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More American cities will get super-fast mobile internet AT&T has promised real-world rollouts of 5G super-fast mobile internet in five more US cities before the end of the year, taking the total to 12, with another seven due next year.…

Those developing custom CPUs can now tap a TrustZone-ish trusted execution environment If you've been looking at SiFive's RISC-V-based chip technology and thinking, y'know what, it's missing an Arm TrustZone-style element to run sensitive code, well, here's some good news.…

Data caught being siphoned off to outside server Updated A bunch of Trend Micro anti-malware tools have vanished from Apple's Mac App Store – after they were spotted harvesting and siphoning off users' browser histories.…

Azure here, there and everywhere. Except last week when VSTS was nowhere Microsoft announced the arrival of Azure DevOps on Monday, an ‘evolution’ of its veteran Visual Studio Team Services into which developers will be enrolled - whether they like it or not.…

Misses no one: PCs, NAS, workstations, enterprise, surveillance Seagate has spread its 14TB, 7,200rpm helium-filled disk drive tech across the PC, NAS, enterprise capacity and surveillance market sectors.…

More power and faster interconnect Cisco has beefed up its C480 AI/machine learning sever, adding a faster GPU interconnect and more GPU slots while losing two CPU sockets.…

Lil pupper yaps at big doge A Microsoft VP has optimistically opined that Amazon's expansion will help Microsoft nibble a little harder at the ankles of the world’s top public cloud firm.…

Listen up, SAN-shine: IDC numbers – read 'em and weep Server SANs aren't eating into the external SAN market, at least as far as analyst IDC's storage tracker numbers are concerned.…

$250bn market ripe for savings Companies waste cash by failing to scrutinise software maintenance and support spend, with contract renewal seen as the line of least resistance, the Campaign for Clear Licensing has said.…

Angry investors want to know why they weren't told before everyone else In the latest fallout from the Dieselgate scandal, Volkswagen is facing down a German lawsuit for $11bn over the company's use of software to thwart emissions performance tests.…

Top EU court to rule whether order made in France should be applied everywhere Europe's top court will tomorrow hear a case that could extend the scope of right to be forgotten rules globally – which free speech campaigners warn would amount to mass online censorship.…

If you're going to batter 8,497 folk with over 60,000 threats, odds are someone will crack Persistence pays off for crooks when it comes to sextortion-based phishing scams, research into its effectiveness suggests.…

Telstar to blast broadband over Asia while ISS astros face fresh underwear delay Grim weather at Cape Canaveral almost caused a scrub of this morning's Falcon 9 launch as heavy cloud and lightning storms blanketed the region.…

Why so hush-hush? Dell outearned IBM in its latest quarter, reporting revenues of $22.94bn in Q2 2019 ending 3 August, compared to the $20.1bn turned over by Big Blue in its own latest quarter.…

We’ve extended our early bird offer offer... Events If getting to grips with AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or FaaS is on your todo list, you should add something else – joining us at Serverless Computing London this November.…

Also: New gear out, plus ENISA overlooks squirrels Freed from the attentions of Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductor has been looking around for its own acquisitions, and this week announced it had slurped OmniPHY.…

Also: Your Phone gets a bit more useful Still reeling from The Great Azure Outage Of September 2018? Fear not – new builds, new apps and some slightly flaky Android integration were the order of week.…

Join us in the tavern for a pint and a chinwag Summer's fading and the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is dawning. As the evenings darken, The Reg is proud to unveil its full season of autumn lectures.…

ResistAV warns it's 'curtains for privacy' if age checks approved Campaigners are crowdfunding a legal challenge against plans to block smut in the UK.…

Nothing important, just NATIONAL SECURITY stuff An "under-planned and underfunded" IT upgrade delayed national security vetting and is costing about £17m a year in inefficiencies, according to the UK government's spending watchdog.…

Redundant PSUs and power buses are all well and good, but they need cables Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, where El Reg readers share their IT catastrophes. And it doesn't get much more catastrophic than this week's story from "Bob".…

The AI stories you may have missed this week Roundup Here's a quick roundup of AI announcements this week beyond what we've already covered.…

Mac APT unearthed and other infosec bits and bytes summarized just for you Roundup This week brought with it a Supermicro shoring up firmware security, a North Korean hacking charge, and a spying anti-adware macOS tool getting yanked by Apple from its App Store. Elsewhere, we had……

Regulations in Blighty tweaked to appease the masses Brits will have to opt in to receive cold calls selling personal injury claims or payment protection insurance under new UK government rules.…

Senate disclosure forms rife with errors from 'hi-tech' outfit Captricity, a company that touts AI software capable of reading text better than people, has been blamed for a bumper crop of data entry errors that misrepresent what many US Senate candidates are actually spending for their campaigns.…

Manufacturers, and ultimately US citizens, will pay the price US President Donald Trump is threatening to tack import duties on $267bn of imported Chinese tech gear and other goods – on top of the $200bn already planned.…

It may be a phone service but it's over 'the internet,' so yeah, f**k me, right? The US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that a phone service over the internet is no longer a phone service but an "information service" – freeing it from regulatory oversight.…

C'mon, please, please reinstate its status... The drama surrounding Pluto’s planetary status just won’t die.…

Computer voting not yet ready for prime time, say boffins The upcoming 2020 US presidential election should be conducted on paper, since there is no way currently to make electronic and internet voting secure.…

Caution urged on downloads after Apple tears down utility Apple has removed an app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the macOS App Store following claims it sent users' browser histories to a remote server in China.…

When I said I have $2m in the bank... Bouxtie had everything you can dream of in a Silicon Valley startup. A stupid name (it's pronounced "bow-tie"), a vastly over-confident CEO with a story, millions in VC money, and a nonsensical business model built around an app.…

And they're sitting on a giant cash pile, much to chief exec Nikesh Arora's glee Two things are happening at Palo Alto Networks: it is losing less cash, and the latest exec to reside in the head shed is rubbing his hands together at the prospect of selling more tech as a service.…

It's not you, it's just that our talents just no longer align Chip designer Arm has celebrated its upcoming TechCon 2018 San Jose shindig by showing 180 unlucky employees the door.…

El Reg leaked memo sent weeks before crooks swiped payment cards Exclusive Just weeks before being hacked in late August, British Airways' parent IAG was planning to outsource its cybersecurity to IBM, admitting it needed a "group-wide strategic and proactive approach" to counter threats.…

Second exec says bye on same day – all while boss Elon Musk smokes a joint Updated Tesla's chief accounting officer (CAO), Dave Morton, has run for the hills after a matter of weeks at Elon Musk's electric car company.…

And ODM stands for Original Dollar Makers in latest server digits It's money for DRAM time at Round Rock server HQ, which we hope is buying the beers this afternoon. Dell dominated the server space and raked in the most revenues in 2018’s second quarter, according to IDC.…

Fraud on rise and IT workers (of all people) most susceptible The number of UK companies on the receiving end of business scams involving email has risen by nearly two-thirds – 58 per cent – in the last year, new data from Lloyds Bank has revealed.…

It wasn't all Brocade! insists CEO as revenues jump 13% Data centres and storage sales sent Broadcom's third-quarter earnings sailing past estimates, thanks in part to the buy of Brocade.…

Crooks cracked phone number accounts with passcode '1234' Two crooks scammed Vodafone customers in the Czech Republic out of $26,000 thanks to weak telco-issued PIN codes.…

Phone maker keen to settle 'Notch-gate' Nokia has reinstated the ability to hide the display cutout – "The Notch" – after seemingly pulling it due to a request from Google, according to a company representative.…

Thomas Kurian to take 'extended leave' from Big Red Oracle's cloud guru Thomas Kurian has reportedly taken extended leave from the firm.…

Data harvesting? Breaches? Whatevs – ICO survey People are more trusting with their data than they were last year – despite data harvesting and breaches dominating news agendas throughout 2018.…

Rewind and replay in slowmo Special Report Five years have passed but the wounds left by the acquisition and dismemberment of Europe's biggest technology company at the hands of Microsoft remain open.…

Stop, collaborate and listen: Ice is back we need a brand new invention UK.gov and Canadian airliner manufacturer Bombardier want you – yes, you – to come up with ideas for using artificial intelligence to stop ice building up on aeroplane wings.…

Replace those end-of-life VPN devices, they won't be patched Cisco has taken delivery of a bulk order for 29 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) IDs.…

Time to ride spinning-up persistent memory caching whirlwind? Analysis Super-fast storage array access looks to be coming, with persistent memory front-end caches in the accessing servers.…

Nothing to look forward to now… except perhaps the 1980s Something for the Weekend, Sir? Oh, the things I could do with a third hand! It could hold things steady while my other two hands are occupied. Hang on, I have a better idea: I could use my two existing hands to hold the things steady while my third hand gets down to work.…

Serverless Computing London early bird tickets finish tonight Events Our early bird offer for our very own Serverless Computing London conference finishes tonight, so if you want to get bang-up to speed on Serverless, FaaS and more, and save hundreds into the bargain, the time to act is now.…

Tech support scrubs up well... with a bonus BANG On-Call The end of the week is upon us, which of course means another instalment of On Call, El Reg’s column where our dear readers share their tech support crises.…

Manufacturers seem reluctant to do anything about it The privacy issues thrown up by connected cars don't seem to be going anywhere soon.…