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Industry can have a slice of steaming supported stability ... if it can afford to pay SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (SLES) has been released for the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer.…

Why pay for the firehose when you can make your own? While politicians and the public demand Facebook dam its indiscriminate dispensation of data, academics want to open the social network info-spigot wider still.…

Plantronics is new owner after private equity outfit offloads Lawyers are expensive at the best of times. Perhaps that’s why two acquisitions have closed just before the Easter long weekend?…

Gamers say performance woes haven't been addressed as Spring Creators Update looms A long-running glitch affecting some Windows 10 PCs continues to annoy gamers more than half a year after it was supposedly fixed.…

Gamers say performance woes haven't been addressed as Spring Creators Update looms A long-running glitch affecting some Windows 10 PCs continues to annoy gamers more than half a year after it was supposedly fixed.…

Aruba's AI moves, Marvell and Nvidia vehicle tech, and yes, the Open Networking Summit Network admins: unpatched MikroTik routers are being scanned by a botnet again.…

Pick your poison in IOS and IOS XE: denial-of-service or remote code execution? Cisco's ruined Easter for netadmins by revealing three critical-rated flaws, with fixes landing today.…

The Social Network™ all-but-admits its previous legalese for developers was useless Facebook has outlined a set of changes to its platform that impact developers and data brokers.…

US cosmo-boffins: Never mind the cost, feel the payload NASA has categorically stated it will not dump the troubled Space Launch System (SLS) in favor of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy any time soon.…

NSA-augmented ransomware hits snoops' home air industry WannaCry, the Windows ransomware that took off last May around the world, has landed on some computers belonging to US aircraft and weaponry manufacturer Boeing.…

Token effort won't stop not-backdoors legislation Digital rights campaigners are celebrating a small, symbolic victory, with the country's Senate voting to protect the integrity of cryptography.…

File under: Yeah, good luck with that, nice job you used to have New York's City Council is mulling a law that would make it illegal for employers to require workers be on-call to answer emails after clocking out for the day.…

Container tech darling suits up for enterprise sales Docker cofounder and CTO Solomon Hykes on Wednesday announced his departure for the company, citing the need for a CTO with experience selling to enterprise organizations.…

Website building biz warns exploit may come in hours Anyone running a website built with Drupal should stop whatever they are doing right now and install critical security patches.…

Biz scaled back number of sensors from five to just one The death of a pedestrian in Arizona by an Uber self-driving car may have been the result of a blind spot caused by the use of a single LIDAR sensor on the roof.…

Ecuador puts WikiLeaks boss in digital time-out over comments Supporters of WikiLeaks are sounding alarms as founder Julian Assange has had his internet access cut to his Ecuadorian embassy broom cupboard.…

Post crash test hits share price Nvidia has declared the creation of a “cloud-based system” for testing driverless cars – just as it, er, suspended testing of driverless cars.…

GPU-boosted system market is, like, literally so hot right now Analysis Machine learning stresses storage because training the models means millions if not billions of files have to be fed to the training system with its GPUs in as quick a time as possible.…

Which means devices could be pwned by crooks An audit of the security of IoT mobile applications available on official stores has found that tech to safeguard the world of connected things remains outstandingly mediocre.…

Infosec bods worry it could be used against firms if disclosed Only one in five FTSE 100 companies disclose testing of online business protection plans.…

It's agile, innit? The UK Home Office’s Emergency Services Network that is intended to replace the country's national radio infrastructure with a 4G network is running overtime and budget, politicians were told today.…

Smash 'n' burn incident in US singes Elon Musk-led company's financials Investigators are looking into the cause of a fatal Tesla Model X crash and subsequent fire in California, the American National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has reportedly said.…

Lack of regulation and records risks abuse, says charity Cops should need a search warrant to slurp information from peoples' phones, Privacy International has said as it calls for a government review into police data-extraction tech.…

The goal? Commoditise the data centre NVMe SSD world Analysis Microsoft has lifted the lid on Project Denali, its quest to bring flash drive cost down a peg by extracting costly extra software from SSDs and running it in the host server to gain cost and performance efficiencies.…

We have other markets Huawei unveiled the best cameraphone in the world yesterday, but only the most determined Americans will see it. And it's set to stay that way.…

Yeah, expect your bills to go up The government has finally published plans for how everyone in the UK will have a legal right to 10Mbps speeds by 2020 after rejecting a voluntary offer by BT.…

Oh do beehive! Boffins at Sheffield University have discovered that colonies of honeybees follow the same laws as the human brain when making collective decisions.…

Want more govt business, you say?* You're a riot, old chum Small businesses could be handed hundreds of millions in tax cuts out of the cash raised by forcing the likes of Google to cough up more to HMRC, MPs heard in a debate about digital tax yesterday.…

Calling all the Basic twitchers... Hosting biz GoDaddy has been slammed by a Brit advertising regulator for "misleading" punters with the lure of cheap deals.…

Ooo, pretty colours. But what if the data or interpretation sucks? UIs with buttons and sliders existed for years as a means of putting a slick gloss on the data jungle that is Excel. But Salesforce provided the breakthrough in presenting complex business data with the metaphor of the dashboard.…

Verity puts a Bragg in your shell-like Stob The podcast is the great civiliser of the modern journey to work: consume as you commune as you commute. The career-minded IT Pro, isolated and ear-shelled up like Mildred Montag in Fahrenheit 451, can simultaneously CPD up the latest tech while elbowing down the carriage to be near the woman who, having stowed her iPad in its iPouch, looks as though she might quit her seat to alight at the next station-stop-halt-stop-station-station.…

Yours if you can afford it... and wait long for the fabs to make the chips GTC Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang flaunted a bunch of stuff, from bigger boxes of graphics chips to robot simulators, at its 2018 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Silicon Valley on Tuesday.…

The Facebook Container add-on quarantines the social network to limit data harvesting Sensing an opportunity in Facebook's squandering of public trust through its previously unrestrained giveaway of user data, Mozilla on Tuesday unveiled a defense against the social ad biz in the form of an add-on for Firefox called Facebook Container.…

Been there, mitigated that, got the class actions, says Chipzilla Intel’s shrugged off two new allegations of design flaws that enable side-channel attacks.…

Chris Wylie makes explosive allegations in session with MPs Working for Cambridge Analytica "felt very much like a privatised colonising operation," the former staffer at the centre of the scandal around Facebook data slurps and Vote Leave's alleged overspend has said.…

Adults-only Xbox games are OK but you can't tell Cortana to go screw itself Microsoft has advised users of upcoming changes to its services' terms-of-use agreement that will make it a potentially account-closing offence to use offensive language on Skype or in a Word document.…

Open networking finally comes to Switchzilla as IOS XR, IOS XE, Nexus OS added to disaggregation strategy Cisco has taken a long, hard look at the biggest bullet in its kit, and bitten down: the company has announced it will separate its router and switch software from the hardware that hosts it.…

'DANOS' code hoped to run 100,000 routers will go open source in H2 2018 AT&T has let its in-house-developed network operating system escape into the open source world via the Linux Foundation, with a code release due in the second half of this year.…

No 'alien' megastructure, but lots of ongoing weirdness In January, boffins decided they'd settled the mystery of “Tabby's Star”, the far-off star that dimmed so rapidly it almost looked like something, or someone, was responsible. Scientists have since shrugged off the idea the dimming is caused by an "alien megastructure". Instead, they suggest there's just a lot of dust surrounding the star, which makes for many odd moments.…

Narendra Modi's app may be a bit too slurpy India's ruling party is scrambling to defend its use of followers' data after a pseudonymous security researcher accused PM Narendra Modi of snooping on citizens with his personal app, which has been installed by around five million users.…

You'll want to install the March update. Like right now – if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up an even worse security hole on Windows 7 PCs and Server 2008 R2 boxes.…

You'll want to install the March update. Like right now – if you can avoid broken networking Microsoft's January and February security fixes for Intel's Meltdown processor vulnerability opened up an even worse security hole on Windows 7 PCs and Server 2008 R2 boxes.…

Miscreants go down to the wire meddling with emergency dispatch's server The US city of Baltimore suffered a brief outage on part of its 911 service at the weekend – and hackers are being blamed.…

Our tech support support group, On-Call Live, hits the harbour city on April 19th Every Friday, The Register publishes On-Call, a Reg-reading IT Pro’s tale of woe when called upon to provide tech support.…

Official report blows lid on behind-the-scenes Analysis On December 2, 2015 Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik attended a holiday party at Farook's workplace – the non-profit Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California – and without warning started indiscriminately shooting at employees.…

Someone call Scotty – he'd know how to fix this thing The launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has been kicked back a year to 2020, NASA confirmed during a press conference on Tuesday.…

You thought this was over? You thought wrong, laughs Larry The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington DC has revived Oracle's bid to bill Google for billions over its use of copyrighted Java APIs in its Android mobile operating system.…

0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage Pure Storage and Nvidia have produced a converged machine-learning system to train AI models using millions of data points.…

WSL blueprint open-sourced to tempt distro makers Microsoft quietly open-sourced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) sample last night in an effort to persuade Linux distribution maintainers to add their distros to the Windows Store.…

It comes with a pencil! You kids remember what a 'pencil' is? Apple is trying to reclaim is status as the cool kid in class with a fresh round of products aimed at the education market.…