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And lobbying US government against it is NOT modernising IT Oracle loves open source. Except when the database giant hates open source. Which, according to its recent lobbying of the US federal government, seems to be "most of the time".…

Whatever's going on, overall sales are down leaving HP Inc and Lenovo lords of a shrinking land Analyst outfits Gartner and IDC have reached opposing conclusions on the same set of events.…

Don't blame staff, blame... A row has broken out at the European Patent Office over the quality of its work.…

El Reg meets new CEO Jim Chirico on his tenth day in the job INTERVIEW “Avaya”, the company's newly-minted CEO Jim Chirico tells The Register, is “a company that promises solutions for what the customers demand we need to be.”…

Установка Linux, Дмитрий! Microsoft is investigating how some of its products were sold to businesses and government offices within Russia and Crimea despite strict sanctions against such sales.…

Matches Salesforce and pals with API-fest and promise of apps built on SaaS Workday says it's got APIs in its pocket and is ready to join the PaaS party HR-centric enterprise SaaS concern Workday will enter the platform-as-a-service business.…

Have you tried collapsing the waveform and polarizing a photon again? Intel reckons it's stolen a base in the race to build quantum chippery, by shipping a cryogenically-cooled 17-qubit chip to Netherlands-based QuTech.…

We've not seen orbital bling out this far before VIDEO Back in January, a Spanish-led group of astroboffins turned telescopes skywards to watch an occultation of dwarf planet Haumea, and got a surprise.…

Researchers go public after BPC Banking's long silence on SQL injection bug Rapid7 has gone public with news of an e-commerce SQL injection vulnerability, saying it couldn't raise a response from the vendor.…

Wait, wait, this just in... make that 23 billion Taiwanese dollars Trade officials in Taiwan have hit American chip designer Qualcomm with a NT$23.4bn (US$774m) fine for abusing its dominant position in the wireless electronics world.…

When government aspires to be one big API, surely this needs to change While Australia's federal government scrambles to hose down a hacking incident, it's important to ask why a defence contractor of any size could run a network so insecure it exposed default administrative interfaces to the Internet.…

El Reg comes to the rescue of reader unable to control gear from smartphone In August, when wireless speaker maker Sonos decided to update its privacy policy to allow it to gather more data on its customers from their devices, it characterized the consequences of refusing to accept the change as being left out of future feature upgrades.…

You may end up in the clink with 'hacker' on your criminal record A California bloke fighting a computer hacking conviction has lost his final appeal after the US Supreme Court declined to hear his case.…

You're formatting messages the wrong way Attention anyone using Microsoft Outlook to encrypt emails. Researchers at security outfit SEC Consult have found a bug in Redmond's software that causes encrypted messages to be sent out with their unencrypted versions attached.…

Hello, world? More like: Goodbye, world At Pier 70 in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, where ships once were built, code-hosting biz GitHub held forth on building and shipping code, and on the people who do so.…

Court tells hosting biz to protect identities of netizens A Washington DC judge has told the US Department of Justice (DoJ) it "does not have the right to rummage" through the files of an anti-Trump protest website – and has ordered the dot-org site's hosting company to protect the identities of its users.…

DMV paves way for human-free fully autonomous vehicles Totally autonomous cars with no drivers, no passengers nor steering wheels are set to roll out onto California's streets under rules proposed by the US state's Department of Motor Vehicles.…

Spear phishing emails thought to be affiliated with Pyongyang sent to electricity firms Hackers believed to be from North Korea are casing out US electric companies in preparation for a possible cyber attack – so says security firm FireEye.…

US and Moscow both want to extradite Alexander Vinnik, 38, but minister of justice will decide A judicial appeals court in Thessaloniki, Greece, has backed Moscow's extradition request for Russian citizen and suspected Bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik, The Greek Observer reports.…

The world according to WDC WDC is channelling its inner Theodore Roosevelt in its public negotiating stance with Bain Capital and Toshiba.…

Abuse tax mooted as 'online safety' rhetoric ratchets up The British government is now proposing a direct tax on social media companies while inviting everyone else to hush and think of the children.…

Notes from an Oral Evidence session Comment To Westminster, England, where the House of Lords is conducting a wide-ranging inquiry into artificial intelligence.…

Oo, what's that you've got on? Chanel No. 5? Anthrax? This trendy wearable would know Smartwatches and Fitbits might be the cool wearables du jour, but they're hardly able to tell you if you're standing in a cloud of noxious chemicals. However, a team of boffins hopes to some day fill this, er, gap in the market with their hip prototype, the broad goal of which is to help keep you alive.…

Edgy move: Acting to preserve on-premises IT Analysis Dell is going full tilt into the Internet of Things market, setting up a new division and promising to invest $1bn in IoT R&D over three years to build the business.…

Tools will make peeps more attractive, it's claimed The revolution will not be televised because IT automation is boring. But it will be scripted and play out unseen, because boring is the desired state for computing infrastructure. Businesses just want their systems to work, without drama or excitement.…

Can I plug it in? Not without blowing the neighbourhood fuse A power consumption monitoring startup reckons its substation monitoring technology can be used to help the spread of electric car charging points.…

SuperValu breached after cyber attack at mega-retailer Shoppers at SuperValu, Centra and Mace have been told to review their bank statements following a cyber attack against Irish retailer Musgrave.…

'Incredibly hard to read and even harder to understand'... Fears over privacy and the application of GDPR, concern over lax rules for spies, and the omission of regulation on fake news were just some of the issues raised at the second reading of the UK Data Protection House Bill in the House of Lords.…

Better than having to stump up £54.5m in back payments SAP is to offer feedback on anonymised indirect licensing as concern and confusion about the rules grows among customers.…

Memory... lights the access speed of RAM. (Or does it?) Debate An argument about how to solve the same technical problem has sprung up between two rival startups with plenty of reason to say the other's tech is not up to scratch. But they raise some interesting issues about how to solve slow access to moved files, where to store metadata, and more.…

Move UK consortium gathers data for insurers and regulators A group of council delivery drivers in East London are riding new £28,000 Land Rover Discovery Sport vehicles. A bit extravagant? Yes, deliberately so: these cars are testbeds for the Move UK autonomous car tech data-gathering project.…

How can the other players up their game on and off-premises? Analysis Run the Azure Stack on-premises and you can move data and apps to the Azure public cloud with ease. It's the same software environment. Run the Oracle Cloud at Customer on-premises and move apps and data to the Oracle public cloud with ease. It's the same software and billing environment.…

Overseers told of low morale, poor performance and even suicides Fed up with years of willful ignorance, staff at the European Patent Office publicly called out their president in front of the organization's overseeing body.…

SW-defined storage maker gets extra cash to start 2017 Has software-defined storage supplier Nexenta's growth stalled? Far from it, its CEO and chairman insisted. It's booming and additional significant funding is coming, apparently.…

Hussain's lawyers say exec can't be tried in the States for what allegedly happened in UK The former chief financial officer of ill-fated $11bn HP acquisition Autonomy is asking a US court to dismiss felony fraud charges related to his role in the 2011 merger deal.…

Reminder: amateur astronomers, watch out for 2012 TC4, you might get lucky With asteroid 2012 TC4 about to pass between Earth and the moon, NASA is gearing up for its much-anticipated live test of its warning system.…

Reports say patent, interop promises on the table Qualcomm is hoping it can cut a deal with the European Union to get the go-ahead for its multi-billion NXP Semiconductors acquisition.…

Fourth Amendment trumps your math, nerds Continuing the US government's menacing of strong end-to-end encryption, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told an audience at the US Naval Academy that encryption isn't protected by the American Constitution.…

Explosive new claims also put a bomb under US-Israeli cooperation The brouhaha over Russian spies using Kaspersky antivirus to steal NSA exploits from a staffer's home PC took an explosive turn on Tuesday.…

Arrests after customized malware apparently used to drain millions Hackers managed to pinch $60m from the Far Eastern International Bank in Taiwan by infiltrating its computers last week. Now, most of the money has been recovered, and two arrests have been made in connection with the cyber-heist.…

Farewell, you're out of extended support: No more updates, security fixes from Microsoft A decade after their release, Microsoft Office 2007 and Outlook 2007 today fell out of extended support. Gaze teary-eyed at your installation discs. The software has entered the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.…

...says analyst who reckons Cupertino's next big iThing will fall short of its last big iThing Apple's upcoming iPhone X will be its biggest in years, but will still fall short of sales expectations.…

But at least there's no Flash update (not this week, anyway) Microsoft today released patches for more than 60 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its software. Meanwhile, Adobe is skipping October's Patch Tuesday altogether.…

But at least there's no Flash update (not this week, anyway) Microsoft today released patches for more than 60 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its software. Meanwhile, Adobe is skipping October's Patch Tuesday altogether.…

Brits will be warned by post, agency says Updated Last month, US credit score agency Equifax admitted the personal data for just under 400,000 UK accounts was slurped by hackers raiding its database. On Tuesday this week, it upped that number ever-so-slightly to 15.2 million.…

Big sums spent on shady search ads amid US elections Joining Facebook and Twitter, Google has now been sucked into an investigation into how Russia influenced the US presidential elections last year.…

Big sums spent on shady search ads amid US elections Joining Facebook and Twitter, Google has now been sucked into an investigation into how Russia influenced the US presidential elections last year.…

Fake login request boxes spark formal bug report Apple, we have a problem. A bug report filed Monday through Open Radar – which mirrors bug reports developers submit to Apple's private bug tracking system – suggests that password prompts in iOS apps can be misused to steal passwords and other secrets.…

AWS config blunder spills secrets all over the internet Updated Yet another organization has been caught exposing sensitive data to the public internet: this time it is Accenture – consultants to the great and the good – with a misconfigured AWS S3 bucket leaking access keys and other private documents.…

I see you shiver with antici... pation Samsung has confirmed its 4bit/cell flash is incoming – that's a QLC (quad-level cell) NAND chip.…