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Server and cloud outfit aims to float by October if tech market evades Brexit jitters UKFast, a British web hosting provider and bringer of clouds, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange with the aim of raising a £350m war chest, The Register can exclusively reveal.…

Machines aren't really better than us at much Roundup Hello, here's a short roundup of this week's news and announcements in AI, including worrying news for cancer sufferers, good news for human linguists and some new job opportunities.…

The good, the bad, and the ugly from infosec Roundup There has been a bumper crop of security news this week, including another shipping giant getting taken down by ransomware, Russian hackers apparently completely pwning US power grids and a sane request from Senator Wyden (D-OR) for the US government to dump Flash. But there has been other news bubbling under.…

But uh-oh! Is that NetApp creeping up on Pure? How is everyone doing in the all-flash array-flinging stakes? Well, you can call Pure Storage Mr Hugo because it's still the victor. Gartner's box-fillers have once again jammed seven of the makers into the top right-hand square in its yearly analysis.…

AWS load balancer gets redirects, CableLabs SNAPs to Kubernetes, and more Security just got a little easier for AWS Elastic Load Balancing customers: the platform now supports redirects and fixed responses.…

We must sell more! Western Digital's final fiscal 2018 quarter delivered strong results that were let down by disappointing enterprise SSD sales.…

Has never spoken to WikiLeaker, apparently It would appear that the president of Ecuador is not a fan of Julian Assange.…

Perfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really Silicon design startup Tachyum has appointed the original designer of the Arm CPU to its advisory board and chucked its hat in the ring to be the domestic exascale supercomputer chip inside the EU's home-grown super.…

Hackers clone supplier's cloud servers to push tainted MSI files Crooks mounted a crypto-mining scam after hacking into a supplier of an unnamed PDF editor software vendor.…

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.…

Save now, join us in October Events If you’re wondering how your organisation can cut through the hype and actually benefit from AI and machine learning, you should join us at MCubed in London this October.…

'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.…