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Third time's a charm? Further details have emerged on the 737 Max flight control software bug discovered at the end of June, with reports suggesting that belated tests by a US regulator found the hitherto unknown bug.…

Settle in because we are here for the long haul After a short-lived cease fire, the glorious leader of the United States has announced yet another round of tariffs on Chinese imports, due to be imposed in September.…

Study claims country richer in money is richer in wildlife, too Researchers from the Zoological Society of London and UCL have found a clear link between economic development and improved biodiversity.…

System tracks who's next, but it's no stand-in for a good bartender's judgment Pics and video A British firm thinks it has found the answer to an age-old problem – how to decide which boozed-up revellers should get served at the bar first.…

Movement of LEDs and chipmaking gubbins to be slowed The Japanese government has announced it will remove South Korea from its list of trusted export destinations, adding fuel to the fire of the ongoing trade conflict between the two countries.…

Our panel is here to help you cut through the thickets of indifference Webcast Security professionals like you have a tough job. You can bang on about risks, threats, attack types and other scary stuff, explain the ins and outs of compliance, issue dire warnings about what might happen if your listeners don’t do the right thing – and they remain supremely unperturbed.…

BT's digital network biz noticed it wasn't paying out enough BT's Openreach is forking out £14m to refund internet service providers for network outages and faults.…

Pint icons in comments please If you needed an excuse beyond it being Friday, why not raise a glass to the 11th International Beer Day?…

Neat, another revenue stream Google's Android will charge internet search providers to appear on its court-mandated option screen from early next year.…

Cites health reasons amid net loss of $12.6m for Q2 GoDaddy chief exec Scott Wagner has stepped down citing "health reasons" as the hosting business reported a net loss of $12.6m (£10.4m) in its second-quarter results.…

When is a macro not a macro? When it comes with the product, apparently Interview The Document Foundation, custodian of LibreOffice, has defended the suite's security after attempts to patch a code execution flaw turned out to be "partial".…

Because no one will ever think to look for logins here On Call Welcome back to On Call, a special corner of The Register where readers can share tales of their cries for help and the deaf ears on which they fall.…

US and UK authorities get a different version of Cambridge Analytica scandal Facebook has been asked to explain "direct contradictions" in its testimony to the UK Parliament in light of new information revealed in a complaint from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week.…

Defense Sec halts contract decision, probes for Amazon bias The Pentagon is putting its controversial winner-takes-all $10bn cloud contract, dubbed JEDI, on hold as it investigates whether the whole process was biased in favor of Amazon.…

Chipzilla teases actual proper working 10nm notebook CPUs as Omni-Path 2 quietly dies Intel today waved its arms around in the air to remind us it has another family of products coming later this year – after quietly swinging the axe on another one.…

Super Cali 'leccy bikes are proving quite atrocious, even though the biz insists they really quite precocious Lyft has pulled its entire electric bike fleet from the streets of San Francisco and two other Bay Area cities after a number of cases of exploding batteries.…

Spreads the Openshift love around for Cloud Paks There are many reasons for IBM’s recent purchase of Red Hat, but one of them became apparent today - the Big Blue has announced that it has packed more than 100 products across its software portfolio into containers, designed for Red Hat’s OpenShift.…

You might also be slurping Chinese malware Palo Alto Networks has spotted a new cryptomining malware technique that not only wipes out any other miners present on the target machine but uses GitHub and Pastebin as part of its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.…

Harnessing container tech to ease the Agones of laaaaaggg Google is testing a new cloud service designed specifically for video game developers, based on a fully managed version of the open-source Agones project.…

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it Logowatch The British Army has launched yet another social media 'n' psyops unit and its logo will look remarkably familiar to anyone who's watched 2001: A Space Odyssey – or Captain Scarlet.…

Your gentle guide to thwarting miscreants Backgrounder Crime doesn’t pay? Tell that to the small businesses that fall victim to cyber-attacks every year and have to fork out cash to crooks. According to a 2018 survey from the UK's Federation of Small Businesses, 5.4m of their members were attacked by cyber criminals, resulting in a loss of more than £5bn.…

Better luck next year Outsourcing and IT services giant Capita has reported a fall in revenue of 6.3 per cent to £1.85bn in its half-year results to June, and a drop in profit before tax of 3.6 per cent to £31.2m.…

Little longer to wait before a busted installation can be rescued by Redmond's servers Microsoft responded to speculation that Windows 10 would be acquiring a cloud recovery option – with a terse confirmation in last night's Windows Insider emission.…

Notable omission from list of trusted stuff? Microsoft Outlook Google has begun rolling out the beta of its Advanced Protection Program for enterprise, a set of stricter security policies intended for employees "most at risk".…

First ever year of sales drop pinned on long lifecycles, lack of innovation Industry watcher Gartner has bad news for smartphone vendors this morning – 2019 is looking like it'll be the first year in which worldwide sales of smartphones decline.…

Meanwhile, Vodafone closes Liberty Global gobble Private equity investor Macquarie's £627m takeover of Hull-based broadband monopoly KCOM has been approved by the UK High Court.…

Make stock images great again! Uninspired by the stock imagery used by the media to depict cybersecurity, a graphic design group is offering cash prizes to anyone who comes up with something more original than dodgy hoodie-wearing laptop users with waterfalls of cascading 1s and 0s behind them.…

Straight outta launchin' -the name is ICE Cube- for a game called encryption at altitude The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled an experiment it hopes will overcome the problems that prevent encrypted communications between the Earth and orbiting spacecraft.…

American tech giant coughs up $9m for shipping vulnerable crates of crap to Uncle Sam Cisco finds its bank balance $8.6m lighter after it agreed to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit in the US over its video surveillance software.…

Age discrim legal battle reveals startling internal details An ongoing age-discrimination lawsuit against IBM by one of its former star cloud salesmen has this week blown the lid off Big Blue's inner struggle to reinvent itself as a hip'n'cool place for millennials.…

Moved more than 40,000 fake iStuffs while on student visa A Chinese citizen will be spending the next three-plus years as an involuntary guest of the US after he was convicted this week of smuggling tens of thousands of counterfeit Apple products into America.…

Not enough settlement cash to go around, sighs watchdog America's trade watchdog has officially told millions in the US not to apply for the $125 it promised each of them as part of the deal it struck with Equifax – and instead take up an offer of free credit monitoring.…

Nandu Thondavadi reaches agreement with America's financial watchdog The former CEO of IT consultancy firm Quandrant 4 has agreed to pay back the $2.9m he embezzled from the now-bankrupt business, in a deal [PDF] that finally closes the book on a long-running case.…

All going just as you'd expect, reckons Akamai Content delivery network Akamai Technologies reckons that despite the time and effort spent convincing people not to fall for phishing and other frauds, the bigger threat might actually be credential-stuffing attacks.…

NAND if you think it's bad now, wait 'till Japan's trade sanctions bite Samsung's quarterly profits have been cut in half by shrinking smartphone sales and the ongoing memory oversupply crisis.…

What, under its actual name? Microsoft has confirmed its long-rumoured plan of building massive data centres in Arizona. The company lifted the lid on three giant Sun-powered server farms in the state, shockingly all listed under its own name.…

www and https are 'irrelevant information', insists ad giant Google is having another go at killing off the displaying of https and www in the URL bar of upcoming versions of Chrome, despite protests from users.…

Yep, Patel continues age-old tradition. Plus: Five Eyes word games Priti Patel has declared war on encryption safeguards, demanding they be torn up for the convenience of police workers.…

Part of plan to 'transition' to a new IT system The UK's Department for Work and Pensions has handed Capita £112m for a two-year extension to the controversial Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessments contract.…

Report finds enterprise software collecting and shipping out sensitive customer information Enterprise security, analytics, and hardware management tools - the very tools used to keep data safe - are collecting and sharing far more information than customers might think.…

OrbitBeyond begone: Getting to the Moon is hard NASA made a slew of announcements yesterday aimed at bigging up the agency's efforts to get commercial companies involved with its deep space ambitions – despite one vendor dumping plans for a 2020 lunar landing.…

Educator, learn thyself. Prevention is better than cure Lancaster University has started withdrawing non-business-critical access to a breached student database – more than a week after the apparent hack took place.…

Better deals, crap service main reasons for switching, but only half surveyed have ever done it Long-suffering customers of internet providers are most likely to leave if they find a better deal elsewhere, although crappy customer service is also a major push factor.…

Blade to swing in 2021, but 'onboarding' for new Office 365ers starts in September The equally loved and loathed Skype for Business Online has a date with the Grim Reaper as Microsoft prepares to finally axe the poor old thing.…

The tech has been around for years – why aren’t we using it? A consortium of European organizations has launched ELIoT, an EU-funded project that hopes to develop commercial applications for visible light communications.…

Early-bird offer ends tonight – book your tickets now Event It’s great to have a vision when it comes to machine learning and AI, and at MCubed, we want to show you how to turn it into reality, whatever the challenges.…

RIPE approves new policy that shouldn't really exist If you want IPv4 addresses in Europe, there is now a literal waitlist to join.…

Su stumbles as Cook and Co log $54bn haul for quarter Junior varsity chip outfit AMD saw its stock take a hit Tuesday when its financial forecast fell short of analyst expectations.…

PASSENGERS IN PERIL? CRISIS IN THE SKIES? No – but neat ways to frig with your own aircraft An investigation into the computer security of small airplanes, the results of which were made public this week, will be sure to generate some flashy headlines. However, there are important caveats.…

What's that? They found 20 weapons and the landlord was linked to a truck bomb assassination? Oh sheeeeet Vid Newly released footage showing cops storming the house of the woman accused of hacking Capital One's cloud servers to steal 106 million people's personal information, has again raised questions about the over-militarization of the American police force.…