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Q: 'Where in memory did you put that kernel?' A: 'Sorry, I have no idea' The folks at NetBSD have released their first cut of code to implement kernel ASLR – Address Space Layout Randomisation – for 64-bit AMD processors.…

Homeland Security says 'Dragonfly' campaign has cracked networks The United States' Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert that warns of “advanced persistent threat (APT) actions targeting government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.”…

Punters refunded for smaller-than-advertised football streams Telstra's been forced to refund users of its live Australian Rules Football streaming service, after promising a hefty 11-inch experience but delivering a less-exciting seven-inch screen.…

Dive in Roundup Hello, this week's roundup includes AI news from the past two weeks. AI is so hyped, it doesn't help when companies like Intel and Nvidia announce new chips and reveal little information about specs, but make lofty claims of increased speed and precision.…

A splash of green stops astronauts feeling blue Living in space is grueling. The repetitiveness of daily exercise, experiments, crappy food, and claustrophobia can chip away at an astronaut’s psychological well-being, but scientists have suggested a preventative measure: plants.…

Free software lovin' crusaders kick out Management Engine Purism – a San Francisco, California, social purpose company that flies the flags of privacy, security and software freedom – has begun offering its GNU/Linux-based laptops with Intel's Management Engine disabled.…

Everything you also need to know in security Roundup IT admins aren't always fond of patching. It's like going to the dentist – it needs to be done but it can be a pain to do. Sadly, this week there was a lot of patching to be done.…

SF startup boss denies charges The cofounder of a San Francisco video advertising upstart has been arrested and charged with allegedly assaulting and sexually abusing his three-year-old son.…

Shocking development in the current affairs circuit A Japanese electronics maker has been indicted in America for fixing the prices of electrolytic capacitors.…

We're not going to fry it, and we're not going to tell you anything more right now It has been three years since Apple released any major update to the Mac Mini family, but CEO Tim Cook says that doesn't mean the minimalist systems are dead.…

Check your cameras, broadband gateways, NAS boxes for latest botnet malware Miscreants are right now assembling a massive army of hacked Internet of Things devices – and at a far faster rate than the powerful Mirai botnet swelled its ranks last year.…

Credit card purveyors aim to improve 'cross-border, B2B payment flows' Mastercard is opening up its blockchain API to select partner banks and merchants.…

Non-compete legal battle Two file sync 'n' sharers are at war. Google-backed Egnyte is suing Citrix for unfair competition and Citrix is counter-suing Egnyte for unfair trade practices, among other things.…

They were totally just about to tell us everything Previously Google has contracted major brand OEMs to produce Nexus and Pixel phones using fairly standard off-the-shelf parts. But a teardown of Google's pricey new flagship reveals the company's first homegrown system on a chip – and it's currently idle.…

Justice committee backs ePrivacy proposals by narrow majority European legislation that aims to put over-the-top services on a level pegging with their more traditional telecoms counterparts, and gives users more rights over websites tracking them, has been approved by a committee of MEPs.…

Hate code? Love lists? Microsoft's got you covered In a move that will delight factory workers developers everywhere, Microsoft has added more graphical user interface features to Azure Data Factory V2.…

Pushing out the big guns to compete with Samsung – and each other The latest exec hires show the way the wind is blowing at Cohesity, Micron and WDC.…

Can decades-old databases uphold national security? The clunky technology underpinning Blighty's border control leaves the UK in concerning position post-Brexit, a National Audit Office report has found.…

Lightcycle creator on the classic sci-fi film as it turns 35 Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner, Aliens, TimeCop, Johnny Mnemonic and Elysium all benefitted from the design magic of Syd Mead.…

OS boffins chat to Reg as part of National Map Reading Week More than a decade ago, boffins at the Ordnance Survey began working on augmented reality. Now consumer mobile tech has caught up and the agency has launched an AR tool for the man on the street and the woman in the hills.…

Call for papers closes today – get your skates on Events We're chuffed, delighted and excited to announce that our first keynote for Continuous Lifecycle will be Agile development pioneer Dr Linda Rising.…

'It's more dramatic than climate change' "Insects are at the bottom of the ecosystem," the lead author of a study into a massive decrease in collected insects told The Reg. Their loss, he added, is "likely to collapse the entire pyramid".…

Transport for Greater Manchester says silly thing in reply to sensible FoI request Updated Transport for Greater Manchester, the northern city's transport authority, has refused to publish its ticket prices on the basis that telling the public how much they have to pay for riding the trams would "prejudice the Metrolink service".…

Insubordination in the face of impossible fads Comment What’s the point of being a developer ? My experience of being one taught me that it isn’t primarily the coding – it’s actually much more important than that.…

Interaction with legacy systems but not all think it's a good idea Using Ethereum's programming language Solidity, a dev has controversially written code for making data authentication signatures with the insecure SHA-1 cryptographic hash function.…

Staff will be folded into January acquisition AppDynamics Creaking hardware dinosaur Cisco is to gobble machine-learning upstart Perspica to beef up its analytical muscle at the performance management AppDynamics division.…

Citizens Advice finds over-65s most likely to be stung Folk with mobiles on Vodafone, EE and Three are being stung by an average £22 per month for staying on their contracts after their handsets have been paid off, according to Citizens Advice.…

Watch the client eat (smallish) steak as you munch on bread roll In the pursuit of ways to further squeeze its overheads, DXC Technologies has issued a fresh directive to the troops by further clipping travel costs and capping client entertainment.…

You've got to admit, Canonical has guts For the first time in recent memory, there are some very big changes in the latest release of Ubuntu: 17.10. And it's not all to do with going, er, GNOME.…

Spend the money on freezing your brain Something for the Weekend, Sir? Flee! Flee! It’s the return of the frozen heads!…

Canuck NSA/GCHQ equivalent open-sources 'Assemblyline', to make us all as safe as Canada Canada's Communications Security Establishment has open-sourced its own malware detection tool.…

It needed an oil change, natch, and the mainframes didn't mind ON-CALL Another week is coming to an end and that means it's time for On-Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share readers' stories of being asked to do the unthinkable to satisfy the incorrigible.…

Also some security stuff, too Microsoft's latest major Windows 10 release prides itself on keeping out those who want to meddle with your code, be they malicious hackers or lazy gamers looking for an easy leg up.…

An attempt was made Google is offering cash to those who can find, exploit and report bugs in its Android apps, or similarly hack other programs in its Play Store.…

Clarifies axe fell only on new applicants, not existing users, after fanatical disappointment Rackspace has ended a program under which it offered “generous discounts on hosting for more than 150 OSS projects and communities”, but flubbed the announcement.…

You may want to resist current plans to discharge a base on the surface Vid Strong solar eruptions may be blasting the Martian moon Phobos with an avalanche of electrically charged particles, charging parts of it to hundreds of volts, and hampering attempts to land on and study the alien landscape.…

Company also plans 'consolidation' of product lines, locations and languages HPE has quit the business of providing custom servers to big cloud operators.…

No-find-no-fee search to cover area recommended by new analyses of likely landing spot Malaysia has struck a deal with US Company Ocean Infinity to resume the search for missing airliner MH370.…

Mind the gap The US is starting to fall well behind China in terms of the speed at which organizations are alerted to reported security vulnerabilities, according to a study out this week by threat intel biz Recorded Future.…

With fewer meteors, lower radiation and better weather, this is a nice place for a colony Japan's lunar orbiter has found a long, deep tunnel under the Moon's surface.…

Hang on? Isn't Big Blue betting the company on a clever cloud? Yup. It is. Sigh Back in September, IBM was left red-faced when its global load balancer and reverse DNS services fell over for 21 hours.…

Clashing threads put in their place by RacerD In Facebook's advertising business, a race condition might be construed as an ethnic descriptor used to prevent purchased ads from being displayed to a particular racial group.…

Cruz missile targets iPhone head honcho for pulling software from shelves at Middle KIngdom's behest A pair of senior US Senators are calling out Apple CEO Tim Cook for what they call "enabling the Chinese government's censorship and surveillance of the internet."…

Some may even glimpse the ring Attention, inhabitants of the northern hemisphere of our fragile home world. You're about to get one of the best peeks at Uranus in years – because the strange alien planet will reach opposition with the Sun and be at the closest point in its orbit to Earth.…

Election security is national security, says senator as US law shakeup proposed Facebook and Google, along with other online publishers, may soon be required in the US to disclose funding for paid political ads.…

Judge rules in battle over seizure of overseas Gmail files Google and the US government are quarreling over just how much money the Chocolate Factory must pay in daily fines while it appeals against a search warrant for email held overseas.…

Town has an API, but no cars Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs venture has chosen Toronto as its urban laboratory – one in which humans may ultimately be optional.…

Expert's protip: 'Hope is not an investment strategy' If you threw money at the blockchain startup Tezos during its $232m initial coin offering fundraising round in July, here's something you can learn for future investments.…

Tribe has sovereign immunity to legal challenges A Native American tribe in New York is going after Microsoft and Amazon for infringing its patents.…