Close up of tangled tape

Reel talk: You know what's safely offline? Tape. Data protection outfit Veeam inks deal with Quantum

Man stroking his chin deep in thought

Too many leftover screws? Ikea website backend goes TITSUP

Young people stare vacantly at their mobile phones/ cellphones

Vodafone's spending pays off - but EE hangs on to UK network crown

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Oh my Tosh, it's only a 100TB small form-factor SSD, SK?

Zorin OS 12.4

Linux 4.18 arrives fashionably late while Zorin OS shines up its Windows

An executive slowly vanishing

Apple pulls iOS 12 beta 7 after less than 24 hrs

emo illustration

Hello darkness my old friend, what happened last week in Redmond?

Penguins line up to dive into the icy water from the ice floe.

Dropbox plans to drop encrypted Linux filesystems in November

Insider Threat

Money laundering

Florida Man laundered money for Reveton ransomware. Then Microsoft hired him

Patch Tuesday heats up with pair of exploited zero-days squashed – plus 58 other vulns fixed

Alexa photo via Shutterstock

Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echoes into snooping devices

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Oracle: Run, don't walk, to patch this critical Database takeover bug

Crypto algorithm selection dial

Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up

Thinking of saying goodbye to your servers? We'll show you how

A burning dumpster

Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service mucked my cluster!

Someone typing away on the ol' internet

MessageBird, Twilio tout low-code tools for DIY comms app plumbing

Australia's Snooper's Charter: experts react, and it ain't pretty

Democrats go on the offensive over fake FCC net neut'y cyberattack

Amazon Video

Ad watchdog: Amazon 'misleading' over Prime next-day delivery ads

A cute cat in a jumper waves goodbye.... Pic via Shutterstock

Now DXC yourself to the door: Another exec exits outsourcing giant

Lenovo ThinkPad P1

CADs and boffins get some ThinkPad love

Galaxy Watch

Samsung Galaxy Watch: A tough and classy activity tracker

Note9 Pen

Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay

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Why is my cheapo Android red hot and switching off Wi-Fi?

Geek's Guide

meteorite

Boffins blame meteorites for creating Earth's oldest rocks

Meanwhile, in the El Reg canteen

Brain brainiacs figure out what turns folks into El Reg journos, readers

space_war

Space, the final Trump-tier: America to beam up $8bn for Space Force

radio_telescopes

First low-frequency fast radio burst to grace our skies detected at last

Distributed ledger tech - conceptual illustration

Boffins: Confusing distributed ledger tech definitions create 'unrealistic expectations' about what it can do

Drinks party at M3 day one

How smart is your machine learning strategy? We can make it smarter

Medical device vuln allows hackers to falsify patients' vitals

eye_scan

Eye eye! DeepMind teams up with doctors to ogle eyeballs for illness

Verity Stob

Two people sleeping in a meadow to raise charity

Want to raise cash for Action for Children’s Byte Night? The clock is ticking

wasp

Wasted worker wasps wanna know – oi! – who are you looking at?

Henry Nicholas mugshot

What do a meth, coke, molly, heroin stash and Vegas allegedly have in common? Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicolas

man hugs printer

Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!

Top stories

Oracle: Run, don't walk, to patch this critical Database takeover bug

Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers

Samsung Galaxy Watch: A tough and classy activity tracker

Hands OnFourth time lucky?

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack

Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echoes into snooping devices

Alexa photo via Shutterstock

Australia's Snooper's Charter: experts react, and it ain't pretty

A backdoor, or simply throwing all the doors open?

Florida Man laundered money for Reveton ransomware. Then Microsoft hired him

Former network engineer gets 18 months in the clink

Patch Tuesday heats up with pair of exploited zero-days squashed – plus 58 other vulns fixed

Summertiiiiiime, and the hacking is easy

Democrats go on the offensive over fake FCC net neut'y cyberattack

AnalysisBut efforts to target boss Ajit Pai are misguided partisanship

Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up

Security is a process that requires hitting people over the head with their errors

Hackers manage – just – to turn Amazon Echoes into snooping devices

DEF CONBut it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi

Don't miss Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay

Artificial Intelligence

How smart is your machine learning strategy? We can make it smarter

EventsJust days left to save on MCubed conference and workshops

Oracle: Run, don't walk, to patch this critical Database takeover bug

Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers

CADs and boffins get some ThinkPad love

Lenovo beefs up beefy desktop replacements - and one is almost Apple-like

Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

Apps, kernels, virtual machines, SGX, SMM at risk from attack

Zorin OS 12.4

Linux 4.18 arrives fashionably late while Zorin OS shines up its Windows

Wanting some Linux love, but just can't let that Windows 10 desktop go? Come this way...

Amazon Video

Ad watchdog: Amazon 'misleading' over Prime next-day delivery ads

280 brassed-off Brits begged ASA to bite Bezos' behemoth

Close up of tangled tape

Reel talk: You know what's safely offline? Tape. Data protection outfit Veeam inks deal with Quantum

Magnetic strips are ransomware-proof

Apple pulls iOS 12 beta 7 after less than 24 hrs

Devs reported performance issues then...

Too many leftover screws? Ikea website backend goes TITSUP

Total Inability To Support User Perusals

Vodafone's spending pays off - but EE hangs on to UK network crown

EE by gum, BT Group brand wins

Now DXC yourself to the door: Another exec exits outsourcing giant

Frankenfirm waves bye to App Services boss: Time to canter Klaus

Hello darkness my old friend, what happened last week in Redmond?

For Skype Classic, not the sound of silence

Samsung Galaxy Watch: A tough and classy activity tracker

Hands OnFourth time lucky?

Boffins: Confusing distributed ledger tech definitions create 'unrealistic expectations' about what it can do

Report proposes tight conceptual DLT framework

May the May update be with you: OpenSSL key sniffed from radio signal

'One and Done' attack patched in library's May 2018 release

Oh my Tosh, it's only a 100TB small form-factor SSD, SK?

Flash Memory SummitLayer cake magic as flash capacity set to soar

Internet of Things

Medical device vuln allows hackers to falsify patients' vitals

McAfee: Patient monitoring systems open to hack attacks

Penguins line up to dive into the icy water from the ice floe.

Dropbox plans to drop encrypted Linux filesystems in November

Penguinistas mobilise against decision to support only EXT4

An old fax machine with someone pushing a button

Faxploit: Retro hacking of fax machines can spread malware

Video20th Century tech causing problems in the 21st

Boffins blame meteorites for creating Earth's oldest rocks

Smash, bang, wallop what a planetary crust,

Cisco patches IOS in response to boffins' IKE-busting breakthrough

Switchzilla issues update for authentication bypass flaw

When's a backdoor not a backdoor? When the Oz government says it isn't

Draconian new proposals on data privacy from Australia

Intel finally emits Puma 1Gbps modem fixes – just as new ping-of-death bug emerges

Broadband-throttling bug finally gets a write-up and CVE

Artificial Intelligence

Eye eye! DeepMind teams up with doctors to ogle eyeballs for illness

AI can help speed up diagnosis and seldom gets it wrong

It's official: TLS 1.3 approved as standard while spies weep

Now all you lot have to actually implement it

Cloud

Microsoft gets edge on AWS with Azure Stack for government

Feds can now stick Redmond clouds into on-prem hardware

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

Location, location, location!

Whistleblower org chief quits over Assange critic boot demand

Courage Foundation boss walks as pro-Jules trustees order Barrett Brown cut loose

Windows is coming to Chromebooks… with Google’s blessing

The host with the most

Disk will eat itself: Flash price crash just around the over-supplied block

AnalysisCheaper SSDs could accelerate disk cannibalisation leading to Seagate downturn

US voting systems: Full of holes, loaded with pop music, and 'hacked' by an 11-year-old

DEF CONPen and paper is still king in America election security

IBM Headquarters, Armonk, NY

IBM's Watson 'n' cloud head honcho targeted by WPP – reports

Big Blue mouthpiece insists he's not going anywhere, though

NHS hosptial photo, by Marbury via Shutterstock

Database ballsup: NHS under pressure over fresh patient record error

Thousands of discrepancies reported between two databases

Note9 Pen

Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay

Hands OnQuality, enterprise-friendly kit, but ... how much wonga?

UK's data watchdog picks privacy man from IBM arm as new tech policy exec

Simon McDougall bags top innovation role at Information Commish

Why is my cheapo Android red hot and switching off Wi-Fi?

It's no (crypto)miner offence

Smells like machine spirit: L' Optane, Unity, NVMe and QLC. Take a sniff of a week in storage

Time to dab your wrists with a little eau de flash

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