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Decades of exoplanet observations are yours for the downloading Here's a treat for amateur exoplanet-hunters and experts alike: 20 years' worth of observations from the WM Keck Observatory in Hawaii, complete with application and tutorial.…

You've seen this movie before, on Betamax, and the ending isn't pretty Sharp-eyed fanbois at 9to5Mac have spotted Apple as a new enrty on the member list of the Wireless Power Consortium.…

Purple Palace pressed to come clean on its mega-breaches A couple of US senators have accused Yahoo! of not cooperating with their attempts to investigate its now-notorious database security breaches.…

Crackdown on H-1B abuse is fine, backdoors no way BSidesSF We're less than a month into Donald Trump's reign in America, and so much has already kicked off. Since we're at the BSides San Francisco infosec conference this week, we asked security pro here to "rate my president."…

2017's security headlines are starting to read like MadLibs A US university saw its network traffic slow to a crawl thanks to an IoT malware infection that hit, among other things, its vending machines.…

Five years on, attempts at compromise on web standards still fueling fights Analysis A lengthy battle over the inclusion of digital rights management as a Web standard is coming to a head, with a set of new guidelines planned for early March.…

Tips for running a compliant but safe network BSides SF What do you reckon US government regulations on computer security look like? If you selected outdated, contradictory and avoidable, congrats, you're an industry veteran – or you were paying attention to a talk this morning at the BSidesSF 2017 infosec conference.…

Self-assessment and self-reporting, with exceptions for things like fat-fingered emails Australia has finally passed mandatory computer security breach reporting laws, fifteen years after California became the first jurisdiction to do so.…

SpaceX kingpin says slow-moving human brains will be obsolete shortly Tesla CEO and tunnel-boring enthusiast Elon Musk says humans will need to merge themselves with machines, lest they are replaced by them.…

Data wrangler with MIT license Microsoft Graph Engine, the in-memory-store-slash-computation engine, has been released under the open source MIT license.…

And more automation helps admin staff HPE says its latest 3PAR OS, v 3.3.1, has better data reduction, faster iSCI networking, upgraded data protection and an extra helping of automation to help admin staff.…

Chap in Shirebrook, England, on bail as probe continues Exclusive A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the hacking of Sports Direct's internal website for employees, The Register can reveal.…

1 like = 1 prayer for pre-baked Bromium virtualization tech HP has announced plans to integrate Bromium's virtualization technology into a laptop as a defence against malware.…

Security secrets and private businesses are all fair game Britain has been hit by 188 "high-level attacks" in the last three months.…

Actual residents of Texas Eastern District prevail Google has been ordered to pay $20m damages after its Chrome browser was found to have infringed four anti-malware patents.…

Counting down to the final cut The shortlist of entries for this year’s Tech Trailblazer Awards is available for your perusal and you now have until the end of this week to choose your favourites.…

Simultaneously is and isn't bollocks A professor at the University of Sussex says he has the first practical blueprint for a quantum computer capable of solving problems that could take billions of years for a classical computer to compute. Oh yeah?…

Three words businesses dread: IT system transformation A "For Sale" sign went up outside the troubled Co-operative Bank this morning, weeks after the cash-strapped lender said it was unable to raise required funds.…

Batch of HDDs borked and replaced El Reg has received an antipodean note that a number of Western Digital enterprise disk drives are having problems and need to be replaced.…

Symantec securobods: Lazarus could be back from the dead Evidence has surfaced that hackers blamed for the infamous Sony Pictures hack and the notorious Bangladesh Central Bank account heist have launched a fresh wave of assaults.…

It's probably a good thing that their address isn't listed Updated Customers of British cloud biz Smart Hosting are furious at the company's radio silence throughout its ongoing support tickets crises.…

Big Blue has changed its tune, past corporate strategy docs reveal Remote working might be a dirty word among senior IBMers these days but it wasn't always so: teleworking, Big Blue once claimed, would help heal a global economy suffering aftershocks of the banking meltdown, and it might even play a part in planetary salvation.…

Gesundheit! Ahem, can we take your cloaks, storage startups? Analysis Three storage startups have hoved into view: Gluent, Tachyum and VAST Data.…

Vendors stuff jargon into anti-virus marketing mix Opinion The cybersecurity industry is investing heavily in "machine learning" technologies in the hope of providing a more dynamic defence against malware. The practical upshot of this is that the delegates to the RSA Conference next week are likely to hear a lot about artificial intelligence in next-generation anti-virus (NGAV) even though neither term is particularly well defined.…

Two peas from the same pod o' clickbait? Analysis When you live in a glass house, is it wise to start a rock-throwing competition?…

Corporate rising star in charge as targets raised SAP has moved the UK corporate brass in a move that could propel cloud sales, The Reg has learned.…

Sizable bet on an autonomous car by 2021 Ford is investing $1bn in Argo AI, a startup cofounded by engineers who resigned from Google and Uber’s autonomous car projects.…

Promises to create new top-level domain despite ongoing court case Internet overseer ICANN will push ahead with a new ".africa" top-level domain, despite having twice been ordered not to because of serious questions over how it handled the case.…

Better not run our logo smaller than MasterCard's, pal PayPal's released a new batch of User Agreements that includes a new “non-discouragement clause for sellers” that prevents them from talking down the service, plus price hikes a-plenty.…

Nor should they, because the folding stuff is disappearing into phones and cards Where’s all the money gone? I don’t mean why it’s flowing out of your bank account in ever greater volumes. Actually, I do mean that, but in the most immediate, tangible way. Not very long ago, you knew what you spent because you could count the banknotes as you handed them over. Money was physical, tangible, and real. That’s less true today.…

Dude, quit bogarting the blowfish Scientists in Australia have observed groups of dolphins sharing around a blowfish and getting out of their skulls on the toxins they produce.…

Vote due next week on move that's driven by cost concerns The German city of Munich, which pioneered the use of open source software at scale in government, looks set to replace Linux on the desktop with Windows.…

Umbrella takes the edge of enterprise network defence Cisco's decided that the network perimeter is the wrong place for a Web gateway, so it's floating one into the cloud.…

The Cold War called, wants its arms race back While President Donald Trump hosted Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe over the weekend, North Korea decided the time was right for another missile test.…

Surface devices and Windows 10 are now NSA-approved for use by US government workers Microsoft's pointed out that the United States' National Security Agency has added some Surface devices to the nation's okay-for-accessing-secure-information list.…

ISPs told to get real by advertising speeds punters will get at busy times Australia's consumer watchdog is trying to ensure advertising offers comprehensible and accurate broadband performance information.…

Use this for good, not for evil. But not if you care about your penguins Linux sysadmins with a sense of adventure: Tokyo-based developer Hector Martin has put together a set of scripts to replace an in-use Linux system over SSH.…

Government and business don't get on, AI is bunk and politics rules BSides SF Comfortable illusions about how security is working are crippling the ability of government and industry to fight the threat, a former member of the FBI’s netsec team has told the B-Sides San Francisco security conference.…

'I could have released the final 4.10' but preferred not to over-complicate things Those waiting for the milestone that would have been version 4.10 of the Linux kernel have another week to wait, after Linus Torvalds decided not to release the final version this week.…

Public servants' 'misinformation' warning seemingly set aside for politics Following last year's megastorm and blackout in South Australia, Vulture South opined that the events had nothing to do with the state's use of wind power. Now, a freedom of information release reveals the government was advised to that effect before ministers started to cast blame.…

What bits of the boffins' cloud do we build ourselves? Australia is re-crafting the roadmap that guides its national research infrastructure, a task that covers everything from the network to the nation's high performance computing systems.…

If at first you don't succeed, try { try { again } } Oracle has brought its legal war with Google back to life, alleging Android's Java framework ripped off Big Red's copyright.…

Moldovan malware slinger faces up to 15 years in the cooler A Moldovan miscreant has admitted infecting computers at a US oil company and school district in an attempt to rob the organizations blind.…

Malware can spread to gizmos and gadgets after slipping into internal systems The Mirai malware that hijacked hundreds of thousands of IoT gadgets, routers and other devices is now capable of infecting Windows systems.…

The one who went to France once and loves sitcoms Say what you like about Amazon, it has never been cool.…

Taking 'mobile operators are our customers' a bit too far? Nokia has wheeled out a worldwide IoT network grid (WING) that sounds remarkably like an all-in-one mobile virtual network operators offering.…

Furious loyalists bemoan Sir Jony's shoddy craftsmanship One of Apple's newest iPhones is being slammed by fans for its lack of quality, in what should be a worrying development for the Cupertino iStuff slinger.…

We're here to chew gum and demand info, and we're all out of gum, say antitrust cops The US Department of Justice is digging into the highly unusual auction of internet extension .web last year, the company that purchased it has admitted.…

Subheading'); DROP TABLE articles;-- Microsoft says it will fully power up its Azure SQL Database Threat Detection service this spring.…

We sheltered our heads until there was a pause for reporting Incoming! Boom, boom and boom again – storage news announcements hit the wires in a relentless barrage. Here's a few we've received showing developments in data protection, cloud storage, hyper-converged storage, the dregs of flash memory and more.…