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Join us and Qumulo next month to explore and discuss digital strategy to data practicality Webcast Let’s keep this simple. You’re looking to move to the cloud because you know just how powerful the model can be. You’ve seen what's possible when you harness the wealth of data now available to your applications. You’re looking to deliver on your digital transformation goals, respond to new business opportunities, and disrupt your entire market.…

Redmond hauls management software cloudwards Microsoft has rolled out the cloud-based version of its venerable project management software, Project, along with a new basic subscription option.…

With your hands Workers at Thames Water have shifted a 40-tonne fatberg – slightly more than three double-decker buses – from a sewer in south London.…

Meanwhile, Nicky Morgan hints at imminent decision on Huawei in UK's 5G infrastructure UK mobile operators will be fined up to 10 per cent of their annual turnover if they fail to meet the coverage obligations of the £1bn Shared Rural Network plans, digital secretary Nicky Morgan has claimed.…

Speculative execution bugs will be with us for a very long time Linux kernel dev Greg Kroah-Hartman reckons Intel Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) - also known as hyper-threading - should be disabled for security due to MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) bugs.…

In two months? That was quick Just two months after GlobalFoundries started legal action against Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the pair have reached a 10-year patent-sharing agreement.…

The first two letters sent that day were 'L' and 'O' – what should the third have been? It is 50 years today since the first message was sent on the ARPANET, a precursor of the internet as we know it today.…

ZTE also on hit list Ajit Pai, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has devised a two-part scheme to erase Chinese hardware from American telecoms networks.…

No pressure to don sweatband and suddenly start jogging Unlike the seeming majority of wearables (including those from Apple, Fitbit, and Huawei), the resurrected Moto 360 smartwatch isn't targeted at fitness enthusiasts.…

The case certainly rings a bell back in Europe Australia's consumer watchdog is pursuing Google over claims the megacorp has misled people about what data it collects and processes via its mobile operating system, Android.…

Probing contraband mobes to reduce prison crimes The UK Ministry of Justice is setting up a digital forensics lab to probe mobile phones seized from prisoners.…

Happy Halloween, folks! Round Up While the past seven days were light on launches, space fans had plenty to enjoy, with the Air Force's mystery mini Space Shuttle finally returning from space and the James Webb Space Telescope inching closer to blast-off.…

Hauliers thin on the ground, apparently Plans to restore an aged IBM mainframe found in a disused building in Germany are on hold because of struggles to find a way to haul the hardware to the UK.…

Multinational poking of bear HMS Queen Elizabeth is still on track to deploy to the Far East in 2021 – although whether it will actually sail through the South China Sea is yet to be explicitly confirmed – with escorting warships from the US and the Netherlands, according to reports.…

The solution: create a regulator with teeth and deeper pockets An independent watchdog capable of imposing fines should be set up to tackle the billions of pounds wasted by purchasing departments in the UK public sector, according to the Reform think tank.…

The self-hammering heat probe suddenly popped out from the ground over the weekend The heat probe aboard NASA’s InSight lander is having trouble digging into the surface of Mars due to “unusual soil conditions,” the space agency announced on Sunday.…

Shade-throwing bot bedevils human opponents in boffins' strategy simulation People need no help doing violence to machines; reports of humans abusing machines have become a common occurrence.…

Now why would Russian hackers want to compromise anti-doping agencies? The Russian hacking crew known as Fancy Bear is thought to be actively targeting anti-doping sports agencies.…

There's rich, and then there's 'shrug off 24% profit drop' rich Google execs are upbeat for the future of the Chocolate Factory even as its quarterly haul took a hit in the profits department.…

Spherical shape kicks asteroid into new role PIC There may be a new dinky dwarf planet that’s even tinier than Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt that currently holds the title as the smallest dwarf planet in our Solar System.…

Winners and losers speak out after $10bn contract award Late on Friday, word broke that the US Department of Defense had decided to award the massive 10-year, $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative contract to Microsoft.…

Phone biz refers to crash as 'early soft landing' On Saturday, a phone-toting high-altitude balloon launched by Samsung to promote its Galaxy S10 5G phone crashed into the front yard of the home of Nancy and Dan Welke in Gratiot County, Michigan.…

Looks like some security staff were asleep at the switch Amazon has still not provided any useful information or insights into the DDoS attack that took down swathes of websites last week, so let’s turn to others that were watching.…

We're unlocking productivity! Microsoft has defended a policy decision for its "Power platform" – part of Office 365 – to let end users bypass Office 365 admins and make their own licence purchases.…

Hayi wena! Jozi officials claim they'll have 80% of systems back online as deadline expires Several hours past the payment deadline, Johannesburg has vowed not to give in to criminal hackers who demanded £29,000 (4 bitcoins) not to publish its data, four days after the South African city shut down its public sector networks in response to the breach.…

America's regional internet registry slammed by critics, snubbed by ISPs Analysis A key internet infrastructure organization is undercutting efforts to make the internet more secure by insisting ISPs accept a legal agreement before using a security framework, critics charge.…

Stop, collaborate and listen "We have six or seven projects which are doing kernel testing, so much so that we're getting really annoyed," kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman told a crowd today.…

In other words, you're waiting 26 seconds for that movie to download A first and limited look into the UK rollout of 5G has revealed punters enjoying median speeds up to four times faster than standard 4G, with EE coming out on top and Vodafone managing to be just twice as fast.…

That's the idea behind £34m investment in autonomous care for elderly research Rise of the Machines A nightmarish vision of our future dotage awaits: government-built "care robots".…

Also: Android integration pays off and recent crack at BASIC turns 11 Roundup While Microsoft basked in the warmth of soaring digits last week, former technical evangelist and engineer James Whittaker was there to tip an icy scorn bucket over Windows and the culture lurking behind it.…

The case of the disappearing ATMs, shonky backends and Total Sh*tshows of Banking The Treasury Committee has told UK bank regulators they must do more to force banks to improve their woeful record on IT.…

Let's bring you up to speed on the latest misuses of machine-learning tech Roundup Here's our latest summary of AI news beyond what we've already covered. It’s all about two favourite topics in machine learning today: facial recognition and deepfakes.…

CEO Evan Goldberg on Big Red migration and the Suite smell of Success Oracle-owned NetSuite has plugged cookie-cutter SuiteSuccess tooling at its London SuiteConnect shindig as customers face up to a migration to Big Red's cloud.…

And we invite you to grab your easel and brush A competition to produce stock pictures of infosec that does not involve hoodies or waterfalls of 0s and 1s has yielded a mixed bag of images to illustrate the industry's digital doings for the world's consumption.…

Ah, the old lost disk scenario... Despite the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently slapping record megafines on British Airways and Marriott for data leakage, it's actually the UK's public sector that racked up the biggest volume of breaches in the last eight years.…

Disturbing omissions in 747 documentation Who, Me? We're back again with Who, Me?, The Register's Monday morning crowdsourced tale of reader misdeeds and close calls.…

Plus, Kaspersky opens doors on its intelligence portal Here's your Reg roundup of security news beyond all the bits and bytes we've already covered.…

New language model can think in both directions, fingers crossed Google has updated its search algorithms to tap into an AI language model that is better at understanding netizens' queries than previous systems.…

A bird on the band is worth more than your entire research budget MegaFon, the second largest mobile phone operator in Russia, has offered to pay the messaging charges accrued by a group of cell-strapped eagles after a crowdfunding campaign raised part of the funds.…

Congratulations, America, the home of Clippy (and Azure) is now running the US military's IT Microsoft has been awarded the $10bn decade-long US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract that will see the nation's military switch to the cloud.…

It's yes-way, Huawei for at least another generation Chip designer Arm says it will be able to continue licensing its blueprints to Huawei five months after it would have had to stop working with the Chinese comms equipment giant.…

Developers! Developers! Developers! Oh, wait, that's a different company Google is still working on a much-needed and overdue revision to its Chrome Extensions platform known as Manifest v3, but extension developers complain that the ad-slinger doesn't do enough to support them.…

No passwords, banking details, but enough info to convincingly phish someone Adobe has pulled offline a public-facing poorly secured Elasticsearch database containing information on 7.5 million Creative Cloud customers.…

Release Candidate drops just in time for Microsoft's Ignite As its Florida Ignite shindig looms large, Microsoft has settled on a Release Candidate for TypeScript 3.7 ahead of an imminent launch.…

We really needed to take a look before you published The US government has gone back to court in a bid to get a summary judgment against whistleblower Edward Snowden and Macmillan – the publisher of his memoir, Permanent Record.…

Engine maker Pratt & Whitney says it's working on a fix Software alterations have been fingered as the cause of Airbus A220 airliner problems that led to at least three emergency landings after excessive vibration caused engines to fail, according to reports.…

Verdict of two halves Amazon has failed to stop high-flying salesman Philip Moyer, who once flogged its cloud services to the financial services industry, from moving to Google's cloud division, although its efforts were partly upheld by a Seattle court.…

It's 2019 and government sites still require Internet Explorer Companies using the Australian Border Force's (ABF) Integrated Cargo System (ICS) are having problems connecting to the portal using Internet Explorer.…

Snap-happy sorts will still support the One mobe Iconic camera company Red has upped sticks and quit the smartphone biz following the retirement of its founder Jim Jannard and mobe-fondlers' dismal reception of the firm's first effort, the Hydrogen One.…

Never mind the AI, Hancock. I just want to turn my sodding computer on, mutters another Fancy a new job and a pay packet of upwards of £131k per year? Well, if you don't mind working with the ever-beaming Matt Hancock, the health service's newly formed digital quango, NHSX, is looking for a full-time chief technology officer.…