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Redmond to bring easy container wrangling to its cloud Building on its existing support for containerized applications on its Azure cloud, Microsoft on Tuesday announced the Azure Container Service, a new environment for running cloudy container workloads based on Docker and Apache Mesos.…

That worked out really well for Microsoft, right? First Microsoft mated a tablet with a keyboard, then Apple came late to the party. Now Google has done the same. From an engineering perspective, Google's new Pixel C slab looks to have left them both in the dust.…

New kit from web giant shown off in San Francisco Pics and video Google has updated its Nexus smartphone range with two new handsets powered by the latest build of Android, codenamed Marshmallow.…

This is why everyone's blocking adverts A bloke in Scotland reckons a dodgy web advert tried to trick him into sending a text message from his iPhone to a premium-rate number.…

Sticky situations in the White House? Better call Preston One of Monica Lewinsky's former lawyers will be the first outside advisor to America's secret court that oversees NSA spying.…

Ride-booking app one of the few things not allowed in Amsterdam Ride-booking app-maker Uber once again finds itself in the crosshairs of police in the Netherlands for breaking taxi laws.…

Shove off Google, our cloud was here first Just days after promising to connect a ton of people in India to the world of cat GIFs and online ads, Microsoft has opened a load of data centers in the nation to flog its cloud.…

Enormous network of hijacked zombie servers threatens to batter everything in its path Cybercrooks have built a network of compromised Linux servers capable of blowing websites and other systems off the internet with at least 150Gbps of junk traffic.…

Bloody exec cull as Nexsan array business faces dramatic restructuring Clinton Group execs in charge at struggling Imation have started restructuring the business to make it a tastier dish, discarding its tape media business, selling off property assets and starting a Nexsan array business restructuring exercise.…

Sic semper problem beards everywhere Men with beards have invented a razor which shaves with a laser.…

In other news - HATS are secretly BOWLS We here at the Reg, as all our readers know, subscribe completely to the idea that people need a continual stream of iPhone related news-style content.…

Cyber-workforce to learn in 'Cyphinx' land from an early age, just like Nork hackers The next generation of Blighty's cybersecurity workforce is to be trained without even realising it, in a Cabinet Office-funded cyber skyscraper built "solely to find, test and recruit cyber talent".…

Microsoft adds N-series VMs to its cloud for Nvidia acceleration Microsoft will add a new N-series of virtual machines to its Azure cloud that are boosted by Nvidia's graphics accelerators.…

An end to macular degeneration? We'll have a better idea in November A UK medical team is pioneering a potential cure for age-related blindness, with a treatment aimed at replacing damaged cells.…

Troubled mini-Chipzilla rolls out kit for embedded engineers When you think AMD, you might think: "Oh yeah, those peeps doing the graphics chips in the Nintendo XboxStation 4." Or maybe: "Err, those peeps, the ones keeping the M word away from Intel and Nvidia." Or perhaps: "Um, the ones El Reg keeps telling us to pray for?"…

Third car in the range aimed at large American families Vulture at the Wheel Tesla will launch the Model X tonight. This is the third model the company has launched after the Lotus-built roadster and the amazing Model S.…

Flying high in the wave-riding Perlan 2 The Perlan 2 unpowered glider is on course to soar to a record-breaking 90,000ft (27,400m) next year, following a successful first test flight last week at a more modest 5,000ft (1,500m).…

Hold on, can you stay on for six weeks? We forgot about this extra work Capita has “invited” O2 call centre staff with one eye on the exit to stick around for a little longer, and the resulting excitement at such a prospect is palpable.…

Prez hopeful bigs up her part in protecting the US from the terror of inadequate IT US presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina has boasted that HP sold the NSA servers that allowed the agency to build a system for mass surveillance.…

But despite the hype, Cupertino’s latest efforts don’t entirely satisfy Review This is the tock in Apple’s two-year hardware cycle, last year’s iPhone 6 and its oversized "Plus" companion having been the tick.…

Postulate, formulate, negotiate Our very own Tim Phillips and analyst Tony Lock postulate on the future of tech infrastructure and explore some of the changes you might need to make to cope with the next five years.…

Northern England suffering broadband outage since Monday Sky has 'fessed up to broken fibre cables as being the cause of an outage in the north west, which has knocked a number of broadband and phone customers offline since Monday.…

Canadian outfit D-Wave Systems signs 'largest' deal its history NASA and Google have signed a seven-year deal with D-Wave Systems to install its new 1,000 qubit processor machines.…

Patents and people could have prompted the buy EMC’s DSSD unit bought a stealth-mode startup developing an ultra-high performance flash array in August this year.…

Raking over dead file virtualisation ashes ... could the flames return? Data management and storing startup Peaxy aims to provide a Big Data analytics tool that locates and gives you access to data where ever it is.…

And the man responsible for doing it is now in charge of Outlook Comment Microsoft can often resemble a heavily armed octopus trying to shoot itself in the head. But even after 25 years of watching Redmond's finest, it still has the capacity to astonish us with the imaginative ways it can screw things up. It gave us another example last week.…

Claims he was unaware of the ‘defeat device’ Volkswagon's former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, has come under investigation by the German state attorney.…

More grunt to its HR elbow IBM is beefing up its human resources software roster by buying Meteorix, a Boston MA reseller with more than 200 Workday consultants. Financial terms are undisclosed.…

Other MNOs couple up in the UK market European telco Liberty Global and Vodafone have put the kibosh on their possible merger, the mobile network operator announced late Monday.…

Elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities found in popular encryption system Google Project Zero hacker James Forshaw has found a pair of privilege-elevation holes in the once-popular TrueCrypt encryption package. The bugs have been patched in spinoff app Veracrypt.…

Yes, we spied, but we clearly know more about the law than this Euro law-talking guy The US government has responded to Europe's top lawyer, who last week said sending people's private data to the United States is illegal.…

Hackers make 55,416 logins to MRIs, defibrillator honeypots Derbycon Thousands of critical medical systems – including Magnetic Resonance Imaging machines and nuclear medicine devices – that are vulnerable to attack have been found exposed online.…

Thunder? That's not thunder, that's the sound of international drug smuggling A 26lbs bundle of cannabis appeared from the sky and bombed through the roof of a carport in the Arizona town of Nogales.…

Another day, another small deal to beef up Redmond’s portfolio Microsoft has picked over the “key product and technology assets” of Adxstudio, a long-time Dynamics CRM and application development partner.…

Walk this way – 'cause if you don't, the phone will die It won't surprise you at all to know that the US government is keenly interested in the idea of self-destructing electronics.…

Don't have techs to spare anyhow Technology pundits were left scratching their heads yesterday when Telstra walked away from bidding for up to A$56 billion in NBN fibre build contracts.…

It's a wonder the 'net works at all, really A bit of “quality, non-glamorous engineering” could give a bunch of Linux servers a boost by addressing an unnoticed bug in a congestion control algorithm.…

Broadcom explains DPoE to El Reg Google's fibre initiatives haven't just prodded the US cable operators to respond in kind, gigabit for gigabit – it's also driving standards.…

Keep your eyes peeled; it could be as soon as next week A well-informed storage industry source with close ties to startups suggests that Pure's IPO could happen as early as next week – yes, the one beginning Monday, October 5.…

Uni prof goes public with two-year-old bug A bit of code-work is all it takes to sidestep one of Google's key AdSense protection mechanisms.…

One is for small biz and the other is for enterprise providers EMC introduced its scale-out ScaleIO Node virtual SAN a couple of weeks ago, with hybrid flash-disk and all-flash server chassises. It overlaps as a product with EMC-owned VMware's VSAN, and therefore EMC's EVO:RAIL implementation of that, and also competes with scale-out all-flash arrays.…

Republican prez candidate a hit among thieves. Trump Hotel Collection has confirmed in a letter to customers that IT security at one of its Las Vegas hotels was breached.…

Flash flambé feared Screenshot Some Apple iPhone 6S Plus owners are complaining that their new handsets get too hot – with one bod yelling that the LED flash shuts down.…

So are QR codes. No, really QR codes are now officially part of the Internet of Things hype-cycle.…

Risky maneuver could see it served a hefty tax bill someday Yahoo! says it's going to press ahead with its plan to spin off its multibillion-dollar stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba, despite failing to receive a favorable ruling from the US Internal Revenue Service.…

We see you just went on holiday. Would you like another one tomorrow? Companies can upload your email address to Google so when the internet goliath detects you surfing across the web, it can throw better-targeted adverts at you.…

Redmond announces second major financial reporting change in three years In Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's latest move to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor, Steve Ballmer, the software giant has announced that it's changing its financial reporting structure ... again.…

Two slightly different A9 processor brains made for new mobes Apple is using two slightly different A9 processors from two suppliers – TSMC and Samsung – in its new iPhone 6S.…

Euro probe studies two rocks for the price of one Pics Findings from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe solved the riddle of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's unusual shape. They have proof that the comet is in fact two planetary bodies joined at the hip.…