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If you can’t bring people in, you build bigger offices offshore President Trump’s immigration policies are costing the United States technology jobs, rather than their intended effect of growing them, according to Bill Wagner, the CEO of LogMeIn.…

Meet our new roundup of networking news, this week feat. Cisco, Juniper and more This week's network-news-in-five minutes has Palo Alto Networks acquiring a startup, a slew of Cisco switches, Juniper's fabric fetish, network monitoring and more.…

NASA engineers say shutdown will happen 'within months' NASA has announced the Kepler Space Telescope has almost exhausted its fuel supply.…

Lee forced to serve full term after eight-year hiatus A former Samsung exec is headed to prison after losing his appeal on charges of wire and tax fraud.…

US issues recall for 260,000 batteries after 53 'incidents' The US Consumer Product Safety Division has issued a recall notice for six types of lithium-ion battery packs sold by AmazonBasics.…

The video site neglected to inform Wikipedia that it will be leeching its labor In Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told the audience at the South by Southwest Interactive conference that the social video site plans to defuse conspiracy theory content by pairing it with corrective information culled from Wikipedia – a site editable by more or less anyone.…

But IBM Australia has only a ‘skeleton crew’ on duty, missed deadlines, will move people from other projects for fix Around a third of servers at Transport for New South Wales, the public transport department in Australia’s largest most populous state, need security patches, some dating back to 2007. But IBM, which provides IT services to the agency, doesn’t have enough people dedicated to the the job to get it done in the planned timeframe or in a manner that will let the agency operate as it desires.…

State won't work with those whose conduct is atrocious California is doubling down on its efforts to mandate net neutrality, this time with a bill making its way through the state senate.…

Buffet of 10 organ types to check for reactions Boffins from the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, Northeastern University, and several bio-oriented companies have developed a chip that can be loaded with cells from up to 10 organs for testing how drugs affect the human body.…

'Next Steve Jobs' humiliated and ruined but avoids jail The woman heralded as "the next Steve Jobs" has been charged with massive fraud, forced to pay a $500,000 fine and been stripped of control of the company she founded.…

Poll says devs wouldn’t write unethical code - probably Stack Overflow’s annual survey has revealed the tools and tech that developers love to hate: Visual Basic 6, IBM Db2 and SharePoint.…

Party leaders would protest but they're currently in prison Facebook has removed the pages of far right group Britain First from its platform along with those of its party's leaders.…

Delayed reports getting delayed some more as loan finance extension sought Supermicro, under threat of Nasdaq delisting for not filing recent quarterly reports on time, is negotiating fresh loan financing.…

Tom Barton takes reins from Ken Klein Troubled all-flasher Tintri has found a new CEO, just a week after it revealed it was looking for one.…

Jun Ying 'dumped' shares before megabreach went public A former Equifax exec was today charged with insider trading for offloading almost $1m of shares before the company went public about the scandalous mass data breach.…

Users complain of static IP issues, world of admin pain Microsoft’s Tuesday patch-fest may have reacted quite negatively with Windows Server 2008 R2 running VMware, leaving servers offline and administrators scrambling to recover IP addresses.…

ICO probe: No legal basis for Facebook slurps WhatsApp has agreed not to share users' data with parent biz Facebook after failing to demonstrate a legal basis for the ad-fuelling data slurp in the EU.…

Also holibobs disruption from 2019 if aviation deal isn't struck Consumer charity Which? has called on the UK government to ensure consumers will continue to "roam like at home" while abroad in the European Union after Britain's withdrawal from the bloc.…

130,000 staffers moving out of Office Exclusive Airbus is to shift its entire workforce to Google’s cloudy productivity and collaboration tools, ditching Microsoft Office on-prem wares in the process.…

Infrastructure issues drove one firm to produce cars in Austria A lack of power remains a problem to electric car manufacturers in the UK – with one unnamed maker setting up shop in Austria over Blighty due to a dearth of capacity, MPs heard today.…

Serverless Computing London call for papers open now Events If you know your Lambda from your lambada, have turned all your functions into services, and avoided vendor lock-in in the process, we’d love to hear from you at the Serverless Computing London call for papers.…

There, there, never mind. There are plenty of other victims, er, fish in the sea Broadcom announced today that it has withdrawn its bid for Qualcomm.…

Livestock excreta generates excitement and power Despite emissions from intensive animal husbandry often being fingered as a cause of climate change, researchers have suggested a new way that manure could be a source of renewable power.…

Adds his 2 cents as PM, security council meet about Salisbury poisoning Former boss at Brit electronic spy agency GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, has called for the application of "unexplained wealth orders" and economic sanctions against Russia rather than cyber attacks.…

Bitcoin prices plummet Google has joined the Bitcoin-hating bandwagon with a ban on ads for cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings from June.…

Teases FLOW product as alternative to NSX Nutanix this week teased analysts with a software-defined networking product called FLOW and made no secret of its intent to muscle in on VMware's turf.…

UK tat bazaar enters final death spiral Closing-down sale posters are being plastered over the shop windows of moribund Brit 'leccy tat emporium Maplin Electronics, but even now the discounted goods can still be bought more cheaply from rivals.…

There's more to success than sweat and STEM Comment Donald J Trump has been stoking xenophobia since he took office as President of the US, aiming his sharpest barbs at China. But he's not alone. Others, with better manners than the president, have too – they’re just more subtle about it.…

But we're still in bug country, so run in a VM The first beta of Ubuntu 18.04 is here. The finished article, due next month, will be a long-term support release and, for those who stick with LTS, the first time many see the new GNOME-based Ubuntu.…

All the calories you need but never knew you wanted Veritas is renewing its assault on Data Domain and the disk/cloud archive market, Nutanix has offered $3,000 rebates to resellers of a Dell XC Core product, and flash memory researchers are looking at 128-layer 3D NAND.…

Would ma'am care to supersize her order with an extra 200MHz of CPU? It is Pi day (assuming you live in a country that insists on writing dates in the frankly barking mad MM/DD format) and after a quiet two years, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have pushed out a new version of the tiny computer.…

Runs JavaScript on the edge, rather than make users schlep all the way to your server Cloudflare has launched a service that lets its customers run JavaScript at the edge of its cloud.…

It never really went away: Netflix picked up the ball and ran with it as others snoozed Ten years ago, the world of tech was waking up to three hot new technologies – Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualisation, and Information-Centric Networking. The first two are now sweeping the world, but what happened to the third?…

Patch or risk Revenge Of The Users Samba admins: get patching and/or updating. Unless you’re content to have your admin passwords overwritten by, well, anyone else using Samba.…

Physicist now has a new chance to truly know the mind of God Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.…

Jericho Capital says deal would benefit Dell alone, suggests VMware buy Red Hat instead Investment firm Jericho Capital Asset Management L.P has departed from its usual practice of not commenting publicly on deals by publishing a scathing letter addressed to VMware’s independent directors decrying a reverse merger between VMware and Dell.…

It's like Spy Vs Spy, but with neural network boffins Adversarial models, already known to defeat the artificial intelligence behind image classifiers and computer audio, are also good at defeating malware detection.…

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificates now live Let's Encrypt has updated its certificate automation support and added Wildcard Certificates to its system.…

Machine learning and AI could make the problem worse Voice recognition systems are sexist: they struggle to deal with female voices compared to male ones.…

And buries past flops as it pitches SaaS to slay Outlook and Excel for US$25 a month Salesforce has flicked the On switch for two new apps in its "Essentials" range, the cut-down and cut-price version of its SaaS platform launched last November.…

Crim cops to running illegal testbed A Russian coder who ran and franchised a dark web service that optimized malware and checked it against antivirus engines has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy and one charge of aiding and abetting computer intrusion.…

Copyright case puts royalty model under the microscope UPDATED Audio specialist Dolby Labs is suing Adobe for copyright violation as the two companies sit at odds over licensing payments.…

DoubleClick for Publishers has been exhibiting unexpected behavior for several hours Google's ad service DoubleClick for Publishers has been experiencing problems since at least 1000 Pacific Time (1700 UTC) on Tuesday.…

Holes useful for malware on completely pwned PCs, servers Analysis CTS-Labs, a security startup founded last year in Israel, sent everyone scrambling and headlines flying today – by claiming it has identified "multiple critical security vulnerabilities and manufacturer backdoors in AMD’s latest Epyc, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro, and Ryzen Mobile processors."…

ICANN throws itself under bus to hit GDPR deadline A plan by ICANN to let governments collectively decide who is allowed to bypass new European privacy rules over domain names has been blasted by its most powerful member, the United States.…

Plus plenty of other Microsoft and Adobe bugs to fix Patch Tuesday Microsoft delivered another hefty bundle of patches with its scheduled monthly update.…

Great, you're in space. But everything's all blurry An ophthalmologist studying astronauts in the International Space Station has found long-term structural changes in their eyes.…

But look closely and you'll note the PCLOB has no teeth The federal agency designed to ensure US spy agencies protect people's privacy and civil liberties has been revived two years after it was effectively killed off by Congress.…

Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf wants to demystify distributed ledgers Analysis At the Open Source Leadership Summit in Sonoma, California, last week, The Register caught up with Brian Behlendorf, executive director of The Hyperledger Project, and had a chance to chat about the state of open source blockchain technology.…

Ride these iron donkeys and everyone (else) will make a packet Toyota is to flog around 10,000 connected cars to vehicle hire biz Avis over the next three years.…