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Demerge, simplify and cough up for shareholders, it demands Analysis Activist investor Paul Singer's Elliott Management is not shy about on taking on the world's biggest companies, and now it wants Samsung to bend to its will, splitting in two and paying shareholders an eye-watering $27bn.…

Unlucky, commentards: You're all thought criminals now Social media users who engage in flame wars or retweet the doxing of others will be treated in the same way as those making fake bomb threats over social media, British prosecutors have announced.…

*Insert Trump joke here* Astronauts flying to Mars are in danger of long-term brain damage and dementia from the onslaught of radiation in galactic cosmic rays, according to a new study.…

MRAM top's still spinning and hasn't fallen flat Everspin has spun out its IPO; it offered 5 million shares at an estimated $8 a pop to rake in an estimated $40m, with shares starting trading on Friday October 7, opening at $9.10 and currently trading at $8.02.…

We've got an 'efficient tax structure', boast the Zuckerborg Facebook has bragged about its "efficient tax structure" in the UK after it was revealed the megacorporation actually earned £11m in tax credits to be offset against future claims from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.…

Not you, buddy, the product's UI Part Three You’ve got the talent, you’ve the idea for something that resembles a product. But, as Steve Jobs said "real artists ship", and art isn’t something that comes just like that. In this case we’re talking architecture, we’re talking tools, we’re talking interface and UI – not necessarily things you were thinking about were they?…

That's the prediction, anyway Analysis People that invest in Netflix and people that invest in Disney should never meet each other – they would not get on. But it seems there is a danger, according to the Wall Street Journal, that the two shall be thrown together in an unholy Alliance.…

Lashings of “q” and “z” and “j” Radbot Our goal as a company is to get hundreds of millions of our smart devices out there, in the hands of Joe Public. Saving money and carbon, and mental energy for the things in life that normal people actually care about.…

'Molybdenum disulphide' valley has a nice ring to it, no? Boffins from the United States Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and beyond say they've cracked a new way to make very, very, small transistors.…

Linux survived 2015 but there's work to do if you want to enjoy the fireworks The Time Lords at the Earth Orientation Center of the International Earth Rotation Service have again decided the world needs an extra second and have picked New Year's Eve as the best moment for the extra sliver of time.…

Whitegoods-inspired security rating scheme under discussion The European Commission is readying a push to get companies to produce labels that reveal the security baked into internet-of-things things.…

Reverse engineering turns 'Smarter AM' into brew-bot Zimperium researcher Simone Margaritelli has hacked his coffee machine finding a way to brew coffee using the command line.…

Linux Lord also feels Internet of Things hardware is mostly doomed, like his old Sinclair QL Linus Torvalds believes ARM has little chance of overhauling x86, because the latter has built an open hardware ecosystem that the former just doesn't look like replicating.…

Thanks readers - you never fail to spot Windows with its pants down BSOD WATCH For those of you who asked why there was no BSOD collection last week, the answer is simple: it was a holiday weekend in Australia. We hope this week's offerings make up for it.…

Stops throwing fuel on the fire Korean newswire Yonhap reports that Samsung has ceased production of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7.…

Total Inability To Support Usual Performance strands ATM, EFTPOS users IBM customer National Australia Bank has started the week badly, hammered by an outage that's taken ATM and merchant facilities offline.…

'The Russians hack the information and Wikileaks is involved' says Clinton The second debate between Republican and Democratic presidential candidates Donald J Trump and Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton has featured a brief exchange on the United States' Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's assertion that “Russia's senior-most officials … authorized” cyber attacks on the Democratic National Committee.…

Google jam lifted after take-down. Turkey has blocked access to major technology sites and services including GitHub, Microsoft OneDrive and Dropbox, seemingly to suppress circulation of some 57,623 stolen emails allegedly felt to reveal a widespread campaign of propaganda and deception.…

Too much admin turns out to be barely enough Microsoft's PowerShell feature “Just Enough Administration” (JEA) is, apparently, “way too much administration” according to researcher Matt Weeks.…

Two CAs get new bosses, operations to be split After being pinged by Mozilla for issuing backdated SHA-1 certificates, Chinese certificate authority WoSign's owner has put the cleaners through the management of WoSign and StartCom.…

Slow walkers, traffic jams, signs of success. Privacy sell-out Yahoo! has filed patents for roadside billboards outfitted with biometric spy cameras and microphones to collect data from passers-by.…

This fire is out of control ... US mobile carriers T-Mobile and AT&T have decided the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is too great a risk and have stopped shipping replacements for the phirebug phablet.…

Publish primes with seeds, so we know there are no backdoors Researchers with at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and the University of Pennsylvania have called for security standards-setters to publish the seeds for the prime numbers on which their standards rely.…

'Only Russia's senior-most officials' could authorize the exploitation of our weak security The Russian government "directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions," the US Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said on Friday, an accusation that gives formal recognition to a claim previously voiced through unnamed sources.…

But it will cost more than your mobile phone AT&T will pilot a dedicated mobile network solely for the internet of things next month in San Francisco.…

Muni unexpectedly turns into self-driving ride A trolley bus crash in San Francisco is being blamed on a "computer error" that left the vehicle without working brakes.…

Your unfair contract cripples browsers, Nexedi complains Nexedi, an open source software company based in France, has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Paris alleging that Apple's App Store contract is unfair.…

Congresscritters want to know if cellphone snooping kit illegally jams connections A group of US Senators has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate concerns that police stingray devices are causing illegally high levels of interference to wireless networks.…

Decade-long game of patent tennis nearly over In yet another reversal in the Apple-Samsung patent war, Samsung was told on Friday it actually did have to pay Apple $120m for infringing three patents.…

Scientists aren't completely sure where they are coming from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected massive, super-hot "cannonballs" shooting from a dying star, which has left scientists puzzled over the source of these giant globs of gas.…

'Rather than you approving which patches you want, we are saying let them all flow' Interview At Microsoft's recent Ignite event in Atlanta, The Reg sat down with Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Client and Mobility.…

If it wasn't for those bloody cloud people, we'd be quids in, says data centre exec Lenovo claimed it has yet to feel the commercial benefit of putting local server assembly into the hands of a contract manufacturer in Europe because the market has “tanked” - the cloud saw to that, an exec has said.…

Mmm, OK, you’ve got a week till the call for papers shuts We’ve had a cracking response to our call for papers for Building IoT London so far, but we’ve also had a few begging letters saying people are still waiting for slides back from colleagues, or permissions from partners and the like.…

Oh, and also win millions of dollars A $3m AI competition aimed at showing “how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world's grand challenges” has been launched by IBM Watson under the XPRIZE banner.…

You mean I had to pay twice or thrice to store stuff before? FalconStor has announced something that seems … well, odd; a “Pay Once” pricing model.…

Tactic designed to empower the 'less dominant' members of the PaaS team Images Communication has now become so difficult at meetings of the UK Government Digital Service's (GDS) Platform-as-a-Service team, they've been forced to implement hand signals to prevent the "less dominant or newer members of the group" from being shouted down.…

Cloud Security Alliance releases 'hefty' report ... and it's pretty handy An in-depth security guidance report aimed at Internet of Things developers has been released by the Cloud Security Alliance.…

Apple vs. US round 2 looming The FBI wants to crack into another deceased terrorist’s locked iPhone.…

Getting rid of overlapping job functions The newly acquired EMC has been hit by layoffs in the former EMC headquarters' Hopkinton facility.…

Joins Solution Partner Program +Comment Secondary storage silo converger Cohesity is joining Cisco’s Solution Partner Program to flog its software on Cisco hardware.…

Marissa Mayer or Katie Hopkins? Eenie meenie... Donald Trump is Reg readers’ top candidate for firing to Mars according to a record poll result.…

CDA internet shield under the spotlight Special report The CEO of the notorious online classified site Backpage, Carl Ferrer, has been arrested in Texas on allegations of sex trafficking, after a joint investigation by California and Texas.…

Hull operator invited to respond Ofcom has today said it has "reasonable grounds" for believing operator KCOM failed to maintain emergency services access in Hull.…

Chip and display business segments claimed to have covered the burning bottom Samsung Electronics has told investors to expect a modest increase in its operating profits between July and September this year, despite the costly recall of its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.…

Troy Hunt talks down the state-sponsored hack threat Interview Despite the hype about state-sponsored hackers, most breaches are actually the result of either criminal activity or "kids messing around", according to breach expert Troy Hunt.…

No delete until 'end of Sept'... Not the 2016 Sept, then BT customers are unable to delete BT Yahoo email services - despite an exodus of users seeking to leave the security-challenged webmail biz.…

Fired CEO gets his sackers sacked in boardroom rout Sacked WANdisco CEO Dave Richards is back in post just seven working days after being ousted; the chairman of the board has now resigned along with another director, and also Erik Miller, the recently-appointed CFO.…