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Experts reckon regional infrastructure is in the cross-hairs With tensions soaring between America and Iran following the drone strike that killed top Persian general Qassem Soleimani, experts are weighing in on what the US could face should the Mid-East nation fully mobilize its cyber resources.…

We run through updates to popular lightweight open-source distro Hands on Linux Mint 19.3 was completed late last year and is a long-term support release with support until 2023, so we decided to put it through its paces.…

Despite 'people familiar with matter' claiming otherwise to US news GCHQ and its cyber-defence offshoot NCSC have both denied that they are investigating a cyber-attack on the London Stock Exchange, contrary to reports.…

Deep-pocketed gamers stare into Ghost Canyon at consumer show CES At this year's overstuffed Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Intel teased its upcoming NUC (Next Unit of Computing) desktop — the NUC 9 Extreme, codenamed Ghost Canyon.…

CEO and co-chair Visentin writes to HP board to say: Let's get this thing done Xerox has climbed a financial hurdle in efforts to snaffle HP Inc by convincing three banking giants to stump up the greenbacks to partly fund the $33bn hostile takeover bid.…

Or find it under a crap-pile in your pigsty of a desk... let's be real, that is what you'd use it for HP and Tile plan to hook up some of their kit, with the the latter's gadget-tracking tech shoved into the upcoming HP Elite Dragonfly laptops.…

Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer The Linux kernel has around 27.8 million lines of code in its Git repository, up from 26.1 million a year ago, while systemd now has nearly 1.3 million lines of code, according to GitHub stats analysed by Michael Larabel at Phoronix.…

HP bad, Deloitte and Lynch and Hussain good, says current Invoke Capital bod Autonomy trial A witness who worked on the Autonomy finance team told London's High Court during the long-running Autonomy trial that the firm had indeed been accounting for some hardware sales as marketing expenses in its annual accounts.…

Not perfect, but pretty damn good Comment As the New Year’s festivities wound down a lot of science and science fiction fans toasted the 100th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Asimov, one of the titans of the profession.…

Watch online and find out how to strengthen your arsenal of security measures with F-Secure Webcast Miscreants are constantly on the lookout for new ways to get at your data, becoming more dangerous all the time as a result.…

We're not sure if Electronic Arts has even noticed Linux gamers have found yet again that their ubiquitous operating system remains unwelcome in the context of mainstream entertainment.…

When curiosity killed the print job. All the print jobs Who, Me? Welcome to another entry on the Who, Me? naughty list, filled with the confessions from techies who were perhaps a little silly, maybe somewhat devious, and yet still escaped with careers intact.…

Including: Tesla and a town hit hard by spear-phish bridge scammers Roundup Welcome to the New Year: here are some security headlines that may have slipped past you during the gorging season.…

And now he faces up to 20 years in the slammer A now-former senior IT exec has admitted conning his employer out of $6m – by setting up a fake tech services biz that billed his bosses for bogus services.…

Thanks to America's antitrust laws A US judge on Friday tripled the damages Quanta Storage owes HP Inc to $439m for unlawfully hiking the price of optical disc drives.…

Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says Special report Last year, lawyer Van Lindberg drafted a software license called the Cryptographic Autonomy License (CAL) on behalf of distributed development platform Holo – and submitted it to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval as an Open Source Definition-compliant (OSD) license.…

Data Center Network Manager bugapalooza with three must-fix flaws Cisco is kicking off 2020 with the release of a crop of patches for its Data Center Network Manager.…

But that's minuscule compared to handsets flogged in Q3 2019 5G is in its infancy and yet Samsung has managed to carve out an impressive slice of the market, shipping more than 6.7 million Galaxy 5G devices during 2019.…

Yorkshire and Clydesdale latest to join ongoing game of TITSUP*manship Updated It appears the UK banking system is playing a fiscal game of Top Trumps as both Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank followed yesterday's example set by Lloyds by not processing payments into customer accounts.…

Official reports reveal 'as designed but not intended' snafu Updated British electricity providers are paying £10.5m after a 2019 outage revealed a train-bricking software design flaw.…

Chandrayaan-3 to be a bit less crashy this time around NASA is making preparations to ship the first core stage of its monstrous Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to a Stennis test stand ahead of firing it up.…

Redditor finds security camera capturing stills from strangers' cribs Xiaomi has blamed some post-Christmas cache digestion problems after finding itself plonked on the naughty step by Google – which blocked the Chinese tech conglomerate's devices from its Nest Hub and Assistant last night.…

Tune to hear from NetApp on how to home in the information you need whenever you need it Webcast More business data than ever before is being created all the time by companies’ users, computer systems, and devices.…

And she wore Pantone 19-4052 TPG Velvet Something for the Weekend, Sir? Call me an idiot* but I have no idea what you are talking about, why you're saying it or indeed what's going on any more.…

iXpand? Sounds about right for the holiday season aftermath Review If you spend more than £400 on a mobile phone, odds are high it will include wireless charging, which allows you to replenish your device's battery simply by placing it on a flat surface – no cables required. Predictably, the market is flush with charging pads, some costing as little as a tenner. But what happens if you spend a bit more?…

The time a reader found himself in an awful BIND On Call Did your phone ring over the New Year? No? Then spare a thought for those unfortunates who remain answerable day or night to the dread trill of a panicked On Call.…

I'm not quite dead, mutters 2.7 as rigor mortis sets in With the arrival of 2020, the Python Clock has stopped ticking, marking the end of development for the Python 2 programming language.…

Systems still toast since NYE compromise, manual processing only Foreign currency mega-exchange Travelex said on Thursday it was forced offline by a "software virus" infection, bring down a number of currency-exchange websites with it.…

Cupertino says its software is being ripped off, virty cloud biz says jailbreaks are under attack Corellium and Apple are once again trading allegations in a legal brouhaha over the former's virtual-iPhones-as-a-service operation.…

Q&A biz admits mistakes, promises more discreet public communication In a display of Yuletide good spirits, or possibly a desire to bury bad news, Stack Overflow has settled its beef with a former moderator and said she can apply to regain her moderator status.…

Meanwhile, Samsung semiconductor fab hit by power cut UK-based graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies has inked a new licensing deal with Apple.…

And, oh shucks, is that Corning's Gorilla Glass 6? Dell is kicking off 2020 with a significant refresh of its XPS 13 laptops, including the Ubuntu-powered XPS 13 Developer Edition.…

Dash 8? More like dash for the maintenance hangar A small Alaskan airline has suffered a curiously specific "cyber attack" that mostly affected its De Havilland Dash 8 airliners.…

Guess they'll have to attract new recruits on the 'Gram TikTok is one of the fastest growing social apps, with more than 1.5 billion downloads. However, its Chinese origins have caused controversy in the US, leading some lawmakers to declare it a threat to national security. And now the US Army has banned soldiers from downloading the app on government-issued phones.…

Faster is the new slower where payments are concerned at Black Horse (Down) bank UK banking giant Lloyds is having a mare of a 2020 as its systems fell over for the second day running today.…

Shopping spree means all roads lead to K8s for Virtzilla VMware has completed its acquisition of Pivotal – or re-acquisition, since Pivotal was spun out from VMware in 2012 – and has appointed Ray O'Farrell as leader of its new Modern Applications Platform business unit.…

Don't forget the 5G cellular radio Dell's latest premium business laptop – the Latitude 9510 – boasts, among other things, a 30-hour battery, an optional 5G cellular radio, and, er, a built-in speakerphone system.…

Missed The Great Escape this year? How about boffins rescuing sat dishes from the scrappers instead? Scotland-based boffins may have snatched victory from the slavering jaws of bureaucratic indifference with the relocation of Dundee's satellite data-slurpers to a handy airfield.…

Infuriates customers by making useable systems into electronic waste Soundbar and smart-speaker-flinger Sonos is starting the new year with the wrong kind of publicity.…

Brit software biz blocked access to detailed audit info, says US firm as $5bn trial nears its end Autonomy Trial HPE is holding fast to its claims that Autonomy executives lied during due diligence calls before the ill-fated $11bn buyout of the British software company by the American megalith in 2011.…

Techies at the ready with buckets There's something reassuring about the techies that support a championship-winning Formula 1 team resorting to basic cooling methods to prevent their mobile data centre from melting.…

We pick one technology highlight for each of the Big 3 Analysis Three technology giants continued to dominate cloud computing in 2019, with each bringing in some interesting tools to play with as they sprawled over smaller players.…

If you must know, 2020 was a blast NSFW: Something for the New Year, Sir? Happy 2021, everyone! No, I haven't typed that wrong, I really do bring greetings from the future. Someone launched a handheld short-jump time machine at CES 2021 and I persuaded them to let me test a review unit before they find out I'm not Matthew Hughes.…

The circle is now complete. When I met you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master. Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's stagger through the events of two decades ago, some of which are perhaps a little closer to home than we'd thought.…

Patched or not patched? You won't know until the box marked "2000" is opened Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's collection of ramblings from readers tasked with dealing with what almost happened - but didn't - during those halcyon days of two decades past.…

Slipping in the enhancements while everyone else is watching the calendar Y2K Welcome to Y2K, a series of tales from Register readers who found themselves at the sharp, pointy end of the turn of the century IT panic of two decades ago.…

We'll pay anything, anything - just don't turn that phone off Y2K There's a reason why some in IT remember the days of Y2K fondly. To quote a lyric from an erstwhile pop combo of the 80s, it really could be "Money for Nothing" for a lucky few. Welcome to The Register's reader recollections of the era.…

Coffee and smokes - but where did I put that entry card? In fact, where is the DC? Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's short series of what was acceptable at the end of the 90s as the world prepared for the digitapocalypse.…

Also: Shock News! Access 97 'perfectly capable' according to Reg reader Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's trip down the memory lane of the fear generated by those two naughty digits, and the cash flung at contractors to deal with them.…

Are those currants compliant? WELL ARE THEY? Y2K Welcome to Y2K, The Register's Christmas gift to those that missed the insanity of all those years ago, and those who remember it all too well.…