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Workday named Enemy No. 1 in SaaSLand as Larry Ellison jokes about his pay cut Oracle's Larry Ellison kicked off his company's OpenWorld event in San Francisco on Sunday with news of a second-generation infrastructure-as-a-service offering.…

Updates for vintage text editors are like buses - none for ages then two at once! The first major Emacs update in four years landed over the weekend, a few days after Vim had its first big release in a decade.…

High school slacker hacker gets LTE for free American T-Mobile subscribers can score free internet access by running traffic through a proxy with "speedtest" in its URL.…

Secondary campuses – and your alumni email account – fail 'immediate circle' test When Australia's federal government finally revealed who had been given money to help pay for metadata retention efforts The Register was surprised to see eight Universities on the list.…

Key exchange 0-day exploited in the wild Cisco's post-Shadow Brokers security review has uncovered an IKEv1 vulnerability that can leak memory contents of its (deprecated) PIX firewalls and various IOS environments.…

Cloud move means old-school p2p devs no longer needed It's hardly surprising, really: having replaced the peer-to-peer Skype with a client-to-cloud version, Microsoft's now shuttering the London development office it inherited when it bought the VoIP application.…

Researcher revealed Tor flaw after initially being ignored Mozilla will patch a flaw in its Firefox browser that could allow well-resourced attackers to launch man-in-the-middle impersonation attacks that also affects the Tor anonymity network.…

If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the poly-alpha-olefin insulation lines The “ready for combat” F-35 has run into headwinds again, with 15 of the F-35A variant grounded in America because cooling line insulation is cracking up.…

Cloud house sets lofty goals for deep learning layer Salesforce has unveiled Einstein, a deep learning platform it hopes will form the foundation of all of its future SaaS offerings.…

Why the popular letsencrypt.sh is now known as Dehydrated Popular Bash shell script LetsEncrypt.sh, which is used to manage free SSL/TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt project, has renamed this week to avoid a trademark row.…

Teardown reveals chips in new iThings, confirms love struggle in Cupertino Analysis Love rat Apple two-times its long-suffering squeeze Qualcomm with dishy Intel – and it's going to keep the baby but only let some of us see it.…

Let's check in with the IANA madness Analysis The battle over the internet's critical IANA contract shows no sign of being resolved – with just two weeks to go until it is due to be handed over to internet oversight organization ICANN.…

Cook and Co once again accused of money-shifting shenanigans Apple has again been hit with a relatively small bill for skirting tax laws, this time in Japan.…

DE-CIX questions legality of government tapping its system The world's largest internet exchange point is suing the German government for tapping its communications systems.…

Citizens told they can't have broadband because something, something, competition A rural community in North Carolina says it will have to pull the plug on its broadband service over fears it will no longer be protected by the FCC.…

Red Hat and IBM make their microservices play The project for a lightweight and modular enterprise Java suited to microservices has hit general release.…

Defence set to appeal decision It was ruled today that Lauri Love, the alleged hacktivist from Stradishall, Suffolk, should be extradited to the United States to face charges of crimes carried out as part of online protests following the suicide of Aaron Swartz.…

Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu join connected transport project German carmaker Audi has signed agreements with Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent to work on data analysis, internet connected vehicles and intelligent public transport.…

Cyber chief calls for 'offensive' weapons The head of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has detailed plans to move the UK to "active cyber-defence", to better protect government networks and improve the UK’s overall security.…

And not an artisanal Shoreditch hipster startup in sight Defence secretary Michael Fallon confirmed the launch of the Ministry of Defence's £800m innovation fund this morning at a speech in a Spitalfields back alley.…

Spamalot Friday UK baby care supplier Pramworld has admitted that a breach of its systems was the reason customers were sent spam emails on Friday.…

Consortium headed by part-French biz MBDA scoops it The Ministry of Defence confirmed today that it is spending £30m on a laser cannon proof-of-concept demonstrator, following a challenge to the award of the contract some months ago.…

Reg poll crowns most wanted as next 007 Pity Tom Hiddleston. Not only finished with, er, publicity-shy popstress Taylor Swift but ruled out of contention for the next James Bond film.…

The saga continues A Swedish appeals court has upheld the European Arrest Warrant for Julian Assange, who is sought in the country on allegations of rape, which he denies.…

Choose a tech category, or go for the big one You’ve got less than week to pull together your entry for the 2016 Tech Trailblazer awards…

Let's call the whole thing off Something for the Weekend, Sir? Here's a photo of what I had for lunch! Amazing!!!…

Nothing funny about stealing from a charity Comic Relief’s internal systems are down for the third day running after a ransomware attack on one of the charity’s servers on Wednesday.…

El Reg gets nautical with ASV Global RotM As the pace of automation gathers speed – from the Internet of Things to factory floors – there's a lot going on quietly but efficiently in robot boats, in particular, with Portchester-based ASV Global.…

Comply or not, in a few years you'll be able to choose Article 50, the process for Britain’s formal withdrawal from the European Union, is looming. Upon the conclusion of Article 50, data centres resident in Britain will no longer be subject to EU data protection rules.…

Alleges attack allowing targeted Trojans was known long before Redmond's wranglers roped it Security researcher Kafeine says one of this week's Microsoft patches addresses a vulnerability it knew of since last year, and may only have pulled the patching trigger after a spate of banking trojan attacks.…

What day's that planned outage happening? Just get here anyway, minion! On-Call Thank Bibulous it's Friday, because I can write this and go home. And you can read it and revel in another episode of On-Call, our end-of-week amusement-inducer in which we revisit readers' remembrances of things thankfully past.…

And TCP-killer QUIC, right? Everyone loves QUIC? CloudFlare Internet Summit As internet engineer jokes go, Google's Ilya Grigorik came up with a good one. On stage to answer the question "what can we expect from the internet in 2020?", he offered:…

Flashy software-defined storage packed into rack-mount servers, but no new bezel design EMC and Dell only became Dell EMC last week, but they've already managed to squeeze out a product.…

Meet ISO/IEC TR 38504 - Guidance for principles-based IT governance The International Organization for Standardization this week signed off ISO 38504, new “Guidance for principles-based standards in the governance of information technology.”…

vSphere update adds vCenter Server for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance migration tool VMware has released vSphere 6.0 Update 2m, with the main feature being a vCenter Server for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance migration tool.…

*Turns out to be very unsafe mode thanks to this hack Security researcher Doron Naim has cooked an attack that abuses Windows 10's Safe Mode to help hackers steal logins.…

Government hails free licences for PeopleSoft, Hyperion as stuff it could never afford, but desperately needs Oracle and the US State of Oregon have struck a $US100m settlement over Big Red's botching of a health portal project. But even though Oracle looks like the villain, it will probably come out ahead in the long term because the state has committed to implementing plenty of its software.…

'The NBN is my greatest contribution' says senator in speech detailing trolling Stephen Conroy, the Australian Labor Party Senator who proposed a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) national broadband network (NBN) for Australia, has announced he will leave the Parliament despite being re-elected for a six-year term just two months ago.…

Server shipments are up but the money isn't flowing Server sales are continuing to rise, but that's not translating into bulging bank accounts.…

Patch, then patch this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this Cisco is warning admins to apply a patch for a critical WebEx vulnerability, one of nine fixed this week.…

Big accountants felt to have helped tech companies under suspicion of new dodge The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has warned that the nation's attempts at imposing a "Google Tax" are already being circumvented, and suggested big accountancy firms have found a way around efforts to stymie multinational tax avoidance.…

Buyers leave overnight lines as no Plus or Jet Black models on sale at the Sydney store we like to stalk Peak Apple iPhone fanbois have iVaporated: The Register has visited the same suburban Apple Store we always stalk visit on iPhone launch day and found just thirty people queueing.…

iPhone 6, 6+ and SE fans told to stay away from software update for now Don't install Apple's new iOS 10 on your iPhone 6, 6+ or SE, warns T-Mobile US, or you'll suffer knackered connectivity.…

Profit of $1.8bn almost enough to cover Larry's OpenWorld entertainment budget Oracle has seen its revenues return to growth as the enterprise computing giant continues its migration away from on-premises systems.…

Silicon Valley's uneasy alliance with Washington CloudFlare Internet Summit It's not every day you walk into a tech conference in San Francisco to find a propaganda video for the Islamic State playing on the screens.…

Feds' 'request for comment' to school bomb threat teen was loaded with malware No rules were broken when an FBI agent posed as a journalist to infect a criminal suspect's PC with spyware, says a US watchdog. And the Feds can do it again, provided they get the undercover operation signed off by their higher-ups.…

The worst people to piss off A California software company is being sued after its product mistakenly flunked more than 90 would-be attorneys taking their bar exam.…

Cortana may be due an upgrade Microsoft researchers working on AI computer speech recognition have reached a word error rate of 6.3 per cent, claiming to be the lowest in the industry.…

An HTTP 301, you say? Oh deary me Misconfiguration of Donald Trump's campaign website left the personal information of interns – and perhaps more – accessible to casual snooping.…

TCP Cloud brings AWS-industrial scale to microservices management Mirantis has bought a Kubernetes master to fulfil its common goal with Intel and Google: to wrap up OpenStack for micro services.…