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SEC doc follows IPO, reverse-merge rumors Tech titan Dell has confirmed in paperwork submitted to America's financial watchdog that it is mulling returning to the stock market as a public company, combining with its subsidiary VMware, or, er, doing nothing.…

Former HPE exec Andy Isherwood strolls into Bezos country Exclusive Amazon Web Services has turned to an old-world IT exec, former Hewlett Packard Enterprise bigwig Andy Isherwood, to run its ops in Europe, the Middle East and Africa – and inject some enterprise tech experience into the cloud biz.…

Right outta the Big Blue IBM's on-premises Cloud Object Storage has come out on top in Gartner's latest industry rankings.…

Yep, it's yet another dildon’t Security researchers have found multiple vulnerabilities in smart sex toys that open up the potential for all sorts of mischief by hackers.…

Would you eat it? Tell us why and you could win some Reg merch Giveaway Brit supermarket chain Morrisons has sacked 1,500 middle managers – but fear not, they’ve also vomited out an unholy creation that is part pizza, part Yorkshire pudding.…

No economies of scale = piss-poor adoption Analysis The prospects of XPoint and other persistent memory technologies becoming a standard part of servers' design is being held up because the darn stuff costs too much, an analyst has said.…

Apparently, senior NHS Trust managers will be held accountable... stop giggling The WannaCry outbreak has forced the UK's national health service to overhaul its crisis planning to put new measures in place to avoid further crippling cyber attacks.…

Will no one rid me of this turbulent beast? BT's problem child Global Services once again dragged sales down, this time by 3 per cent for the third quarter to £5.97bn.…

Facial recognition app promises to verify your age to bouncers Five clubs in Bournemouth are now accepting ID in the form of an app that verifies who you are through facial recognition – to the disdain of privacy activists.…

Driverless tech not ready, to shock of nobody Mercedes' driverless cars need human intervention approximately every 2.08km (1.3 miles), and other makes are totally reliant on frequent switching to manual, according to figures from the Californian Department for Motor Vehicles.…

It was not contractually obliged to forward them so... The National Audit Office is investigating a backlog of 162,000 undelivered items of clinical correspondence on the watch of Capita's £700m Primary Care Services contract.…

How to bake in security to DevSecOps, er SecDevOps ... Imagine you're an organisation that is looking to implement a DevOps approach to applications and services, or perhaps you’ve already started, but you’re worried about security.…

We don't need oblong boxes designed for round disks any more Interview Intel and Samsung have introduced "ruler" format SSDs, longer than the standard 2.5-inch drive format, and with higher capacities. However, adoption has been slow. Supermicro is bringing in ruler SSD-using servers, but few others.…

Banish the fear of hidden dangers Promo Sometimes it can seem like the IT security landscape is shifting so fast that you have to keep running on the spot just to stay upright. A new event coming to London this month aims to help exhausted security professionals breathe easy, confident they have the information they need to meet the risks ahead.…

The truth is out there but you'll never find it Something for the Weekend, Sir? You can find anything on the internet apart from the specific thing you're looking for.…

And would you believe all its profits come from PCs? Lenovo’s announced its third quarter results for 2017/18 and said its mobile and data centre businesses are responding well to turnaround efforts.…

I know we were mean, but it was a holiday and she deserved it, says reader On-Call Welcome yet again to On-Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed story of the brutal business that is tech support.…

It’s also shorted support to end on the same day as Office 2016 shuffles off Microsoft’s revealed that Office 2019’s desktop applications will only run on Windows 10 and shorted support for the forthcoming release of the suite.…

Hard to hear when you're buried under piles of $$$ Analysis If ever there was an argument for why journalism is not only important but a profession requiring a broad set of specific skills, then Facebook's seeming inability to do news is it.…

Go on, shove another power plant or factory on the web The number of industrial control systems (ICS) connected to the internet has increased year on year – meaning more and more infrastructure is sitting on the 'net potentially open to attack.…

Galaxies merged together house the greediest voids Supermassive black holes in merger galaxies snack on one star every year, according to a paper published on Thursday.…

Surprise - it’s already built a cloudy alternative, if limited paid help isn't palatable SAP’s decided to kill off its Mobile Platform.…

Doubles spending on digitisation efforts – and tariffs on electronics India will effectively ban the use of cryptocurrencies within its borders.…

Mac also slips in Q1, but revenues don't feel a thing Apple on Thursday touted its highest-grossing quarter ever, even as iPhone and Mac shipments were down.…

Mac also slips in Q1, but revenues don't feel a thing Apple touted its highest-grossing quarter ever, even as iPhone and Mac shipments were down.…

Still made a huge profit in 2017 Google-parent Alphabet suffered a $3bn loss of the final quarter of 2017 after handing over $9.9bn to Uncle Sam due changes in the US tax system.…

AWS continues to rake in billions, too Amazon.com said its Q4 2017 net sales reached $60.5bn, an increase of 38 per cent from the $43.7bn reported by the tech giant during the same period a year earlier.…

Why draft law won't be enough to protect state's internet California's attempt to retain net neutrality rules despite being repealed at the federal level, won't make it past a legal challenge, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned.…

Appeals court says copyright battle went copy-wrong American cable company Cox may not, after all, have to pay record label BMG $25m for letting its broadband subscribers illegally download and share copyrighted music online.…

Maybe it's a good time to just delete the thing Adobe will next week emit patches to squash a security bug in Flash that can be exploited by malicious webpages and documents, when opened, to hijack and spy on vulnerable computers.…

Don't open that malware mail from the Feds that's not from the Feds, Feds warn Some scammers may have bitten off more than they can chew after they tried impersonating the FBI to spread malware.…

Funny story – Verizon didn't care until they were told other ISPs might do it The US state of New York has unveiled a massive new project to provide broadband for virtually all of its residents.…

Kneel before NEAL, devs Despite its astonishing reputation for obliterating HR policy, resisting transit regulations and bending other laws, taxi scourge Uber is rather keen to keep its code clean and ensure it follows the rules.…

Flash flinger does a Kaminario NVMe-over-Fabrics all-flash array shipper E8 is selling its software separately to be run on certified hardware from Dell, HPE and Lenovo.…

Let's set up an observatory, maybe think about governance Not wanting to be too late to the blockchain party, the European Commission has launched a forum to keep an eye on developments and pool ideas on governance.…

Get clean from your data sins Data privacy addicts are being urged to take a 12-step programme – by no less than the UK's Information Commissioner's Office.…

Power plant sensors to continue squeaking at engineers Data-over-sound chaps Chirp and energy company EDF have been given £100,000 in funding by the UK government to advance their trials in sound-based sensors for nuclear power stations.…

Power plant sensors to continue squeaking at engineers Data-over-sound chaps Chirp and energy company EDF have been given £100,000 in funding by the UK government to advance their trials in sound-based sensors for nuclear power stations.…

Pricing out the IOPS What really matters in choosing an all-flash array is a wider view of performance and price than a simple look at I/Os per second (IOPS). Handily, this information is available in the Storage Performance Council (SPC) benchmarks, which provide solid guidance on choosing a flash array vendor.…

Scouse firm bought data without checking permissions A Liverpudlian business was today slapped with a £300,000 fine for making 8.7 million nuisance calls.…

Scouse firm bought data without checking permissions A Liverpudlian business was today slapped with a £300,000 fine for making 8.7 million nuisance calls.…

Contingency plans in place at Barnet after £1bn wiped off troubled outsourcer's value The UK government faced an urgent question in Parliament today over its reliance on troubled outsourcing firm Capita following a serious profit warning by the public sector provider – just weeks after Brit construction firm Carillion went bust.…

Contingency plans in place at Barnet after £1bn wiped off troubled outsourcer's value The government faced an urgent question in Parliament today over its reliance on troubled outsourcing firm Capita following a serious profit warning by the public sector provider – just weeks after Carillion went bust.…

It's a pointer – not a cast-iron legal precedent Comment Yesterday's county court ruling that Indiegogo's Ts&Cs weren’t wholly relevant to the question "does a crowdfunding-backed company form a contract of sale with its customers?" won't quite open the floodgates for people who feel they've been ripped off.…

Digital secretary ups ante, but users say it's riddled with bugs Move over, Zuckerberg, there's a new social media overlord in town: grime aficionado and Tory MP Matt Hancock.…

Dutch spin-off to Liberty Global also singled out as party pooper Vodafone posted a fall in sales of 3.6 per cent to €11.8bn (£10.3bn) in its third quarter results – with the UK market representing the biggest revenue drag.…

Storage 'n' servers flat, PCs & tabs OK but mobes, base stations fall Fujitsu's revenues have been hit by weak mobile phones and base station sales. Servers and storage were flat while PC sales rose a little.…

MPs give Disclosure and Barring Service a lashing MPs have slammed the IT overhaul behind the UK government's Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), which is running three years late resulting in a "missed opportunity" to save the taxpayer millions.…

Department of Business splashing cash for YASA An Oxford-based electric motor company is opening a new factory it claims is capable of making 100,000 units a year.…

Beginning of the end for copper? BT's Openreach has unveiled plans to connect three million premises to full fibre by 2020, up 50 per cent on its previous goal.…