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Amazon challenge winners roll out neural net for droids that need to grab stationary stuff Artificially intelligent software can drive robots to perform the most menial tasks, such as reaching out and gripping objects.…

Google puts Mavericks on a cargo plane outta Hong Kong Apple fans who still run macOS Mavericks and earlier on their computers won't be able to run Google's Chrome browser any more.…

Oh it's for a calculator app? OK, wink wink, say no more Trusted code-signing certificates are being sold to miscreants by allegedly unscrupulous vendors, fueling a growth in digitally signed Windows malware, a study has claimed.…

So much more than a network map, so much more still to do CAIDA, the University California, San Diego-based internet infrastructure research operation, has taken a look at what the next few years might hold foe the information superhighway – and is worried that its model of the 'net might be starting to creak.…

Oracle Linux and VM get their innoculations Oracle has released fixes for Spectre v3a, Spectre v4, and the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability.…

And so it's trying to kick off an effort to fix that up, because security and privacy matter Having successfully pushed for universal HTTPS Web encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's next protocol push is for “STARTTLS Everywhere”.…

Alexa? Siri? Do you know what's up? Asking cos Splunk says replacements will target 'different form factors' Splunk’s cooking up something new and mobile, which means its old mobile stuff is about to get sunk.…

Chinese DRAM drama – what you need to know Analysis Micron is alleging United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) of Taiwan blatantly stole its intellectual property and gave it to a Chinese DRAM foundry startup, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…

Only in EU land – tough luck for the rest of the world Four of the world's biggest online retailers have agreed to pull goods flagged as dangerous within a week – but only in Europe.…

Microsoft, Mozilla veteran will also handle external researcher work Intel has recruited noted computer security exec Window Snyder into its ranks to help improve its fortunes in the cybersecurity space.…

Now you can splash out on tons of GPUs if you really need to Nvidia has added nine new GPU-charged supercomputing containers to its cloud service.…

How third-party services can knock out three out of four online properties Internet infrastructure may be fairly resilient thanks to its distributed nature, but the web we've built on top of it appears to be rather fragile.…

Chip slinger stocks dip as US investment crackdown turns out to be completely true The White House has decried as fake news reports that the Trump Administration will institute a ban on Chinese companies investing in US tech companies.…

Protip: When freshly paroled, don't immediately trash your victim online Sometimes it's best to just let old grudges go.…

IBM's Power9, Nvidia 122.3 HPL petaflops monster overwhelms competitors At the apex of the newly revised list of the world's Top500 fastest publicly known supercomputers is IBM’s aptly named Summit.…

And a lot of smart machine-learning coding, of course OpenAI's video-game-playing bots are getting much better at mastering sci-fi strategy war game Dota 2, seeing off semi pro players with ease in team matchups.…

AI team is set to enter major annual comp in August OpenAI's video game bots are getting much better at playing sci-fi strategy war game Dota 2, seeing off semi pro players with ease.…

You gotta shore it up before you put it to work, says researcher Misconfiguration of a commonly used Java web server component puts websites at risk of attack, web dev and security researcher Mat Mannion has warned.…

Rose-tinted spectacles ON. Nope, not doing anything Windows 98 turns 20 today. However, rose-tinted spectacles still don't make a hybrid 16 and 32 bit OS tottering on top of MS-DOS any more appealing.…

Amid Greyball and hack cover-up, app biz isn't endearing itself A contrite Uber told Westminster Magistrates' Court today that it "fully accepts" last year's decision by Transport for London (TfL) to revoke its taxi operating licence as "justified".…

If you're wondering about versions 13 and 14, ask superstitious folk SUSE today announced the impending release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15, featuring a boatload of new toys and a leap in version numbering.…

We've been living a lie! If you think we're living in the Golden Age of the Entrepreneur, think again.…

Push to boost supplier diversity after Carillion – but no plans to ditch private sector entirely The UK government has revealed plans to rate outsourcers on "social value", require them to publish KPIs and meet higher cybersecurity standards to tackle the fallout caused by the collapse of Carillion.…

Neil Muller leaves corner office, chairman takes controls again Hot on the heels of the latest acquisitions, Daisy Group CEO Neil Muller has told employees he is exiting as the business, which had been in the frame to IPO or sell up, initiates a refinancing deal.…

Big Brother Watch questions legal basis for data retention Campaign group Big Brother Watch has accused HMRC of creating ID cards by stealth after it was revealed the UK taxman has amassed a database of 5.1 million people's voiceprints.…

UK taxman urges tribunal to throw out reseller's appeal Reseller Aria PC's managing director "must have known" that 11 disputed deals his company made a decade ago had a "connection to fraud", an HMRC barrister has told a tax tribunal.…

Overheating data centres, Bing Visual Search, acquisitions – it's the week at Redmond Microsoft had a week of acquisitions, almost-apologies and Azure absenteeism as 2018 ground to its halfway point.…

And for heaven's sake, don't fall in love with the data The Internet of Things is going to solve climate change, fix our political system, and ensure that you can always find a parking spot. Some see a future of 15 billion connected devices.…

Double up or quit, double stake or split – the storage roundup If we've played our cards right, you'll be up to date on the storage goings-on of the week. Otherwise you'll be lost in the shuffle. Here's a hand full of aces, kings and queens – and don't forget the joker.…

Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts HPC storage supplier DDN has bought Intel's Lustre file system business, including its dev teams and support contracts.…

WTF were they thinking? Review "There will be no HTC U12," the man from HTC told journalists in briefings ahead of the launch of this year's flagship. "And no U12++." Company executives stressed that, for 2018, there would be just one flagship, and the HTC U12+ was it.…

… and we still aren’t accepting EU users A month after the enforcement date of the General Data Protection Regulation – a law that businesses had two years to prepare for – many websites are still locking out users in the European Union as a method of compliance.…

Brief didn't call for two-digit dates. What to blame? Bad brief or lousy testing? Who, me? Welcome again to Monday, and therefore to a new edition of “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional column in which readers own their errors.…

Dev kit leak seemingly backed by techies' job descriptions Qualcomm is seemingly working on another high-end 64-bit Arm-compatible system-on-chip for Windows 10 PCs – the Snapdragon 1000.…

Power trace sniffing, a badly-designed API and some cloudy AI spell potential trouble A group of researchers has demonstrated that smartphone batteries can offer a side-channel attack vector by revealing what users do with their devices through analysis of power consumption.…

Big Red wants ‘very viable server/cloud platform for Arm’ so adds MySQL, Docker, Java efforts under way too Oracle’s announced that the version of its GNU/Linux for Arm processors is now generally available and signalled its intentions to help “build out a very viable server/cloud platform for Arm.”…

This matters because right now there's no formal structure, which makes things tenuous The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another step on its road to independence, publishing a for-discussion proposal covering its likely administrative arrangements.…

Early data reveals most users run a single CPU, 4GB of RAM, one 1080P monitor Ubuntu has reported on data collected using the new user-profiling “feature” in version 18.04 of its GNU/Linux distribution.…

Carrier will still control customers and offer colo services in 29 bit barns AT&T has followed the emerging trend of carriers getting out of the data centre infrastructure business by offloading 31 colocation assets to Brookfield Infrastructure for US$1.1 billion.…

And get their timing right so that fixes aren't features Linus Torvalds has given the Linux kernel development community a bit of a touch-up, after finding some contributions to Linux 4.18 complicated the kernel development process.…

And do some pretty basic security hygiene before then The Reserve Bank of India has given that country's banking sector a hard deadline to get Windows XP out of its ATMs: June 2019.…

Aruba gets the SD-WAN bug, Huawei patches slowly and so much more Roundup Nokia has claimed a first by demonstrating a cloud-based radio access network (RAN) running on an operational carrier network.…

Including: Microsoft hoovers up Bonsai startup Roundup Hi, here are a few announcements in the AI world from this week. Read on to find out what's happening with PyTorch, which startup Microsoft just bought, and who won OpenAI's Sonic challenge.…

Had the board just had enough of Krzanich? Comment The sudden and shocking resignation of Intel CEO Brian Krzanich this week over a long-ago affair with a subordinate – banned under company rules – has led to much mirth among Register readers.…

Plus: Crypto-cash and keeping up with McAfee Roundup This week you had to deal with AI security panic, fake Fortnite, and, if you use OpenBSD, the end of Intel HyperThread support…

FYI: This article was typed o a roken Apple quirky keyoard – ad it loody well shows Apple has finally admitted the utterfly-mechanism keyoards in its Macook ad Macook Pro laptops are diaolical, and has offered free repairs and replacemets.…

Microsoft data center went sideways this week for hours with cooling issue Amid forecasts of heat and fears of water shortage in Ireland on Monday, Microsoft was about to confront a drought of a different kind: an Azure service outage.…

How to extract 256-bit signing keys with 99.8% success Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by malware to extract encryption keys and other sensitive info from applications.…

HAL 9000 is here – and it's plugged into your HR system It was only a matter of time before the machines started fighting back. And let's be honest, we all knew the software engineers would be the first to fall.…

HAL 9000 is here and he's plugged into your HR system It was only a matter of time before the machines started fighting back. And let's be honest, we all knew the software engineers would be the first to fall.…