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Do not come to hospital unless it's critical, it tells patients on Facebook and Twitter Torbay & South Devon NHS has declared a state of emergency of the tech kind, warning that a “critical IT systems failure” has forced it to cancel all scheduled routine surgery and outpatients appointments.…

Well we say for free... but having too much of it means you prob have fatty liver disease Do you ever feel drunk, even though you swear you haven't touched a drop of alcohol at all? Well, your gut might be harbouring a type of bacteria that brews booze as a byproduct.…

Plus: Start the week right by watching Apple's latest being dropped repeatedly A teardown of the iPhone 11 seems to have confirmed support for bi-lateral charging – the ability to charge another device using your phone's battery.…

Plus, a Windows NTFS flaw, Fortnite hacking, and much, much more Security roundup Here are a handful of security happenings in the past week that are worth noting - aside from what The Reg has already covered.…

A week of 'big-picture thinking' surprisingly small in detail Analysis In the last week there's been no shortage of "big-picture thinking" in digital government circles.…

With 2025 deadline, potential for disruption is huge Interview Most people are unaware of the huge infrastructure challenge the UK is about to undergo as 15 million phone lines are switched off.…

Regulatory compliance? We've heard of it Who, Me? If it's Monday, then it must be time for another jaunt to the hallowed confessional of Who, Me? where Register readers confess their, or their co-workers', deepest darkest sins.…

Find out how your peers are doing getting ahead with Google Cloud Promo Even if you’re not worried about your traditional data warehouse delivering all the insight it could, you’re almost certainly worried about it staying secure and compliant.…

MCubed doors open in just over a week Event It's barely a week till we kick open the doors at MCubed, but there’s still time for you to join us and learn from a lineup of speakers who’ve all put the theory behind machine learning and artificial into practice.…

Free burritos keep the action going but, jeez, open a window would ya? Hardcore gamers no longer have to tread the knife-edge of actual life or death in the physical world while pwning n00bs in their favourite battle royale.…

TMI, luv. TMI. No, please don't look at Goatse. Stop. STOOOP The BBC has launched a mobile app – Own It – with a Beeb-approved interface aimed at keeping kids safer online when using baby's first smartphone.…

Taco titan's e-ordering fails when browser autofill takes over Chipotle Mexican Grill has been leaving money on the table, thanks to an apparent bug in the restaurant chain's e-commerce operation.…

And alleges outsourcing giant then struggled to deliver contracted services DXC Technology has been named in another class-action lawsuit that alleges mass redundancies were used by senior management to boost earnings but left the company unable to service contracted clients properly.…

Oh no I didn't, says disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky's former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.…

It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early It has been a rough morning for Salesforce here in San Francisco: part of the cloud giant's sprawling empire fell over and stayed down for more than 12 hours. In fact, it stumbled over so hard, CEO Marc Benioff's techies are having to apply fixes to servers manually.…

JavaScript packager seeks new boss amid internal friction, firings, unionization attempts NPM Inc, the JavaScript package registry, is looking for a new CEO. Bryan Bogensberger, hired in January to develop the company's enterprise business, resigned today "to pursue new opportunities."…

IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block American drive-slinger Western Digital has pulled out of the storage systems business, telling the world last night that it is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN.…

Tech runs browsers in sandbox to humiliate malware Ink seller HP is buying endpoint security company Bromium, which already comes bundled with some HP computers under the Sure Click brand.…

37-year-old was extradited to Blighty to stand trial A Bulgarian phishing criminal who created fake versions of legitimate companies' websites as part of a £40m fraud has been jailed.…

Perception is an illusion, grasshopper Security surveys tend to confirm what we already knew a few months ago and the 2019 Global Cyber Risk Perception Survey (PDF) from Marsh and Microsoft does not disappoint.…

Prepare for aerial droppings, Virginians After being hounded out of Australian capital Canberra earlier this year, Google has declared that its Wing division will now start hassling innocent Americans with drone parcel deliveries.…

Payday landing for grandson of Churchill, chief exec Rupert Soames Brit outsourcing giant Serco was today named preferred bidder for a six-year £450m ferry and freight services contract between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney and Shetland islands.…

Lighter, flatter and forveal – ooh yes, forrrveeeeal The Apple rumour mill churned a perennial favourite back to the surface this week when new patent applications from the company referring to augmented reality tech were published.…

Chernobyl? That's cute Sellafield nuclear power station in Cumbria, northern England, is calling for help to increase the number of robots it uses to monitor and clean the site.…

Oh shoot, Climate Day. Quick everyone, look green! Google CEO Sundar Pichai used a trip to Finland to tell world+dog that the ad giant would be ploughing billions of Euros into European data centres.…

Pick one trained with salacious conversations for maximum fun Machine-learning chatbot systems can be exploited to control what they say, according to boffins from Michigan State University and TAL AI Lab.…

Ranger Services goes to ground over unsecured Azure blob Exclusive Tesco has shuttered its parking validation web app after The Register uncovered tens of millions of unsecured ANPR images sitting in a Microsoft Azure blob.…

The Reg chats to Dame Margaret Hodge MP about box slinger's tax affairs Interview Amazon's latest PR efforts to paint itself as a responsible corporate citizen in the UK have been branded "complete bollocks" by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, a long-term critic of the online giant's tax practices.…

'Aggravating and alarming!' Nest users are shouting at Google to let them register G Suite accounts to their home assistant and automation devices.…

These things can mess with your brain Something for the Weekend, Sir? I never quite turned out to be the fine young woman my parents were hoping for.…

Operator refusing to apply automatic discounts next year UK consumer charity Citizens Advice has accused telco giant Hutchison's UK network Three of "ripping off loyal customers" to the tune of £32.4m per year, by refusing to apply automatic discounts once contracts end.…

In praise of mouse balls On Call Welcome to On Call, that time of the week when you can luxuriate in the aggravation endured by others, safe in the knowledge it would never happen to you, right?…

Join us, Google, and one of its customers to gain real-world advice on extracting the most value from your info Webcast If you depend on your data to disrupt the market, you’ve probably already built a modern data-oriented infrastructure. But you are also likely coming up against some common challenges facing many organisations that operate at the cutting edge of data.…

Software house hits nuclear option after popular Ruby code yanked for moral reasons DevOps darling Chef had a nightmare Thursday after it emerged the software biz had inked a deal with US immigration, which sparked protest and a baffling counter-response.…

Aww, shucks. Cancel the End of the World party A huge collision in the Solar System’s asteroid belt may have triggered an ice age on Earth that froze our planet... some 466 million years ago.…

~~~WaRNiG!! Ur PC has THe Da Vinci m4Lw4rez!! CaLL 1-555-NOSCAM 2 f!x it~~~ Two Americans used bogus virus-infection alerts to bilk $10m out of PC owners, it is alleged.…

Biz bods head to Open Core Summit to ponder how to, you know, get paid Analysis On Thursday, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, companies building open-source code gathered to figure out how to survive having Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sell their software as a service without paying for the privilege.…

Patch now before miscreants sail off with your apps, data Video IT departments using the Harbor container registry will want to update the software ASAP, following Thursday's disclosure of a bug that can be exploited by users to gain administrator privileges.…

Foul play ruled out at Menlo Park headquarters A Facebook employee died at the tech giant's Silicon Valley headquarters today in an apparent suicide.…

Shareholders NotHappy stock offloaded in NotPetya aftermath FedEx execs not only hid the impact of the NotPetya ransomware on their business but personally profited by selling off tens of millions of dollars of their own shares before the truth came out, a lawsuit filed by the delivery business’ own shareholders claims.…

But I only expected to pay $250,000, wails scumbag to wall of blank faces A call-center scammer has lost his appeal to overturn a $9m fine – after a court pointed out the crook had specifically waived the right to appeal when he pleaded guilty.…

Dive deep into networking and storage next week with our awesome sister site, The Next Platform Event Join the editors of our sister site The Next Platform for The Next I/O Platform conference in San Jose on September 24.…

Filing alleges less-qualified blokes given all the jobs, too A technical director is suing Google for allegedly paying her less than male counterparts and promoting less-qualified men to positions for which she was more skilled.…

'Pain points' include data collection, lock-in and uncontrollable costs The Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern or BMI) in Germany says it will reduce reliance on specific IT suppliers, especially Microsoft, in order to strengthen its "digital sovereignty".…

Five hours and counting, this does not look good for UK hoster Brit hosting provider Claranet found itself resetting the "29 days without incident" sign this morning as "connectivity issues" felled customer emails and websites all over again.…

Delicious data hoard handed over from UK contracts Five National Health Trusts have signed up to transfer their existing data deals with DeepMind to its parent company Google, but one has refused.…

Would that be the 'secret talks' Openreach is consulting on? BT is considering moving its entire network to full fibre and will decommission its copper cables by 2027, according to reports.…

Add in Brexit outsourcing mess and it's plain to see why young international scholars get duped Scammers are exploiting Chinese students' Brexit fears by targeting them with phishing emails claiming their visas could be revoked, threat intel researchers say.…

Nugget dropped in keynote focused on cloud and AI announcements Connect 2019 Huawei will plough $1.5bn into a developer programme to swell the ranks of coders that write software for its kit in an apparent effort to counter moves by the American government to ban US suppliers from dealing with the Chinese firm.…

The Beeb may have forced you into it, but you still have to cough up HMRC has won an IR35 tribunal against BBC journalists Joanna Gosling, David Eades and Tim Willcox.…