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Game's the same, just got more fierce, apparently A group of money-grabbing cybercrooks have switched up their tactics in a pretty interesting way, we're told. Buckle up and let us explain.…

Unlike BA, Face and crew, not accused of crime they didn't commit A newly discovered hacking crew is creating all sorts of mischief, despite largely relying on off-the-shelf tools rather than custom malware.…

Brings total action days to 20 Unite has called for a fresh wave of strikes in its long-running dispute against 1,800 job cuts at IT giant Fujitsu.…

Yep, the people's Liberation Army is fielding a university team HPC Blog With 20 university teams, Asia Supercomputer Community 2017 is the largest student cluster competition in the world. So it’s only natural that this story, which will give you a chance to meet the teams via video, will be the longest student cluster competition story in history.…

Crowd or non crowd - network industry rages on numbers Special Report Which? magazine's claim that the UK has "worse 4G than Peru", widely reported by the national media this week, has reopened an highly charged industry debate about the reliability of network data collection.…

Conference coming in a week and a bit - we can’t say it any louder Events If you want to see how real world organisations are putting DevOps, Containers and Continuous Delivery to work, you’ve got 11 days to secure one of the remaining places at Continuous Lifecycle London 2017.…

Get yourself a fistful of plastic fantastics instead You’ve got until the end of today to spend your old paper £5 notes before they cease to be legal tender.…

A week in storage: You, me and NVME Round-up The week has seen an acceleration of NVME news - Aparna, Intel, Micron, and XIO - and cloud-related news as well, with Rubrik picking up a huge funding round. These were the headline items but there was a whole lot more going on and here's a representative selection.…

400 folk will be moving in sometime in autumn Amazon says it will be opening a new drone research and development centre in Cambridge, England, later this year.…

Yep, Fatboy slim-e are reading The Economist Cybercriminals have put together a strain of ransomware that changes the cost of the extortionate demands depending on the victim’s location, threat intelligence firm Recorded Future reports.…

Dispute with Plutus Payroll heading to court, no payday in sight for hundreds Exclusive Plutus Payroll has named the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) as the party with which it is in dispute and ostensibly the reason it has been unable to pay hundreds of contractors owed weeks of pay, as The Register has reported earlier this week.…

Or you could roll over and go back to sleep Something for the Weekend, Sir? Dabbs (Mrs) and I are in bed. She is shaking my shoulder to wake me up.…

Fear not – there's life beyond the community lifeline Canonical is killing its Unity convergence play and Mir display, but fans of Ubuntu need not panic.…

They're not infallible Analysis Take two companies with two new storage products. One is a physical array and the other is a virtual array built from clustered server nodes. Both are block access. Will the same selling/marketing approach be successful for both? Should you sell to CIOs or to lines of business (LOBs)?…

Court of Appeal upholds interest claims in historic dispute BT has been ordered to dig into its pocket and pay rivals £22m in interest following its overcharged for its backhaul ethernet services between 2006-2011.…

The Farce was strong with this one after he played Star Wars games on the job but applied the wrong force ON-CALL Hello Friday! And hello also to On-Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed tale of dirty data centre deeds done dirty cheap.…

The C919 will compete with the 737 and A320, has already won 99 orders China's first large passenger jet has successfully taken to the skies and then landed again.…

Long tasks that consume more juice are worth it, though Docker may be the darling of DevOps, but it's something of a minor extravagance when it comes to energy consumption.…

Stealthy attack code spotted going after payment systems Microsoft's security team is urging developers to shore up their software update systems – after catching miscreants hijacking an editing application's download channels to inject malware into victims' PCs.…

GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon are now off the menu Devuan Linux has released its second release candidate.…

Four, eight or twelve servers, with up to 600VMs in a Stack Dell EMC has confirmed it's getting into the Azure Stack business.…

Redmond's hot new browser counts '1,2,3,4' as '1,1,4,4' Microsoft's Edge browser is the subject of an amusing new bug report, alleging it somehow manages to screw up printing strings of numbers.…

Take than, cowardly LGMs! We have a few grams of your grains The Curiosity Rover's drill is in trouble.…

Google even paid a developer a bounty for spotting it Google's known about the issue behind yesterday's wave of phishing attacks bearing links to Google Docs for at least five years.…

Creepy app seller is going to have to QA its own buggy software Bug bounty organizer HackerOne has told stalkerware developer FlexiSpy that it won't take its business because of the ethics – or lack thereof – that the software maker exhibits.…

Snapdragon designer furious over Apple halting royalty payments, wants revenge Qualcomm is considering asking for an import ban on iPhones coming into the United States in retaliation for Apple stopping royalty payments to the chip designer.…

Bloke thought he was safe on anonymizing network. Now he's in the cooler for 13 years A US bloke was jailed for 13 years on Wednesday for sharing pictures and videos of child sex abuse on the dark web.…

Voice Kit is the first of what we're told will be many In what can be taken either as cloud platform rainmaking or continued refusal to take hardware seriously, Google has introduced AIY Projects, do-it-yourself endpoints of spit and string for jacking into the Chocolate Factory's brain candy machine.…

Real-time full-blown snooping with breakable encryption The UK government has secretly drawn up more details of its new bulk surveillance powers – awarding itself the ability to monitor Brits' live communications, and insert encryption backdoors by the backdoor.…

Don't forget to check your credit and debit cards for unauthorized transactions Travel industry giant Sabre’s hotel reservation system has sprung a leak: its software was compromised, potentially exposing people's payment card details to crooks.…

Firm puts together $75m to invest in AI, Big Data, robotics A new multi-million dollar fund is planning to invest in promising Israeli tech startups.…

Would sir like the P&L sheet in a colour other than red? Elon Musk’s ‘leccy car firm Tesla has boosted its revenues and deepened its losses, according to its latest quarterly results.…

Claims that people derive most of their news from search are 'over-stated' Fears the web is just one massive echo chamber, to be used for the sole purpose of confirming one's own bias, are overstated, according to research supported by Google.…

Chipzilla's SSD tech is solid, but can't seem to shake losses Analysis Intel is a formidable competitor in the enterprise and consumer SSD business but it has yet to stop losing money. The key to that looks to be increasing SSD sales volume and making XPoint a success.…

Putting the ID in IoT Industrial robots are frequently exposed to the internet, creating a security risk in the process, according to new research from Trend Micro.…

They've gone to formal arbitration with the fruity firm Chip designer Imagination Technologies has opened a formal dispute resolution procedure with Apple after the iPhone giant decided to stop using its intellectual property.…

The combination effect Today, the term hybrid IT is typically used when talking about bridging IT on multiple premises. But this is an oversimplification. Buried deep within any hybrid IT discussion will be a need to talk about standards, compliance and some difficult decisions about how we even conceptualize our approach to IT.…

Ilford fire tender attends an East Ender with trapped bellend...ugh... An East London man is breathing more easily today after fire fighters came to his rescue early this morning - they used a hydraulic pedal cutter to remove a metal ring he had slipped over his dangly bits several days before.…

Swerves fine by revisiting ebook deals Amazon has successfully wrapped up an antitrust deal in Europe today. The European Commission has closed its investigation into the retail giant’s ebook business after accepting voluntary commitments from the company. The settlement allows publishers to scrap some ebook contracts and reopen negotiations.…

MP calls for greater scrutiny following TV licence debacle Analysis Capita’s sheer footprint in the public sector makes it an easy target to some extent. If you run enough notoriously failure-prone government contracts, chances are you'll come under some fire sooner or later.…

Any Chipzilla kit for data centres are now members of the 'Xeon Scalable Family' Intel's giving its Xeon CPUs a makeover.…

Were they unencrypted? You bet they were Greater Manchester Police has been fined £150,000 after three DVDs containing footage of interviews with victims of violent or sexual crimes were lost in the post.…

Scheduled maintenance overrun, it says Updated The Co-Operative Bank’s online banking has been offline all morning thanks to over-running “planned essential maintenance”. The bank expects it to be down until at least 1pm today.…

Street-beating protector and archiver basks in analyst love After three quarters of losses, Commvault made a $3.2m profit in its final fiscal 2017 quarter, just enough to tip the full year into profit.…

Proposals by watchdog call for further crackdown on misleadings ads Broadband providers may have to ensure at least half of customers can receive advertised top line speeds, under a proposed crackdown on consumers being misled.…

Please, please come back So desperate is the UK government to attract IT contractors in the wake of controversial changes to IR35 legislation, it is advertising roles as explicitly outside the tweaks. In capital letters.…

Clients: We need more compute. Redmond: 'Go to Canada' Exclusive Microsoft's public cloud business is experiencing growing pains – fresh deployments are being held up by insufficient rack space in the UK data centres that host Azure.…

Won't someone think of the children? They're bloody lightweights! New figures on British drinking habits from the Office of National Statistics show teetotalism continues to rise, with our prudent youth leading the way in moderate alcohol consumption.…

Meet the artist who helped shape Watchmen, Batman and, yes, the drokkin' LAW himself Say the words "Judge" and "Dredd" and one name should rather forcefully present itself.…

HPE ProLiant and Cisco UCS-C for now, with more to come and an opex spending plan too Nutanix has decided the time is right to sell more software, inking deals that will see its hyperconverged software-defined-everything stack sold with servers by HPE and Cisco.…