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'I stopped trying to be polite about their BS', says Torvalds who plans Linux 4.12 next week Linux lord Linus Torvalds thinks he'll be able to give the world version 4.12 of the Linux kernel next week.…

And that's just the stuff Google can count on mobile devices Google's revealed just how perilous humanity's future existence has become, by shedding a light on our YouTube viewing habits.…

Brute force attack on weak passwords, cracked <90 email accounts The Parliament of the United Kingdom has admitted it experienced a “sustained and determined cyber attack” over the weekend and says <90 email accounts have been compromised as a result.…

Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh? No matter what you did over the weekend, you'll struggle to top Elon Musk's after his space trucking venture launched 11 satellites atop two rockets, both of which stuck perfect landings on barges.…

Microsoft to Tavis: here's the fix. Any chance we could have a day off? Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy has alerted the world to yet another way Microsoft's anti-virus tool Windows Defender could be attacked.…

IDC's tracker finds FlexPods flourishing, Vblocks/VxBlocks faltering Analyst firm IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker shows overall converged systems revenue for 2017's first quarter increased year over year but only because of bonkers growth in hyper-converged systems.…

Left hand quits trying to meet right hand, waves at customers saying 'don't break Skype' Earlier this month, Microsoft gave the world .NET Framework 4.7 and urged users to install it for the usual reasons: more fun bits to play with and a security improvements.…

Project Goldilocks to whitelist VMs' expected behaviour and snuff 'em if they deviate VMware's long-expected security product will emerge in Q3 under the name “App Defence”.…

Debian devs noticed errata to deep docs and now the fit's hitting the shan During April and May, Intel started updating processor documentation with a new errata note, and over the weekend we learned why: Skylake and Kaby Lake silicon has a microcode bug.…

USB-toting admin 'upgraded' Windows and Linux systems with something nasty that Police can't really explain A contractor in the Australian State of Victoria has managed to infect an unknown number of speed cameras with a virus, over sneakernet.…

'The reduction in leverage is significant' – Parker Everyone’s favourite people pimp Capita has permanently outsourced its Asset Services businesses to Link Administration for £888m – a fleeting injection of cash in the bank that will be used to reduce debts.…

What could possibly go wrong? Cisco, IBM, HP, McAfee and SAP are among plenty of western technology companies that have been showing their source code to Russian authorities in exchange for the right to sell their products in the country.…

Good day to be an attorney, or a Maserati salesman Health insurer Anthem has today agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by its 2015 cyber-theft of 78.8 million records.…

Van Eck phreaking getting surprisingly cheap Side-channel attacks that monitor a computer's electromagnetic output to snaffle passwords are nothing new. They usually require direct access to the target system and a lot of expensive machinery – but no longer.…

OneWeb gets green light to pipe internet through 720 orbiting satellites America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, has approved OneWeb's proposal to launch an ISP on the backs of 720 orbiting satellites.…

Pish, hackers, smackers, says Rex Tillerson Analysis US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed a willingness to work directly with Russia on cybersecurity and other issues.…

Unreleased 64-bit ARM versions, Server editions among dumped data Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.…

Given the amount of data it already has on you, why bother? Google has said it will no longer scan the content of Gmail messages to sell targeted adverts to users of the free service.…

Record $120m penalty will be doled out by FCC for bonkers binge of junk dialing America's comms regulator, the FCC, will fine a Florida Man $120m for flooding the country with nearly 100 million robocalls in three months.…

You're not using the password from the sticker, are you? Virgin Media has urged 800,000 customers to change their passwords to guard against possible hacking attack.…

Up and down goes the Retro Computers Ltd litigation yoyo The £52,000 costs order granted against troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd has been set aside by the Senior Courts Costs Office, a branch of the High Court, as the wrangle between RCL and two former directors rumbles on.…

As DeepMind slurps up more more patient data for Streams Google has decided to wipe people’s medical records from its search results - just as its AI branch DeepMind extends its grips on UK patients’ medical records.…

That's a £50k penalty and another shaming for Kent-based MyHome Installations Electrical survey provider MyHome Installations Ltd, which entered the hall of shame on the Beeb's Rogue Traders for pressure selling to pensioners, is facing a £50,000 fine for nuisance calls.…

They're oldies but could still spill the goodies, say experts Russians hackers are trading the email addresses and passwords of top UK politicians and diplomats.…

French firm and new pals WND announce, err, ambitious plans French Internet of Things connectivity firm Sigfox says it is partnering with a hitherto unheard-of firm, WND-UK, to cover "95 per cent" of Blighty by 2019.…

'Tactics like this are bad for business and customers' The fight between Bezos' poster child and Walmart just got real – Amazon has officially called out the groceries juggernaut for petty schoolyard tactics.…

Paltrow, we have a problem Current and former NASA scientists have called bullshit on claims seen on alternative "wellness" wallet-relieving blab-blog Goop, run by former famous actress and current linens-for-rich-ladies slinger Gwyneth Paltrow.…

No, says Datrium, 'cos you can't share data. E8 sort of agrees Analysis What is a SAN and is an NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeF) array a SAN or not? Datrium says not. E8 says... maybe.…

Party can expect a call from the Information Commissioner The Conservative Party has been accused of pushing its message on potential voters in a way that may have breached data protection laws.…

Effort to notify patients falls flat – under pizza pamphlet A midlands NHS group has committed face-palm after face-palm in its efforts to inform residents about its patient data-sharing plans.…

Let’s invent a dustbin that throws itself away Something for the Weekend, Sir? What the world needs now is an intelligent dustbin. It would be the pinnacle of achievement for the Internet of Things sector.…

Illegal offline? It's illegal online Analysis Algorithms used to track or adapt prices online raise competition concerns, according to a recent submission to the OECD by the European Union.…

VPS blinkenlights dim for some of the customers Fasthosts hasn’t exactly draped itself in glory during this week of the summer solstice, what with the four day blackout of its virtual private server service and a partial eclipse of webmail.…

Wiping out the problem needed a brush and a pump, but didn't make a stink ON-CALL Welcome yet again to On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we take readers' tales of odd jobs in odd places, tart them up and present them to you as a bit of light relief on a Friday.…

When is a server a hyper-server? When it bundles V12N, RHEL, Gluster and Ansible Red Hat's having a crack at a hyperconverged software stack.…

Zuckerberg preaches connectivity gospel, sends faithful to do good works ANALYSIS Mark Zuckerberg's given Facebook a new mission statement: “To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together", in the process rediscovering The Social Network™'s original purpose and exposing web utopianism as hopelessly optimistic.…

Danger, Will Robinson! Autonomous space robots are going to be key to making new discoveries and exploring the furthest reaches of our Solar System and beyond, according to NASA scientists.…

There's an opening and good will to use it, says Ecuadorian foreign minister Ecuador's foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa says the country is working with the UK to find a way for Julian Assange to leave its embassy.…

As Azure Stack's launch approaches, AWS bolsters its hybrid storage story Amazon Web Services dominates the public cloud, but its hybrid cloud story is currently weak.…

Rival ARM-wrestling cloud Scaleway has added 64-core Caviums Qualcomm looks to have a customer for the Centriq 2400 , the 48-core CPU it's aiming at the server market: the minor cloud player Packet has signed up “to introduce” the architecture to its customers.…

RIP Cisco-Dell friendship? Dell EMC's converged infrastructure portfolio is changing. The Vblock – with its Cisco Nexus 1000v switch – is going away, while VxBlocks – with software-defined networking – are taking over.…

Military comms developer says Android and iOS are trampling its patents A software company that makes tracking tools for military and 911 crews says some of the biggest mobile phone makers on the planet are stealing its technology for their own security tools.…

Redmond adds UI tweaks, more emojis and Edge enticements Microsoft has released the newest build of Windows 10 Insider, version 16226, to developers on its fast-track release list.…

Brutal Kangaroo jumps network breaks, according to leaked classified info WikiLeaks has published online more top-secret documents it has obtained from the CIA describing the agency's hacking tools. This time the dossier details software codenamed Brutal Kangaroo that agents can use to infect targets' air-gapped computers with malware.…

Allegations of digging up rivals' cables, breaking promises A Texas telco says Comcast sabotaged its cable network after it refused a buyout offer.…

Software glitch led to algorithm emitting 90-year-old info A Los Angeles Times article-writing bot sent shockwaves through the internet Wednesday – by falsely reporting a hefty 6.8M earthquake had hit Santa Barbara county, California.…

As taxi app maker staff demand T-Bone Kalanick is restored to the throne Waymo has proof Uber execs knew their star engineer Anthony Levandowski was in possession of designs stolen from Waymo well before Uber acquired Levandowski's self-driving vehicle startup.…

Strangely lucid and lawyerly statement from Tweeter-in-Chief President Trump has, in a tweet-burst today, backtracked on his earlier menacing claim that he may have secretly recorded his meetings with then-FBI boss James Comey.…

Sauce on a plane Heightened security at airports clearly doesn't apply to all liquids, at least not in Italy. An airport in Genoa is now allowing flyers to travel with jars of the local speciality sauce – pesto.…

Redmond shrugs, says PC would already need to be thoroughly pwned Flaws in Microsoft PatchGuard create a means for hackers to plant rootkits on Windows 10, 64-bit OS devices.…