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Foreshadow and Intel SGX software attestation: 'The whole trust model collapses'

InterviewEl Reg talks to Dr Yuval Yarom about Intel's memory leaking catastrophe

Making money mining Coinhive? Yeah, you and nine other people

10 users controlling the bulk of cryptocoin generator funds

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

But odd results and email impersonation raise eyebrows

Google bod wants cookies to crumble and be remade into something more secure

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Science

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

Hey...kids...yes order ten of those and give me your parent's credit card details
16 Aug 07:01
Security

Mozilla-endorsed security plug-in accused of tracking users

Web Security says there's nothing nefarious to its URL collection
17 Comments
15 Aug 23:49
Security

Making money mining Coinhive? Yeah, you and nine other people

10 users controlling the bulk of cryptocoin generator funds
15 Aug 23:23
Science

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

But odd results and email impersonation raise eyebrows
21 Comments
15 Aug 22:50
Business

Cisco shift to recurring revenue gives 3.8 billion signs that it's working

Customer interest in hybrid cloud buoys networking biz
15 Aug 22:14
Software

Google bod wants cookies to crumble and be remade into something more secure

Shifting session identifiers into HTTP works, but Facebook and others won't be happy
22 Comments
15 Aug 20:53

Don't miss Three more data-leaking security holes found in Intel chips as designers swap security for speed

Security

India's Cosmos bank raided for $13m by hackers

Report points finger at North Korea for cyber-heist
15 Aug 20:05
Security

Support for ageing key exchange crypto leaves VPNs open to attack

Ancient issue causing new ones
15 Aug 19:40
Security

Bitcoin backer sues AT&T for $240m over stolen cryptocurrency

Michael Terpin not happy about funds-draining SIM swap fraud
21 Comments
15 Aug 19:12
Emergent Tech

London fuzz to get 600 more mobile fingerprint scanners

In-house software to slash support costs by £200k a year, claims Met Police
18 Comments
15 Aug 16:40
Artificial Intelligence
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You: 'Alexa, open Cortana.' Alexa: 'Who?'

UpdatedA year on, Alexa can look at your emails and Cortana can order groceries. World shrugs
22 Comments
15 Aug 16:10
Personal Tech
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If you drop a tablet in a forest of smartphones, will anyone hear it fall?

Is it even worth counting tablet sales? Do they even exist?
37 Comments
15 Aug 15:36
Software
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Visual Studio gains some go-faster stripes for Android emulation

F#, TypeScript 3.0 and more go from preview to release with 15.8
19 Comments
15 Aug 15:06
Storage

Ouch, that's 13 bullet points: IBM pumps out storage software blast

Much tinkering across software board plus expanded capacity flash cards
15 Aug 14:28
Data Centre

TSB takes on 250 complaint-wranglers to absorb £200m outage fallout

130,000 complaints and counting from bank's users? So sorry to hear that
10 Comments
15 Aug 13:52
Business

UK chip and PIN readers fall ill: Don't switch off that terminal!

Not us this time, Mastercard tells El Reg
30 Comments
15 Aug 13:20
Storage

What the Dell? Qumulo slips into PowerEdge servers

Extends coverage from AWS and HPE to Isilon-slinger
15 Aug 12:35
Security

Baddies of the internet: It's all about dodgy mobile apps, they're so hot right now

Report lift veil on online fraudsters' current habits
15 Aug 11:59
Cloud

Alibaba and Elastic slingshot searchable, analyticky cloud ... outside China

That noise was AWS rolling over in its sleep
15 Aug 11:40
Internet of Things

IoT shouters Chirp get themselves added to Microsoft Azure IoT

Now your devices can join you in bellowing at Redmond's products
15 Aug 11:07
Storage

We've Amber heard a NASty rumour: Marvell man touts private cloud box

Latticework pushes 'secure' cloudy boxen
15 Comments
15 Aug 10:45
HPC

HPE flies low-energy Eagle into National Renewable Energy Lab's data centre

Uncle Sam's renewable boffins will triple their power in 2019
15 Aug 10:13
Security
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Foreshadow and Intel SGX software attestation: 'The whole trust model collapses'

InterviewEl Reg talks to Dr Yuval Yarom about Intel's memory leaking catastrophe
25 Comments
15 Aug 09:42
DevOps
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Serverless? It doesn’t have to be all or nothing

EventsFrom FaaS to Lambda and beyond...
15 Aug 09:10
Security
fraud

Criminals a bit less interested in nicking Brits' identities this year

ID fraud drops to four-year low
14 Comments
15 Aug 08:41
Internet of Things

Meet the LPWAN clan: The Internet of Things' low power contenders

AnalysisLicensed to chill or unlicensed to thrill...
15 Aug 08:08
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft's Chinese chatbot inspired by images to write poetry

Xiaoice's verse is 'disgusting' say rival human poets
23 Comments
15 Aug 07:06
Science

Boffins get fish drunk to prove what any bouncer already knows

Fish boozing in alcohol and taurine more likely to ignore pals and look for a fight
41 Comments
15 Aug 06:01
Policy

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

A backdoor, or simply throwing all the doors open?
49 Comments
15 Aug 00:58
Security

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

Former network engineer gets 18 months in the clink
12 Comments
15 Aug 00:03
Security

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

Summertiiiiiime, and the hacking is easy
28 Comments
14 Aug 23:03
Policy

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

AnalysisBut efforts to target boss Ajit Pai are misguided partisanship
15 Comments
14 Aug 22:31
DevOps

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
17 Comments
14 Aug 20:06
Security

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

DEF CONBut it requires custom hardware, firmware and access to your Wi-Fi
21 Comments
14 Aug 19:34
Security

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

Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers
11 Comments
14 Aug 18:44
Personal Tech

CADs and boffins get some ThinkPad love

Lenovo beefs up beefy desktop replacements - and one is almost Apple-like
20 Comments
14 Aug 17:04
Security

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
47 Comments
14 Aug 17:00
Software
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...
32 Comments
14 Aug 16:02
Policy
Amazon Video

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

280 brassed-off Brits begged ASA to bite Bezos' behemoth
58 Comments
14 Aug 15:35
Storage
Close up of tangled tape

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

Magnetic strips barrier to ransomware, burble box-flingers
15 Comments
14 Aug 14:15
Software

Apple pulls iOS 12 beta 7 after less than 24 hrs

Devs reported performance issues then...
15 Comments
14 Aug 13:40
Data Centre

Too many leftover screws? Ikea website backend goes TITSUP

UpdatedTotal Inability To Support User Perusals
30 Comments
14 Aug 13:10
Networks

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

EE by gum, BT Group brand wins
22 Comments
14 Aug 12:39

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