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15% laid off in cost-cutting exercise at HPC supplier Supercomputer supplier Cray is giving 190 employees the elbow in a restructuring exercise to cut operating costs.…

A bit of goodish news from Big Blue Analysis IBM's systems segment brought in $1.7bn, 10 per cent down year-on-year. Systems hardware was $1.3bn with operating systems software at $400m.…

More time to play Snake The boss of HMD Global, the company reviving Nokia-branded phones, quit unexpectedly today.…

Sexism in the Telly Tax, sexism in pay deals... where else, Auntie? Comment The BBC is trembling with excitement following the enforced publication of the annual salaries of on-screen stars earning more than £150,000 at the tax-funded broadcaster.…

Hadoop-flinger's CEO: We're making great progress, but... Hortonworks has ditched its second chief operating office in less than a year as part of a C-suite reshuffle that saw share prices drop.…

Look enterprises, we're all friends here, all getting along The Open Container Initiative, an attempt by Docker and other container tech companies to build standards and consensus for container technology, on Wednesday plans to release the initial version of its runtime and image specifications.…

Обратите внимание на спину! Cyber crime lords have come up with a new money-spinner – Russian-language e-learning courses geared towards teaching the skills necessary to rip off consumers and card companies.…

Wheel-diculous Bluetooth security revealed The latest two-wheel transporter toy from Segway was disturbingly easy to hack, with miscreants requiring just seconds to take control of a vehicle, we're told.…

Why IoT failed, the AI takeover, the rise of content providers, and assorted chat

Valley's funding new companies that end up looking just like the old ones Analysis If Silicon Valley still does one thing better than anybody else, it's propping up profitless corporations, just like the Bank of Mum and Dad. Gulf states pour money into Premier League teams, but not on anything like the scale of Uber and Netflix, two examples of capital-swallowing money pits.…

Big Blue's public cloud reaches nearly 60 DCs worldwide IBM has signed up to an EU Cloud COC initiative and is announcing four new data centres in the UK, Australia and Silicon Valley for the IBM Cloud.…

Will 'engage practically' with former BT arm Sales at broadband provider TalkTalk dropped by 3 per cent in the company's first quarter, with an extra 20,000 new customers failing to offset the drop.…

Should we believe the hype? And why drop so much $$? Two hundred local government employees across the capital of China's eastern Shandong province will soon be encrypting messages with keys that are "impossible" to crack.…

No spraying and praying here, just precise, exorbitant attacks Attackers are manually deploying ransomware directly into target networks to maximise the damage and potential payout.…

Well, rooftop yagis hooked up to 12v Intel PCs WND‑UK – the “who they?” firm that boasted it will deliver more SigFox Internet of Things network coverage than there is 4G coverage across the UK mainland – says it will achieve this by putting IoT aerials on people’s homes.…

But bosses can't promise it will be fully complete on time Transport for London has tentatively started testing 4G on the Tube for emergency services. TfL's CTO said he was not "absolutely confident" it would be complete by January, 2019, however.…

These might be the Star Wars-themed hotel and rides you are looking for Disney has revealed plans to create a wretched hive of scum and villainy adjacent to one of its theme parks.…

That's the Google 'Transfer Appliance', to get data out of your bit barn and into its cloud Google's started a Snowball fight with Amazon Web Services by announcing a “Transfer Appliance” to get data out of your data centre and into its cloud.…

Ginni's still grinning, of course Analysis If there's one thing you can give IBM credit for, it's Big Blue's ability to put on a brave face. Not only has its Watson offering been skewered by Wall Street analysts, it's also just reported its 21st straight quarter of revenue decline.…

Minister celebrates lovely pictures of the sea floor, says he hopes new info is found Geoscience Australia, the nation's agency for recording and sharing geographic and geological data, has released the first tranche of data captured during the search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.…

What's big, red and has 308 patches, 30 of them critical? Oracle's quarterly patch dump Oracle's emitted its quarterly patch dump. As usual it's a whopper, with 308 security fixes to consider.…

Penguinistas knock, Redmond lowers the Drawbridge Microsoft's long, gentle embrace of Linux continues with the first release candidate of SQL Server 2017.…

When a problem comes along, you must whip it. Without having to get off your chair Rapid7 is the latest vendor to jump on the orchestration and automation bandwagon, announcing it's buying upstart outfit Komand to plump out its range.…

Yeah, that ENRON: the one that went down in flames for enormous financial naughtiness The ongoing spat between VMware and Nutanix has flared again, with the latter company's CEO Dheeeraj Pandey hitting Twitter to smack down Lee Caswell, Virtzilla's veep for Products, Storage and Availability.…

Draft blends asymmetric public/private key encryption and one-time pad analogs In case someone manages to make a general purpose quantum computer one day, a group of IETF authors have put forward a proposal to harden Internet key exchange.…

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Cable giant shares its thoughts on costs, freedom Analysis Comcast has barreled into the fight over net neutrality by arguing that the current rules impose "onerous" regulations and "substantial costs that undermine investment."…

Blokes allegedly lifted, cracked export-restricted rocketry design app to tout it in Iran Two Iranian nationals have been charged with hacking a US defense technology maker to steal and sell its rocketry simulation software.…

App verification signage aims to give phishing the finger Stung by phishing attacks aimed at G Suite users earlier this year, Google has armored its cloud with extra security layers.…

One step back – but several steps forward possible in battle against NSL gagging orders Gagging orders in the FBI's National Security Letters are all above board and constitutional, a California court has ruled.…

Those that can, do. Those that can't, return in enterprise form Google Glass, the Chocolate Factory's shotgun wedding between technology and fashion, debuted to great fanfare on skydivers at Google IO 2012, launched with timidity in May, 2014 and collapsed under the weight of ridicule and naive expectations in January, 2015.…

Death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo reveals new powers China has expanded its censorship tools to strip out images from chat messages in transit through its networks.…

CEO Mollenkopf opens door for settlement in licensing battle The CEO of Qualcomm says he hopes to settle his company's licensing dispute with Apple out of court.…

$7m pilfered from investors, white hats on the trail More than $7m was stolen by hackers on Monday from folks investing in a cryptocurrency startup.…

He told El Reg to build an ark conveniently summing it all up Another storage news flood has been washing over us. In between the waves we caught our breath and penned this catch-up.…

Digital borders, digital tax and raft of MoJ projects singled out One-quarter of the UK government’s major IT programmes worth a total lifetime cost of £8bn are at high risk of failure, according to a Register analysis of the major project watchdog's annual report of 143 government programmes worth over £455bn.…

Something to do with categories, not feline antidepressants Russia's tech behemoth Yandex has open-sourced its first machine learning library, CatBoost.…

Roboat firms and pals pile in More roboats and autonomous flying machines will be tested around the Solent after a consortium of companies was handed £1.5m to set up a drone test range.…

Vape at work? Hey, why not? Comment The government has said that the persecution of the users of e-cigarette technology should stop. The Department of Health today outlined a Five Year Tobacco Control plan for England with the goal that the proportion of the population who smoke tobacco products should fall to 12 per cent by 2022, down from 15.5 per cent today.…

Duals CPUs, triples capacity Entry-level and mid-market KVM-hypervisor-based Scale Computing has upped its HCIA game with dual CPU systems and a tripled disk capacity product.…

Are you affected? You know who to tell... Irritated customers of data centre operators Global Switch are complaining about repeated power outages at the firm’s London Docklands data centre.…

Vows crackdown on sexist commercials next year Ads depicting manchildren incapable of carrying out basic household tasks, and women in the role of Stepford Wives clearing up their mess, are to be banned in a crackdown by the Advertising Standards Authority.…

Two weeks left to grab MCubed early bird tickets Events Early bird tickets for MCubed disappear in under two weeks, so you should act now if you want to get up to speed on how to use machine learning and AI in real business, and save hundreds into the bargain.…

Is that clear? Rickety rectangle house Gartner has promoted Pure Storage to the top of the all-flash array pack in its latest Solid-State Array (SSA) Magic Quadrant, and yanked Kaminario into the leaders' quadrant for the first time.…

But then again they would say that, wouldn't they? Analysis A study aiming to raise the profile of cyber insurance claims that cloud outages and ransomware outbreaks on the WannaCry scale could cost companies $81.7bn – more than natural disasters like 2012's Hurricane Sandy. That's an awful lot of money, but wait – before you fish out the wallet – how did the authors arrive at these numbers?…

The All Grown-up Android gets sent back to school So Remix OS won’t be “eating the world” after all. Parent company Jide, founded by ex-Googlers, is repositioning itself as an enterprise vendor, and says its Android-for-PCs (which also runs on cheap ARM hardware) will no longer be sold to consumers any more.…

To succeed, operators need fibre, NFV, legacy kit and radio Analysis When an executive from Nokia, of all companies, said 5G was as much about fibre as wireless, it was clear this was going to be different from previous mobile standards generations. 5G will not be driven by mobile broadband speeds as 4G was.…

'No prospect of a clean break' on data protection laws – but UK may lose its influence The UK is risking a security and trade "cliff edge" if it doesn't secure an arrangement that allows data transfer with the European Union to continue after Brexit, a report has said.…

Good luck, Anyone-but-AWS club. You'll need it Kubernetes may be the hawtest thing in container orchestration, but Redmonk analyst James Governor has a different label for it: the "Anyone but Amazon" club. It's an interesting name for a club that includes, ironically, Amazon, but as AWS continues its march to enterprise IT domination, Kubernetes increasingly looks like a rallying cry for erstwhile enemies to combine against a common foe.…

Regulator given compo demands for tens of millions A former GSM gateway operator is threatening to reactivate a £20m legal claim against Ofcom after the regulator's past policies killed his company, according to documents seen by The Register.…