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Update 18 months earlier meant recycle bin drained system resources, leading to crash A software glitch in the London Ambulance Service’s 999 call handling system, which prevented the system’s recycle bin from being emptied, led to an outage at the New Year – according to an official report.…

Govt to consult on code of practice as bits of Digital Economy Act go live The UK government is to start talks with social media providers about a code of conduct that will guide their response to online bullying.…

Funding for French privacy browser – and why not Privacy-focused French browser developer UR* has scored a grant from the European Union it hopes will help turbo charge its nascent technology.…

Finds 1,788 cases of potential harm The National Audit Office has slapped the NHS Shared Business Services for its failure to handle a backlog of misdirected clinical correspondence, which will cost £6.6m to work through.…

Sonic boom reduced to 'soft thump' by well-designed shockwaves NASA says the preliminary design review of its Quiet Supersonic Transport (QueSST) project suggests it is possible to create a supersonic aircraft that doesn't produce a sonic boom.…

Code churns through millions of heavenly objects spotted by Euro Gaia spacecraft An artificial neural network has detected rare super-fast stars zipping through the Milky Way – by crunching piles of data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia probe.…

But she's down to just 13kg of fuel after seven-minute eclipse-avoidance burn India's Mars Orbiter Mission – aka MOM – has celebrated its 1,000th Earth day in orbit around the red planet.…

It's official. Uranus clenches after taking in hot beams Scientists digging through old readings from NASA’s Voyager 2 mission in 1986 have found that Uranus’ magnetic field swings open and shut like the aperture of a revolving door.…

Mozilla engineer spots a gap in Web security, reaches for the patch kit In spite of the rise of HTTPS, there are still spots where content originating on the Web can remain unencrypted, so a Mozilla engineer wants to close one of those gaps.…

Moscow says it's about regulatory rules; Telegram says it's about encryption Russia's communications regulator is threatening to lower the boom on popular encrypted messaging application Telegram.…

The DMCA wasn't meant to stop you fixing your car Last week, to little fanfare, the US Copyright Office took its first baby steps towards stopping auto-makers wrapping their software in copyright rules.…

So they've welded Advanced Threat Defense to Email Security Appliances Cisco's adding McAfee's Advanced Threat Defense to platforms supported by its Email Security Appliance platform.…

'Avengers' and 'Justice League' are taken. 'Suicide Squad' won't fly. So meet 'The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism' Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube have created a super-team to tackle terrorism.…

As I was on the motorway, I saw a man who wasn't there. Then things went pear-shaped If you've ever been dazzled by some idiot's high-beam driving towards you at night, you'd probably welcome a self-driving car – except one of the key “eyes”, LIDAR, can also be blinded, or tricked into reacting to objects that aren't there.…

Why does anyone do anything? I don't know, I was really drunk at the time Fueled by beer and bitterness, a US techie logged into his ex-employer's radio towers to sabotage them – and is now behind bars as a result.…

Protecting from terrorists, naturally The Australian State of Queensland wants the power to force citizens to unlock their devices during a declared terrorist emergency.…

US prosecutors ask top court to mull overseas data slurping The US Department of Justice has formally asked the Supreme Court to hear its appeal in Microsoft's Ireland warrant legal row.…

Senator Schumer asks Ajit Pai to protect Americans. Good luck with that A US Senator is looking to turn up the heat on a particularly annoying new robocall practice.…

Oh no, not Ohio's Dept of Rehabilitation and Corrections A crew of useful idiots called Team System Dz defaced US government and business websites over the weekend in the name of medieval terror bastards Daesh (aka the Islamic State).…

Never again, he tells El Reg Analysis Here's a resurrected startup that isn't a startup anymore and wants nothing to do with VCs, ever – Coraid.…

Motoring monolith stalls as punters slam into website UK car insurance giant the AA caused all sorts of confusion on Monday after accidentally sending out a "password update" email to people.…

Theresa showers DUP with gold to prop up minority government The Democratic Unionist Party is to receive an extra £1bn in funding from Brit taxpayers, including £150m to spend on broadband infrastructure, after it agreed to prop up Theresa May's minority government.…

So, about that '1,000 games bundled with Vega+' boast, Retro Computers... The owners of the rights to about 200 games to be bundled with the ZX Spectrum Vega+ is withdrawing permission for them to be included with the consoles unless its maker pays royalties for games on a previous device, The Register has learned.…

DevOps vendor acquires intelligence platform After a $50m investment January 2016, Israel-based software delivery automation vendor JFrog is in acquisition mode – specifically, it's eating some analytics brains.…

Let off the hook Dell has agreed to drop its suits against Hitachi and Hitachi LG Data Storage after previously alleging it had been part of a conspiracy to fix prices for optical disk drives. There has been no mention of any settlement.…

Finds 1,788 cases of potential harm The National Audit Office has slapped the NHS Shared Business Services for its failure to handle a backlog of misdirected clinical correspondence, which will cost £6.6m to work through.…

Two words: Sweet 2FA Comment Just under 90 Parliamentary email accounts were compromised by a brute force attack on the parliamentary network over the weekend. And there is a long-established technology which can normally see off this kind of attack.…

Mobility conference maps the future Promo Are you a senior technologist, engineer, communicator, strategist or academic interested in the automotive industry? An all-day conference staged by FISITA, the international membership organisation for the automotive mobility engineering profession, will provide the answers you seek.…

Sharing is caring, SAN-shine Interview An NVME over fabrics controller-less array is not a SAN because it can’t share data. That was the essence of Datrium CTO Hugo Patterson’s view.…

'Where all the sexy ladies at?' Snoop asks hall of middle-aged suits The great and good of the music industry - and Jeremy Corbyn - descended on UK’s lively Glastonbury music festival this weekend, while in another part of the world a hip hop old-timer went on stage to die.…

2-day meeting will focus on getting firms to open back doors The Australian government looks set to take a hard line on encryption at this week’s Five Eyes meeting, and encourage the other nations in the network to jump on the back-door band wagon.…

HMS Queen Elizabeth prepares to sail for the first time Britain’s largest ever warship, aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, is due to sail from her Rosyth dockyard on her maiden voyage today.…

Takes hyper-converged infrastructure appliance lead – analyst Dell EMC overtook Nutanix to become the leading hyper-converged infrastructure appliance shipper in 2017’s first quarter.…

£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen A new anti-glare film could help us see our phones a little bit better on a bright day.…

Products, hookups, support, click relief and more Here's a storage news item garage sale. Come on in and check out our array of goodies; there's something for everyone.…

Bundles of future chip wrappers allegedly nabbed from London rail station Two men have been charged with theft for allegedly helping themselves to bundles of free newspapers from London Bridge railway station.…

It's 'Amazon' how far behind it is... Opinion Apple has been promising to revolutionize TV for years but hasn't yet found the time to do so. Last week, Apple announced two new and likely expensive hires, former Sony Pictures Television presidents, Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg – who are known for Breaking Bad, The Blacklist and other golden TV shows – to help it transform television.…

Yahoo!,Tumblr users need to register new email addresses Verizon has moved to unwind an old deal between Yahoo! and AT&T that allowed users to run merged AT&T and Yahoo! email accounts for login to some Yahoo! services.…

'I stopped trying to be polite about their BS', says Torvalds who plans Linux 4.12 next week Linux lord Linus Torvalds thinks he'll be able to give the world version 4.12 of the Linux kernel next week.…

And that's just the stuff Google can count on mobile devices Google's revealed just how perilous humanity's future existence has become, by shedding a light on our YouTube viewing habits.…

Brute force attack on weak passwords, cracked <90 email accounts The Parliament of the United Kingdom has admitted it experienced a “sustained and determined cyber attack” over the weekend and says <90 email accounts have been compromised as a result.…

Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh? No matter what you did over the weekend, you'll struggle to top Elon Musk's after his space trucking venture launched 11 satellites atop two rockets, both of which stuck perfect landings on barges.…

Microsoft to Tavis: here's the fix. Any chance we could have a day off? Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy has alerted the world to yet another way Microsoft's anti-virus tool Windows Defender could be attacked.…

IDC's tracker finds FlexPods flourishing, Vblocks/VxBlocks faltering Analyst firm IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker shows overall converged systems revenue for 2017's first quarter increased year over year but only because of bonkers growth in hyper-converged systems.…

Left hand quits trying to meet right hand, waves at customers saying 'don't break Skype' Earlier this month, Microsoft gave the world .NET Framework 4.7 and urged users to install it for the usual reasons: more fun bits to play with and a security improvements.…

Project Goldilocks to whitelist VMs' expected behaviour and snuff 'em if they deviate VMware's long-expected security product will emerge in Q3 under the name “App Defence”.…

Debian devs noticed errata to deep docs and now the fit's hitting the shan During April and May, Intel started updating processor documentation with a new errata note, and over the weekend we learned why: Skylake and Kaby Lake silicon has a microcode bug.…

USB-toting admin 'upgraded' Windows and Linux systems with something nasty that Police can't really explain A contractor in the Australian State of Victoria has managed to infect an unknown number of speed cameras with a virus, over sneakernet.…

'The reduction in leverage is significant' – Parker Everyone’s favourite people pimp Capita has permanently outsourced its Asset Services businesses to Link Administration for £888m – a fleeting injection of cash in the bank that will be used to reduce debts.…

What could possibly go wrong? Cisco, IBM, HP, McAfee and SAP are among plenty of western technology companies that have been showing their source code to Russian authorities in exchange for the right to sell their products in the country.…