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DR upstart's board adds chap with data loss experience: Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman Nutanix users protecting their data with Zerto software need to pay close attention to the latter's recently-released 5.0U2 as it fixes a problem that could cause data corruption.…

Low-profile So.cl was an experiment, not a flop. Promise Microsoft will close So.cl, its very low-key social network, on March 15.…

There's nothing for it but IPv6. And potentially new kit Verizon Wireless will soon stop issuing public static IPv4 addresses to its business customers “due to a shortage of available addresses.”…

Security flaws smash worthless privacy protection Analysis To protect mobile devices from being tracked as they move through Wi-Fi-rich environments, there's a technique known as MAC address randomization. This replaces the number that uniquely identifies a device's wireless hardware with randomly generated values.…

US Senator touts legal tweak to give broadband giants free rein US Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has suggested tweaking the law to permanently prevent America's comms watchdog, the FCC, from limiting what ISPs are allowed to do with your private information.…

Discovers IRC, puts a suit on Hangouts, touts $5k whiteboard and more Google Next '17 Google hopes to further invade the worlds of teleconference and business chat with a set of new offerings.…

It's been a good 20 years. Time to move on? Comment This week, HPE offered to acquire Nimble Storage for around $1.09bn, plus another $200m in share options.…

Make-or-break launch this month for Elon's upstart March is going to be a crunch month for SpaceX: it hopes to, for the first time ever, launch a commercial satellite into orbit using a previously used rocket.…

AT&T's network last night was a fiasco – don't worry though, the FCC is on the case AT&T suffered an America-wide outage of 911 emergency calls Wednesday evening, sparking some degree of panic and a swift response from US comms regulator, the FCC.…

Security experts poke holes in RAND vulnerability study A new study from RAND Corporation concluded that zero-day vulnerabilities – security flaws that developers haven't got around to patching or aren't aware of – have an average life expectancy of 6.9 years.…

But not before they were downloaded 1.5 million times Security researchers have discovered 13 new Instagram credential-stealing apps on Google Play.…

HI! OUR RECORDS INDICATE YOU'VE BEEN IN A RO- *click* A Hampshire company behind millions of nuisance calls regarding road traffic accidents has been fined £270,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office.…

Almaden researchers make breakthrough with Holmium Molecules are so yesterday – IBM boffins at Almaden have cracked atomic storage, magnetising a single atom and storing a bit of data on it.…

To stop scammers fooling people into using the software and handing over their PCs TalkTalk has blocked remote desktop management tool TeamViewer from its network, following a spate of scammers using the software to defraud customers.…

Eau de Humanity, amirite? Hot on the heels-emblazoned-with-Eugene's-face, Kaspersky has only gone and sent El Reg a range of branded toiletries, presumably meaning to imply we could brush up on personal hygiene.…

Code in 40% of financial apps subpar The rush to improve system functionality is leading developers to knock out subpar code, posing a threat the security of major systems around the world, according to an extensive report.…

Home Office stepping up inspections of Tier 2 visa sponsors Exclusive The UK has suspended ZTE from the immigration scheme used by foreign companies to allow foreign nationals to work locally, The Register can exclusively reveal.…

Port problem, captain: Microservices to the event horizon Legacy, or technical debt – call it what you will – has always been a major challenge to techies looking to move forward and never more so than now, as you're being asked to shift data centre software to the cloud.…

HMS Forth, like the bridge The Royal Navy’s newest warship, offshore patrol vessel HMS Forth, has been formally named in a ceremony held in Scotland.…

Audit uncovers rows over what was required, deliverable An audit into Accenture and Police Scotland's disastrous attempts to develop a unified IT system has found that the project collapsed because Accenture underestimated the programme's complexity and the resources needed to develop it, alongside a breakdown in the two parties' relationship.…

Author of The 5G Myth and former Ofcom boss says his piece Government plans to dip its toe in 5G tech with a £16m test hub as part of its "5G strategy" have been welcomed by one of the most vocal critics of the technology as a pragmatic move.…

Aims to hit WD for six with new product for hyperscalers Seagate has announced a 12TB helium-filled data centre disk drive, catching up with WD's Ultrastar H12, and providing both SAS and SATA interfaces.…

Passes 100k mark and the MPs' sanity filter, unusually The BBC TV Licensing fee is set to be debated in Parliament in early May after a public petition passed the 100,000 signature mark.…

On storage-class memory and leaving HP Labs Interview When "retired" HP Labs head Martin Fink surprisingly joined Western Digital as CTO we were interested how this memory-driven computing proponent would affect WD's solid state tech strategy.…

Who're you calling a Pointnext-er? Technology Services brand murdered With Enterprise Services about to become a past problem for HPE, the business has rebranded the remaining consultancy unit, killing off the Technology Services tag in favour of Pointnext.…

Cold Atom Laboratory slated for August SpaceX supply mission Plenty of readers will agree that the International Space Station would be a cool place to work, and it's getting cooler: a billionth of a degree above 0K (in a very small spot).…

Just unplug them now before someone writes a botnet, okay? Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.…

Airbus imagines podules that mate with rolling or flying engines, directed by AI Airbus and italdesign have offered the world a hybrid car/copter concept that they think can Make The World A Better Place™.…

Painting the boxes white Bowing to the inevitable, Arista has decided to risk cannibalising its hardware sales and is making its Extensible Operating System (EOS) available for container deployment as cEOS).…

'Caught, sorry, will stop' looks like it's just the way Uber rolls Caught out over showing fake cars to anyone it suspected of being a cop or a regulator, Uber has announced it will end the practice.…

Black hats testing remote code execution zero-day vulnerability Infosec researchers have found a “dire” zero-day in Apache Struts 2, and it's under active attack.…

Injecting arbitrary parameters into dynamic methods violates dev rules Apple has begun informing a limited number of developers using hot patching frameworks that doing so violates its rules.…

Redmond fires bullet into WinTel beast's belly Pic Microsoft today signaled more than half of its cloud data center capacity is set to be powered by 64-bit ARM servers.…

You look down – why not buy some stuff to cheer yourself up? Google Next '17 Google is pitching retailers on a total conversion of their floor, register, and warehouse systems to its Chrome, Android, and Cloud platforms.…

Comey blames Snowden for popularity of encryption FBI director James Comey has told a cybersecurity conference that any communications – be it with your spouse, your priest, or your lawyer – and any of your memories are up for grabs should a court order it.…

'People won't think we make mistakes if you stop reporting our mistakes' Australia's Department of Human Services (DHS) has doubled down, telling a Senate Committee yesterday its troubled robo-debt system will continue, and if there's something wrong, it's all your fault.…

Battistelli fighting to avoid lame duck status European governments have finally had enough of the head of the European Patent Office, Benoit Battistelli, and are pushing for a vote that could turn him into a lame duck president.…

Drink data from networked boxes with no CPU overhead Storage startup Excelero slides out of stealth today with its NVMesh v1.1 Server SAN software, which can drink data directly from a remote node, bypassing that node's CPU.…

Video recog, audio training data pave way to more intelligent machines Google Next '17 Following on the heels of its image dataset dump last year to aid the training of image recognition models, Google has done the same for sound, even as it beefs up the visual machine learning capabilities available through its Cloud Platform.…

Other news: Windows 10 not that great; Uber a little bit nasty A new report into nearly 300 websites run by the US government has reached an unsurprising conclusion: they suck.…

Chocolate Factory makes friends for support, integration Google Next '17 Google Cloud is in a full-on push to build an ecosystem for itself with a fresh line of partnerships.…

Spy agencies more interested in stockpiling bugs than closing the gaps WikiLeaks' dump of CIA hacking tool documents on Tuesday has kicked off a debate among security vendors about whether intel agencies are stockpiling vulnerabilities, and the effect this is having on overall security hygiene.…

Almost 40 trademarks given for tourists seeking the company of bad mamacitas China may soon be home to Donald Trump-themed escort services.…

Get ready for a fragmented net... and RAGNAROK Peter Thiel makes a perfect modern sinister panto villain. From investing in deep state spookware Palantir to supporting Donald S Trump, Thiel ticks all the boxes. Throw in an eccentric medical practice – like, say, a fondness for injecting himself with young people's blood – and all that's missing is an impregnable offshore lair, and a seat on Facebook's board.…

Poll finds most pirates aren't even using streaming stick With some in the media industries predicting an imminent "Kodipocalypse", a survey of more than 2,000 UK internet users suggests that simply being nice to those users who download illegal content – on Kodi or otherwise – isn't effective.…

An internal problem in corporate, nothing to see here, move on... Payment processing giant Verifone is playing down the impact of a recently discovered breach on its internal computer networks, as well as concerns over wider problems against point-of-sale systems.…

52PB X100 ActiveScale system landed in January WD has extended its disk-based archive array line scaling out to 52PB with a newish X100 ActiveScale product. This arrived in January with no fanfare and holds 47 per cent more data than the largest SA7010 Active Archive product. What gives?…

You might love technology, but do you want it to start loving you back? The Register Lectures are back, and on April 19 we’ll be considering one of the most fascinating topics in the world of tech: how AI and robotics are going to interact with and affect human sexuality.…

No remote connections to pricey electric dream wagons? Better use your keys Over the past few days Tesla punters from different corners of the globe have claimed an update borked their iOS app, preventing them from connecting to their electric dream wagons.…

Et tu, Microsoft? Then fall, Intel Microsoft has ported its Windows Server operating system to the Qualcomm Centriq – a 64-bit ARM-compatible server-grade system-on-chip.…