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Net vendors at Ignite, Barefoot wanders into programming, Intel transceivers and more Microsoft's Ignite conference attracted some attention in the networking biz this week, with Fortinet and Riverbed putting up the jazz hands to get attention.…

Field both embraced, feared by enterprise Comment We're hearing more about AI or machine learning being used in security, monitoring, and intrusion-detection systems. But what happens when AI turns bad?…

DeepMind also collaborating with Unity Roundup Welcome to this week's AI Roundup. It looks live the US government does care about AI, and four Senators are urging the government to use more of it in new legislation. Microsoft had a few announcements at its Ignite conference, and DeepMind is collaborating with Unity for its research.…

BBFC gets a side job shilling shoes Roundup One or two things happened this week on the security front, like the elimination of the White House cyber czar, the massive leak of code from Aeroflot , and the debut of UEFI rootkits.…

Client and server, meet 'originless' apps Content delivery biz Cloudflare on Friday added distributed key-value storage to its Workers service, making a greater range of network-hosted applications possible.…

Friday afternoon – a great time to bury bad news, like the exit of your product president It's Friday afternoon on the US West Coast, and everyone's playing pingpong in the office. The East Coast is ordering the next round of martinis. The Europeans are stumbling home from the pub. The Australians are hitting the beach.…

The new method destroys rubbish naturally A group of scientists have proposed a new method to clear up space junk using a satellite that shoots out powerful beams of plasma.…

Horn-dog developers red-faced over avatar antics Video The maker of super-hit video game Fortnite issued a red-faced apology on Friday after its new female character was seen to have some extra wiggle.…

PC sales surge, cloud demands complicate Chipzilla's struggle to produce 10nm processors Intel on Friday published a letter from CFO and interim CEO Robert Swan reassuring customers that the chip biz will be able to make enough processors to satisfy its customers.…

Translation: No jail time for Oz Apple file teen thief The Australian teen who last month admitted hacking into Apple's internal network and stealing data from the Cupertino giant has been spared jail.…

Miscreants harvested tens of millions of profiles via 'View as...' feature, dodgy API Updated Facebook confessed today that buggy code potentially exposed all of its users' accounts to hackers over the past 14 months. It reckons miscreants snooped on least 50 million people's private profiles, and perhaps as much as 90 million.…

Miscreants harvested info from tens of millions of profiles via 'View as...' feature, dodgy API Facebook confessed today that buggy code potentially exposed all of its users' accounts to hackers over the past 14 months. It reckons miscreants snooped on least 50 million people's private profiles, and perhaps as much as 90 million.…

Accidental project managers in the crosshairs with the latest cloudy collaboration release Microsoft has announced a single redesigned service to take on duties from Project Online and Project Server – but not right away.…

My box is bigger than your box AWS has wheeled out a fresh version of EC2 with high amounts of memory available – up to 12TB today, the firm says, with promises of 24TB by next year.…

Firm failed to monitor CRM system thousands could access International health insurance business Bupa has been fined £175,000 after a staffer tried to sell more than half a million customers' personal information on the dark web.…

Alphabet-owned VT upgraded for corporate threat hunters Alphabet-owned malware aggregator website VirusTotal has given itself an enterprise-focused makeover.…

Energy, telecoms, banking sectors in the firing line The UK government is pushing telcos, banks and energy firms to improve data portability in a bid to tackle the scourge of consumers everywhere – confusing, complicated and hard-to-escape contracts.…

Not much to learn on 9 October bar price and release date The launch of the Google's Pixel 3 has become the leakiest since an Apple employee left a prototype iPhone 4 in a bar.…

Remember remember the first of November Skype 7 (aka Classic) has finally run out of lives. Microsoft yesterday announced plans to kill it off once and for all in an update to a two-month-old blog-post.…

Warns troops 2018 will 'bomb' if they don't turn it around Sopra Steria's UK head of the Government division has delivered a motivational speech to his staff in which he, er, blames them for a multimillion-pound shortfall in forecast profit for 2018 and demands instant results.…

Warns troops 2018 will 'bomb' if they don't turn it around Sopra Steria's UK head of the Government division has delivered a motivational speech to his staff in which he, er, blames them for a multimillion-pound shortfall in forecast profit for 2018 and demands instant results.…

I'm a nonentity, get me out of here Something for the Weekend, Sir? I stumble on a large root. At least that's what I think it is. For all I know, it could be a low fence, a rotting corpse or a very hardy badger. Some dodgy software has led me here, maybe some even dodgier software is waiting to mug me behind the next tree.…

HSBC joins TSB Updated It's Friday, it's payday, and UK online banking has once again come under fire, though if you're with TSB or HSBC you'll already know this.…

Encrypted sync and faster – up next is Mail and a phone version, CEO promises Interview This week the Vivaldi browser received its biggest update, adding secure sync across devices and making many operations speedier.…

Engineer ecstatic that late night solved his team's circuit board head-scratcher On Call Hello, Friday, El Reg’s old friend. We’ve come to talk with you again… because the vision that has softly crept in must be the latest instalment of On-Call.…

Cupertino company's culture turns to crap under Cook, complaint carps Analysis A former Apple engineer is suing his old employer to force it to acknowledge his role as the inventor of "Find My iPhone" and to compensate him for unfair dismissal.…

Chip cost fixing scandal is still dragging through the chambers It is possible that Infineon was not as deeply involved in a price-fixing cartel as previously assumed, the European Court of Justice has ruled.…

There's Norway you can escape detection, thanks to computers, software, and skills Researchers from the University of Oslo in Norway have developed a system that tries to combat rogue employees and inside jobs – by combining cyber and real-world security knowhow.…

The wireless Oculus Quest and a Star Wars tie-in will do it Virtual reality is going to be huge. That's the official word – again – from the annual Oculus conference in California, USA, this week.…

Phosphine tests hint at development of DNA, RNA Molecules essential to life on Earth may have been delivered to our home world by meteorites and comets, according to the results of experiments.…

We'd assume sysadmins knew this, if SamSam wasn't still rampaging through nteworks The FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security have added their voices to warnings of insecure deployments of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) services.…

Deep dive into motherboard firmware-lurking code A UEFI rootkit, believed to have been built by Kremlin spies from an anti-thief software program to snoop on European governments, has been publicly picked apart by researchers.…

'Competition' and 'alternatives' offered to change Papua New Guinea government's mind Australia is once again trying to get Huawei removed from a submarine cable contract in the Asia-Pacific.…

Good thing Congress has been so forceful in improving security Hackers probing America's electronic voting systems have painted an astonishing picture of the state of US election security, less than six weeks before the November midterms.…

What goes up, Musk come down, says SEC: Now CEO may have to pay high price Tesla and SpaceX supremo Elon Musk has been accused of fraud by America's financial watchdog – after he mused on Twitter about taking his automaker private.…

NASA mapping data educates computers for safe landings MIT boffins reckon they can use old-school artificial intelligence to do much of the grunt work in the tricky task of picking suitable landing spots for spacecraft.…

Hackers share general public's love of popular programming language Python, either the world's most popular programming language or a close runner up, turns out to be the most widely used language for hacking tools.…

Stay decrypted, San Diego The Port of San Diego in California has shipping in outside help to deal with a crippling ransomware infection that is now in its third day.…

Hadoop? Spark? Teradata? Oh my! Ignite SQL Server 2019, the latest version of Microsoft’s venerable database, dropped into preview at the company’s Orlando shindig, Ignite, this week.…

Top US court will resolve circuit courts' split over non-taxable costs The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear third-party support outfit Rimini Street's appeal against Oracle in the long-running battle over copyright violations.…

You thought you were buying better security, right? Enterprises buying TLS proxies to improve their network security could easily be making things worse, according to Canadian research out this week.…

Larry et al miss out on performance-based stock options for 2018 – must console selves with $3m cash bonus Oracle is hoping stockholders will finally approve its executive pay plan – having failed to get the thumbs-up for six years running – at its annual meeting in November.…

Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle Hackers can blow holes in Apple's managed service technology and sneak their own rogue devices onto corporate fleets of mobile iThings.…

Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson takes the reins Julian Assange has stepped down and named one of his former mouthpieces as WikiLeaks' new editor-in-chief.…

Learn the dos, don'ts and dangers - plus Q&A session for Reg readers Broadcast On October 11 at 11am we'll be broadcasting a live discussion on the challenges of multi-cloud. If you aren’t one of the organisations lucky enough to be shifting all of your IT onto a single cloud provider, you might just find this useful.…

Damning report shows Uncle Sam falling behind Comment A cybersecurity czar has been a long-established presence in US government – until recently. Against a rising tide of attacks on the nation's infrastructure and election systems, Donald Trump eliminated the post through an executive order in May.…

All the sights, all the sounds, none of the smells Virtual reality, the technology that is forever an answer seeking a question, has found a new use in the UK: recruiting prison officers.…

And they'll keep winning while everyone still wants Gmail and YouTube Comment Google has received massive fines for its recent stewardship of Android, but there was no conspiracy or underhand tactics about how it got there: Google won this monopoly on merit.…

Get patching – except for the ones where you, er, can't Cisco's six-monthly security update contains a baker's dozen of vulns and flaws in its IOS and IOS XE suites – including a backdoor that "could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to bypass Cisco Secure Boot validation checks and load a compromised software image on an affected device".…

Fancy something a bit lighter? Fill your books with Azure Sphere hardware Microsoft has released 1.0.2 of its Azure IoT Edge, which now allows Edge devices to function offline "indefinitely" while finally tipping its Azure Sphere service into public preview.…