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IPO misses the moment Comment Astonishment has greeted the UK’s promise to join Europe’s Unified Patent Court despite Brexit. It’s a stunning victory for the nation's powerful legal lobby. The FT euphemistically notes that “the legal system” will be around “£200m a year” richer. Meaning: you know who will be £200m richer.…

Injects Helion CloudSystem 10, confirms tech extensions to hyper-converged systems Hewlett Packard Enteprise's composable infrastructure is going into mainstream distribution in January, a year after the covers were first lifted off the machine – with some added fluffy white stuff and hyper-converged extensions.…

Secunia report on treadmill of security software pain Flaws in security products are among the most commonly encountered desktop software vulnerabilities, according to a new study.…

Vendor incentives, services and more Sponsored Recent history is littered with reseller liquidations and relationship break-ups, the sort that make the Brangelina divorce look like a kids’ party. Resellers have had to adapt to commoditisation, internet-based competition, mixed direct and indirect models, the emergence of cloud-based services and the complex demands of an increasingly tech-savvy customer base that wants services geared specifically to their business.…

Kaminario claims you need scale-up and scale-out for full fabric access benefits Interview NVMe adoption by array and storage software vendors is shaping up to be one of the single biggest transitions in the storage industry as the long-lived Fibre Channel SAN becomes the NVMeF SAN.…

Up to the House of Lords now... MPs have passed the government's controversial Digital Economy Bill, which will force internet service providers to impose blocks on porn sites that do not include mandatory age checks.…

Your homes may be your castles, but your browsing histories belong to UK.gov IPBill Queen Elizabeth II today signs off on Parliament's Investigatory Powers Act, officially making it law.…

Stay tuned for the final results HPC Blog There was some time for fun at the recently concluded SC16 Student Cluster Competition. Fortunately for us, right next to where the competition was held stood the SUSE booth, which was equipped with a great VR "space pirate" shooter. This, of course, captured our students' attention – particularly one from Team Munich.…

New plastic banknotes aren't going down well with the protein-challenged Slacktivist vegans have been writing strongly worded tweets after the Bank of England confirmed that there are animal fats in the new polymer £5 notes.…

Spectrum of products extended upwards to TFinity Fancy that – flash-loving HPE is getting into big tape boxes. It's extending its high-end tape portfolio by reselling SpectraLogic tape libraries.…

It doesn't explode. But is it really in the Samsung Galaxy class? Hands On Can you believe Huawei’s luck? Imagine discovering a new planet, populated entirely by Irish people, which has a dozen orbiting satellite moons all harvesting shamrocks, all the year round. That lucky.…

Security boffin blasts caretakers of Alan Turing's legacy The Bletchley Park Trust has promised that a website revamp due in January will address security concerns highlighted by a security expert on Sunday.…

Software-flinger improves security, integration with v6.4 If you're in the object storage game, you'd better ensure your kit has Amazon S3 functionality and security. Storage software flogger Scality is no fool and says it has improved both with its latest RING 6.4 version.…

Reasonably well informed, reasonably observant ... average The average consumer of Scotch whisky is reasonably well informed and reasonably observant and circumspect member of the general public who has an average level of attention, the EU's General Court has confirmed in ruling over a trade mark dispute.…

Too big to fail or too big to work? Analysis The value of distributed ledgers and blockchain tech to the financial sector has again come under the spotlight following the departure of several entities from prominent blockchain consortium R3: namely Goldman Sachs, Santander, Morgan Stanley and the National Australian Bank.…

It makes me cross Analysis A Xitore white paper compares coming XPoint DIMMs and Xitore's own flash DIMMs, and claims each XPoint DIMM needs a companion DRAM cache DIMM, obviously halving XPoint DIMM density.…

SpaceX has a few things to learn from the old masters On 28 November 1966, Soviet engineers cheered as the first Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Motherland and made it into space.…

Regulator 'disappointed' in BT's own voluntary proposals The regulator Ofcom has decided to force a legal separation of Openreach from BT, after the former broadband monopoly failed to offer voluntary proposals that addressed its competition concerns.…

First flight test of combined satellite and LTE broadband made all the right conections Inmarsat, Deutsche Telekom, Nokia and Thales say they have successfully conducted tests of a network capable of delivering in-flight broadband across all 28 (current) European Union nations.…

Step one, connect the Chromecast to your broadband modem and… oh… hmm Google has kicked out a workaround of sorts for Chromecast Audio devices that have been causing BT routers to constantly reset themselves.…

Remains of lab experiment, including ReRAM, will be scattered into future products HPE lab boffins have finally, after years of work, built a proof-of-concept prototype of their fairytale memory-focused computer, The Machine. The achievement is bittersweet.…

Sorry to go all MC Hammer on you, but boffins tell bit-flippers 'you can't touch this' A group of German researchers reckon they've cracked a pretty hard nut indeed: how to protect all x86 architectures from the “Rowhammer” memory bug.…

Bit barn lights are blinking in Singapore and Australia,

AWS has realised that desktop-as-a-service fleets need management too Amazon Web Services has all-but-enlisted desktop virtualisation specialist Liquidware Labs to help manage its cloudy desktops-a-a-service.…

Hamburg court upholds individuals' right to block ads Adblock Plus is celebrating, but publishers are scratching their heads, after German courts ruled blocking online advertisements is legal.…

Tiny country creates yuuge problems as crims threaten to expose 'tax evasion' Hackers have days ago breached a Liechtenstein bank and are allegedly blackmailing customers by threatening to release their account data if ransoms are not paid.…

Serverless framework inches towards cloud-ready code Amazon Web Services (AWS) has quietly flicked the iteration counter on its Chalice Python serverless development framework to 0.4 and 0.5.…

Big vendors patch bugs nearly as quick as open source coders Cisco's decided it's going to give 90 days' grace on vulnerability disclosures, to let (mostly) commercial vendors catch up with their bug-fixes.…

Now your date will know your passphrase is hunter2 Netflix is testing a new feature that, for some subscribers, shows their passwords in plain text as they are typed in – and potentially when folks revisit the site.…

Android 7.0's crypto sauce is 'half-baked' and Google promises to make it better, soon Looking at the storage encryption Google has implemented in Android Nougat (7.0) through the metaphor of the glass that's either half full or half empty, cryptography expert Matthew Green sees Google's glass as all but drained.…

AI pity the fool The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the US military, has today announced a new program aimed at using AI to bring together skills from humans and machines to solve problems more effectively.…

Wired: Fiber, copper networks. Tired: Flimsy Wi-Fi. Expired: Smoke signals, carrier pidgeon Global spending on Ethernet cables will soon cross the $1bn threshold, say analysts.…

Industry veteran to run rule over resellers from February Dell EMC has finally confirmed Sarah Shields as president elect of its UK and Ireland channel.…

The yuan is mightier than the moral Microsoft has confirmed that it censors its Chinese language digital assistant.…

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious More than 40 cities in California are considering a tax on streaming services – dubbed a Netflix tax – claiming that the tax system needs updating for the internet era.…

Malware waltzes up to admin panels with zero authentication A widespread attack on the maintenance interfaces of broadband routers over the weekend has affected the telephony, television, and internet service of about 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany.…

Senate still deciding about Police raids on plods' raids on Stephen Conroy Some of the “NBN leak” documents seized by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are covered by parliamentary privilege, says the House of Representatives Privileges Members' Interests Committee, which yesterday published its report into the documents.…

Mobe designer remembers it still has QNX, puts it to work in self-driving ride Video Today, a trio of self-driving cars – including a BlackBerry-powered ride – hit the streets in Canada for the first time. The autonomous vehicles will be tested by their manufacturers to assess their safety and control systems in the real world.…

On-premises IT suppliers conniving in its own destruction +Comment On-premises IT storage suppliers are actively working to water down the importance of on-site hardware by building on-ramps to the public cloud.…

Tiny tearaway will be beating up hookers next Police in Ontario, Canada, got a shock on Saturday night when they pulled over a speeding driver and found an 11-year-old child hopped up on video games behind the wheel.…

Getting things straightened up again Microsoft is allegedly revising its Windows 10 design language to embrace the brave new world of virtual reality viewed through techno-spectacles.…

He's bound to say that. Truth is, it'll get worse before it gets better Comment Admiral Sir Philip Jones, head of the Royal Navy, has written how "you'd be forgiven for thinking that the RN had packed up and gone home" in response to the kicking the naval service has received in the press recently.…

Just a month after his enterprise equivalent called it a day Dell EMC today told the workforce that UK exec Tim Griffin is standing down to pursue pastures new – the second senior exec to exit the business in as many months.…

Elliott Management sustains calls to break up SK biz Samsung's top brass will go public tomorrow about ways to beef up shareholder value on the back of continued calls from activist investor Elliott Management's to break up the South Korean business.…

All eight of 'em The Liberal Democrats are to oppose plans to impose strict age regulations on porn sites in the UK's forthcoming Digital Economy Bill – describing the measures as something the "Russian or Chinese governments" would impose.…

Um. Do they actually think that's what they need? MBBF2016 Mobile operators are quite comfortable with NarrowBand Internet of Things and hope it will funnel more and more IoT customers into their arms – but not all of them understand the market, it seems.…

Finnish factory to change diet of the happiest people in Europe Fujitsu has launched a joint venture to supply the snowbound, sausage-and-root-veg-loving residents of Finland with scrummy salad all year round as part of its efforts to make farming a cloud-based endeavour.…

NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics - two sides of the same NVMe coin NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics to give shared arrays the data access latency killing benefits of NVMe. Unlike Nimble architect Dimitris Krekoukias, storage startup E8 believes putting NVMe SSDs in today’s all-flash arrays will be futile; it claims we need NVMe fabrics to get the NVMe performance boost.…

Sure, it's not very nice, but we do live in the Free World WH Smith was quick to remove DIY terror manuals from the digital shelves of its online stores after El Reg highlighted their sale but other retailers have demonstrated less of a knee-jerk reaction.…

Lock-up markup shake-up shake-down More than 4,000 Brits have had their computers infected with ransomware this year, with over £4.5m paid out to cyber criminals, according to Action Fraud.…