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Version 10 improves replication, simplifies partitioning With the release of PostgreSQL 10, the open source database's developers are farewelling the deprecated MD5 in their authentication mechanism.…

Bought in 2013, disposed of in 2017 due to misalignment with 'long-term focus' Four years after acquiring Composite Software and rebranding it as Cisco Data Virtualization, Switchzilla will sell the unit to Tibco.…

Get a piece of the Register' weekend storage pizza Thick crust, thin crust, who cares, it's storage pizza time, cooked in The Register's own wood-fired oven, with lots of bark and bite.…

If you fancy whipping up a bondage loop under a BSDM licence this is the language you've been gagging for Developers: bored with bracketing? Got a dose of “escaping ennui”? Why not write bad erotica instead?…

Larry's revolution is incremental change that DBAs need not fear OPENWORLD WRAP Oracle’s annual OpenWorld conference is over. The streets of San Francisco are free of the hordes of execs, devs and analysts, and everyone has gone home to mull over what they've learned.…

PureVPN assisted investigation of man charged over 16-month harassment campaign Virtual private network provider PureVPN helped the FBI track down an Internet stalker, by combing its logs to reveal his IP address.…

Four fall ill after Fall's favorite artificial flavoring overwhelms A high school in Baltimore, USA, was evacuated this week after a pumpkin spice air freshener made four people ill and triggered a hazardous materials scare.…

Huge explosions belched foul gases, but enough about Y!... Our Moon had an atmosphere visible from space almost four billion years ago – thanks to volcanic eruptions on its surface spewing a concoction of gases at a rate faster than they could escape the heavenly body.…

Rigzone founder sentenced for data duplication scheme "Operation Resume Hoard" was going well. Initiated around April 1, 2015, it represented David W. Kent's plan to build the membership of his oil and gas industry networking site Oilpro.com.…

Put down the pint, a top news commenting app just got pwned Disqus, the developer of website comment systems used worldwide, is playing the old "bury bad news late on a Friday" card – as it just confessed one of its databases was swiped by hackers.…

'Augmented-reality' upstart is back with another vid Comment It's been nearly a year since augmented reality upstart MagicLeap was called out for the fact that its revolutionary technology didn't actually exist.…

AOL's instant chat app axed in time for Christmas Your old ISP is finally going to kill off your old messaging software.…

Versions in use by millions lag behind latest OS, leaving systems vulnerable to attack Microsoft is silently patching security bugs in Windows 10, and not immediately rolling out the same updates to Windows 7 and 8, potentially leaving hundreds of millions of computers at risk of attack.…

I fear big batts and I cannot lie. Y'all better duck and dive... Apple has said it is looking into claims that the batteries in its new iPhone 8 Plus phones are swelling and cracking their cases.…

Plus: How SEC's IT staff begged for more cash Roundup Another week draws to a close so it's time to review the security news you may have missed in between the big hitters: the NSA contractor who leaked more exploits, Apple's encryption password blunder, and so on. This week we've seen bugs, hacking, and government silliness – take a look...…

We want him! No, he's ours! Shut up! Russia doesn't want America taking one of its nationals accused of running a $4bn Bitcoin laundering ring – Moscow wants him more.…

Hey, but aren't you forgetting *cough* Azure? *cough* Amazon boasts that it is the "preferred" cloud provider for General Electric, but, in this multi-cloud world, that's not quite the case.…

Pre-Openreach split badness lands biz with five-figure fine BT has been fined £25,000 after being found guilty of carrying out unsafe roadworks in the UK capital, following a prosecution by Transport for London.…

Faces sentencing in December A teenager from Leicestershire, England, has admitted to trying to hack US government officials including the director of the CIA and Obama's Director of National Intelligence.…

Startup lugs $103m war chest on mission to switch up the industry Analysis Newcomer Vexata has dropped out of stealth with a $103mn funding war chest and aims to blow the fusty old storage array business to smithereens with its 7 million IOPS Active Data Fabric box. How so?…

Brothers at Unite have seen little progress since last demos Unionised workers at Fujitsu will again be tested on their appetite for fresh strike action over proposed jobs, silencing of company reps in the Works Council, pay and pensions, says Unite.…

Boost for data protection bods NetApp is reselling Veeam data protection software.…

Brexploitation: Buyers' horror stories that followed the vote Some "unscrupulous" tech suppliers used Brexflation in 2016 to overcharge customers with the most extreme example being a uni that coughed more than ten times the trade price for a cable.…

You know that even HMRC ditched this, right? The Disclosure and Barring Service, responsible for processing requests for criminal records checks, has taken the gamble of using the Government Digital Service's online ID system authentication portal.…

Let me tell you about my mother No spoilers Stepping into the cinema to watch Blade Runner 2049 was a nervous moment; after The Phantom Menace and Prometheus, was another studio about to take a steaming dump on a pivotal film of my youth?…

Total inability to support usual payments Updated Royal Bank of Scotland customers have been reporting an inability to log into digital banking services this morning.…

Still a chance to join us and your fellow boffins on Monday The speakers are on their way, the food and drink is ordered, and there are just a handful of tickets left for MCubed, our three-day delve into machine learning, AI and data science.…

It's not you, it's m- ... No, wait, it's totally you Ofcom has proposed forcing providers to disclose more accurate speed information at the point of sale and hand consumers the power to walk away if speeds fall below a guaranteed level, in a crackdown on service provision.…

No you are not. You've been lucky MORE than once Canalys Channels Forum Some metaphors do bear close examination. Just ask plucky, perennial underdog AMD, which this week compared itself to Buster Douglas, the short-lived heavyweight boxing champ who shocked the world when he dethroned Mike Tyson in the 1980s.…

Robocop? Star Trek? What's your favourite vision? Blade Runner 2049, the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott's immeasurably influential vision of tomorrow, was released this week.…

Back to the primitive! F*** all your politics! Something for the Weekend, Sir? The Dawn of Man. Picture a pastoral scene of prehistoric arcadian bliss as our troglodyte ancestors sit about calmly picking fleas off each other's backs.…

3 IT giants - just 1 on-prem/hybrid stack partner opening... Analysis An IT trio of giants will soon dominate the market - and there appears to be one on-premises/hybrid stack partner opening, Nutanix told us.…

Sticky tape refocused robotic tape library's lazy-eyed laser On-Call Hello, Friday. And hello, therefore, another instalment of On-Call, The Register's week-ending reader-contributed tales of support jobs that occasionally work out for the best.…

Timeline of compromise goes back to April VB2017 Avast staffers spoke at the Virus Bulletin International Conference in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday to shed more light on their postmortem of the CCleaner fiasco – and urge developers to protect their software's toolchain and distribution systems from hackers.…

Vogels recounts how Dynamo paper became AWS NoSQL giant Amazon CTO Werner Vogels this week marked the 10th anniversary of his Project Dynamo whitepaper, the blueprint for what would become the DynamoDB platform.…

DeepMind reminded neural net dev work is expensive AI Roundup Hello, here's this week's snippets of artificial intelligence news. It shows how some AI frameworks are beginning to mature, and that some research is applicable to the real world, while other papers are questionable.…

Get a grip, it's just another spacewalk NASA commander Randy Bresnik and astronaut Mark Vande Hei have spent seven hours upgrading one of the International Space Station's robot arms.…

He'd teach you about ions and mysterious structures but he'd have to charge A teenager studying electrically charged particles has captured the formation of an ill-understood electric honeycomb structure called the Rose window.…

Philosopher, stoned Mattel's Aristotle, a kid's-Alexa-only-more-creepy, won't get the chance to invade children's bedrooms after all: the company's cancelled it.…

Web Payments API bugs, or perhaps features, can be abused: Lukasz Olejnik Yet another W3C API can be turned against the user, privacy boffin Lukasz Olejnik – this time, it's in how browsers store and check credit card data.…

A look into Big Blue and Lenovo's forays into beloved black boxes After teasing techies for months, Lenovo has finally unveiled the ThinkPad 25: a laptop designed to mimic the look and feel of the legendary IBM ThinkPad but with all modern components.…

Freedom doesn't mean what you think it does Analysis The US Senate Judiciary Committee has unveiled its answer to a controversial spying program run by the NSA and used by the FBI to fish for crime leads.…

Let's make sure that code you're pulling in is legit code, not some scumbag's library Code registry npm, home to some 550,000 Node.js packages and millions of users, on Wednesday added support for two-factor authentication (2FA) and read-only authentication tokens in an effort to shore up its defenses.…

Vinod Khosla responds to the only thing he knows: money Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has finally backed down in his efforts to stop Californians from accessing a beach via a road on lands he owns.…

Не делай из мухи слона, говорит Евгений Russian government spies extracted NSA exploits from a US government contractor's home PC using Kaspersky Lab software, anonymous sources have claimed.…

On iOS and Android, cough Microsoft has released a beta version of its Edge web browser for Apple iOS and Google Android devices.…

High Sierra update derided by devs as half-baked Video Apple on Thursday released a security patch for macOS High Sierra 10.13 to address vulnerabilities in Apple File System (APFS) volumes and its Keychain software.…

Winning consortium wants IPO for flash unit in three years Toshiba Memory Business bid winner Bain Capital is hoping to settle with WDC and float the purchased unit in three years.…

Jelena Milosevic says what we're all thinking VB2017 A children's nurse told delegates at the Virus Bulletin conference in Madrid on Thursday to get a grip on Internet of Things security.…

BarraCuda Pro and IronWolves get a capacity jump Seagate has fired out three 12TB drives, punting one at the desktop, two at the NAS market, and clobbering WDC on capacity in both areas.…