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Slashes prices, switches from Micron flash to its own tech SanDisk has announced third-generation ioDrive PCIe and mezzanine flash cards, claiming up to a fourfold price performance improvement, with up to a 61 per cent list price reduction over the previous generation Fusion ioDrive 2/Atomic product.…

88,000 online outlets vulnerable, say CheckPoint peeps Hacker Netanel Rubin has found a critical remote vulnerability in Ebay's web commerce platform Magento that affects 88,000 shops and allows buyers to purchase anything for free, and compromise credit cards and personal data.…

Hey girls, theoretical physics is Best Song Evs!!! It turns out there's more than one direction One Direction could be heading in, after megaboffin Stephen Hawking comforted fans with the claim that Zayn Malik may still be in the band in a parallel universe.…

EuroCrypto and EuroCloud needed to protect local data Bug bounties, disclosure rules, product certification, and support for open source software are all in a grab-bag of proposals put to the European Parliament to help fight mass surveillance.…

Vendor silicon's white-box fightback continues Interop HP has used Interop as the venue for its latest switch launch, putting software-defined networking (SDN) alongside speeds and feeds in the marketing pitch.…

Big banks' apps borked by silly certificate SNAFU Some 25,000 iOS apps are exposed to man-in-the-middle attacks thanks to vulnerabilities in the popular AFNetworking library.…

Not even life-or-death situations make people care about security Surgical robot makers are just as good at security as the rest of the world - ie, hopeless - according to University of Washington infosec boffins.…

Attribution NonCommercial BreedAlike access for BioBoffins What used to take years now takes months: after buying a bunch of sequencers in 2014, Sweden's Uppsala University has published a human genome sequence under the Creative Commons license.…

CSC freezes acquisition fund as it expects some ServiceMesh revenue may be binned Eric Pulier, the co-founder of CSC prey ServiceMesh and CSC general manager of cloud has left CSC.…

How to manage the aliens Companies big and small are running Macs. They are showing up everywhere, from IBM to Google to the SMB.…

Parallel imports for all, including 'net content Australia's consumer regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, is pushing back against calls to ban accessing offshore content with means such as VPNs, in a submission to an inquiry into copyright legislation.…

Citrix releases desktop-linux-as-a-service preview Come November, some “pundit” will declare that next year is the year of Linux on the desktop. This November, expect a twist on that prediction, as 2016 could just perhaps conceivably be the year of virtual Linux desktops now that Citrix has taken kit capable of delivering it into Beta.…

'Should have made more fuss' say media execs Australia's media has finally realised that it was a bad idea to turn the Nelson eye to national security laws that passed in 2014.…

Change in plan for vertical-landing Falcon 9 rocket stage Pic For the second time in a month, Elon's Musketeers at SpaceX have successfully lofted cargo into space – this time delivering the first satellite owned and operated by the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan.…

If you're allergic to good news, look away now – profit and sales figures out Apple countered soaring iPhone and Mac sales with yet another sad quarter for the iPad in its second quarter of fiscal 2015, ended March 31.…

ITC judge rules in favor of angry troll tech biz A judge with the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Microsoft's Nokia handsets violate patents held by trolling outfit "non-practicing entity" InterDigital, adding to the software giant's ongoing woes in the mobile phone arena.…

Talking to other people live over the internet, it's like, well, it's like, oh what's its name... Facebook has added video calls to its Messenger smartphone chat app – bringing it in line with Apple's Facetime and Microsoft's Skype.…

Plan for a la carte bundle not a hit with sports network Sports TV giant ESPN is suing Verizon after the telco invited its FiOS home subscribers to pick and choose their TV channels.…

Mass kill-switch policy under the microscope The US government will be forced to explain why its cell network kill-switch plans should be kept secret today.…

It's not ONLY Microsoft A new report says the companies whose complaints have been included in the European Union's formal antitrust charges against Google have been revealed, even though the European Commission is still keeping the official list of complainants under wraps.…

Patch NOW after researcher drops zero-day on popular blog software A frustrated Finnish security researcher has gone public with a vulnerability in WordPress that lets attackers hijack website admin accounts.…

What could possibly go wrong? Trust us – Europe doesn't – but you can trust us Google is offering to buy patents from inventors in a race against patent trolls. The California giant wants to snatch the blueprints before they can be used in infringement lawsuits against it.…

It can be done (with some creative beancounting) Azure revenues are beating AWS and Microsoft is overtaking Amazon on the cloud IT highway.…

'Where were you five years ago,' Chocolate Factory asks puffing latecomer eBay has come galloping to Google’s rescue in its EU anti-trust case... if you define a “market” in the way the Chocolate Factory wants.…

Open-source cluster is behind iThingies' voice queries Apple’s digital assistant Siri is running on Apache Mesos, the cluster-manager billed by its creator as a data centre operating system.…

Do exactly as they say and you risk getting pwned A new study has found that password structure is a key flaw in making login IDs hard to guess.…

Acer's Jason Chen will give you Win10 for free Pics Acer CEO Jason Chen this week tore through the company's international product launch presentation – on the 68th floor of New York's 4 World Trade Center – like a rock star on speed from start to finish. He even donned sunglasses at one point and there seemed every chance that he might not take them off.…

Ex-Google Maps and, er, Wave chap quits Zuck empire Lars Rasmussen has quit Facebook after nearly five years as director of engineering at the free content ad network.…

Search for little green men finds them rather close to home A cyber attack downed the Hawaiian Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)'s official website for two hours in protest against the construction on Mauna Kea.…

Someone else then comes along and DoSes them The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has dumped more than a million Indian netizens' traceable personal details online, after it decided to publish, in full, the emails it received as part of its consultation paper about net neutrality.…

Provocative start to the Live Below the Line challenge The El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse's Live Below the Line challenge got off to a provocative start today, as Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team member Paul "Lord Shax" Shackleton sent over a snap of what we certainly weren't getting our laughing gear round this morning.…

Toothless agreement's vague targets let game makers off the hook Games console manufacturers have agreed a deal with the European Commission that lets them off the hook for meaningful rules on energy efficiency.…

Schizophrenic crims send Tesla claim calls to home of allegedly unconnected individual The website and Twitter account of carmaker Tesla were hacked over the weekend, as part of what looks like a prank between rival hackers.…

Satisfying wrist job or premature confabulation? Review No, this isn’t the first Apple Watch review you’ve seen. Cupertino supplied review units to a few selected journalists at the start of April; the rest of us had to order our own and wait until the 24th for them. I almost ignored mine arriving because I was looking out for a watch-sized package. It came in a box more than a foot long, weighing a kilo.…

Company hopes to use smart young brains to beat off ARM The MIPS processor architecture behind many graphics cards and the PlayStation 2 is being laid bare by its licensee Imagination Technologies.…

IoT makers aren't doing enough about security, so what should you do? When good fridges turn bad. It may sound like science fiction, but security experts are warning that the growing prevalence of interconnected “thingbots” is opening up businesses to all sorts of bother.…

Stick it all in memory and nix your IO overheads The Wikibon consultancy has taken an idea put forward by Fusion-io founder David Flynn and formulated a flash-as-memory-extension concept (FaME).…

A walk through the back office, from MS-DOS to PowerShell PowerShell is everywhere, it seems. Not just in Windows Server, SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange, Lync and Azure cloud, but it’s in third-party software, too. Take VMWare PowerCLI – that’s an extension of PowerShell.…

Nope. He's just coat-tailing Project Fi to bash roaming charges Google’s new Project Fi – the Chocolate Factory's attempt to square up to mobile carriers – has a relatively surprising big fan: none other than EU digi commish Gunther H. Oettinger.…

Highly-sensitive networks considered secure. Russian hackers have made off with unclassified emails sent and received by US President Barack Obama as part of an October Whitehouse breach previously played down as minor, according to reports.…

'WattsUpDoc' is a stethoscope that detects viruses in sealed-box medicomputers Two large US hospitals will in the next few months begin using a system that can detect malware infections on medical equipment by monitoring AC power consumption.…

Standards committee meeting next week should be scintillating Calm yourselves, readers. The Spring 2015 C++ Standards Committee Meeting takes place next week in Lenexa, Kansas. And at that meting much of the discussion is expected to consider C++ 17, a major revision of the programming language due in 2017.…

Quarter believe the sun orbits the earth A survey into the social perception of science by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology has revealed that a quarter of Spaniards believe the sun orbits the earth.…

This Norwegian blue isn't dead yet Norway's plan to ditch FM radio broadcasting has come under fire from that country's smaller broadcasters.…

Update rollups now include fixes and little features Redmond reckons you'll like Microsoft's about to issue a new Update Rollup for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).…

Patch-or-die policy makes net scum move on to softer target RSA 2015 Almost every Java-hacking blackhat is now popping Adobe Flash after Microsoft's hard line patch policy made it harder to target techs such as Java.…

That oughta keep the greybeards quiet for now The Debian project is touting new ports for ARM and POWER architectures, a bunch of software updates, an upgraded Gnome desktop and better security in its just-unleashed Jessie release.…

Hackathon founder killed by passing motorcyclists in Karachi Unidentified gunmen have killed Pakistani women's activist Sabeen Mahmud in a targeted shooting that also left her mother in intensive care.…

Counter-offer to the TPG takeover A second bidder has entered the competition to acquire Australia's second-largest fixed-line internet service provider iiNet, raising the possibility that initial predator TPG might not have things its own way.…