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And it's not just about bonkers Bitcoin mining rigs Mellanox's next-gen Innova network adapter won't just pack the obligatory high-speed interfaces – it'll also embed a Xilinx FPGA.…

'No branches, no phone lines... soon they'll have no customers' The online services for the Co-operative Bank and its digital-only arm Smile are both out of action.…

Cash machine use dwindling in face of contactless and mobile Thousands of free-to-use cash machines could be axed from Britain's high streets due to plans to cut fees that fund the network, banking industry group LINK warned last week.…

Websites, please wear our Badge of Virtue Competition Virtuous websites will be able to signal their goodness to the world under a new scheme proposed by digital quango queen Martha Lane Fox.…

Websites, please wear our Badge of Virtue Competition Virtuous websites will be able to signal their goodness to the world under a new scheme proposed by digital quango queen Martha Lane Fox.…

Huh! More like 'won't reach' Bonfire night has come a long way since Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the House of Lords on 5 November 1605. Now, we prefer to burn more modern day villains. Such as Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump and, err, Openreach.…

XMarks the ... where are my bookmarks? A freemium Firefox browser add-on that saves and syncs bookmarks has started "losing" bookmarks instead, according to its users.…

This isn't a sci-fi premise, it'll influence how we segment our kit a few years down the line Even using the most conservative estimates, the number of connected devices has surpassed the number of humans. Machines are communicating more with other machines than they are with humans.…

Cash stuffed into ground network for nippy broadband Satellite outfit ViaSat is forming a €68m (£60m) public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), which among other things is intended to fund ground stations for home broadband speeds of 100Mbps.…

Proxima Centauri... more like Pulverea Centauri, amirite?* New research suggests that a dust belt may be circling the closest star to the Sun, a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri.…

Consistent, stable and low SPONSORED Achieving consistent ultra low latency is often top of the list of requirements for those investing in all flash arrays.…

And heeeere comes Amazon with its crazy low prices The tablet computer market is sinking even as the fortunes of its main protagonists rise.…

May have to wait to 2019 or 2020 following court claims Plans to introduce a Europe-wide patent court may be delayed still further after the German parliament, government and patent lawyers asked for an extension on submitting responses to a legal challenge.…

CoreOS on AWS, Kubernetes, and more Analysis Toward the end of this month, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi expects Amazon will introduce a managed Kubernetes service at its AWS re:Invent event.…

And mistook a baseball for a Monday morning coffee Video Students at MIT in the US claim they have developed an algorithm for creating 3D objects and pictures that trick image-recognition systems into severely misidentifying them. Think toy turtles labeled rifles, and baseballs as cups of coffee.…

Frying a motherboard will stop being a bad thing if two European companies have their way OPENSTACK SYDNEY Your next data centre could be an aluminium box filled with a handful of servers swimming in oil.…

Neither could figure out how to pull it off, but that hasn't stopped SoftBank from buying more of Sprint Updated US carriers Sprint and T-Mobile have decided their on-again, off-again merger is off.…

He'll probably burn it all up at high altitude ... in a rocket Amazon.com founder, CEO and president Jeff Bezos has sold a million shares in his own company an reaped over a billion dollars from the transaction.…

Hints at multi-gig wireless, which should get nbn™ - and government - feeling nervous Facebook has urged the Australian government to open up millimeter-wave spectrum for licence-free applications.…

Anime-streamer is fine again, and disinfection is easy Popular anime streamer Crunchyroll is warning users to check their systems for malware, after attackers got access to its Cloudflare config and targeted Windows users with a malicious file.…

Even CHARGEN services are hosed, daily, says CAIDA study One-third of Internet hosts with IPv4 addresses were subject to denial of service attacks in the last two years.…

Users asked to open-source custom connectors to the real world OPENSTACK SYDNEY The OpenStack Foundation has kicked off its summit in Sydney, Australia, with a call to current OpenStack users to help it to win more users by sharing code they've written to link OpenStack to other tools and infrastructure.…

Vulture South wraps the week's news of Australia's National Broadband Network NBN WEEK Welcome to NBN Week, Reg Australia's new weekly roundup of the endless news of the nation's National Broadband Network.…

And Microsoft dude installs Chrome during Azure talk Happy weekend, everyone, except those of you on call, of course. Let us catch you up on all the IT security bits and pieces besides what's been reported this week.…

And Marvell and Cavium also hopping into bed, allegedly Broadcom is channeling Dr Evil of Austin Powers fame, and considering blowing more than $100bn to buy Qualcomm, it was claimed on Friday.…

In America, at least No, funnily enough, US tech monster Google doesn't have to obey a Canadian court order in America, a judge in the ad giant's home turf of California ruled this week.…

Rap for whack WhatsApp chat app chaps in ad crap flap Once again Google's Play Store has proved less than excellent at tackling malicious apps, after netizens found a fake version of WhatsApp that was good enough to fool over a million people into downloading it.…

Nothing to see here, move along. Go back to your homes Senior Equifax executives sold their shares in the credit agency just before its stock price plunged when the world was told it had been thoroughly hacked.…

FeatureHub could help arduous process of feature engineering Boffins at MIT have proposed a GitHub-style collaborative platform to speed up one of the first, most challenging stages of data analysis.…

Chinese fantasy star fell for fake A Swiss Hotel bar has apologised to a Chinese fantasy novelist who paid $10,000 (£7,649) for a shot of rare whisky – only to discover the single malt was a fake.…

More say it's a bad idea than a good idea As Apple bloggers anxiously try to be positive about Apple's Face ID, a poll suggests potential customers may actually be repelled by the face-scanning technology.…

Update or fin for the Finnic people's cards The Estonian government is suspending the use of the Baltic country’s identity smartcards in response to a recently discovered and wide-ranging security flaw.…

Plus: IP leak bug fixed in Tor Browser on macOS, Linux Tor developers have taken the wraps off the next generation of onion services.…

Virtue-signalling virility symbols don't come cheap Stocks sleuth Toni Sacconaghi Jr. has shed some light on why the market reacted badly to Tesla Inc's financials this week.…

FAS ONTAP storage + Fujitsu servers + Extreme switches EMC introduced its converged infrastructure Vblock concept, integrating Cisco servers and networking, and EMC storage, in a rack system, in November 2009. Now, eight years later, Fujitsu and NetApp are getting into the idea with NFLEX.…

Tinkerers reveal first Stacked SLP in a mainstream mobe The iPhone X's face recognition may be experiencing teething problems but the thousand-quid handset is a masterpiece of engineering.…

But Tableau, Teradata grapple with transition to subscriptions It's results time again, and Hadoop-flinger Hortonworks has reported a positive quarter, with revenues up and a slight shrinkage in its operating losses.…

Biz balked at wobbly markets, allegedly British mast outfit Arqiva has pulled out of plans for a £6bn IPO, citing "market uncertainty" as the reason for a lack of investors.…

It's almost 2018 and the lack of HSTS makes no sense Analysis High street banks should be exemplars of good security but many are letting the side down when it comes to following cryptographic best practice.…

Save big with blind bird tickets this month Events The call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle London 18 is closed and we’re putting the finishing touches to the draft agenda before informing the lucky speakers.…

PowerEdge software deal 'purely fulfilment'. U ok hun? Isilon-owning Dell has sealed a deal with Isilon competitor Elastifile to supply the Israeli startup's software, meaning its server agents, Cloud File System and CloudConnect data moving software come bundled with Dell PowerEdge servers.…

We show raw event log blizzards as usable correlated patterns, they croon Analysis Where the heck am I going? Being a sysadmin in a containerised environment can be like driving a car in fog with no lights and no instruments.…

The Storage Performance Council Benchmarks SPONSORED With the accelerations in cloud computing and server virtualizations and changes in layouts, IT devices are required to handle multiple integrations instead of just a single application. Enterprise demand shorter wait times and higher availability. This in turn means enterprise IT systems must be able to reduce transactional response times and job query times while enhancing concurrent processing capabilities.…

Cyber Monday is coming but I still feel so green Something for the Weekend, Sir? An eerie green glow is radiating from my 1960s sideboard.…

Aruba's new digs in Santa Clara are the right fit for 'smaller, nimbler company' HPE's many rounds of redundancies and sell-offs have seen it decide the time is right to downsize its headquarters and move it away from its birthplace in Palo Alto.…

Diplomatic sysadmin shares stories from the field, like the monkey that ate a USB drive containing classified files ON-CALL Welcome to yet another instalment of On-Call, The Register's week-ending column in which we share readers' stories of extreme sysadminnery performed under extreme duress.…

Peak Apple? With 37 per cent margins and $268bn cash, let us all have such peaks! Apple's coined it for another quarter.…

Celebrity cryptocurrency endorsements labelled 'potentially unlawful promotion' The United States' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned investors that celebrities may not understand that their endorsements of initial coin offerings are in breach of the law.…

Everything in Australia wants to kill you and if they can't find flesh, telco cabling will do Australia's national broadband network (NBN) is being pecked apart by birds.…

Software-defined WANs give Virtzilla more SaaS to sell and a better pitch to telcos VMware's acquired VeloCloud and will use its wares to extend its NSX software-defined networking platform to the wide area network.…