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16 Psyche mission takes a great leap forward NASA has come up with a cunning plan that will allow it to shave four years of flight time off its mission to the biggest chunk of visible iron in the Solar System, and will use souped-up solar power to get there.…

No, Apple is not practicing to be carrier. This is how you horn in on 5G Apple has filed a request with the United States Federal Communications Commission FCC to run wireless tests in spectrum bands associated with 5G.…

300 GB repo handles 8,421 pulls and 1,760 official builds a day, more once GVFS fix is in Microsoft has adopted Git to manage the vast collection of code that is Windows' source, and has shared performance issues it's had to fix along the way.…

WannaCry? Minister says data is safe, so save your tears for now Hospitals connected to Australian State of Queensland's integrated electronic medical record system (ieMR) are suffering outages attributed to patching against a ransomware attack.…

Former HO and EMC man Joe Eazor gets the job of completing conversion to services company Rackspace has named Joe Eazor as its new CEO, replacing the departing Taylor Rhodes and interim CEO Jeff Cotten.…

Chat forums beyond El Reg just do respectful whimsy, so goodbye 'Imzy' Reddit can be a nasty, nasty place. So nasty that a in 2015 half a dozen Reddit employees – some who said they'd experienced personal abuse or threats of violence from Reddit members - bailed from the company and set their sights on “rethinking the way communities exist on the Internet.”…

Remote code execution in all versions since 3.5.0, so it's patching time! Sysadmins tending Samba need to get patching.…

DeepMind scores another win in marketing its AI AlphaGo yesterday one-upped man as it won the first out of three games against Ke Jie, the world’s number one player in Go.…

Dial-a-ride d-baggery claimed on passenger side too Uber's New York woes are piling up, as the dial-a-ride service has now been sued by riders who believe they were being overcharged.…

Kubernetes cluster cat herding, brought to you by Istio Microservices architecture, in which monolithic apps get broken down into a set of distinct services, goes well with containers and orchestration.…

We take a look inside the campaign to undermine the internet Analysis The FCC has released a revised version of its plans to tear up net neutrality – and unwittingly revealed the extraordinary influence that the cable industry has over the process.…

Voting machine hacking could turn very ugly Organizers at the DEF CON hacking conference in July are planning a mass cracking of US electronic election machines.…

Days of future past Ransomware saw a more than eight-fold (752 per cent) increase as a mode of attack in 2016, according to Trend Micro.…

Lander exercise was 'very close' to a success The Schiaparelli probe suffered a botched landing on the Martian surface as it briefly spun out of control, confusing the computer systems onboard, an official report concluded today.…

Chipzilla says USB standard will be open to the world Intel is pushing its Thunderbolt 3.0 USB port as the defacto input mode for future PCs.…

Call proxy service aims to appeal to businesses with mobile workers Cloud communications service Twilio believes software development doesn't have to play out like Groundhog Day, a film in which a man relives the same day over and over. For developers, that sense of déjà vu is a common experience.…

ZX Spectrum-themed game console firm didn't quite win court order, either ZX Spectrum Vega firm Retro Computers Ltd has had its attempt to force former sales agent Nick Cooper to hand over extra information in the ongoing court battle between the two postponed today by the London County Court.…

Joins Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure to upgrade all-flash arrays HPE has announced new mid-range 3PAR all-flash arrays, fifth generation MSA arrays, Nimble Secondary Flash arrays, and cloud-connected StoreOnce data protection.…

Big Blue's big iron to be loaded with Hitachi's OS software Hitachi has stopped building its own mainframes but will supply IBM z Systems loaded with Hitachi VOS3 operating system software.…

Touchscreens? Who needs 'em? Hands On Huawei this week launched three Intel devices running Windows 10: a slim notebook, a Surface-a-like 2-in-1, and a conventional 15.6" laptop.…

What are they banging on about? Analysis Having acquired Nimble Storage and its hybrid and all-flash arrays, HPE is positioning it as a kind of secondary storage. What does that mean?…

(And everything you've seen) Welcome to 'Closing the Loop' In a move with echoes of the fictional internet giant described in Dave Eggers' The Circle, Google's has begun trawling through billions of personal credit card records, matching them to your browser, location and advertising histories.…

Also, here's why LTE-M gained ground over NB-IoT in Europe Some customers are expecting more than can be realistically delivered with licensed spectrum Internet of Things connectivity technologies, a major European telco has warned.…

Gloom and doom? Consumers still shopping with us, trills CEO Political uncertainty haven’t put punters off purchasing electronic gadgets, Dixons Carphone CEO reported today.…

Partners with state-backed Japanese funds +Comment WDC is partnering with a state-backed Japanese fund and bidding ¥2 trillion ($17.9bn, £13.8bn) to buy Toshiba’s Memory Business.…

Upgrade and they will come The volume of 64-bit malware in the wild remains low even though computers running 64-bit operating systems became ubiquitous years ago.…

Some might say this is fake news. It isn't An American company implausibly named AnalTech – no, really – has been slammed hard enough for a hazardous materials response team to be called out to deal with the smell.…

Shopping as a constant poker game Analysis "AI" could soon be making petrol more expensive at times of peak demand like the start of a bank holiday weekend or the school run.…

At least we'll always have #catsinteslas

Use and abuse of figures If statistics were a human being, it would have been in deep therapy all of its 350-year life. The sessions might go like this:…

Sort of. Leia's a New Hope Star Wars New Hope @ 40 When Lucasfilm recently unveiled its tribute reel to the late Carrie Fisher, one of the most memorable monologues in cinema sat right in its center.…

Test management and debugging at scale become a bit less daunting Facebook on Wednesday plans to introduce a set of open source developer tools to streamline app development testing and bug hunting.…

IPO? Ticked. 1,079% growth in 11 years? Ticked. Lost the tightness? Nah Martin Hellawell, the McDonald's-card-toting CEO at mega reseller Softcat isn't quite sailing off into the sunset just yet, but he is preparing to handover the operation once a successor is found.…

Sure, there are hurdles, but no £18bn hole on the other side like Hinkley Point For the first time ever in April, the UK's data centres and clouds ran on electricity generated without burning coal.…

When two 'innocent' events on the network are anything but IT teams can get away with poor service management, outdated software development methods and outdated apps running on legacy tin, but they might want to think twice before skimping on cybersecurity. If you don't stay on top of this stuff, while you might not be found out today or tomorrow, eventually, your customers’ personal details might just turn up on Pastebin.…

What's a tensor? Glad you asked... HPC blog Last week, Nvidia held its biggest ever GPU Technology Conference (GTC). The big walk-away is that GPUs are rapidly becoming an expected and standard component of computing, table stakes in many cases, across the computing platform. Big deal right there and hence the frothiness of much of the coverage.…

Facebook, Google, Twitter and friends face clampdown European Union ministers have approved new rules for video that will oblige Facebook, Google, Twitter and others to remove hate speech and sexually explicit videos online or face stiff fines.…

Lobs deployment tools at sysadmins, complete with Silverlight and ActiveX support Google is trying to give businesses a reason to ditch Internet Explorer by giving sysadmins a new set of tools for mass deployment of its own Chrome browser.…

Stacks up against Open Compute with one design for data centres of all sizes plan LinkedIn wants you to brick it in the data centre by following it and its friends with a new standard for data centre hardware that pushes its ambitions to the edge and into competition with the Facebook-derived Open Compute Project.…

Cloud's just 'recommended', for now, as local industry plans 50 per cent growth by 2025 India's issued three “Guidance Notes” outlining its government's policies for procuring software and entering into alliances and running RFPs.…

World's biggest advertising company needs to prove ads are worth the money Google wants stores to gather purchase data on its behalf, to bolster its case that advertising on the platform works.…

Emissions software scandal flares anew Fiat-Chrysler, accused of the same kind of software defeat as landed Volkswagen in hot water, is now the subject of a Department of Justice lawsuit.…

Active Deploy binned in favour of Kubernetes and/or Cloud Foundry IBM's announced a swift retirement of its Active Deploy service, a facility offered to those who want frequent updates to cloudy applications.…

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows Google Project Zero's Windows bug-hunter and fuzz-boffin Tavis Ormandy has given the world an insight into how he works so fast: he works on Linux, and with the release of a personal project on GitHub, others can too.…

Iris-scanner defeated with a camera in night mode, a contact lens, and a printer Chaos Computer Club's "Starbug" has taken a look at the Samsung Galaxy S8's iris-scanning authentication feature and found you can beat it with a photograph.…

He left Oracle years ago so this is no biggie, but clearly cloud is where big brains want to roost Java creator James Gosling has announced he now works for Amazon Web Services.…

And it's a nasty one if the user you crack has admin rights French security outfit Sysdream has gone public with a vulnerability in the admin interface for OpenVPN's server.…

One small bag for a man, one giant check for Sotheby's The bag Neil Armstrong used to carry home lunar samples from the Apollo 11 mission could fetch up to $4m at auction next month.…

Fines equal around 8 hours of profit, that'll teach them Target, the shopping behemoth for people who are too classy to go to Walmart, has today reached a settlement with 47 states and the District of Columbia over the 2013 hacking incident that saw 70 million customers lose their personal information.…

Axions still a no-show over at CERN Axion Telescope The hunt for axions – a potential dark matter candidate – at the CERN Axion Solar Telescope have been fruitless. But scientists refuse to give up as they set a new limit that calculates the probability of finding these elusive particles.…