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Roughly 30 years after its birth at UK's Acorn Computers, RISC OS 5 is going open source
Original Arm operating system relicensed under Apache 2.0 Not to be outdone by the open sourcing of an early version of MS-DOS for Intel chippery, version 5 of RISC OS – arguably the original commercially successful Arm operating system – is going fully open source.…
Seagate and Western Digital neck-and-neck at the nearline drive-in
Seagate ships more units, WD more capacity – it's a wash IDC has sent its analytical read-write heads skipping across the surface of the disk storage market and found Seagate shipped more drives than Western Digital in the third quarter.…
AI clinician trained to save humans from sepsis – and, er, let's just say you should stick to your human doctor
One out of three correct dosages ain't bad, right? Right? Experts hope an artificially intelligent software system will help doctors tackle the deadly menace of sepsis in humans.…
Cosmoboffins think grav waves hold the key to sorting out the disputed Hubble Constant
New method could settle the question of how fast the universe is expanding Scientists agree that the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, but by exactly how much is still an enigma.…
Unexpected MySQL database meltdown fingered in GitHub's 24-hour website wobble
Days since last TITSUP (Total Inability To Support Users' Pulls) reset to zero Programmers, your snow day is well and truly over: GitHub's website has finally cleared its 24-hour outage, and reckons everything is operating normally again.…
Well, it is the Empire of enterprise IT... Oracle's Ellison plans 'Star Wars cyber defense' for his second-generation cloud
Does he mean some farm boy with just womp rat experience can destroy the whole thing? OpenWorld Oracle reckons it has “fundamentally” rebuilt its cloud architecture to boost security, promising full separation of customer software and cloud control code.…
Hubble 'scope gyro drama: Hey, NASA, have you tried turning it off and on again? Oh, you did. And it worked? Cool
Just don't let it restart to install updates... The classic “turn it off and turn it back on” strategy has worked once again for NASA, in that it may return the Hubble Space Telescope to active duty.…
PC version of Linux 4.19 lands with PC version of Linus Torvalds: Kernel handed back to creator
And the updated code of conduct is now live, too Woke Linus Torvalds has returned from a four-week exile to once again steer the Linux kernel, the widely used software project he founded nearly 30 years ago.…
jQuery? More like preyQuery: File upload tool can be exploited to hijack at-risk websites
Flaw present for the past eight years, easy to exploit, and there are thousands of forks A serious vulnerability in a widely used, and widely forked, jQuery file upload plugin may have been exploited for years by hackers to seize control of websites – and is only now patched.…
Huge if true: We'll put customers, applications, and AI first, says Oracle at annual SF shindig
Well, application revenues did rise a whopping six per cent, after all OpenWorld Oracle has kicked off the first day of its annual OpenWorld gabfest with a hard sell on applications – the chunk of the business that is, according to the latest figures, struggling the least.…
F***=off, Google tells its staff: Any mention of nookie now banned from internal files, URLs
No sex, please, we're the Chocolate Factory Googlers must clean up their language at work as the ads giant is being anal about references to, ahem, carnal knowledge in internal web links and documents.…
SQLite creator crucified after code of conduct warns devs to love God, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, curse...
Database creator explains Christian-based rules to El Reg Open-source database SQLite has told its developers it expects them to follow Christ, love chastity, clothe the naked, and not murder, steal, nor sleep with their colleagues' spouses.…
Patch me, if you can: Grave TCP/IP flaws in FreeRTOS leave IoT gear open to mass hijacking
AWS-stewarded net-connected platform has multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities Serious security flaws in FreeRTOS – an operating system kernel used in countless internet-connected devices and embedded electronics – can be potentially exploited over the network to commandeer kit.…
Forgotten that Chinese spy chip story? We haven't – it's still wrong, Super Micro tells SEC
Server maker drags Bloomberg in note to customers, watchdog, still checking its motherboards The computer server maker at the center of a dramatic secret Chinese spy-chip story has again insisted the yarn is wrong, and called the whole thing "technically implausible."…
Remember that Chinese spy chip story? We haven't – it's still wrong, Super Micro tells SEC
Server maker drags Bloomberg in note to customers, watchdog, still checking its motherboards The computer server maker at the center of a dramatic secret Chinese spy-chip story has again insisted the yarn is wrong, and called the whole thing "technically implausible."…
Stealthy UK startup drops veil on next frontier of speech wizardry
The power's in the phone, not the cloud If you've been amazed by Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and Google Assistant, you might think continuous speech recognition is done and dusted – and that there are no mountains left to climb. However, a young British company has developed a radical new approach with spectacular results, based on low-level signal processing.…
41% of Brit biz: Setting up a price-rigging cartel is all good... isn't it?
Competition regulator: Yeah, no More than a third of British businesses apparently don’t think it’s a crime to set up a price-rigging cartel, according to the Competition and Markets Authority.…
Brit smart meter biz blamed Apple's iPhone 7 launch for its late taxes
And you know what? The judge agreed with them A British smart meter company that missed a series of VAT payments to the taxman insisted in a Leeds court that a Chinese typhoon and Apple's iPhone 7 delivery schedule was to blame.…
Skype bot airport action, Retpolining into 2019, old Kubernetes versions for the chop in Azure, and much more Microsoft
Boop beep boop beep boop, your flight's cancelled Roundup While the drama of the aborted Windows 10 October update continued to unfold last week and excited buyers received their shiny Surface devices, Microsoft kept itself busy flinging out new development tools and battling buggy CPUs.…
So, about that Google tax on Android makers in the EU – report pegs it at up to $40 per phone
Fee offset if Search and Chrome included alongside Play Store, of course Google will charge Android smartphone makers wishing to include its Play Store as much as $40 in Europe, according to documents purportedly seen by The Verge.…
Cops called after pair enter Canadian home and give it a good clean
Mounties remind residents to lock their doors O Canada, great northern land of milk in bags, merciless winters, maple syrup and leaving your front door unlocked, at least according to firebrand filmmaker Michael Moore. However, Mounties have warned residents of Nova Scotia against the latter after two women entered a home uninvited – and cleaned it.…
Microsoft Azure looks to make cloud-native payments SWIFTer
Financial messaging to get a bit more, er, agile Microsoft and money-message flinger SWIFT have announced a proof of concept aimed at demonstrating that Azure could be a good fit for the financial network's infrastructure.…
Alibaba pulls dust covers off its new London cloud presence
Can Chinese cloudy crowd check rise of AWS? Alibaba Cloud has launched in the UK, the Chinese cloud purveyor has declared, as it prepares to take on dominant player AWS and the other also-rans.…
Happy 60th birthday, video games. Thank William Higinbotham for your misspent evenings
Tennis for Two prepares to collect its bus pass The forerunner of today's video games celebrated its 60th birthday last week as the anniversary of William Higinbotham's Tennis for Two rolled around.…
Can't get pranked by your team if nobody in the world can log on
Dirty Den escapes with a slapped wrist Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me? The Register's weekly column featuring readers' tales of the things they'd rather forget having done.…
The code's crashed again, but why? Tell us your war stories of bugs found – and bugs fixed
We need your help in understanding how software issues are solved in production environments Reader study Even the best software goes wrong from time to time. So, what exactly happens when it throws a wobbly, especially when it's a key component in a production environment?…
It's not just you... GitHub.com freezes up as techies race to fix dead data storage gear
TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Users' Pushes GitHub's website remains broken after a data storage system failed several hours ago.…
GitHub.com freezes up as techies race to fix dead data storage gear
TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Users' Pushes GitHub's website remains broken after a data storage system failed hours ago.…
Need a modest Arm Cortex-A CPU in your custom chip? Just apply online. Plus $125,000
That's how much it costs to license the blueprints (and don't forget the royalties) In 2018, a crack commando CPU was sent to an ASIC by a military court for a crime it didn't commit. This processor core promptly escaped from a maximum-security system-on-chip to the Los Angeles underground.…
A DeepMind library to help build reinforcement learning bots, and how Google's Pixel 3 cameras handle zoom
Also applications are now open for OpenAI's Scholars programme Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of interesting or useful bits of AI news that happened this week.…
Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more
Plus, hackers find a safe haven in West Haven Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…
Oz intel committee: Crypto-busting is only bad if you're a commie, and we're not by the way
El Reg listened to the whole depressing folly so you don't have to Comment Tech vendors: don't worry about Australian law enforcement demanding you decrypt user messages. It's OK, because we're not a communist regime.…
FYI: Faking court orders to take down Google reviews is super illegal
NYC biz boss gets nine months in the clink for profound idiocy A New York business owner will be spending the next nine months behind bars after he was convicted of forging court orders to take down unflattering online reviews.…
London flatmate (Julian Assange) sues landlord (government of Ecuador) in human rights spat
WikiLeaks overlord challenges housemate rules in court Housemate from hell Julian Assange is taking his landlord, the government of Ecuador, to court to stop its officials from, allegedly, running roughshod over his human rights.…
Core-blimey! Riddle of Earth's mysterious center finally 'solved' by smarty seismologists
So solid crew confirm old idea by spotting tiny waves The Earth’s core is solid, according to a pair of geophysicists who claim to have solved an 80-year-old conundrum concerning the planet's center.…
Spotted: Miscreants use pilfered NSA hacking tools to pwn boxes in nuke, aerospace worlds
High-value servers targeted by cyber-weapons dumped online by Shadow Brokers Miscreants are using a trio of NSA hacking tools, leaked last year by the Shadow Brokers, to infect and spy on computer systems used in aerospace, nuclear energy, and other industries.…
Pull request accepted: You want to buy GitHub, Microsoft? Go for it – EU
Eurocrats reckon that anti-competitiveness from Redmond would be a massive foot-shooting exercise The European Commission has given the thumbs up to Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub.…
Atlassian: Look at our ginormous Jira revenues!
But about that loss... Atlassian, the collaboration outfit responsible for inflicting Jira on the world, has announced a jump in revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 and an equally eyewatering jump in losses.…
Ericsson's very good bad quarter, Mozilla encrypts SNI, new TIP projects, and more
Your weekly dose of networking Coming off a long string of losses, Ericsson probably hoped to turn in some good news, but at its latest financial results, the company announced the sacking of 50 people in response to a corruption scandal.…
Samsung claims key-value Z-SSD will be fastest flash ever
Plus: 7nm LLP, QLC, stacked RDIMMS and brainy drives Among a blizzard of news from Samsung's Tech Data, El Reg has spotted smaller processor nodes, FPGAs added to SSDs, stacked and cubed memory, quad-level cell flash and object-storing SSDs on the way.…
Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app
All working now says biz. No, no, no, no, say customers, it is NOT! An unspecified and “unexpected load” on its infrastructure broke the Smart Living Home app for a day, an apologetic Yale Security UK confirmed to customers yesterday - however the smell of failure still lingers today.…
There's no 'I' in 'IMFT' – because Micron intends to buy Intel out of 3D XPoint joint venture
Chipzilla has to go it alone or turn to a partner Micron has announced its intent to buy out Intel's interest in Intel Micron Flash Technologies (IMFT), the pair's flash and 3D XPoint foundry joint venture.…
Facebook names former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg head of global affairs
Zuck and Clegg in Silicon Valley – no, it's not the latest Netflix satire Facebook has hired former British deputy PM Nick Clegg to head up its global affairs – a move that reportedly involved boss Mark Zuckerberg spending months “wooing” the Lib Dem has-been.…
Metadata-farming, data-silo-killing startup: Go on. Bring us your unstructured stuff
Former Primary Data boss talks to El Reg about Hammerspace +Comment Newcomer on the storage software-as-a-service scene Hammerspace announced the general availability of its eponymous SaaS application this week. This software has been engineered using technology from Primary Data – yes, that Primary Data – applied to hybrid IT and cloud environments, providing a SaaS cloud-control plane.…
Sounds like a massive, risky UK.gov scheme, but let's not keep too many tabs on it, OK?
Spending watchdog slams transparency and record-keeping on major projects The UK's spending watchdog has said it isn't possible to tell whether the biggest and most risky government projects are doing what they're supposed to because of poor records and incomplete reporting.…
Insects with farts that smell like coriander assist in covering up Paris's aroma d'urine
Sightings of Asian stink bug in French capital spike Oh, c'est mal, les punaises diaboliques sont arrivés à Paris! But before you pack the holy water if sojourning in the French capital this winter, you should know a clothes peg might be more suitable.…
Peter Thiel's Palantir reportedly eyeing up $41bn IPO
Spies' fave data mining biz could go public as early as late 2019 – reports CIA-backed data-mining business Palantir is reportedly in talks with banks to take the company public for a blockbuster sum, and could move as early as next year.…
European Commission: We've called off the lawyers over Ireland's late collection of Apple back taxes
Case closed month after Apple coughs $14.3bn in 'illegal State Aid' The European Commission has decided to withdraw court action against Ireland over the delayed recovery of €14.3bn worth of back taxes that were ruled as illegal state aid, it has confirmed.…
It's Two Spacecraft, One Mission as BepiColombo gets ready to launch
JAXA and ESA in a tree, going to visit Mercury BepiColombo, the first mission to Mercury for the European Space Agency (ESA), is due to lift off tomorrow morning at 0145 UTC on an Ariane 5 rocket.…
Have you made DevOps, Containers or CD work for you? Tell us about it
Continuous Lifecycle London ‘19: Call for papers closes tonight Events If you want to tell hundreds of your peers how you've used DevOps, containers, continuous delivery or agile to improve your software operations, be quick - the call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle London closes tonight.…
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