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Pinkslipbot malware copies Conficker for C&C channel Another banking malware variant has been spotted in the wild, and it's using UPnP to pop home routers to expose unsuspecting home users, recruited as part of the botnet.…

Routers should know their place One of the most persistent bugs in Internet infrastructure, route leaks in the border gateway protocol (BGP), is in the sights of a group of 'net boffins and their with a new Internet-Draft.…

AI isn't good enough for the job, so more mods and Google ads will get into the grey areas Google's revealed its plans to remove terror-related content from YouTube and decided the investment community should hear about it before the rest of us.…

'Kernel address randomised link' masks memory locations OpenBSD has a new security feature designed to harden it against kernel-level buffer overruns, the "KARL" (kernel address randomised link).…

Less trackiung, more consent, and stronger encryption says privacy committee A committee of the European Parliament is pushing back against the anti-encryption sentiment infesting governments around the world, with a report saying citizens need more protection, not less.…

'Stretch' debuts, with MariaDB replacing MySQL Debian 9, “Stretch”, has been released, and dedicated to the distribution's co-founder Ian Murdock.…

Whole Foods, which Amazon chomped for $13.7bn, is a cloudy Active Directory user Amazon.com's purchase of US grocery retailer Whole Foods has made it a user of Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

Competition regulator wants you to help tag slack ISPs Having beaten off opposition from carriers and ISPs, Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission has kicked off its broadband speed monitoring program.…

But will what looks like a mad scramble result in anything? Atari confirmed on Friday that the reborn biz will indeed produce its own games console, understood to be built out of PC tech.…

Yep, King Battistelli wants to award himself more power Another raft of reforms at the troubled European Patent Office has come to light and, yet again, the main purpose appears to be to enhance the power of EPO president Benoit Battistelli.…

So where is our Sol's sibling? Nearly all stars, including our Sun, are born from hot, dense molecular clouds and come in pairs, according to a paper to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.…

End-to-end encrypted, verifiable voting already in action Election hacking is much in the news of late and there are fears that the Russians/rogue lefties/Bavarian illuminati et al are capable of falsifying results.…

There, some spare change under the couch will solve this Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the ads broker of failing to pay overtime to contract workers.…

♪ Tech biz fought the spying law and the spying law won A mystery technology biz tried to fight off demands from the US government that it hand over people's communications flowing through its systems.…

King of the (autonomous) Hill Texas will, from later this year, allow the entire Lone Star State to become a test bed for cars that can drive themselves with or without a human behind the wheel.…

C'mon, what were they expecting? Privacy? On Facebook? Facebook last year introduced a bug in its content moderation software that exposed the identities of workers who police content on the social network to those being policed, raising the possibility of retribution.…

What could go wrong? In 1991, Sony launched the world’s first commercial lithium-ion battery... and since then the design hasn’t changed all that much.…

Storage upstart reveals IPO price range, hopes to raise $100m All-flash and hybrid array startup Tintri has set out its IPO pricing terms, and they look quite modest.…

Michelle Carter responsible for beau's sucide, decides court The teenager who repeatedly urged and encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself with hundreds of text messages has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.…

From Actian to WANdisco, we've got it all Another week, another week of storage news laid out in our farmer’s market on groaning stalls full of free-range and organic produce. Walk around and check it out.…

Tech disties paying up to 42% more for computers since vote Computer trade prices have surged in the year since the EU referendum with currency and component shortages fingered, at least according to sales data from tech distributors.…

13.7 billion Bezos bucks buys luxury retailer Today, Amazon announced it will be acquiring the devilishly expensive Whole Foods Market to the tune of $13.7bn.…

Still lagging WDC and Toshiba chip capacity by half Samsung says it is boosting its 64-layer V-NAND flash chip production after Toshiba and WDC have introduced 64-layer NAND drives.…

First decision of three probes expected in coming weeks The EU is preparing to fine Google €1bn (£875m) over claims the company abused its search market dominance to build the Google Shopping service.…

Specs and performance deets in the wild Media site VideoCardz has leaked two AMD EPYC 7000 server CPU slides revealing core, thread and clock details.…

You’ve opted out of marketing emails. Can we just send you a marketing email to check? Supermarket chain Morrisons has been fined £10,500 by the UK's data protection watchdog for sending marketing emails to people who had unsubscribed from marketing bumf.…

Scientists rejoice: It’s raining TeraFLOPS from the cloud Sponsored High-performance computing (HPC) environments are expensive. Government research facilities and commercial laboratories spend hundreds of thousands building out large, monolithic supercomputers and then jealously guard their compute cycles. This approach to HPC is restrictive. It creates a rarified environment in which only the cream of the crop get the FLOPS they want.…

Augmented reality apps for future Army, RAF, RN kids Education specialist Pearson will begin trialling Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality apps in one UK school this autumn – an independent sixth form college that's sponsored by the MoD.…

Helping to transform government to, to... er... There's a plan in place Exclusive The UK's Government Digital Service – the Whitehall body responsible for transforming government IT – is having problems paying staff because of, er, technical issues.…

999 requests funnelled through single data centre Brit mobile operator Three has been fined £1.9m after an investigation by UK regulator Ofcom revealed its emergency call service handling was vulnerable to a single point of failure.…

And the squeeze ain't looking like it'll stop any time soon Pressure is set to intensify on server makers caught in the vice-like grip of rising components costs and stiff competition for new business.…

And the squeeze ain't looking like it'll stop any time soon Pressure is set to intensify on server makers caught in the vice-like grip of rising components costs and stiff competition for new business.…

SFAOS, Lustre distribution and WOS given a waxing as well HPC storage system supplier DDN has enhanced the performance and protection on four of its products – storage array software SFAOS, flash cache burst buffer IME, EXAScaler Lustre and the WOS object storage system.…

No, it's human janitors toiling away, cleaning up wads of hate and terror incitement Facebook is once again trying to scrub clean its public image after it was criticized for allowing extremism to spread on its social media platform.…

Imagine the spreadsheet you could view on a four-foot-wide 3840 x 1080 beast The Register doesn't spare a glance for news of monitors but we made an exception when we learned of Samsung's new CHG90.…

New motherboards wouldn't fix it, but a magnetic personality can work wonders On-Call Why hello there readers! It's Friday and that means it's time for another edition of On-Call, our weekly column in which your peers take centre stage by sharing tales of jobs gone wrong.…

Literally spooky action at a distance Pairs of entangled photons created on a satellite orbiting Earth have survived the long, perilous trip from space to ground stations. Crucially, they are still linked despite being picked up by receivers over 1,200km (745mi) apart – the longest link ever seen before.…

Well, of course – anyone using tabs should be paid zero Poll Weighing in on a longstanding religious war among software developers, community site Stack Overflow has found that developers who use spaces to indent their code earn more than those who use tabs.…

Department of Defense claims intrusion cost $628,000... er? A UK-based computer hacker has admitted stealing hundreds of usernames and email addresses from a US military communications system.…

Uncle Sam scraps rules 17 years on from when the world ended, oh wait... The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has announced rule changes that – among other things – will finally end the requirement that agency IT departments report their Y2K compliance, only almost two decades after the event.…

Nano Server to go containers-only, Server Core pushed for all other workloads Poll Windows Server and System Center will soon receive twice-yearly updates and come in two “channels”, one for the latest stuff and another less-frequently-updated channel.…

IT biz bags US govt cash to tinker with lab experiment HPE will use a research grant awarded today by the US Department of Energy to develop blueprints for a Machine-based exascale supercomputer.…

Spies do spying, part 78: Cherry Blossom malware gobbles up data flowing through routers Hundreds of commercial Wi-Fi routers are, or were, easily hackable by the CIA, according to classified files published today by WikiLeaks.…

One click, or two? How about no clicks, German court tells search company A German court has given Google a hearty slap over its grudging response to "right to be forgotten" laws, telling it that not linking to information means exactly that: not linking to information.…

And no fees for unshackling mobes, either – all from December this year Canada has ruled that cellphone networks may no longer charge fees for carrier-unlocking handsets nor sell new phones locked to their network.…

Arab Spring meant ka-ching for merchants of death A year-long investigation has uncovered evidence that British armaments conglomerate BAE Systems has been selling internet surveillance equipment to Middle Eastern regimes with questionable human rights records.…

Ha! Ha! Another! chance! to! use! these! exclamations! Verizon says it will have to write off $500m for severance and integration costs on its acquisition of Yahoo!…

Toxic trash taxi biz accused of obtaining files to smear sex assault victim Adding to its litany of disasters, Uber, CEO Travis Kalanick, and former executives Emil Michael and Eric Alexander were sued on Thursday for privacy violations and defamation by the unnamed woman raped in 2014 by an Uber driver in India.…

Sie werden diese Nachrichten entschlüsseln! Germany has joined an increasing number of countries looking to introduce anti-encryption laws.…

Carrot dangled for 2021 mega-machines The US government has dangled $258m in funding in front of six American tech giants to encourage the development of exascale supercomputer systems.…