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You can shout into the ether but you won't hear the echo Customers of Speednames, the subsidiary of domain name registration firm NetNames, have been unable to receive emails since yesterday.…

*Click*. Firm locks Artificial intelligence head in place Google's SVP for Search is to leave the company after 15 years and will be replaced by the Chocolate Factory's head of of AI as the company goes hard on machine learning.…

'BIG' is for old-skool bosses One of the primary principles of DevOps is moving from large software releases to a series of small batches.…

Please Ms Regulator, let us do our deal Three has promised it will not raise prices for customers if it is allowed to hop into bed with O2 in its proposed £10.5bn in an open letter hitting back at regulators' fears over the deal.…

Hey buddy VCs, gotta dime? A-round open for donations Flash DIMM startup Xitore is exiting stealth before it has raised a dime and is looking for funding.…

Researcher maintains criticism as CESG defends tech GCHQ has defended its controversial MIKEY-SAKKE phone encryption protocol against criticism that it leaves a backdoor into systems that support the technology.…

Top evil source looks simple and innocent but is actually a warmonger's dream The winner of an annual competition to write the best innocent-looking but actually malicious C code has been announced – and it terrifyingly involves hoodwinking nuclear weapons inspectors.…

Dear Colleague, what's your password again? Send to idiot@gmail.com please! Security-oriented programmer Jordan Wright has published a capable and slick open source framework to help businesses defend against phishing attacks.…

More functions mean price hike shouldn't be very very frightening, says analyst Salesforce.com has revealed new and more expensive versions of its products.…

git-blame -l -t Exactly how a momentary power failure managed to trigger a two-hour GitHub outage has been revealed in full today.…

Intriguing legal case over leaked Playboy pics may impact web The European Court of Justice heard arguments in a case Wednesday that may have internet-wide consequences, since it considers the legal nature of hyperlinks.…

Blood in the water as company decides to ' focus resources on our most strategic initiatives' Barracuda Networks' financial woes look to be biting, as the company has announced it is killing its cloud storage services, CudaDrive and Copy.com, and focussing resources on stuff that really matters.…

Cupertino iGiant tells El Reg it's demanding a mistrial A notorious US patent court has ordered Apple to pay out more than half a billion dollars for infringing two patents related to its messaging software.…

Or, or ... Eyeriss could turn smartphones into deep thinkers A team from MIT has demonstrated a new type of deep-learning chip that dramatically speeds up the ability of neural networks to process and identify data.…

EMET 5.5 is upon us, complete with Windows 10 support Microsoft's enhanced mitigation toolkit (EMET) has been updated with support for Windows 10, but the company says you don't really need to download it any more.…

Safe browsing to start flagging dodgy 'download now' buttons Google has taken aim at another class of internet scumware: the deceptive download buttons that infest advertising on places like free software directories.…

And it's handling the transition rather better than Adobe Autodesk, which is getting close to phasing out physical product sales, has announced it's also going to farewell 925 jobs, about ten per cent of its global workforce.…

Hip-hip hooray it's Borg bug day! Grab the Cisco-branded fly-swatter, it's time for your weekly bug-splat.…

New plan is to do what Citrix and VMware do, for less, for less-deep-pocketed orgs Early in 2015, junior virtualiser Parallels acquired a remote application delivery company called 2X software. This week, 2X's assets have landed in the 15th and newest version of Parallels' Remote Application Server.…

UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention set to rule on legality of long couch-surfing stint Julian Assange's long-distance couch-surfing binge may be about to end, as the white-haired Wikileaker-in-chief has signalled he is willing to be arrested on Friday if he loses a case against the United Kingdom and Sweden.…

Public consultation to be held on rewritten draft update The US government has said it will give everyone the chance to pull apart its latest attempt at redrafting its implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement.…

And just like that, Cisco has an internet of things business unit Internet of Things service platform outfit Jasper Technologies has fallen into the maw of Cisco for US$1.4 billion.…

But where's John Legere's ranty response? The T-Mobile US Binge On video service does in fact break network neutrality and so is illegal.…

IRS says its online form filing system is, er, offline A computer system breakdown at the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has knocked web-based tax tools offline and held up processing of people's returns.…

Cali group says lawsuit is first of many privacy sueballs against Chocolate Factory A group of four current and former University of California, Berkeley students are suing Google, claiming its Apps for Education service illegally spied on them.…

NAS biz gives El Reg the silent treatment Exclusive Panasas – the privately owned hybrid scale-out NAS appliance supplier – has suffered exec exits and is refocussing, but so far won't say what its new strategy is.…

So says consumer mag Choice. Elon Musk says version 2 will do better It's got a ten-year warranty and an unknown battery life, but the Tesla PowerWall will pay for itself, eventually.…

Gender equality report raises issues, asks questions One year on from a public promise, Intel has the rare distinction of actually coming good on its gender equality issues.…

Fusion reactor fires up after 10 years of construction Pics and video Angela Merkel has witnessed the first hydrogen plasma being created by the Wendelstein 7-X fusion reactor experiment as part of Germany's push to take the lead in future power generation.…

Chocolate Factory tosses a few more bucks into 'Other Bets' with goodwill project People living in public housing in Kansas City, Missouri, will soon be getting free gigabit internet connections.…

Web giant snaffles 300k CPUs a quarter – how many could be ARMv8-As? Google is reportedly about to give a conditional thumbs up to Qualcomm's 64-bit ARM chips for servers.…

170 iPhone 6s and 380 Samsung Galaxy S5 Neo mobes out the windows The boys in blue are investigating a break-in at Exertis’ Altham warehouse earlier this week when three masked robbers made off with almost £250,000 worth of smartphones.…

Can’t see the shareholder value in it, apparently A hopeful New York law firm has filed an amended class action complaint on behalf of EMC stockholders, asserting the Dell-EMC merger prospectus “contains materially false and misleading statements and omissions of material fact.”…

Decommissioning of elderly satellite gave UK biz that syncing feeling An error in the Global Positioning System (GPS) network apparently triggered by the decommissioning of a US satellite last week has had knock-on effect across a number of UK industries, it has emerged.…

Hyper-converged HSP analytics appliance A refreshed HSP 400 series, HDS’ scale-out analytics appliance, has native integration with the Pentaho Enterprise Platform.…

It's a fact. For real. It's true Did you know Stephen Fry has just founded a tech startup called Pindex? It’s a “Pinterest for Learning” that he wants teachers to use. That’s a fact.…

Devs accidentally bundle Dropbox and Gmail logins with IoT kit Security researchers have successfully hacked the Motorola Focus 73 outdoor security camera, using exploits that allowed them to gain access to the associated home network’s Wi-Fi password as a result. …

Firm's co-founder castrates misleading AFA bull Comment NetApp co-founder Dave Hitz has blogged about the closing of the Solidfire deal and castrated any misleading bull about NetApp’s flash strategy.…

Replicate Comcast Raspberry Pi experiment? Nah, we're too weak to tweet

Ascending steadily into the fluffy white stuff Oracle's former US sales chief Keith Block has been handed the keys to Salesforce by his boss Marc Benioff.…

Think we're data hogs now? Just wait five years, says Cisco Continued growth of mobile broadband, connected devices and economic development will have data consumption rising by 53 per cent yearly from now to 2020.…

But five million slab-books sold worldwide before March last year Microsoft has yet to go public on the number of Surface Pro power cords it is recalling over fire concerns, but the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has: it’s more than two million Stateside alone.…

Ailing storage biz seems to be on brink of a pivot Crossroads Systems’s share price has collapsed to $0.25. It was $3.65 in March 2015, following full fiscal 2015 results showing a fifth loss-making year of declining revenues. Why is it still afloat?…

Discounted deals still made millions SAP will pay nearly $3.9m after a senior executive was found to have bribed officials in the government of Panama to land lucrative deals.…

AI whizzes shunned Shoreditch and Tech City ... and asked for real cash Microsoft has bought the British software company SwiftKey, the company we once described as "the UK's stealthiest startup".…

NASA names ticket holders for first Space Launch System launch NASA has named seven of the 13 CubeSats which will, along with an unmanned Orion capsule, ride atop the Space Launch System (SLS) for the heavy lifter's first launch in 2018.…

Fireproof, waterproof... open to new ideas Review ioSafe, which you may remember from a delightful prior experiment in which I set one of its storage units on fire has launched a new product. This delightful new device, the BDR 515, is based on a dual core Intel i5 platform with 16GB of RAM and runs a full version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard.…

Dodgy kit caused nationwide thinning out of Netflix BT has blamed a faulty router for knocking its network offline yesterday, leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without the internet.…

'Bits' and 'atoms' collide in identity mosh pit LOGOWATCH Gun-toting driver on demand app thingy Uber has announced a radical overhaul of its brand frontage, involving a "more grounded and elevated" logotype, new app icons and a range of "authentic identities for the countries where Uber operates".…