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Season 2 of Data Centre Wars starts off a bit samey A 100MW data centre campus in County Wicklow, Ireland, is in danger of being delayed or cancelled altogether after an appeal was lodged with the country's planning authority, An Bord Pleanála.…

Everyone's had enough of their sh!t Column Somewhere between Cambridge Analytica and Christchurch, historians of the future will draw a line and say: "This marked the peak of FAANG*'s influence."…

3PAR boss Ivan Ianaccone is the latest to jump ship The boss of HPE's 3PAR has quit for a cloudier future as head of storage at Amazon Web Services.…

Boss makes staggering admission during conf-call to discuss impact of latest cost purge: $60m to be cut from infosec division Exclusive A senior exec within DXC Technology's global security practice has acknowledged his staff's "puzzlement" at the company's reluctance to fund examinations for infosec certifications.…

Astroboffins find and probe a new planetary wonder Fresh storms rip through Neptune’s skies every four to six years creating a blemish known as the Great Dark Spot – and scientists have clocked another formation of the planetary wonder using the Hubble space telescope.…

Predictive prognosis could boost life, profits Video Machine-learning algorithms can predict the lifetimes of lithium-ion batteries, and could help scientists develop better battery designs more quickly and at a cheaper cost, according to a paper published yesterday in Nature Energy.…

In space, no one can hear you scream... with frustration NASA's first-of-its-kind all-women spacewalk, due to take place this week, has been scrapped - in part due to a lack of spacesuits that fit.…

Meanwhile American Airlines cancels 90 flights a day The Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 that crashed this month, killing all 157 passengers and crew, was actively using Boeing's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that is thought to have brought down a similar 737 five months earlier.…

Apple rolls out repairs for 51 iOS flaws, including nasty ones, plus fixes for macOS In addition to teasing the world with a glimpse of subscriptions services for newspapers and magazines, gaming, and video entertainment, Apple on Monday released iOS 12.2, which patches 51 security vulnerabilities.…

0.4 to 10% of corporate wage slaves could be up for the chop Oracle has laid off about 40 people in its Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) group in Seattle – and on Friday began notifying about 250 workers at its Redwood City facility and about 100 at its Santa Clara location, both in California, that they will be let go in May.…

Biz founder also told CFO to 'do what the f*ck you like', court hears Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch was "most certainly aware" that his British software company had fraudulently hyped up its performance using a carousel of "revenue-pumping" fake sales, HPE's lawyers told London's High Court on Monday.…

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed A million or so Asus personal computers may have downloaded spyware from the computer maker's update servers and installed it, Kaspersky Lab claims.…

TalkTalk and Sky are the worst, but Vodafone is falling fast TalkTalk and Sky are still dismally disappointing their customers – but Vodafone saw the biggest drop in ratings, according to a broadband survey from consumer group Which?.…

NVMe standard for parking different data types in different zones for faster access Korean chipmaker SK Hynix today announced its Zoned Name Spaces (ZNS) SSD, which stores different data types in different parts of the drive, and said it would start shipping products in the first half of 2020.…

Antisocial network: They gotta go to a DPA, man. Normal ppl can't sue us! Vienna court: I think you'll find... Privacy activist Max Schrems has demolished another "blockade" in his long-running dispute with Facebook in the Austrian courts.…

May 2019: Two courses expose cybercriminals' tools and techniques Promo Organisations can no longer afford to rely on prevention systems alone to protect them from increasingly numerous and determined adversaries who can find their way round most of today's monitoring tools.…

Nom-nom-nom, says hungry private equity type Triton Bidco British satellite communications specialist Inmarsat will be taken private by a consortium of international investors in a deal worth $3.4bn (£2.6bn).…

Bloke alleges boss 'thrust his bum' at him Farting at work is a bigger taboo than discussing pay.…

High Court hears opening shots of long-awaited tech trial Autonomy Trial Mike Lynch's Autonomy Corporation pumped up its value by paying its own customers to buy its products so Autonomy could inflate its accounts, London's High Court was told this morning.…

Now with exclusive cult cinema references Roundup In a week where macOS users got their first taste of Microsoft's Defender and certain vendors received a kick in the virtuals from Azure's cloudy desktop, the gang at Redmond kept on a-building and a-leaking.…

And we'll be there to tell you all about it Autonomy Trial Today begins the tech trial of the year: HPE has hauled Mike Lynch into London's High Court, claiming $5bn from the one-time chief exec of ill-fated UK software firm Autonomy.…

Hoping for an Empire Strikes Back rather than a Big Momma's House 2 Three years after the original comes another NexDock, a laptop shell aimed at owners of Android phones or lovers of the diminutive Raspberry Pi (and its brethren).…

Sept 30 to Oct 2, London – and tickets are going for a song right now Event If you've had enough of the hype, and want to explore the nitty-gritty of applying artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science in your business, you really should join us at MCubed this autumn.…

Also: Boeing delays, and InSight to try diagnostic hammering to catch glitch in act Astronauts may have swapped a set of ISS batteries, but it may be a little while yet before they get a ride on Boeing's finest in this week's round-up.…

There's more than one way to accidentally power-down a workplace, you know Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, our weekly trip down memory lane for Reg readers who have cringeworthy yet humorous stories to share with the rest of us.…

Defense insists there's nothing to return. And those Perl files? Purely sentimental. Intel has been granted a preliminary injunction in its trade secret theft claim against former engineering manager Doyle Rivers, who left to work at Micron.…

The week's news in AI and machine learning Roundup Hello, here's a quick rundown on what's been happening in the world of machine learning.…

Boffins show how to nab radioactive contraband, by looking for 'electron avalanches' Lasers could be used to detect radioactive material secretly transported to and from ports one day, according to a group of physicists from the University of Maryland in the US.…

Understanding why is still unOptanium Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM can make key storage applications 17 times faster, but systems builders must navigate ‘complex performance characteristics’ to get the best out of the technology.…

Plus, two crooks craft a veritable fraudocopia Roundup This week we got freaked out about heart implant hacks, welcomed a new Microsoft security tool, and endured yet another Facebook fsck up.…

Org does to privacy what hurricanes did to your house Disaster relief org FEMA has admitted, conveniently on a Friday night, to accidentally leaking banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million hurricane and wildfire survivors.…

What interesting timing US prosecutors have slapped three more criminal charges on ex-Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch, accusing him of securities and wire fraud regarding HP's acquisition of his company.…

Vuln hunters warn malicious applets can bust through protections, snoop on or hijack access gizmos Bug hunters say Oracle's Java Card platform is host to a dozen and a half security flaws that could place smart-cards and similar embedded devices using the tech at risk of hijacking.…

Someone get that old FDIV-bugged Pentium out of web giant's servers What's that old saying? Ah, yes, it's right here in Google's corporate handbook: never apologize, never explain.…

Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher Netflix is adamant that the path of its Bandersnatch trademark lawsuit should be for the judge to throw the case out. How does El Reg respond?…

Mummy, why is Gramps talking to that tree? Ontario oldsters were left dazed and confused after munching their way through a succulent platter of cannabis-laced chocolate brownies.…

No lie, says Zuck and co, it was a separate data thing that we forgot to mention Comment Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's dodgy data-gathering practices at least four months before they was exposed in news reports, according to internal FB emails.…

Flash! Servant of the universe The great NAND flash price slump will accelerate the uptake of SSD storage, industry sources have predicted, with PCIe/NVMe SSDs possibly accounting for half of the market by the end of the year.…

Digital secretary responds to Commons Science and Technology Committee, sort of Considering the state of political discourse in Britain, it comes as little surprise that the government has no idea whether it should follow allies and start banning certain foreign firms – most notably Huawei – from national telecommunications infrastructure projects.…

Using private info for funding decisions branded 'toxic' "Rich" and "granular" patient data from hospital and GP records could be shared with policymakers and researchers under new plans from NHS Digital.…

We'll keep an Excel in the hillside, we'll keep on coding in the Vales The best part of half a million students in Wales will be able to get their hands on a free copy of Office 365 ProPlus as the Welsh Assembly lobs cash Redmond's way.…

Illegal streaming gang served up sports from 800 channels A taskforce led by Spanish cops has dealt TV piracy a heavy blow after shuttering a network of illegal sports streaming sites operating across Spain, the UK, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands and Cyprus.…

You can't assume active participation from someone who didn't untick something Requiring someone to uncheck a pre-ticked box doesn't count as valid cookie consent under EU law, the adviser to the bloc's top court has said.…

Flat Holm island holm to foolish trio for one long, cold morning Ah, the sea! The salty spray, the sunlight sparkling off the bay... but three foolhardy Russian sailors anchored near Minehead, southwest England, clearly fancied a change of scenery – to their misfortune.…

Big Red in net debt for first time in over a decade – reports Amid stalling growth, analysts have warned that Oracle can't indefinitely repurchase stock to maintain its share price.…

Hire was rubber-stamped by sleeping watchdog The general overseeing British Army recruitment joined Capita shortly after the company won its "disastrous" Recruiting Partnership Programme (RPP) with the Ministry of Defence.…

Voice services go TITSUP* to round out the week Updated The UK's O2 mobile network knocked off early for the week today as some customers found themselves unable to use voice services.…

Cisco says assurance solution will be just the ticket Promo Infrastructure failure is a major cause of concern for enterprises, incurring huge costs in troubleshooting and a multiplicity of monitoring tools.…

An entire data centre the size of a sugar cube? Sweet! Scientists in the US, working alongside Microsoft, have managed to encode "hello" into a readable strand of synthetic DNA, using a fully automated data storage system.…

We might not have signed up users, but at least we created a standard. It only cost £154m... UK.gov has admitted it was slow to intervene as it failed to meet “overambitious” targets for the adoption of Verify, and has been accused of splashing £154m on creating an open standard for the identity service.…