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And how to avoid alert fatigue... They may be small, but microservices are having a real impact on the way real world organisations are developing, deploying and maintaining their software.…

Come on, we'll give you free delivery for ages and ages and ages BT is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its dabs.com acquisition by dumping the online gadget souk's brand and “inviting” customers to re-register their trading account.…

"The unicorns are being dehorned" says ex-Omniture CEO Venture capitalists have poured $131m of fresh funding into a Slack-like collaboration startup, Domo.…

Haters gonna hate Akamai’s state of the internet survey is the most comprehensive global snapshot of internet performance you’ll find. So if your country (or state) is falling behind, you can see how. These days, the survey even comes with its own app.…

Has a client ever had you working for months on features they don't really want? When I started my IT career, the organisations I worked with didn't really do formal change management. And that wasn't really a problem: either they were small enough for it not to matter (we just told the handful of users: “We're about to upgrade X”), or the departments I worked in were sufficiently small and autonomous that the same logic applied as above.…

Will it get enough cash to investigate, pursue the perps? The UK's new national cyber centre will collaborate with the Bank of England on new cyber security guidance for financial firms when it opens later this year, the government has said.…

Profiteering? No no no, that's the old HP Interview HP Inc is threatening to bring an era of open platforms to 3D printing, one it claims will turn the well used – and much criticised – ink toner supplies biz model on its head.…

Klondike creator has been at it since the days of Pascal In an era where new games are sometimes considered "dated" 12 months after their debut, one man has spent 32 years keeping a single title active.…

More awful code you've seen in action ... or should that be inaction Line Break It's time for your dose of Line Break, our Wednesday column of coding nightmares that have haunted Register readers at one time or another.…

How a powerful hacker could just about intercept and decrypt your texts Watercooler – On Sunday, we were warned that hackers could read our iMessages texts, photos and videos. Should I be worried?…

Updating Solaris? Not without my say-so, says Larry in yet another support suit A new outbreak of hostility between former partners Oracle and HPE has seen Big Red fling a flaming sueball at Hewlett Packard spin-out over who has the rights to support the Solaris operating system.…

Elizabeth Denham to take over in the summer as Information Commissioner Canadian Elizabeth Denham has been named as the UK's next Information Commissioner.…

Uptick may be tied to probes into Paris attacks French law enforcement agencies have made around 600 additional requests for Yahoo! user account data in the wake of the Paris attacks.…

But it won't be long before sharing's wealth-creation potential is realised Even as Wikipedia hurtled past its 15th birthday back in January, it feels as though we haven’t really had the penny-drop moment about sharing that the user-created encyclopaedia proves over and again.…

Or maybe not, if the weird 7-pin SATA drives disk-makers cooked for Apple are repeatable Storage analyst firm Trend Focus says Google's call for the storage industry to make more cloud-friendly disks is a tall order.…

Thawte experiment aims to expose issuers of dodgy creds Google's announced another expansion to the security information offered in its transparency projects: it's now going to track certificates you might not want to trust.…

Un-planned PITSTOPs for Visual Studio Team Services, App Services and DocumentDB If your favourite Microsoft staffer isn't answering the phone today, it may be because they're getting calls from angry Azure workers all over the world after the cloud service experienced three Partial Inability To Support Totally Optimal Performance (PITSTOP) incidents.…

Announces a dozen new regions by end of 2017 Google has decided to play catch-up with Amazon Web Services (AWS), announcing that it's going to add 12 regions to its cloud services by the end of 2017.…

Digital Transformation Office reveals familiar Gov.au Alpha and SME assistance portal plan Australia's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has revealed the design it hopes will eventually be used on all Australian government web sites.…

left-pad pulled from NPM – which everyone was using Programmers were left staring at broken builds and failed installations on Tuesday after someone toppled the Jenga tower of JavaScript.…

Methodist Hospital in Kentucky calls in the FBI and refuses to pay Another US hospital has had its records scrambled by ransomware trying to extort money from the sawbones. This time: it's the Methodist Hospital in Kentucky that's been infected.…

HackerOne deals with the details, Uber can poach the staff Uber is joining the public bug bounty movement. The taxi cab app has recruited HackerOne to offer up to $10,000 for critical flaws in its servers, with additional cash on offer as a loyalty bonus.…

CEO Chuck remoulding Switchzilla for softy push Cisco boss Chuck Robbins has reshuffled his engineering operations as the IT giant continues to remake itself with a focus on software-defined networking and services.…

Chipzilla farewells legendary development methodology For more than a decade, a staple of Intel's defense of Moore's Law has been a development methodology known as "Tick-Tock," but it's had its day.…

Let's review Fadi Chehade's legacy Analysis Everyone wants to leave their job on a high, but so few manage it.…

Vows never to add backdoors, improve tamper detection, remove single points of failure In a blog post timed for the start of Apple's now-delayed FBI showdown, Mike Perry, lead developer of Tor Browser, said the project is stepping up efforts to keep its anonymizing network free of government interference.…

$100,000 reward on hackers' heads The FBI has placed suspected self-styled Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacktivists on its most wanted list, publicly naming members of the notorious group for the first time.…

'Unwavering advocate for consumers and competition' The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is set to lose one of its primary champions of consumer protection and privacy: Commissioner Julie Brill will step down at the end of the month.…

See you then, SMB file server admins April 12 – save the date if you're a Windows or Samba file server administrator.…

Lack of Imagination Apple was considering buying Imagination Technologies – designers of the PowerVR graphics processors in its iPhones and iPads – but walked away from the deal.…

High-end GPFS HPC box gets turbo-charged DDN has updated its scale-out/up filer GS12K array to the GS14K, saying it's the industry's fastest and most flexible scale-out filer.…

Talks TOR, abuses kidnapped machines but doesn’t encrypt Malware slingers have gone back to basics with the release of a new strain of ransomware malware that locks up compromised devices without encrypting files.…

Google announces partnership with NodeSource In Brief Google has added support for Node.js on its marmitey App Engine on a managed VM beta basis.…

Everyone loves flinging their data into our marketing machine, says firm Adobe has announced what it calls "cross-device co-operation" at its Summit digital marketing event under way in Las Vegas.…

Unless you want the bigger Samsung, that is. Then it's that one Review If only all reviews were as easy to write as this one. Take last year's product, make small but important refinements, and this year's is much better. The Galaxy S7 is the Android flagship to beat, and everyone who gets one will be really happy with it. That's basically all there is to it, really. Can I go home now?…

France pulls Blocky McBlockface French publishers are joining the “block party” - by taking aggressive collective action to thwart ad-blockers.…

From the thick of it to the thin client of it Moving to thin clients can save you capital and maintenance costs. It’s a brave IT manager that will do it all at once, though. Giving up PCs for smaller devices with simpler specifications represents a big change for administrators, and there may be kinks to work out. In any case, users don’t like disruption, so it’s best to ease them into it. How can you move from fat to lean gradually, to minimize risk?…

It's an honour, says Steelie Former European Commissioner "Steelie" Neelie Kroes is to take a seat at the board of perpetually loss-making SaaS pioneer Salesforce, the company confirmed today.…

Good news for the big dog. Less good for the whipper-snapper EMC with XtremIO is striding out in front of the pack in the all-flash array market, according to Gartner and Stifel Nicolaus numbers.…

Brit biz finds another mainframe software base to milk Micro Focus International is splashing out $540m to scoop up Serena Software – or more specifically, its recurring maintenance revenues, to add to its stable of once great, now slightly dusty software brands.…

Fanatix loses High Court case against Sky and England Cricket Board The High Court of England and Wales has ruled against an app developer who encouraged users to post eight-second sports clips under the guise that it was a social network.…

Facebook slowly activates 'Safety Check' to decrease strain on telecomms networks Communications are "redlining" in Brussels after three explosions struck the city this morning, two at the Zaventem international airport and one at the Maelbeek metro station.…

Post-accounting scandal growth plan birthed Toshiba is doubling down on flash memory as a revenue growth engine to help climb out of the financial poo, while also aiming to get dollars spinning out of its disk drive business.…

You're taking too long so we're getting tough, snarls telco watchdog Ofcom wants to impose "strict new rules" on BT Openreach to improve its leased line services to businesses, in draft proposals today recommending faster installation times, lower prices for high-speed lines and greater access to its “dark fibre” network by competitors.…

Hey dude, you didn't get the SpaceX invite?

It's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a Raspberry Pi. But similar First look The BBC Micro:Bit will start rolling out to all school year sevens in the UK from this morning.…

You can build good products without EMC's marketing budget Storagebod Last week, I was at A3 Communications’ Technology Live marketing event.…

30-day backup promise wasn't, says aggrieved customer The shortcomings of consumer-grade backup services in protecting against the scourge of ransomware have been exposed by the experiences of a UK businesswoman.…

BinDiff price falls and falls Google has released its popular BinDiff patch analysis plug-in for free, dropping its previous US$200 price tag.…

Kepler astroboffins chuffed at first sighting of sun-cracking aftershocks The Kepler space telescope is best known for its planet-hunting prowess, but in a paper just accepted by the Astrophysical Journal it's racked up another first: sighting a shockwave ripping a star apart as it goes supernova.…