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Q3 figures = good, Q4 targets = vague A day after Adobe posted hugely profitable Q3 results, its share price dropped by as much as 5 per cent (~$270) and has been bouncing around the sub 3 per cent mark (~$275) for the remainder of trading.…

Government gave them the deets, so not a hacking charge The head of Novaestrat, the data analytics company at the centre of the huge leak revealed on Monday involving personal information about more than 20 million Ecuadorian citizens, has been taken into custody.…

By 'eck! Geoffrey Boycott-inspired domain sees off tat bazaar challenge eBay and Gumtree have lost a legal fight to kill off a British wannabe rival thanks to Geoffrey Boycott's usage of a well-known Yorkshireism.…

No lobbying for at least another five months The government has confirmed former permanent secretary at the Department for Work and Pensions, Robert Devereux, has rocked up at ethical SaaS oufit Salesforce as veep of global public sector.…

UK.gov policy slammed for not keeping pace with technology Plans to introduce a legal right for everyone in the UK to have minimum broadband speeds of 10Mbps next year will be "obsolete soon after introduction", a Parliamentary report has found.…

Social afflictions solved by waving an 'inexhaustible chalice' in your face Orthodox priests in the central Russian city of Tver have been practising an original method of ridding locals of alcohol abuse and fornication: grab some religious relics, jump in a bi-plane, circle overhead and pour holy water onto citizens from the skies while reciting prayers.…

New report after 12 forces across England and Wales trialled technology MPs across parties have called for an immediate "stop" to live facial recognition surveillance by the police and in public places.…

It might even hand you the fire extinguisher An autonomous dog-like robot designed to scamper down tunnels on search-and-rescue missions was put to the test in the most recent bout of US military boffins' DARPA Subterranean Challenge.…

Savage SAP's German customers are using a meeting in Nuremberg to complain the company should be doing more to make its products usable.…

Preview of private endpoints accessible both in the cloud and on premises Microsoft has pulled the sheets off Azure Private Link as a way to create a private endpoint for a shared service.…

Pair of bug reports show how VM escapes put servers at risk A pair of newly disclosed security flaws could allow malicious virtual machine guests to break out of their hypervisor's walled gardens and execute malicious code on the host box.…

Brit airport to extend facial recog after easyJet trial Gatwick Airport will extend its use of facial recognition to match passengers to their passports at departure gates before they board planes.…

The past present and future of a confusing platform Interview The development experience may be easy, but the open-source Cloud Foundry (CF) platform is confusing as hell for newcomers. Chip Childers, CTO of the Cloud Foundry Foundation since it was formed in January 2015, spoke to The Reg about its past, present and future, at the recent Cloud Foundry Summit in The Hague.…

Wrong: Biz committee bemoans lack of automation strategy The UK government needs to come up with an actual strategy to help businesses and workers take advantage of automation and robotics.…

Tired: SQLi. Expired: Format string exploits. Hired: Anyone who can port code from C/C++ On Tuesday, the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) team from MITRE, a non-profit focused on information security for government, industry and academia, published its list of the CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors.…

If we could stop teaching AI insults, that would be great Netizens are merrily slinging selfies and other photos at an online neural network to classify them... and the results aren’t pretty.…

His persuasive argument? You’re wrong – we know better about this money stuff The Facebook exec in charge of its Libra cryptocurrency effort has sought to assure European governments that their fears are unfounded… by telling them they’re wrong and Facebook knows better.…

Let's take a quick tour under the hood – and spell out why your biz needs this Comment Anyone who’s ever watched the original Star Trek series will probably remember Spock and Kirk playing three-dimensional chess – a great chance for the Enterprise’s science officer to show off his prowess with logic as he contemplated a range of complex moves.…

Commander-in-Chief jets into Silicon Valley under cloud of secrecy The mystery host of a Silicon Valley fundraiser for President Trump today has been revealed as Scott McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems.…

Uncle Sam tries to plug leaker's pay, ends up plugging leaker's book The US government today sued former CIA employee and NSA sysadmin contractor Edward Snowden to deny him payment from his newly published book, Permanent Record.…

'This is the last Fitbit I will buy' Yesterday El Reg wrote about the frustrating syncing failures plaguing FitBit gadgets over the past four or so weeks.…

Whole pile of US data just sitting there with no security Around 24 million medical patients' data is floating around on the internet, freely available for all to pore over – thanks to that good old common factor, terribly insecure servers.…

Drops Enterprise (Core) into VMware Cloud Marketplace, misspells own name DevOps botherer GitLab has scored another $268m of funding, bringing the value of the outfit to $2.75bn ahead of a 2020 IPO.…

You want root shell access? No problem A new report has suggested that 12 out of 13 network devices, such as routers and network-attached storage appliances, are vulnerable to hacks that enable "root-privileged access without any authentication".…

Sweetheart deal crackdown 'defies reality and common sense' apparently Apple has appealed against the European Union's 2016 decision to impose a €13bn tax bill on the iPhone maker's Irish subsidiary.…

John Enoch gives us the hard sell – just ignore the price AWS Transformation Day It's London's turn with AWS Transformation Day, where attendees endure a cacophony of buzzwords intended to hammer home the message that Amazon's cloud is where you wanna be.…

Security engineer actually reads privacy policy to his horror Hewlett-Packard Inc's printers don't just slurp the contents of your wallet at a frightening rate. They also guzzle a surprising amount of data on you and whatever you're printing.…

Hi, remember us? We share a toolset. And have another preview to do? Having promised there wouldn't be any more previews, Microsoft has dropped a release candidate for the upcoming .NET Core 3.0 framework.…

Required: GSoH, plus ability to make ends meet on up to £180k a year UK.gov is on the lookout for a Government Chief Digital Information Officer (GCDIO) - a permanent secretary role that sets the strategic direction of travel for public sector IT in return for up to £180,000 a year.…

Government cares what you think. Honest A UK Home Office consultation on new, intrusive police powers was so incompetently written that you could both "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree" at the same time when answering its questions.…

Join us and our awesome speakers for a hearty no-hype pure-tech deep dive Event Whether you’re worried about the machines taking over, or think it can’t happen soon enough, you should get yourselves down to MCubed at the end of the month.…

Happy 43rd birthday to Space Shuttle Enterprise Roundup Unlike SpaceX's Crew Dragon, which plops down in the ocean at the end of a mission (ideally in one piece), Boeing's CST-100 Starliner is designed to land on, er, land. As NASA and Boeing inch ever closer to its first crewed launch, rehearsals were conducted last week to practice locating a capsule, safing it and preparing for hatch opening.…

Suit filed alleging HR failed to protect staffer from harassment Google has been hit by another age discrimination lawsuit, just two months after the search giant settled a previous case brought by over 200 people.…

Did someone mention a delay? Rollout given another 4 years as price tag soars to £13.4bn The UK government has confirmed that electricity suppliers have an extra four years to hit targets for installing smart meters.…

IRL Star Trek: Discovery, sort of The Unconventional Computing Laboratory in Bristol is looking for a research associate to help it create buildings with embedded fungus-created computers.…

Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, it's off to test we go... Roundup While the speculation machine for Microsoft's mystery hardware event ramped up (although still a mere ripple compared to the spurtings around anything to do with Apple), the Redmond gang continued to toil. Here are some of the stories you might have missed.…

Don't panic: Off and f*ck still free from Zuckerberg, for now Facebook has applied to trademark the word "book" in Europe.…

Get the answers you need this month – and ready your systems for the 2020s Promo If you are beginning to wonder whether your familiar old data warehouse and analytics solutions can keep pace with the fast-moving modern world, you should check out today's state-of-the-art data-handling and analytics systems.…

Alternatively, you can try to overpower it with your incredibly amazing sarcasm Trolls, morons, and bots plaster toxic crap all over Twitter and other antisocial networks. Can machine learning help clean it up?…

GNU founder resigns after Minsky defense 'the final straw' for dev world Interview Shortly after The Register learned that Richard Stallman, founder and then president of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the GNU Project, had been invited to speak at Microsoft's corporate headquarters, we emailed him to ask about the apparent incongruity of advocating for software freedom at a company singled out by the FSF as a maker of malware.…

El Reg decodes Big Red's big announcements from today OpenWorld Oracle on Monday debuted a free, self-fixing Linux distribution for paying Oracle Cloud customers, and a free Cloud service tier that includes a limited version of its paid Autonomous Database, for winning developer favor and fostering future Cloud customers.…

Lineup looks to put a pep in the step of flailing systems group IBM this month officially unveiled the newest addition to the Z-series mainframe lineup in roughly two years.…

One of these days we'll use machine learning to write these AI news summaries Roundup Let's catch up with recent goings on in the world of artificial intelligence.…

Punters say their gear has been messed up for a month-plus Fitbit wearers are super-upset that a buggy software update has for the past month made their wearable exercise trackers unable to properly sync with their Android devices.…

Five amendments to law approved before deadline, none undercut core goals Analysis California’s landmark digital privacy law will remain “largely intact” despite a year of determined lobbying by Google and other tech giants to undermine it.…

All part of Big Red's regular small-ish release plan as opposed to large infrequent updates Code One Oracle on Monday announced the release of Java SE 13 (JDK 13), saying it shows the tech titan's continued commitment to make innovation happen faster by sticking to a predictable six-month release cycle.…

Update now to stop webpages snooping on recently used credentials LastPass has fixed a security bug that potentially allowed malicious websites to obtain the username and passphrase inserted by the password manager on the previously visited site.…

The last Surface RT user just needs to fill in a web form to... oh heck The bad news bus has continued rolling for users of hardware both young and old as Wi-Fi woes plague Windows 10 and even Windows 8.1.…

Guv'nor explains regression again, without the expletives A softer, gentler Linus Torvalds released the Linux 5.3 kernel over the weekend and swung open the doors on 5.4.…

And Julian Assange is among them - but how old are these? Records on more than 20 million individuals in Ecuador have leaked from an unsecured database in Miami, Florida, containing a mix of official citizen registration data and personal & banking details.…