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Why? Well Adobe has just revealed deeper hooks into Office and Dynamics Adobe is taking its “Sign” electronic signature service into Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in addition to its current arrangement that sees the service run in Amazon’s cloud.…

Would they have prevented Windrush? The mind boggles The Windrush immigration papers scandal barred Caribbean-born Britons from public services and in some cases deported them because they lacked sufficient documentation.…

Brinkmann files third signature spoof vulnerability in a month Security researcher Marcus Brinkmann has turned up another vulnerability in the GnuPG cryptographic library, this time specific to the Simple Password Store.…

Your free guide to trick an AI classifier into thinking an umbrella is the Bolivian navy on maneuvers in the south pacific Computer boffins have devised a potential hardware-based Trojan attack on neural network models that could be used to alter system output without detection.…

Still to come: standards for stuff like IoT that non-carriers care about Meta-standards group the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) last week rubber-stamped the first "frozen" 5G standards.…

Revenue will fall, but gigabytes shipped will rise as NAND soars Analyst firm IDC has predicted revenue for the flash storage industry will decline for three years.…

Forget pony trekking or camping. Finland now boasts a Google cloud region Suomeen sovellusten kehittämistä ... sorry, let's have that in English: Google has opened its sixteenth cloud region, taking the Google Cloud Platform to the Nordic region via a data centre in Finland.…

Humans, keep your eyes out for dodgy web links An artificially intelligent system has been demonstrated generating URLs for phishing websites that appear to evade detection by security tools.…

Meanwhile USA ponders more tariffs on China in ‘wet noodle’ trade skirmish The United States Senate has passed an amendment that reinstates the ban on Chinese telecoms concern ZTE doing business with US-based companies.…

$US120m buy aims to step beyond DevOps into triage Last week Splunk spent US$120m to acquire VictorOps, a DevOps incident management outfit.…

Look at these GreenLake bundles. PS: Don't just look Just a single digit percentage of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s annual sales come from stuff sold as-a-service – that is, products you pay for depending on how much you use them.…

IETF floats formal deprecation suggestion, even for failback As TLS 1.3 inches towards publication into the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC series, it's a surprise to realise that there are still lingering instances of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.…

Woman cops to using stolen records to open bank accounts A woman has fessed up to using people's personal information, leaked online from the US government's Office of Personnel Management mega-hack, to take out loans and open bank accounts.…

USB gizmo biz apologies amid infosec drama Yubico has apologized to a security vulnerability researcher who had complained the dongle peddler lifted his work to nab a $5,000 Google bug bounty.…

MSR's E2 processor EDGEs closer to reality... with a little help from Qualcomm, too Microsoft has ported Windows 10 and Linux to E2, its homegrown processor architecture it has spent years working on mostly in secret.…

According to magic people, VDOO people Researchers have detailed a string of vulnerabilities that, when exploited in combination, would allow for hundreds of models of internet-linked surveillance cameras to be remotely hijacked.…

We'll forgive you if you change your ways, says Linux giant Red Hat on Monday said all of its newly initiated open-source projects that adopt GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 licenses will be expected to include the GPLv3 "cure" provision.…

Outcry over children being separated from parents raises ructions Microsoft removed and then replaced a reference to its work for the US government's immigration authorities in the wake of a national outcry over a new policy of separating children from their asylum-seeking parents at the border.…

'Monopoly' game continues The US Supreme Court will scrutinize an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, opening the door for the computing giant to escape censure over its app store policies and potentially millions of dollars in claims.…

Claims years-in-dev tech doubles speed Toshiba has claimed its new consumer NVMe SSD blasts the performance cobwebs off SATA SSDs.…

Family members can seek damages The British Home Office's bid to reduce the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers has been knocked back by the Court of Appeal.…

Committee calls for more public spending – but not with outsourcer A Parliamentary committee has called for Capita to be stripped of its military recruiting IT contract unless its performance improves, as part of a wider call for UK defence spending to increase.…

Will run national security, energy workloads HPE is building the world's largest Arm-based supercomputer, Astra – 2.5 petaFLOPS from 2,592 HPE Apollo 70s – for Sandia National Labs in the US, where it will run advanced modeling and simulation workloads in areas including national security and energy.…

Farewell, dear app, we hardly knew ye (which might have been the problem) Users of the Windows Phone incarnation of the popular collaborative messaging platform Slack have been advised to look elsewhere.…

Extends cloudy deals with IBM, Microsoft and Google Data management firm Hortonworks has enabled containerisation in the latest release of its Data Platform, while announcing a set of extended cloud deals with Microsoft, Google and IBM.…

Wake up, little snoozy Some Pixel 2 owners are still waiting for a fix for dead screens six months after the issue was first reported.…

The week's good, bad and weird from Redmond E3 aside, the team at Redmond were busy last week with a smattering of the good, the bad and the frankly odd.…

L0pht luminary Chris Wysopal talks to The Reg Interview It has been 20 years since Chris Wysopal (AKA Weld Pond) and his colleagues at the Boston-based L0pht* hacker collective famously testified before the US Senate that the internet was hopelessly insecure.…

Evidence sought on software 'defeat device' Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler has been arrested in Germany over the software-enabled Dieselgate emissions scandal, according to reports.…

How does that work? Chinese brands have been eyeing Western markets for some time, but in the UK customer inertia means many punters stick with what they know.…

How Shamoon and Stuxnet et al ran riot BSides Industrial control systems could be exposed not just to remote hackers, but to local attacks and physical manipulation as well.…

Hey, friend. It's not your fault The DevOps community is focused on this thing called "culture". By this, I always take them to mean the processes, norms, and HR policy that an organization has in place.…

This week among the lucky parents, GridGain, Memblaze and Western Digital. Well done Storage companies big and small are always announcing something or other big and small, whether that's sick new tech, astonishing customer numbers or an incremental update to software that is going to totally revolutionise the way you stash data.…

Language creator calls proposals 'insanity' Interview Earlier this year, Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, managing director in the technology division of Morgan Stanley, and a visiting professor of computer science at Columbia University in the US, wrote a letter inviting those overseeing the evolution of the programming language to “Remember the Vasa!”…

The user you really don’t want to mess with is a vigilant loyalty points herder Who, me? Why hello there Monday! And hello, therefore, to a new instalment of “Who, me?”, The Register’s column in which readers confess to their c*ckups.…

If you can't get to a POP yourself, this plan's for you Google has formally launched its Partner Interconnect product, priced for customers too small to afford 10 Gbps interconnect links.…

Management faces the ghoulish and grisly truth Storage array supplier Tintri really is circling the drain as it issues preliminary first fiscal 2019 quarter results and issues dire warnings, really dire warnings, about its prospects.…

We smell a cloudy challenge to Citrix and VMware – and maybe Microsoft and Google AWS looks to be up to something in the end-user computing market.…

'Typeframe' springs from the same den as 'Hidden Cobra' The United States Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has warned against another malware campaign it says originates from North Korea.…

Version 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks Linux has literally lost its Lustre – the filesystem favoured by HPC types has vanished in the first release candidate of version 4.18 of the Linux kernel.…

Meanwhile there's 15 other $10m-plus IT projects wobbling down Canberra way The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) has unplugged a biometric identification project.…

Yikes! And the fix is to delete and rebuild the VM. Google gave some of its cloud customers a rotten weekend by breaking a bunch of virtual machines.…

Juniper's new routers emerge, Google QUIC-ens gets load balancing for HTTPS and more Roundup Be nimble, be QUIC: Google's added secured load balancing support to its QUIC protocol.…

Also, Weight Watchers is light on security Roundup This week included a big Patch Tuesday bundle, a fresh fine for Yahoo!, and yet another Intel bug that potentially exposes sensitive kernel information.…

Including bad news for IBM Watson Health Roundup Welcome to this week's AI news bites, picking up the bits besides everything else we've written about.…

Rapporteur David Kaye not impressed with Article 13 The campaign against a key aspect of new European copyright legislation has picked up a significant backer: the United Nations' freedom of expression expert.…

Good thing too because Intel's planned chip changes may break Google's Retpoline A group of computer science researchers has proposed a way to overcome the security risk posed by speculative execution, the data processing technique behind the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities.…

'You want a war? Well done, you've got one' replies China The Trump administration is moving forward with its plans to implement tariffs on Chinese goods coming into America. On Friday, it published a list of products totaling $34bn that will be subjected to a 25 per cent charge to importers, and another $16bn worth of goods that could be added to the list.…

Tapplock: Once, twice, three times a screwup Video It's never easy to crack into a market with an innovative new product but makers of the "world's first smart fingerprint padlock" have made one critical error: they forgot about the existence of screwdrivers.…

Staffers accused of swiping trade secrets face criminal charges Six former and current Fitbit staffers have been accused of stealing trade secrets from rival gizmo-slinger Jawbone.…