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It is the world’s largest online vid-slinger, after all When the world’s largest online silo of video content decides to come out and launch its own TV subscription service, including sought after live sports content, it’s not just the traditional pay TV industry which should be concerned, but the streaming giants too. YouTube TV is here and Apple has to return fire.…

Googles' rise is permanent, Microsoft wants you to give Office 365 a beating Google and Microsoft have both increased the cash on offer under their bug bounty programs.…

MAVEN was on track to come within seven seconds of Phobos The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft last week made a hasty burn to avoid a likely collision with Martian moon Phobos.…

You may have thought romance was dead before this ... erm ... remarkable MongoDB cover of Sia's 'Cheap Thrills' came along Vendors' music video homages are always just … erm … remarkable The Register has spotted a new music video homage by a vendor and because they're always so excellent, bring it to you for your entertainment.…

HPE admits to contract fail, will give failed kit forensic analysis but may also crimp report Hewlett Packard Enterprise “failed to deliver on the contractual terms” it agreed with Australia's Taxation Office after 3Par storage arrays twice failed at the Office, according to commissioner of taxation Chris Jordan. But the cause of the problems may never be publicly revealed.…

You're on the sh*t-list and will be shouted at, says Linus as he gives the world Linux 4.11 rc1 Linux 4.11's first release candidate has been released, but not without a little friction after Linus Torvalds railed at the quality of some code sent his way during the merge process for the new update to the platform.…

Not us, says India. Which leaves China, Facebook, Tencent, YouTube and …. ? “Data breach hunter” Chris Vickery has claimed that he will shortly reveal a “1.4 billion identity leak”.…

Redmond offers six years extra support for Windows, SQL Servers, cheap if you pay now Microsoft last year promised a new “Premium Assurance” product to provide security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server for an additional six years. And now it's delivered: Premium Assurance went on sale as of last week with incentives to cough up sooner rather than later.…

Makes India grate again as 15 day sign-off option binned to clear application backlog. The United States has suspended “premium” processing of H-1B visas, the skilled worker visa often used by technology companies to bring workers to the nation.…

Ill-fated Akatsuki suffers more setbacks – now, its cameras The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has said it is shutting down two of the five cameras on its planetary probe around Venus due to power glitches.…

Seat-back systems deliberately cripple non-Pana code – lawsuit Panasonic has been hit with a lawsuit accusing the electronics giant of monopolizing the market for in-flight entertainment (IFE) devices with a series of dirty tricks.…

* Allegedly! Amazon, the target of multiple lawsuits alleging labor law violations and the subject of criticism over cutthroat work culture, appears to be pilot testing its tough-love approach to worker management in its burgeoning media production business.…

Hardware maker offers to replace or repair at-risk kit Netgear on Thursday said that four of its product lines may experience "higher-than-normal failure rates" and that it is contacting affected customers to assess whether replacement or repair is appropriate.…

Ride-sharing tech bros accused of shady behavior shocker Not content with cultivating a toxic, sexist and hostile corporate culture, Uber is on a collision course with cops worldwide.…

One used AOL. Yes, all of these apply to Vice President Mike US Vice President Mike Pence has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed he used his personal AOL account for state government business.…

Or maybe takes a cue from the White House's leak crackdown The European Patent Office (EPO) is seeking new powers that it would allow it to search the bags and electronic devices of its staff and office visitors.…

Storage news saved for the end of the week TGI (Thank God It’s) Friday and so time to retrieve back burner storage news received in the week and bring it to the fore;…

Also handed four months' chokey, suspended for 12 The Royal Air Force officer who sent his Airbus Voyager into an accidental dive from 33,000 feet, injuring passengers and crew, has been dismissed and given a suspended prison sentence.…

Regulation in effect from this week, 180 days to comply Major financial firms operating in New York need to comply with tougher cybersecurity rules that came into effect this week.…

Hipster hangout devs praised, vuln never exploited Slack quickly squashed a potential account hijack bug hours after it was reported.…

Flt Lt Andrew Townshed pleaded guilty to letting Nikon wedge Airbus' control stick A Royal Air Force pilot has been cleared of perjury – but will be sentenced at court martial today after admitting he allowed his digital camera to jam his military airliner’s controls, sending it into a 4,000ft plummet.…

Theresa May appoints former International Criminal Court judge The Prime Minister has today appointed Lord Justice Fulford as the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner, who will be the chief overseer of the UK's new surveillance laws.…

TechLive demo has raised a lot of questions Interview The TechLive session revealed Symbolic IO's IRIS i1 box, and its tech continues to raise lots of questions. How do the components work? Why have certain design choices been made? How does the IRIS system compare to other servers?…

Intends to determine correct employment status HMRC has unveiled its tax calculator for contractors to determine whether they should cough up more cash in its freelancer tax clampdown next month.…

More market share than HPE, IBM and NetApp combined The latest IDC Storage Tracker says top dog Dell Technologies has more external storage revenue share than HPE, IBM and NetApp combined.…

Thumb-twitchers will just have to go for a walk this weekend. Or read a book Gamers desperate to play on their new Nintendo Switches these weekend may have to wait a bit longer, with many reporting their preorders have been delayed.…

Embattled app's owners to appeal verdict Taxi app Uber has lost its legal challenge to Transport for London’s requirement that its drivers must pass English language tests, according to reports.…

Whitehall can't even convince UK it's not watching everything we do UK surveillance laws could be an obstacle to the creation of a US-Europe Privacy Shield-style arrangement post-Brexit.…

€80 a go. The anti-bacterial soap is free Is your significant other staying a little longer at Mobile World Congress than you expected? You may want to ask them about the robo sex house recently installed nearby the mobile extravaganza venue in Barcelona.…

CTO alludes to Brexit as a factor in sluggish UK sales MWC Weak customer spending on networking gear will pick up once organisations start splashing cash on next gen tech like 5G, with Brexit also playing a part in sluggish sales, Colin Kincaid, CTO at Cisco's Service Provider Business has said.…

Tell us, what’s the picture? Survey We’re running a survey to find out just what kind of impact flash drives and their arrays have had on your business. We’d like to know your experiences with them be they good bad or plain right ugly.…

It's the internet of sh*tty things, says Intel's Raj Samani MWC Greater accountability is needed in the rush to connect absolutely everything to the net – including toilet roll holders and pregnancy tests – Europol's CyberCrime Centre advisor and Intel Security CTO Raj Samani has said.…

If you ‘ain’t coding Java EE, it’s telling you what to deliver A while back I answered my door bell - it was the pizza. After transacting for the hot pie, the older delivery man with a Just Like Dear Old Dad mustache asked: "Are you a programmer?" pointing to the OpenStack logo on my hoodie sleeve. "Yes," I said, "well, I used to be." He asked me what programming language he should learn and quickly added "JavaScript?"…

Pause, play, rewind, break… buy another pair Something for the Weekend, Sir? Up and down, I’m up the wall, I’m up the bloody tree. Yup, this week finds me back on the trail in an unnecessary hunt for inessential portable kit I probably won’t use.…

Fine words, yes, but you're no better protected Comment Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, Brad Smith, recently announced a new deal called the Microsoft Azure IP Advantage Program. It is touted as “the industry’s most comprehensive protection against intellectual property (IP) risks”.…

Data loss caused by the team's frag-happy habits didn't help their cause On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our weekly review of readers' tales of jobs gone awry.…

Straight out of the Red Hat playbook: Take your VM images and pay for support Docker has extended its product line by adding two E's, for Enterprise Edition, a version of its container software tuned to the demands of businesses.…

Blighty's machine learning and robotics strategy lags behind other countries, say experts AI is at the forefront of the UK government’s digital strategy, and believed to be crucial to the nation's future post-Brexit.…

Poultry peddler pleads Page's peeps: Precision, please A restaurant owner feared for her business's future this week after it was mistakenly listed as closed down on Google Maps – and the ad giant wouldn't correct the error.…

Batt inventor John is back – and says his latest design charges fast, holds more energy A team led by John Goodenough, the man who played a key role in creating the lithium-ion battery, thinks it has cracked a replacement.…

Tech Preview 3 lands, with offline mode and promises of Blockchain services to come Microsoft's revealed Technical Preview 3 of Azure Stack, its forthcoming on-premises Azure-in-a-box effort, adding some new features, promising a continuous stream of other additions before final release and hinting at the pricing scheme.…

Uni bods hit bell where it hertz Vibrations emitted by Britain’s most famous bell have been mapped for the first time by engineers from the University of Leicester.…

The only data you want on your wrist describes your pulse Sales of wearables did okay in the Christmas quarter, but sales of apps for wearables are in the doldrums.…

Sales superheroes promoted into management and suddenly next quarter looks tricky Nutanix posted excellent quarterly revenue results – but its outlook for next quarter is so comparatively low that its shares took a hammering.…

If you like retro tech, dictator chic and paying far too much for stuff, this is for you! Hot on the heels of the resurrected Nokia 3310 comes news of Russian outfit “Caviar” creating a Vladimir-Putin-Themed mod for the retro handset.…

Just imagine what you could do with twenty-one million dollars Secondary storage consolidating software startup Hedvig has gained $21.5m in a VC‑round of funding, with HPE putting in some of the cash.…

Ex-Sun bloke earns promotion at virty database biz A reliable source tells us that Delphix, the database copy virtualizer, has promoted engineering VP Eric Schrock into its chief technology officer role, finally replacing the somewhat long-ago departed Adam Leventhal.…

Top-level VCDX now costs $3,995 and vAdmins aren't impressed VMware's bumped up the price of its certification exams, with the price of the MBA-grade VCDX certification more than tripling.…

No immediate danger, but Microsoft wants you to deprecate old certs When Google revealed last week that it had destroyed the SHA-1 algorithm, it hammered another nail into the venerable algo's coffin.…

Lawsuit claims streaming giant hushed up viewer growth drop that sparked stock plummet Netflix is facing a class-action lawsuit from one of its investors, who claims executives withheld bad news from shareholders – and cost them billions of dollars in losses.…