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Reuben from Hartlepool, today's your unlucky day Handyman-finding UK app Bizzby appears to have sent a number of people an unsolicited email containing the full name and address of one of its subscribers.…

Clawing its way out of the red Misco is shuttering its UK warehouse and distribution centre in Greenock, Scotland, in a bid to drag the P&L accounts out of the red.…

It's all NVMe-me-me nowadays Tegile is moving on from SAS backplanes and has developed an N-Series array product line with NVMe flash drives.…

Will supply the software for Netzilla's HyperFlex HCIA line Cisco is buying Springpath for $320m and will have the startup supply the software for its HyperFlex hyperconverged products.…

Hello? Yes, I want a fondleslab that does things like a workstation, please Intel has wheeled out its 8th Generation Core processors, a refresh of its Core i5 and i7 chips, and their base specs wouldn’t look out of place in a desktop PC circa 2012.…

Match made in The Cloud Sponsored Storage is a growth area in IT, as the volume of data generated by users and applications keeps on expanding at an increasing rate, while legislation dictates that organisations must retain some types of data for regulatory purposes and cannot just delete it all to free up capacity.…

WannaCry killer had been working with the spy agency Secretive electronic spy agency GCHQ was aware that accused malware author Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTechBlog, was due to be arrested by US authorities when he travelled to United States for the DEF CON hacker conference, according to reports.…

Political uncertainty blamed for crap Q2 Brexit and the general election were highlighted by Gartner as being among the reasons why the good folk of Britain purchased far fewer PCs in Q2.…

And Austin-based firm is hiring Stuttering NVMe-over-Fabrics startup Mangstor has raised $7.1m and is hiring.…

Think twice before you fire that foul-mouthed Twitter tirade The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has pledged to tackle online abuse with the same seriousness as it does hate crimes committed in the flesh.…

Telephone Preference Service – check it or feel the ICO's wrath A firm offering people energy-saving solutions has been fined after making almost 1.5 million unsolicited calls without checking if the numbers were registered on the UK's opt-out database.…

Tell us what you’re doing - or not doing - with DevOps, Containers, Agile The call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle 2018 is open now, and we really want to hear what’s happening out in the real world.…

It's a week's worth of storage nutrition, so let's tuck in We've got a few storage news sushi snacks to start off your week. Get your chopsticks out and lift up each of these little beauties to get a taste of who's doing what in the land of the data-baiters, virtualizer commercializers and the cloud crowd.…

And he risked being executed by his own side in the process Would you give up your comfy technical desk job to join a military raid into hostile territory? Would you jump at the chance to put your world-leading technical knowledge to use in the most extreme of circumstances, even if your own side was under orders to shoot you if you got captured?…

Meanwhile, DRAM makers toasting record sales hauls HPE is hiking server memory prices by up to 20 per cent from today, according to communications with the channel, seen by us.…

Why not? Europeans, once so smug about the global success of GSM, have had to get used to advanced mobile networks and devices arriving in the US first.…

With the array controller out of the data path, who needs it? Opinion NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMeF) shared storage access could kill the legacy storage array business – unless vendors get inventive and somehow continue to supply charged-for data management services alongside NVMeF data access.…

User tells of significant data loss Fujitsu Australia has confirmed that its data centre in the Australian suburb of Homebush has experienced an outage.…

After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…

Remote work and automation is about to see Voyager-listeners' work change, but our man says tuning in is still a thrill When Richard Stephenson drives to work, there's a chance that later that day he'll become the first human to see new details of Mars, a moon of Saturn, or the far reaches of the solar system.…

We love open source so much we can't drop sueball shield, says The Social Network™ Facebook's decided to stick with its preferred version of the BSD license despite the Apache Foundation sin-binning it for any future projects.…

We've got Safe Mode and that's safe enough, vendor tells ~400m users The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has gone public with a Foxit PDF Reader vulnerability without a fix, because the vendor resisted patching.…

Open letter to UN warns of 'weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways' 116 artificial intelligence and robotics experts have put their name to an Open Letter calling for the United Nations to work for a ban on autonomous weapons.…

More software smarts for 'AI you can take with you' Two years after setting up an artificial intelligence research laboratory with the University of Amsterdam, Qualcomm Technology has acquired one of its a spinoffs - an outfit called "Scyfer".…

Chris Wanstrath will lead the search for his replacement, then do product dev and test Chris Wanstrath plans to end his second stint as GitHub CEO by leading the search for his replacement.…

New status puts cyber-ops on same plane as regional commands and global special ops efforts United States president Donald Trump upgraded the U.S. Cyber Command to the status of a “Unified Combatant Command”.…

Merchants share too much tracking information? Colour us un-surprised Bitcoin transactions might be anonymous, but on the Internet, its users aren't – and according to research out of Princeton University, linking the two together is trivial on the modern, much-tracked Internet.…

CEO says he's made 'right decision for the human race' but created 'an existential threat for our company' White supremacist web site The Daily Stormer has been booted off the internet, again.…

Centriq 2400 blueprints revealed this week Hot Chips Qualcomm moved engineers from its flagship Snapdragon chips, used in millions of smartphones and tablets, to its fledgling data center processor family Centriq.…

And how to avoid making the same mistakes BSides Minor blunders in reverse web proxies can result in critical security vulnerabilities on internal networks, the infosec world was warned this week.…

Judges frown upon fishing for incriminating data on phones It's a ruling sending shockwaves through the worlds of privacy, device security, and law enforcement in America.…

And only $230,000 a head out of the public purse! Wisconsin has moved forward a $3bn incentives package to lure manufacturing giant Foxconn to the US state.…

And what finer company than Uber to make that clear You may never read those lengthy terms and conditions attached to every digital download or app but, in America at least, they are legally binding. Sorry.…

Machine learning and code to detect and alert attempts to extract passwords from staff Security researchers from UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have come up with a way to mitigate the risk of spear-phishing in corporate environments.…

Telco's TV biz accused of false advertising by trade watchdog America's trade watchdog is seeking $3.95bn in damages from AT&T over allegations of dodgy marketing by its DirecTV wing.…

Plus: Steve Bannon fired from White House Updated Tech leaders today resigned from the US government's digital economy advisory board over President Trump's inability to unequivocally condemn racists.…

Big Red seeks open-source foundation to host platform Oracle has revealed plans to shift Java Enterprise Edition to an open-source foundation as it promises delivery of version 8 is "approaching".…

Greenqloud’s QStack becomes gets NetApp-ed NetApp has made one of its relatively rare acquisitions – this time an Icelandic cloud management software house called Greenqloud with its Qstack product.…

Pen-testers face new challenges as defences evolve BSides The opening talk at BSides Manchester on Thursday examined how red team tactics are evolving beyond phishing to include a wider variety of methods.…

But the MoD will happily tell you how many manned jets we're using to do that exact thing The UK's Information Tribunal has rejected an appeal by campaigners trying to find out how many British Reaper drones are being used for warlike missions in the Middle East.…

Gaming star strikes Atari has sued Nestle, accusing it of "blatantly" impinging on its intellectual property by featuring the 1970s video game Breakout in a Kit Kat ad without its permission.…

New CFO too as data protection firm refuses to give in +Comment It's all change at FalconStor, which has a new CEO and CFO just six weeks after the last chief exec was appointed.…

Security researchers pick up angle grinder, drop £2k-plus in B-sides chat BSides Weighing in at 800kg secondhand, freestanding ATMs - a “safe with a computer on top” - are a logistical nightmare to own and research, security boffin Leigh-Anne Galloway warned delegates at the BSides Manchester infosec conference yesterday.…

HMD chiefs explain their cunning comeback plan Interview For over 20 years The Register has covered the rise and fall of Nokia phones. The story took a new turn this week with the arrival of a flagship, the first for three years, from the brand's custodians HMD. We spoke to the top executives behind the venture about their plans.…

Man pulls out replica rifle after frosty treat disappointment An irate McDonald’s drive-thru punter was so pissed that he couldn’t get his Sunday morning ice cream fix due to a broken dispenser that he pulled out a replica AR-15 rifle from his car boot in protest.…

In the land of decline, sustainable growth is king Analysis Like many enterprise tech dinosaurs, Cisco has clutched at new lines of revenue for some time, positioning its security arm as the centrepiece of a long-talked-about reinvention as a software biz.…

Wang wag's Croatian beach art highlighted... again British Airways’ website is displaying a penis carved into a beautiful sandy beach – the same inappropriate erection that was standing over bing.com yesterday.…

And Server 2003. Yep, this is the year 2017 and we're not making this up Freelance IT type? Know about the gubbins of Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003? Don’t care about all that IR35 guff? We’ve got great news – UK.gov wants to hire you.…

What's that, TidalScale? The Big Friendly what? Analysis TidalScale is building a software-defined server product. But how would that work, as it needs to run in a server and you can’t really redefine the server you are running in, can you?…

Former SAP man Vishal Sikka bails but will be interim CEO's boss Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka has resigned, effective immediately, but neither he nor the company's board are happy he's going.…