Andrew Silver
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Loose-change payment network Microraiden launches on Ethereum
Might speed up the blockchain, but aren't they about cutting out the middle man? → Read More
Linux laptop-flinger says bye-bye to buggy Intel Management Engine
'Disabling the ME will reduce future vulnerabilities' → Read More
Oops: LinkedIn country subdomains SSL cert just expired
LinkedIn's country subdomain SSL certificate has expired – apparently as of about noon GMT today. According to the sslscan certificate testing tool, us.linkedin.com and all its altnames were no longer valid as of four hours ago at the time of publication. The certificate issuer is DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA. The certificate for the naked domain, www.linkedin.com, is separate – and still… → Read More
Crown Prosecution Service is coming for crooks' cryptocurrency
Already has a confiscation order and says 'more to follow' → Read More
A day will come when Azure Active Directory 'classic' portal is killed. But it is not this day
Microsoft extends end-of-life till January 8. Why? Uh, Microsoft → Read More
Apple and Qualcomm become best pals... lol jk the sueballs keep flying
Suing for patent infringement? Right back at ya, champ → Read More
Scotland, now is your time… to launch Brexit Britain into SPAAAACE!
House of Lords members make push for Scottish spaceports → Read More
Hacked Brit shipping giant Clarksons: A person may release some of our data today
British shipping company Clarkson has 'fessed up to a data breach, saying a miscreant has accesssed its systems and the public should expect some of it to be made public. Clarkson PLC declined to answer The Register's inquiry about how much data had been compromised or whether it belonged to customers and merely referred us to the company's announcement (PDF) for any additional information.… → Read More
GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online
Ofqual considers changing how course will be graded → Read More
SpaceX 'raises' an extra 100 million bucks to get His Muskiness to Mars
SpaceX has amended an US Securities and Exchange Commission filing from August to reveal it raised cash by selling off about a hundred-million bucks more in equity and stock than previously disclosed. Elon Musk's Mars project last raised about $350m in July from selling off equity and stock. The new filing adds about $100m more, bringing the total to $450m. A company mouthpiece told The… → Read More
What's that fresh, zesty fragrance? Oh, Linux Mint 18.3 has landed
System reports, snapshots, improved app store, backups → Read More
Unreal, man: Amazon pitches new 3D VR kit at dev newbies
Streamed direct from the Amazon storage fishbowl, natch → Read More
Forget Sesame Street, scientists pretty much watched Big Bird evolve on Galápagos island
New finch species developed in just two generations → Read More
Munich council finds €49.3m for Windows 10 embrace
Open source dream officially dies in Bavarian city → Read More
Clone poster girl Dolly the sheep's arthritis was 'normal for her age'
Boffins say health issues were not related to genetic wizardry → Read More
Sci-Hub domains inactive following court order
'Free science'/pirate site operator 'working on solving DNS issue' → Read More
'Gimme Gimme Gimme' Easter egg in man breaks automated tests at 00:30
The maintainer of the Linux manual program man has scrapped an "Easter egg" after it broke a user's automatic code tests. On Tuesday, Unix systems administrator Jeff Schaller wrote in a Stack Exchange post: "We've noticed that some of our automatic tests fail when they run at 00:30 but work fine the rest of the day. They fail with the message 'gimme gimme gimme' in stderr, which wasn't… → Read More
Loake Shoes admits: We've fallen victim to cybercrims
Hold on to your laces, email server was compromised → Read More
Royal Bank of Scotland goes TITSUP*
Users who bank online with the Royal Bank of Scotland are having a tough time logging in this morning. Over 80 people have reported issues with online banking, payment cards and the website since around 0909 UTC on the site downdetector.com. RBS users last experienced downtime just one month ago. For some of the Twitterati, today might be a pretty special day. > What a good time for the @RBS… → Read More
Debian package depicts 'Tux the penguin' with sheep in intimate ASCII
A Debian software package containing an "ASCII representation of zoophilia" has been installed automatically on some users' machines. According to a bug report, Debian user Felicia Hummel installed a package called "cowsay", which turns text into ASCII art of cows (or other animals) with speech or thought balloons. But with default settings of "install suggests" enabled, a controversial second… → Read More