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'Smart' home IoT devices reveal dumb amounts of what they're up to every time they go online Princeton boffins reckon the Internet of woefully insecure things yields sensitive information about connected homes with nothing more than a bit of network traffic analysis.…

Has $150 million diversity program, server farms galore, needs 500 hours to sift data After failing in April to shut down reporting of its lawsuit with the United States Department of Labor, Google's told the US court looking into alleged pay discrimination it would be too expensive to find out whether women are underpaid at the advertising behemoth.…

Taking a look at a new common set of AV rules Analysis The European Parliament has approved a draft law that geo-blocking, the act of offering an online content service in one European Union (EU) country and that country alone, will be scrapped in the first half of next year.…

Some folk have Photoshop and too much time on their hands The WannaCrypt ransomware is yet another reminder, if any were needed, that the networks and machines on which society is now so reliant are laughably insecure.…

And none of those in China show anything while they wait for government paperwork Netcraft's monthly survey of web-facing computers has turned up an oddity: a new web server called “Beaver” that's used by exactly one web site outside China.…

Network time lords decide we don't need IP address swaps The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken another small step in protecting everybody's privacy – this time, in making the Network Time Protocol a bit less spaffy.…

Cortex-A75, A55, and Mali-G72 coming next year Chip designer ARM on Monday plans to announce its first set of processors based on its DynamIQ microprocessor architecture, in conjunction with a revised GPU chip.…

The 1990s called: they want their filepath hack back Until Microsoft patches this problem, use Chrome: a slip in file-path handling allows attacker to crash Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 with a file call.…

If payroll operator accused of AU$165m scam didn't pay, neither will contractors The Australian Taxation Office has issued guidance to clients of Plutus Payroll, the company accused of AU$165m scam, and says they “will not be penalised” if the company hasn't paid the right amount of tax on their behalf.…

ClearPass Policy Manager needs upgrade In case you missed it: there's a bunch of bad bugs in HPE's Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager.…

Two coding-for-kids orgs already overlapped, now plan joint acceleration The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation have merged in order to combine forces and accelerate both organisation's mission to teach kids how to code.…

Upside: it could be all over by September Both Cisco and Arista have claimed victory in the latest instalment of their intellectual property lawsuit.…

'Real, sophisticated, threat' may mean ban on flights to and from USA says Homeland Security head John Kelly United States Homeland Security Secretary Gen. John Kelly says he's considering a ban on laptops in airline cabins from flights that leave all nations, not just Europe and the Middle East as is currently the case.…

All flights from Gatwick and Heathrow cancelled British Airways CEO Alex Cruz has said the root cause of today's London flight-grounding IT systems ambi-cockup is "a power supply issue" and that the airline has "no evidence of any cyberattack".…

*Insert canna do it captain joke here* British Airways CEO Alex Cruz has said the the root cause of today's London flight-grounding IT systems ambi-cockup is "a power supply issue" and that the airline has "no evidence of any cyberattack".…

You may have to wait a decade or more to join him aloft In a few years, Alphabet president and Google cofounder Sergey Brin is expected to have an airship at his disposal for humanitarian missions and ferrying friends, not necessarily in that order.…

Nothing new in speech but then that wasn't the point British prime minister Theresa May used Facebook, Google and social media companies as a vote-winning punch bag on Friday, slamming them for not doing enough to limit extremist content online.…

Is it a Tango? Is it a 360-camera? Or is it a let-down? Android creator Andy Rubin has been running in stealth mode with his forthcoming smartphone startup Essential, but has now released a teaser picture of his new handset.…

Fast food chain cops to POS malware breach Fast-food chain Chipotle says hackers infected its point of sale terminals to gain access to card data from stores in 47 states and Washington, DC.…

Even AI researcher jobs at risk by the year 2105 Hundreds of AI researchers have taken a glimpse into their crystal balls to try to determine when machines will finally exceed human capabilities.…

Hackers target The Donald's businesses The FBI and CIA are investigating an attempted hack on the Trump Organization.…

Japanese investors rush in after cryptocurrency was made legal Over the past couple of weeks, the price of Bitcoin has gone up 50 per cent, spiking at over $2,700 per unit on Thursday. Demand has been so great that popular exchange Coinbase has been unable to keep up.…

Patent case wraps up as sides agree on final tally Former smartphone king BlackBerry has today finalized its settlement with Qualcomm in their long-running battle over royalty payments.…

Google, Facebook et al take on Section 702, Apple quiet More than 30 big internet companies including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft have sent a letter to the chair of the House Judiciary Committee asking for specific reforms to the law used for carrying out mass surveillance.…

Buy your bread n' butter from the Bezos Bunch Amazon has once again expanded its reach in all things commerce, this time with its own take on the grocery store.…

Keelhauling through the week's movers and shakers Behind every great enterprise and technology news website lies storage, humming away in the background heeded by no one. But the industry never stands still and every week El Reg is inundated with news – some significant, some less so. However, we're not solely a storage 'zine and we need somewhere to stack the shorter bits that wouldn't necessarily make a standalone story but we know you storageheads out there would appreciate. So pull up a pew, pour yourself a mug o' joe, and read on to find out about Bristol Uni's new supercomputer, Intel's SSD wins, Diablo Tech's Memory1 benchmarks, and much more.…

'You are without a doubt the worst pirate I’ve ever heard of' The supposed "Pirates hack" was only ever a hoax, according to Disney chief exec Bob Iger.…

Hoping to stock up for a barbecue? Tough The sun is shining and the prospect of barbecue and beer over the bank holiday is almost in grabbing distance. But customers who ordered their groceries online with Sainsbury's today may be in for a disappointment.…

Revenues increase as it faces dismemberment +Comment Say goodbye to Brocade as an independent company. It has just published its last quarterly results before being gobbled up and dismembered by Broadcom.…

Firm: Not what he was saying before we sacked him A fired SpaceX worker has accused the company of leaning on its employees to forge test records for parts destined for NASA.…

"I'm Commander-in-Chief, bitch!" A fundraising vehicle to help get the world's fifth richest man Mark Zuckerberg elected as President of the United States will now take your money.…

$100m+ quarterly loss fuels relentless drive for growth Nutanix is racing on to the billion dollar revenue mark for next year with a $100m net loss fuelled quarter of growth.…

Astroboffin-in-training makes dating breakthrough Astroboffins have figured out a new way of dating planets and meteorites by counting individual atoms in rock samples snatched from the depths of space.…

Signs of machine translation spotted by analysts The ‪WannaCry‬pt extortion notes were most likely written by Chinese-speaking authors, according to linguistic analysis.…

That bit where you said we didn't have to give them $500m – stick with that Apple is trying to kill off an attempt by Smartflash to reverse a patent panel's ruling and thereby force Cupertino to hand it $533m in a Federal Circuit dispute.…

Legal flingball fingers Snapdragon 810 debacle Qualcomm's own shareholders have added to the barrage of lawsuits being fired at the mobile chip giant.…

Still on knees some 36 hours later A major outage at a Capita data centre has knocked out multiple services for customers – including a number of councils' online services – for the last 36 hours.…

Continuous Lifecycle: Fill-up with speaker videos, slides Events If you couldn’t join us last week for Continuous Lifecycle London 2017, you can still get a flavour of the event with our speakers’ presentations and selected video highlights.…

Thank God for Jedi (and other words I thought I'd never use) Star Wars New Hope @ 40 The opening sequence of Star Wars is designed to give you a jolt. It's heightened by those moments after the legend "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." has faded, leaving you sitting in a silent, pitch-black cinema auditorium.…

Sports ready, LTE ready, but still a solution looking for a problem? Real World Test Back when Captain Scarlet was still fresh, in the 1970s, I wanted a watch that made phone calls. I think I might have drawn one on my arm with a Biro. This has been a sci-fi staple since Dick Tracy in the 1950s. Now I’ve got one, I wonder why I ever wanted it.…

Or I could press 'Play' via the evil internet Something for the Weekend, Sir? Mrs Dabbsy is getting cross. I know this because she has said "grrrr".…

Once you're through the web interface the email-to-printer address is easy to find ON-CALL Well what do you know? The working week is all-but over, which means it is time to share a story from a reader's working life in our weekly On-Call column.…

Special error correction techniques work around degrading drives' dying cells Japan's Takeuchi Lab has proposed a “value-aware” solid state drive that it says can recognise images faster than rivals, while also extending drives' working life.…

Analyst firm IDC just made one of these three improbable predictions for the year 2019 Analyst outfit IDC thinks the PC market will grow again, although things are going to get worse before they get better. And the growth will come because people like Windows 10.…

Data centre unit 'still under transformation' and losing money, as is mobile business Lenovo has returned to growth, posting a pleasing set of fourth quarter numbers, but apparently has plenty of work to do in the mobile and data centre markets.…

Big Blue is 'shifting service delivery model to dedicated employee workforce' but clients aren't happy Exclusive IBM is not just banning the hire of new contractors and telling existing contractors they won't get new gigs: now it is telling some current contractors they will have to take a pay cut.…

Devuan 'Jessie' is done and will get long term support beyond the life of Debian Jessie POLL The self-described “Veteran Unix Admin collective” that in 2014 promised to give the world a cut of Debian without systemd has delivered: Devuan 1.0.0 LTS hit the web today.…

Study shows energy readings off over 90% Your fitness tracker might measure a heart rate accurately, but not the amount of calories burned, according to a study published in the Journal of Personalised Medicine.…

Sadly no black monolith found Scientists were expecting a lot of new data from the Juno space probe orbiting Jupiter, and they haven't been disappointed. The most massive planet in the Solar System is turning out to have a lot of surprises.…

'Digits' marks a shift for the phone industry T-Mobile is taking a leaf out of the tech industry book and separating phones from their numbers.…