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Kilometre-sized chunk of rock that was missed for decades The newly discovered kilometre-sized asteroid dubbed 2019 LF6 has the shortest solar year around our Sun – compared to all the other space rocks found floating around the Solar System at just 151 days.…

Countries outside America, Canada, Europe gain a filter and may not even notice On Tuesday, as promised earlier this year, Google plans to begin enforcing ad quality requirements in its Chrome browser worldwide, based on the ad industry's conveniently self-defined standards.…

Oral arguments on Tuesday in case that broke Section 230 Two execs at defunct online classifed ads site Backpage will be heading to court on Tuesday, clinging to America's First Amendment in an effort to avoid jail time.…

DLL or no DLL? Microsoft has lifted the lid on the inner-workings of a particularly nasty piece of fileless malware that aims to pilfer user data without needing to install software on the victim's machine.…

Thinks British public will be fine getting stopped and searched on faulty software's say so The Chinese government has an unlikely supporter of its facial recognition program: the head of London's Metropolitan Police union.…

In summary: Nice try, Redmond, but you'll have to try harder to upset folks Microsoft's latest official Windows 10 update, OS Build 18362.207, from June 27, 2019, can potentially break your VPN. But it probably won't because it's an edge case that can be expected to affect very few people.…

Alongside Navi GPUs, and a Ryzen 3 APU priced at just $99 Ever-ambitious chip maker AMD has started shipping the third generation of its Ryzen CPUs, built on the 7nm process.…

Impeccable history swapped for a CD packed with code An Apple-1 Operation Manual is up for auction this week, having been traded to a database programmer in exchange for code 20 years ago.…

Confirmed: Windows 1.11 is a thing. Kind of Microsoft disappointed fans today by revealing that its Windows 1 teasing was not a precursor to another open-sourcing, but just a marketing tie-in.…

If it worked, it'd expose wealthy showoffs binning outdated electro motors for newer ones Elon Musk has promised owners of older Tesla cars will get access to an upgraded custom chip which he claims will provide the hardware required for eventual full-self-driving functions.…

European fibre for American firm with global aspirations American network operator GTT is to slurp Dutch telco KPN's networking biz - save for its domestic operations - for roughly €50m in cash.…

First rule of being a fake cop, don't hassle real cops A Florida man has been arrested for impersonating a police officer after pulling over an actual police officer, cops have said.…

Maybe time to put 4th amendment-bothering facial recog on ICE? The FBI and American Immigration and Customs officials are using facial recognition software to scan states' driving licence photograph databases to look for suspects and possible witnesses.…

'Come to learn and be inspired about science' in Cheshire. Satellite tracking in Dundee? Nah... There was good news and bad news for UK space boffinry this weekend: Jodrell Bank Observatory was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, while the more humble Dundee Satellite Receiving Station stood at the edge of oblivion.…

Says she'll keep at philanthropy 'until the safe is empty' Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is handing his now ex-wife Mackenzie $38bn in shares as part of the final settlement.…

Also: Service Fabric resumes rolling out. And for Insiders? One Hub to rule 'em all (kind of) Round Up While the US prepared to celebrate its escape from the clutches of British control – a USexit if you will – Microsoft continued its rich tradition of flinging out software and fixing bugs.…

Digital project had gaping holes. On the bright side, here's Craig David all over your *boink* Medway council in Kent has corked a hole in its website that spat out residents' names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses after a Reg reader got in touch to complain.…

Has tax been made digital yet? Not quite, it would appear Businesses and accountants are struggling to sign up to HMRC's new online VAT filing system, raising concerns that the systems will be unable to cope with the quarterly deadline next month.…

Half a million records lost? £183m GDPR fine lined up The UK Information Commissioner's Office has warned BA it faces a whopping £183.39m following the theft of million customer records from its website and mobile app servers.…

That feeling when a government contract slips through your fingers Who, Me? Tear your gaze away from the retreating rear of the weekend and instead look forward to another week filled with opportunity, adventure and, of course, The Register's Who, Me? Column.…

Plus, Florida Man out of a job for paying off hackers Between the plentiful beverages and copious amounts of meat, pretty much everyone in the US is hung over from Independence Day in one form or another, so let's jump right into the security news.…

Retort follows nomination for internet villain for helping people bypass UK web filters Mozilla says its baffled by the UK Internet Services Providers’ Association following the trade group's decision to nominate the public benefit browser maker as the internet's 2019 villain of the year.…

Unified Comms, Jabber among targets for clean-up Cisco has delivered a bundle of 17 security updates to address 18-CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its networking and communications gear.…

Google told startup its files are gone for good An interior design tools startup called Mosss on Wednesday sued Google to get it to restore its data after someone at the startup accidentally deleted the firm's G Suite account.…

Facebook, Google have a reason to be worried The UK's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into online advertising – and Facebook and Google are in its sights.…

Chalk that up as a third quarter of consecutive decline Samsung Electronics has estimated that operating profit for its second calendar quarter of 2019 will fall by a whopping 56 per cent due to continued crappy demand for memory chips.…

It was a game of two halves The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has confirmed it suffered a security breach of its payroll systems, which was discovered last month, saying no staff data had been compromised.…

Don't worry, it's rather more vanilla than Glasgow in the '80s Behold, the Great British summer. Lawnmowers, jet engines and the faint tinkling of "Yankee Doodle" on the breeze. Drugs? Frozen treats? Either way, the pitter-patter of tiny feet follows.…

Samsung gives drivers another excuse for being a bit rubbish: 5G The 5G hype-wagon continued this week as Samsung sent a car up the UK's famous Goodwood Hillclimb that was being remotely controlled via a couple of Galaxy S10 handsets running on Vodafone's shiny new 5G network.…

Our hero and the Pimply Faced Youth valiantly bring pub o' clock closer for us all Episode 5 "I've forgotten more about computing than you'll ever know!" I snap at the PFY in response to a sarcastic remark.…

Uni apologises for barring students on royal visit and 'fesses up to ICO Kings College London breached the General Data Protection Regulations when it shared a list of student activists with the police and barred the activists from campus during a visit by the Queen, an independent report (PDF) has found.…

I command you IT devil... get out! Something for the Weekend, Sir? Dabbsy has certain commitments which mean he won't be able to file a fresh one for you this week. So El Reg is running a column he wrote in 2013 in the hopes you don't remember reading it. We barely remember breakfast. Did we have breakfast? – Love, the Vulture backroom gremlins…

Must just be the rest of the tech industry then Continued uncertainties caused by Brexit may be giving all sorts of businesses sleepless nights – but HP Inc claims it isn't among them.…

330Mbps will have to do. Boohoo Openreach has admitted that 50,000 premises covered by its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network can only get speeds of up to 330Mbps rather than the much-touted 1Gbps.…

Animal-AI Olympics worth a few $$$ if you fancy it Roundup This week in AI, Facebook inadvertently showed us how it tags pics for machine learning, Baidu pushed out auto auto code to world+dog as well as announcing deals with Intel and Huawei, and there's $7,500 to be won for anyone who can whip up an animal-like intelligence.…

Friends don't let friends mock up Windows dialogs On Call Hurrah, the weekend is here! And with it comes the promise of two days free of work and filled with joy. Calm your excitement with another tale from those at the coalface in our regular On Call feature.…

It's one rule for Jeff Bezos' online empire, and another for everyone else Amazon has refused to publish data about the energy consumption and carbon emissions of its business in Australia, including vast server farms, claiming its contribution to climate change is a trade secret.…

Clings to its own days of independence but no one is celebrating MapR, the struggling Hadoop data analytics firm and one-time unicorn, has missed its 3 July deadline to sell out or shut up shop.…

It’s all lulz until someone goes to prison Austin Thompson, aka DerpTrolling, who came to prominence in 2013 by launching Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against major video game companies, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison by a federal court.…

In which case, you're sh!t out of luck because it's not supported Microsoft has brought a bunch of enhancements with version 1.36 of Visual Studio Code, its popular open-source editor.…

'Cyber stuff is still happening and some businesses are taking it more seriously' UK businesses have reported a significant fall in cyber attacks over the last 12 months.…

Scalable probe manufacturing process a boon for medicine, human-computer interfaces Boffins at the University of Surrey are working on a novel method of scanning cells for information – they claim to have developed a scalable manufacturing process for U-shaped nanowire field-effect transistor probes, which were then successfully used to record the inner activity of human cells that generate electricity.…

Legal proceedings launched over 'false, misleading and deceptive' representations Samsung created "false, misleading and deceptive" representations in marketing material about the Galaxy smartphone range's resistance to water, according to a consumer watchdog down under.…

Just 8 out of 42 matches correct, say uni researchers Facial recognition technology trialled by the Metropolitan Police is highly inaccurate and its deployment is likely to be found "unlawful" if challenged in court, an excoriating independent report has found.…

Tens of thousands still to find blinking in the darkness The world's largest single-dish radio telescope, an enormous white circle half a kilometre in diameter, has helped scientists uncover 84 new pulsars since it began collecting data two years ago.…

Scam undone by key card and timecard logs A software developer employed by two different IT subcontractors participating in separate National Security Agency (NSA) contracts has pleaded guilty to submitting false claims about the number of hours he worked, according to the US Department of Justice.…

The Register goes to the flicks The Register took a spin down memory lane to have a look at the just-released-in-the-UK Apollo 11 film and to ask the question: is it any good? We are pleased to report back on our findings.…

How to get into Tech Nation's growth programme for UK artificial intelligence Promo Artificial intelligence is the future, with countries around the world investing heavily in initiatives that solve real-world problems using AI.…

Government-backed campaign going after bug that was patched in 2017 An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.…

It's not a two Huawei street just yet, says top brass The US Department of Commerce is holding strong on the ban on US firms selling kit to Huawei, despite word from the White House that sanctions against the Chinese firm might be lifted.…