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Steering a path from Docker to Kubernetes Events Continuous delivery and DevOps mean continuous change, and one of the biggest changes over the last year has been the explosion in interest in containers.…

Doorstepped by the 'inspectors' Exclusive Two-thirds of TV Licensing prosecutions in a London court were brought against women, according to an exclusive analysis of court data by The Register.…

We'll try and sort it out by the end of the day, it says An unspecified technical infrastructure issue has left GoDaddy customers with serious DNS issues this morning.…

Three weeks later, and no word Sigaint, one of the largest dark web email providers, is approaching its third week of unavailability with still no clear signs about what's happening to the service.…

But reorgs yet to translate to growth across biz MWC Interview On the basis of its first quarter results last week, HPE still seems to be in troubled waters. Despite numerous major reorgs to dramatically shrink the biz, revenue still fell 10 per cent in the last three months to $11.4bn (£9.3bn).…

Forget gigabit phones – what do we do with all that lovely bandwidth? MWC Two "gigabit" phones are being shown off at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week.…

18 months to change a chip? Better believe it Exclusive EDMI, the UK maker of residential smart meter comms hubs, is seeking approval for a major modification to its kit - a process it had expected to take 18 months and cost £7m, leaked internal documents show.…

This'll all end in tiers It's purely coincidental that GitHub is now offering a 99.95 per cent uptime guarantee after the downtime experienced by Amazon Web Services customers on Tuesday.…

Lessons learned from Tuesday's cloud, er, fog storage mega-failure Analysis With Amazon now recovered from a four-hour outage that brought a large portion of the internet to a grinding halt, analysts are looking back to see what lessons companies can learn from the ordeal.…

Our comics and games should flow. But no hacking, terrorism or US hegemony please China has issued a “International Strategy of Cooperation on Cyberspace” in which it outlines rules it think should govern nations' online conduct.…

Microsoft responds to 'explicit' demands to fix update process If you're fed up with Windows 10 downloading updates, installing them, and rebooting at awkward times all by itself, you're not alone.…

Dog houses to cruise ships, Gopman is running a little rich No one doubts that San Francisco has a homeless problem.…

Hay, Erik Sch;midt, you sukc!1 Google's Perspective API, created in conjunction with Alphabet incubee Jigsaw, is supposed to provide an automated way to detect "toxic" language in social media.…

Decent effort, but it is hard to see why Redmond is bothering Skype's original peer-to-peer architecture has been bidding the world a long farewell since last year, and another peer just waved goodbye, with the latest Skype for Linux client graduating from Alpha to Beta status.…

XML and cross-site scripting bug-fixes Aruba AirWave systems need patching against multiple bugs in their control interface.…

Investigation reveals 32 million accounts were attacked with forged cookies, costing CEO Marissa Mayer her bonus Yahoo!'s board has decided CEO Marissa Mayer should not be paid her bonus, after investigating the 2014 hack that has so besmirched the company's reputation and finding the company knew about the gravity of the situation but failed to act properly to address the situation. Mayer has also decided to forego an award of equity due to her this year.…

Also patched today: Cisco Prime Infrastructure Cisco has disclosed a denial-of-service bug in its NetFlow Generation appliances that remote attackers can attack with a bad packet.…

The nuclear option for troubled Toshiba Foxconn has confirmed speculation that it is one of the companies bidding for a slice of Toshiba's silicon business.…

Anyone? Bueller? Asking because Microsoft, Google, have just offered free migration tools Today might not be the best day to contemplate migrating to the cloud, given that yesterday's epic Amazon Web Services outage. But that hasn't stopped Google and Microsoft from issuing new offers to help you take on-premises workloads into their clouds.…

The plan is to infill HFC-rich areas to create homogenous service zones nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, is installing new hybrid-fibre coax cables in some suburbs.…

'We were silenced by the Feds!' Shoppers of 40 online stores have had their bank card numbers and addresses slurped by a malware infection at backend provider Aptos.…

Spies given carte blanche thanks to Trump order The critical transatlantic data agreement, named Privacy Shield, is worthless, gives intelligence agencies complete free reign, and should be discarded, according to Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.…

No need for a big panic, says Big Blue Updated You know the out-of-office automatic emails that we've been using for the past 20 years? Well, IBM has just been awarded a patent that states it practically invented the system.…

Find out which apps, protocols, or people slow your networks with the SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack Promo Nobody enjoys slow networks. If your organisation is wasting productive time watching virtual sand pour through virtual hour glasses, you need to get to the bottom of the problem.…

Privacy warriors drag reluctant aviation watchdog to court Privacy advocates are pressing the US Federal Aviation Administration to ground creepy peeping-tom drones.…

Using NextGEN Gallery? Update or kill it with fire A critical flaw has been found in the third-party WordPress NextGEN Gallery plugin that is, according to wordpress.org, actively used by more than a million websites.…

My files belong to me – and it's getting easier to protect them Like it or not, collaboration and file-sharing services like Dropbox have become embedded in corporate IT.…

A status dashboard post about last week's cockup disappeared – but that's apparently normal The baffling mass logout of Google accounts last week was the result of accidental OAuth token invalidation, a cause Google acknowledged, but only to a subset of those affected.…

Brits catch God yet again screwing with our heads Video As far as we know, nearly four billion years ago nothing walked the lands of Earth, but there was life in the seas. Now British boffins think they've found a fossil record of some of the earliest lifeforms on the planet.…

Data is not stored in AWS or Azure Explainer Nimble’s Cloud Volumes (NCV) store block data for use by Amazon or Azure compute instances, but the NCVs themselves are not stored in either Amazon’s Elastic Block Store or in the Azure cloud.…

Ex-EMC exec takes CEO reins Former EMCer Guy Churchward has taken the reins at DataTorrent as CEO and president.…

Why should modern OSes and silicon have all the fun? The cloud's great for x86 CPUs, Windows and Linux.…

Chief beanie made CEO, asked to lead review into crappy finances Yet another senior exec has fallen on his sword at cybersecurity and managed services outfit NCC Group, just weeks after the latest profit warning. This time around it was CEO Rob Cotton.…

Look out, Google, your killer pram does not impress us Britain's most successful engineer Sir James Dyson is taking on Google and Facebook with a $2.5bn investment to turn the former RAF base at Hullavington near Malmesbury into a research campus for robotics, AI, and other advanced technology, including batteries and vision systems.…

Soulless contraptions in the home or at work are a risk – not to humanity Common security flaws in mainstream robotic technologies leave them wide open to attack, infosec researched have warned.…

He was originally cleared of any criminal offence A man under police surveillance who was cleared of criminal offences after leaving unpleasant comments on YouTube will be tried again after the Director of Public Prosecutions got his acquittal overturned.…

He was originally cleared of any criminal offence A man under police surveillance who was cleared of criminal offences after leaving unpleasant comments on YouTube will be tried again after the Director of Public Prosecutions got his acquittal overturned.…

Colliding parallel file access products Analysis The entertainment and media market has not been typically seen as a part of the high-performance computing (HPC) market, with the associated massively parallel file access and data set management. In the HPC world file access software such as Lustre and GPFS, now renamed Spectrum Scale are often seen.…

Gang discuss PoisonTap, SHA-1 and get a how-to on hacking

Forget IPv6. Names - I want NAMES! PACK. IT. IN. We're fresh out of IPv4 addresses. Getting hold of a subnet from your average ISP for hosting purposes is increasingly difficult and expensive, even the public cloud providers are getting stingy. While we wait for IPv6 to become usable, there are ways to stretch out the IPv4 space.…

Don't call us cheap MWC Interview Although Huawei phones are getting more expensive, the company still thinks Samsung and Apple phones are "overpriced", a top executive told us this week.…

Nice try, Isle of Wight council A new chain ferry has been built for the Isle of Wight – and the council reckon it weighs the same as 250 cows.…

Exposes Amazon customers' inadequate BC/DR plans too Analysis Amazon’s S3 outage is a gift to Azure and Google, on-premises IT, hybrid cloud supporters and multi-cloud gateways. But it has also exposed inadequate business continuance and disaster recovery provisions by Amazon's business customers.…

No, not the fictional energy sword, the machine learning hacker sniffer Palo Alto Networks has acquired smaller cyber security firm LightCyber for $105m in cash.…

Cookie consent that doesn't disrupt the user experience... Newly proposed reforms to EU ePrivacy rules could exacerbate problems that stem from existing rules governing the use of "cookies".…

Scottish prison guards left mobile network snooping device in sight of jailbirds Exclusive Prisoners at a Scottish jail evaded an IMSI catcher deployed to collar them making illegal phone calls – by putting up tinfoil after bungling guards left the spy gear visible to inmates.…

OpenStack's Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier explain the best bits of the new release Interview Last week, OpenStack took the covers off its Ocata release. Today, The Register spoke to OpenStack foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce and COO Mark Collier about three key aspects of the release – Cell v2, the Placement API and Resource Scheduler, and OpenStack's expanding container support.…

The stuff Virtzilla is doing to build NFV for telcos will trickle down into its other products VMware has launched the second version of its Network Function Virtualization suite as it hopes to convince telcos to go down the same software-defined route its offered other data centres. And in so doing the company is infusing its core products with telco-grade features it thinks will be widely applicable.…

CEO shoots for $10bn revs, though 2017 will start slowly Salesforce.com has posted record quarterly and annual results.…

It's time we taught computers what we think of BMW drivers What does a car say about its owner? Uni researchers have managed to accurately estimate income, education, race and voting patterns for US neighborhoods by looking at cars on Google Street View.…