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Intermediate certs from StartCom, Comodo get the ban-hammer While Mozilla's democracy decides what to do about WoSign, Apple's dictatorship has issued its edict: the Chinese certificate authority WoSign will be thrown out of Cupertino's trust list.…

And they say Microsoft never innovates anything… Apple is taking a page from Microsoft's Windows 10 playbook and will push out its latest macOS (ex-OS X) update as an automatic download.…

The last of Google’s Nexus line Comment It has been nearly a year since the Nexus 5X smartphone was launched. On Tuesday, October 4, Google is expected to announce new smartphones – and possibly more – at an event in San Francisco.…

It's just fancy cruise control The US state of California says that automakers may no longer label their deluxe cruise control systems as "autopilot" or "autonomous" driving modes.…

What do we think? We like it, that's what Comment HPE's Synergy is, it thinks, the next great advance in servers and is far more capable than hyper-converged infrastructure systems, being able to provision bare metal as well as servers for virtual workloads as well as containerised ones.…

Enid Blyton plot twist: Former Platinum Partner kicked to the curb Sophos has finally “discontinued” its relationship with security reseller Quadsys after five of its staffers, three of whom were directors of the company, were sentenced for offences committed under the Computer Misuse Act last Friday.…

Martin Gomez waxes lyrical on Zuckerberg's future aerial fleet “I maintain the Turing Test for us is if the air traffic controller cannot tell he's talking to an unmanned aircraft,” Facebook's chief flying Wi-Fi router drone man, Martin Gomez, told the Royal Aeronautical Society this morning.…

Bonjour, mes fluffy white amis Microsoft is to open "multiple" data centres in France next year as part of its $3bn (£2.6bn) cloudy investment in Europe.…

Generally available now MariaDB has this afternoon made version 2.0 of MaxScale, its database proxy, generally available.…

I'm Darrell, this is my brother Darrell and this is my other brother Darrell Architecting IT blog There have been rumours that NetApp plans to move into the hyper-convergence market, followed up by The Reg's Chris Mellor here.…

Hackforums leak Malicious code used to press-gang IoT connected devices into a botnet was leaked online over the weekend.…

BT's EE and Vodafone 'unfairly' dominate. Put it right, will you? Telcos are calling on Ofcom to slap a 30 per cent cap on operators bidding in the next spectrum auction - a move that would limit the proportion of airwaves an operator can own.…

Nexsan has a new chief marketing officer: its old chief marketing officer Victoria Grey has left her CMO position at hyper-converged vendor HyperGrid to take on a chief marketing officer role at traditional storage array vendor Nexsan.…

Plus ça change The UK’s new information commissioner reckons that a post-Brexit Britain should adopt data protection laws similar to those of, er... the EU.…

Bit of a Dixons, terribly sorry Google executives have been hyping tomorrow’s Android event as the most significant since the platform was first announced in 2008. But there’s little need to tune in for one part of it, thanks to British mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse.…

Share option boost prompts exec bliss Comment There’ll be a spring in the executive offices of Cohesity, Rubrik, Tegile and other storage startups this morning; senior managers will have checked Nutanix’s share price and have that rosy glow that comes when your prospects have suddenly brightened.…

Complies with regulator ahead of time. Fancy that TalkTalk is scrapping line rental charges and freezing price increases for 18 months, in a bid to comply with forthcoming regulatory changes and retain its declining customer base.…

Head on spike Barring a last minute deal, the European Commission is set to impose a swingeing fine for Google parent Alphabet’s anti-competitive behaviour in Europe, with specific terms addressing its control over Android in contracts with phone-makers.…

Up to £80k on a platter for future Skynet overlords Defence boffins are running a competition to see who can develop a drone platform capable of running up to 20 UAVs “to achieve military effect across the electro-magnetic spectrum”.…

Product's what we want from you... Part Two You like the idea of “doing” a startup, but what about actually starting a startup? You can see the end point - success, hopefully - but what of the hoops and hurdles?…

IBM's cognitive computing can now take jobs away from compliance officers. Yay! Never mind cancer research or climate change: IBM is finally bringing its Watson AI technology to bear on one of the real challenges still facing human civilisation – regulatory compliance.…

Qualcomm signs up, but not Google or Apple – or even Nokia Analysis There are many interesting aspects to the announcement that Qualcomm, among others, is joining Ericsson’s Avanci patent pool scheme.…

Mozilla decides to crib some of Google's browser interfaces Mozilla is investigating hooking up Google Chrome's builtin plugins to Firefox.…

Think SQL injections on steroids Amazon, Baidu, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, among other technology companies, have been investing heavily in artificial intelligence and related disciplines like machine learning because they see the technology enabling services that become a source of revenue.…

Newsweek Cuban connection story enrages miscreants It has been an odd day for Newsweek – its main site was taken offline after it published a story claiming a company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump broke an embargo against doing deals with Cuba.…

Rights warriors gives their two cents on Tencent's nonsense Pic Chinese internet giant Tencent is the newly minted holder of a US design patent on the concept of placing rectangles on a display screen.…

Next move in EFF's plans to regain the right to tinker Assistant Professor Matthew Green has asked US courts for protection so that he can write a textbook explaining cryptography without getting sued under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.…

While comms commish faces a doxing for defying Silicon Valley Analysis US broadband regulator the FCC dramatically cancelled the much-anticipated vote on its secretive TV set-top box plan on Thursday – and it's keeping the details confidential.…

Judge refuses injunction, handover of global DNS etc at midnight The most significant change in the internet's functioning for a generation will happen tonight at midnight.…

Fuming frenchie causes a oui bit of damage A French man has been charged after he stormed into an Apple store and smashed up iPhones and MacBooks using a metal ball that is more commonly used for the traditional game of pétanque.…

Mad dash on eve of critical IANA transition A slew of internet organizations have come to the support of the US government in a last-minute lawsuit designed to prevent the handover of critical internet functions at midnight on Friday.…

Reduce it for Redmond's engineers, that is – not you Microsoft wants to hire a particularly thick-skinned person to help run its Windows Updates team.…

Web giant offers open-source AI-powered X-rated pic hunter Having laid bare over half a billion usernames and passwords through meager funding and witless indifference, Yahoo! is putting its faith in artificial intelligence to protect people from bare skin.…

Sales of connected autonomous vehicles by 2025 projected to be 70% of light-duty vehicles Israeli car security startup Karamba Security has banked $2.5m in fresh investment, which it plans to use to extend its technology to autonomous vehicles.…

Former Royal Signals SNCO previously convicted of making indecent images of children A disgraced former Territorial Army sergeant convicted of making indecent images of children has pleaded guilty to using private browsing mode on his iPhone and iPad.…

Directors disqualified Five senior staffers at security reseller Quadsys managed to avoid imprisonment today.…

Tits=medium, bellend=strong NSFW UK comms regulator Ofcom has released in-depth research into the British public’s attitudes to fucking swearing.…

Citizen boffins: Help find the alien that ultimately kills us all The SETI project, which hunts for alien life and has generated hundreds of terabytes of data every day, has poured its bits over IBM’s cloud for citizen scientists to pick over.…

Capacity margin 0.1 per cent this winter – prepare to shiver Britain signed off on the most costly energy deal it has ever made this week – but the price we agreed for energy from Hinckley is still lower than the peak prices that will hit British wallets even harder, and sooner.…

Open-sourcier Redmond talks up speed, security gains for Azure HDInsight Microsoft has overhauled its cloud-hosted Azure HDInsight Hadoop big data mill with extra security in the shape of enhanced authentication and identity management features plus a claimed 25 times performance boost in crunching big data queries.…

BT alone expects its rates to more than quadruple Broadband providers have rallied against draft plans to hike up the cost of business rates, which will result in a "steep" increase for broadband providers laying infrastructure.…

FabricPool takes Data Fabric further with dynamic data movement to AWS NetApp has previewed a FabricPool technology which combines on-premises and AWS cloud storage into a single repository.…

Do we block unsanctioned ones? Well half of us think we do... Almost half of NHS Trusts make no attempt to monitor cloud app usage, according to the results of a Freedom of Information request.…

How Brussels made its copyright sausage The European Union's plan to get YouTube clean up its act – the proposed updates to copyright for the Digital Single Market – went through 37 revisions before emerging earlier this month: and the movie chiefs were nervous.…

Watch out on the Isle of Wight Dredgers clearing Portsmouth harbour have found yet another unexploded Second World War bomb.…

Breathless reporter probes curbside crapper An after midnight muckspreader who has been terrorising a Dublin* neighbourhood has been caught in the act by the very shopkeeper whose forecourt he’d been befouling.…

Return trip, ya say? Sure, in another two years Admit it. You were tempted to fulfil your sci-fi fantasy – no, not that one – and apply to Mars One Foundation to become a Red Planet pioneer three years back.…

Building IOT CFP deadline looms Reg Events The deadline to get your proposals in Building IOT London is just a week away, so if you want to tell an audience of real world tech pros about your real world experiences developing and implementing the internet of things, don't delay.…

BBC DG intervened in sexy puppet row The BBC Director-General was forced to intervene in a row over providing children’s puppet Sooty with a lady friend.…

Providing ISPs have signed 'up to' the voluntary code, that is UK businesses are to receive more accurate data on broadband speeds before signing up to a contract, under a voluntary code coming into force from Ofcom today.…