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Promises to go all Teddy Roosevelt on anti-trust if elected Bernie Sanders will "absolutely" look at breaking up Facebook, Google and Amazon if he becomes president.…

We'd love to support the standard, says XML inventor Tim Bray - but why not adopt ours instead? Amazon Web Services has gone live with an upgrade of its CloudWatch Events service, EventBridge, which has integration with third-party SaaS applications built in.…

The worst drug-smuggling attempt we've ever seen Hats off to Spanish customs at Barcelona Airport who spotted a Baldrick-level attempt to smuggle cocaine into the Catalan capital.…

Your gentle introduction to this on-and-off prem tech Backgrounder The move to hybrid cloud is growing.…

And Windows XP is alive and not well in the public sector The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has had another busy year trying to disrupt cybercrime.…

Ex-Autonomy CEO continues to deny Filetek was a revenue-pumping contra deal Autonomy Trial London's High Court has seen emails from ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch in which he berated company salespeople for "a massive f***-up" after they bungled a major deal.…

Mind that pocket, Neil... oops On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A in Florida on an eight-day mission to the Moon and back.…

It's the Safari Workaround – and there's no working around it this time The man who tried and failed to run a not-a-data-protection-class-action-honest-guv lawsuit against Google in England's High Court is having another crack at it in the Court of Appeal.…

Take a RISC, not a RISC-V, with us, says Softbank's processor design house Attention, chip designers. If you want to add CPU and GPU cores, and other technology, from Arm to your homegrown silicon, and have balked at the upfront costs, this may be of interest.…

Big Blue sings an Appsody to make its software stack easier to use IBM is the latest to pile into devops darling Kubernetes, pulling its Kabanero project out the bag at the O’Reilly Open Source Software conference, currently under way in Portland, Oregon.…

API blunder exposes data, fix incoming from Lenovo Lenovo is emitting an emergency firmware patch for Iomega NAS devices after the network-attached storage boxes were discovered inadvertently offering millions of files to the internet via an insecure software interface.…

Nid fi yw'r bwlb mwyaf disglair yn y canhwyllyr Smart meters in England are suddenly switching to Welsh language displays, much to the confusion of owners.…

Meanwhile, Australia signs 98 federal agencies up to service The German state of Hessen has warned schools not to use Office 365 because the Microsoft suite's cloud storage and telemetry collection are not compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.…

Now, how about those Surface Book 2s? Microsoft emitted a fresh build of October's Windows 10 last night with tweaks that should bring a smile to the face of Jeff Bezos.…

Also: Virgin Orbit demonstrates it can drop stuff off a 747 Roundup While some at NASA may still be obsessing over past glories, other eyes remained fixed on the Moon, Mars and beyond in this week's rocket-bothering roundup.…

Patched IDOR hole would have been child's play to exploit A now-patched vulnerability in the Amadeus flight reservation system – used by airlines around the planet – could, or may, have been exploited by miscreants to view strangers' boarding passes.…

Meanwhile, UK users still first line of defence against fake ads The fake-Facebook-ad-spotting service goes live today, backed by a £3m donation to Citizens Advice coughed by the social network as a result of legal action from MoneySavingExpert scribe Martin Lewis.…

What could possibly go wrong? Exclusive Wonderful news for some US Medicaid patients: king of the cost-cutters DXC is planning to shunt their data into Amazon's cloud.…

Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam Stob "Hi, I am James Bond (Business Development Manager). We specialize in re-designing and re-developing websites if you are considering any of the following projects. Please let us know in case you are interested." – Spam email received by the author…

It records everything, even when someone didn't want to be overheard? And it's in your house? Was zum Teufel! The German parliament has been warned by its official eggheads that Amazon's Alexa digital assistant may not be legal – because it stores voice recordings and overhears things it is not supposed to.…

Learn practical AI skills from the best this year ‒ book your early-bird tickets now Event Our offer of discount early-bird tickets for Minds Mastering Machines ends next Monday, so act now if you want to join us to learn how real organisations can exploit machine learning and artificial intelligence and save big.…

Even so, human nerds are left in the dust and this neural net can be used for other tricks A new neural-network can solve a Rubik’s cube twice as fast as the fastest human – though roughly three times slower than the fastest dumb algorithm – according to research published in Nature Machine Intelligence on Monday.…

Just build houses near the ice caps to produce water and grow food. Easy! We may be able to survive and live on Mars in regions protected by thin ceilings of silica aerogel, a strong lightweight material that insulates heat and blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation while weighing almost nothing.…

With trade ban set to kick in next month, jockeying continues Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer targeted by a Trump administration trade ban, is expected to dismiss a substantial number of people in the US in the coming weeks.…

We pay for the hosting so the big G stays: Open-source community-driven code lingo site must sport giant's brand Back in 2009, Google chose to name its latest programming language Go, a decision that is still giving it a migraine…

But Zuck Inc got in first and announced it was delaying its unwelcome electronic currency The US Treasury Secretary today put a big dent into Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plans, by claiming it would be a "national security risk," as well as a likely source of money laundering for – among others – terrorists.…

Strewth, mate! On Friday, with tax-return season underway, the websites of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) suddenly went TITSUP (Totally Inefficient Tax Service: Under Performing), causing anguish to thousands of Aussies.…

Looks like the ailing security shop priced itself out of an acquisition by chip giant Symantec's share price has plunged on reports that its planned merger with Broadcom has fallen through.…

Complete with an immersion-cooled machine learning cluster Goonhilly Earth Station, the Cornish-based satellite comms and space tech hub, has cut the ribbon on a data centre to sell colocation and managed services.…

Binary and blueprints: is this the nerdiest banknote ever? Legendary codebreaker and father of theoretical computer science Alan Turing will soon be gracing your pocket on the side of a shiny new £50 note.…

No wonder he seems so well informed Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch sensationally admitted to London's High Court this afternoon that he has been reading courtroom evidence in advance of being questioned about it.…

Plus: American biz bods could say yes way to Zhengfei... in '2 to 4 weeks' The UK's Science and Technology Select Committee said it can't find any "technical grounds" for chopping Huawei out of the UK's 5G and other telco networks, but said government should consider "ethical" issues and its relationship with "allies".…

They blame IWF-related error, IWF says 'it's not us, it's you' UK internet service provider Virgin Media has insisted it does not block entire domains "as a matter of course" after it stopped its customers from viewing the whole of Imgur this morning – on the say-so of the Internet Watch Foundation.…

Gavel falls on £627m valuation – new owner may look to offload ailing divisions The battle for ownership of KCOM, the East Yorkshire-based broadband provider and slinger of clouds, has finally ended with private equity investor Macquarie on top.…

*Timing Is Terrible Say Users Plaintively The multibillion-euro navigation system Galileo went dark over the weekend.…

Common ground found on People's Framework revamp after months of haggling Prospect the union has advised BT employees to approve the so-called People's Framework, a programme of change that includes a revamp of pay and grading structures, following months of discussions.…

Also: a new build brings Android joy to more users. Assuming it actually installs Roundup Microsoft was cock-a-hoop over its new London retail presence last week while its resellers were less than impressed with the company's prancing around licensing. However, a whole bunch of other things happened at the company while we were looking at the big stuff.…

Researchers show limited success in getting rid of data AI systems have weird memories. The machines desperately cling onto the data they’ve been trained on, making it difficult to delete bits of it. In fact, they often have to be completely retrained from scratch with the newer, smaller dataset.…

Don't like it? Take it to an employment tribunal! The UK government disregarded a raft of concerns about extending IR35 to the private sector in its response to a consultation over off-payroll working rules, industry groups have said.…

More than four decades on, we can finally shine the light on this tale Who, Me? As the weekend disappears with the speed of a Phantom flung off an aircraft carrier, it is time to console ourselves with another tale of decades-old hijinks in The Register's weekly Who, Me? column.…

Account hijacking claimed by some but it may just be a developer behaving badly Another JavaScript package in the npm registry - the installer for PureScript - has been tampered with, leading project maintainers to revise their software to purge the malicious code.…

What you need to know from infosec land lately Roundup Here is a brief look at some of the other security stories floating around right now.…

Practical steps for your migration journey Sponsored webcast Moving to the cloud is not as simple as we have sometimes been led to believe. Many organisations are eager to benefit from the functionality and convenience that the cloud offers but find themselves constrained by the past.…

Rapid-fire summary of machine-learning news Roundup Hello, here’s a few announcements from the world of machine learning beyond what we’ve already covered this week.…

'Spooky action' caught on camera – see it for yourself Pic Physicists at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, have produced the first-ever image of a strong form of quantum entanglement, known as Bell entanglement.…

Hot on heels of $1.5m win against his employers The former Mars InSight Lander engineer who won $1.5m from his employer after it sacked him for whistleblowing is now suing NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab for its part in his professional downfall.…

But how will it compare against Wi-Fi 6? American mobile connectivity biz JMA Wireless claims to have completed the design of a 5G product stack designed specifically to provide wireless networking within buildings.…

AWS extension for debugging Lambda shuffles out of preview Amazon emitted the AWS toolkit for Microsoft's Visual Studio Code yesterday in an effort to nudge developers keen on the open-source editor toward its cloud.…

Proposed settlement over Cambridge Analytica brouhaha slammed as ‘a mosquito bite’ Facebook will be asked to fork out $5bn in a settlement with America's trade watchdog, the FTC, following last year's Cambridge Analytica fiasco, it was reported Friday.…

Contrary to honor and integrity When it emerged that border patrol agents were posting racist, sexist and abusive content on a secret Facebook group, the chief of the agency did the right thing and condemned the behavior.…