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Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future
To the death? Not necessarily, but the gloves are off As the world's boffins prepare to carve up the airwaves again next year, the mobile industry has stepped up the lobbying war over spectrum, fearing a crushing 5G disappointment.…
Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition
QA? We've heard of it It isn't just Microsoft that has QA issues – so does Apple. The Cupertino giant withdrew a watchOS update that bricked the Apple Watch 4 last week, and has now rushed out a replacement containing things that don't work yet which Apple probably didn't want you to see.…
British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey
Though you get what you pay for, mostly Brit consumers get a broadband bargain, but pay for it with poorer performance than other European countries.…
Lloyds Banking Group: We're firing 6,240 to hire 8,240
This is all about 'digital', gonna be so digital you could cut yourself on our services In a lurch towards “digitising” ops as part of the “transformation” scheme launched months ago, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) today said it is creating 2,000 roles to beef up its “leading-edge digital banking” services.…
The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch
Fireworks night has been and gone. Microsoft stayed home The leaves on the trees are turning golden, a chill is in the air, and while the Windows 10 October 2018 Update remains locked in the fireworks tin, there seems to be movement for its sibling, Windows Server 2019.…
Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany
De-crewed? More like de-orbit if the ISS had to wait for Orion It was another busy week in space as Russia notched up a second Soyuz success, China conducted its 32nd launch of the year and NASA awaited the arrival of its first service module for Orion.…
GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual
Oh, and some exam boards might need to offer paper-based tests due to schools' crap IT kit Students starting GCSE computer science in 2020 may be assessed by exams only, amid concerns about schools' IT kit, burdens on teachers and malpractice in non-exam tests.…
SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman
Tax efficient biz makes 1.73 pre-tax profit % on £1.508bn local sales in fiscal '18 Salesforce's European limb last year coughed £5m in tax to the UK government - the business is registered in Blighty - as it made a 1.73 pre-tax profit percentage on a turnover of £1.51bn.…
ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000
Finds orgs sent marketing emails promoting each other without consent The Information Commissioner’s Office plans to slap fines totalling £135,000 on Leave.EU and Brexiteer Arron Banks’ insurance biz Eldon for “serious” breaches of direct marketing laws.…
Oracle 'net-watcher agrees, China Telecom is a repeat offender for misdirecting traffic
Network admins really need to mind their MANRS Oracle has backed claims that China Telecom Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements regularly take internet traffic on an unwanted tour of the Middle Kingdom.…
Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype
What's that coming over the hill? Is it ProcDump, a Linux ProcDump? Roundup Microsoft is looking to 2019 and tinkering with Skype as the Windows 10 October 2018 update continues its lonely wanderings.…
Disky business: Seagate hyperscale customers slow to 'digest' inventory
Antacid, anyone? Analysis Hyperscale customers went on a disk drive buying strike late in Seagate's first quarter of fiscal '19, ended September 28.…
Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea
There is no ghost in the machine Comment For the last few years the media has been awash with hyperbole about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. It could be said that never, in the field of computer science, have so many ridiculous things been said by so many people in possession of so little relevant expertise. For anyone engaged in cutting-edge hardware in the 1980s, this is puzzling.…
iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe
Most of the bang of the XS for not so much of the bucks Review Back in 2007, Apple convinced the world a phone that could barely last a day was OK. In 2018 it has set out to persuade the public that a phone costing £749 is somehow a bargain.…
The PCIe bus is coming, and everybody's jumping... New York to San Francisco, an NVMe disco
The wheels of steel are turnin' and traffic lights are burnin'... A lot of vendors have looked to NVMe amongst the other cloud, software and hyperconverged tidbits in storage roundup this week, but let's start with some updates.…
The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader
Have you tried innovating your enterprise synergy today? Today marks the opening of VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 event in Barcelona, Spain. The Dell-owned virtualization giant has a bunch of announcements to kick off its shindig.…
Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos
It works for now because the forgeries are quite easy to spot The rise of AI systems that can generate fake images and videos has spurred researchers in the US to develop a technique to sniff out these cyber-shams, also known as deepfakes.…
Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019
Kernel release candidate adds support for two Chinese CPU families... will these be the final new CPU archs? The new, improved, and chilled-out Linus Torvalds emitted the first release candidate for Linux kernel 4.20 over the weekend.…
Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff - major layoffs worldwide
Hundreds gone from Switchzilla's Customers Experience division Exclusive Cisco has confirmed to The Register that it has launched a round of layoffs, slashing its Customer EXperience team, after some affected staff got in touch with us.…
Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week
Switchzilla's Customer Experience division experiences brunt of HR's 'limited restructuring' Exclusive Cisco has confirmed to The Register it launched a round of layoffs on Monday, effectively slashing its Customer Experience (CX) team, after insiders alerted us to the cuts.…
Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention
Beam would light up planets, lead furious ETs back to Earth Space agencies and private citizens spend millions of dollars and countless hours hunting for signs of extraterrestrial life. Yet, there may be an easier way to find intelligent civilizations, according to a pair of researchers from MIT in the US.…
Uncle Sam, D-Link told to battle in court over claims of shoddy device security: Judge snubs summary judgment bids
No spittin', no cussin', either, Cali judge rules America's trade watchdog's case against network device maker D-Link will go ahead next January – after a district judge rebuked the two sides for wasting money drawing up and filing demands for summary judgments.…
Tata on trial: Outsourcer 'discriminated' against non-Asian workers, claim American staff
Caucasian employees allege pattern of unfair treatment at Indian IT consultancy giant India-based IT outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will finally face trial over claims that the company discriminated against workers at US facilities who were not from South Asia.…
Android gets security overhaul with November patch bundle – if your mobe maker is kind enough to let you have it
And Apple fixes Watch-killing security patch of its own Google today pushed out the November edition of its monthly Android security updates, giving carriers and device makers a fresh set of patches to install. Fingers cross the patches are rolled out to you ASAP.…
W3C launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data and that data is being weaponised against us'
Why can't we all go back to being nice to each other, like in the Usenet and IRC days, er, wait... Comment The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is warning about the death of the web again, and urging people to come together to make the internet all nice and lovely.…
Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)
Security experts frantically facepalming at stupid design Fundamental flaws in the encryption system used by popular solid-state drives (SSDs) can be exploited by miscreants to easily decrypt data, once they've got their hands on the equipment.…
Google: All right, screw it, we make enough cash anyway from ads – Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites
Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz After the failure of last year's abusive web ad clampdown, Google will next month cut off revenue for websites that flout its rules against malicious adverts.…
Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites
Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz After the failure of last year's abusive web ad clampdown, Google will next month cut off revenue for websites that flout its rules against malicious adverts.…
Supreme Court tells Big Cable to shut up for once: Net neutrality challenge shot down
Even America's top court is bored of 'open internet' legal shenanigans The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the net neutrality rules that were introduced in 2015, and which have since been rescinded.…
Veracode Software gobbled by private equity house Thomas Bravo for $950m
Home of McAfee and SonicWall slurps app security testing biz from Broadcom Thomas Bravo – private equity owner of McAfee and Barracuda Networks – has slurped cloudy application security testing biz Veracode Software, a division of Broadcom, for $950m in cash.…
Veracode Software gobbled by private equity house Thoma Bravo for $950m
Home of McAfee and SonicWall slurps app security testing biz from Broadcom Thoma Bravo – private equity owner of McAfee and Barracuda Networks – has slurped cloudy application security testing biz Veracode Software, a division of Broadcom, for $950m in cash.…
What the PUC: SK Hynix next to join big boys in 96-layer 3D NAND land
Whether you Periphery Under Cell or Core Over Periphery, it all means smaller chips SK Hynix has finished work on a 512 Gbit, 96-layer, 3D NAND chip with 1Tbit, and 3bits/cell (TLC) and 4bits/cell (QLC) coming later.…
UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections
Eleven areas will require people to prove identity in advance or on the day The government is to expand its controversial voter ID trials in next year’s local elections.…
Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier
Is Emmental? Probably a bit One Swiss chap hopes to get his rock and rollright by playing music to cheese to see if that makes it taste better.…
Slabs, huh, what are they are good for? Er, not quite absolutely nothing
3.5 million fewer units shipped worldwide on Q3 Fewer and fewer people want to fondle a new slab these days with just 36.4 million units shipped worldwide during Q3.…
US draft bill moots locking up execs who lie about privacy violations
Don't want to consent? Law would allow firms to charge for access to products, services Company bosses could be thrown in jail for up to 20 years if they aren't straight with US regulators about privacy violations under a law drafted by senator Ron Wyden.…
Planet Computers straps proper phone to its next Psion scion, Cosmo
Son of Gemini Planet Computers, creator of the Gemini PDA, has pulled the covers off its next-generation device – the Cosmo Communicator.…
Nokia's open SDN, SoC-it-to-me open 'Chiplets', Verisign exits the DDoS protection biz, and more
Quantum boffinry, SS7 acquisition, Arista results Roundup Nokia this week announced an SDN-based open optical transport management suite of products for optical transport management, WaveSuite.…
Heart Internet stops beating, starts Monday with big portion of FAIL
Do you have a service, Heart, or is that web blackout all there is today? Webs will wobble and frequently fall down, but it is the way that cloud or hosting providers manage this that sets them apart. On this Monday morning, Heart Internet isn't distinguishing itself from the great and good in a positive way.…
Heighten your organisation’s risk awareness at the SANS Security Awareness summit
Raise your security expertise to a new level Promo Information security training specialist SANS promises that its fourth European Security Awareness Summit will be its biggest yet.…
Hands on with LIME: Come now, sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
Everyone loves a manic pixel dream swirl Deep learning has become the go-to "AI" technique for image recognition and classification. It has reached a stage where a programmer doesn't even have to create their own models, thanks to a large number available off the shelf, pre-trained and ready for download.…
We love Kubernetes, but it's playing catch-up with our Service Fabric, says Microsoft Azure exec
Jason Zander on cloud native, Red Hat, and figuring out open source Interview A curious feature of Microsoft's cloud platform is that it has two fundamentally different platforms for microservices. One is based on the homegrown Service Fabric, while the other is orchestrated by the Google-originated Kubernetes, available on Azure through the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Both are open source.…
DBA drifts into legend after inventive server convo leaves colleagues fearing for their lives
Fire! Fire! Oh, er, maybe not... Who, Me? Welcome to the latest instalment of Who, Me?, our weekly confessional column in which Reg readers share their tales of historic face-palms.…
You've heard of 'trust but verify', right? Well, remember 'trust but protect' when mulling building a hybrid cloud
You broke it, you pay for it, one way or another Comment Trust the hybrid cloud, service providers tell us – they are, apparently, the experts. But when outages occur, and when data or virtual instances are lost or become unavailable, the impact is profound.…
Intel peddles latest Xeon CPUs – Cascade Lake AP and E-series – to head off epyc AMD mygrayne
The AP does not stand for 'AMD P**-off' In brief Intel will today talk up two new Xeon processor family members: Cascade Lake Advanced Performance (AP), and the E-2100.…
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal man sits on Steve Bannon design tech shindig committee
RCL chief David Levy is member of ACE2018 committee David Levy, one of the players in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ scandal in the UK, has reappeared in the news – in connection with a gaming and design tech conference that invited notorious alt-right firebrand Steve Bannon to be its keynote speaker.…
Cyber-crooks think small biz is easy prey. Here's a simple checklist to avoid becoming an easy victim
Make sure you're spending your hard-earned cash on the 'right' IT security Comment One of the unpleasant developments of the last decade has been the speed with which IT security threats, once aimed mainly at large enterprises, have spread to SMBs – small and medium businesses.…
Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more
OpenAI builds curious bots and Nvidia's on the lookout for fresh ML talent Roundup Hello, here’s this week's dose of AI news. Google has promised to throw more money at AI research that benefits society, OpenAI developed a new technique to get bots to be more curious, and Nvidia has launched its own AI Research Residency Program.…
Google logins make JavaScript mandatory, Huawei China spy shock, Mac malware, Iran gets new Stuxnet, and more
Plus, SystemD gets system de-bugged, again Roundup This week there were Hacked Home Hubs, buggered BBC Bits, and PortSmash privilege punch-ups.…
Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too
Here's our Top Ten pick of the best of Brits Poll This week the Bank of England said it was going to put a famous boffin on a new polymer £50 note, and has decided to ask the public who it should be.…
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