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New release is easier to customize, better performance, complex as hell A new release of Kubernetes, version 1.15, today went live with 25 enhancements including support for go modules in Kubernetes Core, a new Events API in alpha and High Availability (HA) improvements.…

We're honestly not making this up Autonomy Trial A former HP senior director told London's High Court yesterday that the IT giant's post-buyout integration of British software firm Autonomy was referred to internally as a "shit show".…

The 'd' in dHCI is for 'disaggregated' HPE has generated a third hyperconverged system from its acquired Nimble Storage tech, providing yet another ProLiant server route to market.…

You need to rifle through my photos why, exactly? Regulators and campaign groups have warned a UK Parliamentary inquiry that the increasing collection, use and storage of data by corporations poses a serious risk to privacy and security.…

Or you could run it on-premises three times cheaper says University of Cambridge bod Descartes Labs, an outfit that analyses big data, has managed to nab the 136th spot on the top 500 list of the world's fastest publicly known supercomputers – with $5,000 and an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.…

Think of the children (and our revenues)! plead Dell, HP, Intel and Microsoft US tech giants Dell, HP, Intel and Microsoft have submitted a plea to have laptops and tablets excluded from the tariffs imposed by the US government on Chinese imports.…

CEO talks of 'more pain', 'substantial losses' in Mobile amid industry-wide handset sales meltdown Beleaguered retailer Dixons Carphone has warned of "more pain" and "substantial losses" in its mobile business in the year to come after reporting a sharp fall in group profits for fiscal '19 ended 27 April.…

It looks like your OS goes out of support in seven months. Would you like a new browser? The Edge gang has finally grafted versions of Microsoft's take on Chromium into Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.…

One-third of network dependent on Chinese kit maker Interview Vodafone's CTO has urged the government to release the results of its delayed telecoms supply chain review, so that it can get the green light for use of Chinese supplier Huawei in its non-core 5G network.…

Let's hope it goes better than the Comet 67P mission, eh? The European Space Agency is embarking on a new mission to a faraway comet floating on the outer edges of the Solar System that is yet to be discovered.…

Update: Ministry of Fun admits somebody forgot to tell the EU The British government is expected to announce an indefinite delay to its controversial legislation requiring age verification from porn users.…

'Why use a copy when the original is free, proven and battle-tested?' Google is planning to reimplement parts of libcurl, a widely used open-source file transfer library, as a wrapper for Chromium's networking API – but curl's lead developer does not welcome the "competition".…

Same digit could be extended at Google as browser chaps 'evaluate the situation' Amid Google's huffing and puffing over ad blockers, an update to Chromium-based browser Vivaldi puts privacy squarely in its sights.…

A tired Ren Zhengfei'll seek read-and-write heads Analysis If the US persists with Huawei's inclusion on its tech export block list, the Chinese firm's storage array production could be hit hard, effectively leaving it scrambling for components after the reprieve ends in August.…

New cloud services woven into portfolio NetApp has wrapped up Elements HCI and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) into its Data Fabric en route to building a hybrid multi-cloud orchestration or operating system.…

YMMV – and the second M is doing a lot of heavy lifting, here Analysis YouTube is understood to use machine-learning algorithms to identify copyrighted material in user-uploaded videos, so that, in theory at least, any artists featured are properly compensated for their work. This system works more or less, though it is not without its controversies.…

Meanwhile, database giant preps free as-a-service program to entice developers Database giant Oracle beat market expectations for its fiscal Q4 2019 and FY 2019 financial results, reporting $11.1bn in quarterly revenues and $39.5bn for the full year.…

Senator urges NIST to do something about it Influential US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is not happy about Uncle Sam's employees using insecure .zip files and other archive formats to electronically transfer information.…

Plus: MongoDB crams end-to-end crypto into database tech Google on Wednesday released source code for a project called Private Join and Compute that allows two parties to analyze and compare shared sets of data without revealing the contents of each set to the other party.…

Ajit Pai turns logic on its head while doing Big Cable's bidding America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, has unveiled its latest harebrained effort to boost the availability of internet access across the nation: restrict competition.…

Tech giant Tyco finally settles for $5m with 'stiffed' staff Tyco Electronics – a multi-billion-dollar manufacturer of sensors, connectors, and other rugged equipment for defense, aerospace, automotive, IT, and similar industries – has agreed to cough up millions to workers who claimed they were stiffed over lunchtime pay.…

Emergency security fix emitted for remote code exec hole exploited in the wild Oracle has issued an emergency critical update to address a remote code execution vulnerability in its WebLogic Server component for Fusion Middleware – a flaw miscreants are exploiting in the wild to hijack systems.…

When is semi-annual not semi-annual? Never mind that - check out our WAC, SAC and um... never mind Microsoft continued its rich tradition of baffling users with its release dates by dropping a fresh build of the semi-annual channel edition of Windows Server vNext unlikely to actually hit until next year.…

CEO: Stitching together customer profiles in real time is the game-changer Price increase or new customers? That was the question analysts quizzed Adobe on last night as subscription profits swelled in Q2 ended 31 May – the response from its chief bean counter was "both".…

Mountain View's white stuff used more than Azure among 7,000 code monkeys Coders use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) more than Microsoft Azure, though Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a comfortable lead, according to a Developer Ecosystem survey conducted by tools vendor JetBrains.…

Ugh. Fly In, again? Really? And step away from the Comic Sans Microsoft PowerPoint is set to strip away the last vestiges of humanity from presentations with tweaks to its Designer functionality and a coach to help users "deliver the perfect presentation".…

Collaboration software hot with investors Mattermost, the open-source take on enterprise instant messengers like Slack and Teams, has trousered an impressive $50m in funding, less than five months after pocketing a cool $20m.…

Office of the Inspector General brings lab back down to Earth NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab still has "multiple IT security control weaknesses" that expose "systems and data to exploitation by cyber criminals", despite cautions earlier this year.…

PaaS the parcel: Click-and-forget fortification of Redmond's cloud Those suffering sphincter-tightening terror when opening a port to their VMs have been soothed by Microsoft in the form of Azure Bastion.…

Verify not mentioned in list of Government Digital Service man's 'achievements' The boss of the gaffe-prone Government Digital Service, Kevin Cunnington, is leaving to head the newly created International Government Service – presumably to tell the rest of the world how to talk a lot about digital while actually doing very little.…

Privacy browser reckons personalised advertising = personal data processing Lawyers for the privacy-focused Brave browser have written to the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) with what they claim is evidence that Google's online ad-selling policies break the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – namely Article 5(1)(f).…

Tick, tick, boom? Column Last year I bought one of those nifty new fitness tracker wristwatches. It counts my steps and gives a me bit of a thrilling buzz on when I've reached my daily goal. A small thing, but it means a lot.…

And guess who picks up the bill Comment A government database intended to store the personal details of around 150,000 drone fliers is set to cost around £4m plus to buy and £2.8m to maintain – despite a similar database costing Defra just £300k a year.…

Going underground, where the servers are caged and there's water around Feature Parisian cloud and web-hosting outfit Scaleway invited The Register to poke around an underground data centre last week as part of the company's inaugural ScaleDay shindig.…

Agenda revealed – get your tickets today for November conference Event We’re thrilled to announce the first tranche of conference speakers for Serverless Computing London, which will return to the UK capital from November 6 to 8.…

Think we're at RISC of overdoing the Intel puns Ubuntu is set to drop support for the i386 processor architecture beginning with its next release.…

Massive data dump, code release for E.T. hunters After years of listening to the cosmos, scientists have failed to pick up any sign of alien civilizations. So, the experts have dumped online a petabyte of signals picked up from the Breakthrough Listen project so nerds like you and me can rifle through the readings and have a crack at finding E.T.…

Follow us down the rabbit hole in uncovering who is possibly responsible Google has removed a Chrome extension called Youtube Queue from its official online store for violating its program policies following complaints it was hijacking users' web searches.…

Watch Rasputin sing like, uh, Beyonce, Einstein natter away... Videos Remember that artificially intelligent software that could transform lifeless still images, such as portrait paintings, into moving heads? Well, you can now take a single photo or picture of someone and animate it to make them say specific words and sentences, using AI algorithms.…

150,000 personal records on people, including US veterans, upset with their healthcare In what has become a depressingly common occurrence, the personal information of hundreds of thousands of people may have fallen into the wrong hands because yet another organization did not secure a cloud-hosted database.…

Just make sure you're running the latest version Mozilla has released an emergency critical update for Firefox to squash a zero-day vulnerability that is under active attack.…

'Customers want tech as a service, they also want it on their terms' – at least 50% correct, there, Ant HPE – the company that failed to cut it in the public cloud and offloaded its Enterprise Services biz a few years back – wants to make its whole portfolio available to buy as-a-service by 2022.…

We can't decide if Primera sounds like a Thundercats character or a 1990s eurodance hit HPE has pitched Primera, its new high-end storage platform, at mission-critical applications, and it may eventually edge out the 3PAR line.…

Digital currency tokens coming to WhatsApp, Messenger next year Comment Facebook – the global ad business pilloried repeatedly over the past 15 years for privacy disasters – on Tuesday announced a scheme to allow account holders to buy credits and spend the digitized funds online through a network of partners, under a "strong commitment to privacy."…

The tables are turned, database tables that is The healthcare debt collector ransacked by hackers, who gained access to millions of patients' personal information, has filed for bankruptcy protection.…

Photoshop-compatible files, 3 types of brushes in touchy app Adobe has unveiled Fresco, the new drawing and painting application – previously known as Project Gemini – that should be out later this year.…

Up to hundreds of petabytes per filesystem, thanks to Lustre Tintri's California-based data-nomming daddy, HPC player DDN, has squeezed out the latest crop of appliances in its EXAScaler product family, EXA5.…

Hint: The pub is that way >>> Updated Google Calendar has gone TITSUP* with no sign given as to when it should be unborked.…

What next? Tugging the Test Plans? Grappling with GitLab? Microsoft-owned GitHub has waved a big bunch of bamboo shoots at code collaboration outfit Pull Panda.…

What? We're not afraid it'll attack us in our sleep. Are you? Blighty's Ministry of No Fun Allowed* has continued to live up to its nickname by slapping an export ban on a fugly crab ornament that by all rights should be locked in a chest and slung into the deepest abyss never to be seen again.…