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One of these days the 'BootStomp' attack is gonna walk all over your smartmobe University of California Santa Barbara researchers have turned up bootloader vulnerabilities across a bunch of Android chipsets from six vendors.…

Slackers beware, Facebook-owned messaging platform thinks it can charge for chat WhatsApp thinks the time is right for a service that will formally connect its billion daily users to businesses.…

Who needs actual evidence when you're scared about Russia? US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) simply can't wait to banish Kaspersky Lab's antivirus from American government computers on the grounds it's a security risk.…

Meanwhile, Meg gives the dirt on Uber courtship HPE is showing signs that its turnaround is picking up, as the enterprise IT giant raised its revenues – and on Tuesday talked up a future without its software business.…

What goes up, Musk stay on the ground at this rate Incoming Hurricane Irma is menacing Florida, USA, prompting mandatory evacuations – and threatening to ruin Elon Musk's week too.…

I've been to Bali, via California Typhoons have broken four submarine cables in the crowded Asian sea-lanes, with a knock-on impact for Australian ISPs iiNet and Internode.…

Rep Bridenstine wants to get into space – presumably after we've destroyed this world President Donald Trump this month nominated US House Rep James Bridenstine (R-OK) to be the next NASA administrator.…

With DACA dead, all eyes turn to a dysfunctional Congress The technology industry exploded with anger today after President Trump announced an end to a program that has given 800,000 young adults the right to live and work in the United States.…

US cable giant the latest victim of S3 cloud security brain-fart Records of roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were exposed to the public internet after a contractor failed to properly secure an Amazon cloud database.…

Settlement requires disclosure and monitoring, not much else Lenovo on Tuesday settled charges that it compromised the security of its computers to fling ads onto desktops from August 2014 through early 2015.…

All versions of Struts since 2008 affected – upgrade now Malicious code can be push into servers running Apache Struts 2 apps, allowing scumbags to run malware within corporate networks.…

Google's new landfill strategy It's 16 months since Google declared Android One not dead, so it's time to declare it not dead all over again.…

Its aircraft doesn't have a tail fin. No, really A German startup claiming that an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft powered by 36 electric fans is the future of personal transport has somehow scored $90m from investors.…

That's over half the population – digital government, huh? The Estonian government has discovered a security risk in its ID card system, potentially affecting almost 750,000 residents.…

Que pasó? Latin American social networking site Taringa has suffered a database breach that has resulted in the spill of more than 28 million records.…

Your move, EE Brit mobile operator Three has formally filed its legal challenge to cap the forthcoming spectrum auction at 37 per cent, prompting fears that extra 4G airwave capacity and the rollout of 5G could be delayed.…

Driven consortium floors it on the glamour front Updated A Ford Fusion* has been fitted with autonomous driving technology as part of the Driven consortium's tech trials in Oxford, UK.…

Blasts AdWords blockery The founder of the web browser Opera has accused Google of "anti-competitive" practices.…

New boss, whoever they are, has big ol' boots to fill Analysis Arcserve CEO Mike Crest has abruptly left the three-year-old CA Technologies spinout, leaving board chairman Dave Hansen holding the reins while the search for a new chief exec starts.…

Put in some chrome and shade The mania for "flat" user interfaces is costing publishers and e-commerce sites billions in lost revenue.…

Reverse takeover: Cambridge techies to keep London listing Another UK engineering software group has been snapped up by the claws of industrial machines – for about half a billion pieces of cold, hard cash.…

Announces public cloud alliance for China and beyond Huawei is gearing up to deliver public cloud services with an AI component, both directly and with partners in China, and provide plumbing for partners abroad.…

Banks vs fintech war looms. But for now, let's pop the kettle on The UK is lagging behind other countries in mobile wallet adoption, according to a new survey out today.…

Arriving by the end of 2017 Toshiba stand staff at the Huawei Connect conference 2017 in Shanghai said a 14TB helium-filled disk drive would arrive "very soon".…

It's a bit more complicated than going hybrid from private We generally think of a transformation to a hybrid infrastructure as one where you're going from a completely private setup to one that spans the public cloud and your private installation. But what if you started life as a small company with your systems entirely in the cloud? It's not an unusual approach, as running up your initial services in the cloud is straightforward and avoids a big capital outlay. As a company grows it's understandable that it might want to take on a private data centre, build an in-house support team and evolve to a two-site setup.…

Virtzilla's swagger is back as it plans to do to the security industry what it once did to storage industry VMWORLD 2017 VMware's entered the enterprise security market and called for it to become more concentrated.…

4.5km rock is the largest object we've seen up close, albeit still 7,000,000km away Be glad that the asteroid dubbed “Florence” won't revisit Earth for many, many years: observations during its weekend fly-by revealed that the space-rock is so big it's captured two moons.…

Oracle OpenWorld catalog mentions virtual SPARC on cloudy x86, migratory motions Oracle looks like it's going to suggest Solaris users move to its SPARC-powered cloud.…

Electronic Arts tech director thinks tech-agnostic developers can build better networks than slave-to-vendor NetAdmins Fire your network administrators, hire developers instead, and stop expecting networking equipment vendors to provide anything more valuable than free lunches.…

Nine months for letting punters bypass Great Firewall A Chinese man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for helping his fellow citizens drill through the Great Firewall with virtual private networks.…

919444 + 1 is six MEELLION digits long and the twelfth biggest prime ever found Humanity's collection of the very large prime numbers just grew by one member: 919444 + 1.…

Hacker, white hat or crypto boffin? This is important Australia's Department of Defence wants input on proposed changes to “controlled technology” export controls – and the deadline is this coming Friday.…

Bitcoin, Ethereum values dip after 'Initial Coin Offerings' ruled dangerously disruptive Digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum have slipped after the Chinese government banned Initial Coin Offerings, a tool that sees equities offerings bid in cryptocurrencies instead of fiat currencies, a share funding mechanism.…

Indian Premier League cricket rejects Zuck's ~US$600m bid in favour of Murdoch moolah Facebook has again suffered a setback in India, this time finding that around US$600m wasn't enough to secure five years worth of digital distribution rights for cricket matches.…

Never mind robots, get a load of these winged horrors Rise of the Insects A Jersey-based drone was brutally attacked by a swarm of Asian hornets after disturbing a nest thought to contain thousands of the angry insects.…

Since when was 'intervening' in TV shows a good idea? Comment Google has begun to infuse American TV and movies shows with propaganda – "good propaganda", the company insists. However, it's unlikely to please two groups who rarely agree on anything: those who think Google isn't diverse enough, and conservatives who fear its political and media power.…

Learn how to stay strong Promo There’s not much that can go wrong with the back of an envelope. Not so with modern systems: they become increasingly complicated as they take on more tasks, often spanning multiple technologies, groups and different organisations - and are liable to fail in unexpected and spectacular ways.…

Bunch of resumés citing secret government work exposed Thousands of files containing the personal information of US citizens with classified security clearance have been exposed by an unsecured Amazon server.…

Looking to buy the elderly American Ponce Argentina reportedly wants to buy the US Navy’s laser death ray testbed warship, the fearsomely named USS Ponce.…

Meanwhile, China says of ICOs: That's hot, we mean, er, banned Just in case we were in any doubt that we were in a crypto bubble, Paris Hilton has announced she will back an Initial Coin Offering venture.…

£390 per meter... £420 ... pff, it's public money, who cares? Smart meters will cost each British household £420 and save people just “a tenner a year”, according to reports.…

Anniversary special brings back much-loved features The long-awaited "retro" Thinkpad will be based on the guts of a contemporary T470 laptop, Lenovo's business workhorse, according to a German certification site.…

Freedom of Information request to DoJ turns up... nada The US Department of Justice has "no evidence" that Obama's administration wiretapped Trump Tower, contrary to a much-publicised accusation by President Trump to the contrary.…

Storage pigeons roost as we munch on cabbagey treats Comment Did you overdo it with the bacon and buttered toast at the weekend? Never mind, who among us can resist cooked cabbage leaves wrapped round nutritious meaty storage fillings? Get your knife, fork, spoon and napkin ready and load up your plate with what we have in store.…

Scatters £10m across country out of £200m pot Government has revealed the first six areas in Blighty to trial speeds of 1Gbps in a £10m pilot, as previously revealed by The Register.…

Might not seem relevant, but the smart cruncher knows better So, you want to be data driven. About time too. It amazes me to watch companies basing their forecasts on experience, assumption and instinct when their storage area networks are teeming with data that they could use to make what they do more scientific.…

Half of gov techies quit following tax clampdown, says survey The vast majority of UK government IT projects are suffering delays due to freelancers quitting over the IR35 tax clampdown, according to a survey of contractors.…

But not by much: shows Google touched still had lonely hoodie-wearing white male geeks Google operates a “Computer Science in Media Team” that stages “interventions” in Hollywood to steer film-makers towards realistic and accurate depictions of what it's like to work in IT.…

Oxford doomsayers sees bleak future for those employed in retail, transport, warehousing, and logistics About 80 per cent of jobs in retail transportation, warehousing and logistics and 63 per cent of jobs in sales are at risk of disappearing, thanks to increasingly capable automated systems.…

Researchers reverse hashes in Troy Hunt's password release. PS, don't forget the salt The anonymous CynoSure Prime “cracktivists” who two years ago reversed the hashes of 11 million leaked Ashley Madison passwords have done it again, this time untangling a stunning 320 million hashes dumped by Australian researcher Troy Hunt.…