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Execution warrant close to being signed for Fink's folly Comment Martin Fink’s HPE Labs has been dangling the Memristor in front of us for years. With Fink retiring and HPE Labs losing its independence, becoming part of Antonio Neri’s Enterprise Group, inventing far out blue sky stuff will likely shift to devising technologies that can be realistically productised. The Memristor cannot.…

Blighty's splurged millions may be a write-off Europe's multi-million-pound Unified Patent Court could be derailed entirely following the UK's decision to leave the EU.…

Alienware and Oculus Rift kit up for grabs Compo If you’ve been itching for a chance to go head to head with your fellow Reg readers to demonstrate your coding chops, and grab yourself a spanking set of gaming hardware into the bargain, we may have just the thing……

S3 gets direct appeal Scality has announced a new S3 server, so small that it can run in a container. By doing so, it has joined a few others, like Minio and OpenIO, in providing a new tool for developers as well as opening new, interesting and unconventional applications for object storage deployments.…

The people have spoken. So we'll ask them again ¡Bong! [The following memo was found in a pilates studio in Shoreditch earlier this month, and forwarded to us anonymously. It is sourced to "BV Strategic Relations”, a highly secretive firm apparently registered in Panama, which describes itself as a "bespoke crisis management consultancy to governments”. The authenticity of the memo has been confirmed by to us by a representative of the firm, มาลัย (which means Garland of Flowers in Thai) - ed]…

What do we look like? What do you want us to look like? Comment Trying to position Hedvig's software-defined storage in a market function way is next to impossible as the software is so flexible. And that could be a brilliant position for Hedvig to be in.…

Tax doesn't have to be taxing, unless you're trying to avoid it European MPs have signed an open letter that presses governments across the Continent to publish their complex tax agreements with multinational companies on a country-by-country basis.…

Silver medallist exploit kit dies alongside Angler as new top dog doubles rental price Shake ups at the top of the exploit kit world continue, with news the world's two top pop boxes have disappeared.…

New report by Forrester shows AI will create jobs in the future Keep calm and carry on; artificial intelligence will not take all our jobs and achieve world domination, according to a report released by Forrester.…

Deliberately doused vulns the right medicine for XP backdoor bliss Attackers have popped three prominent US hospitals, using deliberately ancient malware so old that it slips under the radar of modern security controls to compromise Windows XP boxes and gain network beacheads.…

¡Ay caramba! The cybercrooks behind ransomware Dridex and Locky have started distributing a new file-scrambling software nasty dubbed Bart.…

Meet the ISC'16 Student Cluster warriors HPC Blog It's time for our traditional video look at each of the teams in the ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) 2016 Student Cluster Competition. Let's take it alphabetically this time...…

New student LINPACK record step HPC Blog The ISC (International Supercomputing Conference) Student Cluster Competition once again cements its reputation as the place where LINPACK records go to fall. Last week we saw not one, but two teams top the current 12.03 TFLOPS record that was established at the ASC'16 spring competition.…

Spam flood tried to drop malicious macros in inboxes It's 2016, and Microsoft Office macros are still a viable infection vector: security outfit Avanan says it's spotted a week-long, large-scale malware attack against Office 365 users.…

South Oz government to open up academic network to commercial customers The South Australian SABREnet, the local academic network that connects universities to the national AARNet network, is going to be expanded to provide high-speed connections for Adelaide businesses.…

An entomology of bugs Riverbed has pushed out an update to virtual security appliances, after Security-Assesment warned it they had multiple vulnerabilities.…

Israeli researchers find local cache of decrypted content Google's much-trumpeted Widevine digital rights management (DRM) system has the kind of hole that gives content owners nightmares: users can access local, decrypted versions of protected content.…

Watching us and borking you A massive network of hacked CCTV cameras is being used to bring down computers around the world, we're told.…

Top buyers like Lenovo and Acer told to deal direct with Cali mothership Intel has turned its axe on sales and marketing staff as part of its ongoing workforce decimation.…

AU$750 million for LMBR – IF it can be finished by end of 2017 NSW TAFE might have canned the enrolment system imposed on it under the state's disastrous Department of Education IT project, but the rest of the system grinds on.…

Nowt wrong with Theranos, except, you know, everything Despite having lost its biggest customer, being forced to invalidate thousands of test results, being placed under investigation by the US government for fraud, facing sanctions, having had a testing facility shut down, and having had its CEO's worth cut from $4.5bn to $0, "nothing's gone wrong with Theranos."…

Y Combinator becomes its own spoof Comment Ever wondered what would happen if you gave that stoner dude with the far-out ideas millions of dollars?…

It'll be optional – for now. Next: your browser history The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency wants to collect links to social network accounts of people visiting the Land of the Free.…

Software giant hauled into small claims court after PC knackered A California woman has won $10,000 from Microsoft after a sneaky Windows 10 update wrecked the computer she used to run her business. Now she's urging everyone to follow suit and "fight back."…

Machine moves closer, execs move(d) out Martin Fink, the chief techie straddling Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s global Labs is quitting just as the prototype of his most ambitions project to date, The Machine, edges closer.…

Good idea, LIGO. Definitely better than throwing cans at cars from the overpass Physicists have created simulations that predict the rate at which gravitational waves from the collision of monstrous supermassive black holes may be detected.…

Brazen Crooks are using social networks like Facebook to offer free samples of stolen credit cards.…

Already inked deal to put software in Cisco Hyperflex Hyperconverged software startup Springpath is on a Cisco express hurtling to assault the market and bring UCS server-based HyperFlex systems to prominence.…

The long road to change GNOME 3.20, released recently, sees the project beginning to find its footing again.…

Bright backgrounds for dark arts of Portworx containerised storage Backgrounder Portworx Enterprise hits general availability in July to provide containerised storage for containers. The software runs on commodity servers, captures and aggregates their storage into a virtual SAN providing scale-out block storage, then provides storage for containers, at container granularity, and with a global namespace.…

English-speaking Irish speakers cry ‘cad é an ag f*ck’ A brace of French politicians has demanded a rapid post-Brexit de-anglicisation of EU business, potentially leaving the English-speaking majority of Ireland scrabbling for their Gaelic phrase books.…

The game done changed Opinion Intel is reportedly looking to offload its Intel Security arm.…

Should you run your weather simulations in the cloud? Cray is exploring options to offer supercomputing "as a service", but don’t expect AWS to be offering the venerable vendor’s number-crunching monsters online anytime soon.…

EU to shrink as UK isles become more distant Blog Well, I'm not an economist and even less interested in politics - but UK exiting the EU is huge. I have several friends and acquaintances who have migrated to the UK in the last few years because there are more job opportunities, meritocracy and higher wages. This could all change very soon. But this is one aspect. The other one I'm thinking of is about the IT industry from both the UK and EU standpoints.…

'Tiny fraction of the overall count' however A petition for a second EU referendum in the UK has been hit by suspicions of computer automated ballot stuffing, possibly by politically motivated hackers.…

The flash array marketing guy takes a sudden hike and gets virtualised NetApp's flash marketeer, Lee Caswell, has resigned and joined VMware.…

Names removed, but 'no fraud' Analysis A petition to nullify the UK’s EU referendum and hold another appear to be riddled with fraudulent data. Raw data examined reveals that many of the participants come from outside the UK, or use IP addresses outside the UK. Only UK or British citizens and residents can create or sign a petition, according to the rules. You can see the geographical breakdown here.…

But employers plan hire freeze and relocation Keep calm and carry on is the Chancellor’s message to UK firms trading with Europe working with EU staff following last week’s shock victory for Vote Leave.…

Skipped £170k in payments to Her Maj An IT consultant has been jailed for four years after lying about his income to avoid paying £170,000 in tax.…

This isn’t your grandma’s DDoS Today’s distributed denial of service attacks are different than the kinds that we saw at the dawn of the millennium when the threat emerged. They’re becoming more nuanced, and subtle – and they could result in a lot more than a downed web server.…

Mix cosmology brains, Einstein, soupcon of fluid dynamics and pinch of open source... An international team of cosmologists have made the first step towards creating the most accurate ever model of the universe by simulating Einstein’s field equations, according to recent research published in Physical Review Letters.…

Cards on the table: These are the issues you'll face Review NVM Express (NVMe) is the next generation specification for accessing non-volatile memory such as flash. Traditional technologies such as SAS and SATA are just too slow. In order to demonstrate how much of a difference NVMe makes, Micron has provided 12 9100 NVMe flash drives, 800GB each in the HHHL (standard PCIe card) format.…

Come on people, we need to save €91m by 2018 British Airways bosses were this week told to ask staff to "volunteer" to take unpaid leave, as the sorry cost cutting saga enveloping British Airways rumbled on.…

Q: Just how do we untangle Gov.UK systems from the EU regs and policy? A: Messily BREXIT The UK government's long-awaited digital strategy has been put on ice following the landmark EU referendum decision last week, The Register has learnt.…

Passengers, crew evacuated safely A Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 carrying 241 passengers and crew has caught fire at Changi Airport, but everybody was evacuated safely.…

Brute force efforts reveal 1000 discount codes Three hackers have found eight holes in Uber that could allow fake drivers to be created and user email addresses reveal, and found more than 1000 of valid coupon codes including one giving drivers $100 extra in fare rides.…

Journey to the centre of the Earth Beijing is one of the most water-stressed cities in the world, and research carried out using satellite interferometry shows one of the side-effects of that: the city is sinking.…

Embiggening its operations in Penang Broadcom is going to tip US$250 million into Malaysia, announcing plans to expand its operation in Penang.…