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Turn Flash OFF until the patch arrives It's the worst-case scenario of the Hacking Team hack: the as-yet-unpatched Flash vulnerability revealed in the trove of source code leaked from the surveillance-ware company is being exploited in the wild.…

In space, nobody can debug you in a hurry While the world was distracted by New Horizons' brief woes, NASA also had to put its Dawn spacecraft into a holding pattern to work out a software glitch.…

Perhaps we'll finally learn how he managed to live after shooting second Disney's plans to shamelessly cash in on tell more and richer stories from the Star Wars universe will result in a solo Han Solo film in 2018.…

The Social Network announces Fort Worth as site for new wind-powered bit barn It seems Facebook's experience with wind power is good enough for the personalised ads giant to come back for more.…

Next phase of IP suit over third-party support to commence in September Oracle's long-running copyright case against independent support vendor Rimini Street is set to be heard before a jury in September, the database giant said on Tuesday.…

Diffie, Rivest, Schneier, and Anderson school FBI With congressional hearings due on Wednesday to discuss US government plans to force tech companies to install backdoors in their encryption systems, some of the leading minds in the security world have published a paper on how, and if, such a system would work.…

Netlifx's arrival punts footy-on-demand into a niche, says analyst outfit Telsyte At the end of 2014, Australians collectively subscribed to about 315,000 streaming video on demand (SVOD) services.…

And destroying a quarter of a million jobs Taxi firms that move from human drivers of gas-powered cabs to automated electric taxis could cut vehicle emissions by over 90 per cent, according to a study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.…

The extraordinary case of the online retailer, special ops watches, and John Belushi We could be looking at a complete overhaul of search results thanks to a case involving Amazon and a high-end watch manufacturer.…

Expect GreenBerrys and BlackBerrys growing side by side Analysis New BlackBerry handsets are coming with unrecognized part numbers, which were spotted on an Indian import database.…

New compiler tech offers up to 29% speed increase Google says its new optimizing compiler tech is gradually speeding up JavaScript execution in its Chrome browser – and it one day hopes it can rip out all the old compiler code and replace it with something better.…

Comment period over proposed changes to Whois ends today A row over online privacy and domain-name ownership has reached its peak on the last day of its public comment period.…

Security teams scramble to patch serious flaws Updated Confidential source code stolen from Hacking Team, and subsequently leaked online, has revealed new software vulnerabilities that are exploited by the spyware maker to infect victims' computers.…

My god, it's full of holes! Observations from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-Ray telescope have revealed a cluster of massive black holes that were hidden from Earth's view by interstellar dust clouds and indicate that there many more holes dotted around the universe than first thought.…

According to inbox-snooping market researchers Sales of the Apple Watch have plummeted since its launch, according to shopping-receipt-counting researchers.…

Big changes could take 'a while,' say Moz bods Mozilla is planning big changes in how it builds its Firefox web browser, including speeding up its release schedule and – in the long term – getting rid of some of the Mozilla-specific technologies that have traditionally been used to build the browser's UI and add-ons.…

Source questions integrity, neutrality of certification programme Comment Facebook's Open Compute Project testing is sub-standard and doesn't follow well-established industry procedures, according to The Register's sources.…

Brits abroad don't know if they like it, as nobody will let them find out Research from Ericsson shows that people like using Wi-Fi calling, the service which can act as a replacement for a mobile phone network.…

CEO may be less enthusiastic about staying in market until extinction of competitors Sony's phone boss has vowed to stay in the mobile business until the heat death of the universe – despite losses that have dragged the rest of the Japanese giant down.…

It's all about core products – and not giving VMware internal competition EMC has divested its Syncplicity Dropbox clone enterprise file sync and share, which has been scooped up by private investment outfit Skyview Capital - confirming the rumours El Reg brought to you earlier today.…

Public cloud splurges cash, trad IT spend to slip Spending on cloud infrastructure will take an increasing share of customer dollars over the next five years, with public cloud providers outspending their private cloud counterparts.…

Better, worse, prettier or uglier? In depth Every time I've looked at Windows 10, it hasn't been long before I've run away screaming. As recently as May the ISO was nowhere near ready for prime time. Testing Windows 10 seemed to me like volunteering to be an unpaid drug trial guinea pig – it would be painful and could potentially give you horrible side effects, and you wouldn't even have an envelope of cash at the end to show for it.…

Wind thwarts cunning Calgary Stampede skydive plan A high-flying Canuck was cuffed over the weekend after overflying the Calgary Stampede in a lawn chair suspended beneath 120 helium-filled balloons.…

Start of big changes for the Enterprise Content Division? EMC is set to sell is Syncplicity file sync'n'share business to a private equity firm, according to a Bloomberg report.…

Things will be clearer next week at the Mobile World Congress, hopefully Hardware and software outfit Jolla is to give up making hardware, with that part of the business set to be taken on by a new, yet-to-be-announced company, with Jolla then concentrating on its Sailfish OS.…

Appeal beaks say horologists get day in court Appeals judges ruled on Monday that the Sultans of Seattle will have to go court over "the manner in which the website responded to a shopper's search request" for Multi Time Machine's (MTM) Special Ops watches.…

A meeellion devices to be hurled at Blighty's nippers British national broadcaster the BBC has now revealed the full specifications of the micro:bit pocket computer board, saying “up to 1 million devices will be given to every 11 or 12 year old child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK, for free.”…

Or, we could say: legacy parallel file system on fresh flash rack storage A data-intensive supercomputer in Texas is using more than half a petabyte of DSSD flash storage, along with IBM’s Spectrum Scale (GPFS) parallel file system, to provide massively fast random access to gazillions of small files.…

If you can't beat 'em, then wear their face on yours. Which isn't creepy AT ALL Microsoft’s Bing, still lagging Google by a country mile even with Yahoo!, has unveiled some suspiciously Google-like updates.…

Microsoft previously promised $100,000 to fund headset developers A mobile upstart has claimed dibs on title of first HoloLens company. Object Theory launched Tuesday under the leadership of ex-Microsoft HoloLens Studio member Michael Hoffman and apps entrepreneur Raven Zachary.…

It's a Googlephone, Jim, but not as we know it Review When I reviewed the mid-range Samsung Galaxy A5, I reckoned that Samsung didn't have much to fear from Chinese OEMs who will sell you more phone for less money.…

We'll use our own NFC payment solution Britain's biggest high street banks are launching their own digital payment services to fight off Apple's invasive Pay system.…

Market slumping as strong dollar pushes up price ... not the only reason though It is just as well that fewer people now rely on PC sales to put food on the table, or they’d be reaching for the nearest begging bowl.…

Figures still suggest scheme will cost more than it'll save The Department of Energy and Climate Change has denied the total cost of Smart Meters has now outstripped the projected savings, making the hated scheme even more pointless.…

Getting it off the ground is like kicking a dead dog Trade union members have voted to strike over the deeply troubled Universal Credit IT project, citing an "increasingly oppressive working environment" and "unusable systems".…

TOR’s anonymity is just what crims who want to rob crims need Security watchers are warning about a fresh wave of cloned sites on the TOR network, evidence that cybercrooks are setting themselves up to fleece other ne'er-do-well on the so-called dark web.…

Gunge-oid blobomination invasion not on cards The Rosetta probe's Earth-bound shepherds have sternly stated that suggestions of alien life within comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko - around which the probe is in orbit - are "pure speculation".…

DevOps, meet SecOps Sysadmin blog From every angle, developers are the key to the public cloud. Unfortunately, today's developers often aren't up to the challenge and frequently end up being as much of a roadblock as operations administrators. New breeds of technologists are required, bringing new ways of thinking to using the emerging infrastructure superpowers of tomorrow.…

London was freeze-framed Ten years ago today I was sitting at my IT support desk at an ad agency in central London – covering the early shift and waiting for the first calls of the morning to come in from tired, agitated users.…

More non-reported incidents; fewer actual reported incidents. Trebles all round! The Home Office suffered 33 data breaches during the last financial year – and did not report any of them to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)…

Citrix joins VMware in virtual penguin desktop ploy Citrix has made good on its April promise to deliver virtual Linux desktops, today announcing it's ready to roll out penguin-powered pretend PCs.…

Machine learning imagines the missing pixels in glorious Googl-o-rama Video StreetView means Google owns one of the world's larger photo albums, so it's natural for Google to want to create a realistic 3D rendering of the world. That's the aim of a new bit of boffinry from the Chocolate Factory called DeepStereo.…

Why pay $5k when you can pay $0? Former Kaspersky Japan boss now malware researcher Hendrik Adrian is warning of a boom of ZeusVM botnets, after the trojan source code was leaked online.…

Orbital gobbler to clean up deliberate cube littering Vid The CleanSpace One Project is going to deploy a conical net on its orbital dustpan ship to capture a small SwissCube satellite, which had been purposefully littered into orbit as a demonstration of a interstellar debris collection.…

Tick tock clock counts down to Full Disclosure Cross-site scripting war board XSSposed has opened a pay-whatever bug bounty to help its hackers earn cash and tee-shirts.…

95 per cent charged, 100 per cent P0wned, zero credit left on mobe thanks to SMS scam Zscaler has spoiled someone's app-spoofing sting, discovering a fake battery monitor app on Google Play.…

Cuts itself deep with Edge, but does pull its SoCs up Samsung has warned the market that it's going to miss its previous earnings guidance for the April-June quarter. It will be the Korean goliath's seventh successive quarter of decline in year-on-year terms.…

Probes whether leaks compromised cop shop ops Flayed surveillance outfit Hacking Team is telling customers to suspend running instances of its software after 400GB of its source code and internal data was stolen and posted online.…

White box switching? We've heard of it As the John Chambers and Chuck Robbins worldwide roadshow grinds on, Cisco has dipped another tentative toe in the dangerous waters of bare metal switching, with an investment in Parisian software vendor 6Wind.…

Still hostile to users, says EFF A leaked copy of Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiating text from May seems to show the US trying to mollify the other countries finagling over the deal.…