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Michelle Carter responsible for beau's sucide, decides court The teenager who repeatedly urged and encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself with hundreds of text messages has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.…

From Actian to WANdisco, we've got it all Another week, another week of storage news laid out in our farmer’s market on groaning stalls full of free-range and organic produce. Walk around and check it out.…

Tech disties paying up to 42% more for computers since vote Computer trade prices have surged in the year since the EU referendum with currency and component shortages fingered, at least according to sales data from tech distributors.…

13.7 billion Bezos bucks buys luxury retailer Today, Amazon announced it will be acquiring the devilishly expensive Whole Foods Market to the tune of $13.7bn.…

Still lagging WDC and Toshiba chip capacity by half Samsung says it is boosting its 64-layer V-NAND flash chip production after Toshiba and WDC have introduced 64-layer NAND drives.…

First decision of three probes expected in coming weeks The EU is preparing to fine Google €1bn (£875m) over claims the company abused its search market dominance to build the Google Shopping service.…

Specs and performance deets in the wild Media site VideoCardz has leaked two AMD EPYC 7000 server CPU slides revealing core, thread and clock details.…

You’ve opted out of marketing emails. Can we just send you a marketing email to check? Supermarket chain Morrisons has been fined £10,500 by the UK's data protection watchdog for sending marketing emails to people who had unsubscribed from marketing bumf.…

Scientists rejoice: It’s raining TeraFLOPS from the cloud Sponsored High-performance computing (HPC) environments are expensive. Government research facilities and commercial laboratories spend hundreds of thousands building out large, monolithic supercomputers and then jealously guard their compute cycles. This approach to HPC is restrictive. It creates a rarified environment in which only the cream of the crop get the FLOPS they want.…

Augmented reality apps for future Army, RAF, RN kids Education specialist Pearson will begin trialling Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality apps in one UK school this autumn – an independent sixth form college that's sponsored by the MoD.…

Helping to transform government to, to... er... There's a plan in place Exclusive The UK's Government Digital Service – the Whitehall body responsible for transforming government IT – is having problems paying staff because of, er, technical issues.…

999 requests funnelled through single data centre Brit mobile operator Three has been fined £1.9m after an investigation by UK regulator Ofcom revealed its emergency call service handling was vulnerable to a single point of failure.…

And the squeeze ain't looking like it'll stop any time soon Pressure is set to intensify on server makers caught in the vice-like grip of rising components costs and stiff competition for new business.…

And the squeeze ain't looking like it'll stop any time soon Pressure is set to intensify on server makers caught in the vice-like grip of rising components costs and stiff competition for new business.…

SFAOS, Lustre distribution and WOS given a waxing as well HPC storage system supplier DDN has enhanced the performance and protection on four of its products – storage array software SFAOS, flash cache burst buffer IME, EXAScaler Lustre and the WOS object storage system.…

No, it's human janitors toiling away, cleaning up wads of hate and terror incitement Facebook is once again trying to scrub clean its public image after it was criticized for allowing extremism to spread on its social media platform.…

Imagine the spreadsheet you could view on a four-foot-wide 3840 x 1080 beast The Register doesn't spare a glance for news of monitors but we made an exception when we learned of Samsung's new CHG90.…

New motherboards wouldn't fix it, but a magnetic personality can work wonders On-Call Why hello there readers! It's Friday and that means it's time for another edition of On-Call, our weekly column in which your peers take centre stage by sharing tales of jobs gone wrong.…

Literally spooky action at a distance Pairs of entangled photons created on a satellite orbiting Earth have survived the long, perilous trip from space to ground stations. Crucially, they are still linked despite being picked up by receivers over 1,200km (745mi) apart – the longest link ever seen before.…

Well, of course – anyone using tabs should be paid zero Poll Weighing in on a longstanding religious war among software developers, community site Stack Overflow has found that developers who use spaces to indent their code earn more than those who use tabs.…

Department of Defense claims intrusion cost $628,000... er? A UK-based computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of usernames and email addresses from a US military communications system.…

Uncle Sam scraps rules 17 years on from when the world ended, oh wait... The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has announced rule changes that – among other things – will finally end the requirement that agency IT departments report their Y2K compliance, only almost two decades after the event.…

Nano Server to go containers-only, Server Core pushed for all other workloads Poll Windows Server and System Center will soon receive twice-yearly updates and come in two “channels”, one for the latest stuff and another less-frequently-updated channel.…

IT biz bags US govt cash to tinker with lab experiment HPE will use a research grant awarded today by the US Department of Energy to develop blueprints for a Machine-based exascale supercomputer.…

Spies do spying, part 78: Cherry Blossom malware gobbles up data flowing through routers Hundreds of commercial Wi-Fi routers are, or were, easily hackable by the CIA, according to classified files published today by WikiLeaks.…

One click, or two? How about no clicks, German court tells search company A German court has given Google a hearty slap over its grudging response to "right to be forgotten" laws, telling it that not linking to information means exactly that: not linking to information.…

And no fees for unshackling mobes, either – all from December this year Canada has ruled that cellphone networks may no longer charge fees for carrier-unlocking handsets nor sell new phones locked to their network.…

Arab Spring meant ka-ching for merchants of death A year-long investigation has uncovered evidence that British armaments conglomerate BAE Systems has been selling internet surveillance equipment to Middle Eastern regimes with questionable human rights records.…

Ha! Ha! Another! chance! to! use! these! exclamations! Verizon says it will have to write off $500m for severance and integration costs on its acquisition of Yahoo!…

Toxic trash taxi biz accused of obtaining files to smear sex assault victim Adding to its litany of disasters, Uber, CEO Travis Kalanick, and former executives Emil Michael and Eric Alexander were sued on Thursday for privacy violations and defamation by the unnamed woman raped in 2014 by an Uber driver in India.…

Sie werden diese Nachrichten entschlüsseln! Germany has joined an increasing number of countries looking to introduce anti-encryption laws.…

Carrot dangled for 2021 mega-machines The US government has dangled $258m in funding in front of six American tech giants to encourage the development of exascale supercomputer systems.…

Lovely chaps at Kaspersky have developed decryption tool Security researchers have developed a free decryption tool for victims of the ‪Jaff‬ ransomware, meaning they can regain access to files without paying crooks.…

Firm starting to win big orders to its replication to the cloud product Data replicator WANdisco has won a US$2mn contract with a "major American multinational retail corporation," claimed to be "one of the world’s largest retailers".…

Firm peddling security solutions says poor breach reporting will 'make you look like a fool' European banks could face fines totalling €4.7bn in the three years after General Data Protection Regulation comes into force, according to a report from data security solutions firm AllClear ID.…

Reformed monopoly wants to 'get much closer' to partners The new, reformed UK network backbone Openreach wants to "get much closer" to its communications providers and hopes to make a business case for a "very sizeable" full-fibre footprint together, says chief exec Clive Selley.…

Let's just say cloud security on the up - Gartner Growth cloud-based security services will remain strong, with the market reaching $5.9bn in 2017, up 21 per cent from 2016, analyst house Gartner predicts.…

Resulting IT systems crash airline chaos lasted 3 days The massive IT systems failure caused by a power surge at British Airways' primary data centre will cost the airline £80m.…

Enjoying a free version of the biz collab software? Maybe not for much longer... Slack is attracting interest from potential suitors including Amazon that are reportedly eyeing up the white collar messaging and collaboration software slinger.…

600 Johnny Cabs in the Land of the Rising Sun A Japanese robotics firm hopes to launch self-driving taxis in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics.…

Confused? Let us explain the tale of love and hate Analysis Western Digital Corporation continues its strange make love and war approach to getting a slice of Toshiba's Memory Business action by opening a new legal attack on its joint venture partner.…

Which bit is the half-million pounds of other people's money? ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd has filed unaudited accounts at Companies House – and they offer few clues as to where the £513,000 of crowdfunded cash for its Vega+ product has gone.…

Lenders already know whether to approve before you apply A new study has warned that third-party trackers litter banking websites and the privacy-invading tech is being used to rate surfers' creditworthiness.…

Whatever the problem was, it’s fixed, says airport A fault in the baggage systems at Heathrow Terminals 3 and 5 this morning left passengers forced to travel without their belongings.…

As bad as Mirai was, it could have been much worse A wormable vulnerability involving an estimated one million digital video recorders (DVR) is at risk of creating a Mirai-style botnet, security researchers warn.…

IBM BigInsights users migrating to Hadoop-flinger’s HDP IBM has slipped a ring on Hortonworks' finger – offering the Hadoop distributor access to a potentially lucrative market.…

And what about Brexit, huh? From today people will be able to spend more time gazing at their phones while on hols rather than looking at the sights as roaming charges in EU countries are abolished.…

Mobile natives are getting restless Comment Ericsson and Nokia are united on one thing, and that is Europe's failure to take a lead on 5G, a view which is supported by operators too.…

'The biggest challenge is to not misrepresent the data' Advocates of data visualisation using virtual or augmented reality argue that both let your brain do what it does best. Namely, pick out and memorise patterns by walking through the data using 3D and assisted by colour, movement, sound and even touch to represent extra dimensions.…

Sensible stuff from Wi-Fi Alliance guides AP placement, channel usage and more Interoperability and certification outfit the Wi-Fi Alliance has taken on quite a challenge: getting the home-building industry to do WiFi right.…