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China still a top trend says IDC HP has consolidated its position at the top of the HPC tree this year, after IBM’s protracted offloading of its x86 server business to Lenovo spooked customers and stalled purchases.…

Sometimes a token gesture is a good thing Analysis Most security experts estimate that the security offered within (and by) Apple Pay is superior to that seen in existing contactless credit or debit card systems.…

Tips for the canny SME The average SME has a modest infrastructure which has grown organically: a file server of some sort, probably an email server, then a handful of application servers hosting things like finance systems or the database back-ends to business applications.…

Dominance and predatory pricing to be looked at The European Commission has opened two antitrust investigations into possible abusive behaviour by chipzilla Qualcomm, including allegations of "predatory pricing".…

'You agree to receive automatic updates without notice' Microsoft's licensing on the upcoming Windows 10 OS means that most users will find their systems updating on command from Redmond without any option to stop this.…

Sun-like star, Jupiter-like gas giant ... Terra Nova? There are just two problems with the exoplanets we know about. First, they're generally too big to be really interesting, and second they're too close to their parent stars. Today, however, we have one that's a bit different.…

62 warrants served worldwide as feds spring their trap Coordinated action from law enforcement and judicial authorities across the world has succeeded in taking down Darkode, an English-language cybercriminal forum.…

Just say 'no' to rolling your own There’s a lot of angst right now over the Open Compute Project, Facebook’s open-source data centre gift to the world. Some, as detailed by El Reg, describe Open Compute testing as “a complete and utter joke.” One that isn’t apparently very funny.…

How a nuke blast lid may have beaten Soviets by months As any space enthusiast knows, beachball-sized Sputnik was the first manmade object to orbit the Earth after it was launched by the Soviets in October 1957. But it's possible the US managed to put an object into space a few months before that.…

Enterprise services unit on the chopping block eBay is about to sell off its enterprise services unit, according to folks whispering in the ear of The Wall Street Journal.…

Here's your chance to test servers-on-chips at ARM's length Backers of ARM CPUs as a data centre disruptor capable of knocking Intel off its lucrative Xeon-powered perch have a new poster child in the form of hosting company OVH, which has announced it will stand up a cloud powered by Cavium's ThunderX chippery.…

'You pick the time, place and manner' A legal eagle mocked the size of his client's manhood and then challenged him to a duel – not of the pink pistol variety – over an outstanding fee of just $400 (£256), according to an official complaint.…

Unauthenticated remote code execution among grizzly vulns. Oracle has poured cold coffee on a recent Java zero-day that's already under active attack, with just one of the critical patches it's released to address 193 holes in its sprawling product suite.…

This one simple attack busts WPA-TKIP in less than an hour Remember how many times the crypto world has shouted that the RC4 crypto algorithm needs to be wiped from the face of the Earth? It just got even worse, with researchers demonstrating an attack that can be executed in 52 hours.…

El Reg talks to IIX's Jay Turner The open-source CloudRouter project is getting closer to general availability, with its second beta hitting the Internet today.…

New Skills India plan calls for nation to export its brains in every field India's launched a new “National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship” that prime minister Shri Narendra Modi hopes will propel the country to become “the world's largest provider of skilled workforce for the world.”…

Chipzilla chiefzilla admits building tiny gates is really hard Intel has surprised the IT world by changing its plans. This doesn't happen very often, and it will affect its chips going into clouds and data centers over the next couple of years, which is a big deal. Let's break down what's happened.…

Cloudy PVR has denial of service problem, but the fix is in Cisco is asking Web broadcasters using its Videoscape TV-over-IP streaming product to get patching, after a denial-of-service vulnerability was found in the software.…

Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? Microsoft won't do much more Microsoft has announced it will offer “limited support for major Linux distributions, third party and Open source technologies on Azure.”…

14 flaws nixed by crowdsourced code-hunters United Airlines has paid 1.5 million flight miles to two bug hunters who squelched 14 vulnerabilities under its newly hatched bug bounty program.…

Better order early, though HP got on the phone with The Register on Wednesday to shed light on how it plans to roll out PCs with Windows 10 preinstalled. The IT giant said you can expect at least some of its hardware to be available with the new OS on the day that it launches – July 29.…

First 'Wi-Fi Aware' chips pass certification A lack of connectivity options in devices like smartphones is clearly what stops location-based advertising from being the saviour of physical retailing.…

So long as they keep up the sweetheart interconnect deal, that is Netflix has publicly backed the proposed merger between Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable (TWC).…

Ready or not, here it comes Microsoft has released yet another preview build of Windows 10, this time to both the Fast and Slow rings of the Windows Insider program, and it looks suspiciously like it could be a release candidate.…

Both the dwarf freezworld and moon Charon are active – that shouldn't happen Pics NASA has shown the first high-resolution picture of Pluto's surface, and the first proper picture of its largest moon Charon – and the photos have already turned planetary science on its head.…

Privacy activists alarmed by profiling implications The European Parliament's civil liberties committee LIBE voted on Wednesday in favor of collecting and storing information about all air passengers traveling into or out of the EU.…

Another glum quarter as customers shun PCs Punch-drunk Intel staggered along in the second quarter of its fiscal 2015 and somehow managed to outperform analysts' estimates, even though its results looked even worse than the previous quarter's.…

A sad catch President Obama will officially launch Wednesday afternoon a new program to get kids in flat-broke households online.…

We expected the Middle Kingdom to grow its own brains – just not this quick ISC 2015 Computer design guru Yutong Lu has outlined the blueprints for China's homegrown supercomputer chips following a US ban on Intel processor exports to the Middle Kingdom.…

Remind us again who owns half of Foxtel? Telstra? Really … Netflix's latest ranking of Australian service providers again shows that Telstra is the nation's worst-performing network when it comes to downloading the streaming video company's content.…

'It's not because of the money' says aging grumpy rocker "My music is being removed from all streaming services. It's not good enough to sell or rent," rock grumpster Neil Young said today.…

They'd like Canonical to make still more changes to licensing Canonical has updated the intellectual property rights policy for Ubuntu Linux to address a brouhaha over how the software is licensed, but free software advocates still aren't satisfied.…

Prius owners look less smug Toyota has become the third car manufacturer in two weeks to recall its cars because of software problems, with over 625,000 Prius hybrids needing an upgrade to stop the engine suddenly cutting out.…

It's alive! It's alive! Pic Apple is touting a new model of the iPod Touch with an eight-megapixel camera, a new processor, and new colors for its case.…

Fat man bites dog A company founded by Kim Dotcom, the file-sharing website kingpin who is accused of mass copyright infringement, is reportedly suing another biz for ... copyright infringement.…

Songwriters aren't asking Uncle Sam for help. So why are you? Guest opinion Last year Spotify hired a former political strategist in the Obama administration and some of Pandora’s lobbyists to protect its untenable and money-losing business model. I predict that the end goal of these efforts will leave artists and songwriters worse off.…

Coalition formed to oppose 'misguided' legislation that will help hackers, hurt research Infosec heavyweights are uniting to oppose US government proposals to tighten up export controls against software exploits, a move critics argue threatens to imperil mainstream security research and information sharing.…

Clustered, cloud crew Data centre operating system hopeful Mesophere has rolled out programs and tools targeting developers and prospective partners.…

Mobile strategy 101? 'What I mean is...' Satya Nadella has been hitting the road to undo the damage to perceptions of Microsoft's mobile strategy caused last week by, um… Satya Nadella.…

Company sorry for the inconvenience caused. Great Epic Games, known for its Unreal Engine and the Games of War series, sent a grovelling letter to its forum users this morning explaining that a hack "may have resulted in unauthorised access to your username, email address, password, and the date of birth you provided at registration."…

Aims to charm fanbois with adware removal tool Security software firm Malwarebytes is moving into the Mac security software market with the acquisition of a start-up and the launch of its first anti-malware product for Apple computers.…

Damning review was censored – but we've seen the full report Domain-name overseer ICANN's pivotal role in a controversial fight over .africa is today revealed in full for the first time.…

Moz shop's rebuild-the-fox plan begins to take shape For some time now Firefox, the once mighty web browser, has been bleeding market share and – perhaps more importantly – developer mind share.…

GSM-R base station deal covers frequency updates and new hardware Nokia Networks is trumpeting an eight-year contract incorporating the sale of over 2,000 mobile base stations – and a GSM-R frequency band upgrade – to Deutsche Bahn, Germany's national railway company.…

Cheil merger wrangles set to continue A Samsung exec has vowed to offer up a "big" win in the company's "war" against shouty investment firm Elliot, as the battle hots up over its objection to Sammy's imminent merger.…

No food or job? Well, at least your playlists are safe iThingy flinger Apple has decided enough is enough with poor old Greece, helping solve the EU nation's debt crisis with an offer of free iCloud services - for a month, anyway.…

'Doesn't taste like seaweed at all,' enthuses boffin There's possibly disturbing, possibly uplifting news today on the science beat, depending how much you like bacon and/or things grown in bubbling vats.…

Actually just ordinary folk getting some privacy rights Ordinary people value their online reputations, and are the main users of the so-called "right to be forgotten" European ruling, Google data has revealed.…