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Denverton systems, servers and motherboards Gigabyte and Supermicro are bringing out Atom C3000-powered systems, servers and motherboards.…

Gerroff moi land! A bar owner in southern Corsica stands accused of firing a pellet into the booty of a nudist who refused to cover up during a beach bathing session.…

But it could turn off taps at any moment Google might pay Apple $3bn in fiscal year 2017 to keep its search engine the default on iOS devices, analysis by Bernstein suggests.…

But Brexit, weakened GDS could stall 'disaggregation' Big legacy tech firms are finally feeling the pinch of the government's contract "disaggregation" plans, although Brexit could halt that trend - according to an annual report by analyst firm TechMarketView.…

'Get rich or die trying' seems to be working out for this fellow A seemingly state-sponsored cyberattack aimed at more than 4,000 infrastructure companies has been blamed on a lone Nigerian cybercriminal.…

Far away from where Earth's atmosphere can interfere Hitching a ride on SpaceX's 12th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is NASA's latest tech for studying the origins of cosmic rays, the high-energy particles that bombard Earth from deep space.…

Apple has already smote JSPatch once this year Updated Chinese drone firm DJI appears to have baked a hot-patching framework into its Go app that breaks Apple's App Store terms and conditions, according to drone hacker sources.…

El Reg and Action for Children want to put our readers onto the streets If you always sleep like a log, we’ve got just the thing for you - do some good by spending the night roughing it on the streets with a bunch of your industry compatriots in October, and raise a bunch of cash for vulnerable children into the bargain.…

Is that one-liner worth it? Earlier this year Norway's government-owned broadcaster embarked on a stern Lutheran experiment with commentards. Before being able to post a comment on a story, they would need to pass a reading comprehension quiz, to prove they had read it all.…

And no, neither is Microsoft, thanks very much Analysis While Windows roadmaps purportedly leaked to a blog last week appear to have a big hole in them where mobile should be, HP Inc tells us it has been assured by Redmond there are no plans to drop Continuum.…

No, non, nein says telco's marketing bods, 'we don't throttle' Vodafone customers are complaining their data is being throttled while on hols, with supposedly 4G services dropping to sluggish speeds of 2Mbps.…

Data, and who has it, is the real concern Blade Runner, the film inspired by Philip K Dick's book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is 35 years old this year.…

Report says UK cops need to prove tech benefits policing Almost three-quarters of police forces have forked out more than £22m on body-worn cameras, but are failing to properly monitor how the videos are used in court, according to a report released today.…

Gently easing us into the NVMe-over-Fabrics and storage-class memory future Analysis NetApp will bring disruptive NVMe-over-Fabrics technology to its customers in a non-disruptive way.…

Benchmark's letter to employees details delaying action, trash-fire culture Uber investor Benchmark Capital has written a letter to the company's employees in which it suggests the company's culture may be even more rotten than is widely known and that former CEO Travis Kalanick is obstructing efforts at reform.…

Announces preliminary results for Q2 and warns it'll blow its year, in a good way VMware has admitted its core vSphere business is in long-term decline. This little thing called “cloud” seems likely to make some of its products less relevant in coming years, while Azure Stack and containerisation highlight other weaknesses.…

Shriveling vehicle patented Waymo has been granted a patent to deck out its self-driving cars in a material that becomes less rigid when its sensors detect a high chance of collision.…

CEOs of Merck and Under Armour also dump, and dump on, Tweeter-in-chief Three big-name CEOs have put some space between themselves and the US President: today they resigned from the American Manufacturing Council, President Donald Trump's panel of advisors formed to create more manufacturing jobs in the United States by bringing together titans of industry to share their experience.…

Ad giant has legal fig leaf to justify ban Google's become the latest company to let alt-right site The Daily Stormer know it's not welcome to register its domain.…

A heavy metal performance proves an old theory Large Hadron Collider boffins in charge of the ATLAS experiment reckon they've seen photons interacting at the quantum level for the first time.…

Customer service problems are everyone's problem, by design, says CEO Bill Morrow nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has reported annual revenues of AU$1,001m for the year ending June 30, 2017, and says it's ahead of target for construction and uptake.…

Collateral damage in 3, 2, 1… The US Defense Intelligence Agency has vowed to capture enemy malware, study and customize it, and then turn the software nasties on their creators.…

Our little haiku to mark temporary lifting of blockade on social network's public profiles A US judge has ruled that LinkedIn must allow an analytics outfit to scrape data from its public profiles.…

Promises not to identify citizens. Except with a barcode The Australian Bureau of Statistics is being set up for another hot privacy debate.…

Netadmin-general Brandis needs just one more vote to get telco-tweaking powers The Australian Government's telecommunications data retention scheme is racking up the bills for carriers, but government funding has fallen short of the industry's costs.…

DreamHost refuses to hand over 1.3m IP addresses, and more, says warrant too broad Web hosting biz DreamHost is resisting a US government search warrant to turn over data about everyone who visited a website used to coordinate anti-Trump protests.…

Chinese clinic staff cuffed after 18-year-old gets ultimate cure Staff at one of China's internet addiction clinics have been arrested after a teenager sent there for rehabilitation was found dead after 48 hours.…

Plus: Database Glue guns, more encryption, hardware key management, and config tools AWS kicked off its New York City summit with a handful of announcements on Monday.…

We did Nazi that coming Mike Godwin, creator of Godwin's law, has rescinded his own rule for those outraged by vile fascists marching the streets of Virginia, USA, at the weekend.…

Deployment committee stacked with industry bods, says report In just the latest example of how far America's telecoms regulator is in the pockets of the cable giants, its panel scrutinizing US broadband rollouts has been heavily stacked with industry executives.…

Low-skill workers are under threat either way, it appears Raising the minimum wage increases the chance employers will automate low-skill jobs away, according to a paper published this week through National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit group of econ wonks.…

Trial scheduled for October Marcus Hutchins, the WannaCry kill-switch hero, has today pleaded not guilty to charges of creating and selling malware at a hearing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.…

Terabytes? Flash drives? No, PDF pages. Price list SKUwered How many pages does it take to list Nutanix’s prices? One hundred? Maybe too few. One thousand – sounds about right. Ten thousand? Don’t be ridiculous. Forty-six thousand, seven-hundred and sixty-three? Well, actually ……

More likely damage control after host GoDaddy pulled plug Doubts have been cast over claims that hacktivists have taken control of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.…

Plan to conquer federal IT sees Redmond team with super-secure Canberra Data Centres Microsoft's cooking up a government-grade cloud in the Canberra, Australia's capital city.…

NV-DIMM flash tech changes Two co-founding execs and a senior veep for sales have exited flash NV-DIMM startup Diablo Technologies.…

'A lot of what has gone wrong has not been Gavin’s fault, but...' One of BT's top investors has reportedly called for the firm's chief exec Gavin Patterson to step down, following a number of issues to rock the biz this year including a £530m Italian accounting scandal.…

It must be true, the Daily Express said so Big Ben, the bell in the iconic clock tower on the north end of the Palace of Westminster, will fall silent for four years – and as a result the UK may not leave the European Union until 2021, if a government statement is to be trusted.…

Specs, lies and Skylake Veteran Microsoft-watcher Paul Thurrott has made the sensational allegation that Microsoft's senior management "misled" their CEO about the cause of serious launch issues with its flagship Surface Pro 4 PC.…

Yes, it’s time for another reader poll Study Phishing is the attempt to obtain personal, private, or commercially sensitive information or funds by impersonating a trustworthy source. Fraudsters commonly use email to quarry their pray, but messaging apps, social media, fake websites, and phone calls are frequently used too. Consumer phishing attacks still outnumber those specifically targeting businesses and institutions, but this should not lull IT and business managers into a false sense of security.…

American cousins, don't make August 21 a blind date Amazon has "proactively" recalled solar eclipse glasses that "may not comply with industry standards" before darkness descends on the US next week, August 21.…

Don’t let personal curiosity get the better of you, ICO warns A former midwifery assistant from Essex has been fined £1,715 for unlawfully accessing and sharing patients’ medical records.…

Extended early prices for select MCubed sessions ends in hours If you’d like to spend a day delving deep into how you can apply machine learning to your business, and save a tidy pile of cash into the bargain, you should get over to the MCubed website.…

Says gov needs to 'collaborate' with industry. Now there's a surprise... Industry mouthpiece techUK has thrown its tuppence into the debate around what Blighty's communications infrastructure should look like in 2020, calling for "near-universal" superfast broadband of 30Mbps.…

Tic, tic, tic... With fitness gadgets fading fast, and the smartwatch category gathering flies, it’s strange to report a blazing success in wearables. Even stranger, it hasn’t come from an established consumer electronics brand or even a “wearable company”.…

Stop worrying about check-boxes and start thinking about how you delete data Not enough companies understand how to properly delete the data they hold – and need to address this if they are to comply with new data protection rules, privacy and security experts have said.…

History tells us none of the big four will dominate forever and that niches matter COMMENT In recent weeks I didn't write stories about Packet.net splashing down in 15 new nations to start an edge compute service, or the plans that Tata Telecoms' shared with me to expand its data centre footprint by targeting partnerships with users of its submarine cables.…

Amazon Turk serfs have their own problems Analysis Convinced that intelligent conversational assistants like Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri are neither particularly intelligent nor capable of sophisticated conversation, computer boffins last year began testing a crowd-powered assistant embodied by Amazon Mechanical Turk workers.…

Publisher described murdered woman in revoltingly sexist and hateful terms Domain name retailer and hosting outfit GoDaddy has given a right wing web site that describes itself as “The World's Most Genocidal Republican Website” 24 hours to find a new hosting company.…

After version 57, plugins go to browser heaven The end of legacy Firefox plugins is drawing closer, with Mozilla's Jorge Villalobos saying they'll be disabled in an upcoming nightly build of the browser's 57th edition.…