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And doesn't get a look-in on top 10 most cyber-conscious nations The UK has fallen off its perch at the top of the UN’s biennial e-government ranking, dropping three places.…

On-premises and cloud users, prepare to be adjusted Microsoft has announced tweaks to its Volume Licensing programmes from 1 October, under which existing plans will be renamed, discounts removed and prices "changed".…

Pre-tax loss of £107m pinned on meltdown IT meltdown bank TSB has today admitted that the week-long outage and its aftermath have cost it almost £200m.…

The sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual Openreach claims it is now more independent of BT than ever before, adding that the UK's fibre rollout is going just fine and all ISPs are now very happy with the BT-owned telecoms infrastructure company.…

Single-award contract could run for up to a decade, worth a possible $10bn The Pentagon has finally opened the bidding for its major cloud contract, which could be worth some $10bn – and is to be awarded to one vendor.…

Secondhand owners who didn't sell at JLR dealer can call us, says firm Both data and the online controls on "connected cars" from Jaguar Land Rover remain available to previous owners, according to security experts and owners of the upmarket vehicles. The car maker has defended its privacy safeguards and security of its InControl tech.…

It's been three months and 16% have their heels firmly planted The charge of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update continued into July with 84 per cent of lucky, lucky users seeing their desktops upgraded, according to AdDuplex.…

$1.2bn revs beat guidance, routers lumpy, software, security strong Juniper Networks' Q3 revenue is 8 per cent lower than last year, but at $1.2bn it came in ahead of the company's previous guidance, and CEO Rami Rahim now expects Juniper to return to year-on-year growth by the December quarter.…

Take it off! Cover it up! I don't know what I want any more! Something for the Weekend, Sir? If I give you some money, would you take your clothes off? Now that's what I call premium service.…

Branding, real estate need sorting out Analysis Western Digital is chewing on agglomeration antacids as it continues to digest the 14 acquisitions made by the firm itself and its various business unit family members over the past decade or so.…

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'Our motivation for such a task wasn't exactly high' On-Call Why look at the calendar – it's Friday! Which can mean only one thing, namely the return of On-Call, your weekly instalment of tech support drama from El Reg's dear readers.…

Dutch court goes easy on Coinvault duo Two men who masterminded various Coinvault ransomware infections will carry out 240 hours of community service as punishment for screwing over 1,200 computers and banking around €10,000 (£9k, $12k) in profit.…

Lower Saxony says 'auf wiedersehen, pinguin' The German state of Lower Saxony plans to follow Munich's example, and migrate a reported 13,000 users from Linux back to Windows.…

Chips not ready until 2H 2019, Epyc headache looms Despite record-breaking earnings, Intel's shares took a modest dip on Thursday when the semiconductor behemoth reveal its financial results for the second quarter of this year.…

'Screaming Channels', a side-channel baked into off-the-shelf Wi-Fi, Bluetooth silicon Side-channel radio attacks just got a whole lot worse: a group of researchers from Eurecom's Software and Systems Security Group has extracted crypto keys from the noise generated by ordinary communications chips.…

Get it, like Barnes and No– oh, just gimme that beer. It's been 5 o'clock somewhere for hours Amazon, a cloud computing monster with a gift shop tacked on the side, watched its sales surpass $52bn during its latest quarter.…

Slack swallows Atlassian's blueprints for biz apps – which now face the axe Oz enterprise software biz Atlassian is discontinuing its chat apps Stride and Hipchat – and handing the tech blueprints over to Slack.…

Slack swallows Atlassian's blueprints for biz apps – which now face the axe Oz enterprise software biz Atlassian is discontinuing its chat apps Stride and Hipchat – and handing the tech blueprints over to Slack.…

Billions of devices potentially at risk – but Intel isn't worried Computer security researchers have devised a way to exploit the speculative-execution design flaws in modern processor chips over a network connection – a possibility that sounds rather more serious but may be something less than that.…

Everyone jokes congressfolk are crims but... sheesh, take it easy, Rekognition Amazon’s online facial recognition system incorrectly matched pictures of US Congress members to mugshots of suspected criminals in a study by the American Civil Liberties Union.…

Devs can have Dockerfiles in GH trigger Google Cloud Build At its Google Cloud Next 18 extravaganza in San Francisco on Thursday, Google took a moment to address developers directly.…

We'd be more confident in the tech if others were touting this Lightbits Labs and Solarflare are promoting the idea of NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMe-oF) using TCP-over-bog-standard Ethernet, instead of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) via data centre-class Ethernet, iWARP, InfiniBand or Fibre Channel.…

Shipping giant locks down US network infected by file-scrambling software nasty International shipping giant Cosco says it is recovering from an apparent ransomware infection on its American computer network.…

Otherwise all is well, insists corporate headshed You win some, you lose some. Citrix has embiggened its quarterly revenues – while at the same time shrinking profits by a couple of million dollars. How did they manage that?…

Burning cash to keep the lights on in Finland as profits wobble Fallen mobile phone giant Nokia posted financial results today that did not make happy reading for investors.…

Issues 'too severe' to launch this summer Oracle has pushed back the express edition of its 18c database until October.…

One sec, we need to limber up for this one... The UK government's efforts to improve digital services, boost staff's tech skills and prepare for cyber attacks and the extra burden of Brexit are to be probed by MPs.…

Big jump in write speed As the world and their dogs' data centres continue to accelerate their take-up of SSDs, WD/HGST has fired a dual-port SAS SSD at them.…

Demand massively outstrips supply, researchers find The market for cyber criminal services on the dark web continues to thrive – demand for malware is running at around three times greater than the supply.…

Farewell Redstone. Hello, er, 19H1? Microsoft gave Windows Insiders a double treat last night and threw a bone to the dedicated crowd of Windows Mixed Reality users.…

Farewell Redstone. Hello, er, 19H1? Microsoft gave Windows Insiders a double treat last night and threw a bone to the dedicated crowd of Windows Mixed Reality users.…

Court asked to grant permission for judicial review of 'inaccurate' snooping tech A campaign group has issued a legal challenge against the London Metropolitan Police's use of facial recognition technology.…

MIT Lincoln metalheads broke big iron so you don't have to… oh, you still have to, don't you? HPC admin? Feeling slighted that all the good Spectre/Meltdown mitigation benchmarks ignore big iron? Fear not, a bunch of MIT boffins are on your side.…

Tired of trolls? You won't win by controlling the internet, argues senior lecturer Paul Bernal Remember when the internet was a thing of beauty – connecting us to long-lost friends, the innocent pleasure of buying books using “e-commerce”, of sharing photos of cats?…

Auntie's outage comes on predicted hottest day of the year The entire BBC website (less iPlayer) went down briefly this morning.…

You too can have your very own network-as-a-service What's missing from Virtual Private Clouds? According to Big Switch Networks, it's an on-premises implementation.…

Success hinges on the answers, says analyst Analysis Semiconductor analyst David Kanter has identified six areas of ignorance about Intel's Optane DIMMs where clarity will dictate whether they become popular or not.…

Walmart had trouble getting its iOS and Android devs to embrace the web Facebook's cross-platform open-source mobile framework React Native lived up to its marketing hype for Walmart Labs as the US shopping giant deployed the software last year.…

No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised' HPE’s mini supercomputer launched into space last year has survived the harsh conditions of zero gravity and radiation for almost a year.…

Idea was first speculated more than 30 years ago – now hidden lake detected Scientists have discovered a lake of liquid water on Mars hidden beneath multiple layers of dust and ice, according to a paper published in Science on Wednesday.…

Techno-dem urges DHS, NSA and NIST to rid sites of buggy legacy media player content It's bug-ridden, eternally insecure, and on death row – yet Adobe Flash persists on too many US government webpages.…

Radeon and notebook surge brings best quarter in seven years AMD is crediting the continued success of Ryzen processors and Radeon graphics chips in fueling its best quarter since 2011.…

Shareholders, here's thirty billion dollars so you feel better on double whammy Wednesday Qualcomm has abandoned its long-planned, long-stalled $44bn acquisition of Dutch chip maker NXP Semiconductors – and in its place, Qualy today announced a $30bn share buyback.…

Shareholders, here's $30 BEEELLION so you feel better Qualcomm is abandon its long-planned, long-stalled, $44bn acquisition of Dutch chip vendor NXP Semiconductors, and in its place, the company today announced a $30bn share buy-back.…

Even the Parliamentary Library doesn't agree with minister The rollout of Australia's MyHealth Record e-health system is moving from “troubled” towards “shambles”.…

Two-factor authentication keys, cloud defenses, G Suite protections, and more It's day two of Google's Cloud Next 2018 conference in San Francisco – and the Chocolate Factory has been unveiling its defenses to thwart hackers and malware.…

App-ademic's lawsuit demands jury trial, damages, etc etc etc for alleged infringement Lyft is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former Georgia Tech professor who alleges the dial-a-ride upstart ripped off his patented idea.…

Custom ASICs make decisions on sensors as developers get hooked on ad giant's cloud Google has designed a low-power version of its homegrown AI math accelerator, dubbed it the Edge TPU, and promised to ship it to developers by October.…

Attacks on SAP, Oracle platforms incoming Hackers are increasingly looking to target enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to disrupt and steal data from large companies.…