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Small firm claims calf birth safety boost with M2M monitor Internet of Things devices mounted on cows’ tails are responsible for 150,000 safe births of calves, if the developer and Vodafone are to be believed.…

Plans to chuck more cash once it's merged up with OneWeb Comment Softbank has arrived as the unlikely white knight to save Luxembourg-based internet-satellite provider Intelsat from running out of cash. It has injected debt funding and proposed a merger through its LEO satellite firm OneWeb. Now bondholders for Intelsat must give the deal the go-ahead.…

And this time VersaStack's all about hybrid and/or cloud with software-defined storage IBM and Cisco are having another crack at converged infrastructure, by releasing a few new configurations for their joint VersaStack rigs.…

The world's big three PC vendors tell us what they expect you will buy this year Yes, PC sales are now moribund. But someone's going to buy about 280 million of them this year. Lenovo, HP Inc and Dell look like being the ones to sell them to businesses, because all have rosy outlooks for PC sales despite the long sales slide across the industry. The Register therefore asked the three companies, universally rated as the top three vendors by volume. what they've got in store for you this year.…

State of Kerala turns on WiFi network, promises to fund 1,500 startups and grow 175k IT jobs The Indian State of Kerala, home to 34 million people, has declared its citizens have a right to internet access.…

Dutch minister, International Labor Office signal they've had enough with EPO dysfunction Time is running out for European Patent Office president Benoit Battistelli.…

Software Guard Extensions are supposed to hide data. But the 'Prime+Probe attack' fixes that A researcher who in January helped highlight possible flaws in Intel's Software Guard Extensions' input-output protection is back, this time with malware running inside a protected SGX enclave.…

'Cloud Container Builder' offers 120 minutes of container creation, for any platform Google's found another way to wrap developers more closely into its warm embrace: a cloudy software build environment it reckons should be free for most users.…

It's time for you lot to figure out what's going on up there on TRAPPIST's Earth-like planets Astronomers and the astro-curious but software-savvy will be hovering over a download link waiting for midday Tuesday (US Eastern Time), when Kepler data for the TRAPPIST-1 system is published.…

Spammers hoard contact details on millions of netizens, we can non-exclusively reveal The “1.4 billion identity leak” that was hyped up before the weekend involved, no, not a database ransacking at Facebook, YouTube, or anything that important.…

Data-destroying code moves on from Middle East, now rampaging through Europe Researchers following up on last November's re-emergent Shamoon malware attacks have found something even nastier.…

Attention web scribes: Six nasty flaws found in publishing tool Internet scribblers who use WordPress must update their installation of the publishing tool following the disclosure and patching of six security holes.…

Sucked in by tech world's vacuum for $614m Investors in the cloudy app security biz Veracode are going to be celebrating after CA Technologies agreed to buy it up for $614m in cash.…

You snooze, you lose Video A computer security outfit claims to have plugged an information leak in Windows that was publicly revealed by Google before Microsoft had a patch ready. Could this third-party patching become a trend?…

iVote's proxy issues certs – and decrypts data – in America The Western Australian government is pushing back against concerns about the security of its implementation of the iVote electoral system.…

Electronics retailer once again sees liquidation looming The company that arose from RadioShack's 2015 bankruptcy saga could soon itself be filing for bankruptcy.…

Cable giant nine-figures lighter after ripping off voice-call tech Sprint has been awarded $139.8m in damages after a jury found that Time Warner Cable infringed on five of its patents related to voice-over-IP calling systems.…

But they should expect a discharge or worse, not medals The US Marine Corps is investigating how compromising photos of some of its female members came to be shared on Facebook and Google Drive by fellow marines.…

Current-measuring circuits flawed, potentially over-charge homes, study finds Some smart meters might more accurately be described as fake meters because they present false readings about energy consumption.…

Will decision bring back need to use specific browsers? Sir Tim Berners-Lee has controversially decided to back the introduction of digital rights management – aka anti-piracy and anti-copying mechanisms – as a Web standard.…

Boring, bland... yes, this AI will fit right in at today's newsrooms Robots are elbowing their way into journalism and could steal “hundreds” of jobs, fearful news hacks have told academics.…

Unaccountable? Check. Pointlessly bureaucratic? Check. Blocking reform? Check Analysis It's March again so it must be time for an annual checkup on the Internet Governance Forum – the United Nations body that is tasked with working through the complex social, technological and economic issues associated with a global communications network, and runs an annual conference to that end.…

Big Blue will build 50-qubitter in 'next few years' IBM says it will build commercially available quantum computing systems accessed through its cloud platform, but D-Wave has a claimed quantum computer 400 times bigger.…

Some furious, others rather interested Software company Solarwinds, which sells IT management tools, has infuriated customers after a faulty alert exposed customers' entire client lists to their competitors.…

Both deny allegations The president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, colluded with confidante Choi Soon-sil to take bribes from Samsung Group, the country's special prosecutor said today.…

Blasts data between on-prem and public cloud SwiftStack v5's Cloud Sync provides two-way replication between on-premises data centres and Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 and Glacier.…

Civil servants belatedly nixed PDF metadata Exclusive The UK Home Office's Investigatory Powers Unit (HOIPU) anonymously responded to an Ofcom consultation urging the regulator to maintain a "security"-related ban on GSM devices that help people get cheap calls abroad.…

A: It's five more than answer to the ultimate question IBM UK is looking to chop the Technical Services Support team within the Global Technology Services division by up to 10 per cent, according to company insiders.…

IT man betrayed us for partner, says Columbia Sportswear A sportswear company in Oregon has alleged that a senior IT manager left a backdoor in its systems before departing to a business partner and illegally used that access almost 700 times for his new employer's benefit.…

Sorry your broadband is crap, Ronaldo needs a new Jag BT has beaten arch-rival Sky in its bid to splash £394m retaining the rights for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League.…

Just days left to save £100s on DevOps and containers extravaganza The clock is ticking on our early bird offer for Continuous Lifecycle, our three-day dive into all things DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Containers.…

Firm said to have helped Trump and Leave.EU campaign to be asked a couple of questions The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating how voters' personal information is being utilised for political campaigns.…

Government service provider 'propping up its share price' ahead of merger with HPE The British government must wake up to service delivery implications of the latest mega-layoff scheming at CSC given the number of sensitive public sector contracts held, and work with the business and others to "root out the worst excesses of capitalism".…

Just when you thought Spamageddon had been fixed Just when long-suffering Virgin Media customers thought their spam woes had been fixed, it seems the firm's inbound mail server is now blocking the delivery of mail.…

Kicks in on April Fools' Day Accounting-as-a-service firm Sage is hiking its cloudy payroll software prices by half, The Register has learned.…

It is the world’s largest online vid-slinger, after all When the world’s largest online silo of video content decides to come out and launch its own TV subscription service, including sought after live sports content, it’s not just the traditional pay TV industry which should be concerned, but the streaming giants too. YouTube TV is here and Apple has to return fire.…

Googles' rise is permanent, Microsoft wants you to give Office 365 a beating Google and Microsoft have both increased the cash on offer under their bug bounty programs.…

MAVEN was on track to come within seven seconds of Phobos The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft last week made a hasty burn to avoid a likely collision with Martian moon Phobos.…

You may have thought romance was dead before this ... erm ... remarkable MongoDB cover of Sia's 'Cheap Thrills' came along Vendors' music video homages are always just … erm … remarkable The Register has spotted a new music video homage by a vendor and because they're always so excellent, bring it to you for your entertainment.…

HPE admits to contract fail, will give failed kit forensic analysis but may also crimp report Hewlett Packard Enterprise “failed to deliver on the contractual terms” it agreed with Australia's Taxation Office after 3Par storage arrays twice failed at the Office, according to commissioner of taxation Chris Jordan. But the cause of the problems may never be publicly revealed.…

You're on the sh*t-list and will be shouted at, says Linus as he gives the world Linux 4.11 rc1 Linux 4.11's first release candidate has been released, but not without a little friction after Linus Torvalds railed at the quality of some code sent his way during the merge process for the new update to the platform.…

Not us, says India. Which leaves China, Facebook, Tencent, YouTube and …. ? “Data breach hunter” Chris Vickery has claimed that he will shortly reveal a “1.4 billion identity leak”.…

Redmond offers six years extra support for Windows, SQL Servers, cheap if you pay now Microsoft last year promised a new “Premium Assurance” product to provide security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server for an additional six years. And now it's delivered: Premium Assurance went on sale as of last week with incentives to cough up sooner rather than later.…

Makes India grate again as 15 day sign-off option binned to clear application backlog. The United States has suspended “premium” processing of H-1B visas, the skilled worker visa often used by technology companies to bring workers to the nation.…

Ill-fated Akatsuki suffers more setbacks – now, its cameras The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has said it is shutting down two of the five cameras on its planetary probe around Venus due to power glitches.…

Seat-back systems deliberately cripple non-Pana code – lawsuit Panasonic has been hit with a lawsuit accusing the electronics giant of monopolizing the market for in-flight entertainment (IFE) devices with a series of dirty tricks.…

* Allegedly! Amazon, the target of multiple lawsuits alleging labor law violations and the subject of criticism over cutthroat work culture, appears to be pilot testing its tough-love approach to worker management in its burgeoning media production business.…

Hardware maker offers to replace or repair at-risk kit Netgear on Thursday said that four of its product lines may experience "higher-than-normal failure rates" and that it is contacting affected customers to assess whether replacement or repair is appropriate.…

Ride-sharing tech bros accused of shady behavior shocker Not content with cultivating a toxic, sexist and hostile corporate culture, Uber is on a collision course with cops worldwide.…

One used AOL. Yes, all of these apply to Vice President Mike US Vice President Mike Pence has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed he used his personal AOL account for state government business.…