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Dash of containers, drop of tape, soupcon of advanced RAM... perfect Another week has passed by, and yet another torrent of storage news streams towards us, running the gamut from spin-transfer torque magneto-resistive RAM to data streaming and a Maltese Smart Island hub.…

Hopes to raise £1.5bn and clear debt Britain's biggest mast outfit, Arqiva, has confirmed it will float on the London Stock Exchange next month, a move it hopes will raise £1.5bn and reduce its debt.…

Tech laces networks with decoys to contain breaches Israel-based Illusive Networks claims that its approach of planting poison-pill servers in a network can detect incoming attacks faster than any other method.…

Installed Puppet? Visited a waterfall?... Gooble gobble, ONE OF US... ONE OF US! After roughly a decade of DevOps hype, surely we’ve arrived at that blessed time when developer lions lie down with operations lambs in peace…? Err, not so much. Despite larger enterprises striving mightily to become more Agile (with a capital “A”), most organisations still don’t deliver on the DevOps dream, and won’t for some time.…

I'm... I'm going to sit down and think about that. *Sniff* The web-based version of anonymous feedback app Sarahah is riddled with security flaws, according to a researcher.…

The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jeff Smith, has a new job IBM appears to have succeeded in its efforts to stop its former CIO join Amazon Web Services.…

Blue Origin's new and rather large rocket engine fires on first full test Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has successfully tested its main engine for the first time.…

Matter/antimatter distribution looks equal, which should have nixed the universe at birth One of the outstanding questions in physics is why matter and antimatter didn't wipe each other out at the Big Bang?” A new, hyper-accurate measurement of an antiproton characteristic at CERN leaves that difficult question entirely intact.…

It's a joint venture between Mitsubishi and Digital Realty to do bit barns in Japan Digital Realty and Mitsubishi Corporation have entered a joint venture to build big bit barns in Japan.…

A Prompt response to insecurity Text messages aren't a great way to implement two-factor authentication, but it's a technique that's stubbornly persistent. Now Google has decided to push things along by pushing its alternative into production.…

RC1 for Xen 4.10 is upon us, so get testing, hyper-hipsters The Xen Project has issued the first release candidate for version 4.10 of its hypervisor and set a testing schedule aimed at a December release.…

Meanwhile on Mars, we've found a twisted tail NASA's Dawn spacecraft has received another reprieve, with its mission to dwarf planet Ceres extended for another, closer, flyby.…

Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files.…

Micron and Xcelero websites both vanish all-flash array, but we're told it's not dead Micron may have put its SolidScale all-flash array into web site limbo in preparation for big news.…

Q: 'Where in memory did you put that kernel?' A: 'Sorry, I have no idea' The folks at NetBSD have released their first cut of code to implement kernel ASLR – Address Space Layout Randomisation – for 64-bit AMD processors.…

Homeland Security says 'Dragonfly' campaign has cracked networks The United States' Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert that warns of “advanced persistent threat (APT) actions targeting government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.”…

Punters refunded for smaller-than-advertised football streams Telstra's been forced to refund users of its live Australian Rules Football streaming service, after promising a hefty 11-inch experience but delivering a less-exciting seven-inch screen.…

Dive in Roundup Hello, this week's roundup includes AI news from the past two weeks. AI is so hyped, it doesn't help when companies like Intel and Nvidia announce new chips and reveal little information about specs, but make lofty claims of increased speed and precision.…

A splash of green stops astronauts feeling blue Living in space is grueling. The repetitiveness of daily exercise, experiments, crappy food, and claustrophobia can chip away at an astronaut’s psychological well-being, but scientists have suggested a preventative measure: plants.…

Free software lovin' crusaders kick out Management Engine Purism – a San Francisco, California, social purpose company that flies the flags of privacy, security and software freedom – has begun offering its GNU/Linux-based laptops with Intel's Management Engine disabled.…

Everything you also need to know in security Roundup IT admins aren't always fond of patching. It's like going to the dentist – it needs to be done but it can be a pain to do. Sadly, this week there was a lot of patching to be done.…

SF startup boss denies charges The cofounder of a San Francisco video advertising upstart has been arrested and charged with allegedly assaulting and sexually abusing his three-year-old son.…

Shocking development in the current affairs circuit A Japanese electronics maker has been indicted in America for fixing the prices of electrolytic capacitors.…

We're not going to fry it, and we're not going to tell you anything more right now It has been three years since Apple released any major update to the Mac Mini family, but CEO Tim Cook says that doesn't mean the minimalist systems are dead.…

Check your cameras, broadband gateways, NAS boxes for latest botnet malware Miscreants are right now assembling a massive army of hacked Internet of Things devices – and at a far faster rate than the powerful Mirai botnet swelled its ranks last year.…

Credit card purveyors aim to improve 'cross-border, B2B payment flows' Mastercard is opening up its blockchain API to select partner banks and merchants.…

Non-compete legal battle Two file sync 'n' sharers are at war. Google-backed Egnyte is suing Citrix for unfair competition and Citrix is counter-suing Egnyte for unfair trade practices, among other things.…

They were totally just about to tell us everything Previously Google has contracted major brand OEMs to produce Nexus and Pixel phones using fairly standard off-the-shelf parts. But a teardown of Google's pricey new flagship reveals the company's first homegrown system on a chip – and it's currently idle.…

Justice committee backs ePrivacy proposals by narrow majority European legislation that aims to put over-the-top services on a level pegging with their more traditional telecoms counterparts, and gives users more rights over websites tracking them, has been approved by a committee of MEPs.…

Hate code? Love lists? Microsoft's got you covered In a move that will delight factory workers developers everywhere, Microsoft has added more graphical user interface features to Azure Data Factory V2.…

Pushing out the big guns to compete with Samsung – and each other The latest exec hires show the way the wind is blowing at Cohesity, Micron and WDC.…

Can decades-old databases uphold national security? The clunky technology underpinning Blighty's border control leaves the UK in concerning position post-Brexit, a National Audit Office report has found.…

Lightcycle creator on the classic sci-fi film as it turns 35 Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Aliens, TimeCop, Johnny Mnemonic and Elysium all benefitted from the design magic of Syd Mead.…

OS boffins chat to Reg as part of National Map Reading Week More than a decade ago, boffins at the Ordnance Survey began working on augmented reality. Now consumer mobile tech has caught up and the agency has launched an AR tool for the man on the street and the woman in the hills.…

Call for papers closes today – get your skates on Events We're chuffed, delighted and excited to announce that our first keynote for Continuous Lifecycle will be Agile development pioneer Dr Linda Rising.…

'It's more dramatic than climate change' "Insects are at the bottom of the ecosystem," the lead author of a study into a massive decrease in collected insects told The Reg. Their loss, he added, is "likely to collapse the entire pyramid".…

Transport for Greater Manchester says silly thing in reply to sensible FoI request Updated Transport for Greater Manchester, the northern city's transport authority, has refused to publish its ticket prices on the basis that telling the public how much they have to pay for riding the trams would "prejudice the Metrolink service".…

Insubordination in the face of impossible fads Comment What’s the point of being a developer ? My experience of being one taught me that it isn’t primarily the coding – it’s actually much more important than that.…

Interaction with legacy systems but not all think it's a good idea Using Ethereum's programming language Solidity, a dev has controversially written code for making data authentication signatures with the insecure SHA-1 cryptographic hash function.…

Staff will be folded into January acquisition AppDynamics Creaking hardware dinosaur Cisco is to gobble machine-learning upstart Perspica to beef up its analytical muscle at the performance management AppDynamics division.…

Citizens Advice finds over-65s most likely to be stung Folk with mobiles on Vodafone, EE and Three are being stung by an average £22 per month for staying on their contracts after their handsets have been paid off, according to Citizens Advice.…

Watch the client eat (smallish) steak as you munch on bread roll In the pursuit of ways to further squeeze its overheads, DXC Technologies has issued a fresh directive to the troops by further clipping travel costs and capping client entertainment.…

You've got to admit, Canonical has guts For the first time in recent memory, there are some very big changes in the latest release of Ubuntu: 17.10. And it's not all to do with going, er, GNOME.…

Spend the money on freezing your brain Something for the Weekend, Sir? Flee! Flee! It’s the return of the frozen heads!…

Canuck NSA/GCHQ equivalent open-sources 'Assemblyline', to make us all as safe as Canada Canada's Communications Security Establishment has open-sourced its own malware detection tool.…

It needed an oil change, natch, and the mainframes didn't mind ON-CALL Another week is coming to an end and that means it's time for On-Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share readers' stories of being asked to do the unthinkable to satisfy the incorrigible.…

Also some security stuff, too Microsoft's latest major Windows 10 release prides itself on keeping out those who want to meddle with your code, be they malicious hackers or lazy gamers looking for an easy leg up.…

An attempt was made Google is offering cash to those who can find, exploit and report bugs in its Android apps, or similarly hack other programs in its Play Store.…

Clarifies axe fell only on new applicants, not existing users, after fanatical disappointment Rackspace has ended a program under which it offered “generous discounts on hosting for more than 150 OSS projects and communities”, but flubbed the announcement.…