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Look Microsoft, we'll stop these headlines when your stuff stops getting pwned While much of the tech world is still fixating on Apple's $1,000 face-reading iPhone, administrators are going to be busy testing and deploying this month's Patch Tuesday load.…

To be fair, it's a hard hack to pull off Microsoft has downplayed the risks of running a Linux Bash shell command line on Windows 10 via its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) feature after security researchers said the technology could help hackers smuggle malware past security scanners and onto Windows 10 machines.…

All just part of a broader strategy Mobile World Congress The head of America's telecom watchdog the FCC, Ajit Pai, didn't mention net neutrality by name once during his keynote at the Mobile World Congress in San Francisco.…

Baffling spec sinks security for short-range comms protocol Security experts have long complained that complexity is the enemy of security, but the designers of the Bluetooth specification have evidently failed to pay attention.…

Steve Jobs Theater fittingly opens with cult-like showcasing of overpriced gear Apple has summoned friendly press to its new Cupertino campus to christen the Steve Jobs Theater with the introduction of a new set of products to hit the shelves this Fall.…

'Basically, everything was pwned, from the Lan to the Wan' A security researcher has shamed D‑Link by publicly disclosing 10 serious, as-yet unpatched vulnerabilities in a line of consumer-grade routers without notifying the vendor first.…

But holds out hope that self-driving cars, smart homes and VR can change that Mobile World Congress It may not be happy about it, but the mobile industry has begrudgingly accepted that tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook are driving its industry.…

Wall of silence remains, albeit with a couple of holes An American judge has denied Google’s self-driving car offshoot Waymo access to details of how Uber hunted for allegedly stolen documents handed to it by former Waymo employee Anthony Levandowski.…

We're looking at you, accounting* Azure Microsofties have crossed their fingers - and everything else - that Redmond's new VM family will hit the sweet spot for customers with sporadic cloud computing jobs.…

But HPE, IBM, Cisco and Dell weren't the major beneficiaries... Chinese ODMs were In the server sales growth stakes the big Chinese brands appear to be winning the war against their US rivals, at least if Gartner’s latest stats covering calendar Q2 are to be believed.…

Cambridge-based biz facing £45k fine for 700,000 marketing mailers The company behind a taxi comparison app that sent more than 700,000 spam texts in the space of 10 days is facing a £45,000 by the UK's data protection watchdog.…

That would be you, by the way Reg Event We will be taking a long hard look at AI, ML and data analytics at MCubed next month, but there’s one other element we’ll be keeping in mind throughout: humans.…

Based in Romania? You are safe Exclusive Oracle is cutting costs by shifting pan-European hardware support to Romania in a move that could see hundreds of existing staff made redundant, multiple insiders have told The Register.…

Ivo Rook heads to US telco, picks up Softbank advisory role Vodafone’s Internet of Things boss Ivo Rook has moved to US telco Sprint, against the background of Voda’s well-publicised slowness to get its commercial IoT networks up and running.…

Wall St buys into startup's cloud storage gateway story +Comment Cloud storage gateway business Nasuni has picked up $38m in extra funding to boost research and development, customer success, and go-to-market efforts, taking the total raised to around $120m.…

We've got a little listicle... of missing, must-have features Apple's new iPhone will be packed with new features you didn't know you needed. It almost certainly won't be getting features it absolutely does need. We made a list of what Apple needs to do, but won't.…

Tosh and WDC still talking, say others... is the end is in sight? +Comment Japan’s Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun newspaper says a WDC bid group has won the Toshiba Memory Business auction.…

Learn from 'Bob'. RUN! As fast as your £$% legs will take you Sure, the future is cloud. But it’s not that simple. The days where you could "just swipe a credit card and go" never existed – not at enterprise scale. Legacy applications and data need to be lifted and shifted, new services instantiated, virtual infrastructures architected, networks bolstered, and security scrutinised, adapted and reinforced for the new way of working.…

Veep tells us he wants 'very trustful relationship' with customers “It’s all about how to make the car safer and safer,” German engineering firm Bosch told The Register last week as it exhibited its driverless technologies in London.…

Invests in reborn PDA under the Gemini project Psion founder David Potter has joined the company behind the Gemini project to re-create the classic Psion PDA.…

Also be curious and constructive by working on Linux instead of breaking it Linux Lord Linus Torvalds has offered some lifestyle advice for hackers, suggesting they adopt his admittedly-unglamorous lifestyle but also his ethos of working on things that matter.…

It's all gone potato-shaped for some galaxies already A team led by Sydney University's Dr Caroline Foster has created three-dimensional images of 845 galaxies, claiming it is the biggest collection of of 3D galactic representations ever gathered.…

Microsegmentation for microservices, plus automated key management for all those tiny, transient networks VMware's released a new version of NSX-T, the version of its NSX network virtualization tool that runs in multiple environments.…

From Excel.Application to remote code execution. Lovely A white-hat has taken a good look at whether you can pivot an attack from one machine to others using Microsoft Excel, and you probably won't like what he found.…

PETA and photog agree that 'Legal rights for nonhuman animals' remain unresolved The curious case of the monkey that took a selfie and was denied copyright for its efforts has come to an end, with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and photographer David Slater agreeing on a future stream of royalty payments to simian charities.…

Schlepping planets about is so old, teamwork is the new religion LOGOWATCH DevOps darling Atlassian has given the world a new logo it says could be “two people high-fiving” or “a mountain ready for teams to scale” or perhaps even “the letter A formed from two pillars reinforcing each other.”…

It's also bought a random number generator for PINs Equifax has decided it will no longer try and impose arbitration on any of the millions of Americans who try to find out if they've been stung in its massive data leak.…

WARN notice lists 1,008 layoffs in total Oracle has filed a notice under California's Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) regulations that reveals it has recently made 1,008 permanent layoffs in its Santa Clara and San Diego facilities.…

This is how trust ends, not with a bang but with a whimper Google has detailed its plan to deprecate Symantec-issued certificates in Chrome.…

Research just isn't as effective as it used to be Innovation, fetishized by Silicon Valley companies and celebrated by business boosters, no longer provides the economic jolt it once did.…

Insider build aims to address glitch spotted by gamers Microsoft says it is working to address a bug that had caused some Windows 10 applications to experience momentary "stuttering" performance problems.…

Metadata platform combined with data definition Analysis Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha says there are two ways of looking at backup and recovery: loosely they are hardware or storage-centric and software-centric.…

So, does my stellar nursery look big in this? The rate of star formation might play a bigger role in affecting a galaxy's shape than previously thought, according to a recent study.…

Lots of bennies, but can be time-consuming It's no secret that switching to containers is difficult. According to some IT pros contacted by containerization tech firm Cloud Foundry [PDF], it's so difficult that their adoption is still dragging in the enterprise sector.…

Regulators harshing the buzz California says its impending legalization of recreational marijuana will not include skies full of herb-toting drone delivery bots.…

Embarrassing law enforcement comes at a heavy price A member of the short-lived Crackas With Attitude hacking troupe has received five years in prison, despite the fact that he hadn't actually hacked any accounts himself and had accepted a plea deal.…

Then by September 16 those a few extra miles will go Over the weekend Tesla began pushing a software update to certain Model S and Model X vehicles to increase battery capacity, in the hope that extended vehicle range might help customers fleeing Hurricane Irma and successive storms in Florida.…

Yes, yes, privacy failings Facebook has been fined €1.2m ($1.43m) by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) for violating privacy laws.…

Object storage founders unveil virtualised filer front end Esoptra has invented a thin content provisioned virtualized filer sitting in front of object storage.…

Ministers fed up with multinational's tax avoidance Fed up with how Amazon, Google and other American digital giants pay tiny amounts in tax, European ministers are proposing a big change: tax based on revenues rather than profits.…

FireWatch creator sees red A prominent indie games developer says he will be filing Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices to forcibly cut ties with a controversial games streamer.…

Financial details undisclosed, but it's big, ya hear, says Rackspace Private equity-backed Rackspace is planning to use some of its owner’s cash to hoover up managed services, hosting and colo outfit Datapipe.…

Now credit freezes may not even be secure FireEye removed an Equifax case study from its website in response to a recently disclosed mega-breach at the credit reference agency.…

GPU-accelerated for AI and video analytics, Atlas cloud Huawei has added two G-series boxen with GPU acceleration to its server portfolio, with a focus on AI-type work and video analytics, saying they are going to be used to build a cloud hardware platform.…

Current boss leaves this weekend, no perm replacement yet found Months after Capita commenced its search for a successor to outgoing chief exec Andy Parker, the company has yet to find anyone judged evil enough well suited to fill his boots - at least not one it can make public.…

Dartford-based True Telecom fined £85,000 A Dartford-based telco has been handed an £85,000 fine for two years’ of nuisance and "misleading" calls - despite a warning from the UK’s data protection watchdog.…

But has less than three weeks to comply with Brussels Alphabet will appeal the €2.9bn fine imposed by the European Commission in June for abusing its market dominance in search.…

Still the most secure Android? It won't get last year's update BlackBerry has confirmed that its first Android device, the Priv, will be stuck on Google's 2015 operating system forevermore, which Google itself will cease supporting next year.…

30,000 users, 2-year contract. What could go wrong? Nail-biting time The Home Office has tossed a paltry £20m of taxpayers' cash at Accenture and Oracle implementation outfit Certus Solutions to deploy a cloudy ERP system that hopefully works overhauls the way back-office services are provided.…

Speculation mounts as Equifax stays mum The impact of the Equifax breach in the UK remains unclear days after the disclosure of a breach that could potentially affect up to 44 million British consumers.…