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'Pure technical contributions aren’t enough'.... Intel commits to code of conduct for open-source projects
Chipzilla joins strangely controversial movement to encourage civility, inclusion Chip maker Intel has embraced guidelines to make its open-source software projects more open-minded and inviting.…
Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip
First it was the Kepler telescope, and now Dawnie has kicked the bucket too NASA’s Dawn space probe, our visitor to the Solar System’s protoplanets Vesta and Ceres, is cold and dead.…
30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network with, er, Google search – new claim
Uncle Sam's snoops got sloppy with online chat, it seems Iran apparently infiltrated the communications network of CIA agents who allowed their secret websites, used to exchange messages with informants, to be crawled by Google.…
PortSmash attack blasts hole in Intel's Hyper-Threading CPUs, leaves with secret crypto keys
Malware already on machines can exploit SMT using side-channel techniques to snatch private info Brainiacs in Cuba and Finland have found a new side-channel vulnerability in Intel x64 processors that could allow an attacker to sniff out cryptographic keys and other privileged information.…
Dot-com web addresses prices to swell, thanks to sweetheart deal between Uncle Sam, Verisign
Freeze on renewal, base costs lifted so we all pay a bit more The planet's 138 million dot-com addresses are going to get significantly more expensive to renew over the next decade thanks to a contract signed between dot-com operator Verisign and the US government.…
Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway
Registrar apologies as punters wait for spam tsunami Domain name registrar EasyDNS has 'fessed up to accidentally leaking cloaked contact details for about 1,500 domain owners in Whois query results for just over 24 hours.…
In memoriam: See you in Valhalla, Skype Classic. Version 8 can never replace you
Microsoft hammers the final nail into 7's coffin It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Skype Classic née 7, which tottered into the sunset on 1 November 2018.…
Smartphone industry is in 'recession'! Could it be possible we have *gasp* reached 'peak tech'?
Phone makers banking more revenue – but for how long? The smartphone biz is now in a slump, according to two number-crunching outfits.…
Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students
Suffice to say, it's not quite Tupac or Freddie Mercury Higher education has become a commercial market as students paying extortionate tuition fees demand more bang for their buck – so Imperial College London has decided to throw some holograms at them.…
Great. Global internet freedoms take another dive as censorship and fake news proliferate
China is 'remaking the world in its techno-dystopian image' Internet freedoms have taken a nose dive for the eighth year running, according to a report warning that authoritarian countries and populist leaders are exporting harmful attitudes and ideas around the world.…
Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again
So we're ok to launch a crew in December, right? Er, guys? The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, has completed its investigation into October’s Soyuz mishap in record time, pointing the finger of blame at problems during assembly.…
Seagate HAMRs out a roadmap for future hard drive recording tech
100TB by 2025/26? Bring it on Seagate has set a course to deliver a 48TB disk drive in 2023 using its HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology, doubling areal density every 30 months, meaning 100TB could be possible by 2025/26.…
Tax me if you can: VMware UK tosses shrunken offering to HMRC
Just 11.52% on pretax profit. Virtualization juggernaut doing well in the distie stakes Trendy social media firms and ad slingers often come under attack for hiring beanies to minimise their tax contribution, something they see as sensible commercial practice. VMware UK may fall into that bracket too.…
Boom! Just like that the eSIM market emerges – and jolly useful it is too
Thanks, Apple. Seriously Well, that didn't take long. Owners of new iPhones can now download an app and stick some data and minutes on the second SIM that Apple has thoughtfully included, allowing cheap calls and roaming data that your main SIM provider might not include.…
Bean-counting outfit Sage appoints bean-counter as new CEO
Will arrival of Hare accelerate tortoise-like performance? With its year-end results looming, Sage Group has confirmed the ascension of chief bean-counter, Steve Hare, to the lofty heights of chief executive officer.…
Icahn't let you do this: Stock botherer fires off sueball to scupper Dell's 'coercive' deal
Carl takes his chances in Delaware chancery In a move that probably caught nobody by surprise, corporate raider Carl Icahn has launched a lawsuit to block Dell's proposed purchase of V-class shares – stock known by the ticker DVMT.…
Serverless Computing: From functions to complex applications
Wherever you’re at, we’ve got you covered Events Serverless computing can mean anything from triggering simple functions to deal with sudden spikes in demand to building complex applications which are core to the whole business.…
What's that? SSH can still use RC4? Not for much longer, promise
IETF hackathoners point the 'die-die-die' gun at another buggy cipher A hackathon next week will see 'net developers get to work consigning more insecure cryptography to the /dev/null of history.…
Exiting DWP digital boss Mayank Prakash switches to energy biz Centrica
As department names Simon McKinnon acting CIO, external competition coming soon Departing digital boss at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions Mayank Prakash is moving to energy giant Centrica.…
Commvault revenues grow – but only just – as it switches to subscription pricing
And hey – where's that new CEO? It's been 5 months ... Data protection and management biz Commvault squeezed out just 1 per cent revenue growth in its second quarter of fiscal 2019 as it transitions to subscription pricing as part of the Elliott Management driven makeover.…
Clunk, bang, rattle: Is that a ghost inside your machine?
Fear not, IT support will bust that problem in this Halloween On Call special On Call Welcome to the latest issue of On Call, where readers share their tech support crises and triumphs. And, since it's Día de Muertos and we've just passed Halloween, El Reg thought we'd pick out a few tales for a spooky special.…
BBC micro:bit vendor Kitronik says customers' deets nicked, fingers Magecart malware
We're one of 7,000 victims here, firm insists Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that ransacked British Airways' website.…
Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity
A scientist on a banknote? Stick that up your Darcy Something for the Weekend, Sir? There is a house in old Belgrade that has male and female private parts. If you were tempted to sing that last sentence, I suppose you could call it the House of the Rising Bum.…
Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly
Its creators see this shape-shifter droid as more like Big Hero 6 than cheesy Autobots Mechanical engineering brainiacs at Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania in the US have demonstrated how autonomous, modular robots can reconfigure themselves to accomplish specific tasks in an unknown place.…
I know what you're thinking: Outsource or in-source IT security? I've worked both sides, so here's my advice...
The pros and cons of using internal and external talent, or a mix of both Comment You’re a small or mid-sized business and have a growing sense of unease that you aren’t doing enough on cyber security. Must be all those headlines about ransomware infections and databases ransacked. Or – perhaps – you’re experiencing an upsurge in phishing attempts.…
Carlo has a head for apps and a body (tag) for rendering: Google takes on Electron with JS desktop app toolset
Chrome Labs experiment adds another option for building website-ish applications Developers looking for a way to write JavaScript apps without the Electron framework or NW.js now have another option called Carlo.…
Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints
Screening system would scan faces, flag 'suspicious' reactions for immigration cops The EU is readying an AI-based screening system designed to catch travelers who lie about their reasons for visiting the Continent.…
We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE
Popular desktop Linux environment due for deprecation in RHEL - by 2024 While everyone was distracted by IBM's $34bn takeover bid, Red Hat quietly wrote a death-note for KDE – within Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to be precise.…
Wow. Apple's only gone and killed off Mac, iPad, iPhone family... figures for units sold to fans
But it has nothing to do with shipments being down. Honest Cupertino tastemaker Apple Inc has logged yet another record quarter, though investors are worried that sales may be starting to slow.…
Cisco firewalls under attack – and there's no patch: Too many SIPs and they drown in data
Denial-of-service flaw exploited by miscreants in the wild, networking kit giant warns Cisco says miscreants are actively exploiting a SIP vulnerability in its networking gear that it disclosed on Wednesday.…
Talk about Micron-aggression: US charges Chinese biz, staff over DRAM chip secrets theft
A Chen, a Ho, and a Wang walk into a bar... or so prosecutors allege The US Department of Justice has unveiled charges against two companies and three individuals it says have been stealing trade secrets from American memory chipmaker Micron.…
This revolution will not be televised – but it will be sanctioned: Googlers walk out over 'sex pest' executive scandals
We went along to CEO-approved demo in San Francisco Pics Thousands of Google employees across the globe marched out of their offices today upset that the advertising giant has paid millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of sexual harassment.…
If you want to inject AI into your apps, and you can stomach Facebook's code, then have we got some news for you
Reinforcement learning toolkit open-sourced for devs Facebook has unveiled a software toolkit to help programmers plug AI – in the form of reinforcement-learning models – into their applications.…
It's wall-to-wall Huawei: Chinese behemoth hogs five of six top spots in SPC-1 array benchmark
The firm everyone loves to fear sets new all-flash record Chinese array and IT systems supplier Huawei has set a new SPC-1 performance record, snagging it five out of the top six results.…
Worldwide Web wizard Tim Berners-Lee sticks wellington boot into Worldwide Web's giants: Time to break 'em up?
Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, bashed by Sir Timothy OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS Worldwide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has had enough of internet giants Google, Facebook and friends, and reckons the time has come to look at breaking them up.…
'Privacy is a human right': Big cheese Sat-Nad lays out Microsoft's stall at Future Decoded
It's a triple A-rated keynote: Azure, AI and Accessibility Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took to the stage at Microsoft's Future Decoded shindig today in London. As has become the norm these days in events when the chief is not dispensing bonzer financials, much was made of the three As: Azure, AI and Accessibility.…
'He must be stopped': Missouri candidate's children tell voters he's basically an asshat
Kids can be so cruel when you're a racist homophobe There's no question that fatherhood brings immense responsibility. From the moment they come into the world, children think you are immortal, an aeons-old genius – nay, a god.…
While everyone coos at the promise of 5G, UK network Three asks if it can tempt you with 4G+
Need to up dem data rates Hutchison's UK network Three has upgraded 2,700 urban sites to support faster 4G data.…
UK and EU crawling towards post-Brexit data exchange deal – reports
Labour minister slams attitude that reaching an adequacy agreement is assured The UK has reportedly moved closer to agreeing the terms for data transfers with the European Union post-Brexit amid concerns about the impact it will have on business.…
Swedes grumbling about Apple Store in their park are lucky – in Toronto, Google eats all your data
Tech giants do urbanism? Of course they're watching you Locals have objected to Apple building a store in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården (Kungsan) park. Protestors said the intrusion of a tasteful glass temple of overpriced consumer electronics encroaches into the public space, ruining the character of the park.…
IT Wi-Fi kit bit by TI chip slip: Wireless gateways open to hijacking via BleedingBit chipset vuln
Firmware security patches hit to fix critical holes in enterprise network access points On Thursday, network equipment makers Aruba, Cisco, and Cisco-owned Meraki plan to patch two flaws in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments (TI) that power their respective enterprise Wi-Fi access points.…
Behold! Blocks and Files is born again as storage tech website returns
Storage news and views website ready for the coming zettabyte era Several years ago, The Register absorbed the storage-focused Blocks and Files website because storage news was becoming mainstream IT industry news. The bits and bytes making up blocks, files and objects were becoming so large in number that developing storage arrays to hold them was a complex business and getting more so.…
UK banking TITSUP*: This time it's Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks
'Internal issue' blamed for morning's outage Clydesdale and Yorkshire bank users have been unable to log in to their accounts or see transactions today, thanks to a non-specific “technical issue”.…
BT: We're stocking warehouses with kit ahead of Brexit to avoid shortages
Oh, and look at our lovely figures! No, ignore the cost cutting, sales declines. Shareholders are happy! BT has got Brexit licked, it told the stock market today – the former state telco said it has modelled for the worst outcome and is stockpiling products in case the UK exits with no trade deal in place and supply chains falter.…
Graph database biz Neo4j doubles total funding courtesy of $80m E-series splurge
Firm plans to stuff a sizeable chunk into AI, naturally Graph database-flinger Neo4J has doubled its total funding after bagging $80m in E-round funding.…
Need electric propulsion for your satellite? Want a 'made in Britain' sticker? Step right this way...
Thales boldly goes where, er, NASA went in the 1960s Thales Alenia Space has bucked the Brexit blues by announcing the first all-electric satellite propulsion module to be designed and built in the UK.…
5.1 update sends Apple's Watch 4 bling spinning into an Infinite Loop of reboot cycles
We'll just take this one away Apple has withdrawn a faulty update that has left Apple Watch 4 owners with bricked bling.…
Welcome back, 'ping of death', it has been... a few months. Now it's Apple's turn to do the patching
Kernel-level ICMP buffer overrun quietly fixed as all eyes on this week's launchfest When Apple took to the stage for its latest slew of product announcements, there were a bunch of security fixes disclosed at the same time with far less fanfare.…
The great and powerful Oz (broadband network): Revs rise, but nbn™'s exec bonuses don't
And competition regulator sees 5G clouds on the horizon The company building Australia's National Broadband Network turned in what was mostly a dull but worthy set of financials, and it's put something of a squeeze on its executive bonuses.…
Mourning Apple's war against sockets? The 2018 Mac mini should be your first port of call
Phew, someone didn't get the plug-all-useful-holes memo Analysis The world's fourth biggest PC company sells three desktop PC lines, but it hadn't updated one of those three for four years. Maybe Apple had forgotten that the humble and unassuming Mac mini was there at all. But it fixed that this week.…
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