www.theregister.com - Articles

Reverse takeover: Cambridge techies to keep London listing Another UK engineering software group has been snapped up by the claws of industrial machines – for about half a billion pieces of cold, hard cash.…

Announces public cloud alliance for China and beyond Huawei is gearing up to deliver public cloud services with an AI component, both directly and with partners in China, and provide plumbing for partners abroad.…

Banks vs fintech war looms. But for now, let's pop the kettle on The UK is lagging behind other countries in mobile wallet adoption, according to a new survey out today.…

Arriving by the end of 2017 Toshiba stand staff at the Huawei Connect conference 2017 in Shanghai said a 14TB helium-filled disk drive would arrive "very soon".…

It's a bit more complicated than going hybrid from private We generally think of a transformation to a hybrid infrastructure as one where you're going from a completely private setup to one that spans the public cloud and your private installation. But what if you started life as a small company with your systems entirely in the cloud? It's not an unusual approach, as running up your initial services in the cloud is straightforward and avoids a big capital outlay. As a company grows it's understandable that it might want to take on a private data centre, build an in-house support team and evolve to a two-site setup.…

Virtzilla's swagger is back as it plans to do to the security industry what it once did to storage industry VMWORLD 2017 VMware's entered the enterprise security market and called for it to become more concentrated.…

4.5km rock is the largest object we've seen up close, albeit still 7,000,000km away Be glad that the asteroid dubbed “Florence” won't revisit Earth for many, many years: observations during its weekend fly-by revealed that the space-rock is so big it's captured two moons.…

Oracle OpenWorld catalog mentions virtual SPARC on cloudy x86, migratory motions Oracle looks like it's going to suggest Solaris users move to its SPARC-powered cloud.…

Electronic Arts tech director thinks tech-agnostic developers can build better networks than slave-to-vendor NetAdmins Fire your network administrators, hire developers instead, and stop expecting networking equipment vendors to provide anything more valuable than free lunches.…

Nine months for letting punters bypass Great Firewall A Chinese man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for helping his fellow citizens drill through the Great Firewall with virtual private networks.…

919444 + 1 is six MEELLION digits long and the twelfth biggest prime ever found Humanity's collection of the very large prime numbers just grew by one member: 919444 + 1.…

Hacker, white hat or crypto boffin? This is important Australia's Department of Defence wants input on proposed changes to “controlled technology” export controls – and the deadline is this coming Friday.…

Bitcoin, Ethereum values dip after 'Initial Coin Offerings' ruled dangerously disruptive Digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum have slipped after the Chinese government banned Initial Coin Offerings, a tool that sees equities offerings bid in cryptocurrencies instead of fiat currencies, a share funding mechanism.…

Indian Premier League cricket rejects Zuck's ~US$600m bid in favour of Murdoch moolah Facebook has again suffered a setback in India, this time finding that around US$600m wasn't enough to secure five years worth of digital distribution rights for cricket matches.…

Never mind robots, get a load of these winged horrors Rise of the Insects A Jersey-based drone was brutally attacked by a swarm of Asian hornets after disturbing a nest thought to contain thousands of the angry insects.…

Since when was 'intervening' in TV shows a good idea? Comment Google has begun to infuse American TV and movies shows with propaganda – "good propaganda", the company insists. However, it's unlikely to please two groups who rarely agree on anything: those who think Google isn't diverse enough, and conservatives who fear its political and media power.…

Learn how to stay strong Promo There’s not much that can go wrong with the back of an envelope. Not so with modern systems: they become increasingly complicated as they take on more tasks, often spanning multiple technologies, groups and different organisations - and are liable to fail in unexpected and spectacular ways.…

Bunch of resumés citing secret government work exposed Thousands of files containing the personal information of US citizens with classified security clearance have been exposed by an unsecured Amazon server.…

Looking to buy the elderly American Ponce Argentina reportedly wants to buy the US Navy’s laser death ray testbed warship, the fearsomely named USS Ponce.…

Meanwhile, China says of ICOs: That's hot, we mean, er, banned Just in case we were in any doubt that we were in a crypto bubble, Paris Hilton has announced she will back an Initial Coin Offering venture.…

£390 per meter... £420 ... pff, it's public money, who cares? Smart meters will cost each British household £420 and save people just “a tenner a year”, according to reports.…

Anniversary special brings back much-loved features The long-awaited "retro" Thinkpad will be based on the guts of a contemporary T470 laptop, Lenovo's business workhorse, according to a German certification site.…

Freedom of Information request to DoJ turns up... nada The US Department of Justice has "no evidence" that Obama's administration wiretapped Trump Tower, contrary to a much-publicised accusation by President Trump to the contrary.…

Storage pigeons roost as we munch on cabbagey treats Comment Did you overdo it with the bacon and buttered toast at the weekend? Never mind, who among us can resist cooked cabbage leaves wrapped round nutritious meaty storage fillings? Get your knife, fork, spoon and napkin ready and load up your plate with what we have in store.…

Scatters £10m across country out of £200m pot Government has revealed the first six areas in Blighty to trial speeds of 1Gbps in a £10m pilot, as previously revealed by The Register.…

Might not seem relevant, but the smart cruncher knows better So, you want to be data driven. About time too. It amazes me to watch companies basing their forecasts on experience, assumption and instinct when their storage area networks are teeming with data that they could use to make what they do more scientific.…

Half of gov techies quit following tax clampdown, says survey The vast majority of UK government IT projects are suffering delays due to freelancers quitting over the IR35 tax clampdown, according to a survey of contractors.…

But not by much: shows Google touched still had lonely hoodie-wearing white male geeks Google operates a “Computer Science in Media Team” that stages “interventions” in Hollywood to steer film-makers towards realistic and accurate depictions of what it's like to work in IT.…

Oxford doomsayers sees bleak future for those employed in retail, transport, warehousing, and logistics About 80 per cent of jobs in retail transportation, warehousing and logistics and 63 per cent of jobs in sales are at risk of disappearing, thanks to increasingly capable automated systems.…

Researchers reverse hashes in Troy Hunt's password release. PS, don't forget the salt The anonymous CynoSure Prime “cracktivists” who two years ago reversed the hashes of 11 million leaked Ashley Madison passwords have done it again, this time untangling a stunning 320 million hashes dumped by Australian researcher Troy Hunt.…

Purple Palace's corporate carcass to cop a kicking as class action gets green light The corporate carcass of Yahoo! must face trial over its notorious data breaches.…

Who or what had 10 million trillion trillion joules to play with, 3 billion light years away? Fast Radio Burst-hunters have suffered London Bus syndrome again: fifteen have shown up at once.…

LogDevice: how to make sense of 10 hyperscale data centres Sysadmins struggling to manage lots of logs may want to Like a new "friend", after Facebook last week decided to share its distributed log management system.…

SMB 1.0 also deemed better out than in, as TLS makes it into the kernel Linus Torvalds has released Linux 4.13 to a waiting world and in so doing detailed a tricky work week in which he endured “seven hours of pure agony due to a kidney stone”.…

Storage products in peril, too, but Big Red declines to comment Soon-to-be-former Oracle staff report that the company made hundreds of layoffs last Friday, as predicted by El Reg, with workers on teams covering the Solaris operating system, SPARC silicon, tape libraries and storage products shown the door.…

Thanks for using Asterisk. Your call is transparent to us, so stay on the line to get p0wned One of the Asterisk bugs published last week is worse than first thought: Enable Security warns it exposes the popular IP telephony system to stream injection and interception without an attacker holding a man-in-the-middle position.…

$1m prize is still up for grabs if you want to prove them wrong A trio of computer scientists from the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, has published results showing that a classic chess puzzle dating back 150 years is so computationally taxing that it could take thousands of years to solve.…

Newly minted software giant formally begins operations HPE says it has closed the $8.8bn deal to spin off much of its software business with Micro Focus.…

New products, cheaper kit and company tie-ins Every year for the past ten years has been the one when virtual reality will finally break out.…

First time boffins have detected water in the planetary system The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted possible signs of water on the outer planets of TRAPPIST-1, the system with the most exoplanets in a star’s habitable zone.…

Workers take automaker to labor relations board Electric carmaker Tesla has been hit with an official complaint from the US National Labor Relations Board following allegations from a number of employees that it was illegally blocking union activities.…

After Lenovo leaks the details Microsoft has used the IFA conference in Berlin to announce the next big update for Windows 10 users – the Fall Creators Update will be released on October 17.…

Una-peeling pulp-straining gizmo maker shuts down On Friday, embattled "smart" juicer startup Juicero shut down.…

California's Supreme Court rules authorities must justify denying data requests Police departments cannot categorically deny access to data collected through automated license plate readers, California's Supreme Court said on Thursday – a ruling that may help privacy advocates monitor government data practices.…

Oh, what can it mean to a Daydream believer ♪ More than 300 business leaders including the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google have signed a letter slamming Donald Trump for his plan to remove legal protections from immigrant children born in the United States.…

Just don’t call us cloners IFA The mainstay of Microsoft's boutique Surface range faces tougher competition as rivals sharpen their act.…

Blame SatNad, not NYPD, for the mobile blues Comment Back in the day, the old IBM was famous for never breaking a promise to customers. For example, when IBM bought Lotus it was to honour a commitment to provide customers with office group productivity software that its own teams of programmers couldn't keep. IBM kept Token Ring and OS/2 customers happy long after the products were obsoleted.…

UK watchdog echoes Home Sec in anti-crypto comments The UK’s “independent reviewer of terrorism legislation” appears to have gone rogue, saying that encryption should be withheld from people who don’t verify their identities on social media.…

You understand it's not the final version? Hmm Hands On PC vendors are showing off Windows Mixed Reality headsets and controllers here at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin, and this writer got to try new devices from Dell, Asus and Lenovo.…

Is Daddy going to live somewhere else? +Comment Western Digital boss Steve Milligan has apologised to Toshiba's CEO in an August 11 letter.…