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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.…

The culprit? .*(?:.*=.*) Cloudflare has published a detailed and refreshingly honest report into precisely what went wrong earlier this month when its systems fell over and took a big wedge of the internet with it.…

ML Perf could do with more entrants' results Analysis Nvidia and Google continue to dominate in AI hardware, according to the latest benchmarking results from the ML Perf project published this week.…

Scrambling addresses can't always hide you from stalkers, say eggheads A team of US academics have proposed a simple method to defeat the Bluetooth LE standard's anti-tracking measures.…

He also said they're working with the CIA Infosec company ESET is reportedly suing a member of the Slovakian Parliament for insulting it over social media.…

Good news for Amazon, Microsoft. Meanwhile: A lawmaker offers new hope to database giant Oracle today lost its bid to be considered for the US Department of Defense's Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, leaving either Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure as the likely winner of the $10bn, decade-long deal.…

Apple's latest entry-level lappy gets the teardown treatment Apple doesn't think you need function keys in its two-port 13" MacBook Pro. But the delight of the butterfly keyboard continues to linger like a noxious emission in an elevator.…

And yet his pre-HP buyout allegations got UK finance watchdogs sniffing Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has accused the financial director who brought an internal accounting scandal to his attention of trying to blackmail the software company – and denied suggestions he tried to find a pretext for sacking the beancounter.…

Yep, Usenet is still around Remember Usenet, the 1980s distributed messaging and file-sharing service that predates the web? Turns out the old-school network is still popular in some parts of mainland Europe as a method of file exchange, and thus remains a pain in the ass for copyright holders.…

Software-snatcher backs down on licence plans Faced with continued rumbles of discontent from its reseller network on the eve of its Inspire conference, Microsoft has climbed down from plans to pull free software licences from its channel chums.…

Second successful excursion for JAXA boffins Japan's Hayabusa2 probe returned to its home position above the asteroid Ryugu today after conducting a second touch-and-go operation.…

How you holding up, Mozilla? Fresh from wiping egg off face after its unfortunate nomination of Mozilla as "internet villain" for 2019, the Internet Services Providers Association (ISPA) has doled out other awards to, er, BT and Openreach.…

1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are As if further indication was needed of Britain's slide into a surveillance state, Home Secretary Sajid Javid has backed highly flawed police trials of facial recognition cameras.…

Big three only got bigger after snaffling remaining Intel CPUs Global PC sales are back in the black with almost 63 million computers finding a temporary home in warehouses owned by distributors or retailers, preliminary figures reported by Gartner claim.…

Hopefully the bacon was brought home safely A road in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, briefly became unsuitable for vegetarians yesterday when a truck carrying pig intestines spilled its load.…

How dare they. There are shareholders to consider The US has declared that it is investigating French plans to impose a 3 per cent tax on tech firms' top line, not the bottom.…

Can we interest you in some unwashed gym gear instead? If you needed a manual for your Apple-1, you've missed your chance. Some other well-heeled fanboi is 12 pages richer and nearly $13k poorer.…

A pittance compared to the near-£1m she is due to take home at John Lewis Outgoing Ofcom chief exec Sharon White pocketed £459,623 last year heading up the comms regulator, according to its annual accounts (PDF).…

Big iron systems servin' all over the world with new deals GPU giant Nvidia has recruited another 10 data centre operators to provide a home for its DGX-series AI boxes.…

Service Blocks float across the Pond 9 months after landing in US Bit barn landlord Rackspace is hoping Euro users will opt to inhale its managed public cloud via subscription packages called Service Blocks.…

While I’m at it, another punch at Bitcoin Something for the Weekend, Sir? My uncle has an airship.…

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means On Call Join us in closing out the week with another tale from those brave souls charged with taking that call in our weekly feature, On Call.…

Not named after the French couturier but the Greek god of trade, roads, and thieves Facebook on Thursday released a JavaScript engine called Hermes under an open source MIT license to improve the performance of React Native apps.…

This code doesn't need coolers to win: Two-core machine used to outplay world-beating elites Analysis Artificially intelligent software can comfortably outmatch human poker pros and amateurs in one-on-one matches, that much is known.…

Good luck ever finding this guy again after, dare we say, his life jumped the tracks A software developer fled to China from America with vital train transportation system computer code, US prosecutors have alleged.…

Card-slurping malware hits thousands upon thousands of unprotected cloud storage silos If you're in charge of your organization's Amazon Web Services S3 buckets, here's some fresh motivation to check your security settings: the notorious payment-card-stealing Magecart malware is romping through unprotected storage silos.…

Just when you thought things couldn't get more intrusive Facebook, whose CEO in April declared, "The future is private," has applied to patent a system of coordinated finger-affixed cameras that allow wearers to live stream a panoramic view of their surroundings.…

George Orwell's got nothing on this lot with doublespeak Analysis America's communications watchdog, the FCC, has come good on its promise to boost broadband adoption through competition by… blocking a law that ensures broadband competition.…

Proposed legislation would force Homeland Security to sound alarm on voting system intrusions Two US lawmakers are pushing a bipartisan bill that would force the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to alert the public of hacking attempts on election computer systems.…

Make life hell for cloud giants hiding behind Section 230 – oh sh... did we say that out loud, says Big Blue Analysis IBM has broken ranks with the tech industry – and advocated for changes to a US law that shields websites from legal headaches regarding the stuff their users post online.…

Partners also getting Azure Lighthouse, a new portal and API for Azure resources Inspire Microsoft is set to launch something called the Business Applications ISV Connect Program at its Inspire conference in Las Vegas next week.…

App, dot-com go TITSUP globally (Total Inability To Share Usual Poppycock) Updated Twitter.com is down worldwide along with its mobile and tablet apps. Yes, we know this must be a difficult time for you all.…

Just in time for event kick-off: MS Teams overtakes Slack in daily active users Inspire Microsoft's ironically named Inspire conference kicks off next week in Las Vegas, with the Windows giant hoping to persuade wounded channel middlemen that there remains reasons to be cheerful.…