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NVLinking CPUs to GPUs chews through workloads GPU database-botherer SQream has said its DB runs up to 150 per cent faster when it uses IBM's POWER9 CPUs linked to the GPUs rather than x86 processors.…

We know it was GRU The UK government this morning pointed the finger at Russian military intelligence for a litany of cyber nasties.…

Tech services firm swallows Microsoft's favoured partner British Office 365 and SharePoint consultancy Content and Code has been acquired by UK technology services outfit IT Lab.…

Making machine learning work at work Event From CNNs to GPUs, there’s a whole spectrum of technologies and tools you can use to bring AI and machine learning into your business.…

Keeping code and cash flowing through the firm's pipelines DevOps darling JFrog has pocketed $165m of funding hot on the heels of acquiring technology consulting outfit Trainologic.…

Autonomous cars and smart clothes look like a dud, though Huawei last year denied reports that it's developing its own mobile OS to lessen its dependence on US giants like Google.…

Along came some spiders and saw the unsubscribers... Cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid has copped to blabbing customer email addresses, chalking it up to some overenthusiastic indexing without explaining why pages were public-facing in the first place.…

Oh, and we have Piles, I mean Stacks Review Apple takes great pride in shipping macOS annually, as regularly as clockwork.…

Countries agree to cooperate on satellite navigation as Blighty faces becoming a third country in Galileo The UK and Australia have announced plans to become the best of buddies in the space field, including the UK’s current hot potato: satellite navigation.…

Co-founders chat to El Reg about liability, data silos and raw data pain Interview Ninety-nine per cent of companies are struggling to make a success of machine learning, according to execs at analytics biz Databricks.…

Free, day-long event offers training, customer insights, and networking Promo Whether you're already taking your first steps toward the cloud, or just exploring the idea, AWS Transformation Day 2018 taking place in London on 30 October is a good place to start your journey.…

Good news: It's 7nm. Sad news: It's shipping 2H 2019 XDF Xilinx has packed everything but the kitchen sink into its new Versal family of FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays).…

It's so big that it's possible that it could have its own little moons Scientists have spotted what may be the first Moon to be discovered outside the Solar System, according to a paper published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.…

Meet Wi-Fi 6, the protocol previously known as 802.11ax Wi-Fi, known for about two decades by its wonky Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers designation, IEEE 802.11, has adopted a new consumer-oriented naming scheme.…

It's good news, but overall a wasted opportunity Anyone manufacturing an internet-connected device in California will, from 2020, have to give it a unique password in an effort to increase overall online security.…

$5bn deal sends stock market Hadoop over heels The big data market became a little less competitive on Wednesday when two of the biggest players, Cloudera and Hortonworks, agreed to merge.…

Chipzilla's security through obscurity withers under scrutiny In its ongoing exploration of Intel's Management Engine (ME), security biz Positive Technologies has reaffirmed the shortsightedness of security through obscurity and underscored the value of open source silicon.…

Astroboffins are Goblin up Solar System sightings There is still no sign of the elusive Planet X, although astronomers have stumbled across Goblin along the way.…

Not covered: single-malt scotch and steak dinners The former CIO of the US federal government says companies looking to nab IT contracts with agencies need to bring more than just a sales pitch.…

Phantom Secure's Vincent Ramos faces 20 years in clink The CEO of a company that took Blackberry phones, stripped them of their cameras, microphones and GPS and then installed encryption software in order to create a secure phone, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with drug cartels.…

Customers in it for the long term get parity with the flighty Semi-Annual Channel crowd After a lengthy gestation period, Windows Server 2019 has arrived loaded with goodies to ease the journey to a cloudier world.…

Weakness not easy to leverage, but iDRAC exploit would mean game over for admins A pair of IT professionals have uncovered a potentially serious flaw in the hardware management tools for older Dell servers.…

It's just a test, we're told At 2:18 pm EDT on Wednesday (11:18 am PDT), most mobile subscribers in the US can expect a "Presidential Alert" to brighten their day.…

Comms software flinger confesses to ultimate snafu, trigger still under investigation Cisco has confessed that the cause of the mega Webex outage last week – which it is still trying to clean up – was an automated script "which deleted the virtual machines hosting the service".…

Mirroring, Timeline come to Google mobes With no phone platform left, Microsoft has snuggled much closer to Android. The new version of Windows 10 – available on demand today to all users – introduces what Microsoft calls "app mirroring" into the Windows.…

Clicked Check For Updates? Welcome to the Release Preview ring Windows 10 October 2018 update is here, having skipped past the Release Preview phase, and can be downloaded now if you can’t wait for it to make an automatic appearance.…

State-sponsored hacking meets financial acquisition with APT38 A new state-sponsored attack from North Korea is being seen as an effort by the cash-strapped dictatorship to raise funds by exploiting foreign banks.…

Upcoming update could bork on-prem logins, warns Redmond Microsoft has flung out an advisory for some of its on-premises Dynamics 365 customers. Integrated Skype? Turn it off. Turn it off now.…

16 hours of rocking and rolling before the power runs out Not content with unleashing a couple of robots to photograph the surface of asteroid Ryugu, JAXA probe Hyabusa2 successfully deployed the German MASCOT lander this morning.…

Slow your roll... only Radford's hooked up for now Full-fibre broadband has reached Coventry, Openreach has declared – while adding that it had made 600k new FTTP connections.…

One Kubernetes to rule them all Cisco's Container Platform, launched in January, is now certified to run SAP's year-old Data Hub management platform.…

£9m up for grabs in latest digital health tech funding call UK firms are being asked to pitch digital solutions to "overcome privacy challenges" related to the increasing use of data in the health sector as part of a £9m competition to boost the NHS's use of technology.…

Nothing to do with jazz, everything to do with grains and silos Microsoft has updated its distributed high-scale applications platform Orleans, claiming a 30 per cent increase in performance.…

And has just won a bizarre argument to let arbitrators read a public document If you thought the monster battle between Google and Uber over alleged theft of its self-driving technology was over, you'd be wrong.…

Social network says SSO-slurping miscreants didn't reuse tokens on third-party apps Facebook has toned down its Friday warning that stolen credentials could be used to compromise third-party apps.…

Giants join Australia's cryptowar Opposition to the Australian government's proposed crypto-busting legislation is gathering pace, with internet and telco giants deciding to speak with a single voice.…

Wireless, noise-cancelling Surface headphones teased too At a media event in New York City on Tuesday, Microsoft refreshed its Surface hardware with the introduction of the Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 all-in-one PC.…

First woman in 55 years and the oldest recipient to date The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a trio of researchers for their work in developing powerful lasers.…

All it takes is a few lines of code If you’ve been thinking about trying to learn deep learning, here’s a new software library that promises to make things easy.…

Singaporean funding will result in Singaporean offices Secure edge and cloud file services supplier CTERA Networks has trousered $30m in D-round funding to build out its infrastructure in South East Asia.…

At $15 an hour, 50,000 full-time and temp staffers will be livin' it up Bezos style - almost Amazon, the target of a recently introduced bill called the Stop BEZOS Act, on Tuesday said it would raise the minimum wage for all its US workers to $15 an hour.…

Steven Serabian beats software company soundly SAP America has been ordered to pay a former salesman $662,200 for screwing him out of commissions and then firing him when he complained.…

One may have said too much, one may have said too little UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into Vodafone and EE for allegedly giving inaccurate data about mobile coverage areas.…

NVMe-FC, predictive analytics and roadmap away from VIMMs Violin Systems is making the most of being rescued by private equity, with new hardware and software, and a focus on tossing its hat into the all-flash array performance ring.…

Slams Home Office's lack of engagement with privacy fears The UK Home Office's alleged indifference towards civil rights groups' concerns over the creation of a mammoth policing database has caused Liberty to ditch the government-run consultation group on the project.…

With Nvidia CUDA 10 comes great AI power and VS compatibility Inhabitants of the Venn set overlap between Microsoft Visual Studio users and Nvidia CUDA developers, rejoice. CUDA 10 is once more compatible with Visual Studio.…

Serverless changes everything... 'cept for the things that stay the same Events Embracing Serverless isn’t just a question of writing a couple of functions, flicking a switch and keeping half an eye on your costs.…

Intel's Grinch that stole Christmas might make for a softer end to the year The ongoing transition to Windows 10 by corporates offset weak consumer demand to keep PC sales ticking over with a modest 3 per cent increase over this time last year, according to figures released by channel box-counters Context.…

Sucks up $4bn in Q2 alone Stats from analyst house IDC show that the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) server revenues are growing even as fewer units are shipped.…

Does a review by an 'imagineer' in 2003 invalidate a patent filing? Take a guess A commercial rival of email virus-scanning software firm Glasswall has lost its High Court attempt to use a bulletin board post from 2003 written by a former MessageLabs "imagineer" to have a patent declared invalid.…