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Oracle has to pay top sales rep stiffed out of $250,000, US court rules

Attempt to undo arbitration award gets nixed by judge

Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'

FeatureEl Reg talks to experts on Kim's capabilities

Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks

Loafing competitors are 'horrible,' says Benioff

Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

Artificial Intelligence

Pssst... wanna participate in a Google DeepMind AI pilot? Be careful

Lessons from the NHS's 1.6 million data-records shovel
23 Aug 09:38
Policy

Spotify cleared of exposing kids to self-love innuendo in TV spot

Ad regulator says kids unlikely to watch Britain's Got Talent
23 Aug 09:04
Transformation

So you're planning on outsourcing some enterprise security

Should you keep your in-house crew? What's your plan...
23 Aug 08:25
Policy

UK taxman forks out to parents after glitch smacks child benefits site

HMRC: But we got less than 1,500 complaints about the tech…
23 Aug 08:01
Cloud

CrashPlan crashes out of cloudy consumer backup caper

You've got until October 2018 to bail, or pay business rates
13 Comments
23 Aug 07:30
Security

Adware API sends smartmobe data home to Chinese company

Google pulls 500 apps that used the Igexin SDK
23 Aug 07:02

Don't miss Sonos will deny updates to those who snub rewritten privacy terms

Cloud

IBM likely to close Australian data centre

Clients being advised of migration plans from vintage Cumberland Forest bit barn
23 Aug 06:33
Cloud

Microsoft, Red Hat in cross-platform container and .Net cuddle

Redmond Hat will run each other's containers in each other's clouds
23 Aug 06:02
Networks

D-Link in Pluribus-powered white box play to target enterprise sales

Netvisor gets a crack at the consumer and SME channel in new 54-port switch
23 Aug 05:02
Virtualization

VMware's desktop plan: On your command line, unleash hell!

Refreshed Workstation, Fusion, add network simulators, Win 10 fun, container-friendly APIs
23 Aug 04:01
Security

Lottery-hacking sysadmin's unlucky number comes up: 25 years in the slammer

Rigged a random number generator and tried to cash in
15 Comments
23 Aug 02:58
Software
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Microsoft spikes GigJam collaboration tool before it leaves Preview

Tool to 'spontaneously and ephemerally involve others in your work' hits existential crisis
23 Aug 01:56
Policy

Microsoft, Apple cough up MEEELLIONS after Australian tax audits

Google still enjoying its Irish sandwich
23 Aug 00:58
Science

Don't throw away those eclipse glasses! Send 'em to South America

Astronomers Without Borders asks you to think of the children
13 Comments
23 Aug 00:04
Business

Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks

Loafing competitors are 'horrible,' says Benioff
14 Comments
23 Aug 00:02
Business

Oracle has to pay top sales rep stiffed out of $250,000, US court rules

Attempt to undo arbitration award gets nixed by judge
22 Comments
22 Aug 23:25
Internet of Things

Sonos will deny updates to those who snub rewritten privacy terms

Your data, or we cut you off
42 Comments
22 Aug 22:54
Cloud

Codename Brainwave: Microsoft reveals tricks and tips for whipping cloud FPGAs into shape

Hot ChipsPipelining, on-die memories exploited in Azure
22 Aug 22:17
Cloud

Google slaps a suit on beefed up Chrome OS, offers Enterprise version for business

Getting a bit crowded in here, isn't it, Microsoft?
21 Comments
22 Aug 21:53
Networks

Sysadmins told to update their software or risk killing the internet

The DNS signing keys are changing for the first time
18 Comments
22 Aug 21:46
Security

Smart robots prove stupidly easy to hack for spying and murder

Your plastic pal who's psychotic
22 Aug 20:50
Networks

Verizon kicks out hot new Unlimited* plans

*By 'unlimited' they mean 'significantly limited'
14 Comments
22 Aug 20:08
Security

Apple iCloud Keychain easily slurped, ElcomSoft says

Credentials stored in the cloud succumb to forensic software
22 Aug 20:06
Science
nork

Can North Korean nukes hit US mainland? Maybe. But EMP blast threat is 'highly credible'

FeatureEl Reg talks to experts on Kim's capabilities
70 Comments
22 Aug 17:03
Storage
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Micron's new storage division lead is third former SanDisk recruit

Anand Jayapalan replaces Darren Thomas
22 Aug 16:39
Software

DJI's Spark drones to be bricked by September 1 unless firmware updated

There is no 'my way or the highway', just my way
21 Comments
22 Aug 15:55
Bootnotes

Kraut coppers seize 5,000 Donald Trump-shaped dance biscuits

Making raves great again, like, the best you've ever been to
30 Comments
22 Aug 15:23
Storage

End-point backupper Druva stuffs sack with another $80m in VC cash

Funding round lifts startup's profile and firepower
22 Aug 14:58
Security

US Navy suffers third ship collision this year

Deaths of sailors prompt admirals to halt all warship ops
85 Comments
22 Aug 14:02
Storage

If there's a hole in your S3 bucket, data thieves will be sprayed by Macie

AnalysisData loss prevention bot patrols Amazon's cloud storage solution
22 Aug 13:04
Business

Canadian outsourcer CGI to Nordic BI biz: Fancy €98m cold ones, eh?

Affecto's 1k staff to merge with CGI if all-cash deal goes through
22 Aug 12:12
Business

Fujitsu looking to flog its smartphones biz – report

How's that 'digital transformation' going?
22 Aug 11:41
Networks

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

UpdatedNot looking good for cheesed off customers
63 Comments
22 Aug 10:52
DevOps

Continuous integration platforms are broken – here's what needs fixing

New survey polls developers' 'unmet needs'
19 Comments
22 Aug 10:32
Servers

Biz sends apps to public cloud, waves 'bye to on-premises server folk. NO! WAIT!

Cloud cost rises, growth pushes staff demand up again
30 Comments
22 Aug 09:41
Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Facial and voice recognition – just beware translations
20 Comments
22 Aug 09:01
Business

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

This whole 'Esport' thing looks serious – for games developers looking to boost sales
41 Comments
22 Aug 08:27
Emergent Tech

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Clash of the machine-learning titans
18 Comments
22 Aug 08:02
Personal Tech

Samsung gains ground on smartphones

Emerging markets are where it's at
22 Aug 07:31
Security
Forked path

Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea

Plenty of other teams have some security responsibility, so why not end the overlap?
52 Comments
22 Aug 06:58
Business

Security outfit Root9B on the brink after default, may de-list

Listed company's creditors are circling so it's auctioning assets
22 Aug 06:28
Policy

German court reveals reason for Europe-wide patent system freeze

Was it the EPO? Brexit? Insufficient support? Yes
39 Comments
22 Aug 06:00
Data Centre

Microsoft rolls its own hyperconverged appliance program

'Windows Server Software-Defined' program signs HPE, Lenovo, Fujitsu and Supermicro
22 Aug 05:30

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