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Not enough? How about a few dozen PDF remote code holes? Microsoft and Adobe are getting into the holiday spirit this month by gorging users and admins with a glut of security fixes.…

Premium Search API targets businesses on a budget Hoping to extinguish its eleven-year cash bonfire and finally turn a profit, Twitter has introduced premium APIs to allow businesses to make better use of its trove of troll tweets – for a fee.…

FCC commish wants more than one-page updates on recovery Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the commissioners at America's broadband watchdog the FCC, has reiterated her call for hearings into what is happening with communications on the hurricane-stricken island of Puerto Rico.…

Who left 'wipe the engineering toolkit' off the factory checklist? Updated An apparent factory cockup has left many OnePlus Android smartphones with an exposed diagnostics tool that can be potentially exploited to root the handsets.…

Ride-hailing biz blamed for indifferent security Two unnamed women allegedly raped by Uber drivers sued the transit app biz today for sexual assault and unlawful business practices.…

Even the US Department of Justice can't decide They are the most dissected, repeated and analyzed statements in the world – but are Donald Trump's tweets formal statements by the President of the United States, or his own personal reflections?…

Gotta plug that £14bn deficit somehow BT is proposing to close its defined benefit pension scheme for 11,000 managers and slash contributions to 21,000 frontline staff in a bid to plug a looming £14bn pension deficit.…

Jet plane, meet bike Analysis NetApp's E570 array supports NVMe over fabrics yet it does not use NVMe drives, potentially slowing data access.…

Boffins write browser extension for anonymous authentication Boffins have harnessed privacy-preserving crypto to create a browser extension that allows users to authenticate to services without being tracked.…

Offers free Docker integration File sync and sharer Panzura says containers are stuck executing locally unless the persistent storage they need moves with them to different on-premises or public cloud data centres. But, as luck would have it, it has got the tech to do just that.…

Benchmarks for HP laptop with Snapdragon CPU spotted It's a milestone in Windows history: the first benchmarks for a new generation of ARM-powered Windows hardware have been sighted in the wild. Geekbench has recorded an instance of a box running Windows 10 on the "Qualcomm CLS" platform.…

InfiniBox release 4 ticks more o' them mission-crit array boxes Big-iron array supplier Infinidat's fourth major version of its software adds sync (block) and async (file) replication, file directory quotas and quality of service features to quiet down noisy neighbours.…

Tick-tock, motherclockers An expensive and clunky-looking watch that can’t tell you the time* is once again clear winner in the failing smart wearables space.…

20-year-old is not an agent, Russia retorts Russia has denied that a person nabbed by Estonian local authorities was one of its spies. Estonia alleges the suspect had been intent on hacking into the Baltic country’s computer network.…

Adds faster RAID rebuilds, cross-product checks, no pricing detail... DataDirect Networks (DDN) has added a smaller burst buffer product, decreased RAID rebuild times and introduced a cross-product monitoring and management facility to its HPS/supercomputing storage product set.…

Oh rats! SSE inks deal to run fibre through Thames Water's subterranean empire London's Victorian sewer network is to be made accessible to fibre cables under a deal between SSE Enterprise Telecoms and Thames Water.…

'Unknown persons' spin up 244 VMs at cost of $64k. Whoops Miscreants racked up a $64,000 bill on DXC Technologies' tab after a techie accidentally uploaded the outsourcing firm's private AWS key to a public GitHub repo.…

More Apollo 2000 and 4510 power with wee Apollo 70 entering stage Some of HPE's supercomputer Apollo servers are Skylaked and can now say hello to an ARM-powered infant sibling.…

Schrems 1 - 1 Facebook Ireland in latest legal opinion Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems' bid to bring a class-action lawsuit against Facebook has been dealt a blow by the advocate general advising the European Court of Justice.…

Which? found this year's hot playthings lack basic security Consumer advice outfit Which? has today published a report detailing how easy it is to hack some of the most popular "connected toys" on the market and has called on retailers to stop selling those with "proven security issues".…

Not known if electric car's autopilot was in use An 80-year-old man has died in County Durham after being struck by a Tesla Model S.…

Builder's merchant tells punters their privates might be out in the cold Builders merchant Jewson has confirmed in writing to customers that their privates could have been exposed in a cyber break-in that occurred late this summer.…

Food could be left rotting in trucks at the border MPs have today warned of the "catastrophic" scenario of HMRC failing to have a back-up system in place if its Customs Declaration Service (CDS) programme is not ready in time for Brexit.…

Industrial chic 48-Hour Test The oddly named "Motion" – not an odd word, just an odd choice – is BlackBerry Mobile's second phone as a new venture, a quasi-startup housed within Chinese giant TCL. It's a hefty slab of durable, full-touch, midrange metal modelled after a Scandinavian industrial workshop.…

Facial recognition isn't the most reliable authentication right now Apple's iPhone X is one of several technologies bringing facial biometrics into the mainstream. It seems to have everything bar a heat scanner; the TrueDepth camera projects an impressive-sounding 30,000 infrared dots on to your phiz, scanning every blackhead in minute 3D detail.…

If you’re looking for power, you probably haven’t got any Reg Lectures Reg readers were introduced to a who's who of digital power players last week, from Kosovo’s king of fake news, and the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs planning floating startup countries, to, of course, grumpy cat.…

Money spent, money invested and money to be made Business – it's all about making bigger pies, either by buying in pie and adding it to your own, building a new pie-making plant, or supplying your filling as part of somebody else's pie. Which brings us to Barracuda, Toshiba and WANdiso plus a few short news bites.…

'Myca' has staff eating cognitive dog food, which may taste better than prevailing bitterness IBM staff are being asked to eat the company's dogfood in the form of an AI-infused career advice chatbot named “Myca”.…

ICOs meet advertising in the end-game for the gig economy Cryptocurrencies open the door to a world where everyone has their price.…

You didn't miss a new standard: CMF is 'colour, materials and finish' and PC-makers use it to make us fashion victims HP Inc says it has flipped its relationship with the PC supply chain, and made colour, materials and finish as important to PCs as CPUs, screen sizes and disk capacities.…

Bezos' cut price bit barns sell to comply with local laws Amazon Web Services has sold some of its infrastructure in China.…

Less than a quarter of world has freeish internet communication While America explores quite how much its election was interfered with by outsiders, the news isn't good for the rest of us, according to independent watchdog Freedom House.…

Assange .org tried to help coordinate Trump's election campaign Julian Assange's WikiLeaks – that bastion of fiercely independent journalism – privately urged the Trump campaign to not concede the 2016 presidential election, to contest the result as rigged, and asked for one of Donald's tax returns so as to appear impartial and nothing whatsoever to do with Russia's meddling in the White House race.…

This could work: Gandalf, Aragorn and Sauron all get busy between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring Amazon's television limb has announced it will make multiple series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s the Lord of The Rings.…

RHEL now ready for power-efficient server-grade chips Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM reached general availability Monday, underscoring the growing competition confronted by Intel's x86-64 platform in the data center.…

When supermassive black holes collide, we'll feel it The most violent gravitational waves in the universe from supermassive black hole prangs will be detected to within ten years, according to research published on Monday.…

Duopoly guys do duopoly thing US telco giants AT&T and Verizon are joining forces to install cellphone towers throughout America.…

New Tesla GPU sends single precision performance past 62 TFLOPS Dell EMC has accelerated its workhorse super/high-performance computing C4130 server with newer CPUs and GPUs.…

Once again, a rich powerful entity forgets that no means no Broadcomm says it will continue its efforts to acquire rival chip designer Qualcomm despite a unanimous rejection of its $103bn buyout offer.…

Once again, a rich powerful entity forgets that no means no Broadcomm says it will continue its efforts to acquire rival chip designer Qualcomm despite a unanimous rejection of its $103bn buyout offer.…

'Someone has to stand up to these tech giants' declares VC Thiel-backed Hawley Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley on Monday said his office is investigating Google's business practices, adding fuel to the long smouldering antitrust fire that the Chocolate factory has been unable to extinguish.…

l'd like to take his... his Face ID... off Video Apple's facial-recognition login system in its rather expensive iPhone X can be, it is claimed, fooled by a 3D printed mask, a couple of photos, and a blob of silicone.…

Antitrust body tries to keep up with business in the digital age The Competition and Markets Authority is to assemble a dedicated team to handle the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence and big data in business.…

Look at the Danish, chides biz body Low take-up of readily available tech is fuelling Blighty's "deep-seated productivity problems", the club for supposed captains of industry the CBI has said.…

How many devices? Wow, tricky question! Hard to say... Police forces have been urged to keep better records on how much data they slurp from the hundreds of thousands of digital devices they seize, and how it is used.…

And ex-CEO Kalanick will be praying it goes through Cash-flinging Japanese tech firm Softbank will sink up to ten billion dollars into Uber, following a vote of approval by the taxi app's board.…

Biggest ever tech deal held up Qualcomm's board has unanimously rejected Broadcom's $103bn buyout proposal, slamming its rival's bid as having "dramatically undervalued" the multi-billion-dollar chipmaker.…

What did ORM ever do to you that you just don't care anymore? Developers are done with Microsoft's Silverlight and Apache Flex, but they've been entranced by Android Studio, the Swift programming language, and Angular, a JavaScript framework.…

Good news for Canadian HPC models A Canadian supercomputer centre using a fast access parallel file system has stuffed an Excelero burst buffer between this storage and the compute nodes.…