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*AI bursts through wall* 'OHHH YEAHHH!' Comment It's difficult not to wish for the "good old days" when workloads stayed put, packets behaved, and firewalls just did basic port-level filtering. Admins knew where they stood.…

Or, as the Zuckerborg puts it, 'inauthentic coordinated behaviour' Tipped off by researchers from infosec outfit FireEye, Facebook has gone on another "fake news" killing spree, pulling more than 650 "inauthentic" pages pushing Iranian interests.…

Open-source pixel botherer cranks it up to version 2.10.6 There appears to be no rest for Wilber as the GIMP team has updated the venerable image editor to version 2.10.6.…

Despite respectable sales, it's an uphill battle Analysis Some 15 years ago at a private function, I explained to a bewildered and grumpy Larry Page how the mobile phone business worked.…

Need GDPR compliance now? Ask us how! Worried about enterprise security, access control, and GDPR? Relax, the standards bods at European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) have you covered.…

Redmond created executable installers with vulnerable tools Security researcher Stefan Kanthak claims that the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 executable installers (x86 and x64) were built with insecure tools from several years ago, creating a vulnerability that could allow privilege escalation.…

That's if there's still a government to pass the amendments In case it survives long enough to pass legislation, the Australian government has published proposed amendments that would strengthen the privacy protections surrounding MyHealth Record.…

AKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64 Hot Chips Fujitsu has unfurled the blueprints for its homegrown high-performance Arm-based processors dubbed A64FX, the brains of its Post-K supercomputer.…

Not a great look for telco giant ahead of net neutrality suit Verizon has been accused of throttling the data plan of a California fire department in the midst of the state's worst-ever wildfire.…

Maybe future astronauts can finally enjoy a nice cuppa Ancient water ice is hidden on the surface dotted around craters on the Moon’s poles, scientists have confirmed in a paper on Monday.…

Grande Comms tells US court it's swamped with fake takedowns An ISP based in Texas has complained to a judge that the music industry to trying to turn internet providers into the "copyright police."…

Or just 386, according to chain Hackers claim to have grabbed the personal details of almost 20,000 bods who shopped online at Superdrug, the British cosmetics retailer has confirmed. Payment card details are not said to be among the haul.…

McAfee finds new way to break thing that shouldn't be on your home network in the first place A security vulnerability in "smart" power plugs can be exploited to infiltrate local computer networks.…

Like AWS and Azure, GCP now hosts secrets inside HSMs Google Cloud Platform has armored its cloud in metal by offering customers beta access to hardware security modules (HSM) to handle encryption keys.…

Google, Facebook and friends don't want you gaining access to your data Technology companies are fighting a behind-the-scenes battle in California to undermine new privacy legislation before it comes into effect.…

Linux distro hits the brakes on rolling out microcode for security bugs in license row At least one Linux distribution is withholding security patches that mitigate the latest round of Intel CPU design flaws – due to a problematic license clash.…

Helped along by Pure, Isilon and Qumulo Igneous Systems has set its sights on becoming a data management supplier using commodity hardware.…

Private equity machinations behind new business setup Freshly incorporated investment vehicle StorCentric today confirmed it is the new private equity owner of Nexsan and Drobo, respective array and prosumer storage businesses.…

Right-leaning American think tanks reportedly targeted Microsoft has claimed it thwarted a Russian-backed phishing attack by seizing control of fake copies of right-leaning American think tanks' websites – including one led by a prominent Donald Trump critic.…

Old-school cool with new guts If Apple hoped that the MacBook Air and Mac mini would die a natural death, it's had to think again.…

Microsoft chows down on its open-sourced dog food Microsoft's Bing search engine now runs on an open-source platform - .NET Core 2.1, to be precise.…

Kit lands early September After some engineering soul searching, Dell EMC has finally arrived late to the composable system market with a box comprised of OME-M software and an MX7000 chassis for servers, storage and networking.…

The Southern Rail experience without stepping on a train Brits have found themselves facing long delays in acquiring Railcards following a week of mysterious technical problems at railcard.co.uk.…

Sadly, the talent section won't involve serious coding The annual Miss America beauty pageant scholarship program has a tech entry this year, Microsoft developer Allison Farris.…

Ad giant 'intentionally complicated' opt-out systems Google's creepy obsession with users' locations is to be challenged in court – a lawsuit has accused the search-cum-ads biz of unlawfully invading users' privates and intentionally complicating the opt-out process.…

Still using it after last year's OS axe? No apps for you then Microsoft gave the still-twitching corpse of Windows Phone another kick yesterday as it confirmed plans to stop app updates from July 2019.…

Fixes for Lucky 13-type bugs could still be vulnerable More than five years after cracks started showing in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) network crypto protocol, the author of the "Lucky 13" attack has poked holes in the fixes that were subsequently deployed.…

GDS-commissioned report recommends bigger role for... who else but GDS? British government agencies have been warned they risk wasting time and effort trying out new tech projects without central coordination – and can expect a shiny new strategy next year.…

Who has the keys to your car? The perils of previous owners retaining unfettered access to the data and controls of connected cars after resale is a wider problem across the industry, The Register has discovered.…

Ex-Cisco CEO-chaired lobby leading the charge America's major tech companies are pushing back against India's proposed data protection laws, with a lobby group led by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers emerging as the protest organiser.…

While news sites cut cookies by 22% – but Google retains omnipresence IT consultants, software firms and campaigners spent months touting 25 May 2018 as the dawning of a new era – for better or worse, depending on who was selling the snake oil – but research published this month indicates minor changes in reality.…

ICANN appeals its appeal and tells German courts yet again that they're wrong The organization that oversees the internet's naming and numbering systems is continuing its embarrassing European legal campaign, insisting for a third time that the German courts have got it wrong.…

RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble High-performance computing geeks are sweating on a Red Hat fix, after a previous patch broke the Lustre file system.…

Incompatibility of apple.com with screen-readers said to harm the sight impaired Apple, which prides itself on design, faces a lawsuit alleging that its web page layout violates the law.…

21 year-old facing 31 charges for "no questions asked" cross-border cryptocurrency buys A 21 year old man from Mexico is facing more than two-dozen money laundering charges in the US for running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange.…

Thousands of apps yanked for violating terms and conditions Apple has reportedly kicked off a mass removal of illegal lottery and gambling apps from the China version of its iOS App Store.…

Legal battle #433 over Pai's push to kill off rules Mozilla has filed its legal brief against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), accusing the telecoms regulator of abdicating its role, ignoring public comments and failing to understand how the internet actually works.…

The software's just fine, annual codefest agrees Analysis At the third annual PyBay Conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Python aficionados gathered to learn new tricks and touch base with old friends.…

Smut-slinging copyright troll cops to fraud and money laundering charges One of the attorneys behind notorious copyright operation Prenda Law has just agreed to plead guilty to a pair of felony counts.…

Veteran penguin botherer feels the need. For speed Longtime Linux slinger SUSE has emitted a kernel optimised for the cloudy world of Microsoft Azure.…

No end in sight yet to mystery maintenance 'issue' The US Patent and Trademark Office has taken a novel approach to dealing with the problem of patent trolls. The solution? Shut everything down.…

They fell off the Peak... They perished on the Plateau... They fell in the Trough... There's been a tragedy on the fields of emerging technology and nobody seems to have noticed. Once-promising trends that were toiling for recognition a year ago have simply vanished.…

'Super' + 'user's first name' login is crackers, see me after – clients Updated Private tutor networking website SuperProf has irritated teacher clients of a firm it recently acquired – by handing out hopelessly insecure passwords.…

But claims of 'complete system compromise' are a little extreme Bsides Manchester A newly discovered WordPress flaw has left installs of the ubiquitous content management system potentially vulnerable to hacking.…

Staff forced to whiteboard in terminals as cloud connection goes TITSUP* Updated London Gatwick Airport’s shiny new cloud-based flight information display system had a hard landing this morning as its vision of the future was brought down to earth with a bump.…

Three SMS platforms? Oh Redmond, you spoil us As Alexa and Cortana kicked off a conversation more awkward than the worst Tinder date and Visual Studio 15.8 dropped into the hands of delighted developers, what else happened last week at Microsoft?…

Concerns that voters will see right through him ignored Putting the digital into "digital secretary", Jeremy Wright has been slated to appear at the UK Tory party's annual gabfest as a hologram.…

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But who are we to hold a grudge... Who, Me? Monday morning arrives once more for those of you holding the fort while colleagues are on holiday.So why not enjoy this extra special instalment of Who, Me?, El Reg’s weekly confessional column.…

New book details snatch for humanity's joystick Book Review It has been 14 years since Google IPO'd, and nine since Donald Trump burst onto Twitter. It’s five years since both the Snowden NSA disclosures and the birth of Cambridge Analytica. Over this period we’ve had a series of major data breaches, media organisations disrupted out of existence, and the emergence of hacktivists and the alt right.…