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API to crunch machine-readable data feed coming your way real soon now Cisco has reformed the way it discloses vulnerabilities in its products.…

We can do this better than Cassandra, CEO claims The Riak NoSQL database is now available in a version capable of processing vast gobbets of Internet of Things data sources at high speed.…

Could not work with people who 'spew vile words to maintain radical emotional honesty' Sarah Sharp, the maintainer of USB 3.0 drivers in the Linux Kernel who in July 2013 urged Linux overlord Linus Torvalds to stop abusing fellow developers, has quit all Linux-related work.…

Boffins ditch exotic materials, build quantum gate in silicon with conventional lithography Australian boffins have overcome one of quantum computing's big problems by building a gate comprised of two qubits in silicon, using techniques very similar to those used to manufacture whatever device you're using to read this story.…

Samsung and LG, but what about HTC? Google is slinging new patches for the Stagefright Android goring vulnerability revealed last week.…

Market share for Redmond's latest hits SEVEN per cent but growth slows markedly Windows 10 looks to have won about seven per cent of the world's desktop operating system market.…

Watch blocked programs while recharging your phone – is this for real? Portable Tor routers have a serious image problem. But one of only two companies to have actually done it right plans to fix that.Should you believe the hype this time around? Quite possibly, yes.…

Don't know what any of that means? You probably have an iPhone Google has posted the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for its Nexus devices.…

'A number of factors' behind November 9th hike, says Borg Cisco Australia is raising its prices by 12.83 per cent, making this the second such rise for the year after a March price increase of 12 per cent.…

Now to get it through a dozen legislatures ... The Trans-Pacific partnership, a 12-nation trade treaty negotiated in secret and thought to contain copyright nasties, is all but done.…

Possibly new fitness hardware as well Microsoft has scheduled one of its biggest press conferences of the year on Tuesday in New York, and The Register will be there for the show. But leaks ahead of time suggest we'll be seeing a lot of new hardware and possibly some software tricks as well.…

Come and get your (probably miniscule) payout Lawyers tasked with doling out LinkedIn's $13m "Add Connections" class-action settlement are advising people to collect their share of the payout.…

How very clever, to buy an object storage startup IBM is buying object storage startup Cleversafe for an undisclosed amount of cash or shares.…

Attempt to snatch domains ends in weird twist Netflix has failed in its attempt to shut down two namesake domain names, in the most peculiar circumstances.…

Report finds accidental calls a growing nuisance for cops, firefighters and medics Researchers with Google have found that accidental "butt dial" calls from mobile phones are creating a headache for emergency call centers.…

Two-man band says it'll sit through the pain Free marketeers would be proud; a startup in the US has just started up to deal with one of the toughest and most frustrating corporate trials – cancelling a Comcast subscription.…

And fret over lack of cost controls The public cloud is the only cloud and anything else is a pale imitation, according to Amazon. But customers appear seem unconvinced, with most running or intending to run a mixture of private and public clouds sourced from multiple vendors.…

Relieves driver on 'monotonous stretches'. That'll end well Daimler has sent out a robot-chauffeured lorry on German motorways for the first time.…

Co-founder and former interim CEO of Twitter to be chief of Square as well The ex-CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, who has been the interim CEO of Twitter, has now been confirmed as the new permanent CEO again.…

Let's talk about supplier relationship management There’s a great quote from the movie Armageddon: “You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?”.…

Think you know your hardware? Think again Reconfigure This! Here’s some more content from last summer’s blockbuster International Super computing Conference (ISC) 2015 student cluster competition, which has the youngsters battling to build a small cluster of their own design on the exhibit floor and race to demonstrate the greatest performance across a series of benchmarks and applications.…

But traditional spending to slip...for the next five years Spending on traditional IT infrastructure will decline in the face of a shift to the cloud, IDC has predicted, but the old style of IT will still retain a majority of customers’ dollars at the end of this decade. Just.…

Petabytes shipped growth disparity revealed NAND flash shipments are not catching up with disk, casting doubt on the idea that disks will disappear from data centres, according to the latest research.…

World where only jailbroken iThings were vulnerable is 'thing of the past' The first iOS malware capable of attacking both non-jailbroken and jailbroken devices has surfaced online.…

Business as usual in 4,400 companies at stake Hear that? It’s the sound of panic, as it dawns on the US that from tomorrow it might not be able to slurp as much data from Europe as it wants... and thousands of multinationals bite their nails over their European client lists.…

... just months after leaking over a million pensioners' data The Japanese government has launched the nation's first national identification system for social security and taxation purposes, despite widespread grumbling from its ageing population.…

Hello Sub-Saharans, this is Zuck calling Facebook has inked a deal with Eutelsat Communications to beam internet access to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.…

Firms working on precog in the clouds solution Comment You are about to run out of SAN capacity and your sales order booking system will fail its response time limit in five days.…

Ntlworld.com account holders' legit emails deep-sixed by touchy filter Virgin Media customers who are Ntlworld.com account holders have been struggling – one way or another – to access their emails for days now.…

No 'exec-level awareness', warns research The nuclear industry is ignorant of its cybersecurity shortcomings, claimed a report released today, and despite understanding the consequences of an interruption to power generation and the related issues, cyber efforts to prevent such incidents are lacking.…

*Post June 2017, under cap defined by 'fair use' policy – EC The European Commission will draw up rules to help mobile network operators set limits on the amount of roaming they will allow their customers to engage in before they can apply charges to the activity, the EU's Council of Ministers has said.…

Are you sure? Can you really tell with all that wool over your eyes? In its latest All-Flash Array Buyer's Guide, DCIG plonks EMC's market-leading XtremIO array in the bottom group of suppliers, with HP's 3PAR StoreServ 20000 Series ranked best-in-class.…

Wily Werewolf 'transforms' into similar creature WITH NEW SCROLLBARS Review The second beta of Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf has arrived and there’s not much to see here.…

VMware, Hyper-V… XenServer? The choice is yours VMware, Hyper-V ... XenServer? When it comes to virtualisation, these are the three most frequently cited options. And this would have been OK in the days before cloud, when virtualisation was “just” something for the boys and girls down in the sysadmin branch of the IT department cared about. Now we do have cloud, and private cloud at that, everybody reckons they have a stake in deciding what’s best.…

No one needs to know about my gardening mag habit Consumer complaints about the way personal data is handled increased by 30 per cent from 2013 to 2014, according to figures from Pinsent Masons, acquired via several Freedom of Information requests to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).…

Peak beard decades away thanks to surge in transplant popularity Hipsters lacking beards have splashed up to $7,000 on beard transplants.…

Plus: VW boss Lies on emissions cheat fogginess QuoTW This week we remembered Seymour Cray, memorialised BlackBerry 10 and got a peek at Elon Musk's new baby.…

'F' for FAIL: Despite warnings, telco is yet to upgrade from RC4 suites More than six months since The Register reported that Virgin Media had failed to move away from weak encryption software used on sensitive areas of its website – the ISP is yet to hit the upgrade button.…

Elegant warm hatch edges Hyundai closer to greatness Vulture at the Wheel When The Reg went for a spin in the Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell, one of the most common reactions we got was “who knew the Koreans would be leading the field in this sort of tech!”…

Well, come on, we all need paper when mother nature calls ... On-Call Welcome once again to On-Call, our regular look at the messes readers find themselves in when asked to go to help out their clients.…

Fear the drunken sailors and their bottomless wallets Worstall @ the Weekend Several of you have asked for the skinny on what money actually is. So, here's the full fat Worstall take on cold, hard cash.…

'I've not seen tech on Earth like this before' TV Review Readers please note: THIS IS A POST-UK BROADCAST REVIEW – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!…

Latest snaps beamed back from New Horizons' craft reveal Charon's violent history Pics Yet more pictures of Pluto and its moon have been sent back to Earth from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft – this time indicating a colossal geological upset in Charon's past.…

M is for ... monster multinational mothers multinational monsters Google morphed into its new holding company Alphabet after close of business on Friday.…

One of Britain's best-loved comedy greats Feature It’s ten years ago today that much-loved comedian, writer and actor Ronnie Barker passed away. By then, despite having retired way back in 1987, he had already won four BAFTAs, a Royal Television Society award for Outstanding Creative Achievement and been made an OBE.…

Of course Ferrari drivers use iPhones. Isn’t it obvious? Vulture at the Wheel Apple’s CarPlay – which we got the chance to test with the ultimate iPhone accessory, a £200,000 Ferrari California T – is fighting a standards conflict against Google’s Android Auto, in what seems to be a replica of the war between Android and iOS.…

Put the chainsaw down and step back Something for the Weekend, Sir? The Turtle-Necked Twats are having their bluff called at last. Taxi-hailing app developer Uber has been invited to rejoin the real world and the TNTs are in uproar.…

'Major brands are proud of being white-and-fluffy ...' Russia has vowed to do what Obama and the EU dare not – and we don't mean bomb ISIS. The President Putin-led nation has promised to go after big business and the pirate websites they support.…