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Big Red issues out-of-band patch for Apache and a few other urgent issues Oracle has stepped outside its usual quarterly security fix cycle to address the latest Apache Struts 2 vulnerability.…

Ad giant has an 'Identity Vision' and now sees it more clearly Google's acquired cloudy single-sign-on outfit Bitium for the usual undisclosed sum.…

Clinton calls hypocrisy but somewhat misses the point The US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has sent a letter [PDF] to White House lawyers demanding details of how many of its staffers have been using private email for government business.…

President Trump can now trigger nuclear Armageddon in half the time Twitter is preparing to double its 140-character limit on tweets to 280 characters.…

Feared patent bomb defused, for the time being Facebook on Tuesday freed its React JavaScript library and its GraphQL query language from its unloved license scheme.…

Landmark build promises to be faster, slimmer, better at multi-threading Mozilla has pushed its much-hyped "Firefox Quantum" browser build into public beta.…

Dead or alive, preferably dead, you're coming with me In its ongoing quest to trap and kill Android malware, Google has, as usual, turned to machine learning – and is reporting some success.…

Could 'significantly impair cross-border transfers of information' The United States government is attempting to limit extraordinary online censorship efforts by China, complaining to the World Trade Organization that such measures will damage global trade.…

Aviation chums want personal flying device that can be flown by 'anyone, anywhere' Boeing and its pals today offered a whopping $2m (£1.49m) in prizes to anyone who can design and build a working “personal flying device."…

Yes, that's Gartner’s security consultancy of the year Monday’s news that multinational consultancy Deloitte had been hacked was dismissed by the firm as a small incident.…

Group demands compensation after scandal after scandal burns '$18bn' in investment Uber's wild ride-sharing past has returned to haunt the biz in the form of yet another lawsuit in the US.…

Next release promises nice offline features, Matlock before bedtime Microsoft has shed light on next year's preview of Office 2019, talking up the new productivity suite as a boon for those who may prefer to work outside of the cloud.…

Dedupe and hot-swap drives with monitored telemetry and predictive analytics X-IO has moved on from its ISE sealed array of disk drives to a 60-slot, hot-swap deduping all-flash array with monitored telemetry and predictive analytics.…

Sir. Have you no, er, shame? Microsoft founder Bill Gates has admitted to switching to an Android phone but he still won't entertain using the Jesus Mobe iPhone.…

Collaboration with NTT Comm creates data centre safe space Dell and cloud managed services provider NTT Communications have launched a specialised server that lets IT departments test apps for Microsoft's Azure Stack.…

Well, what else could he do? Equifax's chairman and chief exec today resigned, weeks after the consumer credit reporting agency admitted a massive security breach.…

Don’t think that just because you’re not a behemoth, they won’t see you The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25 2018, enforcing a strict set of new rules concerning privacy and data security and imposing strict penalties on violators. Enterprises are having a tough enough time coping with it. How will small businesses with fewer in-house IT and legal resources fare?…

Not today, and not soon Analysis Apple releases a systems nerd nirvana today, a new OS that’s packed with more profound and interesting under-the-hood technology features than Apple has released for years. But should you rush out and upgrade to macOS 10.13 High Sierra?…

Parallelising IO is like punching hyperspace button DataCore has crafted a driver for SQL Server that runs IO requests simultaneously and increases throughput.…

Ofcom would have done this itself but didn't have the power Security minister Ben Wallace has signed a direction banning commercial multi-user phone gateways in the UK over terrorism fears – barely a week after the only ever prosecution for operating one flopped following years of Kafkaesque wrangling.…

Did someone just nick your shares? Mobile stock trading apps are riddled with security bugs.…

Guess triggering World War 3 is also 'of public interest' Twitter has defended its position of potentially providing a platform for triggering World War 3, describing President Donald Trump's infamous North Korea tweet as "newsworthy".…

Just 25 conference tickets left for MCubed There are just 25 tickets left for MCubed, our machine learning, AI and analytics conference, so if you want to spend two days learning how those technologies could change your business, you need to secure your ticket now.…

Analytics biz eyes up fraud and IoT markets Analytics firm Splunk is making machine learning central to the next generation of its enterprise solution, and claims it performs 20 times faster than before.…

Openreach stuck on upgrading legacy copper-based network The UK has been ranked the third-worst country in Europe for fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) coverage, according to a comprehensive study of speeds from 28 countries across the continent.…

If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it it on a ring Apart from actually performing computations, one of the most difficult quantum computing challenges is getting qubits to scale.…

Expect multi-OS gear next year HP, the only phone vendor with a serious commitment to Windows 10 mobile, has refuted reports that it will kill off its HP Elite x3 enterprise phone this autumn.…

Cupertino dithers over part in purchase, WDC rubs its hands Apple has not agreed terms for participating in the Bain Capital-led consortium to buy Toshiba's flash chip business, holding up the deal.…

No, the data isn't centralised... What do you mean confusing? Enterprise giant SAP is taking on silos with its latest offering that aims to centralise data processing and governance - but not storage.…

Looking to the AI future JavaScript has become the interface to the web thanks to browsers, it's leaked onto servers with Node.js, and is now carving out a small niche in Machine Learning – but JavaScript just wouldn’t be without ECMAScript.…

So it can drive rivals out of business, but what do they offer that's different? Comment Within minutes of Uber losing its licence to operate in London, Uber became a totemic icon of innovation and free enterprise market capitalism that was being crushed by vested interests in cahoots with bureaucrats. Boo to the corrupt, killjoy socialists! Hurrah for innovation! Sign the petition!…

Apple fans will be disappointed by its inability to sync iTunes files Review After El Reg covered the My Cloud Home file server announcement in August, WDC kindly sent me a Duo unit to try out in my home office. What I received was a superbly engineered unit that was much better integrated with my Mac OS/iPhone environment than I thought it would be, but also exposed the limitations imposed by iTunes on a central music store.…

Computer vision, deep learning, and the camera in your phone A year after it open sourced its PaddlePaddle deep learning suite, Baidu has dropped another piece of AI tech into the public domain – a project to put AI on smartphones.…

But they need a marketplace and the cloud to make it happen The pell-mell rush to get everything connected and intelligent has led us into some dark corners. Robot vacuum cleaners that map your home - in order to faithfully fulfil your wishes for a clean residence - then sell your data to the highest bidder. Dolls that listen to a child, and share a bit too widely. That sort of thing.…

Equipment still taking too long to patch, leaving systems exposed DerbyCon Electronic medical equipment is supposed to help humans save lives, but their lamentable security could result in considerable death, we were warned over the weekend.…

WebKit project's call for folk to slide into Apple's little slot sparks derision WebKit, the open source project behind the rendering engine that powers Apple's Safari browser on macOS and iOS, has urged web designers to embrace "the notch," though not everyone is happy about doing so.…

In @realdonaldtrump's America, you'll be Googled at the border The United States Department of Homeland Security will soon add “social media handles” and plenty more information to immigration records.…

2026, when a change of heart will mean a pretty bad day The next form of biometric identification may be a heart scan.…

ETSI and OpenFog agree not to disagree, or overlap Telcos looking at “fog computing” will have fewer standards to contemplate if a cooperation between the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the OpenFog Consortium delivers on its promise.…

Black Hat Europe to reveal more trouble for Chipzilla's leaky Management Engine Security researchers say they've found a way to exploit Intel's accident-prone Management Engine, and will reveal the problem at Black Hat Europe in December.…

4.14 rc2 tarball trapped the unwary with missed patch Linus Torvalds is not noted as having the most even of tempers, but after a weekend spent scuba diving a glitch in the latest Linux kernel release candidate saw the Linux overlord merely label the mess "nasty".…

And a Wi-Fi hub and an Ethernet switch and the kitchen sink In a small-biz blitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced three servers, three MSA storage arrays, a new hyper-converged system, a Wi-Fi hub, and an Ethernet switch.…

Safari, Spotlight to be powered by the Chocolate Factory Apple will drop Microsoft's Bing as the default web search provider for its iOS and macOS gear.…

Phone-controlling Levi's soft-wear for, presumably, non-sweaty nerds Blue pants maker Levi's plans to begin selling its first cloth-ware with Google inside on Wednesday – and the tech should survive up to 10 washes.…

Windows giant touts magic to distract from its legacy tech battle Ignite At the Microsoft Ignite conference today, the expert panel on stage burst into laughter. “This box right over here behind us – nothing! That’s a quantum joke, that’s an excellent joke,” said Microsoft Technical Fellow Michael Freedman as the curtain failed to open to reveal it.…

Rabbani found guilty, vows to appeal after resisting demand for iPhone, laptop passcodes Muhammad Rabbani, international director of human-rights non-profit CAGE, was today convicted under UK anti-terror law for refusing to unlock his iPhone and laptop for police when entering the country.…

Who placed the JavaScript code on two primetime dot-coms? So far, it's a mystery The websites of US telly giant CBS's Showtime contained JavaScript that secretly commandeered viewers' web browsers over the weekend to mine cryptocurrency.…

But don't fret, 10nm Cannonlake's still on track for late-2017 arrival, allegedly Intel has unveiled a new line of Coffee Lake 8th gen Core processors, this time aiming for the gaming and creative crowds.…

Hard time ahead for disgraced sexting politician Anthony Disgraced American politician Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months behind bars – and three years of probation – for sexting an underage girl.…

Shove this tool into your PC if it's getting stuck during startup After enduring roughly two weeks of complaints, HP Inc has today produced a fix for folks struggling with blank screens on their computers.…