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Skeleton suggests beast as long as a London bus Australian paleo-boffins have revealed two new dinosaurs, Savannasaurus elliottorum and Diamantinasaurus matildae.…

Email pests seek clean machines for better hit rates. Malware authors are consulting IP blacklists designed to help fight spam in a bid to avoid detection and increase inbox hit rates.…

Big Blue claims ISP allowed DDoS. ISP says IBM rejected DDoS advice and services IBM has blamed a supplier for causing the failure of Australia's online census, which went offline on the very night millions of households were required to describe their disposition.…

Widespread flaw can be easily exploited to hijack PCs, servers, gizmos, phones Code dive Patch your Linux-powered systems, phones and gadgets as soon as possible, if you can, to kill off a kernel-level flaw affecting nearly every distro of the open-source operating system.…

Prolific malware murderer bags Mountain View's Security, Privacy and Anti-Abuse award Anti-malware machine and head of the Shellphish DARPA Grand Challenge bronze-medallist team has won US$100,000 from Google for security research efforts.…

43m credentials lifted, plus 58m more at Modern Business Solutions and 22m from FourSquare Another day, another three major breaches: this time at do it yourself web site builder “Weebly”, which has been revealed as secured feebly, as were FourSquare and Modern Business Solutions.…

It's the cloud economy, stupid Microsoft's first-quarter results for its 2017 fiscal year reveal a four per cent year-on-year fall in profit and 10 per cent dive in operating income.…

Lawyers now working to decide how much to knock off the Purple Palace offer US telecom giant Verizon says it has formally begun talks with Yahoo! on adjusting the terms of their merger.…

It wasn't us, gov! Hitachi Payment Services denies its ATMs were pwned A suspected security breach has led banks in India to warn 3.25 million customers to replace their debit cards or change the PINs.…

It's not the boardroom that needs a change, it's the classroom Women are still losing ground in the computer science and IT fields, despite corporate pledges to improve gender diversity in their ranks.…

NASty: Gen-two gear will add transactional file operations on block base Analysis XtremIO's rush to revenue glory is going to get accelerated with coming file data services added to its block base.…

Most targets were individuals with Gmail addresses Security researchers have shone fresh light on the allegedly Russian state-sponsored hacking crew blamed for ransacking the US Democratic National Committee's computers.…

Magnetic tech gives 14-foot-long tube a tiny lift A team of students from the University of Cincinnati has passed through to the final round of Elon Musk's Hyperloop challenge by demonstrating the magnetic levitation of hover engines.…

Your donation is insufficient. Please buy again Apple is silently stiffing customers who don't spend enough on the latest iPhones.…

Branch buffer shortcoming allows hackers to reliably install malware on systems US researchers have pinpointed a vulnerability in Intel chips – and possibly other processor families – that clears the way for circumventing a popular operating-system-level security control.…

Chipzilla market share WAS overstated, claims Advocate General An EU High Court Advocate General has recommended a review of the case that saw Intel slapped with a record fine after it was found to have coerced OEMs to avoid using rival companies' x86 CPUs.…

Half the population to be diagnosed by chatbots by 2025 As chatbot technology advances it will no longer be necessary to book an appointment to see a doctor as the whole meeting can all be done with the help of virtual personal health assistants, according to Gartner.…

Fast follower meets fast reacter Comment Dell and EMC are culturally separated by their different approaches to product development, to servers in Dell and storage in EMC. In the combined house, what will be the effect?…

OK, a bunch of uniformed lawyers had a thinly-disguised knees-up An earth-shaking blow has been struck in the never-ending battle to get Britain’s F-35 fighter jets and the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers to sea: Whitehall has asked the Americans for legal help.…

Nobody's really impressed, but take a look at the long term Vodafone has announced it will start rolling out its narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) focused network in four EU countries from the start of next year – and folk across industry are rolling their eyes.…

Tax or warfare? Right, where do I collect my rifle... A militant vegan has succeeded in forcing himself into the Swiss Army – and avoided paying extra tax as a result.…

We're the 'perennial price leader' in cloud. See that, AWS? We said it Gobbling data via S3 is what helped make AWS what it is - the world’s single biggest provider of public cloud.…

Craft feared lost as scientists scramble to recover data The status of the Schiaparelli probe remains uncertain, leaving scientists at the European Space Agency baffled after the lander’s signal cut out unexpectedly.…

Silence falls Fujitsu slashed the vocal chords of its UK employee consultation committee before it confirmed to personnel that mass redundancies were to take place, El Reg can reveal.…

Peak Blockchain. Just stop Poll The music industry has been a petri dish for some fairly atrocious digital ideas, but few can be as desperate as Blockchain.…

Accusations fly of vendors hijacking standards for their own purposes Analysis The US operators have ended their long love affair with sub-1 GHz spectrum, which was so important to their LTE coverage roll-outs, and are leading the world in harnessing high frequency bands to address the challenge of the expected capacity demands of the 5G era.…

Doesn't seem to've killed its appetite for acquisition UK-based infosec outfit NCC Group has weathered a tricky summer period that involved some contract deferrals and cancellations while still managing to post a profit.…

Property? Arrrr... no The CJEU has affirmed personal property rights over dynamically allocated IP addresses, a move which brings European data protection laws into play.…

Praises May for indicating date on Article 50 trigger Further uncertainty over Brexit could hamper Virgin Media's ability to get more broadband investment from its parent company Liberty Global, chief exec Tom Mockridge has warned.…

What do you do? Use manual typwriters or live in a Scottish croft? Our man advises Comment As production and usage of data keeps growing globally, it’s worth remembering that the US government wants access to your information and will use warrants, decryption or hacking to get to it.…

16k surviving 'ex-cons' punished for their sexuality will have to file paperwork The government is set to extend the posthumous pardon given to Alan Turing for gross indecency to all of those men who were convicted for homosexual acts under legislation which has since been repealed.…

Mass enterprise performance array migration has started Comment The use of disk drives to store performance data for enterprises is declining and, flash drives - SSDs - are taking their place. A wave of all-flash array (AFA) to disk array migration is starting to wash across data centres as generations of disk drive arrays give way to ones built with NAND flash drives. The tipping point has arrived.…

BT already has a subsidy for telephony, says representative body for councils Customers unable to afford speeds of 10mbps under the Universal Service Obligation (USO) should be offered a subsidy, the representative body for 370 councils has said today.…

'Exciting changes' for Microsoft's favourite cloud container fabric Mesosphere will open-source new features in its container and cluster management fabric as a leg-up to startups - "Y-Combinator" types.…

Plugin for popular disassembler OllyDbg allowed man-in-the-middle diddle Security researchers and the networks they rely on were at risk of breach by the hackers they investigate, thanks to now mitigated man-in-the-middle holes in a popular plugin for analysing debugger OllyDbg.…

It's hard being human Google DeepMind is trying to teach machines human-level motor control using progressive neural networks – so that the robots can learn new skills on-the-go in the real world.…

FCIP, faster Nexus switch, management software extensions announced Cisco is updating its storage networking gear to hopefully improve data protection, increase bandwidth and simplify end-to-end storage management.…

'It is out of control,' think tank thinks Images representing 117 million American adults – almost half the grownups in the country – can be found in the facial recognition databases maintained by US law enforcement agencies, according to a study conducted by the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law School.…

Millennials turn out to be digital naïfs, not digital natives Millennials are more likely to fall for tech support scams than baby boomers, Microsoft says.…

'Digital Badges' will tell the world you drank Redmond's certification=credibility Kool Aid Microsoft's ongoing efforts to make its certifications something that shows bosses how very clever you are have given us some new “Digital Badges”.…

De-anonymising 'secret' chat app not that hard, really A little machine learning can de-anonymise Yik Yak users, according to researchers from American and Chinese universities.…

Industry verticals, busy trying to make money, aren't paying attention to the telco biz's future 5G is on the way – no, really, it's on the way, stop giggling – but outside the telcos and their suppliers, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is having trouble getting industries to care.…

Reg finds tech needle in a haystack of stupid Expect an outbreak of denials from whoever's got the credentials to @Wikileaks at the moment: Hillary Clinton has said no fewer than 17 civilian and government intelligence agencies point the finger to Kremlin interference in the election.…

Copy data virtualisation gets a flash boost +Comment Actifio's AppFlash DevOps Platform will run on Pure Storage's FlashArray.…

Twin bug bombs perish with patch Lexmark has patched two dangerous vulnerability in its Markvision enterprise IT analysis platform that grants remote attackers god-mode system access over the internet.…

Shiny new on-board computers won't actually work while Tesla figures out how to auto-drive Behind the smokescreen of its new onboard hardware announcement, Tesla is quietly killing off its controversial (and in some countries illegal) Autopilot feature.…

Uncle Sam asked to come clean on what info it sought. Good luck with that Yahoo! has asked the US government to break its silence on the secret court order that forced the Purple Palace to scan its webmail users' messages for specific keywords.…

How to spend $10 million A DAY fixing a web site Australia's AU$700k-per-year chief statistician has told a Senate estimates committee that the August 2016 Census crash lopped $30 million off the hoped-for $100 million savings to be had from taking the survey online.…

Phones, cars, VR goggles ... the Chinese are coming for your profit margins, America Pics Chinese tech maker LeEco (pronounced Le Echo) has made its entrance into the US market – with a lavish press conference in San Francisco that showed the Middle Kingdom isn't afraid to take on some of the biggest names in technology.…