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Hardly a Snowden, though: Passport details of nation's visitors leaked Azerbaijani hacktivists have leaked the passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia and more after breaking into Armenian government servers.…

PDP authentication failure? This is why EE's 2G and 3G data services are struggling this afternoon after what seems like a power equipment failure caused problems at the telco's switch sites.…

Hack a rival? We're not cool with that, says Russian AV titan Kaspersky Lab is the first big vendor to publicly rip up its contract with disgraced security reseller Quadsys in the wake of the hacking scandal that the company’s bosses recently admitted to.…

Nearly as much as we paid for Autonomy... badoom tish The breakup of Hewlett Packard Enterprise is set to continue with execs locked in talks to offload the software division to private equity biz Thomas Bravo. The asking price is said to be $8bn to $10bn.…

They need truckloads of networking kit. But... but... Huawei Connect “Smart Cities” have been heavily promoted by tech giants like IBM, and the idea excites the pulse of fad-chasing technocrats and wonks.…

Soz love, it's called satire Hellraiser Lindsay Lohan has had her case against Grand Theft Auto developers Rockstar Games, for allegedly basing a character on her image, thrown out by a New York court.…

Potential for revolutionary advances is shrinking Comment We are living in one of the most fascinating storage times with a great and rewarding war of storage access latency, but the major gains have already been won – and the scope for future advances is narrowing.…

Pay direct, avoid the advertising Browser upstart Brave is now letting you contribute Bitcoin to websites in return for ad-blocking.…

El Reg answers your questions while you wait for make all to finish Water cooler I read an article this week headlined: "The latest Kaby Lake, Zen chips will support only Windows 10." It claimed Intel and AMD's new processors are "officially supported only by Microsoft’s Windows 10." This can't be true? What about Linux?…

Is it just me or is it hot in here? Something for the Weekend, Sir? The contents of my pants are hot.…

Deduping backup boxen are 'rarely usable'? Whatever Comment Actifio can store its virtualised copy data in the public cloud, calling its facility OnVault and saying it replaces tape and dedplicated disk data graveyards.…

Biomed brainboxes have already begun moving in The first scientists are moving into the Francis Crick Institute, the biggest biomedical research institute under one roof, costing £650m.…

The safety training trailer turned out to offer lessons in the opposite On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular week-ender in which readers share their tales of possibly-career-ending errors.…

Slap patch, no need to reboot Adobe has patched a hole in Coldfusion that could have allowed hackers to gain access to files and passwords stored on servers.…

Vendor: 'We've applied new patches and access controls!' Sys admin: 'Whaddya mean NEW?!' Point of sales vendor Lightspeed has been breached with password, customer data, and API keys possibly exposed.…

Secret until now, that is Stand down, one and all: there's not even cool new science in this week's “alien signal”, let alone a SETI success: the signal seems to have come from a Russian military satellite.…

And into your Xmas stocking Amid the Kaby Lake noise this week, Intel slipped out six processors, codenamed Apollo Lake, for cheapo netbooks, tablet-laptop mutants and small PC boxes.…

Uni kid's turn to shout. Google has patched 33 Chrome vulnerabilities, including 13 rated high severity, with the release of verison 53 of the world's most popular web browser.…

When big media goes clueless about big data “Chemotherapy kills” was bound to pique our interest, especially since in the best traditions of modern research, its source was a badly-reported scientific study.…

Deep learning suite with Python front end Since Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and World+Dog have one, it's no surprise that Chinese giant Baidu would pitch an artificial intelligence offering at the waiting world.…

Redmond's latest is climbing nicely, mostly at Windows 7's expense Windows 10's market share continues to grow a point or two a month, but it's also cracked the milestone of being the most-used version of Windows on weekends.…

Huawei's Big Data vision will expand at this week's Huawei Connect 2016 Promo Business has long been able to gather performance data from many sources, but has often struggled to find the resources needed to identify context and meaning in the data it collects.…

VAX support no longer devils the devs OpenBSD developers might be keen on the 1980s in their artwork, but not in their operating system: Version 6.0 has just landed, and the maintainers have killed off VAX support.…

Vulns in iOS show up in shared code with desktop cousins Those vulnerabilities last week that let government snoops monitor iPhones, iPads and iPods? Turns out they're present in desktop Safari and OS X, too – and Apple has quietly pushed out patches for them.…

Who's in charge of gummint IT anyway? Australia's Senate has voted to establish a committee to look into the Australian Bureau of Statistics' August Census IT collapse.…

Super Cali goes ballistic, wait, sorry, wrong state The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has upheld an $11,364,736 fine, the largest in its history, against Uber for running an unlicensed taxi operation and obstructing attempts to investigate the firm.…

Teen cuffed in policy rewrite stunt A teenager from Sri Lanka is in hot water after he admitted to hacking the website of the nation's president in order to get his exams cancelled.…

So it built a now-open-source benchmark tool for Cassandra and Elasticsearch Microservices are the new black for developers, but even one of their world's biggest and most prominent users – Netflix – has said they're a bugger to manage.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Hotel chain hit with POS malware Hotel chain Kimpton said that 61 of its hotels and restaurants have been compromised by a malware infection targeting customer payment cards.…

If the update doesn't work, you'll have to co Microsoft has finally patched its Windows 10 Anniversary Edition to hopefully stop it from freezing some PCs.…

Wonder if it has anything to do with that $14.5bn tax bill Apple CEO Tim Cook may pull billions of dollars in profit out of Europe and bring them home to the US, less than a month after he vowed he wouldn't.…

And that's on top of the seven years in the clink in his home nation of Romania Notorious celebrity hacker Guccifer will spend at least four years in prison on charges of identity theft and unauthorized access to computer systems.…

Yeeahhh, I'm thinking we might be changing our minds The US government has admitted its plan to move control of the internet's naming and numbering functions to a California non-profit next month may not move forward.…

That'll buff right out, no worries Updated Elon Musk has confirmed that today's SpaceX rocket explosion – which destroyed a $200m satellite – was caused by a cockup during fueling.…

Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir... stuffed with the ashes of Exanet NooBaa sounds like a lamb in a child's fairy story or one of those wacky new-style web properties offering on-demand hair dressing, garden tool sharing or a cocktail recipe exchange. In fact, it's a scale-out object storage startup offering what it calls frictionless storage for unstructured data.…

A 1½" tall cuboid and a Toblerone, respectively HP Inc has announced two new PC desktops: the miniscule and modular Elite Slice, as well as the new Toblerone of IT, Pavilion Wave, as a domestic entertainment machine.…

BitTorrent client gets trojanised Developers of the Transmission BitTorrent client have admitted that hackers replaced downloads of its file-sharing software with trojanised code.…

Guessing Tuesday, September 6, the day before Dell-EMC deal completes Nutanix, the darling of the hyper-converged infrastructure appliance industry, is, we're hearing, going to kick its IPO process into gear from September 6.…

Reviewer says NVMeF-based MySQL cluster is darned quick Trusty Storage Review has been at it again, testing a Mangstor-Mellanox NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeF) rig servicing a MySQL virtual cluster – and finding it 2.5x faster than any other flash array it's ever tested.…

Peer-to-peer Delivery Optimisation goes global Microsoft has slipped out an update to Windows 10 to early testers letting you slurp software updates from others across the internet.…

Solid state cartridge swapout tech for... collectors? Missile operators?* Floppy disk sales have, well, flopped but there are still masses of PCs and old embedded PC-based systems out there with floppy disk slots and drives. Now this near-dead space can be made usable again, with a 32GB FLOPPYFlash drive from Solid State Disks Ltd.…

China giant + OS software in big data analytics acceleration scheme Huawei has announced a Big Data analytics acceleration scheme using its FusionStorage product and Alluxio open source software; which seems to be the canine genitalia du jour for speeding up lethargic analytics queries.…

Autonomous automobiles? Not on the NTSB chairman's watch Fully autonomous cars may never reach public roads, according to the chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board.…

Coding platform support Promo We thought this might be just the time to remind developers amongst you of the call to sign up now for a free IBM Cloudant cloud services trial.…

Calm.io, Pernix and what about that IPO... So it appears the rumours were true as Nutanix finally announces the acquisition of both PernixData and calm.io, a startup focused on DevOps automation.…

End well: Will it, dear readers? The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is moving some of its IT to the public cloud, in a move to "embrace the opportunities that modern IT can bring".…

Going soft in the USA Salesforce has blamed currency fluctuations and deferred deals in the US for hitting its business.…

Make Box Simple. Make Platform Open. White-boxing doesn't scare us... The jargon changes, and the rhetoric can get ecstatic, but Huawei’s Cloud adventure is really just a highly elaborate way of saying “please upgrade your network”.…

The EU's coming for your government, froths tech titan Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook has claimed that the European Commission made up its claims about the business’ tax payments in Ireland.…