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Virgin Media admits it 'fell short' in broadband speeds ahead of lashing from BBC's Watchdog
And staff on chopping block unhappy with internal comms Virgin Media has admitted it "fell short" in delivering broadband speeds ahead of a BBC Watchdog report due to air tonight which found customers in some areas receive 3 per cent of the 200Mbps speed they were originally sold.…
Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer
No Bull... no flops... or should that be the other way round? The Atomic Weapons Establishment, which provides warheads for the UK's nuclear weapons, is going to use a Bull supercomputer to simulate Trident nuclear warhead explosions.…
Speaking in Tech: Rock your body now, Java's back... ALL RIGHT!
Plus: More Valley douchebaggery, NotPetya, death of backups, and more
New work: Algorithms to give self-driving cars 'impulsive' human 'ethics'
It's just preliminary research, don't freak out RoTM In a version of the infamous Trolley Problem, you're sitting in a runaway train on a fatal collision course with five people. You can flip a switch to change tracks, but on the other track you'd still kill one person.…
El Reg partners with Action for Children to give IT industry an uncomfortable night
And think of the children of course... We’re pleased as punch to announce that The Register is the official media partner for Byte Night, the annual sleepout fundraiser for Action for Children, the UK charity which has been caring and sticking up for vulnerable young people for 150 years.…
Cha-ching! NotPetya hackers cash out – but victims won't ever see that data again
Plus, bonus ransomware strain found in bottom of source code All the Bitcoins paid by victims of the NotPetya ransomware attack were withdrawn overnight.…
Emirates and Turkish Airlines lift laptop ban on US-bound flights
Passengers can bring electronic devices onboard from today Two Middle Eastern airlines have lifted the ban on in-cabin laptops on flights to the US.…
Nationwide banking suffers its own Black Wednesday
Oh no! Digital darkness forces folk to use cards and ATMs Nationwide Building Society is having a wobbly web Wednesday with customers getting only intermittent access to online and app-based services.…
Time to rethink machine learning: The big data gobble is OFF the menu
What size do big things start? Small Machine learning (ML) may well be The Next Big Thing™, but it has yet to register in mainstream enterprise adoption. While breathless prognosticators proclaim 50 per cent of organisations lining up to magically transform themselves in 2017 with ML, more canny observers put the number closer to 15 per cent. And that's being generous.…
CPS asks suppliers to fight it out over £3 USB cable tender
See? We do give small businesses a chance for work Small businesses have often moaned that government procurement is just one massive pork barrel, with only the greediest and biggest able to stick their snouts in.…
Boffins' five eyes surprise: bees correct colour for ambient light
Three eyes look at the sky Camera designers will get to add a technique borrowed nature to improve how they handle colour, borrowed from the humble honey bee.…
MH370 researchers refine their prediction of the place nobody looked
April drift test analysis updated Australian researchers who haven't given up on finding Malaysian Airlines MH 370 have told a conference in Darwin they believe they know where it is likely to be.…
Intel laying off 140 in California and Ireland
Think of it as your independence day Intel is shedding nearly 140 staff from Internet of Things business lines.…
Facebook's left hand is fighting for Americans' right to privacy
The right hand? Go on, guess Facebook's lawyers are racking up the billable hours in the USA, with the company winning a lawsuit about tracking and privacy, but still doing battle against the American government over protecting users from government warrants.…
It's an important ID, so why isn't the Medicare card chipped?
Vulture South talks to Lockstep's Steve Wilson about privacy, identity, and loose APIs Australia's Medicare data leak certainly won't be the last such, so why are so many expressions of digital identity so badly protected?…
Ukraine authorities raid M.E. Docs in NotPetya investigation
Equipment seized to head off new attack, Cyberpolice says There's a new wrinkle to the NotPetya story: authorities in the Ukraine have seized equipment from M.E.Docs, the online accounting firm implicated in spreading the malware.…
Minister says Oz Medicare breach was crims, not hackers
Well, that's all right then The fallout from Australia's Medicare card number leak continued yesterday afternoon, with Minister for Human Services Alan Tudge trying unsuccessfully to hose down the flames.…
Approaches to building the enterprise cloud
Ok, we are going to say that 'agility' word Sysadmin blog Data center technologies are constantly evolving, displacing their predecessors. Data center storage, and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) in particular, make for a good example.…
Imagination: Apple relations still rotten but, hey, losses have shrunk
Brit chip designer opens up on annus horribilis Brit chip designer Imagination Technologies has returned to operating profit, in part aided by 350 poor souls – about a fifth of its workforce – that were tossed onto the employment bonfire amid wider cost cutting.…
Bonkers call to boycott Raspberry Pi Foundation over 'gay agenda'
This week, in crappy online petition land... Few could argue with what the Raspberry Pi has achieved. As well as inspiring countless youngsters into computing, the tiny affordable gadget is beloved by amateur and professional techies alike.…
Samsung ploughing billions into boosting memory production
IoT, AI and car tech driving demand for chips Memory and flash fabber Samsung is boosting production, convinced that high demand for chips is here to stay.…
One thought equivalent to less than a single proton in mass
Fraction required to equal one Katie Hopkins column still unknown Reg Standards Bureau A headline in the venerable New Scientist magazine "Protons are lighter than thought" has prompted El Reg's Standards Bureau to consider the notion of thought as a small unit of mass.…
Automobile Association under fire for car-crash handling of data breach
Motoring org denies sensitive information was exposed Breakdown and car insurance outfit AA has been scolded for its handling of a data breach that spilled customer email addresses and partial credit card numbers.…
Toshiba files motion to have WDC memory sale injunction thrown out
This joint venture could be described as strained at best Toshiba has filed a legal motion claiming a court has no right to judge Western Digital Corp's (WDC) attempt to halt its memory business sale, which, Toshiba says, would cause irreparable harm.…
Why, Robot? Understanding AI ethics
Maybe we're headed for a robo-pocalpse, but let's deal with these other problems first, eh? Not many people know that Isaac Asimov didn’t originally write his three laws of robotics for I, Robot. They actually first appeared in "Runaround", the 1942 short story*. Robots mustn’t do harm, he said, or allow others to come to harm through inaction. They must obey orders given by humans unless they violate the first law. And the robot must protect itself, so long as it doesn’t contravene laws one and two.…
FTC approves Broadcom Brocade buy – if Cisco switch tech is walled off
Both go to Broadcom for their ASIC chips Broadcom's $5.9bn purchase of Brocade has been approved by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) so long as Broadcom's technology used in chips for fibre channel switches built for Cisco is walled off from its storage networking business.…
Purdue and NEU coalition breaks HPCG benchmark record
Another highlight from ISC17 in Frankfurt HPC Blog On the HPCG side of the house, Purdue/NEU reigned supreme with their score of 1,394.32. They foiled FAU's plans for a HPC benchmark sweep by topping the Germans by a comfortable margin. Beihang and EPCC took the third and fourth place respectively.…
Mighty Tsinghua crew crushes their cluster rivals in Frankfurt
After winning Asian contest, can they make it a hat-trick in Denver? HPC Blog The ISC Student Cluster Competition is in the record books and now it's time to dive into the numbers and see what happened. This time, we're going to present the results day-by-day and show you how the lead changes hands over time.…
For all the chaos it sows, fewer than 1% of threats are actually ransomware
It does a pretty good job of ruining everything Ransomware dominated the threat landscape last year even though file-encrypting nasties made up less than one in a hundred examples of different Windows malware during 2016.…
Extreme trainspotting on Britain's highest (and windiest) railway
Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet Geek's Guide to Britain The world's highest railway is the Xining-Golmud-Lhasa railway at 5,068m (16,627ft) above sea level and running 815km (506 miles). As much a political piece as a transport corridor, the line was designed to fuse China with Tibet – the country the People's Republic invaded and annexed in 1950.…
SpaceX halts Intelsat 35e launch twice in a row
Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow SpaceX's current launch, carrying the geosynchronous satellite Intelsat 35e, hasn't got off the ground yet: two launches in a row have been pulled at the last minute.…
Constant work makes the kilo walk the Planck
Massive news While business around the world closed out a financial quarter or a financial year ahead of June 30, US boffins were working to a different deadline: linking the kilogram to electromagnetism.…
GnuPG crypto library cracked, look for patches
Boffins bust libgcrypt via side-channel Linux users need to check out their distributions to see if a nasty bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched.…
Happy 4th of July: Norks tests another missile
Emergency security talks in Japan, South Korea North Korea's regime remains bent on brinkmanship, with yet another missile test launched and suspicions it reach Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.…
Medicare data leaks, but who was breached?
We care about your privacy... Medicare numbers in Australia became a lot less useful as a proof-of-identity, with the Australian Federal Police investigating how an unknown number of records ended up for sale on a Tor site.…
In after-hours trade on Monday, NYSE deployed test code to production
Wallow in my DevOps holiday It looks like the New York Stock Exchange took the opportunity of an abridged trading session ahead of the fourth of July to test some code relating to its API.…
SBU claims Russia was behind NotPetya
So does ESET, which reckons the malware spread better than its authors expected Ukraine's security service, which last week called on international help to trace the “NotPetya” outbreak, has upped the ante, accusing Russia of being the source of the malware.…
Android 'forensic' app pulled from Google Play after vulnerability report
MITM, remote code execution If you use an app called eVestigator, billed as checking Android phones for compromise, delete it.…
America's net neutrality rage hits academia
Corporate shill allegations spark furious response Special report In an extraordinary flurry of allegations, personal insults and legal threats, net neutrality has entered the world of academia.…
What does an enterprise cloud look like?
What's here already, what's missing Sysadmin blog In late 2014 I wrote about Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). I revisited this early last year. This year I expect the first mainstream SDI blocks to emerge, likely under the moniker "Enterprise Cloud". So what does the enterprise cloud of 2017 look like?…
If 282-page doc on new NVMe drive spec is tl;dr, you're in luck
What are we getting? Endurance NVMe drives could last longer because of a feature in the new NVM v1.3 specification (282-page PDF).…
Cloud sales shift as enormo Microsoft reorg continues – sources
Enterprise, corporate sales become one Microsoft is in the process of squishing more of its various sprawling limbs and partners into a single group. Multiple sources close to the tech giant have told us jobs would be cut during the upcoming revamp, although they could not name a number.…
Never fear data loss again
How to stay calm and carry on Promo As the volume of data held by companies mounts up at dizzying speed, so too does the complexity of protecting IT systems from theft or malicious attacks. Has your company’s success and steady growth meant that your data is being held in various geographic locations, on a mix of platforms and media, with several different solutions in place to protect it?…
So. A cross-Europe cyberwar simulation. Of ransomware
Are you thinking what we're thinking? (They even invited Hoodie-wearing Hacker™) Organisers have drawn up their conclusions following a pan-European cyberwar exercise.…
File sharers Dropbox latest US tech startup to stick toe in IPO waters
Stock market launches can be hazardous to your value Dropbox looks set to follow fellow file sync and sharer Box with an IPO.…
Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection – ICO
Royal Free Hospital asked to establish a 'proper legal basis' for project The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the UK's Data Protection Act when it provided 1.6 million patient details to Google's DeepMind, the Information Commissioner's Office said today.…
Blighty's Department for Culture, Media & Sport gets 'digital' rebrand
Ministry of Fun gets even more fun... The Ministry of Fun - aka the UK government's Department formerly known as Culture, Media & Sport - has received a "digital" rebrand today, making it DDCMS for short.…
Male escort says he gave up IT to do something more meaningful
Unlike in tech, 'I get to make a small difference to people's lives' A male escort has opened up about leaving behind his uncomfortable experiences soullessly prostituting himself in IT in favour of working in the sex industry.…
Megacorp GSK inks AI drug development deal with Brit firm
Exscientia claims approach IDs candidates quicker GlaxoSmithKline has announced a research deal with British company Exscientia to use artificial intelligence to identify drug targets.…
Exposed pipes – check. Giant pillows – check. French startup mega-campus opens
Station F: 2,600 tech entrepreneurs en Paris Giant tech startup incubatory "space" Station F, which describes itself as the world's largest startup campus, officially pulled the dust covers off the scatter cushions last week in Paris's 13th arrondissement.…
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