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Live-traffic gives information-centric networking a boost Information-Centric Networking (ICN) over IP has taken another step towards deployment, with a trial conducted at the end of 2017 declared a success.…

Partner-penned post said SAP might be as good as Google or IBM ... one day Well this is awkward: SAP appears to have canned a blog post that appeared on SAP.com and said the company is struggling to win subscription revenue and is not yet the natural choice to house cloudy ERP.…

New version turns Meltdown mitigation into a feature The Xen Project last week sent the first release candidate of Xen 4.11 down the slipway, ahead of a few weeks’ testing and a planned release on June 1st, 2018.…

Rules nixed by US state court over First Amendment fears A Texas appeals court last week ruled that the US state's Relationship Privacy Act, which prohibits the disclosure or promotion of intimate images without the consent of those depicted, is unconstitutional.…

Zuck: Creepy data-harvesting was for YOUR own good Stop us if you've heard this one before: Facebook is trying to 'set the record straight' after it was once again caught flogging the ability to violate the privacy of its users.…

You'll have to wait until, well, next month, for the end of the internet as we know it Today, Monday, April 23, 2018, marks 60 days since the repeal of America's net neutrality safeguards was published in the United States Federal Register, and so it is the END OF THE INTERNET FOREVER!…

Unpatchable vuln found, exploited to run custom code Security researcher Kate Temkin has released proof-of-concept code dubbed Fusée Gelée that exploits a bug in Nvidia's Tegra chipsets to run custom code on locked-down devices.…

Researcher reveals demo attack code, full release in June Security researcher Kate Temkin has released proof-of-concept code to launch an exploit chain called Fusée Gelée, which relies on an as-yet-undisclosed vulnerability in past versions of Nvidia's Tegra system-on-a-chip.…

Space, the rhinal frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Trivialize... Scientists have solved a pressing mystery about our Solar System. Does Uranus smell like farts? Yes, yes it does.…

Space, the rhinal frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Trivialize... Scientists have solved a pressing mystery about our Solar System. Does Uranus smell like farts? Yes, yes it does.…

Not a bug, we're told: It's a feature. Really Updated Google has confirmed spammers can not only send out spoofed emails that appear to have been sent by Gmail users, but said messages also appear in those users' sent mail folders.…

US judge halts $33m class-action gravy train Analysis A US federal judge has approved a $33m class-action lawsuit against fitness tracker maker Fitbit – but put the brakes on a massive $8.25m lawyer award claim.…

Animals can sue, but don't have the ability to file intellectual property lawsuits A US appeals court has upheld a lower court's decision that a monkey can't own copyright.…

Show us your data says Euro Commish The European Commission is causing Apple more angst by probing its acquisition of Shazam.…

Open casket or open phone? Detectives from Largo, Florida, visited a funeral home in nearby Clearwater and tried, unsuccessfully, to unlock a phone with the hand of its deceased owner to aid an investigation.…

We're off the team and everything is awful A letter to UK science minister Sam Gyimah MP has outlined the impact of Brexit on Britain's space sector, and it doesn't make for happy reading.…

No surprise really Silicon Valley has historically been at war with Hollywood, so Amazon and Netflix's membership of a studio-dominated anti-piracy alliance may raise eyebrows. But it shouldn't: Amazon and Netflix are big studios now in their own right, and Apple is expected to join them.…

Everything's fine, says NVMe-over-fabrics array startup NVMe-over-fabrics array startup Pavilion Data Systems has laid off more engineers just a month after a previous cull during which co-founder Kiran Malwankar departed.…

Plans to hook up 500k Londoners to 1Gbps speeds in 4 years Community Fibre has won £18m from the UK government's broadband fund – the first outfit to do so since the cash pot was announced back in 2016.…

Complaints up 24% as horrible humans rake in the readies Microsoft has released stats showing that tech support scams are on the increase, with 153,000 complaints received and 15 per cent of complainants losing cold, hard cash.…

Data, digital or tech knowledge 'not essential' for £66,665 role The UK government appears to be under the impression that knowledge of data policy or the tech sector isn't a pre-requisite to become the head of data strategy in its digital department.…

Repeated misuse of consumer champion's mugshot leads to defamation sueball Consumer champion Martin Lewis, Britain’s Money Saving Expert, has declared he is suing Facebook for defamation over fake adverts featuring his face that repeatedly appear on the under-fire social network.…

Sales won't rise for until 2020 says new broom. Share price rises Britain's fave outsourcing badass Capita today reported a £513.7m pre-tax loss for 2017 and tapped investors for £701m in a rights issue that it will use to fund restructuring and toward paying down debts.…

Users continue to report issues despite claims it's fixed Updated UK bank TSB's efforts to upgrade its systems has left numerous customers without online banking services – and some report having the wrong account details.…

Continuous Lifecycle London will help you reshape your pipeline If you’re contemplating a radical overhaul of your software development operation or are simply planning the next step in a finely planned evolution, you should be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle in London next month.…

No one said it'd be easy AI isn't immune to one of computing's most basic rules – garbage in, garbage out. Train a neural network on flawed data and you'll have one that makes lots of mistakes.…

... support to a Capgemini call centre (and one in India) Burger-flipping grease-monger McDonald's is ditching Atos and will instead buy IT support services from rival French integrator Capgemini, The Register can reveal.…

Oi, remember who you picked as our one-and-only engine supplier? +Comment Uncle Sam has raised the possibility of sanctions against Turkey for buying Russian anti-aircraft missile systems – putting the UK's supply of overhauled F-35 fighter jet engines at risk.…

Oi, remember who you picked as our one-and-only engine supplier? +Comment Uncle Sam has raised the possibility of sanctions against Turkey for buying Russian anti-aircraft missile systems – putting the UK's supply of overhauled F-35 fighter jet engines at risk.…

Patents the pretence, cloudy control planes competition a more likely cause Citrix has taken legal action against desktop virtualization challenger Workspot, alleging patent infringement and false and misleading public statements.…

‘I was a snot-nosed kid fresh out of college and thought I knew everything!’ Who, me? Another working week beckons so once again let’s kick it off with a fresh instalment of Who, me? For those of you new to the column, its The Register confessional for IT pros who broke things.…

Firepower, AnyConnect and ASA appliances and clients need patches Cisco has announced a suite of patches against a bug in its Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) implementation.…

SmugMug now the proud owner of more than twenty billion photographs Yahoo!’s photo-sharing service Flickr has been acquired by SmugMug.…

Unveil first code, joins giants in industry standard-club Last week, the Data61 division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) released the first RISC-V version of its seL4 microkernel.…

No, 5G won't ride to the rescue this year or next Troubled Swedish vendor Ericsson has turned in another loss, but is hopeful that it's still closing in on its planned turnaround.…

Quihoo 360 plays the responsible disclosure game Chinese company Quihoo 360 says it's found a Windows zero-day in the wild, but because it's notified Microsoft, it's not telling anyone else how it works.…

Your guide to this week in infosec Roundup Here's a roundup of this week's security news, beyond what we've already covered.…

And how does Hey Siri work? Read about it here Roundup Hi, here's a few interesting bits and pieces from the world of AI. A public tax form from OpenAI reveals the crazy salaries of top AI researchers. There are more competitions pushing for improved image recognition models on mobiles, as well as training systems as fast and cheap as possible.…

But it's still hard to shake some concerns Review It's something we all do when we get home: rummage around in your pockets or bag, find your keys, identify the one you want and then stick it in your front door to gain access.…

FTC's heavily redacted report says everything's hunky dory The US Federal Trade Commission has released an audit of Facebook's privacy practices and it turns out there's nothing to worry about, at least as far as accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is concerned.…

Health Stream, are you out there? The guy that found your data leak wants a word A US healthcare company seemingly exposed on the public internet contact information for roughly 10,000 medical professionals.…

Twitter's loss is the EFF's gain Twitter says it will no longer run ads from beleaguered security vendor Kaspersky Lab.…

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now? RSA has copped to a security vulnerability in the backend systems powering the smartphone app for its annual security conference, held this week in San Francisco, USA.…

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now? RSA has copped to a security vulnerability in the mobile app it served to attendees of its annual security conference, held this week in San Francsico.…

Scalded smoker wants injury damages, healthcare bills paid Amazon, LG Electronics and KMG-Imports are being sued by a man in the US State of Rhode Island for selling a vaping box and batteries that allegedly burst into flames and set him on fire.…

Kane Gamble gambles and loses on hacking skills The British teenager who was sufficiently talented and stupid to hack the webmail of the head of the CIA was today sent down for two years.…

Because 10.13.4 is seemingly unstable and performing poorly An increasing number of Mac loyalists are complaining that the latest desktop operating system update from Apple is killing their computers.…

Relive that sphincter-loosening Blue Screen of Death Video Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that 20 years have passed since Windows 98 memorably fell over during Bill Gates' presentation at Comdex.…

Relive that sphincter-loosening moment all over again Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that 20 years have passed since Windows 98 memorably blue screened during a Bill Gates presentation at Comdex.…

Vessel charts a course to pirate tax haven A Playmobil pirate ships's journey to the Caribbean sea risks being scuppered as its supplies run low.…