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Wanna break the Internet? Start by not patching this problem Cisco's pushed a fix for a border gateway protocol (BGP) denial-of-service bug in its IOS XE operating system.…

Cisco still hasn't managed to drown this kitten Trying to duck patent sueballs slung by Cisco didn't stop Arista from claiming record revenue and profit for its most recent quarter.…

Crypto-crafting JavaScript appears on hipster-boxing site Yet another website has been caught secretly running Coin Hive's JavaScript that silently pressgangs visitors' computers into mining the Monero digital currency.…

Redmond, Princeton hope to protect folks from ICE swoops Microsoft is suing the US government to prevent the deportation of immigrants – including at least 45 of its own staffers – who are in America under the now-dying DACA program.…

Uncle Sam loses control of social media accounts The US Digital Registry – an authoritative list of government Twitter accounts – reveals that almost 30 have been suspended, several after tweeting in, er, Russian.…

Celebrates CenturyLink gobble by blacking out A fat-fingered configuration blunder at Level 3 temporarily sent a chunk of internet connectivity in America and the wider world to level zero on Monday.…

Google, Facebook and chums quietly signal they're OK with tweaked US proposals Just before the weekend, the Internet Association quietly dropped its objections to the proposed Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) which is making its way through US Congress – after fighting against the draft legislation for months.…

You're typing it wrong, duh Apple says it is working on a fix for an annoying bug in iOS 11 that leaves some fans unable to properly type the letter 'i' without it glitching out.…

Stop whining, says ad giant, we only promoted harmful nonsense for a short time Following the murder-suicide of 26 people in church on Sunday by Texas gunman Devin Kelley, ad giant Google managed to shoot itself in the foot by promoting fake news about the 26-year-old.…

Just months after Chipzilla trashed its new best friend as an 'unreliable supplier' Analysis Arch-rivals AMD and Intel have put aside their animosity toward each other, and united against a common foe: Nvidia.…

HPE's big honking server and memory box HPE has upgraded its Superdome X server to use Skylake CPUs, bragging that it's the world's most scalable and modular in-memory computing platform.…

Hello, hello? No I said a pain in my... Hello? Londoners are being given the choice of putting their health in the hands of their internet connection, via a 24/7 app-based NHS service which will allow them to have consultations with doctors over video call.…

US Supreme Court sends another appeal packing Samsung seems to have trouble accepting reality when it comes to a long-running patent spat with Apple.…

Appleby condemns 'criminal act' and 'politically driven' reporting Revelations from the Paradise Papers, a leaked set of more than 13 million financial documents, have shed light on how the rich and famous channel funds through offshore tax havens.…

They're super keen to get it done ASAP Broadcom has confirmed its multibillion-dollar bid for Qualcomm, revealing more details of the $130bn all-cash-and-shares offer to buy out its rival chipmaker.…

So rested they by the iSCI tree... And filed awhile in thought Red Hat's v3.0 Ceph storage software adds iSCSI block, POSIX file and containerisation support to the object storage core, making it a unified protocol storage software product.…

Climate apocalypse, you say? Meh, at least we have truffles The Périgord black truffle has survived UK weather and grown in Wales.…

Burn in. Weird colours. Welcome to Super Retina Is the technology press operating double standards when it comes holding Apple to account?…

And it's not just about bonkers Bitcoin mining rigs Mellanox's next-gen Innova network adapter won't just pack the obligatory high-speed interfaces – it'll also embed a Xilinx FPGA.…

'No branches, no phone lines... soon they'll have no customers' The online services for the Co-operative Bank and its digital-only arm Smile are both out of action.…

Cash machine use dwindling in face of contactless and mobile Thousands of free-to-use cash machines could be axed from Britain's high streets due to plans to cut fees that fund the network, banking industry group LINK warned last week.…

Websites, please wear our Badge of Virtue Competition Virtuous websites will be able to signal their goodness to the world under a new scheme proposed by digital quango queen Martha Lane Fox.…

Websites, please wear our Badge of Virtue Competition Virtuous websites will be able to signal their goodness to the world under a new scheme proposed by digital quango queen Martha Lane Fox.…

Huh! More like 'won't reach' Bonfire night has come a long way since Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up the House of Lords on 5 November 1605. Now, we prefer to burn more modern day villains. Such as Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump and, err, Openreach.…

XMarks the ... where are my bookmarks? A freemium Firefox browser add-on that saves and syncs bookmarks has started "losing" bookmarks instead, according to its users.…

This isn't a sci-fi premise, it'll influence how we segment our kit a few years down the line Even using the most conservative estimates, the number of connected devices has surpassed the number of humans. Machines are communicating more with other machines than they are with humans.…

Cash stuffed into ground network for nippy broadband Satellite outfit ViaSat is forming a €68m (£60m) public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), which among other things is intended to fund ground stations for home broadband speeds of 100Mbps.…

Proxima Centauri... more like Pulverea Centauri, amirite?* New research suggests that a dust belt may be circling the closest star to the Sun, a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri.…

Consistent, stable and low SPONSORED Achieving consistent ultra low latency is often top of the list of requirements for those investing in all flash arrays.…

And heeeere comes Amazon with its crazy low prices The tablet computer market is sinking even as the fortunes of its main protagonists rise.…

May have to wait to 2019 or 2020 following court claims Plans to introduce a Europe-wide patent court may be delayed still further after the German parliament, government and patent lawyers asked for an extension on submitting responses to a legal challenge.…

CoreOS on AWS, Kubernetes, and more Analysis Toward the end of this month, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi expects Amazon will introduce a managed Kubernetes service at its AWS re:Invent event.…

And mistook a baseball for a Monday morning coffee Video Students at MIT in the US claim they have developed an algorithm for creating 3D objects and pictures that trick image-recognition systems into severely misidentifying them. Think toy turtles labeled rifles, and baseballs as cups of coffee.…

Frying a motherboard will stop being a bad thing if two European companies have their way OPENSTACK SYDNEY Your next data centre could be an aluminium box filled with a handful of servers swimming in oil.…

Neither could figure out how to pull it off, but that hasn't stopped SoftBank from buying more of Sprint Updated US carriers Sprint and T-Mobile have decided their on-again, off-again merger is off.…

He'll probably burn it all up at high altitude ... in a rocket Amazon.com founder, CEO and president Jeff Bezos has sold a million shares in his own company an reaped over a billion dollars from the transaction.…

Hints at multi-gig wireless, which should get nbn™ - and government - feeling nervous Facebook has urged the Australian government to open up millimeter-wave spectrum for licence-free applications.…

Anime-streamer is fine again, and disinfection is easy Popular anime streamer Crunchyroll is warning users to check their systems for malware, after attackers got access to its Cloudflare config and targeted Windows users with a malicious file.…

Even CHARGEN services are hosed, daily, says CAIDA study One-third of Internet hosts with IPv4 addresses were subject to denial of service attacks in the last two years.…

Users asked to open-source custom connectors to the real world OPENSTACK SYDNEY The OpenStack Foundation has kicked off its summit in Sydney, Australia, with a call to current OpenStack users to help it to win more users by sharing code they've written to link OpenStack to other tools and infrastructure.…

Vulture South wraps the week's news of Australia's National Broadband Network NBN WEEK Welcome to NBN Week, Reg Australia's new weekly roundup of the endless news of the nation's National Broadband Network.…

And Microsoft dude installs Chrome during Azure talk Happy weekend, everyone, except those of you on call, of course. Let us catch you up on all the IT security bits and pieces besides what's been reported this week.…

And Marvell and Cavium also hopping into bed, allegedly Broadcom is channeling Dr Evil of Austin Powers fame, and considering blowing more than $100bn to buy Qualcomm, it was claimed on Friday.…

In America, at least No, funnily enough, US tech monster Google doesn't have to obey a Canadian court order in America, a judge in the ad giant's home turf of California ruled this week.…

Rap for whack WhatsApp chat app chaps in ad crap flap Once again Google's Play Store has proved less than excellent at tackling malicious apps, after netizens found a fake version of WhatsApp that was good enough to fool over a million people into downloading it.…

Nothing to see here, move along. Go back to your homes Senior Equifax executives sold their shares in the credit agency just before its stock price plunged when the world was told it had been thoroughly hacked.…

FeatureHub could help arduous process of feature engineering Boffins at MIT have proposed a GitHub-style collaborative platform to speed up one of the first, most challenging stages of data analysis.…

Chinese fantasy star fell for fake A Swiss Hotel bar has apologised to a Chinese fantasy novelist who paid $10,000 (£7,649) for a shot of rare whisky – only to discover the single malt was a fake.…

More say it's a bad idea than a good idea As Apple bloggers anxiously try to be positive about Apple's Face ID, a poll suggests potential customers may actually be repelled by the face-scanning technology.…

Update or fin for the Finnic people's cards The Estonian government is suspending the use of the Baltic country’s identity smartcards in response to a recently discovered and wide-ranging security flaw.…