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Symmetrical 10Gbps over cable TV networks coming any year now Cable Labs, the networking research outfit lab operated by cable television network operators, says it has finalised a new spec capable of delivering symmetrical 10Gbps data services over hybrid fibre coax networks.…

The cloud market's going nuts and Juniper rode it in Q1 and Q2. So what's wrong now? Juniper Networks has issued preliminary results for its third quarter and the news is bad: forecast revenue of between US$1,290m and $1,350m won't happen and the company instead believes it will score between $1,250m and $1,260m.…

Steady as she goes predictable revenue rise for low-profit biz It's getting predictable. Barracuda has posted yet another year-on-year revenue rise with yet another small profit. Boring is good, though, right?…

Woman stands up to powerful bully. What happened next will not shock you Analysis Twitter was today accused of censorship after it froze the account of actress Rose McGowan – who had just publicly slammed rampant sex fiend Harvey Weinstein.…

Microsoft's latest fixes blamed for crashing WSUS-managed boxes during start-up Microsoft's October batch of security patches and bug fixes caused some corporate PCs to suffer blue-screen-of-death crashes when starting up this week.…

Cable Labs goes full duplex for DOCSIS 3.1 – but can ISPs and modems keep up? It's become so common that it virtually defines current internet usage: fast download speeds and relatively slow uploads.…

Hyatt grievance, see? Hyatt has provided the perfect excuse for folks trying to explain to bosses or spouses why a film they watched in their hotel room for just seven minutes appeared on their company or personal credit card.…

Neural-network interface layer to assist machine learning Amazon and Microsoft on Thursday rolled out open-source software called Gluon in the stated hope of simplifying the implementation of machine learning.…

Apple upgrade made my year-old wireless hi-fi 'useless', says Reg reader Wireless speaker maker Pure appears to be more the first casualties in Apple's war on 32-bit iOS apps.…

€850m data centre given go-ahead after two-year delay Ireland's High Court has dismissed planning appeals preventing the construction of Apple's County Galway data centre, Reuters reports.…

See this IMAP, Zuck? It's pointing right at you Exclusive The company that writes the open-source software for three-quarters of the world's Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) email servers has a plan that could kill off proprietary chat services like Facebook's WhatsApp. And that means you, too, Slack.…

But 'Aeroscope' doesn't talk directly to existing aviation systems DJI, the Chinese drone firm, is launching its own Wi-Fi based drone identification and tracking system, Aeroscope, aimed at placating regulators who want to put limits on small drone flights.…

But it doesn't talk directly to existing aviation systems DJI, the Chinese drone firm, is launching its own Wi-Fi based drone traffic management system, aimed at placating regulators who want to put limits on small drone flights.…

Are we shocked? *Cough* Google, Apple *Cough* OnePlus mobiles are phoning home rather detailed information about handsets without any obvious permission or warnings, setting off another debate about what information our smartphones are emitting.…

UN, you had better say yes... Jodrell Bank is going forward for nomination as a World Heritage Site early in 2018.…

Using microwaves to fry bits into submission WDC has given up on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and is developing a microwave-assisted technique (MAMR) to push disk drive capacity up to 100TB by the 2030s.…

We just have a little self-confidence problem is all Everybody chill. Alibaba founder Jack Ma says we don't need to worry about robots taking our jobs. Phewee.…

Why every platform is eventually destroyed in a flame war Techies are often at odds with the world – but nothing matches the venom they save for other geeks foolish enough to devote their lives to other platforms.…

'People have been left in the dark for too long' Equifax may soon face the wrath of UK politicians after the chairman of the country's House of Commons Treasury Committee demanded answers from the firm over its handling of its recent data breach.…

X-IO maths man claims it can minimise mill hash work with buckets of blooms Analysis A new and deduping X-IO ISE 900 all-flash array has puzzling puny processors yet kicks out good performance when deduping.…

And lobbying US government against it is NOT modernising IT Oracle loves open source. Except when the database giant hates open source. Which, according to its recent lobbying of the US federal government, seems to be "most of the time".…

Whatever's going on, overall sales are down leaving HP Inc and Lenovo lords of a shrinking land Analyst outfits Gartner and IDC have reached opposing conclusions on the same set of events.…

Don't blame staff, blame... A row has broken out at the European Patent Office over the quality of its work.…

El Reg meets new CEO Jim Chirico on his tenth day in the job INTERVIEW “Avaya”, the company's newly-minted CEO Jim Chirico tells The Register, is “a company that promises solutions for what the customers demand we need to be.”…

Установка Linux, Дмитрий! Microsoft is investigating how some of its products were sold to businesses and government offices within Russia and Crimea despite strict sanctions against such sales.…

Matches Salesforce and pals with API-fest and promise of apps built on SaaS Workday says it's got APIs in its pocket and is ready to join the PaaS party HR-centric enterprise SaaS concern Workday will enter the platform-as-a-service business.…

Have you tried collapsing the waveform and polarizing a photon again? Intel reckons it's stolen a base in the race to build quantum chippery, by shipping a cryogenically-cooled 17-qubit chip to Netherlands-based QuTech.…

We've not seen orbital bling out this far before VIDEO Back in January, a Spanish-led group of astroboffins turned telescopes skywards to watch an occultation of dwarf planet Haumea, and got a surprise.…

Researchers go public after BPC Banking's long silence on SQL injection bug Rapid7 has gone public with news of an e-commerce SQL injection vulnerability, saying it couldn't raise a response from the vendor.…

Wait, wait, this just in... make that 23 billion Taiwanese dollars Trade officials in Taiwan have hit American chip designer Qualcomm with a NT$23.4bn (US$774m) fine for abusing its dominant position in the wireless electronics world.…

When government aspires to be one big API, surely this needs to change While Australia's federal government scrambles to hose down a hacking incident, it's important to ask why a defence contractor of any size could run a network so insecure it exposed default administrative interfaces to the Internet.…

El Reg comes to the rescue of reader unable to control gear from smartphone In August, when wireless speaker maker Sonos decided to update its privacy policy to allow it to gather more data on its customers from their devices, it characterized the consequences of refusing to accept the change as being left out of future feature upgrades.…

You may end up in the clink with 'hacker' on your criminal record A California bloke fighting a computer hacking conviction has lost his final appeal after the US Supreme Court declined to hear his case.…

You're formatting messages the wrong way Attention anyone using Microsoft Outlook to encrypt emails. Researchers at security outfit SEC Consult have found a bug in Redmond's software that causes encrypted messages to be sent out with their unencrypted versions attached.…

Hello, world? More like: Goodbye, world At Pier 70 in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, where ships once were built, code-hosting biz GitHub held forth on building and shipping code, and on the people who do so.…

Court tells hosting biz to protect identities of netizens A Washington DC judge has told the US Department of Justice (DoJ) it "does not have the right to rummage" through the files of an anti-Trump protest website – and has ordered the dot-org site's hosting company to protect the identities of its users.…

DMV paves way for human-free fully autonomous vehicles Totally autonomous cars with no drivers, no passengers nor steering wheels are set to roll out onto California's streets under rules proposed by the US state's Department of Motor Vehicles.…

Spear phishing emails thought to be affiliated with Pyongyang sent to electricity firms Hackers believed to be from North Korea are casing out US electric companies in preparation for a possible cyber attack – so says security firm FireEye.…

US and Moscow both want to extradite Alexander Vinnik, 38, but minister of justice will decide A judicial appeals court in Thessaloniki, Greece, has backed Moscow's extradition request for Russian citizen and suspected Bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik, The Greek Observer reports.…

The world according to WDC WDC is channelling its inner Theodore Roosevelt in its public negotiating stance with Bain Capital and Toshiba.…

Abuse tax mooted as 'online safety' rhetoric ratchets up The British government is now proposing a direct tax on social media companies while inviting everyone else to hush and think of the children.…

Notes from an Oral Evidence session Comment To Westminster, England, where the House of Lords is conducting a wide-ranging inquiry into artificial intelligence.…

Oo, what's that you've got on? Chanel No. 5? Anthrax? This trendy wearable would know Smartwatches and Fitbits might be the cool wearables du jour, but they're hardly able to tell you if you're standing in a cloud of noxious chemicals. However, a team of boffins hopes to some day fill this, er, gap in the market with their hip prototype, the broad goal of which is to help keep you alive.…

Edgy move: Acting to preserve on-premises IT Analysis Dell is going full tilt into the Internet of Things market, setting up a new division and promising to invest $1bn in IoT R&D over three years to build the business.…

Tools will make peeps more attractive, it's claimed The revolution will not be televised because IT automation is boring. But it will be scripted and play out unseen, because boring is the desired state for computing infrastructure. Businesses just want their systems to work, without drama or excitement.…

Can I plug it in? Not without blowing the neighbourhood fuse A power consumption monitoring startup reckons its substation monitoring technology can be used to help the spread of electric car charging points.…

SuperValu breached after cyber attack at mega-retailer Shoppers at SuperValu, Centra and Mace have been told to review their bank statements following a cyber attack against Irish retailer Musgrave.…

'Incredibly hard to read and even harder to understand'... Fears over privacy and the application of GDPR, concern over lax rules for spies, and the omission of regulation on fake news were just some of the issues raised at the second reading of the UK Data Protection House Bill in the House of Lords.…

Better than having to stump up £54.5m in back payments SAP is to offer feedback on anonymised indirect licensing as concern and confusion about the rules grows among customers.…

Memory... lights the access speed of RAM. (Or does it?) Debate An argument about how to solve the same technical problem has sprung up between two rival startups with plenty of reason to say the other's tech is not up to scratch. But they raise some interesting issues about how to solve slow access to moved files, where to store metadata, and more.…