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Plenty of machines still unpatched, says Daily News Sweden's military has told a newswire that its servers were used in a 2012/2013 attack on American banks.…

What could possibly go wrong? Wait, what could possibly go right Two Google engineers have drafted a software interface that allows websites to control USB devices.…

Start your shouting engines The head of Mozilla's Firefox browser is looking to the future. And, for the moment at least, it seems to lie in rival Chrome.…

Why do we even bother with security software? A new study has found that almost half the people who pick up a USB stick they happen across in a parking lot plug said drives into their PCs.…

Servergy CEO also hauled over coals after system claims The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the CEO of Texas server manufacturer Servergy, one of its board members, and the state's Attorney General with fraud over claims of revolutionary low-powered computer hardware.…

The proud legacy of James 'Big Fat Liar' Clapper A new council designed to bring greater openness and transparency to the US intelligence services will soon meet for the first time. Behind closed doors.…

Facing a week of checks before science mission resumes The Kepler space telescope is back in action after mysteriously shifting into emergency mode last week.…

Ad giant touts new $50 100Mbps, $70 1Gbps plans instead Google says it will no longer offer free Google Fiber internet in Kansas City, Missouri.…

Flagship Egyptian library to get machine that's great for weather forecasts. Um, why? Egypt’s national library is buying a 118 teraflop supercomputer from Huawei capable of handling bioinformatics, data mining, physics simulation, weather forecast, drilling for oil and groundwater, and cloud computing – raising questions about what it will be used for.…

Suits ship-jumping could presage change right at the top Comment The onrushing Dell acquisition of EMC seems to have prompted two senior VMware exec departures. Is Pat Gelsinger's position at the helm secure?…

Object storage nerds – it's time to have your say Comment It was just 18 months ago that we were all writing about the release of new object-based hard disk drives from Seagate: Kinetic. The idea was that the drives didn’t use traditional storage protocols like SAS and SATA, but instead stored objects written and retrieved over Ethernet. Effectively, each drive is a large key-value store that manages its own content.…

Ubuntu weaves edgy spells with Juju to charm Ubuntu folk Nexenta and Canonical have created a joint NexentaEdge and Ubuntu OpenStack offering.…

App developers like money too Criminals have resorted to bribes in order to smuggle malware into the source code of mobile gaming apps.…

The lowdown on how this lightning fast network connection works Tech explainer NVMe fabric technology is a form of block-access storage networking that gets rid of network latency delays, magically making external flash arrays as fast as internal, directly-attached, NVMe flash drives. How does it manage this trick?…

EMC won't pay for itself Dell's cyber security subsidiary SecureWorks has been valued at up to $1.42bn ahead of an initial public offering.…

Brazilian blaggers unsuccessfully deploy metallic Hand of Glory It's a tip of the tinfoil hat today to the two Brazilian blaggers who attempted to do over a bank last Saturday while wrapped in aluminium foil.…

UCL professor to lecture at next Real Time Club dinner It’s all very well sucking in exabytes of data from snazzy new sensors, but what can you actually do with it all? Genetic medicine is coming along nicely but in computational terms that is the easy job, since we have a decent model of how genes work.…

Europe's software giant behind year goal Europe’s largest software company has warned its first-quarter results could be weaker than expected, thanks to a slow start in the Americas.…

Grey hat hacker continues probing scandal-hit lawyers Grey hat security researchers have discovered new flaws in the systems of Panama leak firm Mossack Fonseca.…

Cassini orbit normal, NASA insists NASA has been obliged to clarify that if the hypothetical Planet 9 exists, it is not responsible for "unexplained deviations" in the orbit of the Cassini spacecraft around Saturn.…

Extra shingled platters spinning inside the helium tank We could see nine platter helium-filled disk drives because the manufacturers can cram more thinner platters inside a helium-filled enclosure.…

Nice to have: homicide, kidnap, surveillance processing The Met Police is seeking a supplier for a 10-year contract for an integrated IT system worth up to £150m in its latest attempt to update its clunky technology.…

Judge hands down slap on wrist and a spot of unpaid cleaning Worcestershire man Grant Manser has pleaded guilty to six counts of computer misuse offences after selling booter software on the dark web.…

Sources say publisher wants to buy 15-year-old news biz The Daily Mail Group Trust (DMGT) has confirmed it is discussing a bid for Yahoo, one of a number of suitors to be eyeing up the troubled biz.…

Beta-testing oddness was never intended to be kept – dev When it comes to seeking a magic bullet that will protect children from the evils of the internet, the first casualty is all too often common sense. So it appears in respect of the latest in a long line of child-friendly projects – Kiddle – which launched itself on to the scene a little over a month ago as a self-proclaimed “child-friendly search engine”.…

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If we can't have four operators, they can't have their deal Britain's competition regulator has written to Brussels to put the brakes on the proposed £10.25bn merger between Three and O2 unless a fourth mobile operator is proposed.…

Or balance sheet... Sysadmin blog How big does a company have to be before we can trust them? Does company size or balance sheet even equate in any meaningful fashion to trustworthiness? What does trustworthiness mean in today's data center?…

So good I formed a company, says engineer BUILD 2016 Microsoft showed off its HoloLens augmented reality headsets at its Build event last week, offering hands-on demonstrations and announcing the first shipments of the semi-public, $3,000 Developer Edition.…

We've grabbed hold of IDC's abacus and looked into the future Once Dell gobbles EMC for good, the combined company will rule the cloud.…

They call it 'crowdsourcing'. What do you call it? POLL Citrix has decided to crowdsource some training courses and exam questions.…

Since-patched flaw was imperfectly targeted by incompetent crimeware Malwarebytes hacker Jerome Segura says black hats have made a mess of efforts to unleash an Adobe Flash zero day vulnerability as part of their popular exploit kit, reducing the pool of potential victims.…

World's favourite one-stop pop-shop now harder to hack. WordPress has deployed HTTPS for its hosted sites*, in what is a huge security boon for users.…

Square Kilometre Array tech from Oz will increase sensitivity of Bonn's Effelsberg dish One of the world's largest fully-steerable radiotelescopes, the Effelsberg radio dish at the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn, is to get an upgrade using technology developed by Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).…

Prices held low at schools that see 1.3m bid for 10,000 places - and prosperity - every year India has decided to continue very generous subsidies of the nation's Institutes of Technology (IITs), elite IT training colleges intended to produce a stream of high-quality graduates who build the nation's information technology industries.…

Whoever smelled it used an algorithmic odour plume-tracing strategy China has awarded a prestigious “Pineapple Prize” to a fart-detector.…

DNA storage: very slow, but very, very dense and long-lived University of Washington and Microsoft Research boffins have successfully used DNA as an image store.…

ISPs told to brace for help desk melt-down as mass disconnections feared Security defence man David Longenecker says millions of users could have their internet connections severed thanks to a flaw in Surfboard SB6141 modems.…

Offers OpenStack-in-a-box coming in the bit barn of your choice Rackspace will bring its cloud to you: the company has revealed a new offering whereby it will pour OpenStack into a box and run it from its own data centres, a third party's bit barn or your own premises.…

Another AU$1.6b heading back to the Big T to work on a network it sold to nbn Telstra has once again won work with nbn, the entity building Australia's national broadband network (NBN), announcing it's secured a contract worth AU$1.6 billion to work on the hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) cable broadband network to sold to nbn.…

Punters punt pricey Priv so BlackBerry heads for the ~$400 price point BlackBerry's CEO has used an interview with United Arab Emirates outlet The National to announce plans to move the troubled mobe-maker's Android efforts downscale.…

'Organisation' asked Bureau of Statistics to abstract advertised broadband speed data Last week The Register brought you news that the Australian Bureau of Statistics' most recent Internet Activity data combined data for broadband services advertised as “8Mbps to less than 24Mbps” and “24Mbps or greater” into a single category titled “8Mbps or greater.”…

Plus: Mars plans to be announced in September SpaceX supremo Elon Musk said his Falcon 9 rocket that made its historic robo-barge landing on Friday will be flying up into space again by June.…

American officials fear commissaries will fall to hackers The US Department of Defense is looking to form a security team to protect military commissaries from hackers.…

A new day, a new iThing, a new quest for precedent Despite walking away from a high-profile confrontation, the FBI is not giving up on its cat-and-mouse game with Apple over access to iPhone data, and the issue has now moved to New York.…

Oh, and the supply mission is also a success so far Video SpaceX has finally succeeded in landing the first stage of its Falcon rocket at sea – after blasting off more supplies to the orbiting International Space Station.…

Adobe plugs latest hole in hacker punch bag Adobe has published new versions of Flash to patch a vulnerability being exploited right now by hackers to hijack PCs and Macs.…

Commerce department asking for input on its role The US government is working on a "green paper" – the first step in a formal policy process – on the internet of things (IoT).…

Understandable – it's more stupid than expected A draft copy of a US law to criminalize strong encryption, thought to be authored by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), has been leaked online. And the internet is losing its shit.…