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Friendly near-monopoly wants to work with industry, honest Openreach has launched a consultation seeking input from industry to create "full fibre" broadband in Blighty - part of its new cuddly, collaborative approach post legal separation from BT.…

So says Gartner, which reckons marketers have brainwashed themselves and us with AI hype Many enterprise software vendors “are focused on the goal of simply building and marketing an AI-based product rather than identifying use cases and the business value to customers.”…

So says Gartner, which reckons marketers have brainwashed themselves and us with AI hype Many enterprise software vendors “are focused on the goal of simply building and marketing an AI-based product rather than identifying use cases and the business value to customers.”…

Modeling biz owner alleges harassment, retaliation in tech's latest embarrassing lawsuit Microsoft and Jonathan Plumb, program manager at Microsoft Studios, have been sued by Jennifer Kelly, founder of Seattle modeling agency Genesis Industries.…

Add 'rent-a-cop' to the 'jobs safe from AI' list … for now A security robot tasked with patrolling an office building in Washington DC has instead driven itself into a water feature.…

He's got a box called Sentinel to do the job, but in April he said it was 'vulnerable' Having tilted at the US presidency without success, John McAfee has picked his last next big windmill: Google.…

Sure, Goddard boffins could just analyse the signals, but why not listen to them too? NASA boffins in charge of the agency's Van Allen Belt mission have recorded audio-frequency noise made by energetic electrons emitting what's known as “whistler waves”.…

S3 bucket was set to authenticate all AWS users, not just Dow Jones users Dow Jones has emulated Verizon by saving various internal databases (including Wall Street Journal subscribers) in the cloud without properly securing it.…

SAP teaching factory equipment to pre-analyse for tiny-but-costly faults, call cloud for help Artificial intelligence, the internet of things and edge computing are 2017's inescapable buzzwords, cloud probably has that role for the entire decade. So imagine The Register's surprise when we learned all three are working together in a product you can put to work today.…

114 servers, 3,192 Xeon cores and another million-plus from GPUs, for petaflop performance Dell has won the gig to build a Australia's newest supercomputer.…

Meanwhile, Musk's comments crash carmaker's stock On Saturday evening, a Tesla Model S skidded off the road in central Minnesota, in America's Midwest, and ended up on its roof in a marsh.…

Bug fixes shipped for all supported versions The folks over at FreeRADIUS took a look at Guido Vranken's work with OpenSSL, liked what they saw, asked him to fuzz the famous login/security server ... and then didn't like what they saw.…

Meanwhile the TSA found 78 guns at US airports last week, 32 with a round chambered The United States' ban on laptops being carried into airliner cabins is all-but-over, after the nation's Transport Security Administration reduced its list of dodgy airports to just one and signalled that destination awaits inspection before also disappearing from its list.…

Families urged to brush up on opsec, check for privacy leaks, patch security flaws, if possible The FBI issued a warning Monday advising parents to carefully check internet-connected toys for possible privacy and security concerns.…

Mayak bird so bright it may outshine Venus, Jupiter Skywatchers are going to see a new light in the heavens this week after the successful launch of the Russian satellite Mayak this past weekend.…

'Brandis.io' secures messages with APIs and 445 lines of JavaScript, so good luck with crypto-cracking laws! +Comment An Australian computer scientist working in Thailand has offered his contribution to Australia's cryptography debate by creating a public-key crypto demonstrator in less than a day, using public APIs and JavaScript.…

Anti-patent-lawsuit restrictions land tools on banned list The Apache Foundation has declared that none of its new software projects can include Facebook's booby-trapped BSD-licensed code.…

Lengthy filing by Internet Association highlights value of today's rules The world's largest internet companies lambasted the FCC in a formal filing today, telling America's telecom regulator to kill its plans to ditch net neutrality rules.…

Elon Musk again demands govt intervention to halt crazed computers Analysis Elon Musk – the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, not to mention co-chairman of OpenAI and founder of The Boring Company – is once again warning that artificial intelligence threatens humanity.…

Is there nowhere corps won't try and sell you stuff? HTC, which needs all the love it can get these days, has enraged its customers by bunging adverts into the onscreen keyboard on its phones.…

Here are some pictures. And, er, that's all we've got for you Atari has continued its teaser-trailer approach to what is purported to be a retro version of its classic games console.…

Make sure you've updated if you're using Windows Cisco has patched its Chrome and Firefox WebEx plugins to kill a bug that allows evil webpages to execute commands on computers.…

Blast from the past blasted Myspace's account recovery process is hopelessly flawed, according to a security researcher.…

Brit biz told to pay £80k for messages advertising Satsuma Loans Bradford-based loans company Provident Personal Credit has been fined £80,000 for squeezing out almost a million nuisance texts.…

But judge narrows scope of US Labor Dept request Google has been ordered to hand over personal details of 8,000 employees as part of an ongoing US Labor Department investigation into equal pay.…

Don't be waving those flash joint venture interests at anyone without telling us first A California court has told Toshiba not to transfer its flash memory joint venture interests to anyone else without advance notice to WDC subsidiary SanDisk, so that the issue is preserved for arbitration.…

Thirteen? Thirteen? The Doctor Who fans will see you now The timelord of Doctor Who, a man since 1963, will be portrayed by a woman – actress Jodie Whittaker – for the first time.…

EMEA boss called it a day, says CEO, amid 'changes' to Euro beachhead Kaminario has left UK sales in the hands of an sales engineer and a chief technology officer following the redundancy of more than half of the local staff, a number of sources have told The Register.…

Secure shelter under expanded cryptographic umbrella IBM has launched its latest, newest, biggest, baddest mainframe, the z14 system.…

Local cops issue ticket afterwards Jesus has miraculously survived a great weight from the heavens that should have crushed him to death, according to Florida TV.…

UK peers want ICO to ensure info cannot be misused The proposed £11.7bn takeover of Sky by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox is a "grave threat" to the democratic process, members of the UK's House of Lords have claimed.…

Good old Capita keeps Auntie's purse overflowing Nearly three-quarters of TV Licensing criminal convictions last year were secured against women, according to data gathered by an anti-Telly Tax campaigner.…

Another lonely day, with no one but FB, oh... I'll send an SMS to the world Facebook account recovery using pre-registered mobile numbers is poorly implemented and open to abuse, according to critic James Martindale.…

Smut regulator also to be set up The government is poised to usher in mandatory porn checks this week, with reports it will require users to provide details from a credit card to prove they are over 18.…

When owning tin is a cheap(er) alternative to expensive cloud Machine Learning is becoming the only real available method to perform many modern computational tasks in near real time. Machine Vision, speech recognition and natural language processing have all proved difficult to crack with out ML techniques.…

Home Office happy as Larry Analysis Oracle recently launched its dedicated Government Cloud in the UK - duly wheeling out the Home Office as an example of an early adopter. But to what extent are its new services just vendor lock-in under a cloudwash veneer or a change for the better?…

Deep learning with Dr Tony Robinson Profile One of the pioneers of making what's called "machine learning" work in the real world is on the comeback trail.…

Unclear if code was first mistaken for avant garde instrumental Rock deities Radiohead have snuck a program for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum into a re-release if their seminal 1997 album “OK Computer”.…

Database more adept at replication, memory control Redis, the moderately popular in-memory open-source database has just hit its 4.0.0 milestone, to the delight of some.…

It's 2017 and attachments with "..." in their names caused crashes Microsoft has withdrawn at least three of the patches released at the end of June and early July, but left it to users to find out for themselves.…

Investigation launched into allegations of kickbacks-for-contracts SAP has installed an acting managing director and acting chief financial officer at its scandal-hit South Africa subsidiary.…

Infected sterile males will help kill off the population Google’s healthcare arm Verily announced just before the weekend it will release twenty million sterile male mosquitoes into the wild, in Fresno County, California.…

Life is short, have a quick buck Dating site for cheaters Ashley Madison has thrown US$11.2 million on the bed to make its 2015 data leak go away.…

He's definitely set Linux 4.13 ball rolling, with Intel Canonlake support and scaled-up Xen VMs Linux 4.13 is under way. Linus Torvalds pulled one of his semi-surprises by announcing release candidate one on Saturday, rather than issuing his usual Sunday evening missive.…

'Have to admit, it's getting better' ... no, actually, it's not It's Monday, and infosec-watchers are showing their age by calling internet of things security disclosures “a broken record”. This time, it's a home security system that's remotely p0wnable.…

New software-defined and containerised toys, ahead of September's first full release Microsoft's revealed the first fruits of its plan to deliver twice-yearly updates to Windows Server by revealing the first-ever Insider build of the OS.…

Aerospace firm says there's no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway Aerospace company Orbital ATK has failed in a legal bid to halt a DARPA contract for robotic satellite maintenance devices and will instead see if the White House can help it to bring the work to the private sector.…

Five vendors help virtualise access network functions Verizon is ramping up its multi-gigabit optical broadband work with interop tests for its implementation of the OpenOMCI specification.…

15 per cent of potential attendees don't fancy trying to make it to San Francisco The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken the rare (and possibly costly) decision to relocate an upcoming meeting out of America.…

High-Mach number, magnetized collisionless shocks reproduced Scientists have managed to create powerful supersonic shock waves – comparable to those generated in space – under laboratory conditions.…