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Raghunath Nambiar says data centres will be asked to do more with more INTERVIEW NVMe storage is becoming denser, faster, than other forms of storage and will therefore become a capacity tier according to Cisco's chief technology officer for UCS Raghunath Nambiar.…

Atto-boy! Physicists at the University of Central Florida have developed the world's fastest X‑ray pulse, at 53 attoseconds.…

How IT titans hijack manufacturing standards to put sales before planet Special report The makers of high-tech hardware have subverted green manufacturing standards to line their pockets while making their products look more environmentally responsible.…

'We need a superhero,' sighs prof – and anyone can apply There aren't many astronomy jobs that pay very well – but the Chinese authorities are offering just that for the director of scientific operation for its new Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope.…

Chap admits he carried on accessing confidential email, schematics after qutting An engineer has been jailed for 18 months after admitting to stealing blueprints from his former employer's FTP server.…

CEO Sundar Pichai says screed crossed a line and violated company policy The Google staffer who penned an anti-diversity tract has reportedly been fired.…

Core i7 users will tell you they're faster, but forget about the >$250 premium you'll pay Intel's offered some more detail about the Core i9 range of desktop CPUs it announced in May.…

COO Jim Chirico to take control with debt down by over $3bn, revenue flat, outlook mixed Avaya's revealed a re-structured re-structuring plan and a new CEO.…

Staropoli lasts just under nine Mooches The chief information officer of America's Department of Homeland Security has become the latest Trump administration appointee to resign.…

IETF considering making a new .onion A proposal to tightly lock down localhost as a reserved top-level domain name has bubbled up to the surface again at the Internet Engineering Task Force.…

Data centers need good uptime, and good uptime means backup power – ka‑ching! The growth in cloud computing services is creating a financial windfall for perhaps an unlikely source: backup battery vendors.…

Holes fixed after lengthy buck-passing party A Dutch researcher says he found a way to cause mischief on power grids by exploiting software bugs in solar power systems.…

CDT tries to set fed trade watchdog on internet biz The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a digital rights advocacy group, on Monday urged US federal trade authorities to investigate VPN provider AnchorFree for deceptive and unfair trade practices.…

Illegal, ill-conceived, flawed. You eejit, Ajit A group of 11 Congressmen and women have torn into plans to get rid of America's net neutrality rules in a scathing letter [PDF] sent to US broadband watchdog the FCC.…

Customers gripe more about their bills than bad connections Comcast subscribers say that the US cable giant's notorious billing system is the worst and most infuriating thing about the biz.…

Viking and SMART Modular Technologies top customers Surprise, surprise: Nimbus Data is supplying 50TB flash drive tech to SSD OEMs like Viking and SMART Modular Technologies.…

NVMesh software works with NetXtreme controller card Broadcom's NetXtreme BCM57414 20GB/25GB remote direct memory access (RDMA) Ethernet controller card has been validated to work with Excelereo's NVMesh software.…

Woah there, we'll tell you. It's much quicker The trial of Samsung's vice chairman Lee Jae-yong ended last week with calls by prosecution for a 12-year jail sentence. Mr Lee Jnr had effectively run the group since his father suffered a heart attack in 2014, until his arrest last autumn.…

The eagle has landed Apeiron is speeding its ADS1000 NVMe flash drive array with added Optane drives.…

We're really, really, really big fans of this one. Oh yes A sarcasm detector bot that outputs emojis in response to strings of text? Yep, it’s another brilliant AI project in the quiet days of summer.…

Government draft confirms only minor deviations from GDPR The British government is planning to impose criminal sanctions on people who intentionally re-identify individuals from data that should have protected their identities.…

Sadiq Khan: Social media companies must toughen up their guidelines The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has singled out Google's YouTube for failing to crack down on online videos that "inflame" gang violence and knife crime.…

Any day from next Thursday onwards New aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth could arrive at her home port, Portsmouth, within the next fortnight, according to the Ministry of Defence.…

Cutting edge, blunt edge? We’re interested in both Events If you’re a tech pro doing something incredible around DevOps, Continuous Delivery or Containers we want to hear all about it.…

Government must realise staff use Slack for official business – and make it work with FOI rules Even the most archaic of organisations have been swept up by the march of technology – including the British government.…

And it'll cost consumers an extra £7 per head a month Openreach has estimated it will need to fork out between £3bn and £6bn to invest in 10 million fibre-to-the-premise connections by 2025, according to a leaked copy of its FTTP consultation seen by The Register.…

It's all a bit of a mesh. Oh and expect a patent battle Opinion We suspect there is going to be a patents battle in Wi‑Fi mesh software. The reason this is important is because of a second suspicion: that operators around the world will move lock, stock and barrel to multiple Wi-Fi Access Points in each home, potentially doubling or even trebling the number of devices in next generation Wi‑Fi.…

Engineer's 10-page doc dumps on diversity A Google engineer's 10-page argument for winding back diversity programs inside the ad giant has gone viral and sparked debate about whether Google really is an ideological echo chamber in which its forbidden to ask whether efforts to promote diversity by denying biology are harming the business.…

Goodbye 'mobile-first and cloud-first world', hello 'intelligent edge infused with AI' Microsoft has dropped any mention of mobility from its strategic vision.…

Guidance to Australian public servants says citizens think they know 'what's really going on' Australian government employees have been advised that their social media emissions carry more weight than pronouncements by ministers.…

Privacy and security principles for connected and autonomous vehicles The United Kingdom has published a set of “Key principles of vehicle cyber security for connected and automated vehicles” outlining how auto-makers need to behave if they want computerised cars to hit Blighty's byways and highways.…

NB reports stop flowing, suits don't notice for 3 YEARS... but bank throws devs under bus Australia's Commonwealth Bank has blamed a software update for a money laundering scam that saw criminals send over AU$70m (US$55m, £42.5m) offshore after depositing cash into automatic teller machines.…

FAB grab confab goes bad The Toshiba vs. Western Digital flash foundry scrap has gone up a notch, with the former threatening to cut off the latter's future flash chip supplies.…

'Erroneous policy' upload wound deleted custom apps, IVR menus and custom bling Cisco's admitted to a cloud configuration cockup that's erased customer data.…

Though easy to use, the service's privacy protection isn't fully baked Mozilla has just rolled out an experimental service called Send that allows users to make an encrypted copy of a local file, store it on a remote server, and share it with a single recipient.…

Yeah, try slapping some sanctions on black holes Astronomers have proposed that heavy elements in the universe may have been forged when small, primordial black holes swallowed neutron stars.…

Larry: I don't know about that Earlier this week, El Reg received an unexpected phone call from Google HQ inquiring as to whether we'd be interested in a "color piece" about Google cofounder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page.…

Who's the guy that just got sued for invading privacy? M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Disney has been sued in America for allegedly collecting children's personal information without getting parents' approvals.…

He admitted writing software nasty code, Feds allege. Brit's lawyers say he's innocent Marcus Hutchins, the WannaCry ransomware killer and now suspected malware developer, was told by a Las Vegas court on Friday he can be released on bail. He also denied any wrongdoing.…

He admitted writing software nasty code, prosecutors claim Marcus Hutchins, the WannaCry killer and now suspected malware seller, has had his initial court hearing and won't be getting out of jail free, after a Las Vegas court set his bail at $30,000. Handing $3,000 to a bail bondsman will see him able to leave jail.…

Blink and you'd have missed surprise news Analysis Apple has made a huge reversal in its HomeKit smart-home technology, in an effort to keep up with Amazon and Google.…

Quick-thinking preschool teacher clocks, reports fellow passenger's 'vile' messages Two people have been charged with child molestation after their texts allegedly discussing sexually abusing kids were spotted and reported by a preschool teacher. Who was sitting behind one of them. On an airplane. And the messages were in a huge font.…

Service Workers land in WebKit, clearing way for better in-browser applications Analysis About a week after Philadelphia-based web developer Greg Blass pilloried Apple in a widely discussed online post for hindering web development by refusing to embrace Service Workers, the WebKit team, stewards of the open-source layout engine powering Apple's Safari browser, began doing just that.…

Take 'em off the network, docs told, until 2015 patches arrive Hackers can exploit trivial flaws in network-connected Siemens' medical scanners to run arbitrary malicious code on the equipment.…

Bits and bytes from across the industry rounded up in one handy spot Dive into this smorgasbord of lite bites, or light bytes even, of IT storage happenings this first week of August.…

Which is it then? Revenues up but operating losses hit $56m Hadoop-flinger Hortonworks continues to burn through cash, but boss Rob Bearden has said that the biz is on target to cut spending by the end of the year.…

Putting the fault in digital by default The UK government's new website intended to provide financial support for parents has been slammed for experiencing ongoing "technical" problems and outages, leaving parents unable to apply for tax-free support.…

Founders and admen continue their legal fight Snopes creator David Mikkelson has secured half a million dollars to keep the iconic fact-checking website Snopes afloat, thanks to a judge’s ruling in an ongoing court battle.…

Thou shalt not use Chinese flying machines, orders general The US Army appears to have issued a global order banning its units from using drones made by Chinese firm DJI, citing “cyber vulnerabilities”.…

Thou shalt not use Chinese flying machines, orders general The US Army appears to have issued a global order banning its units from using drones made by Chinese firm DJI, citing “cyber vulnerabilities”.…