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Clouds sell compute by the glass. On-premises kitmakers want to sell wine-as-a-service Public cloud is supposed to be a mortal threat to enterprise hardware vendors, whose wares look clunky and costly compared to a servers-for-an-hour-for-cents cloud and the threat looks scary … until you actually use a public cloud for a while.…

Could launch as soon as September Under pressure to accelerate Taiwan's broadband deployment, Chunghwa Telecom has announced it will start rolling out G.fast.…

More execs shown the door as Borg looks for Middle Kingdom kickstarter Incoming Borg boss Chuck Robbins has sliced a bunch of executives from Cisco's operations in China, in a response to the territory's ongoing weak performance.…

'Culture of security' shift gains ground Snapchat has deployed two factor authentication as part of its push to increase security across the popular selfie slinging app.…

Remote code execution for some, denial of service for the rest of us Cisco has issued a string of patches for 16 faults including a fix for a possible remote code execution in its IOS and IOS XE routing software.…

Battery gluttony targeted for code-fixes to keep you feeding data to Google for longer Mac users will soon be able to run Chrome without watching their battery status fall by the minute, with Google tweaking the code to cut down unnecessary system wake-ups.…

Freedom and security need MOAR SERVERS, says Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation has decided the time is right to implement HTTPS on all its projects, for all users, all the time.…

Axe apparently fell on would-be Sonos rival Apple killed work on a Beats Electronics wireless loudspeaker after it bought rapper Dr Dre's company for $3bn last year, it has been claimed.…

Where is the mustard? There is not enough mustard out there Amazon has finally released details of the info snooping governments from around the world demand of the retail and cloudy biz.…

Historic comet lander finally phones home The Philae lander has woken from hibernation for the first time since its 60-hour, energy-draining mission on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November, scientists at the European Space Agency confirmed today.…

Plus: Jack bids a fond, willy-waving farewell to 'selfless leader' Dick QuoTW This week, the science world was shocked to its dorky core after one of its own attempted to tell a joke. In public.…

Do fear The Reaper. No, really Pics Regular Reg readers will be aware that our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) rocket wrangler Paul "Lord Shax" Shackleton, when he's not lighting blue touchpapers, may be found brewing 18 per cent ABV mead or blowing his own head off with 1.5 million Scoville masala omelettes, featuring the awe-inspiring Carolina Reaper chilli pepper.…

CD burning, a car journey, and an upload – whatever gets the job done On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our regular weekend feature in which readers share the odd things they've been asked to do at odder times of the day.…

Pretty soft-roader loaded with latest Android infotainment system Vulture @ the Wheel It’s surprising that Renault has taken so long to make this car; a Gallicised version of the Nissan Qashqai, an SUV that’s been selling like hot cakes in the UK for a good few years. What we have here then is a variation on the theme of what the Renault-Nissan Alliance thinks a soft-roader should be.…

No one told us we could do that! Worstall @ the Weekend That austerity doesn't make the economy grow, is one of those things we all know to be true. And yet we've also got a government insisting that a recession, when there's spare capacity and we'd really rather like the economy to grow, is a great time to be cutting government spending and thus instituting that austerity.…

Edge Research Lab poised in Colorado for avionics test flight Our US allies at Edge Research Laboratory are as we speak on the ground at Colorado Springs East Airport preparing for the imminent launch of the Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) PRATCHETT mission.…

'Impossible to be sure if it is plucky probot' Vid The European Space Agency has determined a "good candidate" for the location of its Philae probot, which successfully landed on Comet 67/P in November last year.…

Free content ad network only cares about MEELLIONS of EYEBALLS Facebook has fiddled with its News Feed algorithm to scan the amount of time someone spends reading a given post on the site and app.…

As in gaming for gamers, in case you wondered Google is set to muscle in on the multi-billion dollar online gaming market, with the launch of a dedicated YouTube app and website.…

An Aussie muscle car with an Essex tan Vulture at the Wheel I wanted to like the Vauxhall VXR8, but I didn’t and I’m still not entirely sure why not. It’s very fast and has the magic ingredient I look for in a car: exclusivity.…

And the scientifically squiffy dinos don’t disappoint, either Film Review Over twenty years later, the Hollywood dino franchise is back with a fourth film, Jurassic World, that ignores numbers two and three and attempts to recapture the magic that made the first an industry-changing, blockbuster ride. And it mostly succeeds.…

HDMI telly streaming dongle with X-Ray vision Review Amazon’s Fire TV Stick may well be late to the streaming HDMI dongle party but, as is the company’s wont, it’s even later when it comes to turning up in European markets. Still, it’s here now and keenly priced too at just £35. OK, so Google’s Chromecast is only £30 but at least Amazon supplies a remote control.…

Potent plots, oligarchs and overlords and much, much more Page File El Reg bookworm Mark Diston trawls through the latest from the publishing world encompassing Owen Sheers delivery of an intense portrayal of accidents and their consequences. Ben Mezrich gives a gangster-esque spin through the corridors of power and industry in Russia, and Nicholas Mirzoeff takes on the gargantuan task of how we define ourselves visually.…

El Reg reruns one of Dabbsy's greatest hits Something for the Weekend, Sir? Alistair Dabbs is away. This column is a repeat publication from back in 2014. Enjoy!…

No, you're not reading The Onion In response to this week's data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management, the White House has ordered federal agencies to immediately deploy state-of-the-art anti-hacker defenses – things like installing security patches, and not giving everyone the admin password.…

Standard Form 86 reads like a biography of each intelligence worker Analysis If the latest reports are true and Chinese hackers have managed to pilfer as much data about US government employees in sensitive positions as is thought, the Obama administration may be headed for a serious intelligence crisis.…

Secure, well-managed, compatible with apps – think about it Analysis Four months ago, BlackBerry announced it was porting key features of its BlackBerry OS software to Android and iOS – stuff like its onscreen keyboard, Universal Search, and the notification Hub.…

China said to have stolen detailed info on employees in sensitive federal positions A second data breach at the US Office of Personnel Management has compromised even more sensitive information about government employees than the first breach that was revealed earlier this week, sources claim. It's possible at least 14 million Americans have chapter and verse on their lives leaked, we're told.…

Just not if you have a Surface 3 Microsoft has released Build 10130 of the Windows 10 Technical Preview to the Windows Insider program's Slow release ring, despite a few lingering issues – particularly with Redmond's latest hardware.…

IT security bods warn of 'dysfunctional ecosystem, fraught with vulnerability' The overlooked task of patching PC BIOS and UEFI firmware vulnerabilities leaves corporations wide open to attack, a new paper by security researchers warns.…

Zuck's world is predominantly mobile, so he's looking there Facebook isn’t done fiddling with PHP – far from it. Team Zuckerberg are cooking up fresh changes to streamline further this veteran server horse for mobile, set to be released under open source.…

Us? Comply with the mere laws of pre-digital man? Nah A Canadian court has rejected Google's claim that it can't control its own search engine, and concluded that the web giant can in fact rein in its vast army of machines.…

Photos fell off the back of a LORRI Pictures of the surface of Pluto snapped by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are increasing in quality, as it edges closer to its July sojourn through the Pluto system.…

Profitability a long way off, despite growing user base File sharer Box’s burst into profitability is still being delayed (for quarter after quarter) by its massive, heavy boat anchor of pay-nothing customers.…

Secretive US spies wouldn't cough up spying secrets, says German attorney general German attorney general (Generalbundesanwalt) Harald Range has dropped the investigation into spying on the German Chancellor because the allegation could not be proved by “legally watertight means.”…

Explanations spread way faster than Level 3 users' packets ISP Level 3's customers have been left without internet access since this morning, after the provider seems to have leaked routes to a Tier 1 transit provider in Malaysia.…

China’s wage inflation finally prompts action Taiwanese multinational and Apple device manufacturer Hon Hai/Foxconn is planning to expand into India, opening roughly ten factories and date centres by 2020, according to Indian government officials.…

Looking to litigation as a saviour could be risky Comment It isn’t pretty watching this. Poor beleaguered archival product vendor Crossroads Systems reported even worse results for its second quarter than its dire first quarter, as well as a diminishing cash balance.…

Regulator wants telco giant to play nicely over fixed leases UK regulator Ofcom further turned up the heat on BT today, unveiling plans to cap wholesale prices the one-time national telco charges for leased telecoms lines.…

Watchdog fears it would be easier to throw away whole IT system and start again A malware infestation at the Bundestag is proving harder to clean up than first predicted, with several unconfirmed local reports going as far as suggesting that techies might have to rebuild the entire network from scratch.…

Firm may focus on device management instead, reports newswire Blackberry is pondering kitting out its next smartphone with Google's Android operating system, according to reports.…

Forget NAND, this here carbon tube stuff is the future, baby Future memory hardware startup Nantero has had a big funding round, suggesting its technology is getting closer to becoming a reality.…

Chinese biz fires team leader after competition banishment A researcher from Baidu has been fired after an internal inquiry blamed him for getting the company to be disqualified from a standardised and independent Artificial Intelligence test.…

Space aces now back on Earth after extra-long space sojourn Three astronauts have landed safely in Kazakhstan after spending nearly two hundred days aboard the International Space Station.…

Austrian angry, no explanations given, rumour mill in overdrive Sources at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) have denied there's a conspiracy behind the publication delay of a crucial opinion in the Europe v Facebook case.…

Multichannel 3D audio? Sounds great to us Breaking Fad Last week, amid the playboy splendour and shabby chic that is Monte Carlo, two giants of the AV and Hi-Fi world were busy putting a glam new spin on the latest audio tech. Sibling brands Denon and Marantz took the wraps off a slew of cutting edge audio components at an impressive dealer product showcase.…

UK.gov stats suggest £11bn scheme still a loooong way off The government's hated £11bn smart meters project will not be complete for another 50 years, stats from the Department of Energy and Climate Change indicate.…

Confirmed - 'at a fixed location' is not 'mobile' European governments cannot force mobile providers to pay for providing a minimum service to disadvantaged people, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…