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Evil hypervisors can work out what apps are running, extract data from encrypted guests Five boffins from four US universities have explored AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology – and found its defenses can be, in certain circumstances, bypassed with a bit of effort.…

Pension fund files lively lawsuit hate-letter after 500,000 people's deets put at risk Google has been accused by one of its investors of trying to cover up and downplay a security blunder in Google+ could have caused the leak of half-a-million netizens' data.…

You could be in line for a slice of $12m from PC slinger Asus is set to pay gamers in America up to $320 each and cover the cost of new motherboards and power adapters for a couple of its defective laptops.…

Power, infrastructure, factory gear can be hijacked without any password check at all Industrial control software vulnerabilities, which would be perfect for next-gen Stuxnet-style worms to exploit, are as prevalent as ever, apparently.…

Netlify dodges the blockers by going to the source Netlify this week whipped the covers off its take on dealing with the rise of ad blockers in analytics – do it on the server.…

Serverless auto-scales on demand, may cost more than provisioned Analysis Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of PostgreSQL on its Aurora Serverless platform.…

Namesake vessel cuts sea trials short, returns to Portsmouth HMS Queen Elizabeth is back in Pompey harbour having sprung yet another leak.…

Azure fans can put off the grim reaper for three more years Microsoft SQL Server 2008 hold-outs took their first, tentative steps into an unsupported future today as the Windows giant finally pulled the plug on support for the venerable relational database.…

If you had made a decision in 2013, we wouldn't all be here The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) copped the blame from witnesses in the European Court of Justice yesterday over its role in the Facebook case concerning the transfer of data to the US from its Irish subsidiary.…

Networks and phone builder joins compatriots Huawei in insisting it has nothing to hide Chinese network surveillance equipment vendor ZTE has opened a cybersecurity lab in Brussels, where it will offer interested parties a chance to verify the security of its products, services and processes.…

They'll never be so low again. Ask Marriott and British Airways The Information Commissioner's Office issued £3m worth of fines for data breaches in the year to April 2018 – a mere fraction of its recent proposed GDPR-enabled penalties on British Airways and Marriott.…

Long term release with enhanced controls for IT managers Mozilla's new Firefox, 68, is out, and among other things it fixes an annoyance in the "Dark mode" theme where the toolbar in Reader mode retained a "light" appearance.…

A year before THAT ill-fated buyout Autonomy Trial A senior finance department worker at Autonomy blew the whistle a year before it was purchased in 2011 by HP, saying the Brit software house was recognising revenue on deals before contracts were even signed.…

Suggests: Er, why don't you find out where legacy systems are, come up with a 'plan' Failure to tackle mountains of legacy tech, a lack of leadership and woolly definitions of digital have led to the Government Digital Service role becoming "increasingly unclear," a Parliamentary report has found.…

Almost half software engineering department walks after Musk's timing commitment - reports Tesla's Autopilot department – developing the software for the ‘leccy car maker's autonomous driving systems – has lost about 10 per cent of its staff, according to reports.…

All aboard for 'siliconisation of optical interconnect' Network overlord Cisco has had its own Victor Kiam moment and is set to slurp one of its suppliers, optical interconnect specialist Acacia Communications, for $2.6bn in cash.…

No more cloud-based DLL Hell or libraries snafus, vows Redmond beastie Microsoft's new code libraries for programming its Azure cloud address a significant problem for developers: the inconsistency between the huge numbers of supporting libraries.…

Suggested reading: Making Your Last Will and Testament Patients in the UK will be able to use Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to search for information from the National Health Service's website.…

UK ISP claimed signal 'couldn't be beaten.' Regulator disagreed Low-rent UK ISP TalkTalk has been told to stop claiming its Wi-Fi signal "can't be beaten by any of the other big providers" after fellow telco BT whinged to the UK's Advertising Standards Agency (ASA).…

For want of a closer look at the USB-C spec, a resistor was lost. For want of a resistor, the power was lost Mere weeks after launch, it appears that the hot (in more than one way) new Raspberry Pi 4 is a bit finnicky when it comes to power cables.…

Acquiring Red Hat: $34bn. Not knowing what 'hybrid cloud' means: Priceless. For everything else, there's IBM Exclusive It's been an oft-heard refrain at tech conferences that IBM "doesn't know what it's bought" with regard to Red Hat. Usually meant positively, it seems it might be a bit closer to the truth than anyone thought; at least, for Big Blue's marketing department.…

Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider Chinese telecoms giant Huawei may well be the world's most controversial technology company. It's also probably one of the most well-known names on the US government's "entity list", where it was placed in May this year.…

Interconnects, never sexy but very useful for Chipzilla's plans With Moore's so-called Law pretty much dead for now, and the shrinking of transistors proving more difficult, the name of the game today is packing multiple dies into chip packages rather than cramming more and more smaller transistors into more of less the same area of silicon.…

Not growing quite as fast as your Reg vulture's student debt, though Scientists think they've made a major leap towards nailing the expansion rate of the universe, known as Hubble's Constant, thanks to gravitational wave data.…

Claims nomination was 'light hearted' so they can laugh off this light-hearted article, too The brain-dead Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) has backtracked on its nomination of Mozilla as an "internet villain" for 2019 after online outcry.…

There's gold in your mountains of information Sponsored webcast It is not unusual for organisations to amass such large volumes of data that they struggle to examine it for real-time operational insights that will help them resolve issues and grow their business.…

Maker of Firefox fires fox from hen house guard duty Mozilla on Tuesday added digital certificates belonging to security biz DarkMatter and its subsidiaries to Firefox's OneCRL blocklist, based on concerns that the UAE-based company will misuse its power as a certificate authority (CA) to intercept online communications.…

Meanwhile, Adobe gives Flash the month off. SAP emits fixes, though Patch Tuesday Summer is now firmly upon us, and depending on where you are, the weather could be just about anything from stupidly hot to unbearably wet and cold right now given the state of the climate.…

Lawyer in the cooler for five years for operating notorious smut piracy honeypot scam One of the former attorneys behind dodgy copyright-demand factory Prenda Law has been sentenced to 60 months in prison. Yes, the same Prenda Law that seeded file-sharing networks with smut flicks it owned the rights to in order to extract eye-watering copyright infringement settlements from downloaders.…

Plucky Brit Land Speed Record hopeful bankrolled for South Africa test runs in October Brit sonic boom botherers Bloodhound are back and ready for a jaunt to South Africa (SA).…

Including one of El Reg's Discord accounts. Oops! GitHub has deleted a repository containing partial blueprints of DeepNude, the notorious AI-powered app that stripped clothes from women in photos to generate fake naked pics.…

Under-fire carrier insists on forcing privacy-trashed punters into out-of-court arbitration T-Mobile US has finally responded to a lawsuit filed in May that accuses it of trashing its customers' privacy by selling off their location data.…

Shifting your tech to outside suppliers? Maybe lock down systems first A former IT administrator has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for accessing his employer's computers without authorization and deleting company files.…

Is this the Chinese giant's Winnie the Pooh moment? Huawei has gagged infosec researchers from discussing now-patched critical vulnerabilities in the Chinese giant's web systems that could have been exploited to steal customer information and derail the manufacturer's operations.…

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it The UK's Information Commissioner's Office wants to fine Marriott Hotels £99m over its loss of 383 million customer booking records last year.…

But the software museum model prevails Brit software house Micro Focus is bleeding licensing revenue as sales people abandoned the business for pastures new, according to half-year financials filed today with the London Stock Exchange.…

DNS config snafu bares Jenkins instance contents to world+dog GE Aviation managed to expose a pile of its private keys on a misconfigured Jenkins instance that was exposed to the public internet, according to a security researcher who found it through Shodan.…

All about hybrid cloud... and Red Hat will stay neutral, says IBM IBM has officially completed the acquisition of Red Hat for around $34bn.…

No more internal use rights for channel types – you'll have to pay for them yourselves More than 2,500 resellers and integrators have signed a petition opposing Microsoft's intention to remove free software licences granted to members of the channel to run their business.…

Scupper that, a real pirate would've manned the cannons The Jolly Roger, a catchall term for flags displayed by pirates during the early 18th century, was once a symbol to be feared across the Seven Seas. Now it seems the standard can been felled by one measly complaint – and UK planning regulations.…

From elephants to fish, there's no GDPR in the animal kingdom Boffins at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology are finally ready to switch on Icarus – a system that will track the migration of animals by using an antenna installed at the International Space Station (ISS).…

'A legitimate solution to a poor user experience' Zoom Video Communications, whose web conferencing service is used by millions, is under fire for installing a hidden web server on Macs in order to bypass user consent when joining a meeting.…

Shetland Space Centre's sister company is a distillery. Cool Roundup While wind kept Arianespace's Vega grounded, it was second time lucky for Russia's Meteor-M and a first 100 for Rocket Lab.…

Forgive the sins of the fathers: Mozilla to have another go at tackling teenage flaw Mozilla has been sitting on a new variant of an age-old flaw for almost a year, even with public disclosure happening back in January.…

Hardware nothing special, but AWS integration gets you up and running fast Hands On While it's fair to say Amazon Web Services' upgraded DeepLens AI camera is essentially a mini PC with a cloud-connected HD camera, it also has many slick features.…

BT, DXC, Accenture, Keysource snouts removed from trough as contracts re-tendered London's Metropolitan Police is to meet suppliers next week to discuss an overhaul of £500m worth of tech services contracts that will expire in the next two to three years.…

Space doc brings sights and sounds of life in orbit straight to your face There are plenty of virtual reality "experiences" involving space to keep fans happy. The Register had a go at the latest of the breed, which aims to bump the quality up a notch.…

Exec feels the sizzle at town hall meeting It is a "myth" that DXC Technology is exporting thousands of frontline customer support jobs from the US to cheaper offshore locations – the figure is in the hundreds, a company vice president has said.…

Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger Samba says its next release will switch off previously on-by-default support for the aging and easily subverted SMB1 protocol. It can be reenabled for those truly desperate to use the godforsaken deprecated protocol version.…