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Anything to give Optane some much-needed competition Space-age memory developer Nantero has pocketed millions in funding from Dell Technologies Capital.…

Children, please welcome Persirai to the class Researchers have discovered yet another IoT botnet.…

DocumentDB evolves to add Apache Tinkerpop support BUILD Microsoft has announced Cosmos DB, an evolution of its existing DocumentDB NoSQL database service, with new support for graph and key-value database types.…

Nanny State Index reveals just how hectored we are by modern-day Puritans The UK is the second least free country in the European Union, according to the latest Nanny State Index rankings from the European Policy Information Centre.…

At least while Intel glowers at us from the corner Analysis Dell EMC cannot say anything about the upcoming 14G server line because Intel has blasted it with non-disclosure agreements.…

Calling time on astroturf petitions Comment Some theoretical physicists have advanced the hypothesis that we may be living in a simulation, a kind of computer game. I wonder where they got that idea?…

Bad times for the state-owned bank The Royal Bank of Scotland is cutting 92 techies’ jobs in plans to outsource them to India, according to reports.…

But superannuation isn't flowing, dispute with Aus taxman unresolved Embattled payroll company Plutus Payroll will soon start paying ~1,000 contractors again after an almost-two-weeks hiatus.…

Attack loophole in Panda app sealed An Android anti-malware application from Panda Mobile Security has been updated after researchers discovered that an insecure update mechanism left users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.…

Chase for growth leaves investors cold Profit before tax at UK broadband provider TalkTalk climbed 17 per cent for the firm's full-year results, but revenue was down 3 per cent to £1.8bn compared with the previous year.…

Plus: Exec fashion no-nos, the big announcements, and another superhero flick

500,000 junk messages in a week paralysed Tutanota Secure email service Tutanota has built defences against newsletter bombs after becoming a victim itself.…

So what's up next then? HPC blog Just as Intel, the king of CPUs and the very bloodstream of computing announced that it is ending its Intel Development Forum (IDF) annual event, this week in San Jose, NVIDIA, the king of GPUs and the fuel of Artificial Intelligence is holding its biggest GPU Technology Conference (GTC) annual event yet. Coincidence? Nope.…

Well, outsourcing division sale would raise much-needed capital Analysis BT Global Services remains the problem child for the former state monopoly and something has got to give: sales generated by the division continue to go in the wrong direction (in part due to the decline in global outsourcing), bucking the upward swing across the wider group.…

Narrow swings, big data The internet is buzzing with claims about the role of data and use of algorithms by politicians to swing votes.…

No 133t hax0ring needed to hijack accounts, warns fraud watchdog's report Identity crimes remain among the greatest threats to UK businesses online.…

Paranormal bugs in bprd Veritas has patched multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in its NetBackup software and the appliance by the same name.…

Union steps up survival efforts as Dutch parliament debates King Battistelli The staff union of the European Patent Office on Tuesday applied to the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to force greater accountability on the organization and its president, Benoit Battistelli.…

Try not to download anything nasty from the Play Store Nearly 40 per cent of Android users are vulnerable to a security design flaw that Google won't fix until the next major revision of the mobile operating system.…

Linac 4 will pump more energy into LHC's proton smasher A 10-year construction project in CERN's Swiss/French mountain lair has come to an end – and a few years of testing and integration are about to begin.…

There can be only one and it looks like the vote is bad news for the LEDE brand Competing Linux-for-routers distributions OpenWRT and LEDE will soon vote on a proposal to heal the schism between the two.…

Spare your hypegasm, this is a research roadmap John Cioffi, known as the “father of DSL”, reckons we're nowhere near the limit of copper transmission speed, delivering a presentation claiming Terabit performance is feasible.…

Big Blue Oz isn't renewing contractors or hiring new ones, even on projects with deadlines More evidence that IBM is cutting costs in multiple ways: the company's Australian tentacle is making it very, very hard to hire contractors.…

The anti-AMD racks up 48 per cent revenue jump Graphics chip and ARM systems-on-chips hardware slinger Nvidia says its gaming, datacenter, and automotive groups were to thank for a quarter that saw its profits more than double.…

President treats America like an episode of The Apprentice US President Donald Trump today fired FBI director James Comey.…

Australia's needy IT sector gets its annual dose of validation The IT sector always loves it when the Australian government acknowledges its existence in the federal budget, and 2017-2018 is no exception.…

He also feels cloud is yet to make a dent in the enterprise – but AI might fix that ServiceNow's new CEO John Donahoe has introduced himself to the company's community at its Knowledge17 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along the way he introduced some new machine learning-fueled automation tech and offered his opinion that IT departments can put a stop to future corporate re-organization efforts.…

Get patching ASAP as exploits are being used in the wild – and fix Adobe stuff, too Microsoft has today published patches for more than 50 security flaws in its products – including three serious holes being exploited right now in the wild. These updates should be applied as soon as possible.…

Dems demand U-turn on FCC decision to kill rules Almost all female Democrats in the US Senate have come out against the push by FCC chairman Ajit Pai to tear up America's net neutrality regulations, arguing the rules are important for women nationwide.…

And only released Macron, Clinton campaign files – hmm It's been a busy week already on Capitol Hill. We've heard yet again revelations of Russian hackers breaking into US Republican and Democrat campaign computers – and interfering with France's presidential election.…

Telnet security flaw fix finally lands – or just use SSH, yeah? Cisco has patched a critical security flaw in its switches that can be potentially exploited by miscreants to hijack networks – a flaw disclosed in the Vault 7 leak of CIA files.…

Programmers left with not-quite-as-good .NET Core Build Microsoft has made a change to its forthcoming ASP.NET Core 2.0 web framework so that it is now incompatible with the Windows-only .NET Framework, causing confusion and annoyance for some .NET developers.…

KPMG appointed to pick over bones of Midlands-based biz The loss of contracts with strategic vendors and the subsequent decline in sales forced components distributor Entatech to call in administrative receivers, The Reg can confirm.…

You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers Toshiba, threatened wth financial calamity, has told WDC to butt out and stop interfering in its bid to sell its memory business.…

You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers Toshiba, threatened wth financial calamity, has told WDC to butt out and stop interfering in its bid to sell its memory business.…

It's a fat iPad with no battery Amazon has announced the first Echo to feature a built-in display – one of 2017's stranger gadgets – just as Microsoft's Echo clone broke cover.…

*ahem* No, it's data management services now NetApp and Cisco are investing millions of dollars in a 30-person data protection startup.…

Doctors, lawyers, IT folk ... all lost in time, like tears in rain... Rise of the Machines Ball-gazers* at Gartner reckon robots could replace doctors, lawyers and IT workers in the next five years. Panic, all ye faithful.…

Shares slip 5.2 per cent The hospice bed that Micro Focus readied to admit Hewlett Packard Enterprise's sickly Software business is closer to being filled now regulatory approvals for the deal are in.…

Bless the Cousins, they're trying really hard with this one Stuffy American broadsheet the New York Times is offering disaster tourism-style package holidays of Westminster for $6,500, capitalising on Britain’s popular vote to leave the European Union.…

If you can afford to spend $5k on a camera drone, they want to be your go-to folk French professional drone firm Parrot says it will expand into the "prosumer" market – after laying off almost 300 staff and abandoning the consumer market.…

Time - and space - running out to attend our DevOps and Containers conf Events We’ve got 30 conference seats left at Continuous Lifecycle, and we’d really like to see you, yes you, sat in one of them.…

Not down to people trying to file comments on issues rhyming with wetsuit balloty, it insists Problems faced by consumers hoping to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission over the weekend were caused by a denial of service attack, the US government agency admits.…

Turkeys voting against Christmas? The vast majority of contractors do not trust the results of HMRC's online assessment tool determining them inside the IR35 changes, according to a survey by IT recruitment firm Qdos Contractor.…

Early days yet but check out that silky-smooth UI An enthusiast has compiled Google's infant Fuchsia OS and put the toddler through its paces.…

Pimping up the range NetApp is trying to plug up the gaps in its object storage wall.…

Departure follows Register exposé The head of the agile company instrumental in the Ministry of Justice's disastrous Common Platform Programme has stepped down. His departure follows a Register exclusive exposing the project's failings.…

And I would walk 400 miles – because my employer wouldn't pay for a train... It’s not just teleworkers that are feeling the sharp end of IBM strategic shifts – services personnel must now justify visiting a client on site if travel costs £75 or more.…

Why? Because, errr, data. And, ummm, apps Move over, Blakey! Silicon Roundabout wants to "disrupt the bus". A shuttle operated by London-based app flinger Citymapper will trundle around the centre of the capital, demonstrating how incumbent bus operators are stuck in the Stone Age. From tomorrow, it's going to be smart.…

Maybe the comet's surprise molecules aren't billions of years old after all One of the big surprises in the Rosetta probe's visit to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was the 2015 announcement that the rock was surrounded by a thin cloud of molecular oxygen.…