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Mozilla devs debate whether this is a bug or a feature Firefox's intermediate certificate cache can be tricked into leaking to a deliberately mis-configured server, creating yet-another chance to fingerprint users (including those who think they're protected by Private Browsing).…

Readings raise fears of nuke, probably a boring factory fumble The US military has sent one of its atmosphere-analyzing aircraft to Europe to hunt the source of a radioactive leak on the continent.…

Uncle Sam's vaguely worded raid warrant knocked down by the Constitution Analysis An Illinois judge has rejected a warrant sought by the US government to force everyone in a given location to apply his or her fingerprints to any Apple electronic device investigators happen to find there, a ruling contrary to a similar warrant request granted last year by a judge in California.…

First devices cleared for sale as chip biz, carriers rejoice The FCC has approved the first crop of LTE-U base stations for sale in the US, a move aimed at opening unlicensed spectrum space to boost broadband speeds.…

Navigational computer blunder halts cargo capsule hook-up SpaceX today called off an attempt to berth its Dragon cargo capsule with the International Space Station after the, er, podule got a bit lost. It's fine, though: they'll try again on Thursday.…

Think tank is upset not every hack is spewing marketing spiel (it's just most of them) The tech press has dared to lean away from its core mission of making technology companies more profitable, says tech advocacy house ITIF.…

It's a Trap...pist mini solar system 44 million years away by jet plane Pics and video NASA has discovered a mini solar system of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a small cool dwarf star, including three within the Goldilocks zone where liquid water is possible.…

Its own security software could have stopped data exposure Global aerospace firm Boeing earlier this month sent a notification to Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as required by law, about a company employee who mistakenly emailed a spreadsheet full of employee personal data to his spouse in November, 2016.…

NComputing packages up ARM PC into RX300 box Using the Raspberry Pi 3 as a Windows thin client is not a new idea, but NComputing has wrapped it all up in a nice package for its target markets of schools and verticals.…

You could set your watch to it ... but best not Oracle says it will finally land Java Enterprise Edition 8 in July 2017 – only eight months behind schedule.…

'The limitations of automation' So it begins.…

We OWN you, WE review the products, WE say what stays Oracle today poured cold water on efforts by Apiary top brass to reassure customers about the future of its software under Big Red – the very same day Oracle's acquisition of Apiary concluded.…

HTTP still being used eBay uses HTTPS on its most critical pages, such as those where payment or address information is entered, but a lack of encryption on several sensitive pages still poses a concern for the privacy conscious.…

Redundancy axes loom over Global Tech Services workers Exclusive IBM is about to fling another bunch of Technical Services Support staffers down the redundancy chute, internal documents leaked to The Register reveal.…

Chipzilla gets in on Last Level Cache design A new cache is needed between memory and the tri-level processor cache structure in servers in order to avoid CPU core wait states.…

Mobile ad boom favours the happy app Advertising revenue flowing back to app developers from Android apps has exceeded the amount returned to developers by Apple for the first time.…

Misses full-year forecast by, oh, only 20 per cent Cybersecurity firm NCC Group has launched a strategic review after issuing a profit warning.…

Peering peers reject proposed rules on keeping quiet about secret govt gagging orders Members of LINX, the London Internet Exchange – the UK's largest net peering point – have rejected proposals that would reshape the company’s constitution and could block members from being consulted about government tapping instructions.…

World + dog can buy licensed spectrum IoT connectivity Internet of Things bods Sigfox have struck a global deal with Telefonica to offer their unlicensed spectrum connectivity tech through the telco.…

No scaling limit? Do go on Storage Architect I've been messing about with databases for a long time. I say "messing about" because I've never been a DBA, but as a systems programmer and storage administrator, I've been on the periphery of the application layer and of course I've deployed many personal databases.…

Opportunity knocks ahead of G6 unveiling So this is how consumer electronics marketing works in 2017.…

Pint-sized outfit which couldn't handle support tickets gives out £10 vouchers After provoking dissatisfaction from customers during its recent support ticket pile-up, Smart Hosting has apologised and offered £10 in service credit.…

Anything Bezos can do, you can do better, right? You can't move without IT companies telling you about the "amazing" new technologies and features they've just launched, how you can't live without them, and what a shock it is that you've managed all these years before they were developed. And of course the bigger the company, the more new stuff they tend to pump out and the more critical it is that you sign up NOW.…

Bill Gates, Microsoft, pay-per-use... this is sounding familiar

How levels, layers, stacks and DIMMS are boosting speeds Analysis Up until very recently the main thrust of data access and storage technology development was to make the media faster, hence the move from disk to flash, and flash technology developments to increase capacity.…

August 4th, er, February 20th, 2017: Simple cyber-brain goes online A team of engineers has built an artificial synapse with the hopes of creating a neural network system with similar processing powers as the human brain.…

Software scrutinizes device defenses, is better than just yelling IT policies at staff Netflix has released the source code of a web application called Stethoscope for evaluating the security of mobile and desktop computing devices.…

Hopes to turn terrible triangles into more profitable routes Delivery company UPS has become the latest concern to experiment with schlepping stuff about by drone, instead of wheeled vehicles.…

Just six per cent of banks using DNSSEC on domains The Dutch banking industry is doing a terrible job of online security, according to the company that runs the country's .nl internet domains.…

Small biz wakes up to find online homes defaced Hundreds of websites have been defaced by hackers who hijacked a web-hosting server run by UK domain registrar DomainMonster.…

Spectators swallow hard as cloud seeds flow forth Vid + pics Drone operators have been gazing in fascination as, for the first time in over a decade, the Lake Berryessa glory hole has been swallowing up excess water and shooting it down into Putah Creek.…

What China wants, China gets: A biz running a too-big-to-fail cloud What China wants, China gets – in this case an exception to SAP's usual practice of running its own cloud.…

You know what they say. Follow the money Hard on the heels of a second-quarter result in which software subscriptions provided one of the few bright spots, Cisco's revealed a slew of new software-based systems.…

Universal file sharing is hard because Services and CDNs scramble HTTP. Enter 'Upspin' Wouldn't it be nice if there was a universal and consistent way to give names to files stored on the Internet, so they were easy to find? A universal resource locator, if you like?…

Can build clouds, can't schedule email announcing stablization release The OpenStack Foundation has announced Ocata, its fifteenth edition. And then tried to un-announce it again.…

NoSQL server, but a big unhappy Yes to the question of security worries Aerospike NoSQL server DBAs, make sure you've rolled out version 3.11.1.1, because the vulnerabilities it fixes have been made public.…

*aaS-es are, however, fattening faster than any other segment of the market For all the hype about cloud it's a bit of a revenue wimp: the abacus-shufflers of IDC have just told the world that it will account for about five per cent of the world's tech spend in 2017.…

Don't get rung out about planting bugs in ladder logic: they should be easy to spot One of the world's oldest programming styles, the ladder logic that runs on industrial programmable logic controllers, remains dangerously vulnerable to attack, according to boffins from Singapore and India.…

Microsoft roadmap lays out second big update for 2017 Microsoft has confirmed it is planning a second major update for Windows 10, which is to be piloted this year, and is seriously considering releasing it before 2018.…

Nothing like a post-holiday IT cockup US Department of Homeland Security staff returning to work on Tuesday after the Presidents' Day holiday have apparently had a tough time getting computer systems to function.…

Private Docker Swarm keys leak into public containers IBM left private keys to the Docker host environment in its Data Science Experience service inside freely available containers.…

AWS, GCE price war looming? Google will this week start offering Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU-equipped virtual machines for its Compute Engine and Cloud Machine Learning hosted services.…

Boffins demand rule rewrite to restore glorified moon's dignity The ongoing argument over whether Pluto is an actual planet or just a dwarf on the outskirts of the Solar System has heated up again – with a new proposal to reapply planetary status to the distant iceball.…

Civil liberty groups, security experts, law profs, lawmakers slam looming US policy Over 50 human rights and civil liberties groups, nearly 100 law professors and security experts, and lawmakers have launched a campaign against digital searches at the US border.…

Starting with literally piles of crap (no, not the code) Interview In the months ahead, Idaho National Laboratory aims to open-source software for analyzing the quality of cow manure.…

One device for the next billion, Jide hopes Jide, the company founded by three ex-Googlers, has shown how a phone can act as a Continuum-style hub. When plugged into an external monitor, the Android device – with the new and as-yet unreleased cut of Jide's Remix OS – allows the user to work with "desktop-friendly" versions of the apps that are already installed on the phone.…

Push for majority stake sale in memory business Toshiba is looking to raise almost $9bn (‎¥1 trillion) by selling off a majority stake in its memory chip business, according to Reuters, and so repair its finances, which have been devastated by cost overruns in its US nuclear power business.…

Backup data streams and now snapshots flash between firms After announcing an initial backup integration between Pure's all-flash array and Cohesity's converged secondary storage a year ago, the two have now gone further with snapshot-level integration.…

Attacks of great concern to Russian financial institutions Cybercrime group RTM is deploying complex malware based in the Delphi programming language to target Remote Banking Systems (RBS), a type of business software used to make bulk financial transfers.…

$4.48bn... cheap! (apols to Alfred E Neuman) Yahoo! will be gobbled by Verizon for $4.48bn, $350m cheaper than the initial deal, apparently due to the damage done to the company's value by widely reported successful cyber-attacks.…