Feed the-register www.theregister.com - Articles

www.theregister.com - Articles

Link https://www.theregister.com/
Feed http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
Updated 2026-06-27 19:34
Sales 'smasher' Simon Niesler lands role as SAP UK cloud supremo
Corporate rising star in charge as targets raised SAP has moved the UK corporate brass in a move that could propel cloud sales, The Reg has learned.…
Ford fills up ex-Google, Uber engineers' tank: $1bn pours into Argo AI
Sizable bet on an autonomous car by 2021 Ford is investing $1bn in Argo AI, a startup cofounded by engineers who resigned from Google and Uber’s autonomous car projects.…
Third time lucky: ICANN beats off .africa ban
Promises to create new top-level domain despite ongoing court case Internet overseer ICANN will push ahead with a new ".africa" top-level domain, despite having twice been ordered not to because of serious questions over how it handled the case.…
New PayPal T&Cs prevents sellers trash-talking PayPal
Better not run our logo smaller than MasterCard's, pal PayPal's released a new batch of User Agreements that includes a new “non-discouragement clause for sellers” that prevents them from talking down the service, plus price hikes a-plenty.…
Kids these days will never understand the value of money
Nor should they, because the folding stuff is disappearing into phones and cards Where’s all the money gone? I don’t mean why it’s flowing out of your bank account in ever greater volumes. Actually, I do mean that, but in the most immediate, tangible way. Not very long ago, you knew what you spent because you could count the banknotes as you handed them over. Money was physical, tangible, and real. That’s less true today.…
High tides: Boffins spy on dolphins baked on poisonous piscines
Dude, quit bogarting the blowfish Scientists in Australia have observed groups of dolphins sharing around a blowfish and getting out of their skulls on the toxins they produce.…
Munich may dump Linux for Windows
Vote due next week on move that's driven by cost concerns The German city of Munich, which pioneered the use of open source software at scale in government, looks set to replace Linux on the desktop with Windows.…
Cisco sacrifices iron, pushes gateway protection into cloud
Umbrella takes the edge of enterprise network defence Cisco's decided that the network perimeter is the wrong place for a Web gateway, so it's floating one into the cloud.…
NORKS fires missile that India reckons it could shoot down in flight
The Cold War called, wants its arms race back While President Donald Trump hosted Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe over the weekend, North Korea decided the time was right for another missile test.…
That guy using a Surface you keep seeing around town could be a spook
Surface devices and Windows 10 are now NSA-approved for use by US government workers Microsoft's pointed out that the United States' National Security Agency has added some Surface devices to the nation's okay-for-accessing-secure-information list.…
Oz consumer watchdog: 'up to' speeds shouldn't be in broadband ads
ISPs told to get real by advertising speeds punters will get at busy times Australia's consumer watchdog is trying to ensure advertising offers comprehensible and accurate broadband performance information.…
Chap scripts remote Linux takeover for sysadmins
Use this for good, not for evil. But not if you care about your penguins Linux sysadmins with a sense of adventure: Tokyo-based developer Hector Martin has put together a set of scripts to replace an in-use Linux system over SSH.…
Ex-FBI man spills on why hackers are winning the security game
Government and business don't get on, AI is bunk and politics rules BSides SF Comfortable illusions about how security is working are crippling the ability of government and industry to fight the threat, a former member of the FBI’s netsec team has told the B-Sides San Francisco security conference.…
Linus Torvalds decides world doesn't need a new Linux today
'I could have released the final 4.10' but preferred not to over-complicate things Those waiting for the milestone that would have been version 4.10 of the Linux kernel have another week to wait, after Linus Torvalds decided not to release the final version this week.…
As South Australia blacked out, PM's office was told renewable power was not to blame
Public servants' 'misinformation' warning seemingly set aside for politics Following last year's megastorm and blackout in South Australia, Vulture South opined that the events had nothing to do with the state's use of wind power. Now, a freedom of information release reveals the government was advised to that effect before ministers started to cast blame.…
Interview: AARNet's Peter Elford on Australia's national research infrastructure
What bits of the boffins' cloud do we build ourselves? Australia is re-crafting the roadmap that guides its national research infrastructure, a task that covers everything from the network to the nation's high performance computing systems.…
Oracle refuses to let Java copyright battle die – another appeal filed in war against Google
If at first you don't succeed, try { try { again } } Oracle has brought its legal war with Google back to life, alleging Android's Java framework ripped off Big Red's copyright.…
Bugat-wielding hacker: Yes, I tried to nick $3.2m from US schools, oil biz
Moldovan malware slinger faces up to 15 years in the cooler A Moldovan miscreant has admitted infecting computers at a US oil company and school district in an attempt to rob the organizations blind.…
Lovely. Now someone's ported IoT-menacing Mirai to Windows boxes
Malware can spread to gizmos and gadgets after slipping into internal systems The Mirai malware that hijacked hundreds of thousands of IoT gadgets, routers and other devices is now capable of infecting Windows systems.…
Voila! Bazinga! Amazon turns Alexa into an annoying 'cool' aunt
The one who went to France once and loves sitcoms Say what you like about Amazon, it has never been cool.…
Nokia wheels out a complete MVNO package. Makes a change from WinPho
Taking 'mobile operators are our customers' a bit too far? Nokia has wheeled out a worldwide IoT network grid (WING) that sounds remarkably like an all-in-one mobile virtual network operators offering.…
Crack in black: Matte iPhones losing paint at alarming rate, gripe fans
Furious loyalists bemoan Sir Jony's shoddy craftsmanship One of Apple's newest iPhones is being slammed by fans for its lack of quality, in what should be a worrying development for the Cupertino iStuff slinger.…
Verisign probed by US Dept of Justice over $135m .web auction
We're here to chew gum and demand info, and we're all out of gum, say antitrust cops The US Department of Justice is digging into the highly unusual auction of internet extension .web last year, the company that purchased it has admitted.…
Run this in April: UPDATE Azure SET SQLthreat_detection = 'generally available'
Subheading'); DROP TABLE articles;-- Microsoft says it will fully power up its Azure SQL Database Threat Detection service this spring.…
Take cover! Storage news barrage incoming
We sheltered our heads until there was a pause for reporting Incoming! Boom, boom and boom again – storage news announcements hit the wires in a relentless barrage. Here's a few we've received showing developments in data protection, cloud storage, hyper-converged storage, the dregs of flash memory and more.…
Judge green lights Microsoft vs Uncle Sam gag order case
Indefinite injunctions trouble travel ban judge Microsoft is clear to sue the US government for gagging the company from telling users when their data has been accessed by the State. The lawsuit, filed last April, jumped another legal hurdle this week – thanks to the Washington judge who also battered President Trump's executive order on travel.…
Crims in £160m broadband scam facing 44 years of porridge
'Not one of you has accepted dishonest involvement,' says judge Four men, who conned Barclays Bank and Belgian banking group KBC out of £160m in a super fast broadband scam, have today been sentenced to a collective 44 years in the clink.…
Hortonworks brakes on breaking even, continues to burn cash
Er, we're going to break even next year, says CEO Bearden Hortonworks has officially failed in its bid to stop burning cash by the end of this financial year.…
Get orf the air over moi land Irish farmer roars at drones
Pledges to eradicate drone burglary threat by 'any means necessary' A farmer in County Tipperary has declared war on drones, claiming criminals are using the buzz-some devices to scope out rural areas for burglaries.…
Soz telcos you're 'low priority' post-Brexit, says leaked gov doc
Steel, construction, oil and gas, telecoms bottom of the list Telcos have been identified as a "low-priority" sector in Theresa May's brave new post-Brexit Britain, according to a list of industries compiled by the government which ranks them in order of importance.…
Alleged HPE fraud man Peter Sage once ran dodgy pharma biz
Plus: Full details of the ex-stripper who controls his European enterprise Peter Sage, the jailed motivational speaker accused by Hewlett Packard Enterprise of perpetrating a $17.5m fraud against them, once ran a company which claimed “‘traditional' pharmaceuticals simply intoxicate your body”.…
Talking to Tintri's Alexa speechbot might not actually be all that crazy
Users can do more as management goes automatic Interview Tintri's Alexa speechbot is no piece of eye-candy gimmickry. CTO and founder Dr Kieran Harty says it will enable users to do more with less hassle as system management gets automated. We quizzed Harty on the how-and-why of its development.…
Samsung's Chromebook Pro – posh and with a point(er)
Sammy attempts to take Chrome OS high end Hands-on It's been nearly six years since Google announced the launch of its own operating system, Chrome OS, and the CR‑48 Chromebook running it.…
Oracle settles court case with fired cloud services finance 'whistleblower'
Terms of settlement not disclosed SHOCKER Oracle has reached a settlement with a former finance manager who alleged she had been fired for refusing to follow what she believed to be unlawful accounting practices that bumped up the firm's cloud numbers.…
All of Blighty's attack submarines are out of action – report
No boats capable of chasing off naughty Russians, we're told None of the Royal Navy's seven attack submarines are deployed on operations at the moment, according to reports, which potentially threatens the security of Britain's nuclear deterrent.…
You want WHO?! Reg readers vote Tom Baker for Doctor 13. Of course
The commentards have spoken. BBC, take heed To be cast as Doctor Who once might be regarded as fortunate, but to be Doctor twice would be AWESOME!…
Is flash really the game-changer the marketeers say it is?
Taking over your data centre? Study How many stories have you read about all-flash arrays taking over your data centre or computer room? You've probably heard this line even more than you’ve read about how everything is moving to the cloud, how IoT will change the world next week, or how cyber-attacks are going to bring civilisation to its knees by Easter.…
Openreach reshuffles top brass, brings in BT bods to make biz more independent of BT
Errr... does that work? Openreach has shipped in two BT bods to head regulation and strategy at the broadband provider, yet it still hopes to convince regulator Ofcom it can run Openreach as an independent entity.…
Stick glue on a drone. Fly it into a flower. World hunger solved, bee-lieve
Japanese researchers turn tiny drones into robot bees Video A failed science experiment involving a sticky gel has been revived to create robot pollinators.…
Planned Espionage Act could jail journos and whistleblowers as spies
Hasty and botched consultation revealed by El Reg Exclusive Proposals for a swingeing new Espionage Act that could jail journalists as spies have been developed in haste by legal officials, The Register has learned.…
Welcome to my world of The Unexplained – yes, you're welcome to it
Pleading guilty to assault on battery Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'm getting funny dreams again. Either that or I have stepped into one of Arthur C Clarke's episodes of Mysterious World of The Unexplained albeit without the Sri Lankan foliage and Eric Morecambe glasses.…
Brexit could further harm woeful rural payments system
But we won't have to pay fines to Europe for being crap... Brexit could further exacerbate the woeful IT track record of farmers receiving rural payments, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned.…
Scottish court issues damages to couple over distress caused by neighbour's use of CCTV
Personal data gathering ruled 'intrusive, excessive and unjustified' A Scottish couple have been awarded damages of more than £17,000 in total for the "extreme stress" they suffered as a result of the "highly intrusive" use of CCTV systems by the owner of a neighbouring property.…
ISIS videos, adtech, and the 'smartest guys in the room' (Google)
Why can’t Big Tech drain the swamp? Maybe governments don't want to Special Report Google's ad blacklists, intended to stop big brand advertisements running over YouTube terror videos, aren’t working.…
Soaring sales, healthy fat profits... Simply not good enough, Nvidia
Best quarter yet, says CEO, while share price slips Nvidia continues to ride the AI hype wave, raking in $2.17bn in sales in three months – its best quarterly results yet, apparently.…
NASA bakes Venus-proof electronics
Previous Venus probes hardly lasted an hour. This stuff survived three weeks before the boffins lost their lab booking NASA boffins have found a way to make electronics that can survive on the surface of Venus, at least for a few weeks…
Continuous Lifecycle London: More workshops, more speakers
Join us in London this May to talk DevOps, CD, containers and more We’ve added more workshops and conference speakers to the Continuous Lifecycle lineup, making the three-day event a must-go for any tech pro looking to get on top of DevOps, containerization, and Continuous Delivery.…
IT guy checks to see if PC is virus-free, with virus-ridden USB stick
Same org saw users catch ransomware twice. In one day. After being warned On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our weekly therapy session for readers who need to share terrible memories of jobs gone horribly, horribly, wrong.…
Citrix, Bitdefender in Xen-only virtual security double-team
'Hypervisor introspection' probes guest VMs for advanced malware from splendid isolation Citrix and Bitdefender have revealed a security tool that runs inside the hypervisor – in this case, Citrix's own Xen Server – to detect advanced persistent threats running in guest VMs.…
Instapaper in 31-hour outage, says it needs a week to restore all data
Pinterest-owned web scrapbook 'hit system limit for hosted database', probably in AWS Web scrapbook Instapaper has suffered a 30-plus hour outage and is warning of a week-long restore time.…
...1140114111421143114411451146114711481149...