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'Roger, drone 04957, vector 45 at 300 feet...' British startup Altitude Angel has, in conjunction with air traffic control service NATS, launched an air-traffic-as-a-service app for drone operators.…

Business is Redshifting itself into analytics queries Athena, goddess of wisdom, has bestowed her name upon Amazon's new interactive query service for S3 as the company seeks to become more than a mere infrastructure vendor.…

Routers scooted, says KCOM Thousands of broadband customers in the Hull area have been left without reliable internet access following a cyber attack.…

Military personnel's social centre scratches its head The Royal Air Force Club appears to have been the victim of a hack, following members being sent fake invoices for staying at the club's London HQ.…

Media titan's radical idea for mobile network Sky had a few surprises when it unveiled its new mobile network this week. Rather than half-heartedly selling its network as a second-class bolt-on to Sky's 11 million existing TV and broadband customers, Sky Mobile is going to be a feisty, consumer-friendly MVNO in its own right.…

The drives? For sure Interview How does HPC array vendor DataDirect Networks view NVMe drives and NVMe over Fabrics?…

Securing you from head to toe! Wait... what? How secure are your feet? With these exclusive socks from, er, Kaspersky, your tootsies will never be subject to another bout of ransomware again.…

That didn’t take long They’re back. Sort of.…

It's pulling out of cheapies Samsung's phone sales have fallen 10 per cent in the last year, but the Note isn't to blame. The analysis comes from market researcher CCS Insight, which says the Korean giant is in decline because it is withdrawing from low-margin volume segments.…

Four words: Stand-alone storage. Kerching Pure Storage all-flash arrays continue to rise, with revenues up 50 per cent year-on-year in Pure's third fiscal 2017 quarter.…

Data breaches could cost firms business, Brits tell survey Further evidence has emerged that hacked firms might subsequently suffer a customer exodus. After TalkTalk's famous data breach, 101,000 of its customers walked.…

UEFI scramble for frozen for unlucky 19 Lenovo server customers should disable Windows Update and apply a UEFI update to avoid Microsoft’s November security freezing their systems.…

Then cruelly cooks him in Mexican-inspired dish Pic It was just an ordinary evening for Janet Ayers in Portsmouth, preparing a vegetarian chilli for dinner.…

Find out how to resolve that at 11am GMT today Live Broadcast Office 365 is not intrinsically secure. Its risks are not necessarily greater than they used to be, they're just different — and need to be addressed accordingly.…

Traders free to offer differential pricing, though The Council of Ministers has agreed on draft regulation to ban unjustified geoblocking in an attempt to remove barriers to e-commerce across the European Union.…

Because who doesn't want Hipster chat at 160 × 200 with a side of with a side of rPi? A Kiwi chap named Jeff Harris has created a Slack client for the Commodore 64.…

Vacuum of space gets distorted and acts like a prism Pic A neutron star may have led astronomers to find signs of a strange quantum phenomena in vacuum space that was predicted more than eighty years ago.…

More evidence, if any were needed, that Microsoft wants you to sign for more Azure Microsoft's ambition to paint the enterprise azure is accelerating, with the news that Redmond's StorSimple arrays will be able to convert the data they store into Azure Blobs.…

Put the tape measure away, boys AWS re:Invent Speaking at his opening keynote for the 2016 re:Invent conference, AWS chief Andy Jassy made a point of going after Oracle.…

Experiment on International Space Station rivals Teflon's 'unepxectedly useful stuff from space program' crown Fifteen years of plasma experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) could let people enjoy the lusciously unhealthy taste of deep-fried potato chips, without having to smell them first.…

Brit/Belgian research team decipher signals and devise wounding wireless attacks A global research team has hacked 10 different types of implantable medical devices and pacemakers finding exploits that could allow wireless remote attackers to kill victims.…

Keep the defibrillator handy There's no sunrise in sight yet, only a slightly paler night: IDC reckons a lame uptick in convertibles and slim laptops will slow the PC market's collapse.…

Don't panic, because this one's a bit esoteric. Do feel free to face-palm anyway Microsoft is working on a patch for a bug or feature in Windows 10 that allowed access to the command line and, using a live Linux .ISO, made it possible steal BitLocker keys during OS updates.…

Michael 'Jim' Delligatti somehow made it to 98 years before throwing away the pickle Michael 'Jim' Delligatti, the inventor of the Big Mac, has died aged 98.…

IoT vendor in prompt, polite, sensible, security shocker IoT security camera vendor UCam247 has contacted The Register to say most devices in the wild aren't vulnerable to the “single URL pwnage” vulnerability.…

Redmond said it wouldn't fix a flaw, then did it on the sly For once, a Google Project Zero bug report to Microsoft has resulted in a fix without a public spat. Indeed, this fix happened without any public announcement at all.…

Let a thousand bad reviews bloom on the web The US Congress has handed over the Consumer Review Freedom Act, which stops businesses from gagging online reviews of their products or services, to President Obama for his signature.…

...and then witness how Oakland's court system managed them all There is not a sysadmin in the world who has not had to deal with a botched software rollout; for most, it is a coming-of-age experience.…

Turns out printing money requires a buttload of compute muscle AWS re:Invent AWS says it has moved into building its own silicon to help deliver the throughput for its massive cloud service.…

Oh, there was an innovation strategy speech as well The New South Wales (NSW) Public Service Association has hit the ceiling about the Australian state's decision to hire IT staff from overseas for the outsourcing of its ServiceFirst shared service operation.…

Rule 41 makes life easier for Feds, cops to target Tor, VPN users, and malware victims Three last-ditch legislative efforts to block the changes to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure have failed, and from tomorrow the Feds will find hacking your PC a lot less of a hassle.…

Stream that money our way, says America's Hat The Canadian government will consider a new digital tax that would see Netflix required to set aside five per cent of its gross revenues.…

Just give it to me straight AWS re:Invent At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today, Amazon Web Services tipped its hand to reveal its battle plan for invading new markets.…

Look out for bill shock, though, devs AWS re:Invent Now that it dominates the public cloud market, Amazon is setting its sights lower – on developers deploying small projects – in the hope that these customers will remain within the AWS ecosystem.…

Captain likely to walk the plank Internet speeds on the UK island of Jersey have been slashed – literally – after a ship's anchor destroyed three submarine cables linking the isle to the British mainland.…

Answers on a post card to El Reg please Hewlett Packard Enterprise made a nice claim today: it can cut the time to lob operational tech (IoT devices) on to a network and the cost of doing so – the blockers, it said, to wider enterprise and industrial adoption.…

Security is expensive – so cough up Financial necessity is forcing the security research group behind Qubes OS to begin establishing commercial funding to support its continued development.…

At an estimated rate of 13,000 smartphones a day A new strain of Android malware is infecting an estimated 13,000 devices per day.…

Philip Morris's iQOS Comment A few years ago, I interviewed Dr Craig Ventner, the man who decoded the human genome, about his plan to save the planet. Ventner’s goal was to create a drop-in substitute for hydrocarbon fuels, using genetically modified algae.…

Incoming CEO as founding CEO goes to CTO role Qumulo CEO and co-founder Peter Godman is transitioning to a CTO role as Bill Richter is hired to be the new CEO and Presidenp.…

Analytics Platform System made generally available Microsoft has made its latest appliance update generally available, reminding users that PolyBase exists and that SQL Server isn't just a boring old data warehouse.…

Investors don’t care as sky-rocketing growth set to continue A thundering great loss: that’s the first thing to notice about Nutanix’s latest quarterly results.…

Don't laugh, you can get a shiny sticker out of it Amazon has jumped aboard the Internet of Things bandwagon, offering to certify its APN Partners as "Amazon IoT Competency Partners", it announced at its AWS re:Invent conference.…

There's HPE, Dell and two rampant Chinese server dragons chasing them Gartner's number-crunchers say the server market declined in the third quarter, with only Cisco and the Others supplier category showing revenue growth.…

New wine in old bottles; NVMe fabrics can use Fibre Channel instead of replacing it +Comment A walk through the vast and spacious exhibition arena at HPE Discover in London can bring you to Cavium's stand. There Roberto Angelo Polacsek, a senior account exec, will tell you why he believes NVMe over Fibre Channel will be important. Cavium bought Fibre Channel HBA vendor QLogic recently, and Polacsek says its 16Gbps HBAs can be upgraded to add NVMe fabric support, FC-NVMe, for free.…

Debates ahoy in late January The head of Europol will be contributing to a seminar at UCL on "the state of the current privacy landscape", which will run in January.…

I was going to sext but then I remembered the government ban. So I didn't! The likes of Facebook must stop under-18s from sending each other sexually explicit pictures, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has told a Parliamentary committee.…

Don't panic, don't pay The NCA has said that "at least four young men have taken their own lives" after being targeted by financially motivated webcam blackmailers, while UK police forces are sharing stats and tips in a campaign to combat the rising problem.…

Don't panic, don't pay UK police forces have recorded 864 cases of financially motivated webcam blackmail cases so far in 2016, more than double the 385 reported in 2015.…

Soz about that. Mindfulness, yeah? Virgin Media has overhauled its botched spam filtering system, which has resulted in businesses and customers missing thousands of legit emails.…