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And a release date – sort of Microsoft has given the next version of Windows 10 a name. 19H2 will now be known as the November 2019 Update and is due to land any day now.…

Bills as high as £9k, but don't worry – they're working on it Vodafone has apologised for a "technical error" that left customers abroad facing thousands of pounds in roaming fees over the weekend.…

Will join McAfee, Barracuda Networks, Veracode Software in Thoma Bravo's tum Brit security software slinger Sophos has accepted an all-cash offer from US suitor private equity group Thoma Bravo of just over £3bn.…

Why Teams is a key product despite its frustrations – and yes, a Linux client is on the way Analysis Microsoft continues to plug Teams as the "fastest growing application" in the company's history, though it is not sold separately, only as a feature of Office 365 (there is also a free version). At the same time, there are major feature gaps that are only now being plugged, and it is not easy to manage. What is the attraction?…

Attention has shifted away from VMs, however, COO tells El Reg OpenStack chief operating officer Mark Collier told The Reg that while SUSE's decision to abandon its OpenStack Cloud product is "obviously disappointing", adoption is "strong and growing".…

When 95 + (5 * RAND()) is all your spreadsheet needs Who, Me? Monday has arrived once again and with it the sweet, sweet music of a reader's darkest IT misdeeds in The Register's weekly Who, Me? feature.…

Storage is no longer 'snorage' Survey results Storage is no longer snorage. And long gone are the days when enterprise storage could be taken for granted, or at least forgotten about until either users noticed access wasn’t speedy enough or the IT team realized space was running out.…

Read the latest in the amusing world of AI Roundup It's another Reg summary of recent AI news.…

Including: Visual Studio Code debug hole found Roundup It's time for another security news catch-up.…

Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall Perl 6 should soon be known as Raku, now that Perl creator Larry Wall has given his blessing to the name change.…

Zuck-bucks dead in the water as payment giants snub currency tech Updated The Facebook-backed Libra crypto-currency project was dealt a crushing blow Friday when eBay, Stripe, and others yanked their support.…

Devs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release Comment Amid Apple's attempt to fend off criticism for its removal, restoration, and re-removal of an app used by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, the company is also facing particularly voluble criticism from users of its latest desktop operating system, macOS Catalina.…

Plus: Dumb hipsters spaff $3,000 on 'Jesus Shoes' A vicar has said there's no room for ghosts in the UK's "most haunted village" of Prestbury, Gloucestershire – unless it's one of the Holy variety.…

£59bn boost – 'if we can get right conditions to invest' BT's pipe laying subsidiary Openreach has published a list of proposals it claims will help Britain gain full fibre by the mid-2020s.…

Not that it was moving quickly to begin with Ambitious plans to digitise Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Service via a £1bn modernisation programme should be slowed down even further, MPs heard this week.…

Switchzilla's online presence beset by mysterious outages Cisco has suffered an odd series of outages that briefly KO'd its website and corporate blogs.…

Extra $37bn levy on notebooks, slabs pushes American retailers to panic buy, buy, buy Businesses heading for the Windows 7 escape hatch and US retailers panic-buying ahead of the next round of trade tariffs helped PC shipments rise globally in Q3 at the fastest rate in seven-and-a-half years.…

Tweets written in African-American English slang more likely to be considered offensive The internet is filled with trolls spewing hate speech, but machine learning algorithms can’t help us clean up the mess.…

Subspace communication over, enterprise commander out SAP's chief executive Bill McDermott will not renew his employment contract at the German database software maker.…

Much, much worse than a vicious circle Something for the Weekend, Sir? I've got myself stuck in a ring. Yes, again. Medical assistance may be required.…

Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights The British government should make it a crime to disable geofencing and electronic conspicuity on one’s drone, according to MPs from a parliamentary committee looking at future drone regulation.…

You shoved your documents where, exactly? On Call Friday is that special time of the week when clocks seem to slow to a crawl and software giants drop their buggiest code. It is also the time when The Register pokes a talon into the sack marked "On Call".…

Be the first to see tech giant’s global trends report Promo Cisco is inviting the world’s IT leaders to join its Networking.Next Virtual Event on 24 October, offering up a panel of experts who will examine the diverse trends of today, that are shaping tomorrow’s network.…

Redmond's bundled group chat app draws fire from Slackville Several months after Microsoft crowed about how its Teams group chat app has reached 13 million daily active users, rival Slack has fired back with figures of its own.…

Turmoil in Redmond over deals with US immigration agents Microsoft and its GitHub subsidiary are under fire from some of their own employees over service contracts with America's controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.…

That's the way the Cook, he crumbles: HKmap banned again Apple has once again taken down an iOS app aimed at helping Hong Kong protesters avoid police crackdowns in the troubled city.…

'If only you could see what I've seen through your eyes'... A Japanese man indicted on Tuesday for allegedly attacking a 21-year-old woman last month appears to have found where his victim lived by analyzing geographic details in an eye reflection captured in one of her social media photos.…

Media giant says it can now pay back subscription fees Adobe has reversed course on its decision to withhold refund payments from customers in Venezuela.…

Haben sie nicht von dem Streisand-Effekt gehört? Malware authors behind the Finfisher spyware suite, well beloved by dictators, have sent legal threats intended to silence a German news blog that reported them to criminal prosecutors over allegedly illegal malware exports.…

1803 to be euthanised in November Two faithful Windows 10 versions are to be led out behind the barn by a sad-faced Microsoft engineer.…

'Hookers.nl is committed to privacy and we deeply regret the situation.' Ja, hoor! A Dutch vBulletin forum for sex workers and their clients has reportedly been hacked using that infamous RCE vuln, baring the privates (and data) of a quarter of a million people.…

Another Parliamentary enquiry? Huawei, the Brexit of network policy decisions British telcos and academics have told a Parliamentary enquiry the UK needs to get on with allowing Huawei equipment into the heart of its future 5G networks.…

200,000 homes and biz have gigabit-capable connections Step forward, Hull: first city in Blighty to claim the title of full-fibre connectivity.…

Top brass on keeping ISS lights on and life after Brexit ESTEC The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, opened its doors to the public last weekend, and The Register braved the rain to grill top brass on spaceships, partnerships and the "B" word.…

'Hyper-aggressive' company offers workflow portability for multiple clouds "We want GitLab monitoring to be a complete replacement for DataDog," GitLab's director of product, Eric Brinkman, said yesterday. And he didn't stop there, referring to a whole swathe of "tools that GitLab can replace" at the firm's Commit event in London.…

Especially to Boris Johnson Liverpool is the most gobby verbal region in the UK, according to Ofcom – something prime minister Boris Johnson would no doubt have confirmed had he visited the city today.*…

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do If humans are to go beyond the Moon, they must rely less on ground control and more on AI systems to perform operations like flying and conducting scientific experiments more autonomously, according to a NASA paper (PDF).…

Public beta for new shiny, plus many Tasks make a Plan in upcoming Enterprise 2019.2 Puppetize PDX DevOps darling Puppet took to the stage at the company's Portland Puppetize PDX shindig yesterday to whip the covers off Project Nebula, before giving us a sneak peek at an updated Puppet Forge and a preview of Puppet Enterprise 2019.2.…

49-year-old to appear at the Old Bailey next month A former BAE Systems defence contractor has appeared in court accused of leaking "highly sensitive" secrets to foreign governments.…

Join us with Google Cloud for advice to the brave Webcast If your strategy depends on using data to disrupt the market, then unstoppable data growth, a change of business strategy, or a fast-moving competitive landscape, are likely to present challenges.…

There’s nothing like reasoned policy debate. This is nothing like reasoned policy debate The European Union has published a risk assessment of next-generation 5G mobile networks and concluded that everyone needs to think differently about security, given fundamental changes in how the new networks will operate.…

Now if only they'd accept the Queen back again... The US National Security Agency (NSA) is warning admins to patch a set of months-old security bugs that have recently come under active attack.…

It's time to update or call 0118 999 88199 9119 7253 The author of popular macOS open source terminal emulator iTerm2 has rushed out a new version (v3.3.6) because prior iterations have a security flaw that could allow an attacker to execute commands on a computer using the application.…

Man alleged to have faked identity as game developer A man from Singapore has been indicted in the US for impersonating a game developer in order to steal time on cloud compute systems and mine cryptocurrency.…

Authoritarian regimes continue wrestling internet back into box China and Russia will sign a joint treaty aimed to tackling “illegal internet content” later this month, the Russian telecoms regulator has announced.…

Goodenough for Goodenough as boffin is still working at 97 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three pioneers in the field of lithium ion batteries, which form the power storage unit of most modern technology.…

Aussie user's AMD GPU breaks hash in just four days Back in 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen found an /etc/passwd file among a file dump from the BSD 3 source tree that included the passwords used by various computer science pioneers, including Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Steve Bourne, and Bill Joy.…

Whew, you're a bit of a rust bucket, aren't you?! Come with us International Launch Services (ILS) sent up a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome this morning with a payload containing the first commercial spacecraft designed to service and extend the life of satellites in orbit.…

Non-Indian call centres and High Street shops on the way These truly are strange times. BT is plotting a return to the High Street, unleashing hundreds of tech troubleshooters onto the unsuspecting public - and onshoring all of its call centres to Britain quicker than scheduled.…

Yep, storage firm's software pre-installed on HPE servers Hyperconverged playa Nutanix opened its .NEXT conference in Copenhagen with a triple announcement: an HPE GreenLake deal, its software pre-installed on HPE servers, and integration with ServiceNow for automated incident-handling.…