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Uh, er, hey look, VS 2017 fans – there's some AI tools, though! Microsoft and GitHub on Wednesday announced real-time collaboration in their respective code editors, almost as if they'd been collaborating.…

Stopping the powerful changing history, Orwell style At the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, technologists, educators, archivists, and others fact-oriented folks gathered to discuss how they and the like-minded can save news from the memory hole – a conceit conjured by George Orwell to describe a political mechanism for altering the truth.…

Size does matter... especially when you've got launch deadlines to hit Intel and Micron have expanded their XPoint production fab in Utah, USA, as the clock ticks down to the launch of XPoint DIMMs in the second half of 2018.…

This week in fact Earlier this week, the official Facebook and Twitter accounts of the Russian Ministry of Defense said it had "irrefutable evidence" the US was aiding ISIS in Syria – and revealed four grainy photos apparently backing up its claims.…

Microsoft classified as a telco, so told to cough up. It may gaufre an appeal Skype has failed in its appeal against a 2016 fine in Belgium for failing to help authorities tap calls in a criminal investigation, with the court saying it must comply with the country's telecommunications laws.…

Chips to the rescue Sponsored One of the greatest barriers to broader cloud adoption is security.…

Boffins find smartmobe accelerometers can turn your gait into a biometric A trio of Indian boffins have studied the use of smartphone accelerometers as biometric sensors and concluded they could be a handy way to identify users.…

And this time it's caught up by adding data de-duplication Microsoft's revealed that Storage Spaces Direct will return in the next semi-annual version of Windows Server.…

Sensor in pill, bluetooth patch on arm, app in phone ... and crossed fingers nothing leaks What could possibly go wrong when drug companies embed into a pill, so that after you swallow it connects to a smartphone app and then sends data over the internet?…

Sales down, orders up, hopes pinned on intent-based networking (A.K.A. a dash of AI) Cisco suffered a decline in revenue for Q1 2018, weighed down by ongoing weakness in its switch and router business.…

Meetings cancelled as conferencing tool goes dark following weekend maintence Customers of online web conference meeting service Adobe Connect have been unable or have struggled to access the collaboration tool for several days.…

But it's still better than nothing Analysis The United States government has published its new policy for publicly disclosing vulnerabilities and security holes.…

Fallchill file-stealing malware raids American networks The FBI and US Homeland Security have issued an alert about a new strain of malware infecting American corporate systems and stealing sensitive data.…

What's Russian for "section 702 s***show"? Analysis The reauthorization of a controversial US government spying program has made further progress with the Senate's intelligence committee putting forward its recommendations to the whole Senate.…

Remote desktop dev claims Cupertino froze them out A patent lawsuit alleging that Apple froze out a third-party software developer has been given credence by America's International Trade Commission (USITC), which will investigate the complaint.…

Certs revoked, but where are the updates? The impact of a recently discovered cryptographic vulnerability involving smartcards is causing issues in Spain similar to those previously experienced in Estonia.…

The BlueBorne ultimatum Updated Amazon and Google have automatically patched people's Echo and Home AI assistant devices, respectively, to defend against recently discovered Bluetooth-related security vulnerabilities.…

We're running out of backcronyms for TITSUP* Customers of Lloyds Banking Group banks and TSB have been shut out of their online banking this afternoon.…

In 71,000 years, it'll be closer than disappointing dustball Proxima Centauri b A new study to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics has detected what could be our closest exoplanet that is not only rocky, but also orbits a star with a low amount of solar activity that could help an atmosphere survive – Ross 128 b.…

Shh, ignore senior Brit officers saying armed forces on brink of collapse As recently retired senior officers told UK Parliament that the armed forces are at risk of "institutional failure", the Ministry of Defence told the world's press that soldiers are playing with Xbox controllers.…

Employees worried it's a loop-your-own-noose initiative DXC Technologies employees fear a company request to profile their skills on a new management portal will be used by top brass to elbow them out of the door in the next round of compulsory redundancies.…

If that were the case, you might actually Do Us Proud Two Plusnet adverts selling business broadband have been ruled "misleading" by the UK Advertising Standards Agency.…

Beefier grunts from Chipzilla's latest and greatest The HPC server gruntbox space is flourishing, with suppliers pumping out Broadwell-to-Skylake updates one after the other, Huawei being the latest.…

We swapped out Lord Jesus for meat in sweet bread Budget pastry purveyor Greggs has been forced to apologise after substituting a sausage roll for Baby Jesus in its limited-edition advent calendar.…

57: Mozilla's big bid for relevance Interview The Mozilla Foundation has officially launched a radical rewrite of its browser, a major cross-platform effort to regain relevance in a world that seems to have forgotten Firefox. The much-rewritten browser claims to be 30 per cent faster with half the memory load, although this comes at the cost of compatibility, as Scott Gilbertson found here.…

Could be a ground drone ... or a music maestro Chinese drone firm DJI has trademarked the term "DJI Terra", spurring speculation that the unmanned aerial vehicle firm might be expanding into land-based products.…

Who wants to buy a phone biz? Beleaguered ISP TalkTalk's half-year results have plunged into the red, reporting pre-tax losses of £75m due to major restructuring costs.…

24-hour extravaganza ... live ops streamed SFW The Reg readership might be interested to know that the coming Friday does not just signal the end of the working week and time to cut loose, it is also World Vasectomy Day.…

Entanglement in the EMEA geo Analysis More details have emerged about the Fujitsu NetApp NFLEX converged system and about Fujitsu's HCI strategy, which might preclude it selling the NetApp HCI.…

Maybe Zuck and Musk do have it all figured out, but powers that be will need to see some proof The idea of a universal basic income (UBI) unites a strange mix of people. “We should explore ideas like universal basic income to give everyone a cushion to try new things,” Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said in a speech at Harvard University in May. “And yes, giving everyone the freedom to pursue purpose isn’t free. People like me should pay for it,” he added.…

'Splunk App for Build Analytics' is in closed beta, but if you ask nicely ... Exclusive Splunk has developed a prototype product to measure productivity in DevOps teams.…

Managers told staff to report 40 hour weeks even if they worked more, lawsuit claims Oracle was sued on Tuesday by a former sales rep for allegedly failing to pay overtime wages, in violation of America's federal Fair Labor Standards Act and Texas state law.…

Assistant and Home can now save you shouting at the kids when dinner's ready Vision of a connected speaker in every room to save shouting at the kids when dinner hits the table Google has taken on the might of the intercom industry with a device that makes shouting at your kids to get them to come to the dinner table redundant – for perhaps a couple of hundred dollars.…

Secretive Sandia Labs, US military seeks a few good guinea pigs for hack contest The US Department of Defense is funding research into how hackers hack, with an interesting twist. It wants to wire them up with body monitoring equipment to measure how they react while hunting down and exploiting security flaws.…

Thanks for coming, TensorFlow Mobile, TensorFlow Lite is what the cool kids will code with now Google's released an Android/iOS version of TensorFlow.…

ETSI goes MANO et MANO et MANO for better NFV The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has published the third release of OSM, its open source management and orchestration (MANO) stack for network function virtualisation.…

Astroboffins prepare for cosmic data deluge starting in February 2018 A sky survey destined to add yet another firehose of data to astronomy saw first light in early November.…

They'd say more but Eugene K's loading the sueball-flinger Only 15 per cent of US federal agencies still have Kaspersky Lab software anywhere on their networks.…

As Homeland Security hacks 757 on the tarmac At least some commercial aircraft are vulnerable to wireless hacking, a US Department of Homeland Security official has admitted.…

From the same people who turned Yahoo! into Oath, the end of an era CompuServe has announced it will remove its forums on December 15th, 2017.…

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.…