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But yep, there are power points “A lot of people are like, ‘Where’s the AV?’ And I’m like, it’s a treehouse,” Bret Boulter said of Microsoft's new tree-based meeting spaces. “We wanted people to intentionally unplug, because they are sitting in front of screens all day long.”…

'We're here to make money and ain't no one getting rich off it'... even Microsoft The biggest tech resellers in Europe would not mourn the demise of the Surface device should Microsoft decide to kill it off by 2019, as was recently predicted at the Canalys Channels Forum.…

Blue bit-box hawker submits to rival code flocker shocker Container darling Docker plans to make peace with its orchestration rival, Kubernetes, at its European conference this week.…

Partners now have trade wars to fly around Airbus has struck a deal to buy a majority stake in Canadian plane-maker Bombardier's C Series Aircraft in a deal that will mean a shakeup for the global aviation market.…

Airbus now has planes from 100 to 800 seats, but now has trade wars to fly around Airbus has struck a deal to buy a majority stake in Canadian plane-maker Bombardier's C Series Aircraft in a deal that will mean a shakeup for the global aviation market.…

One step forward, two steps back Review At first, it wasn't entirely clear whether it would be worthwhile doing a review of the new Google Home Mini.…

DRAM analyst also says the supply chain is just fine, thank you very much Toshiba has denied a report alleging its NAND flash factories were felled by ransomware.…

Don't panic... whoa, not so fast, Android, Linux users WPA2 Wi-Fi users – ie, almost all of us – have had a troubling Monday with the arrival of research demonstrating a critical design flaw in the technology used to secure our wireless networks. A flaw so bad, it can be exploited by nearby miscreants to potentially snoop on people's internet connections over the air.…

Manic miners don't even pwn you: They just use default creds admins are too lazy to change Here's yet another reason to make sure you lock down your clutch of cloud services: cryptocurrency mining.…

Manic miners don't even hack you - they just use default creds admins are too lazy to change Here's yet another reason to make sure you secure your cloud console: cryptocurrency mining.…

Chocolate Factory can pick pets from people, can't hold a photo right way round Can't tell the difference between a photo of your partner and one of your pet? Good news, Google can now automatically sort photos of animals from pics of people.…

And that's not the evil bit, because there's an IETF standard that could help An Australian senator has come up with a cunning plan to stop phone scammers: any call from an unregistered VoIP line should show the caller's number as “666”.…

FSB wanted keys, messaging outfit said Nyet Encrypted messaging app Telegram must pay 800,000 roubles for resisting Russia's FSB's demand that it help decrypt user messages.…

Migrating VMs isn't a dark art and vSphere users are sticky, but Nutanix is having a crack Nutanix has taken another shot at VMware, this time with a virtual machine migration tool that takes VMs from ESXi to its own Acropolis hypervisor.…

Cupertino iGiant vows to appeal after losing round in tedious infringement boxing match An American patent-holding biz says it will bag a $440m windfall from Apple in a long-running infringement case that seems unlikely to end any time soon.…

Sure, now they care about protecting email Yahoo! may be compelled to hand over the contents of a dead man's email account to his surviving family, Massachusetts's top court has ruled.…

Gov wants us to protect Medicare numbers. In return it will protect something Comment The Australian government's review of an incident that saw health care customer numbers offered for sale on a Tor “darknet” site has recommended retaining the numbers as acceptable proof of identity.…

Supreme Court says fallen payroll outfit owes AU$139m to Commonwealth The Supreme Court of the Australian State of New South Wales has appointed liquidators to Plutus Payroll, the payroll services provider that lured thousands of IT contractors with a free service but has since been alleged to be a tax-skimming scam.…

About a third of all crypto modules globally generate weak, crackable RSA pairs RSA keys produced by smartcards, security tokens, laptops, and other devices using cryptography chips made by Infineon Technologies are weak and crackable – and should be regenerated with stronger algorithms.…

LIGO boffins pinpoint space prang 130m light years away Barely two years after it came online, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has scored a double success. Last week, the instrument earned its creators a Nobel Prize – and this week we're told it helped spot the first neutron star collision from both its gravitational wave and radiation emissions.…

ESET scanning engine now built in – plus other defenses In its ongoing effort to improve browser security, school Microsoft on security, and retain its search audience, Google is today rolling out several Chrome for Windows fortifications.…

So much for only one Super Cali headline per month California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed a state bill that would have allowed telcos to put up loads of small-cell antennas, and thus boost phone coverage, against city officials' wishes.…

So much for that security-patch-free October Adobe today issued an emergency security patch for Flash, which squashes a bug being used in the wild right now by hackers to infect Windows PCs with spyware.…

Watchdog takes bean-counter to task over Tech Data audit Ernst & Young is nursing a £1.8m fine from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) after admitting to "misconduct" when auditing 2012 P&L accounts for distributor Tech Data that were later found to contain material mistakes.…

Microsoft's Irish data centre spat asks: How far should an American warrant go? The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a dispute over whether Microsoft should release personal emails stored in Ireland to America's federal government.…

Hooo boy, WDC. You've really done it now Toshiba could partner with SK Hynix on flash foundry operations, implying the WDC joint venture could have a finite shelf life.…

Russia, you're off the hook Iran has been blamed for the brute-force attack on UK Parliament earlier this year.…

Promises clearer user interaction and extra privacy The latest upgrade to the popular Ethereum blockchain protocol – Byzantium –went live today, adding additional privacy and performance features.…

Pervasive data-gathering needs urgent action – report Mass commercial data gathering and opaque decision-making processes have a “massive potential” to damage personal autonomy and dignity, a report has said.…

The world's worst microphone uses spinning platters It must be one of the worst ways to build a microphone imaginable, tapping into a disk drive's nanosecond head stops as it waits for the vibrations caused by sound to cease, but it has been done.…

Victims reporting fraudulent transactions Miscreants have made off with payment card details of "a small number of clients" following a data breach at Pizza Hut.…

Industry-focused review instead recommends 'data trusts' to establish framework for the tech Boffins have recommended the British government establishes a council to oversee and coordinate artificial intelligence across the private and public sectors.…

Fifth version server threesome pops up Huawei has refreshed three third generation modular rack server products from older Xeons to Skylake processors with a v5 refresh giving them updated networking and storage options.…

No? Well, never mind, because it's for your own protection US mobile phone companies appear to be selling their customers' private data – including their full name, phone number, contract details, home zip code and current location to third parties – all in the name of security.…

Key handshake shakedown Users are urged to continue using WPA2 pending the availability of a fix, experts have said, as a security researcher goes public with more information about a serious flaw in the security protocol.…

with ... oh, another very good iPhone, Pixel, S8 undercutter Review You know where you are with a Sony - this year’s are much like last year’s. And the year before that.…

If we start now, we might be better at it than Albania The British government is looking for places to chuck £25m it has set aside for 5G trials.…

Tried logging in or signing up? Big bag of fail? Thought so Anyone wanting to log in or sign up to cloud-based email marketing service SendGrid is out of luck as an unspecificed glitch has taken its services offline.…

Or was it David Green or Sebastian Fox? Interview Grant Shapps seems far from crestfallen after his disastrous attempt to lead a coup against Prime Minister Theresa May.…

It's how apps are designed, not the tools used to write them Microservices aren't a new concept to Java – their forerunner was Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), which could be constructed, among other means, with the assistance of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs).…

Reddit AMA says Raptor rocket will be safer and more reliable than commercial aircraft SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Company CEO Elon Musk has suggested Bob the Builder and Harry Potter will help his space exploration efforts.…

But he's not at all keen on Santa Claus or fairies Linus Torvalds release notification for Linux 4.14's fifth release candidate contains an interesting aside: the Linux Lord says fuzzing is making a big difference to the open source operating system.…

Nuon Solar wins third race straight, out of 12 finishers The Reg didn't physically follow this year's Solar Challenge, the biennial solar car race across Australia's dead, red heart. But we did follow this year's event, in which unfavourable weather meant this year's field didn't even get the chance to set speed records.…

Banking blockade has actually enriched WikiLeaks Endurance couch-surfer and WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has thanked US authorities for the banking blockade that made it hard to donate fiat currencies to his organisation, because it inadvertently enriched the organisation.…

ONE, TWO, THREE, what are we incrementing FOUR? (Don't ask, we don't give a damn) A Dutch electronics engineer reckons Japanese auto-maker Subaru isn't acting on a key-fob cloning vulnerability he discovered.…

Proposed labelling scheme will try to match similar efforts in UK, USA Australia's government hopes that somewhere in the world, a vendor of consumer-grade connected electronics is willing to admit it's rubbish at security by giving itself a low score in a proposed safety rating system.…

Strap yourselves in readers, Wi-Fi may be cooked Updated A promo for the upcoming Association for Computing Machinery security conference has set infosec types all a-Twitter over the apparent cryptographic death of the WPA2 authentication scheme widely used to secure Wi-Fi connections.…

Everyone safe, except drone pilot who ignored local rules Canada's transport minster has told drone operators to stay away from airports after a remotely-piloted craft bonked a passenger plane during its final approach to Jean Lesage International Airport in Québec City.…

Grab some popcorn as we wait to see if @realdonaldtrump passes test of no hate symbols and glorifying violence Twitter has reacted to last week's criticism arising from its suspension of actor actress Rose McGowan's account, after she strongly criticised alleged sex fiend Harvey Weinstein – by announcing it will soon implement and aggressively police new community standards.…

Cisco discusses Advanced Linux Sound Architecture mess before formal CVE release An advisory from Cisco issued last Friday, October 13th, gave us the heads-up on a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA).…