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Nvidia's profits so far this year are GPU-ge
The anti-AMD racks up 48 per cent revenue jump Graphics chip and ARM systems-on-chips hardware slinger Nvidia says its gaming, datacenter, and automotive groups were to thank for a quarter that saw its profits more than double.…
FBI boss James Comey was probing Trump's team for Russia links. You're fired, says Donald
President treats America like an episode of The Apprentice US President Donald Trump today fired FBI director James Comey.…
Infosec, e-health, Vets' Affairs scoop up cash in Oz federal budget
Australia's needy IT sector gets its annual dose of validation The IT sector always loves it when the Australian government acknowledges its existence in the federal budget, and 2017-2018 is no exception.…
ServiceNow's new CEO thinks IT can spare us from corporate re-orgs
He also feels cloud is yet to make a dent in the enterprise – but AI might fix that ServiceNow's new CEO John Donahoe has introduced himself to the company's community at its Knowledge17 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along the way he introduced some new machine learning-fueled automation tech and offered his opinion that IT departments can put a stop to future corporate re-organization efforts.…
It's 2017 and Windows PCs are being owned by EPS files, webpages
Get patching ASAP as exploits are being used in the wild – and fix Adobe stuff, too Microsoft has today published patches for more than 50 security flaws in its products – including three serious holes being exploited right now in the wild. These updates should be applied as soon as possible.…
On today's a-gender: Axing net neutrality will harm America's women, say women senators
Dems demand U-turn on FCC decision to kill rules Almost all female Democrats in the US Senate have come out against the push by FCC chairman Ajit Pai to tear up America's net neutrality regulations, arguing the rules are important for women nationwide.…
Just so we're all clear on this: Russia hacked the French elections, US Republicans and Dems
And only released Macron, Clinton campaign files – hmm It's been a busy week already on Capitol Hill. We've heard yet again revelations of Russian hackers breaking into US Republican and Democrat campaign computers – and interfering with France's presidential election.…
Cisco patches switch hijacking hole – the one exploited by the CIA
Telnet security flaw fix finally lands – or just use SSH, yeah? Cisco has patched a critical security flaw in its switches that can be potentially exploited by miscreants to hijack networks – a flaw disclosed in the Vault 7 leak of CIA files.…
Microsoft's .NET-mare for developers: ASP.NET Core 2.0 won't work on Windows-only .NET
Programmers left with not-quite-as-good .NET Core Build Microsoft has made a change to its forthcoming ASP.NET Core 2.0 web framework so that it is now incompatible with the Windows-only .NET Framework, causing confusion and annoyance for some .NET developers.…
Microsoft distie Entatech goes TITSUP
KPMG appointed to pick over bones of Midlands-based biz The loss of contracts with strategic vendors and the subsequent decline in sales forced components distributor Entatech to call in administrative receivers, The Reg can confirm.…
Toshiba tears WDC a new one for meddling in memory business sale
You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers Toshiba, threatened wth financial calamity, has told WDC to butt out and stop interfering in its bid to sell its memory business.…
Toshiba tears WDC a new one for meddling in memory business sale
You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers Toshiba, threatened wth financial calamity, has told WDC to butt out and stop interfering in its bid to sell its memory business.…
Amazon announces new Echo just as Microsoft's first Cortana-powered clone breaks cover
It's a fat iPad with no battery Amazon has announced the first Echo to feature a built-in display – one of 2017's stranger gadgets – just as Microsoft's Echo clone broke cover.…
NetApp and Cisco are pumping mad dollar into data protection startup
*ahem* No, it's data management services now NetApp and Cisco are investing millions of dollars in a 30-person data protection startup.…
Rich professionals could be replaced by AI, shrieks Gartner
Doctors, lawyers, IT folk ... all lost in time, like tears in rain... Rise of the Machines Ball-gazers* at Gartner reckon robots could replace doctors, lawyers and IT workers in the next five years. Panic, all ye faithful.…
HPE dumps Grandpa Software in Micro Focus care home, hightails it
Shares slip 5.2 per cent The hospice bed that Micro Focus readied to admit Hewlett Packard Enterprise's sickly Software business is closer to being filled now regulatory approvals for the deal are in.…
$6,000 for tours of apocalyptic post-Brexit London? WTF, NYT?
Bless the Cousins, they're trying really hard with this one Stuffy American broadsheet the New York Times is offering disaster tourism-style package holidays of Westminster for $6,500, capitalising on Britain’s popular vote to leave the European Union.…
French drone bods Parrot wheel out 'prosumer' division
If you can afford to spend $5k on a camera drone, they want to be your go-to folk French professional drone firm Parrot says it will expand into the "prosumer" market – after laying off almost 300 staff and abandoning the consumer market.…
Continuous Lifecycle: Just 30 conference tickets left
Time - and space - running out to attend our DevOps and Containers conf Events We’ve got 30 conference seats left at Continuous Lifecycle, and we’d really like to see you, yes you, sat in one of them.…
FCC blames DDoS for weekend commentary lockout
Not down to people trying to file comments on issues rhyming with wetsuit balloty, it insists Problems faced by consumers hoping to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission over the weekend were caused by a denial of service attack, the US government agency admits.…
Majority of contractors distrust HMRC's IR35 calculator, survey finds
Turkeys voting against Christmas? The vast majority of contractors do not trust the results of HMRC's online assessment tool determining them inside the IR35 changes, according to a survey by IT recruitment firm Qdos Contractor.…
Take a sneak peek at Google's Android replacement, Fuchsia
Early days yet but check out that silky-smooth UI An enthusiast has compiled Google's infant Fuchsia OS and put the toddler through its paces.…
NetApp seals up object storage garden wall with gap-filling products
Pimping up the range NetApp is trying to plug up the gaps in its object storage wall.…
Agile consultant behind disastrous Common Platform Programme steps down
Departure follows Register exposé The head of the agile company instrumental in the Ministry of Justice's disastrous Common Platform Programme has stepped down. His departure follows a Register exclusive exposing the project's failings.…
IBM: Customer visit costing £75 in travel? Kill it with extreme prejudice
And I would walk 400 miles – because my employer wouldn't pay for a train... It’s not just teleworkers that are feeling the sharp end of IBM strategic shifts – services personnel must now justify visiting a client on site if travel costs £75 or more.…
London app dev wants to 'reinvent the bus'
Why? Because, errr, data. And, ummm, apps Move over, Blakey! Silicon Roundabout wants to "disrupt the bus". A shuttle operated by London-based app flinger Citymapper will trundle around the centre of the capital, demonstrating how incumbent bus operators are stuck in the Stone Age. From tomorrow, it's going to be smart.…
Comet 67P's oxygen could be a breath of fresh air
Maybe the comet's surprise molecules aren't billions of years old after all One of the big surprises in the Rosetta probe's visit to Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko was the 2015 announcement that the rock was surrounded by a thin cloud of molecular oxygen.…
Months after it ordered a review into allegations of mismanagement, how's that ICANN accountability drive?
You'll never believe this, but… Nine months ago – and just weeks before the US government handed it control of the critical parts of the internet – California-based DNS overlord ICANN was hit by just the latest in a decade-long series of scandals.…
European Investment Bank tosses €25m to MariaDB
Finland, Finland, Finland, the place to build open DBs! The European Investment Bank has decided MariaDB Corporation is worthy of €25 million funding under the European Commission’s Investment Plan for Europe.…
Michael Dell? More like Michael in-Dell-nial: No public cloud, no future
He's got it all – and it's all to lose... even Oracle has woken up to it Opinion You look at Michael Dell, as he gazes out on an audience of 13,000 attendees at this week's Dell EMC World event in Las Vegas, and you think it's like looking at a Sun King and his worshippers.…
Phew! We had to order a new array to hold all of this week's Dell EMC announcements
A roundup for file geeks, blockhead nerds Dell EMC World Dell EMC is pumping out, among other things this week, updated arrays from five product families: VMAX, XtremIO, Unity, SC and Isilon. This new gear features a heavy dose of flash, new controllers, denser enclosures, higher capacities, and refreshed software.…
Call the fuzz, says Google, get the reward
Chocolate Factory bearing gifts to improve open source projects Google wants more open source projects to include fuzzing during their development cycle, and to help things along, it's announced a rewards program that goes as high as US$20,000.…
Email client lib blown apart by CC: list of death
LibEtPan user? Upgrade to 1.8 Developers using the open source LibEtPan library in their email agents need to patch against a null-dereference vulnerability.…
Chinese supercomputer newbs smash student cluster-building record
New top speed set by Weifang proto-boffins HPC Blog Yet another record has fallen at the Asia Supercomputer Community Student Cluster Competition. This time, it’s the HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradients) mark.…
Opposable thumbs make tablets more useful says Microsoft Research
You're already gripping your fondleslab, so why not give the thumb something useful to do? Microsoft Research has come up with an interesting idea – user interfaces designed specifically for thumb-plus-stylus use on tablet computers.…
VAST stuff-up leaves new satellite TVs TITSUP
Oz Department of Comms, call the DTA to renew your domain Australians who try to set up a new satellite TV in remote areas can't register online for free-to-air reception, because an expired domain has left the registration service TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance).…
'Crazy bad' bug in Microsoft's Windows malware scanner can be used to install malware
Critical update for security engine rushed out the door Miscreants can turn the tables on Microsoft and use its own antivirus engine against Windows users – by abusing it to install malware on vulnerable machines.…
Microsoft works fast to fix 'crazy bad' Windows remote hijacking bug
Redmond's own malware engine found to be faulty On barely a working day's notice Microsoft has fixed a nasty security hole in Windows – one that could have been exploited to remote control potentially millions of devices.…
US Air Force networks F-15 and F-22 fighters – in flight!
Talon HATE pod squirts data over three protocols between previously-incompatible aircraft The United States Air Force has successfully networked its F-22 Raptor and F-15 Eagle aircraft under the “Talon HATE” program.…
Productivity Commish changes mind on control over personal info
Datanistas fend off privacy threat, citizens get a chance to be part of a new market Updated Australians won't get an opt-out from broad data collection, if the government adopts recommendations made by the Productivity Commission.…
It's been a few days, so what fresh trouble has Uber got into now?
In West Philadelphia the DoJ raised, an objection to how they kept the cops in a haze Lawsuit magnet Uber today settled one case in Washington – while a much larger potential issue has arisen in Philadelphia.…
Fake ruse: USA Today calls the FBI after half of its 15m Facebook Likes turn out to be bogus
No one real likes us, whines hotel doorstop provider You'd think the FBI has enough on its plate with the threat of terrorism, political investigations, and attempts to nobble end-to-end encryption.…
You may now kiss the server-side: Dell EMC marries storage software to PowerEdge 14Gs
Code updated and new boxes coming Dell EMC World Dell EMC is updating three storage software products, previewing a fourth, and refreshing its Ready Nodes storage software and server bundles.…
What's your worst nightmare? A Comcast, Charter cellphone network? Oh, it's coming
Gruesome twosome sign pact to share backends, tech Much-loved US cable giants Comcast and Charter, which both long to run their own cellphone networks, are teaming up to make their wireless nightmare, er, dream a reality.…
A 'Transformational License Agreement' – what merry Dell is this?
PC maker wins buzzword bingo while emitting new sales deals Dell EMC World Dell Financial Services has today announced a string of sales and licensing deals to help customers avoid paying for stuff outright, even inventing a new TLA – "TLA," in fact.…
America's mystery X-37B space drone lands after two years in orbit
Mysterious craft likely to be surveillance testbed Pic The US Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space drone has landed – a mere two years after it took off.…
Dell sneaks speeds-and-feeds-free peek at 14th-gen PowerEdge servers
Ooooo! Hemmed edges! Dell EMC World Dell EMC has previewed the 14th generation of its PowerEdge server line, indicating there will be significant incremental advances in performance and usability, but with an almost complete absence of any product details.…
Guardian Soulmates users spammed with smut following breach
Emails and IDs exposed, trolls have a field day Updated Lonely hearts on the dating website Guardian Soulmates have been targeted with sexually explicit spam emails after trolls abused leaked contact information.…
Team Macron praised for feeding phishing spies duff info
Campaign planted bogus details on bogus websites but ultimately still got hacked The Macron campaign reportedly used fake logins and docs to waste hacker resources and frustrate phishing attempts.…
Realistic Brits want at least 3 security steps on bank accounts
Which breach were your details revealed in, then? Three in five Brits reckon that fewer than three security steps – including passwords, card readers or letters from a memorable word – are insufficient to assure their bank account is secure and not accessible by other people.…
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