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Content-UI split slowly sliding out of beta Mozilla has moved ahead with its cunning plan to split the browser window from the underlying content processing.…

System Centre's Windows Server Operating System MP was bad at recognising disks Microsoft has issued a replacement for a buggy release of Windows Server Operating System MP, code that underpins efforts to proactively monitor Windows Server.…

Optics are the most expensive bits of a switch these days and Juniper hopes vertical integration changes that Juniper Networks is jumping into the silicon photonics business, with the acquisition of fabless designer Aurrion.…

Networking foes settle war over 'induced infringement' with $54m deal Internet backbone facilitators Akamai Technologies and Limelight Networks have agreed to end their long-running patent battle, and instead forge a $54m licensing agreement.…

秘密を知りたい There's no doubt that the internet has caused massive shakeups in laws across the globe, but in Japan the law has an unusual kink: internet routers are technically illegal.…

Li-ion, li-ion, pants on fire Warning: pic An Australian chap says he suffered serious burns after he tumbled off his bike and his iPhone exploded.…

Jill Stein joins the presidential farce According to a recent poll, just 10 per cent of Americans are excited about voting for either of the two political parties' presidential candidates in November.…

Take precautions – like using a strong passphrase Microsoft software still leaks usernames and password information to strangers' servers – thanks to an old design flaw in Windows that was never properly addressed.…

VirnetX will have to go back to court with infringement claim A US District Court judge has thrown out an earlier $625m verdict against Apple in a long-running patent trial over FaceTime – and ordered a new trial.…

Changing operating system updates forever Comment VMware looks set to renew its relevancy with a new patent application. The patent application lists inventors Mukund Gunti, Vishnu Sekhar and Bernhard Poess and assigns the patent to VMware. The short version of the patent is that, if granted, VMware will have effectively patented the ability to hot swap a host server's operating system underneath running virtual machines and other applications.…

Ray of light in declining disk drive market with no good flash sales news Seagate has beaten its own preliminary fiscal 2016 fourth quarter estimate of $2.65bn revenues with a $2.7bn quarter. Still, this was 6.9 per cent less than a year ago, although 3.8 per cent up on the third quarter.…

HgCapital offloads loss-making outfit for undisclosed sum Domain biz NetNames has been flogged to US biz services outfit CSC Global for an undisclosed sum.…

Glyphs and the Swiss Hands on If you’ve travelled at all around suburban or rural Greece, Turkey or North Africa you’ll wonder why almost every other house seems to be permanently under construction. There’ll be a house extension underway that can take decades to complete. Sometimes it’s because there just aren’t enough builders or because more tax has to be paid once the building work is declared complete. Well, Windows 10 is like one of those house extensions.…

Administrator's Statement of Affairs reveals the nitty gritty Defunct cloud infrastructure and apps provider Outsourcery Plc attracted interest from 12 bidders before it was offloaded to GCI Telecom for £4m, in a pre-pack administration handled by EY.…

Data centre target of attack of 30+ Gbps Beleaguered web host 123-Reg has suffered a "huge scale" distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to its data centre – knocking the Brit outfit's website offline and a number of users' services.…

Chopper protection blamed for faltering erection Swedish authorities are investigating the mysterious case of a Smaland man whose wedding tackle went into rapid decline after his dentist prescribed a mouthguard to cure him of grinding his teeth.…

Are they legit? No one's picking up at the Purple Palace User credentials purported to belong to 200 million Yahoo! users are being offered up for sale through a dark web cybercrime shack.…

Hurrah! RICH private equity vampires have become RICHER, in BLOCK CAPITALS OUTSOURCING Inc (OSI) – a Japanese player that does what it says on the tin – has acquired UK public sector BPO specialist Liberata for £43m.…

Jack Domme departs with plaudits Hitachi Americas CEO and chairman Jack Domme has resigned, with Ryuichi Otsuki already in place as HDS CEO.…

Which means... what exactly? Chinese smartphone manufacturer Gionee has released a device with a dedicated encryption chip it calls "equivalent to a black box" that offers the "most advanced" mobile data protection to date.…

Benign messages frogmarched into quarantine FireEye has admitted that a snafu involving its email filtering technology meant harmless messages were shuffled off to quarantine for no good reason.…

Investors eye up Memory1 tech and OEM qualifications Analysis Things are looking up for Diablo Technologies. It has pulled in another $18m in funding and has tier 1 server OEMs qualifying its Memory1 flash-as-memory technology. Also the Netlist lawsuits seem to be going away.…

How many Jubs? What number of chicken's eggs? You demand answers – we give them The splash story on one Sunday newspaper breezily informed us Brits used six billion fewer plastic bags this year than last, and that these weighed the same as “three million pelicans” – a grave naughtiness committed before El Reg's Standards Soviet.…

1-2-3-outage It seems the wheels of 123-Reg's clown vehicle have fallen off once again, with its site currently out of action and customers reporting a lack of email access.…

Soz, engineers are looking into it... Sky broadband customers have been hit by an outage this morning, which appears to be disrupting services nationwide.…

Manish the man moves out with two other execs What's going in HPE? It has lost a cloud boss, a storage boss and VP for Americas sales in one day, and set up a new cloud division in a focus-sharpening exercise.…

Yeah, what of it? Wanna take this outside... The Big Review One year after the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has released the Anniversary Update, bringing new features as well as usability tweaks to the operating system.…

No kidding. We need the storage Storage is a big deal for IT people and beancounters alike. For the IT team the story is pretty consistent: there's never quite enough, and the users seem to eat it up and an amazing rate. For the finance team it's a seemingly endless queue of IT people asking for funds for yet more storage because the rate of growth in stored data seems to accelerate more than anyone ever predicts.…

Yeast factory bests cumbersome labs and slow supply chains Researchers at MIT's electronics division have developed a small mobile medical laboratory that could help bring vaccines to remote impoverished areas, battlefields, and space.…

Beardy Branson's bird not cleared for takeoff just yet, but hopeful of flight tests soon Virgin Galactic has won an operators licence for its re-usable low-orbit vehicle, SpaceShipTwo, from the United States Federal Aviation Administration.…

Researchers claim they can stop malware before it executes Black Hat EndGame vulnerability researchers Cody Pierce, Matt Spisak, and Kenneth Fitch have created a defence framework to protect against deeper modern attacks.…

Boffins smokin' idea to share parts of keys to cook quantum-proof crypto Digital signatures, one of the fundamental parts of cryptography, may one day be threatened by quantum computers – so crypto-boffins are busy devising schemes that can survive a post-quantum world.…

Shipment slump means just the iPhone outsells tablets from all vendors Tablet computer sales are sliding, sharply, again.…

Surely Marc Benioff can recite the long list of folk who tried to kill Office, but died trying? Salesforce has decided there's money in boring stuff: it's bought into office productivity with the acquisition of document/spreadsheet collaboration outfit Quip.…

This could be how light becomes a more common data carriage medium We've known for some time that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light (colloquially known as “twisted light”) can be modulated to carry information, but until now, it's only been demonstrated on large-scale laboratory lasers.…

Tiny device could drive remote CAN bus assassinations Black Hat VIDEO Car hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have again hacked a 2014 Jeep Cherokee, this time by physically linking a laptop to commandeer its steering and kill the brakes.…

Chinese biz told to pour water, baby back into bath tub TP-Link will cough up a $200,000 fine to America's broadband regulator the FCC – and has agreed to let people tinker with the firmware in its 5GHz wireless routers.…

But Windows dips below 50 per cent of all web traffic according to US gov data Windows 10 has grabbed more than 20 per cent of the world's desktops in its first year, according to the web-watchers on which The Register relies for regular assessments of operating system market share.…

It's 2016, people, and anything with code in it just does not belong in your inbox The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), the sigint outfit renowned for its “don't be stupid” guide to infosec, has published its latest guidelines for e-mail admins.…

Or buy something that doesn't use a Qualcomm Snapdragon Another month means another double bundle of security vulnerability patches for Android.…

And will hire multiple integrators to make it work: what could possibly go wrong? Australia has called for system integrators capable of replacing an ancient mainframe payments system with SAP, and doing so for under a billion dollars.…

Web ads giant not helping its case by cutting gas lines Nashville's Google Fiber rollout has hit a pair of snags: rival carriers are, and this may surprise you, stalling the installation of lines needed for Google's new broadband network.…

Unlimited free troubleshooting and repairs is a minefield of caveats, says Washington AG Washington state is suing Comcast and demanding $100m in damages for allegedly misleading customers.…

And he'll buy your blood to do so, as long as you're young Just when you thought Peter Thiel couldn't become any more of a megalomaniac, the billionaire VC proves you wrong.…

Promising wonderful outcomes without explaining privacy protection burns the public's trust The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has so badly mishandled the question of retaining names that its senior leadership need to consider their futures.…

Chinese handlers paid for his nights with hookers, five-star trips around the world A veteran FBI geek funneled sensitive information about the Feds to the Chinese government – and now faces years behind bars.…

Yuge security flaws, the best kind of security flaws, guaranteed incredible flaws Updated Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been widely and repeatedly mocked for being thin-skinned; something not helped by his compulsive need to insult anyone who criticizes him.…

Fragmented market slowly coming together The internet of things standards mess has become a little saner, with the news that Google's The Thread Group will interoperate with the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF).…

8th generation scale-out box lands HPC scale-out NASer Panasas has done its traditional yearly system upgrade: the ActiveStor (AS) 20 array replaces the AS18, giving users more bangs for their HPC buck.…

A litte romance scamming in the charges mix, though Police in Nigeria have arrested the suspected mastermind of a web of cybercrime scams thought to have cost victims worldwide more than $60m.…