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Promises lower prices and faster shipping HPE has taken on Dell and the white boxers in the desktop and tower server space with promises of special, low-priced deals and faster ships.…

Not long left to save £100s You’ve got just one month left to save a bundle of cash on conference and workshop tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London 2018.…

Toil no more, ye 40-year-old DevOps Someone's been kicking up the "NoOps" ant pile again. There it was, sitting there finally rebuilt after the annual upturning, and The Lord of Cartography, Simon Wardley says: "I think you'll find that the new legacy is going to be DevOps." That said, it is winter, so the ants are moving a bit slower than usual.…

Amazon and Huawei did okay, but overall shipments dipped between six and twelve per cent The tablet computer market took a steep dip in 2017 according to analyst firms IDC and Strategy Analytics.…

Sat's battery is full and stuff thought to be broken in 2005 is working again NASA has updated the status of its once-was-lost, now-is-found IMAGE satellite and revealed the bird's power supplies are operational. The space agency will therefore attempt to revive the mission – if it can can money to fund the effort.…

Cisco and Apple kit eligible for better cyber insurance from Allianz Analysis Global mega-insurers Allianz and Aon have just given IT buyers and the security industry plenty to ponder by cooking up a deal with Apple and Cisco that makes users of those companies’ kit eligible for a special class of cyber insurance.…

Patches available, bug affects Alpha and Itanic mainframes Forget Meltdown and Spectre. Someone's found a local privilege escalation in the operating system world's elderly statesman OpenVMS when running it on VAX and Alpha processors.…

Two cuffed on suspicion of US ATM Jackpotting plague US authorities have arrested a pair suspected of being involved in a recent wave of Automatic Teller Machine "Jackpotting" heists.…

The future is female – or at least female friendly While the world worries about savvy computers taking people's jobs, it may want to focus more on how to retrain its men, who are evidently ill-equipped for work that's increasingly social.…

Certificate exchange used as a side-channel before the certs get to work Video A security researcher who last year demonstrated that X.509 certificate exchanges could carry malicious traffic has now published his proof-of-concept code.…

Staff told there’s nothing to see here, get back to work and stop worrying about our debt Dell’s revelation it may reverse-merge with its subsidiary VMware or perform other financial contortions has been dismissed as mere compliance-grade paperwork, by … Dell itself.…

Probing last week's ASA and Firepower flaws found another DDOS to deter Cisco's again asked owners of Adaptive Security Appliances or Firepower Threat Defense Software to patch, after it turned up a new DDOS problem that last patches didn't address.…

New roadmap for Teams does everything but name Skype's death date Microsoft appears to have edged Skype for Business closer to the edge of a cliff.…

PIN 'ignored' – no wonder T-Mob has put out an alert A bloke from Washington is suing T-Mobile USA after miscreants were able to steal his phone number and take all his crypto-coins.…

There's a problem with America's internet? La la la can't hear you, la la la Analysis Fifteen million Americans don't have access to broadband internet. For those that do, the United States has close to the slowest speeds among advanced economies. And for that, Americans pay more than almost anyone else.…

Coders want more than merely moolah, poll finds Analysis Technology platform companies depend on third-party developers to such an extent that former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously turned his company's codependence into a mantra, repeating "Developers! Developers! Developers!" as a sign of appreciation.…

Now we've cashed out, here's why everything is terrible A group of ex-Facebook and Google workers, along with venture capital execs, are campaigning to stop their former employers from further screwing up humanity.…

'Mad' Mike living up to his nickname Video An American bloke, who reckons Earth is flat as a frisbee, is on a quest to send himself into space to verify his theory. And on Sunday, he failed to even launch a rocket to a few hundred feet.…

More like Ohsh-itcoin China has become the latest nation to attempt to cripple crypto-coin trading within its borders.…

Language tool maker scrambles to patch info leak flaw A critical flaw in the Chrome extension of Grammarly – the grammar-checking software with online ads second only to Geico in terms of their ability to annoy – has left all 22 million users' personal records available to all.…

Because girls don't like to lick their fingers or drink the crumbs Poll The boss of PepsiCo – the parent company of Doritos – has suggested women need their own lady crisps, apparently so they can keep their mouths quiet and their fingers clean.…

Brit, US prosecutors aren't out of options yet Analysis Accused hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited from the UK to America to stand trial on accusations that he hacked into a number of American government agencies, the High Court ruled this morning.…

'Active defence' strategy review says all is peachy one year on GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre claims that its strategy of "actively defending" the UK against high-volume commodity attacks is working.…

Refreshes SMB-sized deduping backup-to-disk box Down in the Dell there is a new Data Domain box – a smallish, entry-level one – the DD3300.…

Where do you start? The IT department's transition from being an on-premises owner and manager of an IT equipment stack which provisions and plans data compute, storage and networking to being a responsive services provider is a 2018 priority for many.…

B-b-b.. is that the sound of a bubble bursting? Lloyds bank has stopped credit card customers from buying bitcoin, amid concerns of a credit risk surrounding the cryptocurrency's rapidly falling value.…

Korean flasher poised to enter enterprise SSD market SK Hynix, currently focused on client SSDs, is posed to enter the enterprise SSD market with 72-layer 3D NAND tech.…

Reports say it wants to slap $120bn-$145bn big ones on table Chip slinger Broadcom has turned up the heat on its hostile bid to take over rival Qualcomm today, with the semiconductor biz expected to raise its offer by between $15bn-$40bn (£10.7bn-£28bn).…

Cams on in Cardiff as activists decry 'infringement' of rights South Wales Police deployed facial recognition technology in Cardiff this weekend, making multiple arrests using the controversial kit.…

High Court nixes earlier legal order that would have sent him abroad Accused hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited to United States to stand trial, the High Court of England and Wales ruled today.…

Lee Jae-yong to challenge remaining corruption allegations The heir to Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, has been freed with a suspended sentence after spending a year in jail on charges of offering bribes to the disgraced former president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye.…

Data wrangler seeks injunctions for 'breaches of duty' Hortonworks is suing a former sales manager accused of taking contracts for himself and his next employer, according to court documents seen by The Register.…

How'd data leave country? Yep, control-V'd into a rando app the user set up Once upon a time, you’d go into the office, do your work during the day at your desk, then leave everything behind and go home. Well, end users would - IT workers have been lugging home the on-call laptop since the dial-up modem was invented.…

£10m revamp warms up Cold War site – but chunks of it are still a holiday lodge The Royal Air Force has moved one of its air defence radars onto the northern tip of the Shetland Islands as Cold War-era fears about Russian military movements start warming up again.…

Calls to iron out age-verification method and appeals process Peers have rubber-stamped the British Board of Film Classification as the regulator for age checks on porn websites, but voiced concerns over delays in issuing guidance.…

OS-detection services disagree on which Windows reigns Web analytics outfit StatCounter last week trumpeted news that Windows 10’s market share overtook Windows 7’s for the first time in January 2018. But other ratings services didn’t find the same result.…

Guarding the kernel against unauthorised changes The folk at OpenWall have called for assistance to create a security module to watch Linux kernels for suspicious activity.…

240-seat A321LR takes to the skies with 7,400km range Airbus has flown a new version of its A320 jetliner that it hopes will take the twin-engine workhorse onto long-haul routes.…

There’s a reason racks are parallel, not L-shaped Who, me? Welcome for the third time to Who, me? The Register’s new column in which readers ‘fess up to messes of their own making.…

Gravitational microlensing helps astroboffins spot planets 3.8 BEELLION light-years away The Kepler Space Telescope has found oodles of exoplants, but now astroboffins have spotted the first exoplanets outside our galaxy.…

This is no joke – chap seems to have cracked Amazon’s latest toy Video The security of Amazon.com’s “Key” door lock has again been called into question.…

Fibre, schmibre: existing cable TV networks edge closer to symmetric 10 Gbps capabilities US standards outfit CableLabs has added another piece to the Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 jigsaw, with the release of the key MAC layer specification for the standard.…

Who knew sharing would transform an industry? Feature Twenty years ago, the Open Source Definition (OSD) was published, providing a framework for the most significant trend in software development since then, and building upon Richard Stallman's prior advocacy for "free software."…

It's this week in machine learning Roundup It has been an interesting week in the AI world. There's a whole treasure trove of research papers to read, fresh AI problems to crack, and a new fund for startups.…

Your weekly dose of infosec odds'n'sods Roundup Here's a summary of this week's infosec news beyond what we've already covered in detail.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Two ISPs mull tie-up Brit-based comms colossus Vodafone is mulling snapping up wedges of European networks owned by American telecoms giant Liberty Global.…

Claim of 'sovereign immunity' laughed out of court A tiny village in America has been ordered to pay back more than $3m in speeding fines it collected from motorists – after its claims of "sovereign immunity" were laughed out of court.…

The day Congress becomes a supermarket tabloid Analysis Friday morning, as expected, the US House Intelligence Committee released a four-page memo outlining what it claims is evidence that the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the FBI illegally requested that a former advisor to President Trump be put under surveillance.…

300k Euro fundraising leads to privacy NGO EU-based campaigner Max Schrems – famous for taking Silicon Valley to task over citizens' privacy rights – has set up a non-profit outfit called Noyb, having exceeded a crowdfunding target.…