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Engineers struggled to restore own packet-starved systems during four-hour SNAFU Google says its four-hour wobble across America and some other parts of the world on Sunday was caused by a bungled reconfiguration of its servers.…

US House Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust Subcommittee open Big Tech investigation American lawmakers are opening an investigation into the dominance of large digital companies in their respective marketplaces, sending a collective shudder across Silicon Valley.…

Or so claim these security bods after clocking proxy-installing fake Flash plugin A devious and baffling new strain of malware intercepts and tampers with internet traffic on infected Apple Macs to inject Bing results into users' Google search results, we're told.…

Astro-amateurs catch raging storm in a moment of shedding Updated The storm that has been raging on Jupiter for the last 400 years or so could be coming to an end earlier than expected, judging by observations from some in the amateur astronomer community.…

Free open source office suite gets better, but use the redaction tools with care The Document Foundation has released the first beta of LibreOffice 6.3, with new features including a redaction tool and a Fourier Analysis spreadsheet function.…

'Underperformance', liquidity problems fingered, vendor relationships 'increasingly strained' American cloud peddler Fusion Connect has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after entering a series of risky mergers and accumulating more debt than it could hope to repay.…

Bruce Willis thankfully not involved Oracle has emitted an update for release 5 of its modestly named Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) for Linux.…

When supply doesn't meet demand, biz goes looking for action elsewhere With the Windows 7 refresh cycles forecast to run and run, Intel's protracted CPU shortage is sending conservative corporate enterprise buyers into the arms of AMD – or so says HP Inc's CEO.…

Like a childhood dream come true Samsung smartphones are set to do a lot more than just run Crysis after the company agreed to license AMD's GPU designs for its mobile devices in a multi-year deal.…

Upgraded its systems after attack in early '18, just enough to detect attack in late '18 The Australian National University (ANU) today copped to a fresh breach in which intruders gained access to "significant amounts" of data stretching back 19 years.…

Developing for iGiant's platform just got way easier WWDC Apple's freshly laid SwiftUI uses a declarative syntax to create user interfaces and enables powerful new visual design tools in Xcode, the company's developer tool for Mac and iOS applications.…

Used in 34% of American searches. Really Microsoft's don't-mention-the-G-word search engine, Bing, has just the candles blown out on its 10th birthday cake.…

Boffins craft code that compresses machine-learning models for modest microchips Eggheads have devised software that can automatically produce machine-learning models small enough to run inside tiny microcontrollers.…

Journey into future of disruption with Carl Miller Nothing demonstrates the extent to which Silicon Valley has disrupted society better than Twitter and the head of state who seemingly live tweets his thoughts as they occur to him: Donald Trump.…

How to turn your data into valuable business insights Sponsored webcast The arrival of cloud, 5G, the internet of things, and a proliferation of increasingly complex application environments has generated an ever-growing volume of data that can make mere IT mortals feel overwhelmed by a tsunami of machine data. The velocity, volume, variety and veracity factors must be factored into how companies can sift through all their data and turn it into clear insights that benefit their business and advance its goals.…

Also: 53 years since NASA first soft-landed on Moon Roundup Last week NASA finally issued an update on the SpaceX Crew Dragon anomaly while Northrop Grumman enjoyed one all of its very own.…

Video streams can be hijacked by anyone on your Wi-Fi Owners of Supra Smart Cloud TVs are in danger of getting some unwanted programming: it's possible for miscreants or malware on your Wi-Fi network to switch whatever you're watching for video of their or its choosing.…

Not due to whiz past, 5.9 million km away, until 2123. NASA still wants to crash a DART into it A pair of asteroids just whizzed past Earth at 70,000 KPH (43,496 MPH), and although the flyby presented no danger to our home world, we can learn from the close encounter to potentially thwart any future menaces from the cosmos.…

Redmond kinda just shrugs after advertising systems sling scareware pop-ups at users Application makers are crying foul after some of their programs distributed via the Windows Store popped open tech-support scam ads on users' desktops.…

CJ Silverio floats open-source federated approach to save JavaScript community from corporate clutches After being ousted late last year as CTO of JavaScript package registry NPM Inc in a management shakeup, CJ Silverio on Saturday unveiled a self-hosted federated package registry called Entropic that she hopes will serve the JavaScript community better than her former employer's technology.…

Short-sighted and short-tempered, according to CTA A top, and usually rather conservative, technology trade body has turned on President Trump over his threat to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico into the United States.…

We sat through 150 minutes of WWDC keynote so you didn't have to suffer At its Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday, Tim Cook addressed the Apple faithful and promised a host of software updates and some very expensive hardware – so much so that the hapless presenter was booed when announcing a $999 monitor stand.…

Bet ya regret that ironic neverjihaditsogood89 at hotmail.com addy now, huh? Analysis The US government will now require "most" visa applicants to provide details of their social media accounts before they are allowed into the country.…

Big Blue headed to US Supreme Court in battle over investment plans The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case between IBM and employees who have accused the enterprise computing giant of mishandling their retirement fund.…

Analyst clips 2019 shipments, reckons 3.1% market shrinkage Huawei may have reassessed its ambitions to summit the global smartphone market by 2020 due to political and economic uncertainty between the US and China.…

To a fellow China-based firm, mind you Huawei is reportedly flogging off part of its undersea telecoms cable business, barely six weeks after Australia blocked its attempts to win a major cable contract.…

In abstentia ruling would have been first step to extradition A Swedish court has ruled against detaining WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or seeking his extradition over an allegation of rape.…

Another regulator lines up to have a kick Google shares took more than a 6 per cent tumble this morning as twitchy investors heard reports the US Department of Justice was about to launch a major investigation into the ad giant's business practices.…

Major content wrangler adopts Wrangler as the official CLI Ever-present content delivery network operator Cloudflare has rolled out a bunch of goodies for developers working with its serverless platform.…

6 weeks after board approves pension fund offer, private equity biz trumps bid Hull-based fibre flinger KCOM has thrown its lot behind a £563m bid from private equity investor Macquarie, dropping the previously accepted £504m offer from one of the UK's largest pension funds.…

High street's online killer appears on actual high street, again The British High Street has a very unlikely saviour in the shape of Amazon following news that physical retail outlets are set to er, pop-up across the UK this year.…

Academic outfit U-turns on blacklisting Chinese bogeyman The US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has lifted its sanctions on Huawei-linked academic reviewers.…

Meet Network Cloud – Brit telco's latest infrastructure play BT will be using software-defined networking (SDN) tools from Juniper Networks to breathe new life into its ageing infrastructure and prepare it for the deluge of data expected when 5G goes mainstream.…

Also: Excel gets OCR smarts and Win 10 Oct 2018 Update hits 30% Roundup The Redmond gang enjoyed a busy week, emitting a new build, shovelling new toys into old apps and (temporarily) making insiders look elsewhere for kitten videos.…

Agenda revealed, blind bird tickets about to take flight Events We're pleased as punch to announce the first speakers for MCubed London 2019, our three-day dive into machine learning, AI and data science, and what they mean for real-world companies and organisations.…

Three words to ruin an Apple engineer's day: 'Patrick Wardle disclosure' Malware can bypass protections in macOS Mojave, and potentially access user data as well as the webcam and mic – by exploiting a hole in Apple's legacy app support.…

Childish prank for childish visitor Here's hoping Trump spotted the welcome willy at the Essex village of Hatfield Heath when he flew into London Stansted Airport this morning for his UK state visit.…

No data nicked in weekend attack but systems and server pulled to contain infection Bio-analytical testing biz Eurofins Scientific today admitted it was the subject of a ransomware attack at the weekend.…

Service will split into separate apps for music, TV, podcasts Apple is expected to confirm the imminent death of its iTunes service to be replaced with separate apps for music, video and podcasts.…

Mega-chips ahoy: German chip biz takes over piece of US real estate Munich-based Infineon has said it will cough €9bn for California's Cypress Semiconductor.…

Plus machine systems can trounce humans at Quake III flag captures Roundup Let's get right to it: here's your latest roundup of recent machine-learning related news beyond what we've already reported.…

Heaven forfend, someone had to use their actual TV speakers Owners of Bose kit are filling support forums with moans that a recent firmware update has introduced a deeply irritating crackling noise to "the world's best performing soundbar".…

Plus a punched card reader and some extra manuals Big congratulations to Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn, who have raised enough cash to get their rescued IBM 360s back from Nuremberg.…

Hey – watch where you're pointing that code! Who, Me? A fresh week means a fresh story to add to The Register's regular hall of shame where hapless techies tell tales of in-the-field slip-ups: welcome to Who, Me?…

Another week of security mishaps is in the books Roundup Here's a quick summary of news in the world of information security beyond everything we've already covered.…

Unlucky netizens struggle to connect to web giant suffering from 'network congestion' Google is right now recovering from a multi-hour outage that knocked several of its internet services offline for unlucky netizens on Sunday.…

Server hoster apologizes, undoes system slaying after washing away AI org Nicolas Beauvais, the CTO of a two-person AI startup called Raisup, raised a ruckus on Twitter on Friday to revive his company and it worked.…

What a radical idea Maine is about to become the latest US state to – and get this – mandate that ISPs obtain subscribers' permission before selling their data to advertisers.…

Popular admin tool shifts to .Net Core 3.0 amid talk of future features Microsoft on Thursday released a preview version of PowerShell 7, its command-line shell and scripting language for administrators. The software was once was limited to Windows but opened up to Linux (including arm64) and macOS three years ago.…

Nothing to see here, pervs – it is all in your mind Attempts by the US Air Force to keep up with its Navy pilot rivals in the fine art of contrail cock drawing is nothing of the sort, according to service flacks.…