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And policies and teams in place – on the double Uncle Sam has finally had enough: 15 years after it put out a memo telling its federal organizations they had to start moving to IPv6, it has decided to give sluggish bureaucrats a kick in the ass.…

National survey of ISPs sparks familiar recommendations for better internet New Jersey has bested New York when it comes to broadband, according to a survey of all 2,000 ISPs across the US – and both beat the rest of the country.…

Tons of TLS certs need to be tossed immediately after Go snafu On Wednesday, March 4, Let's Encrypt – the free, automated digital certificate authority – will briefly become Let's Revoke, to undo the issuance of more than three million flawed HTTPS certs.…

Experts drafted in to help new hires answer customers' technical questions Amazon Web Services plans to double its sales staffing numbers this year in the face of mounting competition and slowing growth.…

Adobe Summit too. They'll all go online now. Dress code: PJs and a blankie Updated Google and Microsoft have both axed major conferences due to take place this month - the latest casualties of the novel coronavirus amid a clampdown across the tech industry on attending all such events.…

Cloud data warehouse slinger claims it can help comb through event logs Cloud-native data warehouse vendor Snowflake and Edge Delta have spun up a new SecOps architecture they claim will broaden the application of analytics in a security information and event management (SIEM) product.…

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals... so help us get land speed record on the Discovery Channel The Bloodhound Land Speed Record chaps have thrust out the begging bowl to raise funds for a bid to break the 1,000mph (1,609kph) barrier next year.…

UK.gov tries the KISS approach to infosec advice for the public Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) wants owners of baby monitors and smart CCTV cameras to take some basic security precautions.…

Now without all the mucking around on-premises Universal Print, a new Microsoft Azure service now in private preview, allows printers to be registered with Azure Active Directory so users can print to them via the cloud.…

Needing a landline will soon be a thing of the past BT's Openreach today launched an IP-based network that aims to ultimately replace the UK's public switched telephone network (PSTN), which carries analogue voice communications.…

Meanwhile, Marvell offers a 36-core chip, Xilinx whips out an FPGA-based SmartNIC Ampere will today tear the covers off Altra, its 80-core 64-bit Arm N1 processor for cloud and hyperscaler servers.…

Calm down now The British government said today that the novel coronavirus – COVID-19 – will, more likely than not, have a significant impact on the UK and could see up to 20 per cent of people missing work.…

'Test Like You Fly'? Yeah, we've heard of it Roundup Quite a bit transpired in the world of rocketeering over the past few days, and The Reg has got all the highlights.…

Owner Troy Hunt staying in the saddle after potential deal falls through The popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) will remain independent – despite owner Troy Hunt's decision last year to put the business up for sale.…

Super-maker claims breakthrough in quantum supernumerary Honeywell International, a business known to most folks mainly for its thermostats, claims to have achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing.…

Plus: Big Blue wanted to 'turn the screw in a controlled manner' on client An IBM exec was accused of contradicting himself at the High Court in London as he testified over the failure of a £175m Agile platform contract with Co-Operative Insurance.…

Staff found out after seeing their own jobs advertised in India Exclusive Maersk is preparing to make 150 job cuts at its UK command-and-control centre (CCC) in Maidenhead – the one that rebuilt the global shipping company's IT infrastructure after the infamous 2017 NotPetya ransomware attack.…

Also, a new data centre region beneath Spain's Azure skies Roundup Chromium Edge has been tweaked to prevent users installing PUA, Microsoft's going to Spain, plus there are a few more things about the gnomes at Redmond we didn't get around to revealing last week.…

Open-source chap Boris Renski chats to El Reg about the near future Interview The co-founder of Kubernetes cloud outfit Mirantis, Boris Renski, has left the business to start a new venture focused on 5G-based "private LTE" campus networks.…

Deep Space Climate Observatory ticking again after gyroscope mishap The Deep Space Climate Observatory – a satellite that warns of incoming space storms that could knacker telecommunications on Earth – is up and running again after being shut down for eight months by a technical glitch.…

‘We'll just buff it out’ says SpaceX biz baron Video Video footage has emerged of SpaceX's Starship prototype dramatically blowing up on the pad.…

Google's TensorFlow Dev Summit may be next, too Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, due to take place on March 22 to 26 in Silicon Valley's San Jose McEnery Convention Center, has been cancelled following the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in Northern California.…

'Does it have its own satellite dish, sir?' 'You can tell your son it has its own satellite' Drone enthusiasts are up in arms over rules proposed by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that would require their flying gizmos to provide real-time location data to the government via an internet connection.…

Proposed settlement to end 66 class-action cases awaits judicial approval Apple – which banked $55bn profit in its 2019 fiscal year – is willing to pay up to $500m to settle US claims that the company secretly slowed certain iPhone models to preserve battery life, according to a proposed class action settlement.…

British biz's foray 'has not fared well as it exits the market nursing substantial losses' Brit accountancy software maker Sage is offloading its Brazilian operation to local management.…

PC-and-printers biz will 'carefully review and evaluate the offer' before, presumably, deciding: No Xerox is going for it: this morning it officially inched forward in its effort to forcibly acquire troubled PC-and-printers slinger HP amid repeated attempts by HP's board to strangle the plan.…

Let's hear it for tumbling memory prices It has been eight years since order books opened for the diminutive Raspberry Pi and the foundation has celebrated by knocking $10 off the price of the 2GB incarnation, reducing the thing to $35.…

Pandemic-dodging Sammy continues tradition of investment in Vietnam Samsung has started work on a $220m R&D centre in Vietnam to contribute to it's research in AI, IoT, big data and 5G.…

Meanwhile, Sophos finds nasty rootkit, OnlyFans says massive archive not a hack Roundup Here's El Reg's fresh slice of all the infosec news – beyond what we've already covered – that you'll need to know as you start your week. Ready? Here we go.…

Do you own your data – or does your data own you? Webcast You listened when they told you data was the new oil. Now you spend your working lives buying, tending, and managing storage.…

Global Prestige or Global Positioning? Squabbles ensue as politicos realise space is hard Hopes of an on-time delivery of a report into how the UK's Galileo replacement might work have been dealt a blow as, yup, it's running late.…

Man who steered firm away from burning platform steps away: 'I want to do something different' Nokia Oyj will say jäähyvästi to current CEO Rajeev Suri in September, replacing him with Pekka Lundmark – who currently heads energy firm Fortum.…

'Company affected lives of millions of people, causing disruption, annoyance and distress,' thunders ICO A Scottish business that fired 193.6 million automated nuisance calls at Brits has itself become the recipient of some unwanted comms – a letter containing a £500,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog.…

'We are truly sorry' Fintech startup Loqbox has fessed up to suffering an "attack" which potentially revealed its customers' names, postal addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers.…

Still a monopoly in Western Euro channel, but it's smaller: shortages and AMD ROME burning Intel market share It isn't just in PCs that Intel's vice-like grip is weakening – its share of server CPU sales for standalone build-to-order (BTO) options and upgrades has also crashed in Western Europe due to protracted production issues, exploited by a resurgent AMD.…

Anything but this Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another edition of signage behaving badly, The Register's look at borkage of all shapes, sizes and flavours from around the world.…

High Court hears from delivery lead in high-stakes trial IBM's delivery lead on the collapsed £175m Co-Op Insurance IT platform project told a colleague the project was "hurting" Big Blue, the High Court has been told.…

Unloved assistant to smarten up its act in Microsoft 365. US only, naturally Microsoft has jammed yet another knife into the consumer incarnation of its unloved electronic assistant, Cortana.…

Hydro-Québec to take tech to market A Canadian utility company says it will try to commercialise 2019 Nobel Prize winner John Goodenough's controversial fast-charging, non-flammable glass battery.…

And when you're too tired, you can lower it again. QUITTER! Back in my day, a Pro Plus was a tiny sugar-coated pill that dragged me through the ennui of a Computer Science degree. If I took enough of them, I thought, the dancing C++ syntax on my screen would start to make sense and I might – just might – scrape through my dissertation clutching a 2:1.…

'Member the Apple II? Hobbyists' kit is where business IT begins Column The twin planets of business and consumer technologies have been locked in a game of Pong for decades. The Apple II was aimed at hobbyists, but catalysed the revolution that put a PC on every office desk.…

We want to share your hard-won advice and knowledge with the rest of world Podcast On the ball as ever, we here at The Register have decided a podcast is in order.…

We're all Doomed Who, Me? Welcome to Monday. As the weekend recedes and workstations are fired up, pause a moment to travel with us to a time when an ill-judged bit of gaming took down an entire network and a Reg reader uttered "Who, Me?"…

Do not pass Go, do not collect garbage The Python programming language continues to find more fans, having tied Java as the second most popular programming language, according to analysis conducted by IT consultancy Redmonk.…

Science's civil rebel dies aged 96 Video Freeman Dyson, the eminent British-American physicist and mathematician best known for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, died today. He was 96.…

Git outta here – has it been that long? The Apache Software Foundation has decreed this week to be the 20th anniversary of the source code management system, Subversion. So, happy birthday SVN!…

How much you make, Randy? Wanna cough up, I dunno, twice that or something? America's communications watchdog on Friday suggested it may fine the nation's four major wireless carriers for selling subscribers location data without adequate safeguards to prevent misuse.…

Now one Donald-shaped signature away from dishing out $1bn to fund the big switch President Trump is expected to sign a bill that would allocate $1bn to US carriers to replace existing Huawei-built infrastructure after it was unanimously passed by the Senate yesterday.…

Or it would, if it were ever released Vivo has introduced the third generation of its APEX concept phones – the APEX 2020. This handset packs a bunch of new experimental features, largely centred around its display and camera technology, which might eventually make their way to production phones from Vivo and others.…