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Besties still BlackBerry has been awarded $814m in a patent arbitration action against Qualcomm.…

Tsk tsk, Virgin Media and TalkTalk, tsk tsk Just over half of broadband and mobile customers who moaned to their provider were satisfied with how their complaints were handled, according to a report by Ofcom.…

This is exactly the opposite of non-volatility Just when you think it can't get any worse... it does. Western Digital has warned Toshiba that the proposed sale of its memory business contravenes the terms of their flash foundry joint venture.…

F@#!ING IN-LAWS Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law has admitted conspiring to hack into the computer systems of businesses run by the celebrity chef.…

Swarm of Kubernetes, Agile, and CD experts heads for Westminster Events If you want your software operation to keep up with the outside world, DevOps and Containerization must be on your agenda.…

And they would have got away with it too but for... Websense We are impressed by five prisoners in the US who built two personal computers from parts, hid them behind a plywood board in the ceiling of a closet, and then connected those computers to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's (ODRC) network to engage in cybershenanigans.…

'Modest' growth in business segment suggests way ahead Global shipments of PCs continue to slow as consumer demand declines, according to preliminary analysis by Gartner, with only "modest" growth visible in the business segment.…

Some 12 million calls made in the first week of March BT's free spam filter, launched earlier this year to crack down on nuisance calls, has identified accident claims as the worst offender for nuisance calls with 12 million made in the first week of March.…

FlashStack in pole position Analysis Pure and Cisco could build an end-to-end NVMe FlashStack using Pure's NVMe-using FlashArray//x and Cisco's NVMe over fabric's Fibre Channel.…

Plus, dragging passengers off planes, switches out of the datacenter, and more

Could 'Frugal 5G' bring broadband Internet to half world's population? Most work on 5G radio standards is driven by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project* (3GPP) with the IEEE and the Wi-Fi community remaining a separate, and even competing, wireless path.…

Curator Patrick Gyger tells El Reg what you can expect Interview The Barbican Centre will host a sprawling festival-style Science Fiction exhibition this summer, featuring an immersive range of exhibits from across the breadth of the genre.…

Pumping £2bn into R&D starting point: Science and Tech Committee The government has failed to account for the Brexit factor in its long awaited Industrial Strategy, according to a report by MPs today.…

Support ended on Tuesday and Microsoft's not offering even a single strand of safety net Farewell, Windows Vista, we hardly knew ye. But as of now you're out of support and even-more-unloved than was previously the case.…

That'll be Beardy Branson's mob, then The British aerospace industry could carve itself a niche in “space tourism,” according to a new report.…

W3C API exposes sensors, so attackers only need JavaScript to follow your fingers The World Wide Web Consortium might want to take another look at its habit of exposing too much stuff to application interfaces: a UK researcher has demonstrated a JavaScript app can spy on smartphone sensors to guess the codes users employ to unlock the devices.…

Meet Judy Garber Shortly after ascending to office, President Donald Trump triggered a hiring freeze across most branches of the US government. The resulting understaffing has been a bit of a pain for Americans – but may be a boon for Europe.…

Not even HTTPS can hide your secret Gilmore Girls fetish An infosec educator from the United States Military Academy at West Point have taken a look at Netflix's HTTPS implementation, and reckons all he needs to know what programs you like is a bit of passive traffic capture.…

Academics find that no amount of Likes are ever enough Researchers claim to have evidence of what many of us have long since suspected: Facebook makes you sad.…

'Make chips secure', because nobody's thought of that before America's Defense Advanced Research Project Agency reckons too many vulnerabilities arise from hardware design errors, so it wants experts and boffins to propose better hardware-level security mechanisms.…

But 'digital' and the internet of things might make them appreciate ops teams again At the VMware user group conference in Melbourne a couple of weeks back, NetApp's Josh Atwell wondered what it will take to repair relations between developers and ops teams.…

Those of you targeting Indian users can now do so with lower latency and local data storage Microsoft's opened its three Indian Azure data centres to the world.…

You're faster than the Kepler, but what about the newer and better Pascal? It's not easy being Nvidia: the rise of AI has put a rocket under demand for GPUs, but the corollary to that is World+Dog publishing benchmarks to try and knock Nvidia off its perch.…

What goes on when chip components chat? Nobody cares. But they should The internal inter-chip communications of devices like smartphones are a “huge, mostly unaudited attack surface,” according to Gal Beniamini of Google’s Project Zero, in his promised follow-up to last week’s demonstration of how to attack Wi‑Fi chips over the air.…

Pays AU$1.26bn for right to push waves into atmosphere for 12 years Australian junior telco TPG has announced it will create Australia's fourth mobile network.…

Lawsuit says Purple Palace's China fund was just 'window dressing' The shriveled husk of Yahoo! has once again been dragged into court, this time over allegations the company mishandled millions of dollars earmarked for humanitarian aid.…

Patch Tuesday shakeup sucks Microsoft today buried among minor bug fixes patches for critical security flaws that can be exploited by attackers to hijack vulnerable computers.…

Of course it was a mistake, but the apology to 'buyers' included a 20% discount code Apple Australia's base price for the Mac Pro is AU$4,899. So when Australian airline QANTAS store for frequent flyers started offering the computer for just AU$$520.53, plus 5,000 frequent flyer points, news of the bargain quickly hit sites that track this sort of thing.…

Well, sort of China plans to impose the world's strictest digital privacy rights rules against large corporations like Facebook and Google by requiring them to obtain users' permission before sending any data on them outside the country.…

Nap time for spacecraft as it heads out to ice-rock belt Pic NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – right now 3.5 billion miles (5.6 billion kilometres) from Earth – has been powered down by boffins as it heads out to the icy wastes of the Kuiper Belt.…

Claims he was scared about losing his job FBI agents have collared a devops engineer accused of stealing rifling through colleagues' user accounts and stealing proprietary stock trading software.…

'Tick Different' is so confusing… to expensive lawyers with invoices ready to go Apple's lawyers have got their knickers in a twist over an ad campaign by outdated watch company Swatch.…

I'll have an E, please, Bob Hybrid and all-flash array supplier Tegile has had the benefit of Western Digital Corporation largesse, with the flash and disk-making giant leading its latest funding round.…

Advance check-in is down too. If only there was a team that could fix it... Updated The ba.com and britishairways.com websites and online check-in system for British Airways have been down for the past seven hours or so.…

Virtzilla: Hyperconverged flash drives run 50% faster with latest vSAN SW VMware says it has upped flash IO performance by half with the latest vSAN version, as well as adding myriad point feature updates.…

Director of 1st Milestone disqualified after firm falsifies £146,884 in tax The boss of an Oracle reseller has been banned from holding a director position in the UK for six years – after his company fiddled its VAT returns, resulting in a loss of £146,884 to the taxman.…

ICO and cops storm homes in Macclesfield and Droylsden Two properties in the North West were raided this morning as part of an ongoing investigation into nuisance calls related to data thefts from car body repair shops.…

NVMe in FlashArray speed-up Pure Storage has moved away from SSDs in giving its FlashArray an NVMe makeover, halving its latency and doubling its bandwidth.…

Would-be irresistible force meets immovable object Qualcomm has hit back at Apple over claims it overcharged the fruity firm for IP licensing, revealing that it had a pay-to-play deal to get its chip technology into iThings.…

Whatever DB will be, devs can choose from 3 Amazon Web Services has joined the chase for MongoDB developers' cloud budgets, announcing new support for NoSQL databases being added to its prize-pony Database Migration Service.…

Scrutinised? Consulted? Really? Thought so. The UK government's Law Commission, reeling from a Reg-led torrent of press, political and even judicial criticism of proposals for punitive new official secrets laws, has branded their first report "only provisional".…

Unprecedented: Unaudited results filing means potential Tokyo Stock Exchange delisting Toshiba has filed unaudited results for its business, meaning its potential losses from the Westinghouse disaster cannot yet be quantified, putting the conglomerate at risk of collapse.…

Netzilla adds NVMe over Fibre Channel support on top of 32Gbit/s FC Networking titan Cisco is adding both NVMe over Fibre Channel and 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel speed to its MDS Director and UCS C-Series server products.…

Banking trojan-proofing will take place later today Cybercrooks are actively exploiting an unpatched Microsoft Word vulnerability to distribute the Dridex banking trojan, claim researchers.…

Review your privacy settings, or no update for you Microsoft's rollout of Windows 10 Creators Update has begun, complete with a privacy dialogue box shown by default to all users.…

Punters paying an average £113/year once promo finishes Sneaky broadband providers are enticing punters with cheap deals only to whack them with a 43 per cent hike once the offer runs out, according to the Citizens Advice Bureau.…

At least that's what HPE tells us Five months after the Reg first reported that HPE, Cisco – and even Dell EMC – were being punched hard in the supply chain by worldwide flash chip shortages, it's still a problem for at least one vendor.…

Firm seeks workaround to more VC cash Analysis File sync and sharer Egnyte expanded into content governance midway through last year as the collaborative file access market's maturity came into view. But the now-profitable company is not looking to make a debt-fuelled dash for growth.…

Pan-government deal applies to 200,000 licences Exclusive The UK government has inked a deal with Microsoft to prevent Whitehall from paying an extra £15m in licence fees due to a post-Brexit price hike.…

Forum might be liable for celeb image breaches US forum admins will be watching a Californian court with nervous interest, as social forum LiveJournal goes to trial for copyright infringement.…