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Update IE, Edge, Windows, SQL Server, Office and – of course – Flash Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released the August edition of its Patch Tuesday update to address security holes in multiple products. Folks are urged to install the fixes as soon as possible before they are exploited.…

We can't think of anything snarky to say about this cool biological repair kit Video Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a nanochip contact patch that can reprogram nearby cells, to help repair damaged or aging organs, blood vessels, or nerve cells.…

SAS and NVMe SSDs use more and faster flash fuel Seagate has updated two single-layer SSD product lines with 3D NAND, raising capacity fourfold in one case, and demonstrating a single 64TB flash drive at the Flash Memory Summit.…

WannaCry ransomware killer due in court August 14 British security researcher Marcus Hutchins was released on Monday from a Nevada jail after posting bail. He is now on his way to Milwaukee to face charges of selling malware online.…

SAS, SATA and NVMe products using 64-layer 3D flash chips Toshiba has a three-way SSD news announcement with SATA, and developing SAS and NVMe products, all using 64-layer 3D NAND chips, plus NVMe fabric software claimed to beat open source code.…

v55 first desktop browser to support WebVR standard Mozilla has released version 55 of Firefox for Windows, making it the first desktop browser to officially support the WebVR standard.…

Ships data around faster too Micron is majorly bigging up its NVMe SSD capacity from 3.2TB in its 9100 to 11TB in a new 9200 drive, and making them shift data a lot faster as well.…

Censorship is for losers! In his latest attempt to further the global alliance of weapons-grade bellends*, noted troll Julian Assange has offered a job at WikiLeaks to the Google staffer apparently fired for writing an anti-diversity manifesto.…

Meanwhile, DJI says it had no idea army was using its kit The US Army issued guidance to its formations a few months ago allowing it to shoot down consumer drones buzzing its units, according to reports.…

Diving into the storage pool Sponsored Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a time-honoured approach for organisations to provide a shared repository through which multiple users and client systems can all access the same files and data over the network.…

It's a fancy-pants ruler-shaped form factor among Intel gubbins Intel has updated its data centre SATA SSD products, dual-ported its Optane drives and introduced a "ruler" format for server Optane and 3D NAND drives.…

Firm also moved production from Asia back to Wales Smart city firm Telensa, which specialises in connected streetlights, has doubled its headcount and almost achieved the same for its revenues, growing them from £12m last year to £22.8m this year.…

Makes you WannaCr... we mean WannaPatch The UK government has announced that businesses providing essential services like energy and transport could be fined as much as £17m or 4 per cent of global turnover for failing to have effective cyber security measures in place.…

Flooded York exchange proved to be a major weak spot Telecommunications biz KCOM has been hit with a £900,000 fine from regulator Ofcom after uncovering a serious weakness in the company's emergency-call service.…

OTT Boxes are killing the Video Star - and about time too A little noticed but quite remarkable factoid emerged from the world of digital advertising last week.…

But the one we do want is to summon them via an app A third of Brits would use a fully driverless car, a third would not, and the majority want to summon them via an Uber-style app, according to polling carried out for the UK Autodrive consortium.…

Lightning by name... not on track to hit 800k 2017 target Cable biz Virgin added just 127,000 extra peeps to its superfast broadband programme during its second quarter, putting the outfit behind its 2017 target for the £3bn Project Lightning network expansion.…

That's just Sicily Firefighters in Sicily have been accused of starting fires for money.…

Behind Bulgaria and Romania. But spare a thought for Yemen Broadband in Blighty ranks 31st in the world, with average speeds of 16.51Mbps, according to a comprehensive analysis.…

You can keep your artichoke and pineapple artisan pork pastries Hungry punters fed up with over-priced, under-sized artisan sausage rolls will be pleased to hear a foot-long (30.48cm) meat feast has now arrived costing, um, £1.…

Ups accessing server count, gives 'em shared, writeable, multi-appliance volumes NVMe over Fabrics array startup E8 is adding Optane drive support and providing shared writeable, multi-appliance volumes for up to 96 servers.…

Raghunath Nambiar says data centres will be asked to do more with more INTERVIEW NVMe storage is becoming denser, faster, than other forms of storage and will therefore become a capacity tier according to Cisco's chief technology officer for UCS Raghunath Nambiar.…

Atto-boy! Physicists at the University of Central Florida have developed the world's fastest X‑ray pulse, at 53 attoseconds.…

How IT titans hijack manufacturing standards to put sales before planet Special report The makers of high-tech hardware have subverted green manufacturing standards to line their pockets while making their products look more environmentally responsible.…

'We need a superhero,' sighs prof – and anyone can apply There aren't many astronomy jobs that pay very well – but the Chinese authorities are offering just that for the director of scientific operation for its new Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope.…

Chap admits he carried on accessing confidential email, schematics after qutting An engineer has been jailed for 18 months after admitting to stealing blueprints from his former employer's FTP server.…

CEO Sundar Pichai says screed crossed a line and violated company policy The Google staffer who penned an anti-diversity tract has reportedly been fired.…

Core i7 users will tell you they're faster, but forget about the >$250 premium you'll pay Intel's offered some more detail about the Core i9 range of desktop CPUs it announced in May.…

COO Jim Chirico to take control with debt down by over $3bn, revenue flat, outlook mixed Avaya's revealed a re-structured re-structuring plan and a new CEO.…

Staropoli lasts just under nine Mooches The chief information officer of America's Department of Homeland Security has become the latest Trump administration appointee to resign.…

IETF considering making a new .onion A proposal to tightly lock down localhost as a reserved top-level domain name has bubbled up to the surface again at the Internet Engineering Task Force.…

Data centers need good uptime, and good uptime means backup power – ka‑ching! The growth in cloud computing services is creating a financial windfall for perhaps an unlikely source: backup battery vendors.…

Holes fixed after lengthy buck-passing party A Dutch researcher says he found a way to cause mischief on power grids by exploiting software bugs in solar power systems.…

CDT tries to set fed trade watchdog on internet biz The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a digital rights advocacy group, on Monday urged US federal trade authorities to investigate VPN provider AnchorFree for deceptive and unfair trade practices.…

Illegal, ill-conceived, flawed. You eejit, Ajit A group of 11 Congressmen and women have torn into plans to get rid of America's net neutrality rules in a scathing letter [PDF] sent to US broadband watchdog the FCC.…

Customers gripe more about their bills than bad connections Comcast subscribers say that the US cable giant's notorious billing system is the worst and most infuriating thing about the biz.…

Viking and SMART Modular Technologies top customers Surprise, surprise: Nimbus Data is supplying 50TB flash drive tech to SSD OEMs like Viking and SMART Modular Technologies.…

NVMesh software works with NetXtreme controller card Broadcom's NetXtreme BCM57414 20GB/25GB remote direct memory access (RDMA) Ethernet controller card has been validated to work with Excelereo's NVMesh software.…

Woah there, we'll tell you. It's much quicker The trial of Samsung's vice chairman Lee Jae-yong ended last week with calls by prosecution for a 12-year jail sentence. Mr Lee Jnr had effectively run the group since his father suffered a heart attack in 2014, until his arrest last autumn.…

The eagle has landed Apeiron is speeding its ADS1000 NVMe flash drive array with added Optane drives.…

We're really, really, really big fans of this one. Oh yes A sarcasm detector bot that outputs emojis in response to strings of text? Yep, it’s another brilliant AI project in the quiet days of summer.…

Government draft confirms only minor deviations from GDPR The British government is planning to impose criminal sanctions on people who intentionally re-identify individuals from data that should have protected their identities.…

Sadiq Khan: Social media companies must toughen up their guidelines The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has singled out Google's YouTube for failing to crack down on online videos that "inflame" gang violence and knife crime.…

Any day from next Thursday onwards New aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth could arrive at her home port, Portsmouth, within the next fortnight, according to the Ministry of Defence.…

Cutting edge, blunt edge? We’re interested in both Events If you’re a tech pro doing something incredible around DevOps, Continuous Delivery or Containers we want to hear all about it.…

Government must realise staff use Slack for official business – and make it work with FOI rules Even the most archaic of organisations have been swept up by the march of technology – including the British government.…

And it'll cost consumers an extra £7 per head a month Openreach has estimated it will need to fork out between £3bn and £6bn to invest in 10 million fibre-to-the-premise connections by 2025, according to a leaked copy of its FTTP consultation seen by The Register.…

It's all a bit of a mesh. Oh and expect a patent battle Opinion We suspect there is going to be a patents battle in Wi‑Fi mesh software. The reason this is important is because of a second suspicion: that operators around the world will move lock, stock and barrel to multiple Wi-Fi Access Points in each home, potentially doubling or even trebling the number of devices in next generation Wi‑Fi.…

Engineer's 10-page doc dumps on diversity A Google engineer's 10-page argument for winding back diversity programs inside the ad giant has gone viral and sparked debate about whether Google really is an ideological echo chamber in which its forbidden to ask whether efforts to promote diversity by denying biology are harming the business.…

Goodbye 'mobile-first and cloud-first world', hello 'intelligent edge infused with AI' Microsoft has dropped any mention of mobility from its strategic vision.…