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Tyan's early hardware for Nvidia's shiny new EGX platform is *ta-da* a bargain-basement server
No magic here, just lots of chunky GPUs Nvidia revealed EGX earlier this week, its distributed platform for machine learning applications, based on Kubernetes. Now Taiwanese server vendor Tyan has furnished one of the first examples of the kind of hardware that will be used with EGX.…
Ex-student, 52, suing university for AU$3m after PhD rejection destroyed 'sex drive'
And what was he hoping to study? Social Sciences "Not tonight, love." We've all been there – sometimes life throws you a curveball and the ensuing despondency firmly shelves making the beast with two backs for a while.…
Know the enemy and know yourself: Walmart's new chief techie spent 15 years in the Amazon
So grocery giant need not fear the result of a hundred battles – at least that's the theory Retail empire Walmart, proud owner of the British supermarket chain Asda, has appointed Suresh Kumar as its global chief technical officer.…
Quick maths refresher: Intel CPU shortages + consumer stock bottleneck = no computer sales growth in EMEA for 2019
Back 2 school and retail spending slows, but there's hope for commercial market as Microsoft turns off Win7 support taps EMEA PC shipments look set to shrink in 2019 due weak consumer sales and the effect Intel's prolonged CPU shortages will have on product availability during the Back To School season.…
Dual carriageway to autobahn: Intel revs up Optane caching memory by doubling PCIe lanes
Deep-sleep state sips less juice, but active state slurps more Intel has added two more PCIe lanes to speed up its Optane memory disk drive caching device and tweaked power handling for a lower deep-sleep power draw.…
'Evolution of the PC ecosystem'? Microsoft's 'modern' OS reminds us of the Windows RT days
And we've been hurt before At Computex in Taipei, Microsoft exec Nick Parker talked up the "evolution of the PC ecosystem", describing a future modern operating system which is secure, connected and AI-powered.…
News aggregator app Flipboard hacked: All passwords reset after hackers pinch user data
Over half a billion installs? This one's not over yet, we reckon News aggregation app Flipboard has publicly confessed that hackers accessed personal data about its members.…
Pivotal adds OpenJDK support to Spring in response to 'concerns' around Oracle's Java
'We're big fans,' says company's announcement Pivotal, developer of the open-source Spring Framework for Java, has confirmed official support for OpenJDK to address "questions in the community" about changes to the way Oracle Java SE is distributed and supported.…
Infosec bloke claims: Pornhub owner shafted me after I exposed gaping holes in its cartoon smut platform
Mindgeek left him totally unsatisfied, he says An irate infosec researcher has accused Pornhub owners Mindgeek of out-of-scoping what he described as "critical" vulns in a cartoon pornography-themed mobile games site.…
War is over, if you want it: W3C, WHATWG agree to work towards single spec for HTML and DOM
Yes, my son... I recall it was spring of 2019 when the bloodshed finally ended The two warring factions pushing HTML and DOM standards have agreed to down weapons and work together.…
Guilty of hacking in the UK? Worry not: Stats show prison is unlikely
Just a 16% chance of being banged up for computer misuse Analysis Nearly 90 per cent of hacking prosecutions in the UK last year resulted in convictions, though the odds of dodging prison remain high, an analysis by The Register has revealed.…
Tune in next month: We chat to Total Gas & Power and Nutanix about streamlining IT infrastructure
How to renew your digital estate Sponsored webcast Do you have the feeling that your IT infrastructure is stuck in the weeds but are wary of the potential challenges of moving to a more flexible platform?…
DXC Technology seeks volunteers to take redundancy. No grads, apprentices, and 'quota carrying' sales folk
But if you're old/experienced then payday deadline is 8 July DXC Technology has opened a voluntary redundancy programme for staff across its operations in the UK and Ireland - though graduates, apprentices and quota-carrying sales folk need not apply.…
Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much
Freeloaders will be limited to less capable content filtering Google Chrome users will continue to have access to the full content blocking power of the webRequest API in their browser extensions, but only if they're paying enterprise customers.…
Contain yourself, Docker: Race-condition bug puts host machines at risk... sometimes, ish
Tricky to exploit in the real world, which is good because no official fix is available yet A vulnerability in all versions of Docker can be potentially exploited by miscreants to escape containers' security protections, and read and write data on host machines, possibly leading to code execution.…
There's a scarily good 'deepfakes' YouTube channel that's quietly growing – and it's freaking everyone out
Watch for yourself Videos “Do not believe what you see on the internet, OK?” a techie, who doctors video clips apparently using AI algorithms and puts them on YouTube, has warned.…
Two weeks after Microsoft warned of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes still vulnerable
If you haven't patched CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, then, well, now would be a good time The critical Windows Remote Desktop flaw that emerged this month may have set the stage for the worst malware attack in years.…
That's a hell of Huawei to run a business, Chinese giant scolds FedEx after internal files routed via America
Shipping biz so very sorry for 'inadvertently misrouting' technical docs from Japan to China through US In addition to mistrusting foreign technology companies because of the risk of IP packet diversion, nation-states may also have to shy away from foreign shipping firms for fear of package diversion.…
Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption das boot: Law requiring decrypted plain-text is in the works
Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations in plain text on demand.…
Getting the F... acebook out of Kea: Zuck's open-sourcerers retrain load balancer as a server
Replaces industry standard with homegrown DHCPLB code Antisocial media giant Facebook has published the source code for the latest version of DHCPLB, adding server functionality to the tool that was first developed by FB engineers for hardware provisioning and load balancing.…
German anti-cartel bods tell IBM to 'warten' as T-Systems deal probe extended by two weeks
Potential spanner in the works for mainframes biz agreement IBM's mooted takeover of Deutsche Telekom's mainframe services business, T-Systems, has hit a speed bump.…
Stay frosty: Google to fork out another €600m on bit barns in Finland
That's now €1.4bn splurged on the small town of Hamina Pre-eminent data-slurper Google has said it will spend €600m (£529m) to expand its data centre footprint in Hamina, on the frozen shores of the Gulf of Finland.…
Nvidia pulls sheets off EGX, an edgy machine learning platform based on Kubernetes
Built with help from Red Hat All kinds of software is moving into lightweight application containers, and the fact hasn't been lost on Nvidia – the GPU supremo has launched a platform for machine learning at the edge of the network, based on Kubernetes.…
Ikea hopes to spare shoppers the one-way Helvete of its stores with ÅR app overhaul
Projects cheap furniture into your home – but says nothing about all those leftover screws Furniture and meatball purveyor Ikea is launching a mobile app that will project what furniture should look like into punters' homes (if they follow the instructions correctly, of course) then allow them to buy it.…
It's the curious case of the vanishing iPhone sales as Huawei grabs second place off Apple in smartmobe stakes
Price cuts? Tick. More price cuts? Tick. Damn, where to next for Tim Cook and co? Apple and Samsung collectively sold almost 17.5 million fewer smartphones globally in the opening quarter of 2019 than they managed a year ago as buyer fatigue continued.…
Chinese fireworks, Indian orbits, and NASA names Maxar as maker of its first Moon module
Also, Boeing fires Starliner's rockets Roundup Last week the Champagne corks were popping as SpaceX flung Starlink into orbit and the achievements of Apollo 10 were celebrated. There was, however, plenty of other space news to go around.…
Yeah, you're not having a GSM gateway, Ofcom tells hopeful operators
UK.gov hasn't appealed High Court ruling yet – but regulator upholds ban anyway UK comms regulator Ofcom has told people wanting to set up a GSM gateway that it will not be authorising them to do so, pending a planned government appeal against a recent High Court judgment.…
A mobe with obnoxious teen karaoke app TikTok built in?! Wow, thanks ByteDance, sign us up
Chinese app titan switches course, but it's a risky one ByteDance, the company behind vast video-sharing platform TikTok, is planning to build its own mobile handsets pre-loaded with its applications.…
Fixes for Windows 10 arrive (for Insiders, soz) and covers are pulled from Edge for macOS
More Mac tickling with Defender ATP and Visual Studio gets a point one Roundup As the dust settles following the twin launches of Windows 10 and Windows Server, there were happenings in the Microsoft world that you might have missed in the all the kerfuffle. Welcome to Tuesday's Redmond roundup.…
IPO sez me: Alibaba looking to raise a cool $20bn for second listing on Hong Kong exchange
Chinese giant wants insurance policy in Trumpulent times Alibaba is mulling a massive secondary share offer in Hong Kong, according to reports.…
What's next on agenda for DataStax? APIs, Kubernetes, and *checks notes* a desktop distro?
The good, the bad and the weird DataStax Accelerate Data management biz DataStax chose the comfy surroundings of its annual user knees-up to open its kimono on near-future plans: a Kubernetes operator, a developer-focused API generator for Constellation – its newly minted database-as-a-service – and a desktop version of its flagship software suite.…
Tesla's autonomous lane changing software is worse at driving than humans, and more
Also, one man launched a legal battle against the police for using facial recognition cameras in the UK Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of recent machine learning tidbits that you can digest after the long weekend.…
Seize the chance to boost your IT security skills: SANS London has plenty of courses for you
Immersive training covering ethical hacking to intrusion detection, and more, comes to UK capital this June Promo IT security training specialist SANS Institute is bringing a major event to London this summer, offering a bumper programme of intensive courses designed to arm security professionals with the skills they need to defend against database breaches and malicious attacks.…
Uh-oh .io: Question mark hands over trendy tech startup domains as UN condemns British empire hangover
The Chagos Islands situation, already a shameful episode of UK history, just got worse Special report The future of internet addresses ending in '.io' – popular with tech startups – may be in doubt after the United Nations condemned the UK's continued ownership over islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean.…
If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch
Then wonder why the office is in full panic mode on your return Who, me? Three cheers for Monday! No? Just us? Well, take your mind off the start of the working week with The Register's dose of schadenfreude in the form of our regular Who, Me? Feature.…
It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs
That's enough body language puns Chip design factory Arm is rolling another CPU core off the assembly language line: the Cortex-A77. It'll probably be the brains of high-end smartphones, modest slab-tops, and other devices shipping early next year.…
When two tribes go to war... Intel, AMD tease new chips at Computex: Your spin-free summary
2nd-gen Epyc, 3rd-gen Ryzen 7 and 9 processors, Navi GPUs, Intel 10nm CPUs, etc AMD and Intel both teased details of their upcoming processors on Sunday at Computex, the computer industry's annual jamboree in Taiwan.…
Millions of personal files exposed by insurance biz, serial web hacker strikes again, and more from infosec land
Your two-minute guide to all the other security news this week Roundup It's a bumper three-day weekend in the US and UK, so we won't keep you long. Here's a rapid summary of information security news from the past week beyond what El Reg has already covered.…
That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon
iFixit ters dwn ew Macbook Pro wth utterfl eyoard atst fixs The magicc new materil emedded in Apple’s vry latest Macbook Pro keyaords, to prevnt them from malfutioning, is nylon, iFixit, the popular DIY repair shop, reveled on Friay.…
Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM
Eight total resolutions seek to make antisocial network more accountable (the US tech giant opposes them all) Facebook stock-owning activists are planning to deliver an eight-foot angry-looking emoji to CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the company's annual general meeting next week to highlight widespread frustration with the US web goliath.…
DXC: We axed 10k staff, shut nine data centres, closed 4.6m sq ft of office space... and sales tumbled, funnily enough
On the plus side it did hire 2,000 cheap staff in fiscal 2019 Beleaguered outsourcing badass DXC Technology has just reported another uneventful year in which $1bn in revenues evaporated, and it saved $500m in overheads, in part, by chopping 10,000 employees.…
That's just Huawei it goes, shrugs founder as analysts forecast sales slump for embattled biz
Don't worry, they have Plan Bs and spare tyres apparently Analysts are predicting a big slump in sales for Huawei thanks to the US Department of Commerce and the ongoing trade wars.…
HP's delayed Reverb: Jesus-headset dribbles out of the echo chamber and into the channel
There were manufacturing problems! Oh, no there weren't! Oh, yes there were! The great flagship hope of Windows Mixed Reality, the HP Reverb, has finally stumbled its way out the UK gate a month behind schedule.…
Rough quarter? Just blame falling sales on China and US trade tensions – right, HPE?
Customer delay purchaes amid uncertainty, claims CEO HPE has blamed "trade tensions" between the US and China on customers delaying purchases amid the uncertainty as the company reported yet another quarter of declining sales.…
What do our IT pro readers make of virtualization in 2019? Here are the poll results, plus our insight and tips
Download 'The Economics of Application Platforms' for free today Sponsored If you dig back through El Reg's archives to 2007 and 2008, you'll find a lot of coverage of how x86 virtualisation was changing the world. The name of the game was server consolidation, and IT teams were waking up to both the cost-saving benefits and the prospect of eliminating a lot of server admin drudgery.…
Uber JUMPs at chance to dump load of electric bikes across Islington
Trial starts in London borough with £25 fine for crap parking From today folk in Islington, London, can hire an electric bike off Uber rather than a cab.…
Murdoch-backed adtech startup Unlockd ditches Google lawsuit: That'll be £200k, ta very much
Could have been a million times (or pounds) worse A Murdoch-backed adtech startup that sued Google for anticompetitive behaviour has abandoned its lawsuit – and been landed with a £200,000 legal bill for its troubles.…
Coverage concerns dog UK Emergency Services Network as boss admits scheme too ambitious
Civil servants hauled before spending watchdog again The UK Home Office has had to once again explain the ongoing Emergency Services Network farrago as part of an inquiry by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…
Headsup for those managing Windows 10 boxen: Microsoft has tweaked patching rules
One category to rule them all? Er, maybe not... Administrators dealing with the rollout of Microsoft's latest and greatest Windows 10 were warned last night that some tinkering of their finely tuned setups would be required.…
Ofcom to Openreach: Thou shalt prise open thy network for firms targeting biz customers
Comms regulator demands BT sub lets more fibre cable layers access its poles and ducts Updated Ofcom has ordered BT's Openreach to open its telegraph poles and underground ducts to more companies wishing to lay their own fibre networks aimed at business customers.…
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