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Find out how Kubernetes simplifies DataStax deployments Webcast Growing numbers of enterprises are turning to hybrid and multi-cloud solutions for the advanced capabilities they can bring to IT operations. However, to make the most of these solutions, organisations must be able to handle workloads seamlessly across a range of different providers.…

Market: We're happy with that. (Cue 20% share price boost) Hyperconverged infrastructure purveyor Nutanix posted the biggest quarterly loss in its short history last night – but still got some love from Wall Street, with shares jumping 20 per cent in overnight trading.…

COOK, CUPERTINO: Well, um, things are looking up? 2019 was forecast to be a deflationary year for smartphone makers, and calendar Q3 didn't turn up any surprises – sales shrunk 0.4 per cent globally.…

Back in blacklist: Microsoft not keen on firm's IP addresses UK hosting outfit tsoHost (the artist formerly known as TSO Host) continues to suffer the blacklist blues as email woes have continued to beset the company.…

Coffee machines will listen to you if vendors implement it AWS has unveiled a flurry of updates to its IoT platform, including secure tunnelling, fleet provisioning, Docker containers on edge devices, and Alexa voice support on devices with 50 per cent less power than was previously required.…

$21.75m acre of Gone-with-the-Wind chintz in the Valley While moving house and changing job remain among the most stressful things in life for mere mortals, Bill McDermott is swapping Palm Beach for Silicon Valley weeks after leaving SAP to run ServiceNow.…

Did somebody say strategic diversification? BT's pipe-laying division Openreach is looking to further dilute its reliance on Huawei by issuing a tender seeking an additional infrastructure supplier to help build an FTTP broadband network.…

Customers don't want open-source K8s in production, claims Google Interview Kubernetes (K8s) is everywhere, so how do cloud vendors differentiate their offerings? Google's answer is Anthos, but this is a brand as much as a product.…

Unanimous decision of board to up sticks from Delaware The RISC-V Foundation, which directs the development of an open-source instruction set architecture for CPUs, will incorporate in Switzerland. Currently it is a non-stock corporation in Delaware, USA.…

KSQL gains point-in-time queries, becomes ksqlDB Kafka-flinger Confluent has had another crack at persuading relational holdouts that stream processing isn't all that scary, by way of the SQL-like ksqlDB.…

Soundbar slingers make faulty ear things too Owners of Bose QuietComfort 35 headphones are still trying to get the company to either fix or roll back a firmware update that removed noise-cancelling functions from their over-ear gear.…

Flaws are 'far beyond merely inconvenient', writes Janelle Shane Book review Everyday AI has the approximate intelligence of an earthworm, according to Janelle Shane, a research scientist at the University of Colorado but better known as an AI blogger.…

Technically possible but there's no way to check... for now Giant planets up to ten times the mass of the Earth can form around violent supermassive black holes without the need for stars, according to research accepted into The Astrophysical Journal.…

Protests kick off, Vint Cerf tells folks everything's fine One week after the news the non-profit .org internet registry was to be sold to a private equity firm, the board of the organization that has to approve the purchase met in private to discuss the situation.…

Rogue SDKs covertly harvested personal info, it is claimed Twitter and Facebook on Monday claimed some third-party apps quietly collected swathes of personal information from people's accounts without permission.…

Financial numbers fall short of already modest Wall St predictions HPE tried to make the best of a rough quarter and year as the enterprise IT giant turned in lackluster numbers for fiscal 2019.…

Who's a good cyber-boy? Now, please don't kill anyone Vid Massachusetts' bomb squad have put a Boston Dynamics Spot robot through its paces, making the cops the first US force to deploy the four-legged machine in the field.…

So will you all please move to IPv6? World: Nope. Analysis It happened four years ago. And again two years ago. And last year. But this time, on November 25, 2019, we have finally, finally, finally run out of IPv4 addresses.…

Plus: AMD teases third-gen 64-core Threadripper and more Intel today tapped up MediaTek to integrate 5G modems into next-generation PCs, due to hit the shelves in early 2021.…

Keeping score? So far it’s Apple 3 VirnetX 8 with more to come Apple has won the latest round in its nine-year patent mega-battle with VirnetX – with a US appeals court rejecting a $600m jury decision and sending it back down to the district court to redecide.…

Sheepish staff apologize after it turns out securing government comms is hard work British officials scrambled to apologize this afternoon after the official Twitter account of the Welsh arm of the UK government was clocked retweeting links to, and videos of, hardcore porno.…

Learn from top-tier execs about when it comes to digital transformation, monogamy doesn’t pay Promo There’s some truth in the old adage “don’t put your eggs in one basket.” For years, cloud vendors have bombarded corporate decision makers with heavy-handed marketing tactics, insisting businesses should use their cloud platforms — and their platforms alone. Those who heeded their words often lived to regret it.…

Golden boy to start new job next month VoIP tech and services outfit Vonage has snapped up an exec who formerly worked for European software giant SAP to fill the role of president of its applications group.…

Running for more than three years? Check the firmware Updated Using an HPE solid-state drive? You might want to take a look at your firmware after the computer outfit announced that some of its SSDs could auto-bork after less than four years of use.…

CEST la vie: Still pooh-poohs MoO. Reform just months away With the deadline for IR35 assessment fast approaching, the latest update to HMRC's Check Employment Status for Tax tool (CEST) is still not fit for purpose.…

Also: India admits Vikram had 'hard landing', 'nauts continue ISS repair job, and more Roundup The Arianespace launch may have been delayed, but there remained plenty to bring delight to the hearts of rocket fans last week as Starliner neared launch and Boeing bit back at NASA.…

iPhone sales still in doldrums Retailers in Europe – perhaps burned by excess inventory issues this year – have yet to rekindle their love affair with the iPhone as Apple failed to catch a lift on the back of a regional Q3 upswing in demand across the wider market.…

Ancient IBM gear in new home thanks to power of the internet The team behind the mission to rescue a pair of aged IBM mainframes are celebrating after finally getting the hardware back to Blighty.…

Also: Teams and Slack get the handbags out Roundup Though there won't be any Surface Earbuds in stockings this year, a Release Candidate of PowerShell 7 is looking likely and maybe, just maybe, we'll get a nearly finished Windows 10 20H1.…

String of failures put passengers at risk, says city transport authority Transport for London has ruled that Uber is not fit to run a minicab business in the capital.…

Do your homework then get back to us HP's board has snapped back at Xerox over its "hostile" $33.5bn takeover threat, saying the copier giant's refusal to answer lingering questions about the merger only magnifies their "concerns" about any tie-up and Xerox's future prospects.…

It's down there somewhere, let me take another look The UK's data watchdog has confirmed it failed to collect up to £7m worth of fines dished out in the past four years.…

How to query the telemetry from 1 trillion queries a day You may recall that Azure SQL Data Warehouse got a blasting with the Redmond rebrandogun at the company's Ignite event earlier this month. The Reg caught up with corporate veep for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, at the recent Big Data event in London to find out more.…

Bet that won't have been cheap IBM has paid off 281 people who brought age discrimination claims against it in UK Employment Tribunals – leaving four more cases outstanding.…

Backlog of how many weeks worth of support tickets? Ouch! DXC Technology has Workplace contracts to "shore up" before it offloads the business, the newly installed CEO at the IT outsourcing (ITO) giant has admitted as he took staff through some related war stories.…

ASCII control codes, Teletext and BBC Model B micros – it's a 1980s Who, Me? Who, Me? Monday has arrived once more, and with it a Model B Who, Me? as Acorn's finest takes centre stage.…

Including: AI exercises in Safety Gym Roundup If you can't get enough of machine learning news then here's a roundup of extra tidbits to keep your addiction ticking away. Read on to learn more about how DeepMind is helping Google's Play Store, and a new virtual environment to train agents safely from OpenAI.…

Keep up with the latest threats – and learn how to stop them Promo The IT security landscape changes by the second, as organisations move to new technologies and data thieves devise increasingly ingenious ways to penetrate systems. It’s no surprise that IT security leaders feel the constant need to shore up their defenses.…

...OnePlus also compromised, and much more Roundup Time for another roundup of all the security news that's fit to print and that we haven't covered yet.…

New law calls for pre-in-Stalin nationally mandated code The Russian State Duma has approved legislation that forbids the sale of unspecified devices unless they contain certain pre-installed government-authorized applications.…

BlueKeep isn't the only bug in town, plenty to go round VNC remote desktop software has no shortage of potentially serious memory-corruption vulnerabilities, you'll no doubt be shocked to hear.…

Wings, heads, Big Foot – or just rocks. You decide Pics An entomologist in the US claims to have discovered extraterrestrial insects living on Mars after spending years poring over photos of the Red Planet's surface.…

Regulator will cut providers from Universal Service Fund dollars America's broadband watchdog has told telcos they cannot use government subsidies to buy any more Huawei or ZTE equipment.…

The Dictator leading man says web giants would run 'Final Solution' ads for Hitler Updated On Thursday, in New York City, actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen eviscerated Facebook, Google, and Twitter for facilitating the spread of hate and violence and threatening democracy.…

Also: Two very different autopilots show up for tech's San Diego shindig Kubecon 2019 If one were looking for an indicator that Kubernetes is maturing (other than the sheer numbers that turned out for Kubecon San Diego), it is the plethora of backup solutions emerging for the orchestration technology.…

But doesn't stop Commerce Secretary saying he's still 'frightened' of Chinese tech biz The US Department of Commerce has decided to grant Microsoft a licence to flog its software to Huawei – America's fave bogeyman – despite the Commerce Secretary describing the Chinese company as "frightening".…

'It didn't go through, that's the plus side' So we know Elon Musk believes we're "probably" living in a simulation. He might well be right because the big reveal at the LA Tesla Design Center last night refused to render properly.…

Take your rightful place around 451 Alliance, the global tech watercooler Promo Do you feel like those working on the coalface of enterprise IT are routinely ignored, particularly when it comes to the direction of their industry?…

That'll be £750 for us to take a look, ta very much – £3,000 if you don't like the answer Fresh from banking a £100m windfall through its controversial dot-UK cash grab, Nominet is now making more money – from firms forced to defend trademarks via the UK registry's domain name dispute resolution service.…

Brexit UK and Japan 'more difficult trading environments' A price war led by Dell has clipped the wings of Pure Storage, as a wider slowdown in enterprise spending and uncertainty caused by the protracted US and China trade war continue to hurt the storage sector.…