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Don't worry, they can still make (most) of your phone parts Sony says that it will be resuming production at several of its largest Japan manufacturing facilities following a series of devastating earthquakes in the region, though some other factories remain offline.…

So ... it still lets in more than one in ten attacks Eggheads at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) claim they have trained a machine-learning system to detect 85 per cent of network attacks.…

It's for the greater good American authors have failed to persuade the US Supreme Court to hear issues raised by the Google book-scanning case.…

Biz still defragging its management, it seems Gridstore CEO George Symons left the company in February after almost three years at the helm, with no successor appointed.…

Entry-level accelerator in performance boost, packed in smaller box NAS accelerator and cloud storage gateway shop Avere has finished rolling out its FXT 5000 series refresh: its entry-level 3200 has been upgraded to the 5200 with boosted performance and capacity.…

CTO shuffles out of UK.gov Digi Services for £140,000 The government's chief technology officer, Liam Maxwell, is escaping the Digital Services wing to take up the newly created post of National Technology Advisor.…

Super pressure balloon mission launch is go NASA's long-duration super pressure balloon (SPB) mission looks to be set for launch tomorrow morning from Wanaka Airport, New Zealand, now that "forecast surface and low-level winds are aligned", as the space agency puts it.…

Results didn't show biz in its best light The reason why Lyceum-backed Adapt remains Lyceum-backed is contained in their latest set of annual profit and loss accounts - company growth stalled and so a sales process was halted.…

Illuminating 4K timelapse shot from ISS NASA has released an illuminating ultra-high definition video featuring the Auroras Borealis and Australis as seen from the International Space Station.…

Electron spin meets and marries super-conductivity Cambridge University is leading a £2.7m project building energy efficient, high-performance supercomputers.…

Cleversafe is top of the beancounters' list Comment Gartner's gurus have ranked the top twelve object storage suppliers in a Critical Capabilities report, with Cleversafe at the top and Huawei last.…

Funny how it always gets targeted at the end of term... Blighty's government-funded educational network Janet has once again been hit by a cyber attack, with a fresh wave of DDoS attacks launched against the network this morning.…

Offers file/object storage server running the software Dell has upgraded its nine month old Scality reselling deal, offering the SD7000-S file and object storage server running OEM'd Scality RING software.…

More likely than Leicester City winning the Premier League Bookie Paddy Power has conceded it seriously underestimated Leicester City's chances of winning the Premier League, rating that laughable prospect when the season kicked off as less likely than Obama admitting the Moon landing was faked.…

Cleartext passwords are bad, kids, mmmkay? More than one in five 18-24 year olds (21 per cent) store PINs for credit or debit cards on their smartphones, tablets or laptops, according to research conducted by Equifax in conjunction with Gorkana.…

Hosting biz still working on fix for outrageous outage The fall-out continues from hosting service 123-reg's major weekend cockup, which knocked several customers offline – with several telling us the error has effectively deleted their businesses.…

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Supercomputing chaps talk qubits and more with Dan Olds HPC blog I jumped at the chance to interview supercomputing pioneer Bo Ewald and quantum computing whiz kid Murray Thom a few months ago. Although it's been in my “vault of lost content” for a while, the video serves as a good primer for quantum computing and its promise.…

Ministeroni officiates at first legal Flying Spaghetti Monster wedding A New Zealand couple had the honour of celebrating the world's first Pastafarian wedding on Saturday, when Ministeroni Karen Martyn joined Marianna Fenn and Toby Ricketts in noodly wedlock.…

But who will analyse the internet of product announcements' data? Data warehouse business Teradata is to focus more on hybrid cloud services, as the company continues to try to deal with declining sales revenue while praying for an IoT tsunami of cash.…

The path to 5G In all the excitement about 5G, it is easy to forget that the most intensive innovations of 2016-2020 will go on in "4.5G" – in Release 13 and 14, of course, but more importantly in the way the carriers and their vendors reinvent their cellular networks with new approaches like virtualization and HetNet, in the desperate bid to keep up with capacity, coverage and efficiency demands.…

Hmmm. Everything Analysis Right now the Daily Mail Group is worth at most £2.5bn, and the few content assets that Yahoo! is supposed to be selling, are already worth way more than that. But the issues go deeper.…

Tech evangelism can overstate its case StorageBod I see quite a few posts about this storage or that storage ... how it is going to change everything or has changed everything. And yet, I see little real evidence that storage usage is really changing for many. So why is this?…

Google tightens rules for admission to Chrome Web Store Google has tightened the rules for admission to the Chrome Web Store, the online bazaar for add-ons to its browser.…

The bird turns up its toes before your crypto does Belgian boffins have proposed adding what they call “Canary Numbers” to random number generators (RNGs), in the hope and expectation they will fall off the twig if something goes wrong.…

British Airways A320 hit something on approach The United Kingdom's Metropolitan Police and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) are both investigating an apparent collision between a drone and a passenger aircraft.…

Cloudy saviours mean IDC predicts only 'mildly negative' impact on UK spending If the United Kingdom chooses to leave the European Union – a so-called “Brexit” - Europe's information technology industries would not bat an eyelid and IT spending in the sceptred isles would only experience a “mildly negative” dip.…

There's no authorisation on filteredlogs.txt Sierra Wireless has disclosed a bug in its ACEmanager application that manages its wireless kit, but carelessly leaves log files lying around for anyone to see.…

One customer says 'rogue script' deleted all sites UK hosting and domains provider 123-Reg has been struck by a weekend TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Usual Performance) that knocked an unspecified number of VPS (virtual private server) customers offline.…

'It's an expense that bought me a few extra niceties' but shows Apple can swing and miss Steve Wozniak has decreed that today's crop of wearables just aren't that useful – even Apple's own Watch.…

Retrial set to start in May, case set to outlive the solar system An epic six-hour meeting between Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai and Oracle CEO Safra Catz has failed to make a Big Red Java Chocolate Factory, so the two companies will head to court for their retrial.…

7th version of database appliance lands with 22-core Xeons and 8TB drive support Oracle is preparing an on-premises version of its new Exadata cloud service.…

Unsupported software with known bugs has no place anywhere US-CERT has echoed The Register's advice to the effect that if you're running Quicktime for Windows, it's time to delete it. Right now.…

Basslink hopes 90 TONNE cable patch can be finished if the seas stay calm The end is in sight for Tasmania's long-running submarine cable saga, with Basslink announcing its cables should return to service in June.…

If Google and Apple are going to provide location services, why not mash 'em up? The group that created GPS wants it opened up so it's easier for people to compete on its individual components.…

Overall, SSU compliance is improving IT integration isn't easy. Just ask Australia's dominant carrier Telstra, whose customer information system accidentally provided a ladder over the “Chinese walls” supposed to keep wholesale information out of the hands of its retail business.…

You'll need 'numbness to the absence of excellence', will be paid 'handsomely for your soul' 'Grease the wheels of capitalism with your tears ...we will pay you handsomely for your soul' A job ad has appeared offering one lucky worker the chance to perform “Meaningless Repetitive Work on the .NET Stack.”…

Vulture South ventures visits troubled tech retailer Dick Smith on its last trading day Imagine a parallel universe in which Steve Jobs or Clive Sinclair decided the best way to bring their products to the world was a chain of retail stores, complete with a Colonel-Sanders like icon of their very own faces to helm the brand.…

Frisco flings further fees for freelance ferriers The City of San Francisco will soon be requiring people who drive for ride-sharing services Lyft and Uber to have a business license.…

If only US legislators had the same skills Video The Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has humiliated a Canadian journalist who assumed he was clueless about quantum computing.…

Micron's deafening XPoint silence Comment Intel's XPoint marketing is such frenetic, hype-filled BS that it is setting up the world to be utterly underwhelmed by the XPoint reality.…

It's Obama and Google! We're losing money! The decision by the FCC to tackle the national rip-off that is cable boxes has entered crazy land with the publication of the proposed rules and formal backing by the Obama administration.…

RING software helps keep US nukes safe Scality's object storage is helping keep US nukes safe by providing back-end storage for Los Alamos Nuclear Lab's Trinity supercomputer.…

Even the trash is expensive in Cupertino Apple says its recycling program has recovered thousands of pounds of rare metals from discarded phones, tablets and computers.…

MIT project adds to developer job insecurity Boffins at MIT have designed a Ruby on Rails interpreter that can find code flaws much faster than fleshy programmers.…

Congress continues to do America proud The House of Representatives has passed a bill that it claims will prevent federal regulators from setting broadband prices, but critics say it's little more than an effort to undermine net neutrality regulations.…

Jean Michelle Jarre taps whistleblower for latest EDM outing It is a seemingly unlikely career change, bored Moscovite Edward Snowden has agreed to provide vocals for a track on Jean Michel Jarre's forthcoming album.…

Solar storms blamed for outage Sweden's civil aviation administration (LFV) has concluded that radar disruptions that affected services in Stockholm and Malmö last November were down to the effects of a solar flare, scotching rumors reported by El Reg and others earlier this week that a hacker group linked to Russian intelligence might be to blame.…

Company accepts that terribly bad idea shouldn't be implemented Chalk one up for the grumpy old complainers as AMC Theaters says it will not let people text during movies after all.…

Java to mobile compiler acquired with Xamarin is no more Microsoft is discontinuing RoboVM, the Java-to-Mobile compiler technology which it acquired with Xamarin a couple of months ago.…