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x86, Sparc running Solaris 6-10 at risk – and potentially 11 Now that the sulky Shadow Brokers gang has leaked its archive of stolen NSA exploits, security experts are trawling Uncle Sam's classified attack code – and the results aren't good for anyone using Oracle's Solaris.…

Laggy silicon at heart of broadband boxes lands gateway maker in court Cable modem maker Arris is facing a class-action suit over its handling of a lag-prone line of cable modems.…

With Australians flocking to fast broadband, the digital divide's going to keep widening Nokia seems to believe in the future of fibre: it's run a test with nbn™ demonstrating next-generation passive optical networking (NG-PON) running at 10 Gbps.…

NATO cybersecurity bods warn about transition to new protocol For all those sysadmins tired of having to make excuses for why they haven't moved to IPv6, worry no more: the new protocol brings with it the risk of network infiltration.…

'Systemic compensation disparities against women across the entire workforce' Google is on the defensive after its gender pay equality campaign was panned in court by Uncle Sam.…

You decide! Poll Ajit Pai, chair of US comms watchdog the FCC, has unilaterally decided that no one wants to make cellphone calls on planes, and he killed off a 2013 proposal by the regulator to potentially allow them.…

Not happy about online security being equated with restricting access to law enforcement The Internet Society has called for the full encryption of the internet, decrying the fact that securing the digital world has increasingly become associated with restricting access to law enforcement.…

Kubernetes championing continues with gobble of orchestration specialist Microsoft has acquired Deis to provide better management tools for containers on the Azure cloud.…

City engineers stop attack by… yes, turning it off then on again Shortly before midnight on Friday in Dallas, Texas, the city's emergency sirens started to howl. Within minutes, all 156 of the sirens were blaring out and residents were starting to panic.…

Four more days of industrial action pencilled in The beleaguered rank-and-file at Fujitsu are downing tools this month over long-running proposals to chop jobs and the pension pot, Unite the union has revealed.…

Listen El Reg, our WW Spending Forecast is based on 'proven methodologies... not guesswork. OK?' Data druids at Gartner are defending their soothsaying abilities after being forced to halve global tech spending projections for 2017 because an expected slide in the value of the greenback didn’t materialise.…

Climbs up Dot Hill to roll low-cost AFAs down into the market Seagate has introduced all-flash, all-disk, and hybrid flash/disk RealStor arrays.…

CyanogenNodSoMuch WileyFox is rowing its users away from the wreckage of the Cyanogen disaster, with some help from Ricardo Cerqueira, Cyanogen Inc’s former director of engineering.…

Society is changing - we’ll show you why and how Society is changing before our eyes, and whether you think revolutionaries or robots are to blame, technology is often at the heart of the matter.…

10x boost in processing performance apparently Storage startup Tachyum's co-founder Rado Danilak has blasted out a teaser tech alert saying the US is falling behind China in supercomputing. The implication being, of course, that his startup is coming to the rescue.…

Consultancy expects to take on 3,000 of 6,500 employees French multinational IT consultancy Capgemini is set to gobble Ciber, which has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code.…

Daaaamn, these exploits are old-school The self-styled Shadow Brokers group has made a collection of NSA hacking tools and exploits publicly available.…

And now we are all part of this sickening cycle too The chief executive of T-Mobile US has offered a random teen on the internet a year’s supply of chicken nuggets if he switches from AT&T.…

I can see me mam's house from up here Korean flash fabber SK Hynix has built a 72-layer 3D NAND die with 256Gb capacity.…

Collective legal action rears its head in Horizon IT scandal Over 1,000 subpostmasters whom the Post Office accused of dipping into the tills — wrongly, many complained, citing problems affecting the Post Office's Horizon IT system — could be set to join a group litigation order to clear their names.…

Risen from the ashes? “NetApp has risen from the ashes and executed an unlikely business transformation” – at least according to one Wall Street convert.…

How premium, you ask? Analysis When YouTube announced its standalone TV subscription service last month, Faultline called for Apple to return fire, and last week there were rumours doing the rounds that Apple is preparing to rope in premium content providers to offer a bundled subscription package of its own.…

From EMC to IBM, XIV to Diligent, the Symmetrix inventor is still going hard at 68 Profile The man is an enigma, but you can't expect billionaires to be easily understood people. He has performed several storage engineering firsts; he develops products and is basically a storage legend in his own lifetime. He is also said to have a massive ego.…

Just show me the money! Comment "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice," according to Chinese revolutionary Deng Xiaoping.…

Just show me the money! Comment "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice," according to Chinese revolutionary Deng Xiaoping.…

Compares Mir chat to 'irrational' gun control or climate change debates, so F-that-S Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has labelled some members of the free software community habitual, hateful and reflexive contrarians.…

Standards help, too, as we fight to ensure the cost of sharing doesn't outweigh the benefits A long-ago cartoon in The New Yorker put it plainly: "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." If that cartoon had been written today, the caption might have read, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a fraud."…

So why can it read scripts sent by SMS anyhow? TP-Link's M5350 3G/Wi-Fi router, has the kind of howling bug that gives infosec pros nightmares.…

270,000 customers advised not to worry but also to watch out for odd transactions and ponder password refresh Payday lender Wonga has advised 270,000 customers of a data breach and offered inconsistent advice about the severity of the incident and how to respond.…

9,448 of world's most popular airliner have flown since April 9th, 1967. 4,500 more are on order. 168 were written off Boeing's 737, the world's most common airliner, turned 50 over the weekend: the single-aisle workhorse first took to the skies on April 9th, 1967.…

'Castellans' memorise manuals, 'Tinkers' can't stop hacking hardware. Keep 'Algorithmicists' out of a corner office Open source luminary Eric S. Raymond has given the world eight “Hacker Archetypes” that he thinks offer useful ways to categorise your colleagues and by doing so help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses.…

'Castellans' memorise manuals, 'Tinkers' can't stop hacking hardware. Keep 'Algorithmicists' out of a corner office Open source luminary Eric S. Raymond has given the world eight “Hacker Archetypes” that he thinks offer useful ways to categorise your colleagues and by doing so help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses.…

Cupertino's so keen on Android it took eight months to repair interception bug If you're so much an Apple fan that you run Apple Music on Android devices, there's an upgrade to patch against a man-in-the-middle vulnerability.…

Testing was inadequate, staff training worse, averaging incomes was known to be risky but used anyway Australia's Commonwealth Ombudsman has published its report (PDF) on Centrelink’s automated debt raising and recovery system and found that while it is capable of correctly assessing debts, the agency was aware it had flaws and did little to prevent them.…

FireEye, McAfee, disclose over the weekend. Will Microsoft squash it on Patch Tuesday? All eyes will be on Microsoft's April patch run - due tomorrow - to see whether Redmond gets ahead of a nasty Word zero-day that popped up last week.…

US Customs OKs interface re-written software Arista has been cleared by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to start shipping modified products to the United States again.…

LiDAR? I barely know her! Uber has filed its response to Waymo's trade secret suit, arguing it does not even use the self-driving car technology described in the complaint.…

Rogue code aims to create permanent DoS A new form of attack code has come to town and it uses techniques similar to Mirai to permanently scramble Internet of Things devices.…

ACCC to start broadband performance rating service to reveal real-world speeds Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has been given at least AU$7m to fund a broadband speed rating service that will publish details of speeds users experience on Australia’s national broadband network.…

Code dumped on GitHub for you to play with this weekend (and maybe beyond) Alphabet’s AI outfit DeepMind has released Sonnet, a framework that allows developers to construct neural network components more easily in TensorFlow.…

The Friday fun has just begun A heady flight of storage and server news was served to our enterprise news desk this week. Here’s a selection...…

CBP kills own lawsuit to out Donald-trolling twit Twitter and the US government's game of chicken over an anonymous anti-Trump tweeter is over before it barely began.…

App has been short-changing drivers, new lawsuit claims Uber has been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging the dial-a-ride app maker deliberately cuts driver payouts while at the same time overcharging riders.…

But have your popcorn ready 2030 BST just in case A threat to wipe millions of supposedly compromised iCloud accounts and iPhones has yet to materialise. A security expert who has analysed samples of compromised data has concluded that the threat – such as it is – only exposes a small number of accounts to potential credential-stuffing attacks.…

Back to being the uber internet regulator then Analysis Americans may get a less Google-friendly and less-politicised regulatory regime if America's trade watchdog, the FTC, adopts responsibility for "net neutrality provisions", as reports today suggest. But under Trump, will the FTC have any teeth?…

All-flash portable and pocketable drive Western Digital has stuck a 1TB SSD in its My Passport line of portable storage drives – previously they have all been disks.…

'Plug-and-play' connectivity tech sealed the deal, says firm A utility company has opted for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) connectivity technology for its IoT deployment, crapping all over competing connectivity techs in the process.…

Exactly what the Japanese government doesn't want China's Foxconn has emerged as the leading bidder for Toshiba's Memory business.…

New variant of 'Tsunami' is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet "Tsunami" that exploits a year-old but as yet unresolved vulnerability.…

"Openness a driving force" says Google Open-source search analytics are coming to Google's Cloud Platform courtesty of Elastic.…