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This goldfish and its steerable robot tank will destroy humanity
Mark our words. First this uni campus, then the world RotM Students at Carnegie Mellon University have made a mobile goldfish bowl that the lucky fish can drive around by itself – and they've filmed it for posterity.…
NetApp rehires former exec Thurlow to run UK biz
Five years in the wilds and away from storage is enough for any man Industry grey beard Nick Thurlow has returned to NetApp to run the UK business half a decade after he quit.…
WD Corp picks teeth after SanDisk dinner, seems pleased with fuller figure
Spinners boosted by SSD sales +Comment Western Digital Corp, still digesting SanDisk, is selling more disk drives than arch-rival Seagate and appears to be doing a booming flash business as well, for now.…
I'm deadly serious about megatunnels, vows Elon Musk
Going underground That's more like it. Elon Musk is completely serious about building megatunnels under Los Angeles, buffing up his credentials as a real-life Bond villain. He's promised to start within "a month or so".…
Too early for champers? Quantum faces its first sales rise in a decade
If the next quarter goes their way, that is Get the champagne ready; Quantum might be facing its first annual revenue increase in 10 years – if the next quarter goes to plan.…
US Congress asks FCC to snuff out Google's TV landgrab
It's dead already, Congresscritters argue Americans will be stuck with the antiquated 1990s CableCARD access standard for a little longer. Republicans in US Congress yesterday urged the FCC to snuff out its radical (and secret) set top box proposal, which has been in limbo since November.…
H0LiCOW! Hubble's constant update paves way for 'new physics'
Standard model of cosmology may be incorrect, say experts The latest measurement of the Hubble constant is higher than previous values, prompting scientists to believe there may be “new physics” beyond the standard model of cosmology yet to be discovered.…
President Trump tweets from insecure Android, security boffins roll eyes
To be fair, you might too. But you're not the most powerful man in the world President Donald Trump is still using a conventional Android phone to post on Twitter since moving into the White House.…
PS4 Pro woes: Random display blackouts caught on camera
Speculation builds over root cause of 'Connectiongate' Video A video of the PlayStation 4 blackout has been captured by a Register reader, shedding more light on the console's mysterious display failures.…
Windows code-signing tweaks sure to irritate software developers
Cheers, Redmond Changes that mean signing certificates for Windows can only be sold in hardware form – or from an as-yet undefined cloud-based "service” – from the start of February are likely to have a big effect on software development.…
Chinese bloke cycles 500km to get home... in the wrong direction
Pipe down, London commuters on Southern Rail A migrant worker in China, hoping to cycle back home for Chinese New Year, realised a month into his 2,000km trip that he had been going the wrong way.…
En garde! Touché! Sorry for the cliché! Pure Storage flashes its blade
Slashing away at Big Data access latency like Zorro Can Pure Storage keep up its booming growth as FlashBlade, its Big Data flash box, becomes generally availabile?…
In real life, Q is a woman! Head of MI6 calls for more female techies at SIS
Dispel your Bond stereotypes, says white, male, officer-class, privately educated chief The chief of MI6, Alex Younger, yesterday called for more female technologists to come and work for him at Vauxhall Cross.…
Sky fattens up broadband subs as it hovers above Fox's open mouth
Also set to launch broadband-based service TV service without satellite Sky increased its number of broadband subscribers by 140,000 to more than six million households in the first six months of its financial year.…
Bloke launches twinkly range of BBC Micro:bit accessory boards
zbit:connect, as built by one-time Nexsan man Pics A one-time storage hardware designer has launched a range of add-on boards for the BBC Micro:bit.…
Huawei could rescue Amazon's Alexa from the smart home
Mobile integration a lifeline out of domestic drudgery Analysis Huawei’s upcoming launch of a smartphone incorporating Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant will mark a new phase in one of the most important battles for the modern internet experience.…
Toss your day job. Start a backup company. Sorted
Barracuda's BJ on cloud... and Reg man on that sweet, sweet data protection honey Analysis A conversation with Barracuda CEO BJ Jenkins revealed a company whose customers are heading steadily towards the cloud – where the full stack approaches of Dell, HPE and others can’t hold sway – and where Barracuda, natch, thinks it can grow and grow.…
Infinidat slims down in UK: Storage upstart has just handful of Brit staff
One sales head left and no country manager in Blighty, industry sources say Infinidat has slimmed its UK office from 17 heads to just four since January 2016, and has not won a new customer in that time, we're told.…
Northumbria Uni fined £400K after boffin's bad math gives students a near-killer caffeine high
Pair needed dialysis after downing equivalent of 300 cups of coffee Northumbria University in England has been fined £400,000 by a Newcastle court after a botched experiment resulted in two students almost dying from caffeine overdose.…
Disk-nuking malware takes out Saudi Arabian gear. Yeah, wipe that smirk off your face, Iran
Shamoon 2 software nasty is back and more evil than before At least 15 Saudi government offices and private companies have been hit by another wave of attacks from Shamoon 2 malware that leaves hard drives completely erased.…
'Celebgate' nudes thief gets just nine months of porridge
I was hooked on porno, says chap who nicked compromising selfies of 300 people An American bloke has been jailed for breaking into the online accounts of 30 or so celebrities (and 270 other people) and swiping their most intimate snaps and secrets.…
President Donald Trump taken on by unlikely foe: Badass park rangers
Censorship efforts backfire on President Snowflake and team In an extraordinary and seemingly unlikely battle, US President Donald Trump and his transition teams have had their authority challenged by none other than park rangers. On Twitter.…
Trump lieutenants 'use private email' for govt work... but who'd make a big deal out of that?
Wasn't there some issue about Hillary doing this? Nah Senior members of the Trump administration have been accused of blatant hypocrisy after it was revealed they are continuing to use personal email accounts.…
Hey, AT&T. Help us out. Why is buying Time Warner a good idea?
Execs get Bern notice to talk up $85bn deal Fifteen US Senators are asking AT&T to provide them with an outline of how they plan to benefit the public with the $85.4bn acquisition of Time Warner.…
Forget Tony Stark's Iron Man – exosuits of the future will be spandex
It turns out there are better ways to enhance strength than heavy metal armor Exosuits have featured prominently in comic books and films for decades, but as they move from research labs to the work environment, they're looking more like couture from Robin Hood: Men in Tights than artifacts from Iron Man.…
Apple goes global in Qualcomm license war: Patent spat hits China
One-billion Yuan lawsuit in Middle Kingdom alleges further royalty wrongdoings Apple has taken its legal battle against Qualcomm international with a pair of lawsuits in China.…
HP Inc recalls 101,000 laptop batteries before they halt and catch fire
Poor Panasonic power packs pinpointed HP Inc is warning that over 101,000 laptop batteries sold in the US, Canada, and Mexico are at risk of catching fire, and it would like them back please.…
Linux nasty kicks weak, hacked gadgets when they're already down
Linux-Proxy-10 allows crooks to remain anonymous online Several thousand Linux devices have been infected with a new Linux-based trojan, Russian security software firm Doctor Web warns.…
AI eggheads: Our cancer-spotting code rivals dermatologists
Next step: Get it working on mobile phones An algorithm that promises to diagnose skin cancer as well as dermatologists can may work with mobile phone cameras in the future, according to a paper published in Nature.…
Kaspersky cybercrime investigator cuffed in Russian treason probe
Reports link arrest to receipt of money from foreign companies A top cybercrime investigator at Kaspersky Lab has been arrested by Russian police investigating alleged treason.…
IBM old guard dropping like flies in POWER and cloud restructure
LeBlanc retires after decades in IBM, two years in cloud IBM software veteran Robert LeBlanc is stepping down after just two years heading the firm's growing cloud business.…
CHEERS! Office 2013 now on Wine 2.0
Desktop productivity – without the Windows crap Microsoft may have relinquished SQL Server's Windows monogamy and let Linux join the party, but still it refuses to yield Office.…
It's that time of the year again: Texas school district blabs staff tax documents to phishers
One person falls for scam, now everyone's at risk of fraud A school district in Texas says it lost sensitive tax information from every worker after a single employee was duped by a phishing attack.…
Modular dud drags LG to first loss in six years
Don’t panic. LG is betting on …. electric cars and Android smartwatches You’re an investor in LG: do you want the bad news or the even worse news?…
Revenue is vanity and profit is sanity. Right, Seagate?
Better be, hmmm. Earnings up despite falling revenues In its second fiscal 2017 quarter, Seagate's profits rose even as it shipped fewer disk drives, through manufacturing cost reductions and increased component counts in high-capacity drives.…
UN staff demand ouster of controversial WIPO boss Francis Gurry
Protest arrives over alleged mistreatment of whistleblowers and bad management relations United Nations staff are demonstrating in Geneva this afternoon to demand the ousting of Francis Gurry, the controversial boss of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).…
Oracle grasses up Google to Brussels over user 'super profiles'
Daddy *sniff* they're gonna mix behavioural data with searches and texts *blub* and it's not fair! The European Commission has confirmed that it will probe competition concerns over Google's decision to allow personal user data in its silos to co-mingle, to create "super profiles".…
Unite: CSC UK set for 'jobs massacre' as 1,101 heads put on chopping block
Oh, and ailing outsourcing biz hires fourth boss in two years, swaps Wilson for Wilson Sickly outsourcing titan CSC UK is strapping another 1,101 staff to the employment catapult to be hurled out of the organisation between March and September, according to Unite the union.…
Emergency Services Network to be hit by delays, warn MPs
Slippage of life-critical system could cost taxpayers millions Hugely ambitious plans to replace the radio system used by the emergency services need more testing and are likely to face delays, the Public Accounts Committee has warned today.…
ISPs may be handed cock-blocking powers
More pr0nz-filtering plans under the Digital Economy Bill Internet Service Providers could be given powers to block user access at their own discretion in an amendment to the controversial Digital Economy Bill.…
HPE buying SimpliVity is like a 'unicorn barbecue' - HCI man
Scale Computing's Jeff Ready on Scale, the HCI boom and more Interview El Reg talked with Scale Computing co-founder and CEO Jeff Ready and asked him about the HPE SimpliVity acquisition and what it means for HPE, for the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) market, and for Scale.…
Speaking in Tech: It is the year of VDI. It is always the year of VDI
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016... 2017 is going to be our year!
I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the API key
Yes, you can stick IoT sensors on tractors - and John Deere's been doing it for 20 years Two decades ago a tractor manufacturer was fitting smart sensors to its devices. Blending the agricultural and the technological were a natural fit, the firm’s Georg Larschied told The Register.…
UK.gov tells freelance techies to slap 20 per cent on fees as IR35 tax hike looms
Concerns raise could spark exodus of self-employed talent UK government departments are advising IT contractors to hike their fees by a fifth in order to avert an exodus of self-employed techies that will be hit by a forthcoming tax clampdown, multiple sources have told The Register.…
Cutting Hewlett-Packard Labs down to size
Addressing the 3D XPoint elephant in the storage-class memory room Comment When Martin Fink resigned from his positions at HPE in August 2016, the announcement said: "Martin Fink, our chief technology officer and head of Hewlett-Packard Labs, will be retiring from HPE at the end of the year, after more than 30 years with the company." He was retiring, we were told, but he was just 51.…
Boffins break Samsung Galaxies with one SMS carrying WAP crap
S4 and S5 A single TXT message is enough to cause Samsung S5 and S4 handsets to return to factory settings, likely wiping users' data along the way. And because the attack exploits Android's innards, other vendors' handsets are at risk.…
Congratulations – you're looking better than ever this morning!
America's new Earth observation sat sends home sharpest images ever The United States' newest Earth-watcher, GOES-16, has sent back its first high-resolution images, and it's making the Earth observation community get a bit misty around the eyes.…
Google tests Android Instant Apps streamed on-demand to mobes
No more waiting for exploitive, data-gobbling applications to download Google has begun testing Android Instant Apps, a mobile application format delivered by streaming rather than as a downloaded file.…
I'LL BE BATT: Arnie Schwarzenegger snubs gas guzzlers for electric
Meanwhile, Faraday's Future looks like the debtor's prison Former bodybuilder, movie star and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone electric.…
Facebook, Cumulus take on Cisco with 128 ports of open networking iron
128 ports of 100 Gbps switching grunt in a single 'Backpack' Facebook has pulled apart a bunch of its Wedge 100 Gbps switches and reassembled them as a hefty 128-port 100 Gbps open network switch dubbed 'Backpack'.…
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