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Fresh food deliveries: like Webvan, only with funds Google is hoping to wean Silicon Valley man-children off junk food diets with fresh-food deliveries by its Google Express operation.…

What could possibly go wrong? For starters, iOS randomises iThings' MACs Be careful with your Wi-Fi things' MAC addresses: an Iowa cop wants to sniff hardware addresses to turn up stolen goods.…

Cloud DLP and audit concern Adallom lets Redmond hug it into new phase of existence Microsoft has acquired cloud security outfit Adallom.…

Scammers hate email bounce-backs too Spammers deploying the TorrentLocker ransomware are so good at targeting victims that their poison emails hit the mark more frequently than those sent by legitimate software companies and professional marketers.…

Not going to make this easy The amazing Yahoo! / Alibaba / SpinCo tax structure has suffered a blow: America's Internal Revenue Service has refused to say whether or not it approves or disapproves of Yahoo!'s tax-avoidance chicanery. And that usually spells trouble.…

Pitching the Play store to the next billion The next billion people online aren't going to be as profitable as the first. Google India has announced that the local version of its Play app store has reduced the lowest price developers can charge for their wares or in-app purchases to 10 rupees. The floor price used to be 50 rupees.…

Brewster's Millions meets the world of internet plumbing Domain-name overseer ICANN wants your suggestions for how it should spend the $60m it made from auctioning off new dot-words.…

Man faces two years inside for impersonating minister of the crown 'with intent to deceive' The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is investigating a Twitter impersonator who for a few weeks claimed to be a government minister.…

Thinking cap on after security gap tapped The web version of phone chat app WhatsApp – yes, there's a web version – allowed internet lowlives to fire off malware at potentially millions of PCs, apparently.…

PATCH NOW – 56 security holes, and at least two are already under attack Microsoft has today released patches for 56 security vulnerabilities in its products. People should apply the updates as soon as possible because miscreants are actively exploiting at least two of the holes – and likely more by the time you read this.…

VP9 support coming for Windows 10's standards-happy new browser Microsoft says it plans to build support for Google's open source VP9 streaming video codec into its Edge browser, and it's evaluating other open source audio and video formats for the web.…

Telco mum on public launch, but says field trials will start in 2016 Verizon is planning to test its 5G wireless broadband network next year.…

Playboy millionaire files paperwork to run for leadership PDF Move over, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It appears paranoid wild man of computer security John McAfee is running for US President.…

Don't get too excited though The United Nations has pledged to provide universal internet access by 2030.…

New features for businesses to roll out to Windows Insiders soon Microsoft says features of Windows 10 for enterprises that weren't available when the OS launched in July will begin rolling out this month.…

Pre-launch open-ish code appears online Chip blueprint scribbler ARM has released some of the source code for its first public beta of mbed, its operating system for the Internet of Things.…

Credit-card PC can hook up with 7-inch pokeable display The Raspberry Pi Foundation has given its seal of approval to a 7-inch touchscreen for its flagship microcomputer.…

Groups step up scrap over gaffe-escape mechanism Digital rights groups are putting pressure on Twitter to restore API access to gaffe-watcher websites Politwoops and Diplotwoops.…

Lived with mum, 'did not exhibit lavish lifestyle' A Londonderry man has been handed a four-year sentence – of which half will be spent in custody – as a result of an online piracy operation he ran from his bedroom at his parents' house between 2008 and 2013.…

In investment terms, it's the most bang the industry could get for $4m Comment The Register storage desk thinks NVMe fabric linking for storage arrays will be very big, as it's a SAN/NAS latency killer. Startup Mangstor has built an NVMe fabric-accessed array, so we've seen what such a beast looks like.…

However, after an extensive assessment, Register staff deem site OK Russia's telecommunications "supervisor" Roskomnadzor has banished Canadian smut-floggers PornHub from the nation's networks.…

Row over council decision to end contract goes pasty point of no return A legal showdown between BT and county of Cornwall, over the local council's plans to prematurely exit its £300m outsourcing contract with the telco giant, is to be heard in the High Court in December.…

Hey taxpayers - you want a transformed cloud, right? HMRC is advertising for a "cloud transformation director" at a salary of up to £162,000 per year, as part of a bid to claw its IT back from Capgemini.…

New Channel 5 news tool probed Neural Net AI (Poll) Much of the world is poised on the edge of its collective seat this week, awaiting the scheduled moment tomorrow when mighty Apple - the fruitchomp-branded love/hate Wall Street darling of the technology world - will unveil its latest offerings.…

Blows Sony and Motorola out of water Review If someone asked me what my ideal smartphone would be I’d say one that costs no more than £120, has 16GB of storage, at least 2GB of RAM, a 5-inch IPS screen, a removable battery, two SIM slots, space for a microSD card, the best iteration of Android available (that’s the Cyanogen OS Android fork, in my opinion) and is waterproof.…

Is it time to put down this terminally ill scheme? The UK government's gaffe-prone Care.data scheme has been paused once again, this time to review the opt-out process of the much-hated and delayed program.…

Anti-Semitic graffiti could remain as part of the work – take that vandals! Artist Anish Kapoor has suggested the anti-Semitic graffiti daubed on his sculpture "Dirty Corner" may become part of the artwork.…

Machine uprising postponed following FLAWLESS VICTORY for mankind A 60-year-old man has been arrested in Japan following a violent encounter with a robot on Sunday, with the mechanoid coming off worse.…

EU-US data agreement also incoming – EU citizens to get right to sue their hearts out The top advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will give his opinion on the so-called Europe versus Facebook case on 23 September.…

'Why Cheesoid exist?' Comment Simple questions can be difficult to answer when the predictive analysis needles being looked for are buried in a 50-million-record haystack. However, so-called Tuned Machine Learning techniques can be used to automate data scientists' work, and get answers in a couple of hours that used to take a week or more.…

NexentaStor flies with flash wings from HGST and fuselage from Supermicro NexentaStor has come round the all-flash array block a second time with a Supermicro flash server box slotting underneath the SanDisk-powered 512GB InfiniFlash box.…

APIs not EAI maketh a business digital Think Argos and you think catalogue: The Laminated Book of Dreams, as comedian Bill Bailey puts it, placing thousands of products from crayons to cookers within the easy reach of eager shoppers.…

All-flash FS1 hits a new low. On price, that is Oracle has booted out the disks in its FS1-2 hybrid flash/disk FS1 array to create the all-flash FS1, a 2-tier flash array scaling from 2TB to 912TB of capacity with "the lowest entry price of any all-flash enterprise-class storage solution." Oracle and low prices; who'd a thought it?…

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One for all and all for one (in all sorts of ways) is Virtzilla's cunning plan Interview “From the EMC board room,” says VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, “you can see the carnage of the minicomputer industry.”…

Crooks can thrive by 'living off the land' rather than forging elaborate schemes Half of all breaches Dell's SecureWorks outfit has responded to over the last year have been a result of attackers using legitimate admin tools and stolen credentials.…

Could 'cuffs on Cupertino crash your crypto keys? It would be a long shot, but it's been reported that US officials might still do battle with Apple over customers' encrypted communication.…

Stick-up gurn pic snap stickup app flap A new frontier in horror has been breached, as it has emerged that your phone can in some circumstances take a picture of you as you view porn on it, and then use that image of your grimacing face to extort money on pain of exposure.…

Interview: Juho Snellman of telco software shop Teclo talks TCP optimisation The venerable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the foundation protocols of the Internet, but it's not so hot at mobile environments, says Juho Snellman of Swiss telco software concern Teclo.…

Privacy questions see middle digit raised ahead of Narendra Modi's 'Digital India' push Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will visit Silicon Valley in late September to spread the word about his nation's ability to do digital stuff for the world, but not everyone is happy about his plans.…

Global patch makes for laborious long weekend Google security man Tavis Ormandy has revealed a dangerous remote zero day vulnerability in Kaspersky kit that grants attackers system privileges.…

One meeellion bucks pledged for doomed presidential campaign to end all campaigns Law professor and internet luminary Lawrence Lessig will run for the US Presidency after hitting his US$1million crowdfunding goal.…

'Test pilot' survives vomit comet Video The space-makers at JPL are toying with the idea of getting rid of wheels for planetary exploration robots. Instead, the “hedgehog” design in the pic above (here for mobile readers) exploits low gravity environments to get around without them.…

Claims bugs fell on deaf ears US security consultants Kristian Hermansen and Ron Perris have dropped a zero day remote file disclosure vulnerability affecting FireEye kit and say they have another three flaws for sale.…

Broadband Forum eating the fruit of the idiot tree Fibre-to-the-node can help squeeze the last drop of sweat out of copper telephony networks, but it has a problem: nodes need electrons, and there might not be a copper path upstream to the exchange for 48V power. So the standards body The Broadband Forum thinks powering nodes using household electricity is a good idea.…

Life is short. Have an affair. Write insecure software A “ten minute search” by a security bod has provided some hints about the coding errors that might lie behind the now-infamous Ashley Madison hack.…

Upstart makes bold statement, dumps kit in our laps with puppy-dog eyes Analysis The SSD format is wrong for flash memory storage arrays. That is the message from DSSD, EMC’s rack-scale, shared flash array development.…