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Techies safe, but you may have to endure a robot co-worker So, robots are coming to take your jobs after all* but techies shouldn't be scared, not in the slightest.…

Plus: Trying to make storage 'cool' in Antartica Data-protector Commvault made several announcements at its annual customer shindig – including a GPDR "package", endpoint data protection as a service, a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform and a bit of Antarctic Expedition do-goodery.…

Whose land is it anyway? HM Land Registry made its databases of property owned by domestic and foreign businesses free to access yesterday.…

On the path to becoming an enterprise hybrid cloud provider and gateway .NEXT Nutanix has a one click, one OS, any cloud concept with new services to virtualise compute and object storage across multiple clouds – both on-premises and public ones.…

Slight glitch in Industrial Revolution 4.0 Troubled Tesla Inc. has quietly acquired Perbix, which designs robot production lines. Perbix was already a Tesla contractor.…

Can we skip the orange of outage, please? We've peeled the storage news fruit, cut off the rough edges, discarded the excess verbiage bits and blended them into a smoothie. Grab a napkin and tuck in, because a lot has happened over the past week.…

Pre-emptive perv to defang revenge pr0nz peddlers Facebook has begun conducting a pilot where it solicits intimate photographs of women – and it will soon offer the service in the United Kingdom. Anxious exes who fear their former partner is set on revenge porn will be urged to upload photographs of themselves nude.…

Data analytics platform sunset in December, but enterprise version spared IBM has announced the retirement of the basic plan for its data analytics software platform, BigInsights for Hadoop.…

Built-in obsolescence, meet kill switch One more reason to avoid The Cloud – as if you didn't have enough already.…

Three's a crowd, and a 'major competitor', says watchdog Carphone Warehouse was given a particularly withering stare by the Advertising Standards Agency in a ruling handed down today concerning one of its radio adverts.…

Just browsing? Don't yuan Opera released an overhaul of its browser today, and claims to have grown its market share substantially in the year since it was acquired by a Chinese private equity company a year ago.…

What has been seen? Comment For the "smartest guys in the room", Google often seems to be the last to know what’s going on in its own front room. And something very strange indeed is going on over at YouTube.…

Blackfish detects stolen logins as they are used by cybercrims A system that aims to identify stolen passwords before breaches are reported or even detected was launched on Tuesday.…

Reg conference shows humans how to stay in driving seat Events The machines are not taking our jobs any time soon, Prof Mark Bishop declared at the opening of MCubed, mainly because right now, computing is better suited to cementing artificial stupidity than creating true artificial intelligence.…

NVMe-accessed filer matrix organ puckers up for HPC smacker HPE is planning to beef up its supercomputing and HPC filer credentials by cuddling up to WekaIO, multiple sources have told The Register.…

Object Matrix and Storage Made Easy succeeded Analysis Two UK storage startups both went without venture capital and struggled to grow. One was Object Matrix, the other Storage Made Easy. Both are consequently outside the storage mainstream and traded VC-funded growth acceleration for being in control of their own destiny.…

It's worse than we feared and the worst may yet be to come What a difference a year makes. This time last year, Twitter pooh-poohed any suggestion that Russian agents ran accounts on its platform for purposes of subverting the US election.…

Memcache was gone in 20 seconds and down for nearly two hours Google's again 'fessed up to cooking its own cloud.…

Jamie Hyneman wants a future in which gaming doesn't mean stumbling into furniture Former Mythbuster Jamie Hyneman is seeking US$50,000 to build a prototype pair of roller skates to wear in virtual reality.…

Silicon Valley bigwigs giggle to themselves, thumb their noses at Redmond Salesforce.com and Google have agreed on a partnership deal that will see the former's CRM service integrated directly into G Suite's productivity apps.…

TLS over HTTP? Yes please, says every sysadmin, netizen The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just put out a new draft for a standard that would enable folks to effectively bypass surveillance equipment on their networks to maintain secure connections.…

Chocolate Factory tickled with featherweight €300k fine Seven years after Google raised hackles by collecting information about Wi-Fi access points with its Street View fleet, Spain's privacy regulator has fined the company €300,000.…

145 million year fossil reveals our rat-like relatives Researchers have discovered fossils of our oldest mammalian ancestors yet found – along the coastline of Dorset in southeast England.…

And waits for news on how OpenStack will govern its new outreach plans OPENSTACK SYDNEY Mirantis is contemplating a future as a provider of continuous integration (CI) tools and continuous-delivery-as-a-service.…

Pair to work on traffic optimisation and better batteries Google's quantum computer isn't much more than a science project at this stage, but Volkswagen's decided to hitch a ride anyway.…

The perfect is the enemy of the good, says think tank RAND Corporation Autonomous cars only need to be good enough to reduce the number of road deaths to be worth permitting: eliminating fatal accidents can wait until later.…

We're not happy with ourselves, you know Comment Google has responded in greater depth after it actively promoted fake news about Sunday's Texas murder-suicide gunman by... behaving like a spoilt kid.…

Gin palace lead architect James Kelly explains plan to make NFV reign Juniper Networks has enhanced its Contrail Cloud enhancements, in the hope it can put network function virtualization into the hands of more and smaller carrier.…

Here we go again FBI agents investigating the murder-suicide of 26 people in a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, have said they can't yet unlock the shooter's smartphone.…

Carrier says 'it is not possible to accurately determine what speed the NBN can deliver to a customer prior to connection' Telstra has all-but-blamed nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), for having to compensate customers who can't experience broadband speeds the carrier advertised.…

Spiegel's crew lost $2 on every buck they made. But we're definitely not in a bubble Shares in (former) social media darling Snap Inc. are understandably tanking today after the photo-spaffing service said it was losing more money and gaining fewer users than anticipated.…

Serious rethink needed on account policies History is "a series of lies agreed upon," as nineteenth century orator Wendell Phillips phrased an adage employed by Napoleon, among others.…

Update your firmware ASAP to avoid being hacked Google has released its November security update for Android, addressing a bag of security holes.…

Look out for that orange alert Updated After watching customer after customer screw up their AWS S3 security and accidentally make highly sensitive files publicly accessible on the internet, Amazon has responded.…

Super Cali goes – oh no, wait, this is Arizona Google stablemate Waymo has begun testing its self-driving cars on the mean streets of Phoenix, Arizona, without a single driver at the wheel.…

Move along. Nothing to see here. By the way, try this flash drive in your laptop, ta The Linux kernel USB subsystem has more holes than a donut shop. On Monday, Google security researcher Andrey Konovalov disclosed 14 Linux USB flaws found using syzkaller, a kernel fuzzing tool developed by another Google software engineer, Dmitry Vyukov.…

Punter 'accidentally' borks dozens of strangers' crypto-currency collections There's a lot of hair-pulling among Ethereum alt-coin hoarders today – after a programming blunder in Parity's wallet software let one person bin $280m of the digital currency belonging to scores of strangers, probably permanently.…

Apply these patches – and please don't demand a recall “Ask more of your phone,” is the Pixel 2's official marketing slogan. It's not a good sign when early adopters are asking Google for more support.…

Ex-military supersonic daredevil? Come hither... An American startup claiming to be building a modern-day Concorde is hiring a test pilot.…

All your data protection are belong to us +Comment Comtrade's HYCU product snuggled up to Nutanix as its most friendly data protection platform. The latest release sidles even closer with a great big Nutanix bearhug.…

Judges grill government on nuances of spying laws The UK's surveillance laws have been put under the spotlight today as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard legal complaints against the government's spying powers.…

UK stats body tasked with finding cheaper data sources Mobile phone data could be used to gather information on people's workplaces for future censuses as the government tries to cut the cost of producing population statistics.…

Variants on zombie horde that took down Dyn still at large The Mirai botnet is alive and kicking more than a year after its involvement in a DDoS attack that left many of the world's biggest websites unreachable.…

Now that's a hard one Sketch With the TV landscape changing faster than some viewers change their socks, today's marathon grilling of BBC bosses at Westminster took on some urgency.…

DoSsing for fun and profit not just a 'nuisance', they warn Security researchers have said they've uncovered a new way for hackers to crash Brother printers.…

Multi-vendor, multi-tier data manager gets Quebec labour fund cash Quebecois' savings are being wagered on the success of a Montreal-based data management firm via a venture fund that aims to boost local biz.…

And what about uninsured UK.gov robocars? AEV Bill "Pointy-headed technocrats" behind autonomous vehicles tech are worried that a proposed new law won't protect the public from huge financial claims if a mass hack of a driverless car fleet occurs.…

Bookings up 50% in a quarter... though all of HCI is doing nicely Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) supplier Pivot3 saw better than 50 per cent sequential growth in its bookings from the second to third 2017 quarters. It said it had a record number of million-dollar orders in both the video surveillance and data centre areas.…

It also makes for great fertiliser A speculative new study suggests that nucleic acids, proteins and cell membranes – precursors to life Earth – first grew from a single kickstarting molecule named diamidophosphate.…

Qualcomm punts on NVMe-over-fabrics server SAN startup Under acquisitive siege by Broadcom, Qualcom has invested millions in NVMe-over-fabrics array startup Excelero.…