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Dosh will be used for research, compensation About seventy people have died and more than 200 have been diagnosed with cancer at Samsung's displays and chips factories, and having accepted responsibility in May 2014 the tech giant this week announced a 100 billion won (£55m) fund for victims.…

Clinton's private email earns prez candidate the attention of the Feds The FBI is investigating presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's decision to use a private email account while presiding over the State Department.…

‘Delighted to take on this exciting role with the Co-operative’ Outgoing head of the Government Digital Service Mike Bracken is to join the troubled Co-operative Group, in the newly created role of chief digital officer.…

Sadly, wife hates hobby ‘with a passion’ Radio ham Adrian Lane was able to send his "73" (ham lingo for "best regards") to an American astronaut as the International Space Station passed over Gloucestershire.…

The view from Ell-One One meeellion miles Sunwards, in the L-1 neutral-gravity point, the wardrobe or big fridge sized DSCOVR spacecraft is nowadays to be found. Its EPIC camera is pointed back towards Earth, and this has just transmitted back a fascinating sequence of images showing the Moon passing in front of the mother world.…

Human blood conducts electricity just fine HPC Blog Eight countries from five continents sent eleven university student teams to do battle at the recently concluded ISC’15 Student Cluster Competition. If you multiply 8 x 5 x 11, you get 440; a number that has no relevance to this article.…

Let's not get too excited about buyout rumours Comment The finance, storage and virtualisation communities have all been abuzz in recent days, following industry chatter that EMC might buy back the shares in VMware it doesn't already own – or that VMware might buy EMC.…

Jockeying for position in the mid-range mobe market Review It's been relatively easy recommending a SIM-free phone for under £200 for the past couple of years. The decision tree looked like this:…

Flash substitute for DRAM yet to provoke an emotional response Diablo Technologies has launched its Memory1 flash substitute for DRAM, which, it claims, gives servers more "memory", enabling one server do the work of ten, saving on power, cooling and rack space, and threatening to slash server sales.…

13-hour outage due to one part of Microsoft not talking to another, apparently A major Microsoft Office 365 outage in the Houses of Parliament that left up to 3,000 users without email was due to Microsoft failing to inform itself about a technical change, The Register can reveal.…

Come get a Kilo's worth of high-availability support and auto-deployment goodies Red Hat has wrapped the April 30 “Kilo” release of OpenStack into its enterprise suite, which has just gone general-availability.…

Australia first on fraud menu for secretive Zeus kings. Black Hat 2015 The elusive head of one of the world's most successful online criminal gangs wanted by the FBI was quietly using the Gameover Zeus banking trojan for political espionage inline with Russian interests and may have the protection of Moscow, researchers contend.…

Masque attack weaponised Hacking Team compromised non-jailbroken iOS devices using a variant of last year’s Masque Attack, in which Apple devices were infected via emails and text messages.…

And have some extra time off for, and after, the multiplying Two technology industry titans have discovered that starting a family is rather time-consuming and costly, responding with policies that offer decent incentives to go forth and multiply.…

... he says via electromagnetic wave broadcast. Yes, really Once omnipresent telly host Noel Edmonds has claimed that "the biggest problem we have is not Ebola, it's not AIDS, it's electro smog."…

Oz graduate was allegedly able to take document home on CD An Australian Department of Defence worker faces trial for allegedly posting a classified file on oddball message board 4chan.…

Five Eyes operative was allegedly able to take document home on CD-ROM A worker at Australia’s signals intelligence agency – the Defence Signals Directorate – faces trial for allegedly posting a classified file on oddball message board 4chan.…

Run your own WP instances? You know what to do Weary Wordpress worker-bees are being asked to hit the "Update" button again.…

A step closer to settlement Alcatel-Lucent has come a step closer to ruling a line under its long-standing South American bribery scandal.…

SoC is compatible with cable's DOCSIS and emerging EPON fibre standards While network operators around the world squeeze the last drops of sweat out of their copper, silicon vendors like Broadcom have an eye firmly on a fibre future.…

'Panda Emissary' group has an appetite for defence projects Black Hat 2015 An alleged Chinese advanced hacking group has been found cherry-picking data from high-profile governments and corporations, p0wning many within six hours according to Dell researchers.…

Lighter, brighter, more compatible with foreign file formats and kinder to batteries The tenth version of open-source productivity suite Libre Office, Libre Office 5.0, has arrived.…

Gone in ten minutes, with a little help from some exotic hardware Black Hat 2015 In February, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and GCHQ hacked one of the world’s biggest SIM card manufacturers to clone cards and crack encryption, but research revealed at Black Hat shows they needn’t have bothered.…

You put the badware in the firmware and you shake it all about Black Hat 2015 The Open Networking Install Environment (ONIE) provides a gateway for black hats to compromise software-defined network (SDN) environments, says a white hat presenter at this week's BlackHat USA 2015.…

Wanna watch the Olympics in 8K with no jitter? Hand over your credit card, kid Telcos, terrified of being consigned to eternal status as ‘dumb pipes’, keep coming up with crazy ideas for over-the-top (OTT) high-value services. In America, they’re buying entertainment properties. Comcast, easily that nation’s most hated company, purchased NBCUniversal so that they’d have something to transmit over all that fibre they’re laying past US homes to blunt the growing threat from Google. Telstra has a 50% stake in Foxtel - creating a substantial conflict of interest when the former monopolist entertains the thought of providing higher bandwidth to consumers - voting with their dollars for Netflix type cable-cutting services. And so on.…

First ho-hum pair of sixth-gen chips require half a new PC Intel has announced the first two processors using its new Skylake microarchitecture: the Core i5-6600K and the Core i7-6700K.…

Hashed passwords, email addresses and more exposed ICANN says its website's user accounts have been compromised by hackers who gained access to their names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more.…

This one is going to the Supreme Court A US appeals court says data revealing the whereabouts of you and your phone is protected under the Fourth Amendment – meaning it is protected from unreasonable searches by the cops and Feds.…

Macs! People like Macs! And people will like us! Yes, us! scream Big Blue execs IBM is once again pushing its software-for-suits in tandem with Apple.…

Less than 24 hours from release to attack Black Hat 2015 When the Italian surveillanceware maker Hacking Team got hacked last month, the intruders unwittingly set the groundwork for a very interesting research project.…

Hush-hush TPP docs out of date but still revealing A leak of the intellectual property section of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has confirmed earlier reports of American lawyers pushing for expanded intellectual-property rights across the 12 countries negotiating.…

Ad giant, Samsung, LG commit to monthly fixes Black Hat 2015 For those of you worried about the Stagefright flaw in Android, be reassured, a patch will be coming down the line in the next few days.…

Cook & Co feeling the heat as investors fret Peak Apple Apple is in the midst of a stock drop that has caused the Cupertino giant to lose as much as $113bn in market cap.…

Black Hat founder warns of coming crisis Black Hat 2015 Speaking at the opening of the 18th Black Hat security conference, its founder Jeff Moss warned the assembled throng that while they might have job security, they weren't going to have fun in the next decade.…

This type of injection is way worse than XSS Black Hat 2015 A serious fresh category of web security vulnerability creates the potential for all sorts of mischief, security researchers warn.…

The idea, design, software are all great. It just sounds terrible Review It's not often these days that you are disappointed by a product. The internet and consumer ratings have made it so easy and fast to share your experience of a good that you can even tell when companies have switched manufacturers or run out of stock.…

Middle Kingdom ramps up ideological fight against non-reds under the bed Chinese police officers will be installed within the country's largest internet companies to provide a response force in case of free speech crimes.…

Capgemini to TUPE staff to tax collector as HMRC sets up new company to run IT HMRC is to follow the lead set by the Met Police by setting up a private company to run elements of the tech estate that currently fall under the scope of the failing multi-billion pound Aspire contract.…

Software Defined Infrastructure – we had it coming The end of IT as we know it is upon us. Decades of hype, incremental evolution and bitter disappointment are about to come to an end as the provisioning of IT infrastructure is finally commoditised. By the end of the decade, the majority of new IT purchases will be converged infrastructure solutions that I only semi-jokingly call Infrastructure Endgame Machines (IEMs).…

The market is big enough for both of them – for now Tintri, the hybrid array start-up, has been give a whopping $125m funding boost to carry on growing the company and (hopefully) take even bigger bites out of EMC, IBM and NetApp customer bases.…

Hey guys, the Millennium called and wants its flip phone back The Wine Smart is a new 4G Android phone from LG, and it looks vastly different to anything else on the market: it’s a flip phone. Yep, it flips like it's 1999.…

Storage, compute and V-word: Together forever Comment Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualisation Infrastructure. It annoys me. Normally, I can write of it as simply being Gartner, and move on ... normally.…

Ham operators hit by spoof message with dodgy payload Fake emails purporting to be from Ofcom Spectrum Licensing have been sent to lots of radio hams.…

MS should be ‘ashamed of itself’ says El Reg reader Are you a Windows 10 converts responsible for young computer users? Be on your guard. Child-friendly Family Features from Windows 7 and 8 won’t be recognised or accepted in the new operating system.…

Suspends swapping service due to fire safety risk EE has recalled thousands of Power Bar phone chargers just days after a woman ended up in hospital when one of the devices exploded, causing injury to her hands and damage to the victim's property.…

'I surrendered when I ran out of ammo' - Who exaggerated it? Wildcard infosec playboy John McAfee has spoken to The Register about his arrest on drink-driving and firearms charges at the weekend.…

Industrial giant ‘continues to grow its investment in software’ US conglomerate General Electric has announced it wants to join the cloud party with the launch of its own fluffy white stuff.…

Gen 3 drive is faster – much faster – than gen 2 Toshiba's latest gen 3 enterprise SSDs show an uncanny resemblance to Seagate's 1200.2 products in model type, capacity range and endurance terms, with both suppliers topping out at 3.84TB. Odd that.…

'We've never been hacked so everything's fine' says hacked firm Black Hat 2015 Intercepting and spoofing satellite communications carried over the Globalstar network is possible with modest technical skills and an investment of just $1,000, according to new research due to be unveiled at Black Hat.…

It's all OK – if you exclude currency issues, store closures, shrinking sales... With the store closure programme Stateside, the axe falling on EMEA boss Pim Dale, and the industry-wide currency crisis, portents of doom hung over Systemax’s Q2 numbers.…