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Parliamentarians ask Obama to withdraw Lauri Love extradition request

Cross-party collective of 105 MPs sign open letter to US President to save Love

It's nearly 2017 and JPEGs, PDFs, font files can hijack your Apple Mac, iPhone, iPad

Get patching now

App proves Rowhammer can be exploited to root Android phones – and there's little Google can do to fully kill it

Hardware vuln strikes 18 of 27 tested mobes

Microsoft: We're hiking UK cloud prices 22%. Stop whining – it's the Brexit

Price rises
Business

2016 has been a garbage fire. But 2017's looking up – there'll be loads of IPOs, beams Intel

Head of chip giant's VC arm bullish about exits
24 Oct 23:56
Networks

Verizon boss: Yahoo! email hack 'is a big deal to us', we'll decide new price next month

Lowell McAdam talks acquisitions, 5G and IoT
24 Oct 23:44
Networks

CEO of VoIP biz admits in court: It was all a $1.8bn Ponzi scheme

Unsuspecting investors given full Brazilian from TelexFree scam operation
24 Oct 23:28
News Bytes
No NY love for Airbnb
24 Oct 23:51
Google flying car spotted?
24 Oct 19:48
Musk outlines plans for Mars
24 Oct 18:34
Security

LinkedIn, Dropbox hack suspect named as Yevgeniy Nikulin by US prosecutors

Russia hoping to block accused miscreant's extradition
24 Oct 22:32
Security

It's nearly 2017 and JPEGs, PDFs, font files can hijack your Apple Mac, iPhone, iPad

Get patching now
24 Oct 21:41
Hardware

Finally, that tech fad's over: Smartwatch sales tank more than 50%

Apple still rules the roost – but it's not a popular perch
18 Comments
24 Oct 20:49
Business

Intel throws the ball long with sports, VR and IoT cash injections

Chip giant puts $38m into next generation of digital tech
24 Oct 20:22
Business

Clinton, Trump actually agree on something – blocking AT&T's Time Warner mega-buy

No matter who wins US prez race, merger faces rocky ride
24 Oct 19:37

Don't miss Every LTE call, text, can be intercepted, blacked out, hacker finds

Hardware

US docs halve screen time for tots: No more than an hour a day

But babies can start video chatting early
24 Oct 19:19
Security

App proves Rowhammer can be exploited to root Android phones – and there's little Google can do to fully kill it

Hardware vuln strikes 18 of 27 tested mobes
28 Comments
24 Oct 18:31
Cloud

NetSuite's pre-Oracle curtain call: growth and costs increase

Looks past pesky shareholders to joyful Ellison marriage
24 Oct 16:23
Science

Gravitational lensing event could provide ideal conditions for planet hunting

Astronomers will have to wait until 2028, according to predictions
10 Comments
24 Oct 15:35
Servers

Asda server glitch leaves customers without online shopping

Soz, you'll just have to get in your car and pick up a basket
11 Comments
24 Oct 15:07
The Channel
Burglar sits in kitchen with stolen tablet. Photo by Shutterstock

Barracuda Networks chomps up contract with reseller Quadsys

Severs ties after Quadsys Five hacking case concludes
24 Oct 14:29
Security

Chinese electronics biz recalls webcams at heart of botnet DDoS woes

US products compromised by Mirai mischief in another Internet of Things success
56 Comments
24 Oct 14:01
Science

Newly discovered cave-dwelling creepy-crawly is four times the man* you are

Millipede possesses a tetrad of todgers. Oh, and 200 poison glands
10 Comments
24 Oct 13:37
Policy

Murder in the Library of Congress

Copyright chief removed, moved sideways
23 Comments
24 Oct 13:17
Business

Government Digital Service under review after rural payments cockup

Audit follows IT disaster that resulted in farmers being underpaid
24 Oct 12:56
Cloud

Stung by Azure and AWS cost shock? Penny-pinchers love them some OpenStack

'Spotlight' on the money in a post-cloud-hype world
24 Oct 12:26
Storage

Bad news, Trump. NASty storage is pretty popular, too

But don't forget: the network needs monitoring
24 Oct 12:05
Bootnotes

Paid Wikipedia-fiddling on wheels

Reputation management comes out of the shadows
29 Comments
24 Oct 11:36
Artificial Intelligence

AI lawyer: I know how you ruled next summer

RotM Nearly 80% accuracy in human rights trials from reports
10 Comments
24 Oct 11:17
Security

Hacktivist crew claims it launched last week's DDoS mega-attack

Dyn-Dyn-Dyn... it's a knockout!
35 Comments
24 Oct 11:09
Software

Huzzah! Java EE 8 by October ... 2017, says Oracle

MicroProfile play targets the Eclipse Foundation
24 Oct 10:32
Storage

Hitachi ups its array game with new hardware and software

Fatter flash and in-drive compression helps to boost performance
24 Oct 10:07
Policy
Image source: RT

Parliamentarians ask Obama to withdraw Lauri Love extradition request

Cross-party collective of 105 MPs sign open letter to US President to save Love
48 Comments
24 Oct 09:42
Business

Cabinet Office gears up to ink mega Oracle deal

How's that plan to break with monopoly suppliers going?
11 Comments
24 Oct 09:05
Cloud

HPE to offer hybrid cloud hypermarket to world+dog

Not just Europeans who'll consume Cloud 28+
24 Oct 08:27
The Channel

Microsoft: We're hiking UK cloud prices 22%. Stop whining – it's the Brexit

On-prem set for 13% hike
101 Comments
24 Oct 08:04
Networks

Is Google using YouTube to put one over on Samsung?

Let’s hope not. Somebody might notice
45 Comments
24 Oct 07:27
Security

Ageing GSM crypto cracked on commodity graphics rig

A*STAR Singapore shows how easy it is
18 Comments
24 Oct 07:02
Storage

Slowmo Violin train crash still sliding down the tracks

Comment How long before it goes off the rails?
24 Oct 06:31
Hardware

Chap turns busted laptop into phone keyboard, in Himalayan book-rescue mission

Kind of a hacker-MacGyver story
10 Comments
24 Oct 05:58
Security

Hackers pop top 'secure' wireless keyboard and mouse kits, gain RCE

Ruxcon Patch? Nah, we'll just remove 'secure' from the tin: vendor
11 Comments
24 Oct 04:56
Security

Thanks, IoT vendors: your slack attitude will get regulators moving

Networks also need to grab a mirror and look at themselves
47 Comments
24 Oct 03:54
Software

Microsoft drops tools to help ingest and model big datasets

Get your Rs into gear, data scientists
24 Oct 02:58
Security

Brute force cred crunchers gifted Username Anarchy

Ruxcon dpauli, darren.pauli, darrenp, pauli.darren, paulid
24 Oct 01:58
Storage

Kroll Ontrack acquired for US$410m by LDiscovery

Behold! A global titan of data retrieval is upon us
24 Oct 00:58
Cloud

AWS budget tool update gives suits the control they crave

Why not run two versions of services and turn on the bad one once budgets run low?
11 Comments
23 Oct 23:59
Security
Wanqiao Zhang. Image: Darren Pauli, The Register.

Every LTE call, text, can be intercepted, blacked out, hacker finds

Ruxcon Emergency fail over provisions abused
23 Comments
23 Oct 22:59
Security

Mozilla plots TLS 1.3 future for Firefox

Quicker handshake starts encrypting data sooner
23 Oct 22:42
Science
Space surveillance telescope

DARPA hands space junk spotting scope to US Air Force

Space Surveillance Telescope can spot specks of shiny 36,000km away
14 Comments
23 Oct 21:25
Business

AT&T buys Time Warner for US$85.4bn or 1.25 Dell-EMCs

Batman, HBO, Harry Potter, CNN to become 'addressable advertised personal social mobile experience'
17 Comments
23 Oct 19:16
Security

Pacemaker maker St Jude faces new security flaw claims from biz short-selling its stock

This is not the way to get vulnerabilities fixed
27 Comments
22 Oct 12:30
Bootnotes

Judge nailed for trying to bribe Fed with fizzy water (aka Bud Light)

Attempt to steal wife's text messages gets all watered down
60 Comments
22 Oct 09:04

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