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Brands to stay as they are! Yeah, that's what they all say CK Hutchison - once known as Hutchison Whampoa* - will float O2 when it merges with Three, pushing the company back into public ownership. The merger is still awaiting regulatory approval, but is expected to go ahead.…

‘Three issues for £1’ offer Promo It’s been - ooh years - since we advertised the existence of The Register’s daily email newsletter.…

F2000 is the up-to 330TB, seven-nines, baby 18U array that never forgets Moshe Yanai's Infinidat high-end enterprise array is getting added file support, better disaster recovery and an entry-level system.…

Vid chat service KOd, hapless Brits bear brunt of borkage Microsoft-owned video chat service Skype has 'fessed up to a major outage affecting its customers, promising it is "working on a quick fix" to the problem.…

The problem – we don’t just use them for back-up Next year, the seventh-generation LTO tape format will be hitting the market. We are talking about 15TB cartridges. It sounds like an interesting media and it actually is if you need to store huge amounts of cold data.…

That's at least 33 per civil servant The Ministry of Justice has failed to make any cash savings from moving its 2.3 million Oracle software licences to the Cabinet Office's shared service centre, The Register can reveal.…

Sabre-rattling is moving on from the traditional miscreants, say infosec bods Cyberattacks from Russia have increased because of sanctions related to the Ukraine while assaults from Iran have dropped over recent months, thanks to the recent Iran nuclear deal.…

Repacked malicious Xcode framework flogged on Chinese watering hole dev sites Millions of Apple users are at risk from malicious yet legitimate apps uploaded to the official App Store, which are being used in "unprecedented", live iCloud phishing attacks.…

TVs and mobes can do without Android (but won't) The developers of the Linux-based device operating system Tizen have announced the latest iteration of their TV and mobile offerings.…

I'll green you on the dark side of the Moon China used its latest green rocket design to carry 20 micro-satellites into space on Sunday.…

Plug-ins checking out for chatty types Microsoft has added Object RTC to the latest insider preview of Windows 10. The move paves the way for Skype users using Microsoft’s Edge browser to make voice or video calls without faffing around with browser plug-ins.…

Scorecard to list hackable ICBMs, office fridges US Defence bureaucrats are bashing numbers into a database in a bid to develop what the agency hopes will become an automated security scorecard, assessing vulnerability exposure across the country's networks and weapons systems.…

Spooky signals called Fast Radio Bursts could tell us where the stuff is Only a few of them have been observed so far, but boffins from the University of British Colombia reckon fast radio bursts (FRBs) could help refine our understanding of where stuff is in the universe.…

Smooth sailing and near READ ME disaster averted HPC Blog Rounding out the field for the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition, below is an introduction to the two teams we haven't profiled yet. For previous Reg coverage, refer to this, this, and this.…

Everything from name to illnesses posted by mistake The private health records and private contact information of as many as 1.5 million Americans have been posted to Amazon's cloud services.…

Cover-ups, unfair processes, just another day in the bureaucracy Three judges of Australia's Federal Court have delivered a ringing blow to Australia's treasurer, Scott Morrison, saying in his former role as immigration minister he oversaw a process designed to turn a data breach investigation into a failure.…

Operator trawled a MONTH worth of texts to hunt whistleblower Vodafone Australia's data access scandal has escalated towards blood-in-the-boardroom levels, with accusations that its abuse of a journalist's data in 2011 went on longer than the company has admitted.…

The successor to the World's Greatest Luddite is now a successor to the World's Greatest Luddite The communications portfolio that Malcolm Turnbull vacated to become Australia's prime minister seems to have been downgraded.…

Industry veteran mysteriously exits after three-year return from Apple AMD's top microprocessor architect Jim Keller has walked from the chip vendor, just months after the company unveiled a shift in strategy to reinvest in high-end FX CPUs.…

Plus: OMG SAP CEO 'still alive' after horror fall QuoTW We do hope you've enjoyed this week of botched Apple updates, unlikely Linux lovers and surprise birthday gifts.…

Cloudopocalypse stalks Sunday sofa surfers Amazon's Web Services (AWS) have suffered a monster outage affecting the company's cloudy systems, bringing some sites down with it in the process.…

Total Inability To Secure Uptown Pad. AWS to blame? Lodge-listing website Airbnb suffered what appeared to be a fairly widespread outage in the early hours of Sunday morning.…

Come back ... Was it something we said? A "tree of life", which depicts the relationships of 2.3 million named species on Earth, has been created by biologists.…

Where electric hypercar torque figures almost equal prices Vulture at the Wheel Electric cars are coming, but not in the way you would expect. The lawns of Salon Privé suggest a direction that will have the lentil-munchers puzzled.…

No, silly, the green screen isn't the computer. Let's follow the wires ... On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular look at the messes readers find themselves confronting when asked to go to help out their clients.…

It's really not that taxing Worstall @ the Weekend Phillip from London writes in to note that I'm really not a fan of the minimum wage. So, given that we don't want the poor starving in the streets, or that we might actually think there is some minimum income that a rich country should provide just because, what's the recommended Worstall method of achieving this?…

How clicking on or even rolling your mouse over it will knacker browser You can crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL.…

But the content is secret for now, another review's on the way and there's NO MONEY for teacher training Last Friday, Australia signed off on the nation's Digital Technologies curriculum, the first effort to teach computational thinking from infants' school to late High School. But the signoff is hollow because the content of the curriculum is hidden and a further review of technology education has been announced.…

Davros, Daleks and Missy – a total treat for fans TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…

Brave bee-stung willy brain box also bags a gong Boffins, who – thanks to their bladder-poking research – busted the myth that racehorses urinate longer than other animals, have been awarded the physics Ig Nobel prize.…

Watchdog says 'defeat device is threat to public health' The US government has accused Volkswagen of using software to duck emissions testing for certain air pollutants on nearly half a million of its cars.…

Wobbly dining fan Pascal Harris cooks up a Netherlands staple Our elite post-pub culinary team has decided to enjoy a short break from the pots and pans and bugger off on holiday, so we'd like to take the opportunity to hand over cooking duties this week to reader Pascal Harris.…

Getting the basics of your box up and running Feature Last week, I explained the reasoning behind setting up your own mailserver, and the choice of software that I'll be using for it. This week, it's time to get hands on and show you how to do it. One word of advice, though: this is my configuration, and there are lots of options for tweaking, not to mention different ways to do it.…

Tech tagging horror 'n' itchy collars Something for the Weekend, Sir? There’s something I’d like to show you in my underpants. Come along, now, don’t be shy. Take a good look.…

But suggests a little structure around its evaluation A highly anticipated report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has given the green light to a shift of critical internet functions away from the government to domain overseer ICANN.…

Registration of 29 odd dotcoms flags move Apple is getting ready to launch its own piece of the internet: .apple.…

Small tweak needed to global network's foundation Analysis Engineers have recommended a small but important change to the internet's underlying structure in order to avoid a possible doomsday scenario.…

Fanbois flustered, furious; faulty firmware fingered Apple has published a workaround after some iOS users have been left stranded in the middle of the iOS 9 update process.…

Annual dev tools subscribers get a perpetual license, will have to roll back to use it Developer tools company JetBrains displeased many of its customers when it announced a move to subscription-only licensing from later this year.…

Friday firmware facepalm Updated Taiwanese networking kit maker D-Link leaked a private code-signing key onto the internet for anyone to download.…

'Just doesn't feel good' he says as he kills top paid app download The developer behind the wildly popular Peace ad blocker for iOS has pulled it from the App Store after claiming it was too effective.…

Boeing boffin suggests harnessing noise pollution for power A researcher with Boeing has floated a plan to convert the noise from departing planes into a power source.…

Owner Raiffeisen Bank offloading after upheaval for interests in Ukraine, Russia Microsoft reseller titan Comparex has whittled down its list of prospective buyers to just two, The Channel can reveal.…

Climate scientists revise history, call for Vultures' arrest In extraordinary developments, assorted scientists and other academics have waded into the debate over the widely-acknowledged absence of global warming seen over the last 15+ years.…

The 400-year-old Uni library with a big-box backer Geek's Guide to Britain The Botanic Gardens, Sheldonian Theatre, Museum of Natural History – there’s plenty to see in Oxford. Off limits, however, was the New Bodleian Library, arguably the city’s greatest treasure and jewel in the nation's academic crown.…

Close, so close to getting its ReRAM afloat before Intel and Micron barge in Resistive RAM memory tech startup Crossbar has snagged $35m in D-round funding to push the commercial ramp of its non-volatile memory (NVM) technology.…

That's another fine turf war you've got me into Comment Try getting through a day without using Google, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal or a music service. Even if you heroically avoid stepping on any of their properties, it’s likely that your activity will have been tracked and recorded.…

Cybercrims may be safe at home, but Feds dare them to go on holiday Cloudsec Yesteryear's hack of Sony Pictures was an act of war, stated FBI Supervisory Special Agent Timothy Wallach, who delivered the FBI's gradation system of cybercriminals to net security conference Cloudsec on Thursday, 17 September.…

'Charges against us were dropped'. Yep, but not the new one Quadsys has tried to allay concerns in the channel about a pending fraud case involving the owner and MD by circulating police documents showing that criminal charges were dropped.…