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Two solid state exec moves as Kaminario CTO quits to join startup Two exec moves have flashed up in the solid state world. Micron CEO Mark Durcan told analysts he was going to stop being CEO and Kaminario’s CTO has quit.…

Distie takes the poisoned chalice Tying up loose ends, BlackBerry has found a licensee to sell BlackBerry-branded devices in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Nepal. It now has deals in place covering the planet, the largest by far being with Chinese giant TCL.…

Adds 15,000 customers, equivalent to one-tenth of Croydon After being smote by regulators in its attempt to buy O2 for £10.25bn, Three has snapped up UK Broadband for a cool £250m instead.…

Reform outlines chilling vision of future in wonky research A think tank is calling for hundred-of-thousands of public sector jobs to be automated. The UK should also take a look at using drones for policing, apparently.…

Tech CEO crazy security spending rundown When Snap's filed documents last week for its IPO filing, among the interesting snippets that emerged was the cost of security for its CEO Evan Spiegel: a somewhat extraordinary $890,000.…

A Trump-repatriated cash pile could give the borg acquisition hunger pangs Analysis While HPE and Dell are concentrating on being better on-premises data centre suppliers in a hybrid cloud world, IBM on becoming a cognitive computing software supplier, and both Oracle and Microsoft on a move towards cloud, what is Cisco’s gameplan?…

Associates of man accused by HPE of $17.5m fraud carefully whitewash over his jailing Contractors working for jailed motivational speaker Peter Sage, who is accused by Hewlett Packard Enterprise of masterminding a $17.5m fraud against them, had to read The Register to figure out what had happened to their boss.…

Thanks for nic, KNF Polish banks are investigating a massive systems hack after malware was discovered on several companies' workstations.…

Vertical Millennials meet your Dad at the Disco The BBC gave the controversial Silicon Valley tech IPO Snap a priceless publicity boost today, by bringing its Planet Earth II series “exclusively” to Snap’s app and nerd goggles before the show launches on terrestrial TV in North America.…

Details emerging of re-org tweaks to get business closer to customers Following on from an exec-level re-org and top table resignations in December, and layoffs in January, lumbering tech monster Dell Technologies is again ringing the divisional changes in a bid to reduce reporting lines move up the sales dial.…

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft et al join legal battle The world of Big Tech has joined the legal showdown over Donald Trump's immigration ban, with a joint filing that argues the ban is not only illegal but would damage their businesses.…

Board chair and CFO resign FireEye has bid farewell to two of its top executives, who are departing on the heels of the hundreds of staff who left following CEO Kevin Mandia's restructure of the business last year.…

Our 1,600 KiloJubs beat your 23 Kelpies An eagle-eyed Reg reader has spotted a dastardly BBC attempt to muscle in on the Reg Standards Soviet’s turf – by devising a new and highly unauthorised measure of weight.…

Will Global Services finally be put out to pasture? Analysis Former state monopoly BT is juggling so many regulatory, financial and operational balls it’s a wonder it has a free hand to get on with the day-to-day business.…

Of risk, re-invention and doing what's good for you New year, new Linux – or, in the case of Ubuntu, two. As in years past, Canonical's distro gets two updates in 2017 – the spring and autumn releases numbered and named respectively 17.04, Zesty Zapus, and 17.10 – name TBD, actually.…

Cease this silliness with haste Sysadmin Blog The 25 and 50Gb switching standards have finally been ratified. Switches from various manufacturers have been available for some time, but now there's a better than average chance they'll interoperate with one another. While more speed is generally good, the 25 and 50Gb standards will complicate things for data centre administrators by making us have to think carefully about which 100Gb switches we buy.…

'FFForget' tool backs up social media if you quit. But who really needs paid service? If things look awful c-c-cold on social networks and you no longer dig what we all say online, Kaspersky Labs have cooked up a novel software-as-a-service product that will let back up your accounts before you decide to you f-f-f-fade away.…

We're asking because Juno's still in a bigger-than-hoped orbit. The pics are still lovely though NASA's revealed that its Juno probe has made another close pass around Jupiter, but sadly not as close as was first hoped.…

Predictions of the present past from today's future, or something Comment The data center market is hot, especially now that we are getting a raft of funky new stuff, from promising non-Intel chips and system architectures to power and cooling optimizations.…

Anonymity-lovers best not watch movies as .WMV files Windows users running the Tor browser can be tricked into uncloaking themselves, with a pretty straightforward trick based on Microsoft's DRM system.…

Mac and Windows Skype users given until March 1st to modernise themselves Microsoft's hurrying desktop Skype users to new client software.…

Security-centric distro also has some fixes in new version 2.10 The privacy-paranoid Linux distribution Tails has decided it's time to send 32-bit distributions the way of the 8086, from the planned June release of version 3.0.…

The last browser to support NPAPI plugins – Firefox 52

That headline will never happen, so one darkmart just started a bug bounty program A popular dark net marketplace hawking drugs and stolen credit cards has opened a security bug bounty offering to pay hackers for reporting vulnerabilities.…

Data from GPS systems helps to predict how satellites and radios fare when the sun flares National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released 16 years' worth of GPS solar weather data gathered by the Los Alamos National Laboratory for all comers.…

Linux lord wishes he'd consulted his calendar before last week's hurry-up suggestion Last week Linus Torvalds suggested Linux kernel developers should hurry up and calm things down, because he worried that version 4.10 might take longer than he wanted to complete.…

Shhh! Nobody tell President Bannon you need lots of science to make this work Vid The United States' long series of attempts to shoot down missiles in flight have delivered failures-a-plenty, but last week the Friday the Missile Defense Agency was able to reveal a successful test.…

If you get taken down by this 13-year-old malware, you probably deserve it One of the world's most famous net menaces, SQL Slammer, has resumed attacking servers some 13 years after it set records by infecting 75,000 servers in 10 minutes, researchers say.…

Net neutrality's taken a hit, too The Trump administration's propensity for bold and sudden action reached the United States Federal Communications Commission on Friday, as commissioner Mignon Clyburn and the Commission's chair Ajit Pai clashed over an end-of-week “news dump” that has profound policy implications.…

Trust us, says Google, we understand privacy +Comment When Google popped out Chrome 56 at the end of January it was keen to remind us it's making the web safer by flagging non-HTTPS sites.…

Online services mostly back after HPE team installs new SAN Updated HPE's crack repair squad has laboured for over four days to replace kit at Australia's Taxation Office, with no guarantee that the Office's online services would be back online come Monday.…

Don't worry too much, suggest real-estate bods America's technology world is still trying to sort out the kerfuffle caused by President Trump's anti-refugee and seemingly anti-Muslim immigration crackdown.…

Santa's second home revealed in space snaps Pics Mars is not quite the featureless red wasteland scientists once thought it was. New images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe orbiting the Red Planet have revealed delicate swirls of ice at the alien world's north pole.…

US court decides Google must cough up emails held abroad The US Department of Justice will be happy campers this weekend. A court in Pennsylvania has ruled that Google must obey domestic search warrants for data stored overseas.…

Security researcher publishes exploit code after Microsoft drags feet on fix US CERT on Thursday issued a security advisory warning that all currently supported versions of Windows are vulnerable to a memory corruption bug that can be exploited to crash computers from afar.…

Replacement units will be on their way – just don't call it a recall Updated Cisco has issued a warning that an electronic component used in versions of its routing, optical networking, security and switch products prior to November 16, 2016 is unreliable – and may fail in the next year and a half, rendering affected hardware permanently inoperable.…

Not even cable giants immune to employee protest Add Comcast to the ranks of companies whose workers have come out against President Trump's crackdown on Muslim immigrants.…

Boeing not safe for humans yet, either, apparently Boeing and SpaceX craft designed to take humans into orbit suffer fractures, according to a leaked report by the US government's General Accountability Office.…

No more days off after typing 'git clone' To lighten the burden of massive Git source code repositories, Microsoft has created a virtualized file system that allows developers to interact with large codebases without sending excessive amounts of data across the network.…

Only 8,500 miles off, President Snowflake Apple has agreed to open a new iPhone assembly factory in India. Officials in the nation say Apple will spin up factories in the Karnataka province.…

Bleeding – speaking – edge of sysadmin interface development Listen up. Storage array vendor Tintri has a video demonstrating that speech-recognizing Amazon Echo's Alexa can be used to trigger array system management ops. Is this a profound industry first, ushering in a whole new sysadmin landscape, or just eye candy-style gimmickry?…

What the FCC did next Interview US Congress could be discussing net neutrality legislation within three months, replacing controversial FCC-created regulations, according to an academic with the ear of the administration.…

Rubber gloves on as techies probe root cause An anti-malware update from Sophos caused borked systems at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) on Thursday.…

Developers remain unconvinced by CASC's novel innovation Changes introduced this week that mean code-signing certificates for Windows can only be sold in hardware form or run through a cloud-based "service" are continuing to be a concern for some developers.…

Board takeover still on the cards In another wonderful example of the US capitalist system's ability to enable businesses to eat each other for short-term shareholder reward, an activist investor is looking to take over Quantum's board and restore shareholder value.…

It's all the fault of the GBP, says US titan... doesn't mention Mr Farage Adobe, the developer of overpriced software for creative types, is just about to get a whole lot more expensive in the UK with steep rises set to be introduced from next month.…

Imagine playing office football with a compute rack on castors Public cloud will become unaffordable for players who reckon the best thing to do with industrial data is shovel it en masse into the white 'n' fluffy stuff, reckons HPE.…

New spear-phishing method for copy-pasting military hardware Chinese state-sponsored hackers are targeting military and aerospace interests in Russia and Belarus.…

New memory, quad-level cell flash, and increased layering Micron is working on two next-generation XPoint products, a new memory, and extending 3D flash beyond 64 layers.…

Guys, this Black Mirror episode is really long and too realistic Copyright infringement and use of counterfeit goods in China could downgrade a citizen's "social credit" with lifelong consequences as the country gears up to overhaul its IP laws and institutions.…