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Gently, mind – it's rather expensive IFA2019 Samsung is showing its remade Galaxy Fold 5G mobile at IFA, under way in Berlin, and we got a short hands-on.…

Guess it's time to put down the crisps and get off the couch, Gav ... The former boss of BT, Gavin Patterson, is to join US software giant Salesforce offering "strategic guidance" to its European business.…

7% of new cars run on batteries compared to 3% in Europe Electric cars are failing to take the world by storm, although sales remain strong in China even though its government subsidies for driving a 'leccy were recently reduced.…

Orchestrating Movere purchase in the Dark? Microsoft has snapped up cloud migration specialists, Movere, in its efforts to smooth the path for customers to Azure.…

Seven years from noob to pro The UK Armed Forces' privatised pilot training system is taking nearly seven years to turn new recruits into frontline-ready aviators, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).…

Mobile biz is a mess, but we're sticking to revenue guidance The gods of mobile sales continue to frown on Dixons Carphone as the loss-making unit reported another quarter of shrinkage.…

European data sharing confined to underused Interpol database Brit law enforcement bodies will no longer have access to 79 million alerts about potential criminals or persons of interest if the UK leaves the EU without a deal, a Parliamentary committee has heard.…

Gaming chairs, gaming phones, gaming laptops – and some delightful feather-light ones IFA 2019 It was press day one at the annual consumer electronics megafest, IFA, in Berlin, when PC vendors Acer and Asus unveiled their latest hardware, from impossibly light and fast laptops to heavyweight monsters.…

SF-based continuous delivery outfit says soz Software testing and delivery company CircleCI has apologised for exposing user data to the world and its dog.…

My terrifying childhood with the man who made the Time Lords great Obit Long before I read John Wyndham's dystopian horror stories The Day of The Triffids and The Kraken Wakes, I snatched terrifying glimpses of Terrance Dicks' work in the Doctor Who episodes, "Terror of the Autons" (1971) and "The Sea Devils" (1972).…

We chat to Scale Computing to dig deep through the hype and buzzwords Webcast As organisations see their volume of data grow at an ever-faster rate, many find themselves struggling to manage this avalanche of information, not just securely but without incurring exorbitant costs.…

FFS! Updated Yahoo!, it appears, is still a thing. Unless it's Thursday morning, in which case it isn't.…

Battle with Microsoft not letting up Slack shares got hammered last night in its maiden results after listing on the NYSE in June, despite the collab company beating analyst forecasts for second quarter sales.…

Solitary floater Amid the doom 'n' gloom of Brexit, you can always count on the UK's illustrious local press to focus on the real stories and champion the little guy.…

What we know, plus potential ways to make that data flow Feature Restricted imports of medicines and fresh food, panic buying and civil disorder. These are a few potential impacts of the no-deal Brexit in a recent leaked Cabinet Office paper. Transferring personal data from most European countries to the UK possibly becoming illegal at 11pm on 31 October? Didn't even make the list.…

Our prejudices rub off on our computer pals, sadly The biggest and most powerful text-generating AI models today associate black and gay people with negative qualities, according to a study fresh out of America.…

US Space Command launches probe – wait, is that the sound of a black helicopt A loud boom heard over the US state of New York on Labor Day could have been the result of a fireball arriving from space... or a military jet thundering through the skies... or something else, according to the American Meteor Society.…

One moron down, two to go The script kiddie at the center of the Satori botnet case has pleaded guilty.…

Ad giant gets slap on the wrist, promises not to do it again Google, fighting a desperate battle to provide privacy that's not so private it blinds targeted advertising, has agreed to provide actual privacy, but only to those watching videos aimed at children.…

Our ads? Stomping on people's privacy? Never! Not us! sobs search giant Brave, the maker of a Chromium-based browser with a focus on privacy, claims advertising giant Google flouts Europe's data protection rules by effectively leaking netizens' web browsing activities to advertisers.…

Phone nicked at airport, $15k in fun bux drained from wallet A bloke was arrested and charged with identity theft after, it is claimed, he emailed an apology meant for his victim to a police detective.…

Machine-learning code solves image puzzles just like us netizens – claim Video US-based academics claim they have developed a machine-learning system that can beat Google's bot-detecting reCAPTCHA system.…

Flaws now (mostly) patched Over-the-air provisioning is the latest attack vector threatening your innocent Android mobe, according to Check Point today.…

Storage and data management unification play Commvault has said it will fork out nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to buy Hedvig, a software-defined storage startup.…

It's not all about Brexit, y'know "Today we put the wheels back on the Great British bus," said chancellor of the exchequer Sajid Javid in his autumn spending review – the day after the opposite happened to the wheels of government.…

It was a bug, I tell you! A bug! Elon Musk's SpaceX has claimed that a mysterious comms "bug" was what stopped it from moving its satellites away from an orbital collision course.…

Claimant to appeal judgment and campaign for outright ban South Wales Police's use of facial recognition has been found lawful by the High Court in a world-first hearing regarding the controversial technology.…

Kiddiwonks flee nosey nans by decamping to Instagram We've said it before, we'll say it again – Facebook has been overrun by old people. And now someone's bothered to dig out some data to back that up.…

After 15 years, Semaphore DB that flags up persons of interest goes into extra (Brexit) time The Home Office has inked a £45m 33-month contract extension with IBM for its creaking Semaphore border technology contract.…

No volume ships until mid-2020, though Western Digital said demand for high-capacity data centre disk drives will keep up over the next few years as it told the world it would begin shipping samples of its new MAMR 18 and 20TB drives over the next four months.…

'RSA private keys' baked into Manchester firm's software A hacker collective has said that it found the private keys for a Manchester bus company's QR code ticketing app embedded in the app itself – and has now released its own ride-buses-for-free code.…

As for those flakey ol' consumers... Retailers and distributors across much of Europe continue to be conservative buyers of consumer PCs, but Microsoft's looming end of support for Windows 7 helped keep orders ticking along for commercial PCs.…

Cash-burning biz sees itself following in the footsteps of GitHub Sponsors NPM, Inc., the overseer of the widely used npm JavaScript package registry, hasn't been particularly supportive of worker complaints, but the would-be enterprise biz wants to lend a hand to open source contributors.…

MCubed kicks off at the end of Sept: Join us for tip-top in-depth practical deep dives into machine learning Event In uncertain times, it’s helpful to turn to wise heads who can dispense proven wisdom and practical advice – and we’ve got 40 of these lined up in Westminster at the end of this month.…

Surpising no one, software will keep vids of your face forever Chinese mobile app Zao has taken the internet by storm due to its uncanny AI-based face-swapping technology, automagically and quickly painting netizens' fizogs over famous actors in movie and TV clips – but there's a hidden kicker in the code.…

Don't drive hungry, folks – or take your hands off the wheel even when Elon's super cruise-control is active The Tesla driver who crashed into a stationary fire truck may have had his hands off the wheel, and Autopilot engaged, as he ate a bagel and drank coffee, according the US National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday.…

Postmortem report: Power outage knackered instances, volumes for unlucky punters A power outage fried hardware within one of Amazon Web Services' data centers during America's Labor Day weekend, causing some customer data to be lost.…

Bug seller Zerodium boosts payouts for 'droid, slashes iOS prices in half Bug-broker Zerodium says it will cough up as much as $2.5m in exchange for techniques to silently and remotely hijack Android devices via critical vulnerabilities, signaling a major change in the pricing of security holes.…

Extensions still free to use uber-powerful webRequest API to filter crap out of webpages On Tuesday, Mozilla said it is not planning to change the ad-and-content blocking capabilities of Firefox to match what Google is doing in Chrome.…

Redmond suggests nuking 'profanity, geopolitical, diversity' terms from browser source Microsoft's adoption of the Google-developed Chromium browser engine for Edge has resulted in a proposal to cleanse the open-source code of "potentially offensive terms."…

Comms giant says camera patent claims are a front for government intrusion Huawei claims, albeit without evidence, the US government has tried to break into its internal computer networks.…

Remember when people didn't use browsers from the one of world's biggest adtech giants? Mozilla has declared that its latest Firefox browser will no longer allow third-party tracking cookies by default, pushing an existing limited-audience feature to all users.…

1903 patch turns Redmond's virtual assistant into a very power hungry bot Updated Some Windows 10 users are experiencing alarming CPU spikes following last week's optional cumulative update.…

We don't actually need them, says Lynch's camp Autonomy Trial Two key witnesses in the Autonomy trial have "refused" to testify, Hewlett-Packard's barrister sensationally claimed to London's High Court.…

The Register goes to Cambridge Interview The Register popped into the Raspberry Pi Foundation's retail outlet in Cambridge to chat with founder Eben Upton about power, sales and occupying the family television.…

Cops seek muck-maker Ah, another fine morning in sunny Torquay. The crisp, invigorating sea air and – oh God, what is that smell? And what on Earth is that on the roof of our car? Someone... took a dump... on our car!…

Study to decode the universe's first seconds, but crashing out of bloc may be a problem A University of Portsmouth researcher has won a €1.3m grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to continue his investigation into dark matter and its role in the universe's first seconds of existence.…

Serverless Computing London early bird offer extended Event If flight delays or the back to school rush means you missed our early bird ticket offer for Serverless Computing London, don’t despair - we’ve extended it for a week.…

Virtual USB hub allows attackers to get into BMCs Tens of thousands of servers around the world are believed to be hosting a vulnerability that would allow an attacker to remotely commandeer them.…

Hey, ex-Soviet state-backed threat actors, you watching? Fresh from secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg’s repeated promises to hack back at cyber-attackers, NATO is now preparing to run a large-scale cyber exercise to test its infosec defences.…