The Register

When did Linux start becoming like Windows? Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 16 for IoT, featuring Linux self-patching for a generation of users against future Bash or Dirty COWs.…

Former publisher Nick Denton agrees to pay Shiva Ayyadurai $750,000 Former Gawker publisher Nick Denton has agreed to pay computer scientist and biotech entrepreneur Dr Shiva Ayyadurai $750,000 in damages after the blog wrote that Ayyadurai invented claims that he invented "email" in the late 1970s.…

How the cloud data mover is faring after executing the executor Analysis How is replication software supplier WANdisco doing after the chairman fired the CEO and then the fired CEO came back and fired the chairman?…

It failed when we did it, Lenovo coughs Comment Apple has ignored a page of very recent history by introducing its "Touch Bar", Lenovo reminded us on Thursday.…

Plus: EU courts won't have any say on Brexit Interview Britain's exit from the European Union could be guaranteed by the Supreme Court if the government has the cojones to appeal Thursday's Brexit-bashing Divisional Court verdict, says barrister Greg Callus.…

Yet firm refuses to say the word DDoS. What are they hiding? Outage-hit security firm Barracuda appears to have been struck down by a DDoS – though the firm says it's still investigating and refuses to confirm or deny it.…

PC sales drop? Tick. Data centre down? Tick? Mobile? Of course With sales shrinking in every corner of the portfolio and staff losing their jobs, Lenovo said Thursday it has hired some of the industry's "top minds" – presumably to help it figure a way out of its perfect storm.…

Striim shim prevents stale data Hazelcast in-memory cache corruption There is a hot cache integration between Hazelcast and Striim that prevents an in-memory cache being out of sync with its underlying multi-application access database.…

Heavily pro-remain MPs now get a vote on whether Britain will leave EU The British government has lost a legal challenge against invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which would be the first step towards Great Britain leaving the European Union.…

IBM and co: Data for the masses – up the workers! As a phrase, "democratisation of data" is rather glib – but it does have a serious purpose. The thinking: making use of company data should not be the preserve of just "professionals".…

Eyeo vows Total War Ben Williams, Eyeo's comms chief, has warned Facebook that it's joined a battle it can't win.…

WileyFox's Swift 2 looks like a hit Hands On Last year a new London phone startup launched to try and tame the Shenzhen tiger. WileyFox aimed to harness the Chinese manufacturing revolution that's brought us low-cost Androids to a decent brand with local support. WileyFox sold a respectable amount – half a million devices – without becoming a household name. But that was a tweaked reference design. With its first in-house design, launched today, that's sure to change.…

Communications failure leads to zero day, late patch, natch. Millions of do-it-yourself websites built with the Wix web maker were at risk of hijack thanks to a brief zero day DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability.…

If you want to build code for lots of platforms, don't shoot the Message.io Taking aim at the balkanized bot ecosystem, Message.io, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Wednesday began offering private beta access to its bot platform.…

Another crud home CCTV box Here we have yet another example of an internet-facing home security camera that is about as secure a chocolate padlock.…

'Particles up to ten billion times lighter than electrons' Boffins have calculated the mass of axions, which are a promising candidate for the mysterious dark matter loitering in our universe.…

Red Bull gives you liver disease? Don't overdo the energy drinks: even five a day can hammer the liver.…

It turns out you need to test on-premises before you send an app to the cloud Amazon Web Services is letting customers download its own artisanal Linux.…

MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona pwned. Dangerous since-patched vulnerabilities in MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona's Server and XtraDB Cluster have been found that, when chained, allow attackers in shared environments complete compromise of servers.…

We warned that 'Metapod' had trademark issues. Which is why it's now called 'Metacloud' Cisco has had to change the name of its Metapod OpenStack cloud-in-a-box, due to trademark problems.…

Zuck and Equinix create open source packet-optical switch Facebook's tipped its in-house designed Voyager packet optical switches into the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), with Equinix signing on as crash-test dummy for the switches.…

Switchzilla's also looking for any Dirty COWs in its code Service providers using Cisco' Prime to manage consumers' networks need to run in a critical patch.…

Grit your teeth, Aussie fibre fans, Kiwis are beating us again While Australia's nbn presses ahead with its Fibre-to-the-Node (FTTN) strategy, Kiwi carrier Spark wants to give up on copper entirely.…

If plane came down fast and steep, might it have crashed to the North of the search zone? The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has published a new report (PDF) on the likely fate flight MH 370, the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 missing since March 8th, 2014.…

NIST wants to nip message hacks in the bud. We're betting President Clinton agrees The US National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published a guide on how to improve email security – and it wants your feedback on it.…

Don't cheer: this is about more data sharing, so business can profit from you more easily In August, The Register called for the Australian government to put in place an independent agency to oversee use of citizens' data. In a report released today, the country's Productivity Commission (PC) has called for the same thing.…

Teenage crimes lead to adult punishments A member of the NullCrew group has been jailed for 45 months after pleading guilty to bag a reduced sentence.…

Do as we say, not as we do Facebook has shut down efforts by a car insurance company to use posts on the social network to decide discounts – over privacy concerns. No, honestly.…

Botched RIMS job leaves state with bad taste in its mouth The US state of Rhode Island is suing Hewlett Packard Enterprise over a car-crash IT project to overhaul its vehicle licensing system.…

Merger party got a bit out of hand, we take it? Network provider Level 3 Communications appears to be wrangling with a widespread outage in the US this morning.…

Dollars better flow or Chief Revenue Officer will have to go Pivot3 grew like crazy in its third quarter as the hyper-converged infrastructure boom carried on... booming.…

Teams messaging software bunged on Office 365 Microsoft has created Teams, an Office 365 chat app that is a direct competitor to Slack in the messaging sphere.…

'What's happening?' ask angry folk left with little info Security biz Barracuda is suffering an apparent failure of its email security service, according to angry customers who got in contact with El Reg.…

Featuring private cloud file sync and share Mobile phone users can access Nexsan's Unity storage array, and Nexsan has added web access apps for laptops and desktops.…

We're going to have shoulder this ourselves, admits chief exec Life could be better for data-visualisation business Tableau - today it reported weaker-than-expected Q3 revenues and placed the blame at the feet of its under-performing UK team, rather than the Brexit.…

Pride cometh despite one in three targeted attacks resulting in a security breach Overconfident security execs may be putting their organisations at greater risk, according to new research.…

Life's a lottery William Hill is currently on the receiving end of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.…

Speek your branes, sky-gazers Poll The Red Arrows aerobatic team will get new aircraft when their ageing Hawk T1s finally give up the ghost, the British Ministry of Defence said Tuesday. What should replace the Hawks, though?…

Everything's getting cloudier in partnership with Microsoft Adobe MAX Adobe has announced a series of updates to its Creative Cloud offering at its MAX event under way in San Diego.…

We want your Fibre Channel SAN stuff, but the IP biz can take a hike As rumoured storage network switch, Ethernet switch and wireless vendor Brocade is being bought by Broadcom for $5.9bn in an all-cash transaction.…

We want your Fibre Channel SAN stuff, but the IP biz can take a hike As rumoured storage network switch, Ethernet switch and wireless vendor Brocade is being bought by Broadcom for $5.9bn in an all-cash transaction.…

A dose of digital Botox for hybrid cloud ideas NetApp has added a few more capabilities and buffed up some products to make sure customers using its hybrid on-premises-public cloud facilities have a smoother ride. There's nothing dramatic here but rough edges have been sanded and partners can provide NetApp Private Storage as a service.…

Defence Secretary confirms 'legacy IT systems' remain in use Infamous IT bungler Capita still hasn't delivered usable ICT systems for British Army recruitment, despite signing the contract to do so five years ago, it emerged in Parliament on Tuesday.…

World's largest tech distie still awaiting approval from Chinese authorities The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has approved the $6bn takeover of Ingram Micro, the world’s largest tech distie, by Chinese shipping magnate Tianjin Tianhai.…

Take a chill in Google's cloud care home Cloudian is integrating its HyperStore object storage with Google's Coldline archive in the cloud.…

More of a whimper than bang as website dishing out tickets crashes A stampede for free tickets to Hull’s UK City of Culture fireworks display this morning brought the website offering them to its knees – still, the organisers only had nearly four years to prepare.…

I am a simple man – and that's the way I like it Sysadmin Blog The enemy of success is complexity. Although I am in general a fan of the concept of intricately intertwined Rube Goldbergian nonsense, my life thus far could be summed up as learning the value of simplicity face first. IT is all about complexity, and unpicking which combination of barely functional crap is least likely to go boom is not as straightforward as the chattering masses of the internet would have us all believe.…

Plus: Dell EMC World, US election banter, and more

Last refuge for purists Dig through the annals of Linux journalism and you'll find a surprising amount of coverage of some pretty obscure distros. Flashy new distros like Elementary OS and Solus garner attention for their slick interfaces, and anything shipping with a MATE desktop gets coverage by simple virtue of using MATE.…

Bright future. Are you sure, minister? Microsoft Future Decoded Britons lack skills essential for tech bosses, overseas students are facing a clampdown on UK study, and Blighty lags behind international R&D spend.…