists.…

You're helping terrorists, shrieks Amber 'Hashtags' Rudd Twitter has reportedly blocked a third-party firm used by the Home Office from accessing its firehose, prompting the government to complain that the social network is siding with terrorists.…

Supporting The War Against Terror, one update at a time Drone bods DJI has quietly released a series of software updates that geofence off large areas of Iraq and Syria – indicating the Chinese firm is covertly helping the US war against Islamic extremists.…

Critical design bug caused havoc on 30 March Neatgear has cocked up its cloud management service, losing data stored locally on ReadyNAS devices' shared folders worldwide – and customers have complained to The Register about only being informed four weeks later.…

Records highest quarterly operating profit in its history Korean DRAMmer and NAND fabber SK Hynix reported revenue rises and record profits in its first 2017 quarter.…

Build it and they will come. Maybe "5G doesn't mean anything to us," says Kirill Filippov, chief executive of SPB TV, an OTT TV, IPTV and mobile TV provider touting live 360 VR in 4G at this year's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.…

Build it and they will come. Maybe "5G doesn't mean anything to us," says Kirill Filippov, chief executive of SPB TV, an OTT TV, IPTV and mobile TV provider touting live 360 VR in 4G at this year's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.…

And Trump's 'fake news' bleating harms US tradition of defending free press The UK has dropped two places on the World Press Freedom Index following the passing of the Investigatory Powers Act and threats to pursue journalists reporting on national security.…

Small racks, large GPUs HPC Blog More than 230 university teams vied for only 20 slots in the 2017 Asian Student Cluster Competition (ASC) finals being held this week in Wuxi, China. At 20 teams, this is the largest cluster competition the world has ever seen. Really, it is.…

Your best excuse for using Firefox or Chome is just that April’s almost done and May here, and you know what that means. Not the end of a month of showers, rather yet-another round of browser stats articles showing, if past trend is an indication of future development, the continued loss of market share by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the rise and rise of Google’s Chrome.…

More like National Fail amirite? On the heels of an IT error leading to Great Western Rail advertising a first-class journey from Taunton to Trowbridge for £10,000 comes an exponentially more expensive offer from National Rail.…

Adios, the Canny Guru solving Sphinx-level COBOL riddles While it’s easy to start up a few, flashy new DevOps teams, releasing to production each week and flaunting the ball-and-chain of enterprise governance, scaling that change to your organisation will always be challenging, if not crushingly impossible.…

Plus: $120 million in VC funding for a $400 juicer

But what about cost? Analysis A burst of Optane memory reviews have come out, timed to coincide with Optane retail availability, but none of them answer the "Is it cost-effectively faster than flash?" question.…

And that's good because apps can handle codecs that broadcasters abandon A few weeks back I turned on my television to find out it had stopped receiving two of the free-to-air channels I watched most often. All of the other channels still resolved with perfect, digital clarity, so I couldn’t work out why these two channels - out of four in packaged in a multichannel broadcast signal - failed to display.…

Devs complain web giant's Skills Kit knackers their code Developers trying to integrate their applications with the Amazon Echo have suffered headache after headache for the past week, thanks to mystery problems with Alexa APIs.…

Mitigating the side effects just requires removing the headset A New Yorker and a transplant from London to the Big Apple last week managed to endure watching virtual reality videos for 50 hours non-stop, setting a Guinness World Record in the process.…

Chinese Academy of Sciences thinks it has a way to give DNS a backup The venerable Domain Name System (DNS) is becoming known for fragility, and keeping track of your own favourite sites' IP addresses is a pain. So a group of researchers want to automate the upkeep of hosts to give users an emergency backup if their provider blacks out.…

Unbeli-baaaaaaa-ble Video Scientists in Philadelphia have created a plastic womb that has successfully incubated eight premature lambs – and the doctors behind the project say they will be ready for human trials within three years.…

DRAM prices putting the squeeze on margins Juniper Networks has slipped something of a surprise into its Q1 2017 financials, announcing that it's no longer going to break out service provider and enterprise verticals in its reports.…

WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries An Interpol investigation has revealed a worrying degree of insecurity in south-east Asian countries, with even government-operated web servers infected to operate as command and control systems for bot-herders.…

Patent calls for drives in which mechanical bits and electronics aren't bound together Amazon's won a patent for “Hard disk drive assembly with field-separable mechanical module and drive control”.…

Sammy says trust-known-MACs code is a feature not a bug A security researcher is complaining that Samsung isn't making a serious response to a vulnerability in its Smart TVs.…

Snub says more about misunderstanding rules than anti-immigrant trends, though An Irish Stripe worker was denied entry to America because he had a Somalian stamp in his passport, according to the payment-processing biz's CEO.…

ServiceMesh is still there. But the VSANs are landing to help an automation push The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has made a significant investment in VMware's hyperconverged stack.…

Remote locate, unlock, and start vehicles – using a fixed encryption key... ouch Hyundai has patched its Blue Link smartphone app to stop it blabbing private info that could, it is claimed, be used to break into and steal people's cars.…

Remote locate, unlock, and start vehicles – using a fixed encryption key... ouch Hyundai has patched its Blue Link smartphone app to stop it blabbing private info that could, it is claimed, be used to break into and steal people's cars.…

IT bods can separate monthly updates with new controls Microsoft has added yet another option to its monthly patch jumble for IT departments.…

Blames pricey SF rent for $350,000 insider-trading scam An ex-Expedia IT admin has been fined and jailed for 15 months after he spied on the emails of the travel giant's top brass to make insider trades.…

App dev ransacked after gang used test/test login, it is claimed A Brit biz selling surveillance tools that can be installed on phones to spy on spouses, kids, mates or employees has been comprehensively pwned by hackers – who promise similar stalkerware peddlers are next.…

Burning down the Purple Palace has its rewards When Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer leaves the merged Verizon-AOL-Yahoo! behemoth, as is expected soon, she'll walk away with stocks and cash today worth $186m.…

Taxi app upstart pushed father-of-two to suicide, say lawyers Uber can add racism to its long list of corporate culture failings, say lawyers representing one of its software engineer who killed himself last year.…

nbn™ still thinks hardly anyone needs gigabit broadband but wants to show it's ready anyway nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has demonstrated a 1.1Gbps downstream and 165Mbps upstream connection using its fixed wireless network.…

We'll bung you a tenner to tide you over, no worries, mate Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan says his corporation is willing to help bail out sinking Toshiba.…

High priority apps get first dibbs at fast SSD storage Hyper-converged infrastructure supplier Pivot3 is adding an NVMe flash tier with app-priority-based quality of service (QOS).…

20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years' stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…

Now supports cloud-native apps in AWS, Azure Storage startup Rubrik claims it is taking the lead in public/private cloud data management and says it is approaching a $100m annual run rate after 18 months of product availability.…

For something you never knew you wanted Spotify is seeking experienced hardware engineers to create “a category-defining product”, according to a (now removed) job ad.…

FPGA-based project has scored £290k so far Yet another crowdfunded ZX Spectrum reboot project has emerged – and this one has raised more than £290,000 from backers.…

Now a privately owned debt-free company +Comment Violin Memory is back, as a privately owned company fresh out of bankruptcy.…

SSH... it's Shishiga Hackers have unleashed a new malware strain that targets Linux-based systems.…

Meanwhile, US continues to bury its head in the sand over letter from 114 MPs Lauri Love, the alleged hacktivist from Stradishall, Suffolk, England, has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States.…

Land Rover BAR's America's Cup hopes rest on just one app We got a sneak peek behind the scenes of the Land Rover BAR sailing team hoping to leave Oracle’s Larry Ellison with a red face in this year’s America’s Cup.…

Can you get to London in May? Promo If you want to get bang up to date on the technology and thinking driving the smartest software operations, you need to join the conference AND workshop sessions at Continuous Lifecycle next month.…