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Riak devs giddy over gambling biz's vow to set code free Bankrupt bit bin biz Basho Technologies, which developed the Riak distributed NoSQL database, has reached an agreement to sell its remaining assets to Bet365, an online gambling site based in Gibraltar.…

Info exchange plan continues Tories' 'we'll have our cake and eat it too' theme The UK government has said it wants an early agreement on a post-Brexit data-sharing deal with the European Union, as well as a continued seat at the table for Blighty's data protection watchdog.…

vSphere sales forecast changed from long-term-decline to long-term-flat VMware's delivered the market-beating second quarter it foreshadowed last week, hauling in US$1.90 billion of cash and GAAP net income of $334 million, both ahead of forecasts.…

Tablet beat Pythagoras by a millennium, may explain how the ancients built pyramids Those of you who can remember trigonometry can feel free to forget it, because ancient Babylonian mathematicians had a better way of doing it – using base 60!…

Facebook and Google also have reason to be worried India's Supreme Court has ruled that the nation's constitution gives its citizens a right to privacy, a decision that clouds the future of the country's Aadhaar biometric identification scheme.…

Also hints at crypto and update tech to make it handy for updating Linux on IoT devices SUSE has decided to let the world it has no plans to step away from the btrfs filesystem and plans to make it even better.…

Fingers pointed at Yu Pingan & unnamed conspirators in PRC A Chinese fella has been accused by the FBI of being a key team member in the hacking crew that took down the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM).…

WannaCry killer and his legal team have a lot of reading to do Court documents filed Wednesday in the trial of British security expert and accused malware writer Marcus Hutchins have outlined the very limited evidence the US government is willing to throw at the case.…

Class-action suit claims gadget maker dragged its heels to fix gear to run out warranty clock Logitech has been sued in America for allegedly selling defective security cameras and then refusing to service or replace the gear.…

Using someone else's material in your reaction vid is A-OK, says NYC judge Analysis The fair use of copyrighted video content has been upheld in an important legal battle in America between two YouTubers.…

Is it the alt-right or anti-fascists? Most likely the latter Web hosting biz DreamHost has been largely crippled today by a distributed denial of service attack, bringing down most of its services.…

Ayo emerges from split as board demands action The Node.js community has again turned against itself, this time over a failed vote to oust a controversial member of the project's technical steering committee (TSC) over alleged code-of-conduct violations.…

On the plus side, at least they didn't explode Owners of Samsung smart TVs say their swish sets are basically unusable after a bungled firmware update.…

Second patch arrives to address knackered hyperlinks Some Excel users have been struggling to add hyperlinks to spreadsheets, so Microsoft now has a patch for that – or rather a second one.…

Where’s the strategy you promised five years ago? The UK Biometrics Commissioner has condemned the Home Office and police forces over their failure to address critical issues surrounding facial recognition.…

And it took the authority seven years to notice A former council IT worker in Scotland has been jailed for five years after abusing his system access privileges to help himself to more than £1m of public money.…

Skip Aheaders get to play Windows Insiders can now drag and drop 3D models into the "real world", as well as enjoy a healthy dose of bug fixes ahead of the fall Creator's Update release.…

Let’s go surfing the waves of AFA automation and orchestration Research Done properly, All-Flash Arrays are a lot more than just extra-fast storage: Reg readers told us in a recent survey that they can also be that rare thing, a transformational technology. Even if you have already invested in AFA technology and obtained good returns simply from the performance boost, there is almost certainly more that could be wrung from it, such as the opportunity to upskill and free up resources for more important tasks than routine admin.…

Teachers need more support to tackle 'chronic shortages' The UK government has been told to tackle teacher shortages in Blighty – and offer more support for those now teaching tougher syllabuses – as GCSE computing results showed little improvement on last year.…

Hot pumps + fuel/air mixture = bang, warn aviation safety folk Airbus has issued an emergency patch to stop its A350 airliners from exploding.…

Punters are putting off handset refreshes as prices rise Pricier smartphones and lower EU roaming charges will dampen Dixons Carphone's bottom line, the retailer's CEO warned today in an unscheduled trading update that sent its share price crashing by 30 per cent.…

For $20 you could have a credit card-slurping landing page bashed out in 10 minutes A new study has lifted the lid on the booming ecosystems of fake websites that underpin phishing scams, revealing a wide variety of prices and products from cheap knock-ups to bespoke fraud services offering concierge-level customer support.…

Users fear fees and audits despite firm's promise not to pursue back-payments SAP has been told that customers are too afraid to strike up a conversation about indirect access, as a survey indicated most users had concerns that opening up to the firm could backfire.…

All about making itself an organisation of the 'future' Change seems to be the one constant at Cisco as it battles to maintain relevance amid the new ways tech is sold and consumed. With this in mind, it is initialising another restructure that has cost three execs their job.…

Shirts will be lost! Interview Some commentators think saying SSDs will kill off disk drives is wrong. Here is an exchange El Reg had with a storage media industry insider who wished to remain anonymous…

Playing the disaggregation game Analysis Dell EMC is supplying network switches to a proof-of-concept research project at BT Labs in Adastral Park, Suffolk.…

But you'd have to start working for them to find out any more At an academic speech tech conference today (Thursday), Apple researchers will present some of the classic building blocks behind the voice generation of the Siri assistant.…

Browser-maker wants to compile global top 100 sites list, promises to protect privacy Mozilla may require users to opt-out of sending telemetry from its Firefox browser because so few have opted in that it's hard for developers to get a good sample of what causes problems.…

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't drive like that Much of the hype surrounding self-driving cars arises from the fact that people are terrible drivers. Automated systems, we're told, can help save lives.…

DevOps and digital transformation expertise seen as desirable investments Software development consultancy ThoughtWorks has been acquired by “funds advised by Apax Partners”, a British venture capital and private equity outfit.…

See, it's not just Grant Shapps who gets it mixed up Four in five Britons has experienced broadband molasses in the past year and most of us are also "bamboozled" by the terms that telcos use to peddle their wares at us, according to a survey.…

New auto rules approaching in the land of Das Auto Germany’s government has answered the car ethics question once and for all: driverless cars should prioritize the protection of human life over the destruction of animals or property.…

Someone sling this at scientists, please, instead of just mining magic internet money The Register doesn't really cover motherboards, but when one comes along with 19 PCIe slots – yup, nineteen, ten plus nine – so it can run 19 GPUs, it's hard not to want to share the news.…

It's the number one problem, according to analyst The number one issue facing cybersecurity firms is a "chronic shortage" of qualified staff.…

'Just like other public clouds, believe us!' It would be mischievous, perhaps, to suggest Google needs some network back for its own purposes – but the Chocolate Factory wants at least some of its cloud customers to shift their data around on the Internet instead of its private network.…

We could cut down on e-mail spoofing, but we don't Big-name companies are still leaving themselves and their customers open to phishing because they haven't implemented the DMARC message validation standard.…

It wasn't me nor the FSB, claims Karim Baratov One of four men accused of carrying out the megahack of 500 million Yahoo! email accounts has pleaded not guilty in a San Francisco district court.…

Still some money to be had in desktops and printers, it seems HP Inc continues to thrive in the PC and printer markets to the tune of double-digit revenue growth.…

Basically: Not you, just 'the usual suspects' The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has narrowly approved an $8.5m Google payout for privacy violations following a lengthy argument over who should receive the money.…

Torso matches Kim Wall's DNA Danish cops have identified the headless torso found in Copenhagen bay as that of Kim Wall – the journalist who went missing after taking a ride in a homemade submarine.…

Redmond's cramming of OS on machines provokes sour krauts Microsoft sparked fury when it aggressively pushed its Windows 10 operating system onto people's PCs – from unexpected downloads to surprise installations.…

Ron Wyden tacks measures onto snoop funding bill Every year, US Congress must pass a new Intelligence Authorization Act to continue funding Uncle Sam's spies for the next 12 months. This year, the act passed, as expected, the committee stage smoothly with only one minor bump in the road: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).…

Totally didn't use that info while totally rewriting its code A day after a security researcher criticized AccuWeather for collecting people's location data – even if its users refused to grant permission to do – the weather forecasting company and its ad tech partner Reveal Mobile denied violating permission settings while also revising the app's info-grabbing code.…

FCC urged to end Big Cable's exclusive deals with flats A group of small ISPs is asking America's broadband watchdog to ban exclusivity deals that lock apartment buildings to a single broadband provider.…

Security researchers using the service found a bunch of flaws Messaging provider Fuze has resolved a trio of vulnerabilities in its TPN Handset Portal.…

But DreamHost's fight is not over: information still demanded The US Department of Justice has eased up in its legal fight against hosting company DreamHost, saying it no longer wants all IP logs associated with a Trump protest site.…

Not that the people wearing it will complain – as long as it keeps 'em alive, right? Pic Elon Musk revealed the first official photo of the SpaceX "spacesuit" today on Instagram.…

Exploit that changes content of messages after delivery found A new attack, dubbed ROPEMAKER, changes the content of emails after their delivery to add malicious URLs and corrupt records.…