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32-bit software quits unexpectedly, Apple warns If you're running the first public beta of OS X El Capitan (version 10.11), well, open the App Store application, check for updates, and install the supplemental update.…

Now she can spend more time with her lawsuit Ellen Pao has resigned as CEO of Reddit following a week of turmoil and controversy over her recent management decisions.…

'Core quality' the focus of latest preview build Microsoft has released a new preview build of Windows 10 Mobile, the version of the new OS for phones, and it has the same build number as the current version for desktop PCs.…

Super Cali court suspicious about Uber's hocus-pocus Uber is arguing in court that 160,000 drivers who offer people rides for money via the upstart's app are not actually its employees.…

Spamhaus was smashed by 300Gbps DNS reflection gun An 18-year-old Brit dubbed a hacker-for-hire has been spared jail after launching crippling denial-of-service attacks against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus.…

Email, cloud accounts infiltrated, unreleased music leaked An aspiring-singer-turned-hacker has been jailed for accessing Madonna's online accounts and stealing her unreleased music tracks.…

Senators send Wheeler the dreaded 'strongly worded letter' A group of US Senators led by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) want America's broadband regulator FCC to investigate whether Americans are being overcharged for internet access.…

Katherine Archuleta bows out after two years in the job The director of the US Office of Personnel Management has handed in her resignation in the wake of further revelations about the scale of the hacking attack on the agency.…

Squeaky clean and pine fresh email, thanks to the Machines Google has proclaimed its rightful place among the Gods by creating an artificial intelligence so sophisticated it can block 99.9 per cent of spam - and this with only a 0.05 per cent false positive rate.…

Too much jaw-jaw not enough grasping for cash, says sage Barracuda boosted revenues 17.8 per cent on an annual basis to $78 million in its first fiscal 2016 quarter, but made a -$3.8 million loss.…

International revenue sharing fraud still going good and strong Europol and la policía española have taken down a gang of alleged cybercriminals engaged in a fraudulent phone calls scam, said to have caused financial damaged estimated at €2m, as part of an operation codenamed "Walker".…

Rumours of its continued existence have been exaggerated WD has admitted it is killing off its Arkeia backup software product: it is no longer selling it to new customers and stopping development.…

Stand on Olympus Mons, tallest mountain in the Solar System Astrocartographers at NASA have made it possible to explore Mars in both 2D and 3D, from your phone or desktop, in much the same way as you might an online map of Earth.…

Fresh asses smack leather as crew gets ready to ride into the channel Get a load of this; just days into his job as X-IO’s latest CEO Bill Miller has hired five execs to to shake up its sales operations.…

There's an elephant. In this room, with us Comment WD's buyout of HGST took place in 2012. MOFCOM, China’s Ministry of Commerce – here concerned with competition – said it was delaying its approval for two years. During that time, HGST and WD had to be run as two separate businesses subject to strict conditions.…

It's like they farted in a taxi and sent it into the storage market - analysts QLogic expects a significant shortfall in its latest quarter’s results compared to expectations set a couple of months ago and has issued preliminary numbers to warn the financial markets.…

The fast and curious world of PCIe Flash Feature Those guys in white coats at the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) must have been really proud when they unleashed the SATA 6Gb/s specifications on the world. You can imagine them thinking: this will keep us ahead of the game when it comes to hard drive performance.…

Thing that would never happen hasn't happened after all The European Parliament's largest grouping of MEPs, the European People's Party group, has snuffed out a bogus copyright crusade. The centre-right EPP, which has 214 MEPs, slammed inaccurate media reports for suggesting that new copyright laws would "break the internet".…

Two of three deals now have only one bidder. DOOM Things have gone from worse to even worse for the Government’s attempts to replace the ageing emergency-services network, as HP has withdrawn its bid.…

Panorama drama resolved, but real proposals are still to come from Oettinger The European Parliament adopted the “Reda report” on copyright yesterday.…

Look! A huge, oppressive monopoly! screams huge oppressive monopoly Former state-owned telecoms giant BT has formally whinged to Ofcom that archrival Sky should be subject to regulatory intervention over its dominance in the paid-TV market.…

Luvvies' wailing about cuts masks Auntie's lucrative future It's been a great week for the BBC. The Corporation has expanded the Telly Tax onto computers and, on top of that, gained a guarantee of annual inflation-rate increases in the television license fee. These cancel out the new requirement that the BBC funds free TV for the over-75s, which it must do in full from 2020.…

'Lends itself to abuse,' says proud boffin Roboboffins at Harvard have 3-D printed an autonomously navigating soft robot, which combines the speed and accuracy of rigid robots with the adaptability and resiliency of soft robots to create a merciless and nigh-invincible hopping machine.…

ARM, x86 going head-to-head in student cluster battle HPC Blog The stage is set for an unprecedented architectural melee at the upcoming ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition, in Frankfurt. For the first time, a student team will be bringing an ARM-based cluster to what has previously been an all-x86 competition.…

METIS project is about what works, not intellectual property Ericsson has taken on a new role as chief technology cat-herder, otherwise known as development coordinator of the EU’s new €8m METIS-II project, which will eventually recommend 5G specs.…

Don’t like the message? Then don’t listen to it Comment Open Compute Project aficionados did not like our story about its allegedly insufficient hardware testing procedures and said so, publicly and loudly.…

Everybody went backwards – some by 20 per cent – during Q2 The PC market had a horror second quarter, according to new data from analyst outfits Gartner and IDC.…

Yeee-haarrrr! Cowboy Adventure rides off into sunset with saddles full of passwords Threat researchers at security vendor ESET say a malicious Facebook-creds-stealing trojan masquerading as an Android game has been downloaded up to a million times.…

Redmond's cloudy DR can now handle Virtzilla-styled VMs Microsoft has just taken a swipe at VMware's young cloud business.…

And it'll take a whole day to get there. Sort of China likes trains. Its latest idea is to drive a railway route from Beijing to America via Russia, running under the Bering Strait to Alaska, Canada and America.…

Sorry, devs, you just lost a reason to buy one of every phone and tablet you fancy Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened a farm in which it hopes developer's will loose their code to graze on lush fields of myriad devices.…

Megamouth is mouthing off at astrophysical theories A team of astroboffins from ETH Zurich's Institute for Astronomy have discovered an enormous black hole that shouldn't exist.…

If only they'd paid more attention instead of scoffing at rivals' misfortunes Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti and his staff were avid readers of The Register, regularly sharing our stories so the team could learn of missteps by rivals.…

There's not many product categories in which improved drag and drop still matters After a swift beta process, Oracle's VirtualBox desktop hypervisor has reached its fifth edition.…

Swoops on media and entertainment market Panasas has added performance heft to its scale-out ActiveStor HPC arrays and is going after the media and entertainment market, as its rendering and post-process work needs HPC-style storage.…

Apple's unfinished update gets put to the test If you're the type of person who just has to have the latest and greatest, you'll want to head over to beta.apple.com right now. Cupertino has released iOS 9 as an open beta for the public.…

Upgrade Workstation, Player and Horizon View client at your leisure, or risk internal attacks VMware's security SNAFU email list has delivered news of a new issue in VMware Workstation, Fusion and Horizon View Client.…

Latest thing for sale in the Windows Store: internet access Microsoft has shipped another preview build of Windows 10 to the Windows Insider program's Fast release ring – the fourth in two weeks – but the single new feature is access to a paid Wi-Fi service that is only available to a small fraction of testers.…

And you probably know about six of them There are now more than 1,000 top-level domains (TLDs) for internet addresses, covering everything from .abb to .zw.…

ISC’15 student contest pits undergrads against atomic simulation software HPC Blog As the kickoff for the ISC’15 student cluster-building competition approaches, it’s a good time to take a look at what the undergrads will actually be doing. But first, let’s talk a little bit about the format of this specific competition, in which students are challenged to build and benchmark HPC systems from scratch against the clock.…

Four nervy 'nauts will be sitting on lowest-bid hardware NASA has named the four astronauts who will be the first to fly on commercial space vehicles built by SpaceX and Boeing to the International Space Station.…

Security clearance dossiers on millions of citizens stolen The US Office of Personnel Management has come clean on the full extent of the massive data breach that it first disclosed in June, and it's far worse than what was initially thought.…

It's YAMQ time – Yet Another Magic Quadrant Gartner geeks have issued another rapturous rectangle, otiose oblong, or even a queer quartet of spell-binding squares to do with enterprise backup software and integrated appliances. Yes, it's magic quadrant time again.…

You'll have to wait a while: Cupertino's servers are jammed Apple has released its first public beta versions of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan for everyone to try out, not just developers.…

SIMP(ly) your tax dollars at work The NSA today revealed it has uploaded source code to GitHub to help IT admins lock down their networks of Linux machines.…

Subscribe now or wait until September to buy a copy Microsoft has released Office 2016 for Mac, which will include new versions of Word, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, and PowerPoint for Apple computers. To get the suite right now, you'll need an Office 365 subscription.…

A domain of evil it is. In you must go. Disney has won ownership of just about every possible Star Wars UK domain name in a decision by the registry operator Nominet.…

Need a slim-line work environment? We recommend the best Screenshots Linux long ago reached parity with Windows and OS X. That's great for the average user looking to make the switch from either platform to Linux. Indeed distros like Ubuntu, with its Unity desktop, make switching relatively painless.…