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Workaround de-glitches rover's computer The Curiosity Rover is not about to become a nuclear waste dump on Mars as the trundling science lab has become mobile again after a glitch put it in safe mode last week.…

Devs wanted nine little brains, not one big juicy brain Microsoft has taken its Project Oxford “cognitive services” suite and broken it up into a bunch of projects of smaller scope.…

Crypto Drop looks for tell-tale signs that files are being encrypted Researchers from the University of Florida and Villanova University reckon ransomware can be stopped by watching what it's doing to the target's files.…

QueenAnt proof-of-concept exploits exposed interfaces and sends coins the wrong way Australian security researcher Tim Noise says scores of popular Antminer Bitcoin mining devices could be commandeered.…

2000 universities and 4000 academics are already aboard Google will train two million Android developers across India over the next three years.…

Forum post claims 'automation ruined my lovely Model X' Evidence continues to mount that the Tesla's Autopilot system probably isn't anywhere near as bad as breathless reporting would have it, with the third reported accident in the US since the feature was launched in October 2015.…

US watchdog channels Hans Blix Warner Bros has settled a complaint that YouTube celebs it paid to promote its video game online didn't declare that they were taking the entertainment giant's coin.…

When automated censorship goes awry Usually when you read about Facebook blocking accounts or taking down videos it's because something serious has happened: like a woman filming her boyfriend dying at the hands of traffic cops; or someone going on a racist rant.…

Brings the number of staff facing unemployment to more than 8,000 in a couple of weeks Seagate is cutting 6,500 staff, or 14 per cent of its 46,000-strong workforce, across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.…

Sweden sour – source Two Swedish researchers have torn into Google's free school service, accusing the online giant of purposefully misleading users in order to continue profiting from the sale of children's data.…

Gotta catch 'em all – access permissions, that is Smash-hit mobile game Pokemon Go's catchphrase is "you gotta catch 'em all" – gotta catch all your Google email, files and photos, it is claimed.…

At this point, it might be safer to just sleep in your car Yet another US hotel chain has admitted malware infected its computer systems and stole guests' bank card information.…

Offers three ‘nines’ SLA and 75% lower price Backblaze has announced its B2 cloud object storage for $0.005/GB/month as an alternative to LTO tape drives.…

Automated algorithms invite Brits to join her Punishment Party. Fnarr! What's the difference between the UK's Prime Minister-designate and a glamour model who appeared in the Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up video? None at all, says Twitter.…

But this time it's a gardening job Scientists have developed a way to “chemically grow” transistors that are only a few atoms thick in a bid to give poor old battered Moore's Law another reprieve, according to new research published in Nature Nanotechnology.…

Brexit may have got us out, but EU rules still affect us deeply The passage of the EU Directive on the Security of Network and Information Systems (NIS) will have a profound effect on corporate security across Europe and even in Britain, despite the Brexit vote.…

UK boss Andy Isherwood gets the call, heads to EMEA high office A reshuffling of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s management stack ahead of the split with its services division has seen UK boss Andy Isherwood made EMEA MD and the region’s Enterprise Group boss.…

'People feel like they are getting less for the pound' Amazon Web Services has claimed it is trying to shield cloudy customers in the UK from the plunge in value of sterling against the US dollar following June’s vote to leave the EU.…

Kaspersky found plenty of evidence... from public sources Many industrial control system are exposed to the internet, creating a severe risk because most are hopelessly insecure, according to a new study by Kaspersky Lab.…

If you can't buy out firms that do it, license their IP China is looking to license 3D NAND technology from Micron.…

Promote e-cigs and bin the regulations The government should take advantage of Brexit to save lives, the House of Lords heard last week.…

UFS format far faster ... but you can't just swap 'em out Samsung has released a new format fingernail-sized removable flash card that can handle more data faster than microSD cards.…

Adrenaline-soaked exploits worthy of Hollywood Cancel Independence 3 and put Episode VIII on hold. Hollywood need look no further than the London Ambulance Service’s Cycle Response Team for next year’s summer blockbuster, after its Twitter feed revealed the gritty reality of saving East London while balanced on two wheels.…

No Montblanc pens for you lot! Petty managerial powers-that-be at IBM have thrust forward an exceptionally mean redesign of the company's loyal employee rewards scheme - gifts are to be scrapped for a “social congratulatory page”.…

How Hipsters and Silicon Valley's tech plutocrats cast the poor aside Interview Two American writers have attempted to grapple with the rise of “populism” exemplified by Donald Trump and Brexit, with both starting (if not finishing) from the Left.…

Ouch - online bookings take punch to wallet Hosting provider Fasthosts has been hit with an outage lasting four days, which has knocked some customers' sites offline due a number of its cloudy services being out of action.…

Plus: Avoiding hard decisions reduces a company to mediocrity Interview Chief executives of multi-billion dollar corporations have to have several characteristics, including steel, the ability to things as they are, and possession of a personal value system that meshes with their corporation’s culture.…

'Perhaps we no longer have to think about them' AWS Summit London Amazon CTO Dr Werner Vogels talked up the value of serverless computing at the AWS (Amazon Web Services) London Summit last week.…

Alleged to have sold hardware designs to undercover agent A US military contractor is alleged to have tried to sell Uncle Sam's satellite secrets to someone he thought was a Russian intelligence officer, the Feds claim.…

Consumer Reports says phone more aqua-phobic than billed Samsung is defending its latest line of Galaxy S7 phones after a report questioned the water-resistance claims made by one model of the handset.…

For sale: Slightly used Autonomy, price negotiable HP Enterprise (HPE) has reportedly begun entertaining offers to sell its software business.…

Boffins embed barely-audible-to-humans commands inside vids to fool virtual assistants University boffins have brewed one of the most complex mechanisms for loading malware onto phones by way of surreptitious Google Now and Siri voice commands hidden in YouTube videos.…

Reader endured extended Italian holiday waiting for kit to clear customs On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's usually-on-a-Friday foray into readers' recollections of jobs gone wrong, gone weird or sometimes gone in places that defy even the most lurid imaginings.…

Follow the malware Security researchers have discovered a possible link between the demise of the Angler Kit and a crackdown against the Lurk banking trojan crew.…

'Brain-damaged sh!t-for-brains' devs told to drop 'drug-induced crap' and use asterisks properly Linus Torvalds has unleashed a sweary rant on the Linux Kernel Mailing List, labelling some members “brain-damaged” for their preferred method of punctuating comments.…

Old-school web platform NeighbourNET, which powers the largest number of local community websites including 10 across London, contains nasty vulnerabilities that could compromise users.…

Lots more switches, a little more servers and storage The cloud infrastructure market dipped in the first quarter of 2016, but analyst outfit IDC reckons the full-year result will be much brighter, with the segment slated to pass US$37 billion for the full year.…

Radio? Just because we like it doesn't mean ET phones home SETI (the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) is both exciting and disappointing: exciting because of peoples' eternal wish for someone else to be out there; and disappointing because life proves so hard to find.…

He's having another go at a legit cloud content locker Kim Dotcom running a breeding program to birth anything is not a happy thought, but the legally-contentious New Zealand resident has been doing just that in an attempt to create yet another online content locker.…

Forked, not dead, it seems, because GNU Nano is still a thing Ticked off by the news that Nano opted out of GNU, a programmer called Salvatore Sanfilippo has written his own text editor.…

If VM-aware storage can't thrive in the most virtualised nations on earth, where will it thrive? Storage vendor Tintri has “decided to consolidate APAC operations out of regional headquarters in Singapore”, effectively shuttering the Sydney office from which it served Australia and New Zealand.…

Customers told to reset creds even though no leg-lifting password spray has wet the net Software as a service monitoring platform Datadog, used by the likes of Facebook, Salesforce, and Citrix, has been breached and therefore suggested strongly that customers reset their passwords.…

Fly, my pretties, fly, says CHOICE Australian consumer group CHOICE wants Telstra to release customers from their contracts, after months of repeated outages.…

Why polish a Ruby or tailor Swift when you can write code for a toothbrush? Let's do the time warp again: according to an outfit that tracks programming languages, the Internet of Things is re-igniting demand for assembly language skills.…

Beware lure modules in dark alleys ... and gaming companies hiring sysadmins AFTER their products get hot Enterprising teen thugs have used a feature in the virally-popular Pokemon Go mobile game to lure and rob gamers.…

DroidJack wants to peek-at-you Mind those downloads from non-official app stores: Android malware has been spotted posing as knockoff copies of the popular Pokemon GO game.…

It's in the pipe, five by five NASA is firing up the nine scientific instruments on board the Juno probe orbiting Jupiter ahead of its first data collection mission.…

There's always a catch Facebook is rolling out end-to-end encryption for its messaging service to bring it in line with competitors, including its own WhatsApp.…