2nd November 2018 Archive • The Register

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Cisco firewalls under attack – and there's no patch: Too many SIPs and they drown in data

Denial-of-service flaw exploited by miscreants in the wild, networking kit giant warns

02 Nov 00:33 | 3

Wow. Apple's only gone and killed off Mac, iPad, iPhone family... figures for units sold to fans

But it has nothing to do with shipments being down. Honest

02 Nov 01:15 | 49

We (may) now know the real reason for that IBM takeover. A distraction for Red Hat to axe KDE

Popular desktop Linux environment due for deprecation in RHEL... by 2024

02 Nov 05:12 | 153

Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints

Screening system would scan faces, flag 'suspicious' reactions for immigration cops

02 Nov 06:04 | 113

Carlo has a head for apps and a body (tag) for rendering: Google takes on Electron with JS desktop app toolset

Chrome Labs experiment adds another option for building website-ish applications

02 Nov 07:09 | 3

I know what you're thinking: Outsource or in-source IT security? I've worked both sides, so here's my advice...

The pros and cons of using internal and external talent, or a mix of both

02 Nov 07:32 | 20

Transformers: Robots... at least it tries: Watch boffins' Optimus Dime rearrange on the fly

Its creators see this shape-shifter droid as more like Big Hero 6 than cheesy Autobots

02 Nov 08:04 | 11

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Nikola Tesla's greatest challenge: He could measure electricity but not stupidity

A scientist on a banknote? Stick that up your Darcy

02 Nov 09:01 | 198

BBC micro:bit vendor Kitronik says customers' deets nicked, fingers Magecart malware

We're one of 7,000 victims here, firm insists

Clunk, bang, rattle: Is that a ghost inside your machine?

Fear not, IT support will bust that problem in this Halloween On Call special

02 Nov 10:00 | 82

Commvault revenues grow – but only just – as it switches to subscription pricing

And hey – where's that new CEO? It's been 5 months ...

02 Nov 10:30 | 4

Exiting DWP digital boss Mayank Prakash switches to energy biz Centrica

As department names Simon McKinnon acting CIO, external competition coming soon

02 Nov 10:36 | 6

What's that? SSH can still use RC4? Not for much longer, promise

IETF hackathoners point the 'die-die-die' gun at another buggy cipher

02 Nov 11:20 | 9

Icahn't let you do this: Stock botherer fires off sueball to scupper Dell's 'coercive' deal

Carl takes his chances in Delaware chancery

02 Nov 11:59 | 11

Bean-counting outfit Sage appoints bean-counter as new CEO

Will arrival of Hare accelerate tortoise-like performance?

02 Nov 12:28 | 12

Boom! Just like that the eSIM market emerges – and jolly useful it is too

Thanks, Apple. Seriously

02 Nov 12:59 | 94

Tax me if you can: VMware UK tosses shrunken offering to HMRC

Just 11.52% on pretax profit. Virtualization juggernaut doing well in the distie stakes

02 Nov 13:29 | 27

Seagate HAMRs out a roadmap for future hard drive recording tech

100TB by 2025/26? Bring it on

02 Nov 14:00 | 20

Roscosmos: An assembly error doomed our Soyuz, but we promise it won't happen again

So we're ok to launch a crew in December, right? Er, guys?

02 Nov 15:02 | 71

Great. Global internet freedoms take another dive as censorship and fake news proliferate

China is 'remaking the world in its techno-dystopian image'

02 Nov 16:00 | 12

Imperial bringing in budget holograms to teach students

Suffice to say, it's not quite Tupac or Freddie Mercury

02 Nov 16:30 | 20

Smartphone industry is in 'recession'! Could it be possible we have gasp reached 'peak tech'?

Phone makers banking more revenue – but for how long?

02 Nov 17:00 | 69

In memoriam: See you in Valhalla, Skype Classic. Version 8 can never replace you

Microsoft hammers the final nail into 7's coffin

02 Nov 18:00 | 42

Web domain owners paid EasyDNS to cloak their contact info from sight. It was blabbed via public Whois anyway

Registrar apologies as punters wait for spam tsunami

02 Nov 19:33 | 19

Dot-com web addresses prices to swell, thanks to sweetheart deal between Uncle Sam, Verisign

Freeze on renewal, base costs lifted so we all pay a bit more

02 Nov 19:52 | 36

PortSmash attack blasts hole in Intel's Hyper-Threading CPUs, leaves with secret crypto keys

Malware already on machines can exploit SMT using side-channel techniques to snatch private info

02 Nov 20:18 | 26

30 spies dead after Iran cracked CIA comms network with, er, Google search – new claim

Uncle Sam's snoops got sloppy with online chat, it seems

02 Nov 22:05 | 108

Dawn of the dead: NASA space probe runs out of gas in asteroid belt after 6.4 billion-mile trip

First it was the Kepler telescope, and now Dawnie has kicked the bucket too

02 Nov 23:20 | 46

'Pure technical contributions aren’t enough'.... Intel commits to code of conduct for open-source projects

Chipzilla joins strangely controversial movement to encourage civility, inclusion

02 Nov 23:49 | 88

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