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Russian computer failure on ISS is nothing to to worry about - they're just going to turn it off and on again
Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future
British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey
SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman
Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS
The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch
Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype
Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019
Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate Bitcoin theft scheme
HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims
ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000
Android fans get fat November security patch bundle – if the networks or mobe makers are kind enough to let 'em have it
Serverless Computing: From functions to complex applications
Streamline delivery with open source, they said. It's perfectly safe, they said
GitHub lost a network link for 43 seconds, went TITSUP for a day
How do you make a connected car Serverless?
Policy
The Channel
Foxconn denies it will import Chinese workers to Wisconsin factory
Lloyds Banking Group: We're firing 6,240 to hire 8,240
GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual
UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections
Facebook admits role in Myanmar killing fields, will do better next time
Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition
iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe
Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'
Geek's Guide
Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany
Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention
Which scientist should be on the new £50 note?
El Reg
weighs in – and you should vote, too
Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip
Artificial Intelligence
Internet of Things
Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea
Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos
Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more
Verity Stob
Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop as he confesses deep love for talking about toilets
Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal man sits on Steve Bannon design tech shindig committee
Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students
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Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate bitcoin theft scheme
One of the top traffic metrics sites on the internet is reportedly being used by criminals to steal bitcoins from a currency exchange.
Shaun Nichols,
06 Nov 2018
6
Russian computer failure on ISS is nothing to to worry about - they're just going to turn it off and on again
It's never a nice feeling with your computer keels over, wiping out work, sometimes requiring hours of maintenance and basically ruining your day.
Kieren McCarthy,
06 Nov 2018
1
Facebook admits role in Myanmar killing fields, will do better next time
Late Monday afternoon, about the same time the FBI warned about Russia and other countries using social media to influence the US midterm elections, Facebook released a report showing the company's platform was used to foment violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar.
Thomas Claburn,
06 Nov 2018
6
Foxconn denies it will import Chinese workers to Wisconsin factory
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn has denied that it is planning to import Chinese workers for its controversial new factory in Wisconsin.
Kieren McCarthy,
06 Nov 2018
15
Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS
The knickers of the Linux world have become ever so twisty over the last few days as Penguinistas fell foul of the security hardware in their pricey Apple hardware.
Richard Speed,
06 Nov 2018
4
HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims
HSBC has admitted miscreants have probably made off with personal details of thousands of its online-banking customers.
Shaun Nichols,
06 Nov 2018
15
Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop as he confesses deep love for talking about toilets
Bill Gates' obsession with all things faecal continued apace on Tuesday as the billionaire philanthropist took to a Beijing stage armed only with a fierce determination to improve global sanitation. And a jar of poo.
Richard Currie,
06 Nov 2018
4
Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future
As the world's boffins prepare to carve up the airwaves again next year, the mobile industry has stepped up the lobbying war over spectrum, fearing a crushing 5G disappointment.
Andrew Orlowski,
06 Nov 2018
19
Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition
It isn't just Microsoft that has QA issues – so does Apple. The Cupertino giant withdrew a watchOS update that bricked the Apple Watch 4 last week, and has now rushed out a replacement containing things that don't work yet which Apple probably didn't want you to see.
Andrew Orlowski,
06 Nov 2018
30
British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey
Brit consumers get a broadband bargain, but pay for it with poorer performance than other European countries.
Andrew Orlowski,
06 Nov 2018
13
Lloyds Banking Group: We're firing 6,240 to hire 8,240
In a lurch towards “digitising” ops as part of the “transformation” scheme launched months ago, Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) today said it is creating 2,000 roles to beef up its “leading-edge digital banking” services.
Paul Kunert,
06 Nov 2018
12
The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch
The leaves on the trees are turning golden, a chill is in the air, and while the Windows 10 October 2018 Update remains locked in the fireworks tin, there seems to be movement for its sibling, Windows Server 2019.
Richard Speed,
06 Nov 2018
12
Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany
It was another busy week in space as Russia notched up a second Soyuz success, China conducted its 32nd launch of the year and NASA awaited the arrival of its first service module for Orion.
Richard Speed,
06 Nov 2018
52
GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual
Students starting GCSE computer science in 2020 may be assessed by exams only, amid concerns about schools' IT kit, burdens on teachers and malpractice in non-exam tests.
Rebecca Hill,
06 Nov 2018
2
SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman
Salesforce's European limb last year coughed £5m in tax to the UK government - the business is registered in Blighty - as it made a 1.73 pre-tax profit percentage on a turnover of £1.51bn.
Rebecca Hill,
06 Nov 2018
39
ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000
The Information Commissioner’s Office plans to slap fines totalling £135,000 on Leave.EU and Brexiteer Arron Banks’ insurance biz Eldon for “serious” breaches of direct marketing laws.
Rebecca Hill,
06 Nov 2018
14
Oracle 'net-watcher agrees, China Telecom is a repeat offender for misdirecting traffic
Oracle has backed claims that China Telecom Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements regularly take internet traffic on an unwanted tour of the Middle Kingdom.
Richard Chirgwin,
06 Nov 2018
10
Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype
Roundup
Microsoft is looking to 2019 and tinkering with Skype as the Windows 10 October 2018 update continues its lonely wanderings.
Richard Speed,
06 Nov 2018
2
Disky business: Seagate hyperscale customers slow to 'digest' inventory
Analysis
Hyperscale customers went on a disk drive buying strike late in Seagate's first quarter of fiscal '19, ended September 28.
Chris Mellor,
06 Nov 2018
57
Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea
Comment
For the last few years the media has been awash with hyperbole about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies. It could be said that never, in the field of computer science, have so many ridiculous things been said by so many people in possession of so little relevant expertise. For anyone engaged in cutting-edge hardware in the 1980s, this is puzzling.
Andrew Fentem,
06 Nov 2018
53
iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe
Review
Back in 2007, Apple convinced the world a phone that could barely last a day was OK. In 2018 it has set out to persuade the public that a phone costing £749 is somehow a bargain.
Richard Speed,
06 Nov 2018
6
The PCIe bus is coming, and everybody's jumping... New York to San Francisco, an NVMe disco
A lot of vendors have looked to NVMe amongst the other cloud, software and hyperconverged tidbits in storage roundup this week, but let's start with some updates.
Chris Mellor,
06 Nov 2018
13
The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader
Today marks the opening of VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 event in Barcelona, Spain. The Dell-owned virtualization giant has a bunch of announcements to kick off its shindig.
Chris Williams,
06 Nov 2018
6
Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos
The rise of AI systems that can generate fake images and videos has spurred researchers in the US to develop a technique to sniff out these cyber-shams, also known as deepfakes.
Katyanna Quach,
06 Nov 2018
40
Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019
The new, improved, and chilled-out Linus Torvalds emitted the first release candidate for Linux kernel 4.20 over the weekend.
Richard Chirgwin,
06 Nov 2018
19
Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week
Exclusive
Cisco has confirmed to The Register it launched a round of layoffs on Monday, effectively slashing its Customer Experience (CX) team, after insiders alerted us to the cuts.
Richard Chirgwin,
06 Nov 2018
83
Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention
Space agencies and private citizens spend millions of dollars and countless hours hunting for signs of extraterrestrial life. Yet, there may be an easier way to find intelligent civilizations, according to a pair of researchers from MIT in the US.
Katyanna Quach,
06 Nov 2018
9
Uncle Sam, D-Link told to battle in court over claims of shoddy device security: Judge snubs summary judgment bids
America's trade watchdog's case against network device maker D-Link will go ahead next January – after a district judge rebuked the two sides for wasting money drawing up and filing demands for summary judgments.
Richard Chirgwin,
06 Nov 2018
44
Tata on trial: Outsourcer 'discriminated' against non-Asian workers, claim American staff
India-based IT outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will finally face trial over claims that the company discriminated against workers at US facilities who were not from South Asia.
Thomas Claburn,
06 Nov 2018
12
Android fans get fat November security patch bundle – if the networks or mobe makers are kind enough to let 'em have it
Google today pushed out the November edition of its monthly Android security updates, giving carriers and device makers a fresh set of patches to install. Fingers cross the patches are rolled out to you ASAP.
Shaun Nichols,
06 Nov 2018
35
Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'
Comment
The Web Foundation is warning about the death of the web again, and urging people to come together to make the internet all nice and lovely.
Kieren McCarthy,
05 Nov 2018
114
Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)
Fundamental flaws in the encryption system used by popular solid-state drives (SSDs) can be exploited by miscreants to easily decrypt data, once they've got their hands on the equipment.
Shaun Nichols,
05 Nov 2018
29
Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites
After the failure of last year's abusive web ad clampdown, Google will next month cut off revenue for websites that flout its rules against malicious adverts.
Thomas Claburn,
05 Nov 2018
27
Supreme Court tells Big Cable to shut up for once: Net neutrality challenge shot down
The US Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to the net neutrality rules that were introduced in 2015, and which have since been rescinded.
Kieren McCarthy,
05 Nov 2018
2
Veracode Software gobbled by private equity house Thoma Bravo for $950m
Thoma Bravo – private equity owner of McAfee and Barracuda Networks – has slurped cloudy application security testing biz Veracode Software, a division of Broadcom, for $950m in cash.
Paul Kunert,
05 Nov 2018
6
What the PUC: SK Hynix next to join big boys in 96-layer 3D NAND land
SK Hynix has finished work on a 512 Gbit, 96-layer, 3D NAND chip with 1Tbit, and 3bits/cell (TLC) and 4bits/cell (QLC) coming later.
Chris Mellor,
05 Nov 2018
120
UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections
The government is to expand its controversial voter ID trials in next year’s local elections.
Rebecca Hill,
05 Nov 2018
66
Stairway to edam: Swiss bloke blasts roquefort his cheese, thinks Led Zep might make it tastier
One Swiss chap hopes to get his rock and rollright by playing music to cheese to see if that makes it taste better.
Richard Currie,
05 Nov 2018
55
Slabs, huh, what are they are good for? Er, not quite absolutely nothing
Fewer and fewer people want to fondle a new slab these days with just 36.4 million units shipped worldwide during Q3.
Paul Kunert,
05 Nov 2018
47
US draft bill moots locking up execs who lie about privacy violations
Company bosses could be thrown in jail for up to 20 years if they aren't straight with US regulators about privacy violations under a law drafted by senator Ron Wyden.
Rebecca Hill,
05 Nov 2018
58
Planet Computers straps proper phone to its next Psion scion, Cosmo
Planet Computers, creator of the Gemini PDA, has pulled the covers off its next-generation device – the Cosmo Communicator.
Andrew Orlowski,
05 Nov 2018
1
Nokia's open SDN, SoC-it-to-me open 'Chiplets', Verisign exits the DDoS protection biz, and more
Roundup
Nokia this week announced an SDN-based open optical transport management suite of products for optical transport management, WaveSuite.
Richard Chirgwin,
05 Nov 2018
32
Heart Internet stops beating, starts Monday with big portion of FAIL
Webs will wobble and frequently fall down, but it is the way that cloud or hosting providers manage this that sets them apart. On this Monday morning, Heart Internet isn't distinguishing itself from the great and good in a positive way.
Paul Kunert,
05 Nov 2018
Heighten your organisation’s risk awareness at the SANS Security Awareness summit
Promo
Information security training specialist SANS promises that its fourth European Security Awareness Summit will be its biggest yet.
David Gordon,
05 Nov 2018
3
Hands on with neural-network toolkit LIME: Come now, you sourpuss. You've got some explaining to do
Deep learning has become the go-to "AI" technique for image recognition and classification. It has reached a stage where a programmer doesn't even have to create their own models, thanks to a large number available off the shelf, pre-trained and ready for download.
Andrew Cobley,
05 Nov 2018
9
We love Kubernetes, but it's playing catch-up with our Service Fabric, says Microsoft Azure exec
Interview
A curious feature of Microsoft's cloud platform is that it has two fundamentally different platforms for microservices. One is based on the homegrown Service Fabric, while the other is orchestrated by the Google-originated Kubernetes, available on Azure through the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Both are open source.
Tim Anderson,
05 Nov 2018
54
DBA drifts into legend after inventive server convo leaves colleagues fearing for their lives
Who, Me?
Welcome to the latest instalment of Who, Me?, our weekly confessional column in which Reg readers share their tales of historic face-palms.
Rebecca Hill,
05 Nov 2018
3
You've heard of 'trust but verify', right? Well, remember 'trust but protect' when mulling building a hybrid cloud
Comment
Trust the hybrid cloud, service providers tell us – they are, apparently, the experts. But when outages occur, and when data or virtual instances are lost or become unavailable, the impact is profound.
Dave Cartwright,
05 Nov 2018
18
Intel peddles latest Xeon CPUs – E-series and 48-core Cascade Lake AP – to soothe epyc mygrayne
Intel will today talk up two new Xeon processor family members: the 48-core Cascade Lake Advanced Performance (AP), and the single-socket E-2100.
Chris Williams,
05 Nov 2018
34
ZX Spectrum reboot scandal man sits on Steve Bannon design tech shindig committee
David Levy, one of the players in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ scandal in the UK, has reappeared in the news – in connection with a gaming and design tech conference that invited notorious alt-right firebrand Steve Bannon to be its keynote speaker.
Gareth Corfield,
05 Nov 2018
31
Cyber-crooks think small biz is easy prey. Here's a simple checklist to avoid becoming an easy victim
Comment
One of the unpleasant developments of the last decade has been the speed with which IT security threats, once aimed mainly at large enterprises, have spread to SMBs – small and medium businesses.
John E Dunn,
05 Nov 2018
6
Google flings $25m at Social Good AI contest, Baidu's whips up neural-net camera to treat eye diseases, and more
Roundup
Hello, here’s this week's dose of AI news. Google has promised to throw more money at AI research that benefits society, OpenAI developed a new technique to get bots to be more curious, and Nvidia has launched its own AI Research Residency Program.
Katyanna Quach,
03 Nov 2018
66
Google logins make JavaScript mandatory, Huawei China spy shock, Mac malware, Iran gets new Stuxnet, and more
Roundup
This week there were Hacked Home Hubs, buggered BBC Bits, and PortSmash privilege punch-ups.
Shaun Nichols,
03 Nov 2018
265
Which scientist should be on the new £50 note?
El Reg
weighs in – and you should vote, too
Poll
This week the Bank of England said it was going to put a famous boffin on a new polymer £50 note, and has decided to ask the public who it should be.
Kieren McCarthy,
03 Nov 2018
88
'Pure technical contributions aren’t enough'.... Intel commits to code of conduct for open-source projects
Chip maker Intel has embraced guidelines to make its open-source software projects more open-minded and inviting.
Thomas Claburn,
02 Nov 2018
45
Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip
NASA’s Dawn space probe, our visitor to the Solar System’s protoplanets Vesta and Ceres, is cold and dead.
Katyanna Quach,
02 Nov 2018
103
30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network with, er, Google search – new claim
Iran apparently infiltrated the communications network of CIA agents who allowed their secret websites, used to exchange messages with informants, to be crawled by Google.
Shaun Nichols,
02 Nov 2018
25
PortSmash attack blasts hole in Intel's Hyper-Threading CPUs, leaves with secret crypto keys
Brainiacs in Cuba and Finland have found a new side-channel vulnerability in Intel x64 processors that could allow an attacker to sniff out cryptographic keys and other privileged information.
Thomas Claburn,
02 Nov 2018
35
Dot-com web addresses prices to swell, thanks to sweetheart deal between Uncle Sam, Verisign
The planet's 138 million dot-com addresses are going to get significantly more expensive to renew over the next decade thanks to a contract signed between dot-com operator Verisign and the US government.
Kieren McCarthy,
02 Nov 2018
19
Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway
Domain name registrar EasyDNS has 'fessed up to accidentally leaking cloaked contact details for about 1,500 domain owners in Whois query results for just over 24 hours.
Rebecca Hill,
02 Nov 2018
41
In memoriam: See you in Valhalla, Skype Classic. Version 8 can never replace you
It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Skype Classic née 7, which tottered into the sunset on 1 November 2018.
Richard Speed,
02 Nov 2018
68
Smartphone industry is in 'recession'! Could it be possible we have *gasp* reached 'peak tech'?
The smartphone biz is now in a slump, according to two number-crunching outfits.
Andrew Orlowski,
02 Nov 2018
19
Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students
Higher education has become a commercial market as students paying extortionate tuition fees demand more bang for their buck – so Imperial College London has decided to throw some holograms at them.
Rebecca Hill,
02 Nov 2018
12
Great. Global internet freedoms take another dive as censorship and fake news proliferate
Internet freedoms have taken a nose dive for the eighth year running, according to a report warning that authoritarian countries and populist leaders are exporting harmful attitudes and ideas around the world.
Rebecca Hill,
02 Nov 2018
65
Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has completed its investigation into October’s Soyuz mishap in record time, pointing the finger of blame at problems during assembly.
Richard Speed,
02 Nov 2018
20
Seagate HAMRs out a roadmap for future hard drive recording tech
Seagate has set a course to deliver a 48TB disk drive in 2023 using its HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology, doubling areal density every 30 months, meaning 100TB could be possible by 2025/26.
Chris Mellor,
02 Nov 2018
28
Tax me if you can: VMware UK tosses shrunken offering to HMRC
Trendy social media firms and ad slingers often come under attack for hiring beanies to minimise their tax contribution, something they see as sensible commercial practice. VMware UK may fall into that bracket too.
Paul Kunert,
02 Nov 2018
94
Boom! Just like that the eSIM market emerges – and jolly useful it is too
Well, that didn't take long. Owners of new iPhones can now download an app and stick some data and minutes on the second SIM that Apple has thoughtfully included, allowing cheap calls and roaming data that your main SIM provider might not include.
Andrew Orlowski,
02 Nov 2018
9
Bean-counting outfit Sage appoints bean-counter as new CEO
With its year-end results looming, Sage Group has confirmed the ascension of chief bean-counter, Steve Hare, to the lofty heights of chief executive officer.
Richard Speed,
02 Nov 2018
11
Icahn't let you do this: Stock botherer fires off sueball to scupper Dell's 'coercive' deal
In a move that probably caught nobody by surprise, corporate raider Carl Icahn has launched a lawsuit to block Dell's proposed purchase of V-class shares – stock known by the ticker DVMT.
Richard Chirgwin,
02 Nov 2018
Serverless Computing: From functions to complex applications
Events
Serverless computing can mean anything from triggering simple functions to deal with sudden spikes in demand to building complex applications which are core to the whole business.
Team Register,
02 Nov 2018
9
What's that? SSH can still use RC4? Not for much longer, promise
A hackathon next week will see 'net developers get to work consigning more insecure cryptography to the /dev/null of history.
Richard Chirgwin,
02 Nov 2018
6
Exiting DWP digital boss Mayank Prakash switches to energy biz Centrica
Departing digital boss at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions Mayank Prakash is moving to energy giant Centrica.
Rebecca Hill,
02 Nov 2018
4
Commvault revenues grow – but only just – as it switches to subscription pricing
Data protection and management biz Commvault squeezed out just 1 per cent revenue growth in its second quarter of fiscal 2019 as it transitions to subscription pricing as part of the Elliott Management driven makeover.
Chris Mellor,
02 Nov 2018
79
Clunk, bang, rattle: Is that a ghost inside your machine?
On Call
Welcome to the latest issue of On Call, where readers share their tech support crises and triumphs. And, since it's Día de Muertos and we've just passed Halloween, El Reg thought we'd pick out a few tales for a spooky special.
Rebecca Hill,
02 Nov 2018
BBC micro:bit vendor Kitronik says customers' deets nicked, fingers Magecart malware
Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways' website.
Gareth Corfield,
02 Nov 2018
197
Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
There is a house in old Belgrade that has male and female private parts. If you were tempted to sing that last sentence, I suppose you could call it the House of the Rising Bum.
Alistair Dabbs,
02 Nov 2018
11
Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly
Mechanical engineering brainiacs at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania in the US have demonstrated how autonomous, modular robots can reconfigure themselves to accomplish specific tasks in an unknown place.
Thomas Claburn,
02 Nov 2018
19
I know what you're thinking: Outsource or in-source IT security? I've worked both sides, so here's my advice...
Comment
You’re a small or mid-sized business and have a growing sense of unease that you aren’t doing enough on cyber security. Must be all those headlines about ransomware infections and databases ransacked. Or – perhaps – you’re experiencing an upsurge in phishing attempts.
Dave Cartwright,
02 Nov 2018
3
Carlo has a head for apps and a body (tag) for rendering: Google takes on Electron with JS desktop app toolset
Developers looking for a way to write JavaScript apps without the Electron framework or NW.js now have another option called Carlo.
Thomas Claburn,
02 Nov 2018
112
Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints
The EU is readying an AI-based screening system designed to catch travelers who lie about their reasons for visiting the Continent.
Shaun Nichols,
02 Nov 2018
152
We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE
While everyone was distracted by IBM's $34bn takeover bid, Red Hat quietly wrote a death-note for KDE – within Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to be precise.
Richard Chirgwin,
02 Nov 2018
49
Wow. Apple's only gone and killed off Mac, iPad, iPhone family... figures for units sold to fans
Cupertino tastemaker Apple Inc has logged yet another record quarter, though investors are worried that sales may be starting to slow.
Shaun Nichols,
02 Nov 2018
3
Cisco firewalls under attack – and there's no patch: Too many SIPs and they drown in data
Cisco says miscreants are actively exploiting a SIP vulnerability in its networking gear that it disclosed on Wednesday.
Richard Chirgwin,
02 Nov 2018
14
Talk about Micron-aggression: US charges Chinese biz, staff over DRAM chip secrets theft
The US Department of Justice has unveiled charges against two companies and three individuals it says have been stealing trade secrets from American memory chipmaker Micron.
Shaun Nichols,
01 Nov 2018
68
This revolution will not be televised – but it will be sanctioned: Googlers walk out over 'sex pest' executive scandals
Pics
Thousands of Google employees across the globe marched out of their offices today upset that the advertising giant has paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of sexual harassment.
Kieren McCarthy,
01 Nov 2018
If you want to inject AI into your apps, and you can stomach Facebook's code, then have we got some news for you
Facebook has unveiled a software toolkit to help programmers plug AI – in the form of reinforcement-learning models – into their applications.
Katyanna Quach,
01 Nov 2018
8
It's wall-to-wall Huawei: Chinese behemoth hogs five of six top spots in SPC-1 array benchmark
Chinese array and IT systems supplier Huawei has set a new SPC-1 performance record, snagging it five out of the top six results.
Chris Mellor,
01 Nov 2018
48
Worldwide Web wizard Tim Berners-Lee sticks wellington boot into Worldwide Web's giants: Time to break 'em up?
Worldwide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has had enough of internet giants Google, Facebook and friends, and reckons the time has come to look at breaking them up.
Kieren McCarthy,
01 Nov 2018
46
'Privacy is a human right': Big cheese Sat-Nad lays out Microsoft's stall at Future Decoded
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stage at Microsoft's Future Decoded shindig today in London. As has become the norm these days in events when the chief is not dispensing bonzer financials, much was made of the three As: Azure, AI and Accessibility.
Richard Speed,
01 Nov 2018
116
'He must be stopped': Missouri candidate's children tell voters he's basically an asshat
There's no question that fatherhood brings immense responsibility. From the moment they come into the world, children think you are immortal, an aeons-old genius – nay, a god.
Richard Currie,
01 Nov 2018
31
While everyone coos at the promise of 5G, UK network Three asks if it can tempt you with 4G+
Hutchison's UK network Three has upgraded 2,700 urban sites to support faster 4G data.
Andrew Orlowski,
01 Nov 2018
29
UK and EU crawling towards post-Brexit data exchange deal – reports
The UK has reportedly moved closer to agreeing the terms for data transfers with the European Union post-Brexit amid concerns about the impact it will have on business.
Rebecca Hill,
01 Nov 2018
18
Swedes grumbling about Apple Store in their park are lucky – in Toronto, Google eats all your data
Locals have objected to Apple building a store in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården (Kungsan) park. Protestors said the intrusion of a tasteful glass temple of overpriced consumer electronics encroaches into the public space, ruining the character of the park.
Andrew Orlowski,
01 Nov 2018
6
IT Wi-Fi kit bit by TI chip slip: Wireless gateways open to hijacking via BleedingBit chipset vuln
Updated
On Thursday, network equipment makers Aruba, Cisco, and Cisco-owned Meraki plan to patch two flaws in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) that power their respective enterprise Wi-Fi access points.
Thomas Claburn,
01 Nov 2018
6
Behold! Blocks and Files is born again as storage tech website returns
Several years ago, The Register absorbed the storage-focused Blocks and Files website because storage news was becoming mainstream IT industry news. The bits and bytes making up blocks, files and objects were becoming so large in number that developing storage arrays to hold them was a complex business and getting more so.
Chris Mellor,
01 Nov 2018
18
UK banking TITSUP*: This time it's Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks
Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank users have been unable to log in to their accounts or see transactions today, thanks to a non-specific “technical issue”.
Rebecca Hill,
01 Nov 2018
44
BT: We're stocking warehouses with kit ahead of Brexit to avoid shortages
BT has got Brexit licked, it told the stock market today – the former state telco said it has modelled for the worst outcome and is stockpiling products in case the UK exits with no trade deal in place and supply chains falter.
Paul Kunert,
01 Nov 2018
1
Graph database biz Neo4j doubles total funding courtesy of $80m E-series splurge
Graph database-flinger Neo4J has doubled its total funding after bagging $80m in E-round funding.
Rebecca Hill,
01 Nov 2018
21
Need electric propulsion for your satellite? Want a 'made in Britain' sticker? Step right this way...
Updated
Thales Alenia Space has bucked the Brexit blues by announcing the first all-electric satellite propulsion module to be designed and built in the UK.
Richard Speed,
01 Nov 2018
35
5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles
Apple has withdrawn a faulty update that has left Apple Watch 4 owners with bricked bling.
Andrew Orlowski,
01 Nov 2018
20
Welcome back, 'ping of death', it has been... a few months. Now it's Apple's turn to do the patching
When Apple took to the stage for its latest slew of product announcements, there were a bunch of security fixes disclosed at the same time with far less fanfare.
Richard Chirgwin,
01 Nov 2018
11
The great and powerful Oz (broadband network): Revs rise, but nbn™'s exec bonuses don't
The company building Australia's National Broadband Network turned in what was mostly a dull but worthy set of financials, and it's put something of a squeeze on its executive bonuses.
Richard Chirgwin,
01 Nov 2018
155
Mourning Apple's war against sockets? The 2018 Mac mini should be your first port of call
Analysis
The world's fourth biggest PC company sells three desktop PC lines, but it hadn't updated one of those three for four years. Maybe Apple had forgotten that the humble and unassuming Mac mini was there at all. But it fixed that this week.
Andrew Orlowski,
01 Nov 2018
31
£220k fines for dodgy dialling duo who didn't do due dil on data
The UK's data watchdog has slapped a £220,000 fine on two firms that collectively made hundreds of thousands of nuisance calls to flog home security services.
Rebecca Hill,
01 Nov 2018
22
Facebook sets Linux kernel tools free
After years of making the world more open and connected – to everyone's delight – Facebook recently moved on to bringing the world closer together.
Thomas Claburn,
01 Nov 2018
79
US Republicans bash UK for tech tax plan
One of the top Republicans in the US House of Representatives had harsh words Wednesday for the UK government's plan to impose additional taxes on tech giants.
Shaun Nichols,
01 Nov 2018
4
Cisco chucks its hat into the 400Gbps ring
Cisco has made its long-awaited entry into the 400G space, today announcing four switches pitched at webscale, high-end enterprise, and service provider customers.
Richard Chirgwin,
31 Oct 2018
42
Supreme Court raises eyebrows at Google's cozy $8.5m legal deal
The US Supreme Court is distinctly unimpressed with a cozy deal cooked up by Google's lawyers after the ad giant lost an $8.5m class action lawsuit for violating user privacy.
Kieren McCarthy,
31 Oct 2018
28
Sensor failure led to Soyuz launch failure, says Roscosmos
A crew crisis at the International Space Station could be averted, with Russia's Roscosmos saying this month's Soyuz launch incident was caused by a sensor failure.
Richard Chirgwin,
31 Oct 2018
56
This one weird trick turns your Google Home Hub into a doorstop
Updated
A security researcher says an undocumented API in the Google Home Hub assistant can be exploited to kick the gizmo off its own wireless network.
Shaun Nichols,
31 Oct 2018
10
Tiny Twitter thumbnail tweaked to transport different file types
A picture turns out to be worth much more than a thousand words, at least on Twitter. For security researcher David Buchanan, it amounts at least 884,000, roughly the number words in the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Thomas Claburn,
31 Oct 2018
3
Nice work if you can get it: GandCrab ransomware nets millions even though it has been broken
The infamous GandCrab malware infection has netted its operators an estimated nine-figure payout from targeting large, high-value corporate systems.
Shaun Nichols,
31 Oct 2018
27
US government charges two Chinese spies over jet engine blueprint theft
The US Justice Department has charged two Chinese spies with stealing jet engine blueprints through a series of online hacks over the course of five years.
Kieren McCarthy,
31 Oct 2018
12
Cray's pre-exascale Shasta supercomputer gets energy research boffins hot under collar
Cray has announced Shasta – a near-composable planned supercomputer supporting multiple CPUs, GPUs and interconnects, including its new high-speed Slingshot Ethernet-compatible fabric that fixes the noisy neighbour network congestion problem.
Chris Mellor,
31 Oct 2018
13
Haha, good times: Larry Ellison regales noobs about when Oracle staff almost didn't get paid
Oracle staffers were about a week away from not getting paid, founder Larry Ellison has said of the firm's early days.
Rebecca Hill,
31 Oct 2018
27
Microsoft claims Office 364 back to business as usual. Oh no it isn't, say suffering sysadmins
Microsoft might be patting itself on the back prematurely for wrangling the technical gremlins that downed its Office 365 services for some users in the UK and the US.
Paul Kunert,
31 Oct 2018
22
We're Zuckers for a sequel: Brit MPs' battle to grill Facebook boss continues
British MPs desperate to grill Mark Zuckerberg over misuse of Facebook data have teamed up with their Canadian counterparts in a last-ditch attempt to lure the boss to the first ever international "grand committee".
Rebecca Hill,
31 Oct 2018
80
Bomb squad descends on suspicious package to find something much more dangerous – a Journey cassette
An entire block was shut down around the Duke Energy building in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday after mail room staff reported "a small manila envelope handwritten and addressed from out of state" to police.
Richard Currie,
31 Oct 2018
3
Computacenter shares crash by a fifth as sales shrink... Nope, it's not Brexit
The wheels came off tech reselling in the UK for Computacenter in calendar Q3 according to a trading update released to the London Stock Exchange this morning, sending the firm’s share price crashing by a fifth.
Paul Kunert,
31 Oct 2018
106
Shift-work: Keyboards heaped in a field push North Yorks council's fly-tipping buttons
A cache of keyboards has been dumped in a field in North Yorkshire, England, leading to speculation that the person responsible for Deleting them from the face of the Earth didn't want to put in another Shift.
Rebecca Hill,
31 Oct 2018
67
Chuck this on expenses: £2k iPad paints Apple as the premium fondleslab specialist – as planned
Analysis
None of the new products Apple announced yesterday – laptops, desktops and tablets – are cheap, and all are more expensive than the models they supersede. But the introduction of a £2,000 iPad is by far the most eye-catching.
Andrew Orlowski,
31 Oct 2018
6
Google Project Zero zeroes in on Google project: Security hole spotted in gVisor sandbox fence
Google's gVisor sandboxed kernel had a bug that would allow an attacker to escape their container and overwrite files in the host filesystem – according to Google Project Zero's Jann Horn.
Richard Chirgwin,
31 Oct 2018
7
Check this out: Radisson Hotel Group 'fesses up to 'security incident'
Radisson Hotel Group has told members of its loyalty scheme that their personal details were exposed in a data breach.
Paul Kunert,
31 Oct 2018
21
Intel hits target: 27% of staffers are female? Apparently that's 'full representation'
Intel has hit its target of "full representation" among staffers who toil stateside, and said the diversity push has resulted in a hike in the proportion of its employees who are female or minorities.
Jude Karabus,
31 Oct 2018
21
Concerns over cops' crap computer kit: UK MPs call for cash, capacity, command
Cops' investment in and adoption of technology is "a complete and utter mess", MPs have said in a scathing report on the parlous state of UK policing.
Rebecca Hill,
31 Oct 2018
78
If you have inner peace, it's probably 'cos your broadband works: Zen Internet least whinged-about Brit ISP – survey
Virgin pipped BT to be the most-moaned-about UK ISP in Whinge Which? magazine's most recent survey of British broadband.
Andrew Orlowski,
31 Oct 2018
Streamline delivery with open source, they said. It's perfectly safe, they said
Webcast
It has been argued that the future of software development and operations is all about speeding up development and deployment through cloud-based infrastructure and open source software.
Team Register,
31 Oct 2018
44
Boffins have fabricated microscopic sci-fi tractor beams for real
The idea of tractor beams, concentrated rays of energy used to trap and move objects at a distance, was first introduced in science fiction.
Katyanna Quach,
31 Oct 2018
8
Spectrum-starved Wi-Fi vendors look at DSRC band, sharpen knives
A mostly-unused slice of radio spectrum set aside for connected cars in 1999 could soon be shared with Wi-Fi, with the Federal Communications Commission seeking comment on the future of the 5.9 GHz band.
Richard Chirgwin,
31 Oct 2018
51
GitHub lost a network link for 43 seconds, went TITSUP for a day
A 43-second loss of connectivity on the US East Coast helped trigger GitHub's 24-hour TITSUP (Total Inability To Support User Pulls) earlier this month.
Richard Chirgwin,
31 Oct 2018
19
50 ways to leave your lover, but four to sniff browser history
"History sniffing" promises a nose full of dust or, you're talking about web browsers, a whiff of the websites you've visited.
Thomas Claburn,
31 Oct 2018
24
Bird, Lime, and Xiaomi face scooter sueball
Scooter providers Bird and Lime, and scooter makers Segway and Xiaomi, face a lawsuit in Los Angeles, Calif., claiming that the two-wheeled tech toys are poorly manufactured and maintained.
Thomas Claburn,
31 Oct 2018
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