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Processor designer says he’s right about one thing: The need for end-to-end dev platforms Channeling the late Steve Jobs, Linux kernel king Linus Torvalds this week dismissed cross-platform efforts to support his contention that Arm-compatible processors will never dominate the server market. Responding to interest in Arm’s announcement of its data center-oriented Neoverse N1 and...

As experts worry about the potential for rapid unscheduled in-flight rocket disassembly NASA this week set a date for the launch of the much-delayed Demo-1 – the first test flight of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule that will, fingers crossed, eventually ferry humans to the International Space Station. This comes as fears grow over the preparedness of...

We’re Europe’s tech hub, crows minister, but investment weedy compared to the US and China Google’s DeepMind is among 11 companies to fund artificial intelligence masters degrees in the UK under a government-backed range of training programmes, including fellowships and PhD centres. The move comes as an analysis commissioned by Tech Nation showed venture capital...

Cybercrims aren’t just raking it in – they’re dishing it out too Extortionists are promising salaries of more than a quarter of a million pounds to skilled infosec folk willing to put on a black hat, according to research outfit Digital Shadows. Those salaries are on offer to people willing to blackmail and extort money...

For the BOFHs: Admin Center preview loaded with Software Defined Networking goodness In a busy week for Windows Insiders, Fast-Ring fans got a fresh build of Windows last night, hot on the heels of a new preview of the Windows Admin Center. You say 19H1, I say 20H1, let’s call the whole thing off Having...

App piracy fighter Tapcore strenuously denies involvement A major ad fraud operation could be sucking your phone of juice and using up more than 10GB of data a month by downloading hidden vids, Oracle has claimed. The database vendor has dubbed the dodgy data slurper DrainerBot, and said it uses infected code on Android devices...

But… but British Gas customers are making cost savings, though The British government is “sugar coating” its smart meter project and pretending that “everything will turn out alright in the end”, according to Parliament’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee (BEIS). In a statement, Labour MP Rachel Reeves, chairwoman of the BEIS Committee, accused the...

Worse to come as market doldrums deepen An abrupt quarter-on-quarter revenue cliff drop affected all the main flash vendors, except Intel, which saw revenues rise despite falling prices. DRAMeXchange highlighted the sudden revenue reversals everywhere but Intel, supplying these numbers:   Q-on-Q Bit Shipments Q3-Q4 revenue change Q4 revenues ASP Q3 market share Q4 market...

If you like that then you’ll just LOVE our 365 range Microsoft has updated the My Office app and would like to remind users that there’s a free, online version of the suite. The purpose of the new Office app is to act as a hub for all things Office-y. Be it documents the user...

It’s patching time again for Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 Updated Oops! Microsoft has published an advisory on a bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) product that allows a malicious HTTP/2 request to send CPU usage to 100 per cent. An anonymous Reg reader tipped us off to the advisory, ADV190005, which warns...