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Technique turns connected storage devices into transmitters Video Mordechai Guri, the Israeli researcher who has something of a knack for extracting information from air-gapped PCs, has done it again – this time using radio frequency transmissions from USB 2 connections.…

'Store your firewall password here' notes pillaged Password attic OneLogin has been breached, and it's bad, because the service that suffered the breach is one often used by people to store credentials like admin password and software keys.…

Now USB-C it, now you don't Video Peripherals builder Anker has issued a recall after researchers found that one of its USB-C cables could potentially cause serious damage to connected hardware.…

First real test for second-hand reusable Falcon European satellite operator SES will trust its latest hardware to a SpaceX Falcon rocket that has already made it into space once.…

This server is too engineered. This server is too bespoke. This validated server's just right! Dell's decided the world needs something between roll-your-own infrastructure and converged infrastructure's insistence on controlling exactly what's inside a chassis down to the last screw.…

GRiD Compass made it into space and onto Aliens Obituary The creator of the world's first laptop, the GRiD Compass, has died at the age of 75 at his home in California.…

Talk into Amazon's voice assistant speakers, get music streamed to ... other speakers Listen up – Sonos is letting people control the music streamed to their speakers by giving voice commands to Amazon Echo and its Alexa personal assistant.…

Apparently everyone could pay 0.005 per cent tax if they only asked Forcing Apple to pay the same tax rate as other companies will lead to the destruction of Europe, according to its not-entirely objective CEO Tim Cook.…

Doubts linger over for-profit US-wide college's finances For-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute is facing further sanctions as the US government and the state of California have ordered the school to stop accepting new students.…

祝你好运，戴尔先生 Dell and EMC will officially merge next Wednesday – September 7 – after getting approval from Chinese monopoly officials.…

CEO Pat Gelsinger says pulled release was a glitch, not a culture fail VMworld VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has characterised the decision to pull a version of NSX as “a stubbed toe” while defending VMware's engineering culture.…

Mystery of the missing baryons leads to a surprising find The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy was bursting with nuclear activity when humans' first ancestors roamed the Earth, according to a team of astrophysicists.…

New boxen and such, in handy A-Z format VMworld Here's part one of our three-part round-up of what's hot and what's not from VMworld 2016.…

Second incident saw drone miss cockpit by barely 10m An airliner circling Heathrow narrowly missed colliding with a drone flying at 7,000 feet – while another aircraft approaching the London airport saw a drone hurtle past just 30 feet from its cockpit.…

Seventh-generation processors with DRM-friendly UHD engine will appear from next month Intel's stop-gap Kaby Lake processors – aka the seventh-generation Core family – will ship in laptops starting from September, we're told.…

Dumped creds have been exposed since January Some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from Minecraft fan website Minecraft World Map.…

Yes, we squeezed just 0.005% corp tax from Apple. That was what it owed Apple paying €50 corporation tax in Ireland on every €1m of profit reported – a rate of 0.005 per cent – was in compliance with local laws, the Emerald Isle’s under-fire Revenue Commissioners have claimed.…

'Portable' device can now be untethered from wall Frustrated Surface Pro 3 customers unable to properly charge their batteries have been offered a fix by Microsoft.…

And could he be hinting at a new national ID card scheme? UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the party will not win elections using strategies from the past, as he promised to "democratise the internet" in his Digital Manifesto today…

Five full drive writes a day for five years? This is serious VMworld Samsung is showing off a monster million IOPS SSD that can pump out read data at 6.4 gigabytes/sec and store up to 6.4TB.…

'State aid' will be recovered, plus interest Updated The European Commission has ruled that tax arrangements between Ireland and Apple were in breach of the EU's state aid laws, and said the American corporation needs to cough up €13bn in back taxes, plus interest.…

Neat platform but should we just use Linux? Hands on Microsoft has released Windows 10 Anniversary for IoT Core, a version of Windows which runs on Raspberry Pi 2 or 3, Dragonboard or Minnowboard.…

Removing the squishies doesn't remove the legal headaches The integration of robots into production processes will impact on traditional liability arrangements and raise a range of other legal issues for manufacturers to consider, including in relation to health, safety and data protection.…

Fooling around with VLC systems Proponents of visible light communications (VLC) like “Li-Fi” love reminding us of the bonkers speeds they can get (200 Gbps last year, for example), but just like its radio-spectrum counterpart, it needs protection against eavesdropping and jamming.…

Show me the way to go Ohm The ampere, a perpetual embarrassment to the world of scientific standardisation, is due to get a measurable physical standard in 2018, and America's National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) hopes to help provide its definition.…

Bring your own Mac OS licence and cross you fingers before the legal letters land An outfit called “Hacbook” is channeling Psystar*, offering Mac OS laptops for US$329.…

Tesla readies software update after high-profile crashes Rumours are emerging that Tesla is going to restrict the behaviour of its controversial Autopilot feature.…

Settle, SETI-fans: One radio spike does not a civilisation make The killjoys at the SETI Institute -- killjoys all over the world, really -- are damping down wild speculation that a Russian instrument has seen a “possible” alien transmission.…

Evil EMV card pwns NCR ATMs, sets dispensary to max Researchers at security firm FireEye may have found the malware responsible for plundering ATMs across Thailand and other parts of South East Asia.…

A lean, lean 2016 for Canberra IT sector lobbyists The tech sector's going to have to take care of itself in 2016, at least as far at the Turnbull government's legislative agenda is concerned.…

Expect them ASAP once the EMC deal closes, which will be real soon now Michael Dell today told VMworld 2016 in Las Vegas that as soon as the deal to acquire EMC closes “you will see a whole new series of engineered solutions we have been working on together.”…

Garden State wants a thousand startups to bloom The government of the southern Australian state of Victoria has tipped A$450,000 (£260,083, US$340,872) to spin up an information security incubator in Deakin University.…

Next stop, Hawaii Australia and New Zealand got a small step closer to a third Pacific crossing, with submarine cable upstart Hawaiki signing DRFortress in Hawaii to operate its landing station.…

Daesh/Saudi Arabia snafu leads to calls for boycott A snafu with the translation engine in Microsoft's Bing search engine has landed Redmond in hot water with the Saudi authorities.…

Email updates stalled to 2017? Oh no no, everything's fine ... ish, says Redmond Microsoft says its renovation work on the Outlook.com cloud email service is virtually complete although a few folks are still waiting to see the changes. Its rollout will not be delayed until 2017 as had been feared, however.…

Top tip: Keep flying cams away from Robert Duvall's house The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has begun enforcement of new rules covering the commercial use of drones.…

They didn't get E-rate price because they didn't want an E‑rate plan, apparently AT&T has issued a rebuttal to the FCC's July complaint that it overcharged schools and libraries in Florida for internet service.…

Zuck's algorithm in full: 10 INPUT El Reg Bootnote Archive; 20 GOTO 10 On Friday, Facebook announced changes to its method of picking trending news stories to put on the front page of people's feeds. It's taking humans out of the equation and using algorithms instead – and the results were not pretty.…

Decision to share numbers picked up by Canuck crusader The UK's new Privacy Commissioner has fired a warning shot across Facebook's bow over its privacy policy update.…

CEO celebrates five years by getting even richer Apple CEO Tim Cook is $135m richer this week after receiving 1.26 million shares in the electronics giant, immediately selling $36m worth of them.…

Class action accuses Cupertino of ignoring handset defect Apple is being sued by a class of former iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners who accuse the company of failing to address a design problem that caused the handset's touchscreen to malfunction.…

SQL injection attack used to slurp voters' info IT admins have received a flash warning from the FBI to harden up their systems following attacks against servers run by two US state election boards.…

Computer giant faces devastating two per cent drop in profits The European Commission (EC) will demand an additional €1bn ($1.12bn) from Apple in back taxes, according to Reuters.…

Cloud Platform for private cloud Tegile is launching its all-flash, clustered, IntelliFlash CP (Cloud Platform) at VMworld 2016.…

Virtzilla's going to bet you've got server sprawl all over again, this time in the cloud VMware will apply its core skill – taming ill-defined pools of computing resource – to multiple clouds, in a new effort called Cross-Cloud Architecture.…

A national fibre plan, what's that? Comment How do Blighty’s future broadband plans compare to its Irish neighbour, which arguably has its sights on a much more ambitious target than BT?…

Man-in-the-middle diddle A Chinese certificate authority handed out a base certificate for GitHub and the Univerisity of Central Florida to a mere user in a significant security blunder.…

Boffins blow up Blowfish and double down on triple DES Researchers with France's INRIA are warning that 64-bit ciphers – which endure in TLS configurations and OpenVPN – need to go for the walk behind the shed.…

Windows in a state of undress, all over the world It's an easy drive-by troll, isn't it? Last week, we asked readers to top the five-storey Blue Screen of Death spotted in Thailand, and examples big and small flooded the inbox.…

Oz court sour on unlicensed Sauron 'One Ring' A Melbourne man has to hand over his entire stock of “The One Ring” knock-offs to the Tolkien Estate, after losing a copyright case.…