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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.…

Hack hole turns pleb users to admin queens, kills AV to boot Lenovo has patched a dangerous hole in its rebuilt Solution Center that could allow attackers to gain god mode access on hacked machines and to kill running processes including anti-virus.…

Rendezvous draws nigh Juno is on the seven-day countdown to entering Jovian orbit, and it's going to be a wild ride.…

Hospitals plastered with password sticky notes Medicos are so adept at mitigating security controls that their bypassing exploits have become official policy, a university-backed study has revealed.…

Your TERN, Northrop Grumman Apparently, DARPA likes what it sees in its TERN project. Earlier this month, it gave contractor Northrop Grumman just under US$18 million to build the second of its Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node aircraft.…

Pulls plug early America's Internal Revenue Service has brought forward the discontinuation of the electronic filing PIN that was supposed to protect customers.…

Letter is national security The Australian Federal Police has determined that one of the least-secret projects in the country can't be discussed lest it endanger national security.…

Sprinters pay up to unlock data NASCAR, America's favorite no-right-turn racing format, has joined the growing ranks of people hit by, and paying out to fix, ransomware.…

Wheeler gets flooded with gripes about zero-rating Activists have delivered a massive package to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that they say contains roughly 100,000 citizen complaints.…

Brexit buggeration, part 42 Brexit Businesses will likely need to re-file their patents and trademarks in the UK following the Brexit vote, leading intellectual property lawyers have warned.…

Apeiron certifies unannounced Toshiba NVMe SSDs Toshiba has quietly made 1.6TB and 3.2TB dual-port ZD6000 NVMe SSDs available to OEMs, and we know this because Apeiron says it has certified them.…

Name three things that are dead Microsoft is wrapping up production of its Surface 3 tablet, with no successor in sight.…

Stockholder approval looks to be a formality but market capitalization issue remains As expected, Violin Memory has decided on a reverse stock split to avoid NYSE delisting, as its stock price is too low.…

FCC approves rules that make itself more important The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved new rules that will require companies to report outages in submarine cables.…

'Every tier-one country will have an AWS region' – but analyst says other providers are catching up Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO Andy Jassy spoke against the idea of using multiple cloud providers at its Public Sector Summit earlier this week – well he would, wouldn't he.…

One of three SPC-1 benchmark results withdrawn The 1,510,090.52 IOPS DataCore Parallel Server single node result in March this year was the fourth highest SPC-1 reading, and has now been withdrawn.…

Curse of the Cupertino peripheral strikes again Apple has ended production of its line of Thunderbolt monitors.…

'Poor man of Europe' warning from Digital Science chief BREXIT Scientists and politicans have called on the Brexit government to keep funding EU-backed projects at current rates or risk becoming a backwater.…

Leaving doesn't get you out of commitments BREXIT Many UK businesses will still face the burden of complying with recently introduced EU data protection rules even after Thursday's historic Brexit vote.…

Post-poll wake up BREXIT Woke up with a nagging feeling you may have done something last night you shouldn’t? You aren’t alone, it seems.…

'Surface phone' will have challenging app gap One of the puzzles about Microsoft’s platform in 2016 is Windows 10 Mobile. In the run-up to the launch of Windows 10 in July 2015, the plan seemed to be that a unified operating system across PC and mobile, combined with applications developed for the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), would boost Windows Phone and create a strong ecosystem of applications delivered from the Windows Store.…

Telco regulation done right? We can show how BREXIT With a stunned Europe absorbing the departure of the second biggest member of the EU, our much-criticised Ofcom could provide a guiding light for new ways of co-operating.…

Real-time access to public cloud storage A UK cloud storage provider can backup documents, audio and video files to give you real-time access to your files using content-based search as well as video and image streaming.…

You'll eat Larry's fluffy white stuff and enjoy it Oracle is cranking up the pressure on customers to consume its wares as-a-service by initially distributing the updated 12.2 database on a cloud-only basis.…

'It’s completely unclear where this leaves us in Britain' BREXIT Tech firms are reeling at British voters’ decision to leave the single European market.…

And as for currency volatility: there will be price rises BREXIT Crystal ball strokers at Gartner have calculated Brexit will wipe $4.6bn off the value of tech spending in the UK this year, and the resulting Sterling currency volatility will force US vendors to hike prices.…

Let's all take a moment to catch our breath BREXIT What price the UK's secession from the European Union? “It's far too soon to tell,” has been the sober and much-repeated line of legal and privacy professionals following the United Kingdom's referendum which voiced public opinion to leave the European Union.…

Negev desert foxes aim to outwit hackers Tactics successfully deployed by Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery against German Army officer Erwin Rommel in the battle of El Alamein have been applied in a cyber-technology that aims to outfox hackers.…

IoT prof will open your mind, and maybe even connect it However it might look today, the world is not actually full of dumb, inanimate objects. Things might not be alive, but they are certainly digital, and this has profound implications for all of us.…

Cambridge firm: Our earnings are outside EU BREXIT Shares in British technology companies are mostly sliding after citizens of the United Kingdom voted for the nation to leave the European Union.…

Country spreads itself with jam - but no whipped cream A storm-tossed Britain woke up this morning to the heart-warming news that…it’s National Cream tea day.…

Rueful Remainer or Shy Leaver? Let us know The UK has voted to leave the European Union, confounding the polls, the "experts" and the British establishment in the biggest turnout for a vote here in 24 years. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation at 8:30am this morning.…

Youth culture and the iron-cladding of backsides Something for the Weekend, Sir? “You don’t know you’re born,” they would say to me during my first holiday job.…

Trade union hand-delivered letters of protest, to no avail The Home Office has stonewalled the GMB trade union’s attempts to raise the plight of British Airways IT staff whose jobs are being sent to an Indian outsourcer – and the potential security implications involved.…

Moving to ensure grip on citizen data even before we voted Leave Exclusive Even before Blighty voted to leave the EU, the government was plotting to water down far-reaching data protection regulations from Brussels - The Register can reveal.…

Perfect for finding MIMO... and also RAN Analysis All the network equipment providers are engaged in major operator projects which they hope will guarantee them a place in those MNOs’ 5G rollouts in the coming years. This week, it was certainly the turn of Ericsson to score 5G marketing points, with a series of operator engagements around the world, and the announcement of 5G Plug-Ins.…

Tor pedos torpedo privacy A federal district court in Virginia has ruled that the FBI has the right to hack into computers around the world without getting a local warrant, and without any review by courts.…