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Remains of lab experiment, including ReRAM, will be scattered into future products HPE lab boffins have finally, after years of work, built a proof-of-concept prototype of their fairytale memory-focused computer, The Machine. The achievement is bittersweet.…

Sorry to go all MC Hammer on you, but boffins tell bit-flippers 'you can't touch this' A group of German researchers reckon they've cracked a pretty hard nut indeed: how to protect all x86 architectures from the “Rowhammer” memory bug.…

Bit barn lights are blinking in Singapore and Australia,

AWS has realised that desktop-as-a-service fleets need management too Amazon Web Services has all-but-enlisted desktop virtualisation specialist Liquidware Labs to help manage its cloudy desktops-a-a-service.…

Hamburg court upholds individuals' right to block ads Adblock Plus is celebrating, but publishers are scratching their heads, after German courts ruled blocking online advertisements is legal.…

Tiny country creates yuuge problems as crims threaten to expose 'tax evasion' Hackers have days ago breached a Liechtenstein bank and are allegedly blackmailing customers by threatening to release their account data if ransoms are not paid.…

Serverless framework inches towards cloud-ready code Amazon Web Services (AWS) has quietly flicked the iteration counter on its Chalice Python serverless development framework to 0.4 and 0.5.…

Big vendors patch bugs nearly as quick as open source coders Cisco's decided it's going to give 90 days' grace on vulnerability disclosures, to let (mostly) commercial vendors catch up with their bug-fixes.…

Now your date will know your passphrase is hunter2 Netflix is testing a new feature that, for some subscribers, shows their passwords in plain text as they are typed in – and potentially when folks revisit the site.…

Android 7.0's crypto sauce is 'half-baked' and Google promises to make it better, soon Looking at the storage encryption Google has implemented in Android Nougat (7.0) through the metaphor of the glass that's either half full or half empty, cryptography expert Matthew Green sees Google's glass as all but drained.…

AI pity the fool The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the US military, has today announced a new program aimed at using AI to bring together skills from humans and machines to solve problems more effectively.…

Wired: Fiber, copper networks. Tired: Flimsy Wi-Fi. Expired: Smoke signals, carrier pidgeon Global spending on Ethernet cables will soon cross the $1bn threshold, say analysts.…

Industry veteran to run rule over resellers from February Dell EMC has finally confirmed Sarah Shields as president elect of its UK and Ireland channel.…

The yuan is mightier than the moral Microsoft has confirmed that it censors its Chinese language digital assistant.…

Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious More than 40 cities in California are considering a tax on streaming services – dubbed a Netflix tax – claiming that the tax system needs updating for the internet era.…

Malware waltzes up to admin panels with zero authentication A widespread attack on the maintenance interfaces of broadband routers over the weekend has affected the telephony, television, and internet service of about 900,000 Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany.…

Senate still deciding about Police raids on plods' raids on Stephen Conroy Some of the “NBN leak” documents seized by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are covered by parliamentary privilege, says the House of Representatives Privileges Members' Interests Committee, which yesterday published its report into the documents.…

Mobe designer remembers it still has QNX, puts it to work in self-driving ride Video Today, a trio of self-driving cars – including a BlackBerry-powered ride – hit the streets in Canada for the first time. The autonomous vehicles will be tested by their manufacturers to assess their safety and control systems in the real world.…

On-premises IT suppliers conniving in its own destruction +Comment On-premises IT storage suppliers are actively working to water down the importance of on-site hardware by building on-ramps to the public cloud.…

Tiny tearaway will be beating up hookers next Police in Ontario, Canada, got a shock on Saturday night when they pulled over a speeding driver and found an 11-year-old child hopped up on video games behind the wheel.…

Getting things straightened up again Microsoft is allegedly revising its Windows 10 design language to embrace the brave new world of virtual reality viewed through techno-spectacles.…

He's bound to say that. Truth is, it'll get worse before it gets better Comment Admiral Sir Philip Jones, head of the Royal Navy, has written how "you'd be forgiven for thinking that the RN had packed up and gone home" in response to the kicking the naval service has received in the press recently.…

Just a month after his enterprise equivalent called it a day Dell EMC today told the workforce that UK exec Tim Griffin is standing down to pursue pastures new – the second senior exec to exit the business in as many months.…

Elliott Management sustains calls to break up SK biz Samsung's top brass will go public tomorrow about ways to beef up shareholder value on the back of continued calls from activist investor Elliott Management's to break up the South Korean business.…

All eight of 'em The Liberal Democrats are to oppose plans to impose strict age regulations on porn sites in the UK's forthcoming Digital Economy Bill – describing the measures as something the "Russian or Chinese governments" would impose.…

Um. Do they actually think that's what they need? MBBF2016 Mobile operators are quite comfortable with NarrowBand Internet of Things and hope it will funnel more and more IoT customers into their arms – but not all of them understand the market, it seems.…

Finnish factory to change diet of the happiest people in Europe Fujitsu has launched a joint venture to supply the snowbound, sausage-and-root-veg-loving residents of Finland with scrummy salad all year round as part of its efforts to make farming a cloud-based endeavour.…

NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics - two sides of the same NVMe coin NVMe drives need NVMe fabrics to give shared arrays the data access latency killing benefits of NVMe. Unlike Nimble architect Dimitris Krekoukias, storage startup E8 believes putting NVMe SSDs in today’s all-flash arrays will be futile; it claims we need NVMe fabrics to get the NVMe performance boost.…

Sure, it's not very nice, but we do live in the Free World WH Smith was quick to remove DIY terror manuals from the digital shelves of its online stores after El Reg highlighted their sale but other retailers have demonstrated less of a knee-jerk reaction.…

Lock-up markup shake-up shake-down More than 4,000 Brits have had their computers infected with ransomware this year, with over £4.5m paid out to cyber criminals, according to Action Fraud.…

Show us the reality, not the vision The call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle London 2017 closes this Thursday, so you've got less than 60 hours to give us your take on DevOps, Containerization, Continuous Delivery and Agile in the real world.…

Only catch is government would have to stump up the cash An MP is calling on the government to introduce a voucher scheme for universal broadband connectivity of at least 10Mbps, as a means of more effectively boasting rural broadband speeds.…

1,000,000 hand-soldered joints, £40k spent, just about fits in one lorry A 42,000-transistor CPU weighing half a ton and built by hand from full-sized components has been installed at the Centre for Computing History.…

Cash is king for equity hunters The £24bn purchase of Brit tech success ARM Holdings by Japan giant Softbank this summer was a contentious affair.…

Plumb out of order Online marketing activity carried out separately by two rival bathroom retailers respectively infringed trade mark and passing off rights, the High Court in London has ruled.…

Brexit means Brex... hang on, you want to store... WTF? A petition to Parliament requesting the repeal of the Investigatory Powers Act has received the 100,000 signatures required to make Parliamanet “consider” debating the issue.…

The economics look good for Mediatek, though Review Does anyone buy phones purely on specs? If so, this one might interest you. If software updates, support, and overall fit and finish can be ignored, then perhaps Blu, a Miami-based phone brand might make you pay attention.…

An IoT marriage is the future Loyalty cards – the little buggers are everywhere these days. When British supermarket chain Tesco launched its Clubcard back in 1995, it was a forward-looking idea, so much so that Lord Ian MacLaurin, then Tesco chairman, suggested that he knew more about his customers after three months than he did after 30 years in the retail business.…

Attempt to have Foreign Ministry rule before he lands dismissed by Supreme Court Whistleblower Edward Snowden will not visit Norway to pick up the Ossietzky Prize, awarded for “outstanding efforts for freedom of expression”, after the nation's Supreme Court decided its foreign ministry does not have to say in advanced whether the Russian resident would face extradition.…

It's all fun and games until someone loses a life The Internet Society (ISOC) is the latest organisation saying, in essence, “security is rubbish – fix it”.…

Pitch prepped, European Space Agency to press flesh at ministerial confab Later this week in Lucerne, Switzerland, the European Space Agency (ESA) will ask its 23 member states' ministers for a €400 million top-up to its ExoMars program.…

We won't know the possibilities of VR or any other technology until we play with it An acquaintance recently asked if he should buy his child an expensive virtual reality system for Christmas, worried that it would be used for little more than gaming. I put his fears to rest, informing him that simply having an amazing device like that at hand - regardless of how it gets used - changes the way you think.…

But he thinks the code in rc 7 is still pretty noisy, so expect another release candidate The world almost certainly needs to wait another week for Linux 4.9, says the operating system's overlord Linus Torvalds.…

The usual unnamed 'state-based' attacker blamed Japanese defence officials are investigating a reported penetration of the country's high-speed Defence Information Infrastructure (DII) network.…

Piratir's policy cutlass is still sharp as President tells Alþingi to find any port in a storm Iceland's Pirate Party is still in with a chance of profoundly influencing Icelandic politics, after a second set of coalition talks collapsed over the weekend.…

DIY-phishing code advertised YouTube have predictable by-products A malware writer is running YouTube ads for a phishing tool they have secretly backdoored to steal victims' information.…

Patch proffered, pen-tester paid Microsoft has patched flaws that attackers could exploit to compromise all Azure Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances.…

Why hello there, new electronics-making superpower Between September 2015 and October 2016 India opened 38 new mobile phone factories with a combined peak output of 248m handsets a year.…

Cloud launched, but support, services, channel etc coming real soon, promise Alibaba's Aliyun cloud may have switched on in Australia, but hardly anyone is home: the company has hired only a modest support team and is yet to hire the consultants, evangelists and other staff to help it achieve its stated aim of encouraging organisations to take their on-premises apps into the cloud.…

Workstations, servers, ticket machines derailed by malware Hard-drive-scrambling ransomware menaced more than 2,000 systems at San Francisco's public transit agency on Friday and demanded 100 bitcoins to unlock data, The Register has learned.…