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El Reg talks to Dr Yuval Yarom about Intel's memory leaking catastrophe Interview In the wake of yet another collection of Intel bugs, The Register had the chance to speak to Foreshadow co-discoverer and University of Adelaide and Data61 researcher Dr Yuval Yarom about its impact.…

From FaaS to Lambda and beyond... Events Whether you want to experiment with some new projects, rebuild your organisation from the ground up, or just check you’re already on the right path, you should join us at Serverless Computing London in November.…

ID fraud drops to four-year low New figures reveal UK identity fraud dropped during the first six months of 2018 to reach a four-year low.…

Licensed to chill or unlicensed to thrill... Analysis LPWAN - low power wide area network - is the proposed connectivity tech of choice for powering the Internet of Things - and it comes in many flavours. An IDTechEx Research report put it into perspective recently, when it predicted that there will be 2.7 billion LPWAN IoT connections by 2029.…

Xiaoice's verse is 'disgusting' say rival human poets Microsoft’s chatbot Xiaoice does a lot more than other bots. She has presented the weather on live TV and now even composed a book of poems.…

Fish boozing in alcohol and taurine more likely to ignore pals and look for a fight Can fish get drunk? Yes, apparently.…

A backdoor, or simply throwing all the doors open? If the Australian government was hoping its encryption legislation would have a smooth run, it'll probably be disappointed. Not only has the exposure draft landed with a political storm, reactions from technologists range from guarded to sharply critical.…

Former network engineer gets 18 months in the clink A former Microsoft network engineer will be spending a sojourn behind bars after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.…

Summertiiiiiime, and the hacking is easy Microsoft and Adobe have teamed up to deliver more than 70 patches with this month's Patch Tuesday batch released today.…

But efforts to target boss Ajit Pai are misguided partisanship Analysis The debacle surrounding a false cyberattack on US federal regulator the FCC is heading to Congress, with politicians accusing its chairman of a "dereliction of duty."…

Security is a process that requires hitting people over the head with their errors Building warnings into crypto libraries that alert developers to unsafe coding practices turns out to be an effective way to improve the security of applications.…

But it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi DEF CON Hackers have managed to hack Amazon's Echo digital assistant and effectively turn it into a listening device, albeit through a complex and hard-to-reproduce approach.…

Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers Oracle is advising customers to update their database software following the discovery and disclosure of a critical remote code execution vulnerability.…

Lenovo beefs up beefy desktop replacements - and one is almost Apple-like Lenovo unloads most of its annual ThinkPad line onto the world at CES in January, for a spring launch. (Here is this year’s.) But the Beijing firm saves one or two surprises for later in the year. And here’s one.…

Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack Intel will today disclose three more vulnerabilities in its processors that can be exploited by malware and malicious virtual machines to potentially steal secret information from computer memory.…

Wanting some Linux love, but just can't let that Windows 10 desktop go? Come this way... Linux lovers have received a double load of delight this week with the emission of the 4.18 kernel and a refresh of Windows-wannabe Zorin OS.…

280 brassed-off Brits begged ASA to bite Bezos' behemoth Amazon Prime’s next-day-delivery advertising strapline has been branded misleading by a British advertising watchdog.…

Infosec firm fingers 'decentralised' reporting The first half of 2018 saw a record haul of reported software vulnerabilities yet a high proportion of these won’t appear in any mainstream flaw-tracking lists, researcher Risk Based Security (RBS) has claimed.…

Magnetic strips are ransomware-proof Data protection firm Veeam has forged an alliance with one of the oldest data protection technologies of all – tape.…

Devs reported performance issues then... Apple has pulled the latest beta of its iOS platform software after less than 24 hours in the wild, and without explanation.…

Total Inability To Support User Perusals Swedish flat-pack furniture folk Ikea’s UK tentacle appears to be suffering a rather lengthy website backend outage stopping some customers from placing online orders.…

EE by gum, BT Group brand wins EE is being strongly challenged by rival networks that have improved their reliability, and in some cases their data performance too.…

Frankenfirm waves bye to App Services boss: Time to canter Klaus Mike Klaus, the boss of DXC Technology’s $4bn Applications Services business has left the building, sources have informed The Register.…

For Skype Classic, not the sound of silence In a week when NASA flung a spacecraft into space to touch the Sun, Microsoft has brought darkness to Windows 10, given Skype Classic a mission extension, and continued its efforts to send SMB1 screaming into the heart of our nearest star.…

Fourth time lucky? Hands On Platform rivals to the Apple’s WatchOS have been stagnating for years, with no new silicon from Qualcomm with which to take on the (now) all-conquering Apple smartwatch since 2016. Samsung isn’t dependent on San Diego for silicon though, and it has put the latest it can into its new wearables – and seriously revived the race.…

Report proposes tight conceptual DLT framework Poorly defined and inconsistent terminology for distributed ledger technology systems has led to misconceptions and unrealistic expectations, academics have said.…

'One and Done' attack patched in library's May 2018 release If you missed the OpenSSL update released in May, go back and get it: a Georgia Tech team recovered a 2048-bit RSA key from OpenSSL using smartphone processor radio emissions, in a single pass.…

Layer cake magic as flash capacity set to soar Flash Memory Summit The Flash Memory Summit saw two landmark capacity announcements centred on 96-layer QLC (4bits/cell) flash that seemingly herald a coming virtual abolition of workstation and server read-intensive flash capacity constraints.…

Just days left to save on MCubed conference and workshops Events Our early bird ticket offer for MCubed finishes on Friday, so if you want to save hundreds on conference and workshop tickets, time really is running out.…

McAfee: Patient monitoring systems open to hack attacks Hackers may be able to falsify patient vitals by messing with the traffic on hospital networks.…

Penguinistas mobilise against decision to support only EXT4 Linux users are calling on Dropbox to reverse a decision to trim its filesystem support to unencrypted EXT4 only.…

20th Century tech causing problems in the 21st Video Corporations are open to hacking via a booby-trapped image data sent by fax, a hacker demo at DEF CON suggests.…

Smash, bang, wallop what a planetary crust, The oldest rock formations on Earth were born when meteorites pummelled into the ground over four billion years ago, according to a Nature Geoscience paper published on Monday.…

Switchzilla issues update for authentication bypass flaw Cisco has pushed out an update for its internetwork operating system (IOS) and IOS XE firmware in advance of a Usenix presentation on circumventing cryptographic key protocol.…

Draconian new proposals on data privacy from Australia Australia's promised “not-a-backdoor” crypto-busting bill is out and the government has kept its word - it doesn't want a backdoor, just the keys to your front one.…

Broadband-throttling bug finally gets a write-up and CVE More than 18 months after the design blunder was first brought to light, Intel is still working to iron out the creases in its Puma high-speed broadband modem chipsets.…

AI can help speed up diagnosis and seldom gets it wrong AI can help ophthalmologists diagnose more than 50 common eye diseases from retinal scans, according to a paper published in Nature Medicine on Monday.…

Now all you lot have to actually implement it An overhaul of a critical internet security protocol has been completed, with TLS 1.3 becoming an official standard late last week.…

Feds can now stick Redmond clouds into on-prem hardware Microsoft has kicked out a build of its Azure Stack on-premise cloud for US government use.…

Location, location, location! Google has admitted that its option to "pause" the gathering of your location data doesn’t apply to its Maps and Search apps – which will continue to track you even when you specifically choose to halt such monitoring.…

Courage Foundation boss walks as pro-Jules trustees order Barrett Brown cut loose The director of whistleblower support outfit the Courage Foundation has quit after being told to pull support from Barrett Brown following some barbed comments he made about Julian Assange.…

The host with the most Google plans to allow Windows 10 to run on its budget Chromebooks, with the Chocolate Factory’s blessing.…

Cheaper SSDs could accelerate disk cannibalisation leading to Seagate downturn Flash Memory Summit A flash price crash is coming and should increase disk cannibalization rates as SSDs become more affordable.…

Cheaper SSDs could accelerate disk cannibalisation leading to Seagate downturn Flash Memory Summit A flash price crash is coming and should increase disk cannibalisation rates as SSDs become more affordable.…

Pen and paper is still king in America election security DEF CON Hackers of all ages have been investigating America’s voting machine tech and the results aren’t great. One 11-year-old named Emmet managed to hack and alter a simulated Secretary of State election results webpage in 10 minutes.…

Big Blue mouthpiece insists he's not going anywhere, though IBM’s top cloud and Watson AI man has reportedly been tapped up about moving to scandal-hit ad company WPP Group as chief executive.…

Thousands of discrepancies reported between two databases The government is facing another NHS IT scandal, as it scrambles to confirm whether discrepancies between two databases have affected patient care.…

Quality, enterprise-friendly kit, but ... how much wonga? Hands On The new Samsung Galaxy Note still has a lot to prove after the last-but-one Note - 2016's Note 7 - kept bursting into flames.…

Simon McDougall bags top innovation role at Information Commish The UK’s data protection watchdog has chosen the managing director of an IBM-owned risk management biz, Promontory, to lead its technology policy and innovation team.…

It's no (crypto)miner offence Cheap Android smartphones aren’t just bad for the environment because they’re destined for landfill - they might also cause problems because they come laced with ineffective but battery-life destroying crypto-mining crud.…