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Education provider has 'ambitious growth plans' IT training company QA has been bought out by Europe's largest private equity firm, CVC Capital Partners.…

Outgoing Garry Quinn hands reins to Intermap's Todd Oseth FalconStor CEO Gary Quinn has resigned with Todd Oseth coming in to run this somewhat sickly storage software firm.…

Shoppers across UK forced to leave the house An unspecified UK-wide technical glitch related to the food picking and packaging process left thousands of Tesco online grocery punters without their deliveries today, the retailer has told us.…

It's just the future of democracy at stake, no biggie The use of algorithms and bots to spread political propaganda is "one of the most powerful tools against democracy", top academics have warned.…

A flight to nowhere, complete with streaming Netflix Pics How do you tell the world you’re building smart(er) aircraft tech? If you’re Honeywell, you put a bunch of journalists in the front of your converted testbed airliner and take them for a flight 20,000 feet over eastern England, that’s how.…

UK prisoner escort scandal? They paid that money back! Business Process Outsourcing behemoth Serco is part of the NewPathways consortium that will sketch out, erect and run the largest prison in Australia under a mega-contract dished out today.…

Has anyone told Qualcomm, Intel and the gang? Comment The smartphone chip market it dominates is nevertheless an increasingly challenging one for Qualcomm. Slowing growth, litigation and rising Chinese competition are among its problems, but also the trend for the largest, richest handset makers to design their own chips.…

Designing for the future Broadcast Massively scalable server, storage and cloud orchestration architectures can provide an organisation with a plethora of options when it comes to building new IT systems and services. But they can also add to the age old headache as IT and business decision-makers look to deliver on their business goals.…

Some times it really is, though Open Source Insider I recently received an email from an old shared hosting provider. The host wanted to "upgrade" my account to a new server. I had long since stopped using the account for all but one client site that ran a legacy version of Django. I built it ages ago, but it was done. It worked fine and the client was still happy with it. No big deal, I thought, they'll move it to a new server and it'll keep on running.…

They kept that quiet: Software for AHV app data protection Comtrade Software’s HYCU is an app-aware data protection product tailored for Nutanix’s Acropolis hypervisor (AHV) with fast deployment, backup and recovery.…

Verily joins Novartis and the European Investment Fund Venture capital group Medicxi has announced a $300m late-stage life sciences fund that is backed by Novartis, the European Investment Fund (EIF) and Verily Life Sciences, the healthcare division of Google's holding company Alphabet.…

China packs a one-two punch at the top, UK Met office scores 11th place, Australia 111th A GPU injection to the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre's Piz Daint supercomputer has seen it hit 19,590 TFLOPS and in the process bump the “Titan” machine at the USA's Oak Ridge National Laboratory off the podium for just the third time in the history of the TOP500 list of the world's mightiest supercomputers.…

Managers told to hit budgets, even if customers bleed IBM's efforts to crimp the cost of its contact workforce are continuing, The Register has learned.…

What is this: Storage insecurity day? Asking cos Acronis has the same problem The CERT Coordination Centre at Carnegie Mellon University has just popped two items onto storage admins to-do lists.…

Unlocked racks. No 2FA. No access control lists. No wonder Snowden got away with it Second-rate opsec remained pervasive at the United States' National Security Agency, according to an August 2016 review now released under Freedom of Information laws.…

Fancy a cheap cloud Xeon, guv'nor? Bargain price, but just these few Cloud computing prices come down regularly, but IBM's just offered a price cut of a sort The Register hasn't seen before – a temporary discount on bare metal servers running just one CPU family.…

Talked scum down from $4.4m after they waltzed through unpatched legacy mess A South Korean web hosting company is forking out just over US$1 million to ransomware scum after suffering more than eight days of nightmare.…

4.12 might emerge next week, 4.14 dubbed next LTS release Linux lords Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman have clarified Linux's short term future.…

The gin palace's security management code has gone cross-platform Juniper Networks has announced an upgrade to its Software Defined Secure Networks (SDSN) platform, and among other things it's added cross-platform capabilities.…

We knew about this in 2005. And 2010. And people are still building without -fstack-check Powerful programs run daily by users of Linux and other flavors of Unix are riddled with holes that can be exploited by logged-in miscreants to gain root privileges, researchers at Qualys have warned.…

Cites security concerns as justification for AU$200m migration Paranoia will set the Australian government back AU$200 million between now and 2020, with the country's defence department deciding Chinese part-ownership of data hotel Global Switch represents a security risk.…

Fifty possible planets later, we're a step closer to a possible vacation Earth NASA’s Kepler space telescope has finished cataloging possible planets in the direction of the Cygnus constellation.…

Chipzilla takes axe to IoT and embedded compute lines Intel has discontinued three of its offerings for the Internet of Things and embedded device markets.…

Investigation reveals targeting of journalists and activists An investigation by Mexican NGOs and a Canadian tech lab has revealed how the Mexican government is illegally targeting the mobile phones of journalists, lawyers and activists to spy on them.…

Secure messaging springs leak when looking up URLs A developer has found a hole in secure messaging tool WhatsApp's handling of links that could expose some traffic to third parties.…

Juno's taxi drivers complain of bait-and-switch Drivers of Uber-competitor Juno have taken out a class action lawsuit against the company, claiming that it ripped them off with an equity ownership scheme that was designed to attract them to the service.…

Ex-Nokia team promises human-eye resolution mixed reality A Finnish startup reckons it has stolen the march on Oculus and other mixed reality forms with a headset capable of both virtual and augmented reality and with a resolution that's on a par with the human eye.…

First Amendment rights and dancing babies Facebook is a sex offender-friendly zone – by order of the Supreme Court.…

OMG, GOP! WTF? A massive cloud-hosted database containing personal information on nearly 200 million people in America was left wide open by consultants hired by the US Republican National Committee, it is claimed.…

Ex-Nimble CEO joins Datos IO board Ex-Nimble president and CEO Suresh Vasudevan has joined Datos IO's board.…

'Can we Tucci this startup? Well Big Joe, can we?' Former EMC grand fromage Joe Tucci has walked into a special advisor role at venture cap outfit 83North.…

Concern teachers can't handle tougher syllabus The number of pupils signing up for GCSE computing has plateaued just years after the qualification was introduced, raising concerns that not enough is being done to help teachers with more difficult courses.…

Toshiba thinking 200 layers of 3D NAND Update At Pure's Accelerate conference last week, the company talked about distributing intelligence to its NVMe fabric-accessed storage shelves.…

Put down the screwdriver... we're going to need a knife It appears as if Microsoft has been following the Apple playbook in creating another laptop whose components you can never replace.…

System might only be fitted to HMS Prince of Wales – reports American defence firm Raytheon has said it is in talks with the Ministry of Defence to put the US Navy’s “satnav for F-35s” system onto new British carrier HMS Prince of Wales.…

If you don’t, the competition will MCubed Blue sky thinking is great, but if you’re interested in what machine learning and AI means for your business right now, you should really join us at MCubed London in October.…

Brexit? No, no... it's baking! Put away the booze, biz-suit If he listened to the latest advice from HR types working for the European Commission, Brexit secretary David Davis may today be sat in a darkened room, dressed in cabana wear, as talks with the EU’s chief negotiator begin.…

Fujitsu report slams Common Agricultural Payments system The Scottish government has considered scrapping its disastrous £178m rural payments IT system, according to an internal report.…

Papr app lets you rate academic papers - and maybe find your ideal postdoc Boffins have created an app that lets users rate academic preprints and find people with similar academic tastes - and hope to use the results to spot trends in academic publishing.…

App provides fast-track to recruitment Jaguar Land Rover has enlisted a cartoon musician to help it fill what it says are 5,000 electronics and software vacancies across the firm.…

This one goes to 11: More rig pr0nz from students at ISC17 HPC Blog Eleven teams at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition will go head to head live in glamorous Frankfurt, Germany, this week. Yep, this one goes to 11.…

Taking the PB out of PBBA? Datos IO hopes you're ready for this jelly Interview Datos IO has a unique approach to data protection that is at odds with legacy media-server-based data protection and the use of purpose-built backup appliances.…

Spreadsheet of extenuating circumstances attached to email The University of East Anglia has sent almost 300 undergraduates an email detailing other students' extenuating circumstances.…

Of devils and details “Move it all to Microsoft’s cloud,” they said. “It’ll be fine,” they said. You’ve done your research and the monthly operational cost has been approved. There’s a glimmer of hope that you’ll be able to hit the power button to turn some ageing servers off, permanently. All that stands in the way is a migration project. And that is where the fun starts.…

Errr, maybe its time for backup? The UK stands to lose £1bn per day in the event of a major disruption to the Global Positioning System (GPS), according to a government report.…

The Cisco slip of 2010 LogoBotch Thanks to a sharp-eyed Reg reader in Norway who snapped the local Cisco offices, everyone can cop an eyeful of the unfortunate rebranding exercise that happened after it bought Tandberg in 2010.…

'Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species' plan details how to get 1m humans to Mars Elon Musk has published his blueprint for “Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species” by establishing a self-sufficient city on Mars.…

YouTube's advice to turn heads is 'make better videos'. Literally. That's all they've got YouTube's revealed the secret to making an engaging virtual reality video: put the best parts right in front of the audience so they don't have to move their heads.…

Plan is to spin up single photons as a comms medium Israel has entered the quantum communications arms race, announcing it's going to build a national demonstrator for “spooky” communications.…

Paranormal parallelogram for IaaS has Google on the same lap, IBM and Oracle trailing Gartner has published a new magic quadrant for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) that – surprising nobody – has Amazon Web Services and Microsoft alone in the leader's quadrant and a few others thought outside of the box.…