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Insiders play 'Where's 19H2?' and every day is an Edge day Fast Ringers keen to extricate themselves from the Windows Insider programme have missed their chance for a quieter life as Microsoft booted them into the 2020s with build 18875.…

Homo luzonensis spotted underneath layers and layers of clay in a Filipino cave A team of archeologists has pieced together bone fragments to reveal what is, apparently, a new species of human.…

Judge can't believe IBM, with its Watson AI, needs help finding out about its own documents The judge hearing an age discrimination claim against IBM in Texas on Wednesday issued a withering denial of the company's motion to unmask the source of internal documents at the center of plaintiff Jonathan Langley's case.…

Down in EMEA, US, Latin America, APAC. Aw bless... Top 3 vendors profited from small fry's pain, though The Intel CPU supply constraints came home to roost in calendar Q1 as global PC sales shrank: only the top three largest manufacturers reported any growth after they muscled to source as many chips as they could.…

All 11 fingers* cuffed as Ecuador strips WikiLeaks founder of political Assange, er asylum Julian Assange has been arrested by London cops at the Ecuadorian Embassy after the nation revoked the asylum it had given him for near on seven years.…

Retrofitting Apple pricing to a bygone era A piece of UK computing history is going on the auction block this month in the form of a plug-in package for a Ferranti Pegasus Computer.…

Chipzilla kicks out firmware patches for Spoiler, three others Intel has posted another round of firmware updates with fixes for four CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…

Turning data into insight Sponsored webcast The volume of data many organisations have to deal with today is vast, and it can prive troublesome to interpret. Traditional analytics approaches can be piecemeal, restrictive, non-economical and inflexible.…

New bill grants the FTC powers to investigate companies US senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that will allow the Federal Trade Commission to inspect if corporations are using algorithms that are biased, discriminatory, and insecure.…

Norks trigger Uncle Sam's alarm with attack variant The Lazarus Group hacking operation, thought to be controlled by the North Korean government, has a new malware toy to pitch at potential targets and the US is getting worried about it.…

News only spoiled by fact it was a complete waste of time US lawmakers approved a net neutrality bill on Wednesday that would repeal the repeal of rules that would force ISPs to treat all internet content equally.…

Google Cloud product deluge spans security, analytics and AI People with suitably modern Android phones can now use their handsets as a hardware security key to safeguard both their Google Accounts and Google Cloud accounts.…

That's almost a hundred BEEEELLION dollarydoos Semiconductor sales by Chinese manufacturers are said to have reached ¥653.2bn in 2018 – that's about $97.3bn, or around 20 per cent of global semiconductor revenue for the year ($476.7bn).…

Fresh round of targeted operations unearthed Kaspersky Lab has revealed a pair of attacks targeting governments and political groups in Asia and the Middle East.…

Funny, that An American company is to build a series of undersea cables linking Australia to China after the Aussie government put its foot down and kicked Huawei off the contract.…

Presidential 2020 ad nicks Dark Knight Rises soundtrack A video for President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign has been pulled offline for copyright infringement.…

Almost as much as 4th biggest mobe maker made in 2018 Xiaomi's founder and CEO has received 636.6 million company shares valued at more than £735m – not far off the adjusted net profit figure the fast-rising Chinese mobe maker banked for 2018.…

Nah, it's just an old photo, claims spokesborg Salesforce's towering glass phallus in San Francisco has been omitted from the Oracle Park calendar on sale at the first SF Giants baseball game under the stadium's new Big Red moniker.…

But adds just one new module, and even that is more of a transplant The latest OpenStack release is out in the wilds. Codenamed Stein, the platform update is said to allow for much faster Kubernetes deployments, new IP and bandwidth management features, and introduces a software module focused on cloud resource management – Placement.…

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.…