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Probe confirms: No attack, just an incredibly unpopular policy brought down feedback site An internal investigation has laid waste to the FCC's claims that its net neutrality comments system was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…

Just one appeal left standing Arista has cut a deal with Cisco that leaves the former US$400m lighter, and ends nearly all of the long-running legal battles between the two networking vendors.…

Ding! Ding! Round three in blanket spying bout Analysis A fight has begun over another of the US government's mass surveillance systems – with two Senators raising questions about an unusual data deletion by the National Security Agency (NSA).…

One critical question remains: Who ate all the Pies? Google today somewhat unexpectedly started rolling out to the masses its latest version of Android – dubbed Android 9 Pie.…

No, X-Force Red ain't another trading card game Black Hat IBM has promised to open four research centers that will hunt for security vulnerabilities in technology – including a team dedicated to probing cash machines for flaws.…

Bloke hits out after losing job to former underling in his 30s In January 2016, then-54-year-old Mark Stephens was recruited by Accenture to work as a sales development manager on a project with Facebook, subject to Facebook's approval.…

Workspaces' time machine promises to make quick work of extortionists Black Hat While ransomware continues to extort factories, hospitals, schools, businesses, and ordinary netizens, BlackBerry reckons it can quickly rescue peeps from malware infections.…

Technique exploits weakness in design of roaming-enabled IEEE 802.11i/p/q/r wireless The folks behind the password-cracking tool Hashcat claim they've found a new way to crack some wireless network passwords in far less time than previously needed.…

Pair settle out of court over failed project that cost utility firm hundreds of millions IT consultancy Wipro has paid National Grid US $75m to settle a lawsuit over a botched SAP implementation that cost the utility firm hundreds of millions to fix.…

Baby steps, now With the standalone 5G spec (3GPP Release 15) nailed down in June, it was only a matter of time before the first phone was formally announced. And as expected, it isn't a phone at all, but an addon that clamps to the back of an expandable Motorola phone.…

But it could've been worse, shrugs Apple supplier Chipmaker TSMC has warned that a previously disclosed virus infection of its Taiwanese plant may cost it up to $250m.…

Crypto-code unleashed to inflict security, performance and stability on devs Looking for a TLS 1.3 library? Facebook has you covered. On Monday, the ads and data peddler plans to release Fizz, a TLS 1.3 library written in C++14, as an open source project.…

Put your minds at REST ... there's no 'evidence of malicious behavior' Customer data stored on Salesforce's marketing cloud might have been shared with unauthorised parties, cloud slinger has warned.…

Third of the layers but 3 times the speed, claims Yangtze crew China’s state-backed 3D NAND fabber, YMTC, has claimed it will bring out memory speed flash chips next year.…

Analyst pins global deal values at $371bn for first half 2018 Mergers and takeovers in the tech and telco sector increased 107 per cent in the first half of 2018, compared with the same period in 2017, according to analysts.…

Sinclair branding removed by IP owner as Sir C fails to step in Sir Clive Sinclair's company has accused flailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd of trading while insolvent. Meanwhile, the firm has delivered some consoles – and been stripped of the brand rights to its flagship product.…

Things that make you go hmmm... HSM firm talks up unusual approach Analysis File lifecycle management – aka Hierarchical Storage Management – can work with data protection and secondary storage convergers, but only by getting the heck out of the data path... which is where Primary Data failed.…

When Go means slow If you can put up with the slow speed, Microsoft's budget Surface Go offers a cheapskate alternative to the stylish but costly Surface Pro line, effectively reviving the Netbook concept a decade on.…

Getting your head around the Performance Efficiency pillar Promo Learn the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Performance Efficiency pillar, hosted by Reliam CTO Jonathan LaCour.…

EPYC chips nibble bits off Xeon's x86 revenue share Semiconductor-pokers at Mercury Research have crunched the numbers to chart AMD's resurgence against Intel's virtual x86 server CPU monopoly.…

Managed Disks? Pick a size, any size... There was more to Microsoft last week than the launch of a little brother for the Surface Pro. Here are some of the stories you may have missed amid the fondleslab furore.…

Next goal: Beat pro players at The International OpenAI’s machine learning bots have beaten another team of semi-professionals in Dota 2, in their second public match in the traditional five-versus-five settings.…

Not a great day for the n00b to power off the servers in a remote location Who, Me? Monday, bloody Monday. If you haven't quite recovered from the weekend, just thank your lucky stars there aren’t any major global diplomatic events to tangle with today.…

What else is gong on in infosec this week... Roundup This week we took a close look at Google security keys, bid adieu to Facebook's head security honcho, and had a few email credentials overshared by Atlassian.…

Your quick weekend guide to various goings-on in the machine-learning world Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of all the mini announcements happening in the world of AI. Raspberry Pi now supports TensorFlow, so you can start your own machine learning projects on the tiny computer. Waymo is beginning to wedge its way into the public transport system in Arizona.…

It's all thanks to that subversive dissident Winnie the Pooh They may have mown down their own students with real tanks but what really scares the Chinese government is a stuffed, furry bear with a red tank top.…

Black Hat, DEF CON and Bsides come to Nevada About a quarter of a century ago, a handful of hackers decided to have a party in a cheap hotel, and had a whale of a time.…

Black Hat, DEF CON and Bsides come to Nevada About a quarter of a century ago, a handful of hackers decided to have a party in a cheap hotel, and had a whale of a time.…

Building blocks for messaging, phone services offered to talent-starved organizations San Francisco's developer-oriented messaging infrastructure service Twilio aims to make creating communications apps a bit easier – with the launch of Twilio Studio, a visual application builder that just graduated from beta status.…

Chatty, friendly bots more likely to be unplugged – study Poll People are more likely to comply with a robot's impassioned pleas to keep it switched on when the droid has previously been impersonal, than when it's been overly friendly.…

While Alibaba dips a tentative toe in the challenger pool Gartner's magic quadrant rating public cloud storage suppliers has suggested Amazon is losing ground while Google and Microsoft make gains.…

Android version of super-game will come direct from Epic The maker of super-hit Fortnite has snubbed Google by deciding to release the Android version of the video game through its own website rather than the Google Play app store.…

Firmware update tackles remote code bugs in InkJet machines HP Inc has posted an update to address a pair of serious security vulnerabilities in its InkJet printers.…

NEC cavorts with 5G, Arita finds its Mojo, and much more Over at the Internet Engineering Task Force, a notorious piece of history is being consigned to... well, history.…

Hundreds of jobs to go Symantec has announced plans to slash 8 per cent of its global workforce in response to disappointing sales.…

Hyperconverger's cloud services parts to get Framed Hyperconverged player Nutanix has agreed to buy Frame, a supplier of desktop apps-as-a-service, for an undisclosed sum.…

Signup for Byte Night and start raising cash now If you can’t sleep because of the heat, we’ve got a surefire to take your mind off it - join 100s of your industry peers in October on the chilly cobbles of a town near you and raise money for Action for Children’s annual Byte Night sleep out.…

Even the file names exposed sensitive info, claim researchers Exclusive Online medical consultation service iCliniq left thousands of medical documents in a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.…

Alexa! Are you part of a botnet? The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has offered advice on securing Internet of Things devices to prevent "Cyber Actors" using your garage door for nefarious purposes.…

Flashes next-gen unit to compete with FlashBlade box The clash of the million-dollar AI titans resumes. NetApp has designed an ONTAP AI architecture based on its topline A800 flash array and Nvidia DGX-1 to try to win fat-pocketed customers away from Pure and Nvidia's AIRI AI system-in-a-box.…

£1.7m tax on profits of £72.4m thanks to a surging share price Box-slinging cloud botherer Amazon unveiled some impressive results for its UK tentacle last year, and some even more impressive tax efficiencies.…

Investigatory Powers Commissioner urged to act on mobile data extraction tech The UK's snooping watchdog has been urged to investigate whether the country's coppers have a legal basis to suck up mobile phone data – or if it would constitute state hacking.…

Pen and paper brought back into service A ransomware infection has cast the Alaskan borough of Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) back to the dark ages.…

Says support biz invoking 'stale' split, has no other backers Oracle has said support biz Rimini Street is invoking a "shallow and stale" circuit court split that doesn't merit the Supreme Court's attention in a bid to claw back cash it isn't owed.…

There’s an AI cure for the summertime blues We’ve extended our early bird ticket offer for MCubed, so whether you’ve just come back from hols or are about to get off, you can still save big on our AI and machine learning extravaganza.…

Mischievous techie tells of printing woes soothed by kind words On-Call Friday has come around once more, which means we at El Reg get to regale you, dear reader, with tech support tales of the great and good in our weekly On-Call column.…

Nobody knows what these rare speedy electromagnetic spurts really are The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, a powerful radio telescope, has detected the first low-frequency fast radio burst, a class of rare extragalactic emissions of an unknown origin.…

What the fsck is wrong with people... judging from this study If you want your robot to be abused, do as The Rolling Stones suggest and paint it black. Also, make it female.…

Eta Carinae's Big Eruption might yet go supernova Eta Carinae is one the strangest star systems in space. When it exploded in the 19th century, it became the second brightest star in the sky. Now, scientists studying "light echoes" have found that it was also the fastest non-fatal outburst of any star system.…

Price rises lead to 'difficult discussions' with customers Another network vendor has had its financials dented by component shortages: this time, it's Arris.…