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Network leads the pack in preparing for 5G Massive MIMO is an increasingly important element of operators’ plans for LTE-Advanced Pro and for 5G, despite a lack of devices and mass market chipsets on the near horizon. But the tests are piling up, many of them in China, Japan and Korea – but Vodafone UK is claiming the first in Europe in the 2.6 GHz TDD band.…

Commerce giant joins JCP steering group candidates lineup Online commerce giant Alibaba is among a crop of “new world” Java users seeking to shape the direction of both language and platform.…

That's the former RAF airfield in Wales, not the offshore principality The UK's Defence Electronics and Components Agency (DECA) will be overhauling European nations' F-35 fighter jet avionics at a collection of sheds in a busy enclave of north Wales.…

Future Elon-mobiles to ship with 400 kWh of free 'leccy credits, to fund more Superchargers Tesla has abandoned its practice of offering free electricity at its Supercharger facilities, the 'leccy car charging network it has built to enable long-distance journeys.…

Crypto connoisseurs finds favourite chat app protocol up to scratch Encrypted SMS and voice app Signal has passed a security audit with flying colours.…

Churn and burn marketing firms leave ICO fine factory £2.26 million in the red. London-based finance company Nouveau Finance been fined £70,000 (US$85,752, A$112,391) for hiring a spamming marketing company that sent UK residents some 2.2 million illegal SMS messages.…

Flaw allowing ads to offer dodgy apps won't be fixed for about three weeks An Android Chrome bug that's already under attack - with criminals pushing banking trojans to more than 300,000 devices - won't get patched until the next release of the mobile browser.…

Stay up Monday night because Luna's not going to be readier for a close-up for 18 years The Moon will looks a little bigger than usual next week, because it will be rather closer to Earth than usual – so close NASA says Monday, November 14th will be an “extra-supermoon” event.…

Chat app ponders procuring proper permissions from punters, Info Comish ponders punishment for non-compliance Facebook has “agreed to pause using data from UK WhatsApp users for advertisements or product improvement purposes” after a previously-announced probe by the Information Commissioner’s Office.…

Password-protect your voicemail, if you can Netflix has reworked its password reset function after an Austrian security researcher demonstrated how an attacker could spoof it to take over a victim's account.…

Internet of things influencing important things Comment The distributed denial of service attack that took down DNS provider Dyn, and with it access to a chunk of the internet, was one of the largest such assaults seen.…

Azure Container Engine is now open source Faced with an increasingly untidy template-base in the Azure Container Service (ACS), Microsoft's decided the best way to get things under control is to open source it and let the community handle things.…

HNAP stack overflow revealed It's 2016, and D-Link still can't get its Home Network Automation Protocol (HNAP) implementation right.…

LogRhythm Webinar explains how to respond to the evolving ransomware threat Promo Ransomware is a type of malware that sees criminals make your critical business data inaccessible by encrypting it and throwing away the decryption key … until you pay them a ransom.…

Mouse-over-on-mobile feature intentionally allows data-stealing overlay attacks That took a while: Android's had Hover since Ice Cream, but boffins have taken until now to work out how to attack it.…

'The Dish' in Australia's Parkes gets much-needed cash injection from alien-hunters Australia's Parkes radio-telescope has found one of the white knights it needed, in the form of the search-for-intelligent-life Breakthrough Listen project.…

More than half of the NBN will be built in the next 21 months nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, has emitted new canned statements to describe its progress that, as always, have a slightly soviet feel to them because as always everything's going just fine.…

Top boss cuts salary to 15 cents a year amid mega-wobble Less than a month ago, Chinese media and electronics firm LeEco made its glitzy launch into the US market. However, its founder Jia Yueting has just told staff that the firm is in trouble.…

LipNet's got potential but also a loooong way to go AI surveillance could be about to get a lot more advanced, as researchers move on from using neural networks for facial recognition to lipreading.…

To bring the two airlines together, trust came before technology At the end of 2013, US Airways and American Airlines merged. But actually combining the IT systems of the two companies is expected to take from five to seven years, said Susanna Brown, managing director of operations technologies at American Airlines.…

None of this is good news On Monday, the Chinese government officially passed its 2016 Cybersecurity Law. From June 2017, all companies doing business in the Middle Kingdom will have to obey the new rules.…

Pumping up performance, price/performance and product virtualization +Comment Kaminario is building its K2 all-flash array mountain higher in scale, performance and price/performance terms and adding dynamic composability.…

15 months for fishing chips A Chinese national starts a 15-month stretch behind bars for trying to swap reprogrammable chips destined for the US Navy with fakes, and smuggle the real gear out of the country.…

Meet top OpenStack peeps, hear how Dept of Defence went OpenStack PROMO Next Monday, November 14th, OpenStack Australia Day: Government hits Canberra. And The Register has free tickets for readers.…

Cloud service for managing cloud services arrives, nearly If you build it, they will come and measure it. "They" in this case is New Relic, which offers developers a service for monitoring application performance and, now, computing infrastructure.…

Say hello to Bixby – Sammy's hopefully non-exploding AI assistant Samsung has joined the race to build the best AI assistant, which will be available on the Galaxy S8, the company’s flagship mobile phone series.…

Windstream absorbs brand for $1.1bn Turn-of-the-millennium internet giant EarthLink has been acquired and will be absorbed into the brand of a regional US ISP.…

Upstart lets apps use on and off-prem storage in two shakes of a lamb's tail Microsoft has partnered with object storage software startup NooBaa, which has developed an Amazon S3-compatible front-end to Azure.…

300 Unite brothers brave wintry weather in northwest Three hundred unionised Fujitsu workers braved the bitter cold on Monday to attend the first of a two-day UK strike over pay, pensions and job security.…

Private purchaser not identified An old pair of knickers have been sold at auction for £2,900.…

Did the users consent to this? Updated A browser extension which was found to be harvesting users' browsing histories and selling them to third parties has had its availability pulled from a number of web browsers' add-on repositories.…

Looks like Ecuador's getting fed up with their gobby broom cupboard squatter Julian Assange, the broom-cupboard-dweller also trading as Wikileaks, will be interviewed in Ecuador's London embassy by Swedish prosecutors over rape allegations.…

Big Red paid nearly another PeopleSoft for cloud provider Analysis NetSuite's 18-year run as an independent ERP SaaS provider is over after shareholders approved Oracle's $9.3bn acquisition of the firm.…

XSS marks the spot Black Hat EU Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities continue to dominate the list of most common vulnerabilities found in real-world tests.…

Extended lead times de rigueur Dell EMC doesn't have a magical NAND storage tap after all – the business, like its major rivals, has delayed shipping dates on certain drives by months after succumbing to shortages.…

'See if we care, slacktivists' Virgin Mobile has finally upgraded its network to 4G – with an eye-catching deal: Facebook and WhatsApp data usage won't count against your monthly data bundle, a practice known as zero rating.…

'We believe the arrow is still with the injured party,' say cops An alleged burglar was shot in the backside with a bow and arrow after an angry homeowner caught him trying to steal his car.…

Cost of correcting will be 'at least £10m', share price dives more than 60%. Ouch The chief bean counter at managed services slinger Redcentric has left the business with “immediate effect” following the discovery of multi-year accounting misstatements that will cost a minimum of £10m to rectify.…

Security researchers exploit vulns in Belkin home automation product Black Hat EU Security researchers have worked out how to hack into a smartphone and turn it into a tracking device by abusing its pairing with a Belkin home automation device.…

Company is putting more drives in thinner trays to grow capacity Infinidat is tweaking its Infinibox array design to increase its capacity.…

Current account customers affected by security breach Tesco Bank has restricted the operations of current accounts after funds were looted from a reported 20,000 accounts.…

Press-bashing grants paranoiacs extra week to prepare for Snoopers' Charter IPBill The Investigatory Powers Bill will not receive royal assent for at least another week as the Houses of Parliament disagree on an amendment regarding the regulation of the press.…

Sets up DL rack servers using profile data – bare metal becomes usable system HPE OneView's system on-ramp automates the setting up of ProLiant DL servers as well as HPE's BladeSystem.…

Diva soapstar turn-on-turn-up-slap-down on the cards? Kettering has drafted in EastEnders veteran Cheryl Fergison to turn on the town for Christmas – after abandoning hopes of child-star-turned-adult-car-crash Lindsay Lohan following through on her post-Brexit promise to light up Northamptonshire.…

Tabs vs spaces? Unfortunately there are deeper, uglier issues facing IT Sysadmin Blog Gentlemen of IT, I think it's time we talked. I hate people who use spaces to indent their code instead of tabs. I don't mildly dislike them. I am not uncomfortable or annoyed by them. I hate them. A goodly number of you have some technical pet peeve that is similar, and that's a huge part of what's wrong with IT.…

Another week, another rc, but no overlayfs update Linux 4.9 is coming along nicely, with Linus Torvalds emitting the fourth release candidate on Saturday evening.…

Process pig keeps eyes glued on fraudsters' phone number. Tech support fraudsters have taught an old denial of service bug new tricks to add a convincing layer of authenticity to scams.…

Why try to extract pennies from kiddies when there's businesses to be bilked? Criminals behind the massive Cerber ransomware enterprise are now targeting businesses as well as individuals with a module that kills and encrypts databases, warns Intel's former security arm McAfee.…

Users rebel at $69 price to keep old peripherals alive Apple won't admit it got the pricing wrong, but has nonetheless slashed the cost of USB-C-to-connectors-people-actually-use dongles.…

Perils of Internet demonstrated very graphically to wide-eyed kids ENTIRELY SFW VID A school cyber safety spiel delivered by Symantec's Norton brand at Australia's Robina High School has resulted in smut being displayed to the assembled students.…