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I'm sure I'll manage, rules Mr Justice Fraser A High Court judge has said he is not biased against the Post Office as part of a long-running trial over the privatised network's infamous Horizon computer system.…

Opt-out? We can just tie a carrier bag over the cam – it doesn't have a stop button A TV production company has been fined £120,000 after it set up cameras in a maternity clinic for a documentary on stillbirths, but tragically didn't get patients' advance permission for filming.…

Gumstick card for notebooks Intel has combined its Optane 3D XPoint memory with up to a terabyte of QLC flash to provide a responsive, high-capacity gumstick card for lappies.…

Sadly, USS Cygnus still missing Boffins have battled cries of "but it looks like an onion ring" to show off the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow.…

Also promises to tell users that they are the product... like many of you didn't already know Facebook will alter its AI so it doesn't poke you to invite your dead friends to parties. For those still in the land of the living, the data slurping biz has also agreed to tweak its Ts&Cs so members know their personal information is the source of the creepy corp's income.…

Software provider tackles growing market sector Promo Enterprise mobility management software provider Jamf is staging its biggest Jamf Nation Roadshow at Tobacco Docklands venue, near Canary Wharf, on 17th May.…

Plus: A year ago today El Reg changed the law Aria Technology has been denied permission to appeal against a tax court's ruling that the PC and components dealer diddled HMRC out of £750,000 of VAT through a VAT carousel fraud.…

Welcome to Day One of the post NT 5.1 era Windows XP has finally reached the end of the road, as the last supported variant - POSReady 2009 - is supported no more.…

Still, at least it didn't smear sh!t all over the floor this time Busting down a stricken woman's bathroom door, guns at the ready, Oregon's finest expected to encounter a dangerous intruder. Instead they found a bungling Roomba Robot Vacuum giving the loo a once-over.…

If you're feeling a little bit Linux, p-p-p-pick up a p-p-p-Pengwin...1.2 There was good news this week for the Venn region of Windows 10 users who also enjoy a bit of Linux bothering on the desktop, as Pengwin 1.2 popped up on the Microsoft Store.…

Making it the first new top-level project since 2012 Kata Containers, the open-source effort to marry the speed of application containers with security features of virtual machines, has become the first ever top-level project to be accepted by the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) – besides its cloud platform, of course.…

At least it's not a two-week long outage this time Exclusive King's College London has suffered an IT worry but this time not of its own making – yesterday it warned staff and students that some accounts have been "compromised" due to an apparent brute-force attack on password systems.…

Software vendors report UK VAT API returning spurious data, confusing users Software vendors have complained that a crucial API that went live last week as part of HMRC's Making Tax Digital (MTD) reforms is returning spurious data – and that the taxman is blaming them.…

Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent Sonos stands accused of seeking to obtain "excessive" amounts of personal data without valid consent in a complaint filed with the UK's data watchdog.…

Finding a twin brown dwarfs around a giant star just adds to the confusion The discovery of two oddball brown dwarfs orbiting a giant orange star has reignited the question of whether brown dwarfs are feeble stars or bloated planets.…

The student election at Berkeley High School. What did you think we were talking about? A student government election in California has taken a bizarre turn after one of the candidates admitted to hacking fellow students in an effort to fix results.…

A bipartisan bill offers rules against dark patterns The US government, in conjunction with a self-policing tech industry organization, will become an arbiter of web and application design, if a bipartisan bill introduced on Tuesday becomes law.…

Cloud Services Platform gets rebranded Anthos and goes cross-cloud At its cloud-touting event Google Cloud Next'19 on Tuesday, the Chocolate Factory announced a service that debuted last year, now with a new name and broader scope.…

Three-year-old will have own kid disable it in 2067 It's something many of us have had to deal with: you type in the wrong code into your iPhone or iPad and it get disabled for some period of time.…

Hefty patch Tuesday checks in at just under 100 CVEs Updated A pair of actively-targeted Windows flaws highlight this month's edition of Redmond's Patch Tuesday, the monthly moment when admins sigh and determine what to fix..…

Tax software lobbying unites politicians like nothing else. Happy Tax Day America! It may soon be illegal for American citizens to file their taxes online for free, as both sides of a frequently fractured US Congress united on this important issue.…

Python still popular. Visual Basic for Applications liked about as much as meetings It seems coders cannot get enough of Rust, according to a survey conducted by dev saviours Stack Overflow.…

$7,500 compensation up for grabs if you're the right victim The remnants of internet giant Yahoo! are once again in court with hopes of settling the case over their massive 2013 hack that saw every single one of its three billion email accounts pwned.…

Supported by quantum storage that works at room temperature American researchers have managed to successfully transfer entangled photons over a fibre network stretching approximately 11 miles, marking the longest-distance quantum entanglement experiment to take place in the US.…

6 years in the cooler for cybercrim who made £700k+ from Angler Exploit Kit A student hacker who used pornography websites' ad networks to deploy the Angler Exploit Kit onto his marks' devices has been jailed for six years.…

First AI chip for cloud computing AI Day Qualcomm has dropped the veil on a trio of new chips today, including two Snapdragon processors for smartphones and one AI accelerator for cloud services.…

Next '19 SF shindig kicks off with a rocket for Bezos & Co Google Cloud Platform on Tuesday plans to announce a series of partnerships with open source software companies, a move that may mollify members of that community who believe cloud companies exploit their development labor without giving back.…

Train to outwit the cybercriminals Promo No organisation can afford to sit back and relax, trusting its IT systems to be impenetrable. However thorough you are, your cyber security measures may be insufficient to protect you from the growing numbers of cybercriminals who know how to get past most monitoring tools.…

You can take the plunge a bit early... if you dare The Windows 10 May 2019 Update has been plopped into the Release Preview ring as promised.…

HMRC seeks AI, voice, digital engagement bods as part of tech group's overhaul The UK's taxman is attempting to reposition itself as user-friendly, advertising a set of "customer experience" roles – including AI and voice – in its tech group as part of an overhaul of its operating model.…

SimpliVity, meet your Nutanix stepbrother ... bringing hypervisor choice Despite HPE's previous public efforts to distance itself from a hookup with Nutanix, it will, in fact team up with the punchy storage startup to ship a subscription-access hyperconverged box.…

aaS version of software promises faster deployments Juniper Networks has recast Contrail SD-WAN as a fluffy white service for software-defined networking in branch offices, dragging itself into the 21st century tech world.…

Slingshots? Hawks? Anything that will stop airports grounding planes during holibobs, really With one eye on the pre-Chrimbo debacle at Gatwick Airport, the Ministry of Defence has flung £2m at a "counter drone" fund to address the "threat to national security" posed by remote-controlled aircraft.…

But Chocolate Factory hopes Kurian's business chops will help win over the enterprise Google's new cloud chief, Thomas Kurian, has talked up plans to win enterprise customers by expanding his sales team, boosting its dealings with other businesses to shift kit and taking a "sympathetic" approach to legacy tech.…

The Vulture hooks a talon into Microsoft's Edge-y take on Chromium Having gripped our claws on Microsoft's shiny new Edge browser we have... thoughts. And they aren't all good ones.…

Gee, ya think? In what could be understatement of the week, a Connecticut town has admitted that "a poor decision was made" when 24 'merkin gallons (90 litres) of petrol were poured on a baseball field and set on fire.…

Then talks cloud, devs and Functions as a Service with engineering boss Interview Some might say we had it coming, but as newly minted SUSE Engineering boss Thomas Di Giacomo's keynote came to an end, this Reg hack took a chameleon to the face.…

Joe Beda keynotes at Continuous Lifecycle London Events If you’re working with containers, there’s a strong chance you’re working with Kubernetes. And if you’re working with Kubernetes, you really should be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle next month.…

We read thousands of pages of legalese so you don't have to Autonomy Trial With the Autonomy trial well and truly under way, what is each side saying about auditors' reports and due diligence? The Register has been through the legal papers to distil it down.…

Lunar Trump and other news from the rocket world Roundup SpaceX has set tomorrow as the launch date for the second Falcon Heavy, which was hauled up to pad 39A last week and its first stage engines ignited briefly as part of a routine static test.…

NetApp, Jive Software, Gigya and more in the doghouse Cloud data biz NetApp, pizza purveyor Prezzo and the UK arm of games developer Ubisoft have been named among a list of firms that haven't paid data protection fees to the UK's overstretched watchdog.…

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's hard. But so is my foot in your ass The US government has warned the organization that oversees the domain name system that it needs to hurry up and finalize privacy rules for Whois internet addresses or Congress will back replacement legislation.…

A metaphor for Brexit or IT admin's ineptitude? Generally a system crash is a private affair, but the BT Tower, one of London's tallest landmarks, spent much of the weekend displaying a Windows error message in a very public fashion.…

But let's ignore the shouting and dig into reality Analysis The UK government has started the legislative process for new online content laws that would make internet giants like Google and Facebook liable for the material that appears on their platforms and establish a new regulator to oversee them.…

Automated assembly of articles on lithium-ion battery research tests technology and patience Writers looking to make their names typing impenetrable technical tracts be warned: the machines have arrived and they're already penning scholarly books few will ever read.…

You say Edgium, they say Chredge, we say Chrexplorer – let's call the whole thing off Hands on After weeks of leaks, Microsoft has finally dropped the first official preview build of its shiny new Chromium-based browser.…

Spectre of GDPR continues to haunt the halls of Redmond The European Union's Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has announced an investigation into Microsoft products used by EU institutions.…

It's a pay-as-you-go world Teradata – the American hardware and software maker traditionally associated with reassuringly expensive, sprawling data storage and analytics systems – continues to slowly wrap its arm around the cloud.…

Proposal seeking to halt sale of Rekognition to US agencies to be heard at annual meeting The Securities and Exchange Commission has blocked Amazon's efforts to prevent shareholders voting at next month's Annual General Meeting on the sale of its facial recognition tech to the US government.…

Three decades of experience gone as staff voice fears for HANA platform SAP veteran and cloud president Robert Enslin has quit as the German enterprise software firm forges ahead with restructuring, amid industry talk that its in-memory data platform HANA is in trouble.…