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You loved it, they killed it: Now bring it back Nokia didn’t once just dominate the world’s handset market, it defined it.…

Crews have to land and move tactical info around via USB sticks. No, really Britain's latest military helicopter fleet has still not had a tactical data link capability fitted, two years after the aircraft entered service.…

But they'll be hard-pressed to catch Dell and Nutanix Analysis The hyperconverged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) market has become hypercompetitive as the two-horse race between Dell and Nutanix has been blown open with HPE/SimpliVity, NetApp and Cisco chasing them.…

Competition Markets Authority lays smackdown on random hikes and service tweaks Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have committed to providing cloud storage users with fairer contracts after a crackdown by the Competition Markets Authority (CMA).…

Big Red keeps schtum over the status of StreamLine El Reg was tipped off that Oracle's StorageTek (StreamLine) tape library product range was going to be end-of-lifed.…

It wants to see me stripped Something for the Weekend, Sir? “Strip it off!” commands a disembodied voice. “We want to see what you’ve got!”…

... as in all complex systems Since it announced a crackdown on outstanding debt in June last year, Centrelink has sent debt recovery letters to thousands of Australian welfare recipients. Early reports indicated that around 20 per cent were issued in error, although the true number may be substantially higher.…

Contractors and staff may be left out of pocket Contractors and employees at recruitment firm Coal Intelligent Technology may be left out of pocket after the company ceased trading yesterday.…

This bit goes here, this bit goes there and - huh! - why aren't the lights blinking? On-Call Welcome to another Friday (!) and therefore to another edition of On-Call, The Register's column in which we let readers vent about jobs gone bad.…

King Battistelli tries to reconstitute Appeals Committee – staff union refuses The president of the European Patent Office, Benoit Battistelli, is ignoring yet another formal rebuke of his policies by disregarding two decisions by the International Labour Organization.…

Vivid images of machine learning graph processing Pics Brit chip startup Graphcore has produced sexy images of its graph processing.…

Bloke cuffed, charged after customer's subscription axed An IT contractor is facing criminal charges after turning off the Microsoft Office 365 service of a customer he said owed him money.…

Retail mega-giant accused in lawsuit of being lying IPA-holes US big-box chain Walmart is being sued by an Ohio bloke who claims the retailer's line of "craft beers" is an egregious lie.…

They'll stick notes to fridges in the aftermath of nuclear war? Fun Fact: Dead cockroaches stay magnetized far longer than their live brethren, according to real actual science.…

PCs are going great, but enterprise and mobile divisions are in turnaround mode Expect Lenovo server and storage sales people to knock on your door, soon and often, because the company's identified the lack of its own direct sales force as the reason for poor performance in its Data Center Group for the third quarter of its 2016/17 financial year.…

There's lots of things out there and Big Red wants to dig 'em out of silos and cloud 'em up Oracle's revealed another way it thinks it can address the internet of things market, by teaching its exisiting business apps to talk things' language.…

In theory this should mean ISPs offer faster plans for fewer dollars nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has announced changes to the network capacity charge (CVC) it charges internet service providers.…

Explosive news that, for once, doesn't involve a self-detonating battery Samsung Group vice chairman Lee Jae-yong has been arrested, accused of bribery, embezzlement, and perjury, and taken to jail near Seoul in South Korea.…

Rookie's bill targets visa applicants, may never happen A newbie congressman has floated his first ever US law bill – one that demands visitors to America hand over URLs to their social network accounts.…

We took one for the team and deciphered it for you Comment Whatever Mark Zuckerberg's taking, we want some, too.…

'Rare issue under a set of circumstances that have never previously been encountered' HPE has blamed a problem with solid state disks for its dual and very disruptive outages at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).…

Cali upstart peddles 4U HyperStore 4000 box Cloudian is now touting a fat HyperStore 4000 alongside its HyperStore 1500 appliance. Both boxes are compatible with Amazon's AWS S3 APIs.…

Medieval terror bastards not great at hacking says ex-top NSA lawyer RSA USA There’s no need to panic about the threat of a major online terrorist attack, since ISIS and their allies are all talk and no trousers. That's according to the former head of the US National Counterterrorism Center.…

Will things ever be the same again? Google is once again pulling resources out of its Fiber network venture – this time it's employees.…

Bill reintroduced to crack down on location snooping US Congressional lawmakers on Wednesday reintroduced legislation to establish rules limiting how American government agencies can obtain a person's whereabouts.…

Plus: Alphabet boss tells us not to worry about the Singularity RSA USA Alphabet exec chairman Eric Schmidt is worried that the future of the internet is going to be under threat once the world’s militaries get good at artificial intelligence.…

It's life or death, says guru unhappy with net neutrality regulations Interview One of the grandaddies of VoIP is taking America's comms watchdog, the FCC, to the US Supreme Court over net neutrality – and he's told us why.…

Liability issues with self-driving cars is key concern The European Parliament today called for EU-wide liability laws to cover robotics and artificial intelligence. MEPs also want researchers to adopt ethical standards that "respect human dignity".…

Real time results from old time data IBM is adding the machine learning technology from Watson to its z/OS mainframe for smarter, faster analytics of transaction data.…

Glitch left fans without seats Eurovision fans purchasing tickets to the event in Ukraine this year were left frustrated due to a number of technical and payment issues with the website last night.…

We're! not! even! bothering! with! exclamation! mark! this! time! Yahoo! is reminding folks that hackers broke into its systems, and learned how to forge its website's session cookies. That allowed the miscreants to log into user accounts without ever typing a password.…

Hyper-converged nodes get turnkey hybrid cloud software Dell EMC says smaller enterprises are rushing to combine their on-premises IT with the public cloud and is offering a turnkey scale-out hyper-converged VxRail appliance so they can do just that.…

'Imagineer's declaration' betrays industry-wide apathy Comment French Internet of Things bods Sigfox have published a “Universal Declaration of IoT Rights”, which, as well as being a bit awful, sheds light on a wider boredom with proper security.…

If we had a pound for every time a biz cited UK currency woes Microsoft has increased hardware prices in the UK for a second time this year, citing the decreased value of the weaker sterling currency when repatriated as dollars.…

UK broadband biz posts unexciting results Revenue at Virgin Media rose 1 per cent to £1,227m for its fourth quarter results, with the firm having also signed up 215,000 more users to its £3bn Project Lighting network expansion.…

Also locks down automotive and aviation electronics F-Secure has acquired hardware and embedded system security firm Inverse Path. Financial terms of the deal, announced on Thursday, were undisclosed.…

Immuta to free up data scientists in 'highly regulated' environments Immuta, a data governance startup run by former US National Security Agency technicians, has announced the conclusion of its Series A funding round, pulling in $8m.…

Google's machine learning library hits 1.0 Tensorflow, Google’s opensource machine learning library, has toddled into whole figures, just over a year after the first release - with the proviso that version 1.0 might not be entirely backwards-compatible with early adopters’ programmes.…

HCI plans reveal overshadows Q3 numbers +Comment NetApp met its revenue predictions for its third fiscal 2017 quarter and talked openly about a coming SolidFire-based hyperconverged product suited for scalable hybrid cloud and mixed workload enterprise deployments.…

The language isn't the problem, it's you and your PC The R language has enjoyed a great reputation in statistical computing and graphics for decades. However, it is also known as something for statisticians. Born around the time of Java, PHP and Python, R lags behind all three by a long chalk on the TIOBE rankings.…

A bit less self-assurance goes a long way Comment One problem writing about UK government IT is that after a while it feels a bit like Groundhog Day – a syndrome that must be even more pronounced for the folk working in it.…

In the city or up the country? Promo The obvious difference between using a data centre in the city centre compared to the country is cost, but other factors such as proximity to fibre connections, accessibility, security and just plain convenience, might well lure you back to the centre. Let’s help you decide whether you’d prefer your infrastructure to be uptown, top ranking, or just on a farm.…

European providers team up A number of cloud infrastructure providers operating in Europe have signed up to a new data protection code of conduct.…

Former US sub-hunter boasts 1980s décor, serious sonar, workstations galore and so much printer ink Slideshow Chances are this story was brought to you by a submarine cable, the world-girdling network of optic fibres that just about make the internet possible.…

Avoid this wonderful malware on your network by black-holing connections A detailed analysis of the Shamoon malware – which is playing a huge role in the cyberwar between Saudi Arabia and Iran – has identified servers used to spread the software nasty.…

'We're learning every day'. But does 'test your backups' really need to be learned? When GitLab suffered its database deletion, outage and related failure of five backup tools, the company quickly offered The Register an interview. Which sounded like a good opportunity to learn just how a startup aiming for serious developers, and with US$25m of serious investors' cash in its keeping, could have failed to operate a proper data protection regime.…

Really, guys? Really? Videos AI may be more human-like than people think. DeepMind’s latest research shows that once resources dwindle, the selfish instinct kicks in and virtual AI agents turn against each other, becoming aggressive to get what they want.…

Should bugs that don't expose user data be left alone, saving time and effort? Poll The Xen Project is asking if it can disclose fewer bugs.…

If 'cute' means 'explosively re-writes plenty of our theories about how stars behave' In the kind of observational serendipity that astro-boffins live for: spotting the explosion of a supernova mere hours after the explosion's light started reaching Earth.…

Look, don't copy: 'this is not an open source license' Ephemeral messaging application Wickr has opened up the core crypto software of its Wickr Professional app so others can review it.…