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Fast switching of super-small magnetic tunnel junctions Spin Transfer-Torque Magnetic RAM (STT-MRAM) is a future DRAM replacement candidate. It uses one of two different spin directions of electrons to signal a binary one or zero.…

LIke it or not, it's on your sofa, surfing your web DevOps is a concept that we've all started coming across more and more in the last few months. Critically it's taken a bit of a leap just lately because people have started to: (a) define it formally and (b) actually agree to a decent extent on what the definition is.…

Smart watch, dumb botch: sensor sensitivity equals insecurity say boffins Chinese scientists have brewed a way to steal -- with 80 percent accuracy -- automatic teller machine PINs by infecting wearable devices.…

Death at end of last year ruled suicide Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock, who died late last year in strange circumstances, killed himself, according to an autopsy report obtained this week.…

Reverse enginnering, coding, and threat intel skills tested In eight days, Palo Alto is launching a capture the flag competition offering a total of US$16000 (£12340, A$21,245) for the first to complete the six trials.…

All my friends are getting married It's a big week for Linux cloud tie-ups, with SUSE and Microsoft expanding their partnership, and Canonical becoming Pivotal's preferred operating system in Cloud Foundry.…

Protecting users without decrypting their traffic A group of researchers who work for Cisco* reckons malicious traffic in TLS tunnels can be spotted and blocked – without decrypting user traffic.…

'Sorry, can you repeat that?' Rejoice, system admins; Splunk developer Josh Newlan has created a series of scripts that will with the right tools get you out of time-wasting teleconference meetings.…

Dumps proprietary API, will show all at JavaOne Exclusive Oracle has told The Register it is "committed" to Java amid growing fears the IT giant had all but given up on Java EE – aka Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.…

My safe word is 'camera', what's yours? NASA mission scientists are puzzling over why the Mars Curiosity rover entered “safe mode” during the weekend.…

This Wheel's On Fire Vid Half a million hoverboard users should hotfoot it to the hardware's makers and get a replacement, lest they go up in flames.…

Redmond tries to prove it's cool to all ages and cultures – from hip-hop to hip op Today, Microsoft tried to connect with college-age kids, and it did not go over particularly well.…

Targets those who tone down Mac security More malware capable of pilfering Mac keychain passwords and shipping them over Tor has been turned up, less than a day after a similar rare trojan was disclosed.…

A 2G-to-LTE base station in the palm of your hand, open hardware, open software Facebook's unleashed a slab of mobile networking technologies which that hint at how it would like remote communities to connect to the outside world.…

Android mobe maker and Geeksphone fall out over debts It seems that the Blackphone, the handset created by Silent Circle and Spanish firm Geeksphone, isn't as popular as its makers would like.…

Intel's punching bag says it's working on a patch AMD says it will soon release a software update for its Radeon RX 480 graphics card to stop it slurping unexpectedly large amounts of power.…

Just how far can learning from failure be taken? It's a Silicon Valley trope, even a badge of honor, that failure is good. Fail fast, fail often. Learn from failure. There are even failure-based meetups where would-be Zuckerbergs share tales of having done miserably.…

When I started out, all I had was just a dream ... and millions in donations A pair of newly passed bills in the US Congress will increase the amount of money tech startups can raise to cover their early expenses.…

Security patch for ridiculously bad bugs still weeks away If you're using Symantec's Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (SEP SBE) then you can forget about security for a week or so, as the company won't be patching the "as bad as it gets" security holes in its software for a while.…

Is this really all about a factory robot? Huawei is suing T‑Mobile US for patent infringement – claiming the American carrier's core network is reliant on its technology and yet T-Mob isn't opening its wallet.…

Nike shoes, Blue Moon beer, a VW Touareg and an unused pipe bomb A man arrested for setting fire to one of Google's Street View cars has told the authorities he feared the company was watching him.…

What a coincidence Google has released two bundles of Android security patches this month: a smaller one to handle bugs in the operating system, and a larger package that tackles a raft of driver-level issues, particularly with Qualcomm's hardware.…

Only enterprises and schools invited to this party Microsoft is packing its desktop virtualization into Windows 10 Anniversary Update next month – but you'll need an Enterprise or Education agreement to receive it.…

IBM SoftLayer provides the magic carpet ride Take one ambitious Citrix engineering director who wanted to start his own storage company, sprinkle in $2m of angel funding and seven years later you find a IBM SoftLayer-blessed 20-person startup competing with DataCore. Nexenta and $100m+ funding, and other VC-backed software-defined storage vendors. How did that happen?…

Plus: Casters chat to EMC's open source guy, Jonas Rosland

Regulator now says dark fibre sufficient Small broadband provider CityFibre has complained to the competitions watchdog that Ofcom is backtracking on its promise to break the country's dependency on BT's Openreach by forcing greater access to its ducts and poles.…

Brit upstart Elliptic is actively tracking paedos' crypto-currency cash flows Blockchain forensics are being harnessed in an effort to clamp down on the trade in images of child sex abuse on the dark web.…

String what-ting? Glad you asked... Backgrounder Adding 3D NAND layers is butting up against aspect ratio limitations in the chip production process, which will limit the number of layers. String stacking is a technology that could provide an escape from this aspect ratio trap.…

Also: Iraq war 'unnecessary', Blair ‘overestimated' own ability Sir John Chilcot, who today delivered his much-awaited report into the Iraq war, ran an impressively tight ship when it came to IT spending.…

Not enough public confidence, says minister The controversial Care.data patient information-sharing scheme has today been binned.…

Pucker up, it's for science Rise of the machines: Spare a thought for the only Rectal Teaching Assistant in the UK who has lost his livelihood to a cold, metal bastard.…

RIM's strange journey to the design museum BlackBerry has confirmed it won’t make any more BlackBerry Classics, marking the end of an era.…

Explicit 'don't take my info' box needed for uses beyond direct care Patients must be allowed to opt out of their personal data being used for purposes beyond their direct care, a long-awaited report addressing concerns raised by the Care.data debacle has recommended.…

Spook-founded firm slurps more funding Darktrace, the machine-learning cybersec outfit backed by one-time Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch, has pulled in another $65m in VC funding.…

50 ambassadors stream in to read locked-down report WIPO's director general Francis Gurry is seeking to strengthen his hold on the UN’s global IP group by getting rid of its staff council.…

The condensed version... Klan K not doing much to help women. Or anyone really A sociology student has scored a first class degree in sociology, in large part because of her mighty 10,000-word thesis on American reality TV "star" family the Kardashians.…

Torrent release groups are the target - not teenagers Digital Economy Bill As it promised in the Queen’s Speech – and as first revealed here – legislation will extend the maximum penalty for industrial scale online copyright infringement from two to 10 years.…

Following the trendIT trend Israeli hi-tech companies rang the tills with exits adding up to $3.3bn in the first half of 2016.…

Universal Service Obligation of 10Mbps may be increased in future Digital Economy Bill Communications provider Ofcom has gained powers to fine mobile operators up to £2m if they fail to comply with coverage obligations under their spectrum licence.…

Flash cacher gets undermined by cheapening flash Comment Rumour has it Nutanix is talking to Pernix Data about a possible acquisition. It could be a good thing for Nutanix and, of course, its customers.…

Europe, Asia, US close to commercially viable model In the week of Brexit and Iceland, a London event perhaps did not need any more reminders about falling behind the rest of the world – but a final, unavoidable conclusion from last week’s 5G World was that the east Asian operators, always very technically progressive, are also in a league of their own when it comes to detailed deployment plans too.…

Trial by combat and toothpick-applied war paint Cheating is an unforgivable offence for paper wasps and has a direct effect on their hormones, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.…

Must 'clearly and prominently' label it Online publishers, bloggers, tweeters and other "digital influencers" must "clearly and prominently" label content they are paid to produce as paid-for promotions, new guidance developed by a body of regulators from around the world has said.…

Securo firm says it was a 'business decision', unrelated to warrants 'we didn't recieve' Silent Circle has quietly euthanized its warrant canary for 'business reasons' leading privacy pundits to freak out over double negatives and double speak.…

Check Point slayers reveal building address, pop panels, publish office floor plan. Net scum behind the Hummingbird Android malware are raking in a mind-boggling US$300,000 (£233,125, A$404,261) a month through illegitimate advertising and app downloads from a whopping 10 million infected devices.…

Phobos and Demos last remnants of Martian rings Vid A new study suggests the early history of Mars was incredibly violent and the planet's two small moons are the sole surviving remnants of what was once a shimmering halo.…

Bonk-hopefuls' site's fake profiles under investigation The US Federal Trade Commission has decided to add Ashley Madison's “fembots” to the company's long list of woes.…

192.168.1.1 is a pain, but it's better than 'admin:admin' on the Web anyhow TP-Link, rather than recovering domains it forgot to renew, is going to abandon them.…

ESA schedules Gaia mission's first data release It's time for astroboffins and enthusiasts to start clearing space on their hard drives: the European Space Agency has scheduled its first Gaia mission data drop for September 14, 2016.…

Flawed arguments and right-wing tropes don't make the case for Internet voting Australia's close-run federal election has brought out the tech sector in force, seeking government rent so it can appropriate the country's democracy.…