Black Mirror's third season opens with a vicious take on social media

The internet apocalypse map hides the major vulnerability that created it

Parliamentarians ask Obama to withdraw Lauri Love extradition request

Cross-party collective of 105 MPs sign open letter to US President to save Love A cross-party collective of 105 MPs has penned an open letter to US President Barack Obama, requesting that he intervene to withdraw the extradition requests for alleged…

Cabinet Office gears up to ink mega Oracle deal

How's that plan to break with monopoly suppliers going? The Cabinet Office is gearing up to ink another mega pan-government Oracle licensing deal, multiple sources have told The Register.…

The NBA is adding a zoomed-in view for smartphones to all League Pass streams

Microsoft’s Surface PC event: what to expect

Pokémon Go celebrates Halloween with its first in-game event

Xprize launches two new competitions addressing water scarcity and women’s safety

Drammer-exploit geeft roottoegang op Android-toestellen door aanval op geheugen

Onderzoekers van de Vrije Universiteit hebben een aanval gepresenteerd waarmee roottoegang verkregen kan worden op een groot aantal Android-apparaten. De 'Drammer'-methode werkt door een Rowhammer-aanval op het geheugen uit te voeren.

Niet uitgebrachte Rayman-game voor SNES duikt op na 24 jaar

Er is nooit een Rayman-game voor de Super Nintendo verschenen, maar in een ver verleden was die wel in de maak. Michel Ancel, bedenker van de spelserie met het ledenmaatloze figuurtje in de hoofdrol, heeft 24 jaar na dato de eprom gevonden en die bl…

HPE to offer hybrid cloud hypermarket to world+dog

Not just Europeans who'll consume Cloud 28+ Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking Cloud 28+ - aka Worldwide Indirect Digital Services - to a global audience, leaked internal documents have revealed.…

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

On-prem set for 13% hike Life is to get a lot more expensive for Microsoft customers from the start of next year with currency linked, double-digit price hikes looming for cloud and on-premise software.…

HPE to offer hybrid cloud hypermarket to world+dog

Not just Europeans who'll consume Cloud 28+ Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking Cloud 28+ - aka Worldwide Indirect Digital Services - to a global audience, leaked internal documents have revealed.…

From Texas to the Smithsonian, following a trail of sexual misconduct

Nocs, Jays, and Degauss Labs: a smorgasbord review of Swedish headphones

AI program able to predict human rights trials with 79 percent accuracy

Is Google using YouTube to put one over on Samsung?

Let’s hope not. Somebody might notice A curious story appeared overnight, one that made Samsung look very foolish. According to anti-copyright activist and blogger Mike Masnick, Google's YouTube had received a copyright takedown notice from Samsung …

Ageing GSM crypto cracked on commodity graphics rig

A*STAR Singapore shows how easy it is The crypto scheme applied to second generation (2G) mobile phone data can be hacked within seconds, security researchers have demonstrated.…

First Click: Apple says hello, Microsoft Surface all-in-one PC, and more in the week ahead

Samsung komt volgend jaar toch met Galaxy Note 8

Samsung gaat door het het maken van toestellen in de Note-serie. Dat blijkt uit een nieuw upgradeprogramma, dat de fabrikant in Zuid-Korea heeft opgezet. Samsung geeft Note 7-kopers die hun toestel hebben ingeruild voor een S7 de optie om te upgrade…

Slowmo Violin train crash still sliding down the tracks

How long before it goes off the rails? Comment  Violin Memory’s stock is slowmo crashing, and is now down to $0.35; it was $0.65 on October 11.…