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Google Instant Apps still needs a lot of work on security Password managers on mobile devices can be tricked by imposter apps into handing over a user's passwords.…

Machines still need humans to build decent game levels AI can get pretty good at creating content like images and videos, so researchers are trying to get them to design game levels.…

US fines two scumbags $120m but still the calls carry on It was supposed to be a moment of victory: the FCC had tracked down two people responsible for making tens of millions of robocalls in America, and is planning to fine them $82m and $37.5m respectively.…

You lucky NEXT 2018 people Hitachi's data subsidiary Vantara has dumped a load of announcements on attendees of its NEXT 2018 user conference in San Diego.…

Bandwidth Alliance decides to throw us a bone Updated The Cloudflare content delivery network (CDN) has teamed up with Microsoft, Google, IBM Cloud, and others to form the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of companies committed to trimming fees for data passing through the CDN.…

Container images leak through insecure registry Exclusive Russian airline Aeroflot has exposed to the public internet the internal blueprints for its website, aeroflot.ru, The Register has learned.…

The Simpsons meets next-gen mobile broadband policies If you were to pick a moment in which America's telecoms regulator disappeared down the rabbit hole at its monthly meeting, it would probably be when the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai provided a full "up is down" statement.…

Failover is not an option The team behind Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace has issued an explanation as to why it also took the day off after Azure's weather-based wobble.…

1PB of Fedex-able rack-on-rollers Ignite Microsoft has released the Azure Data Box, another hardware appliance for booting business data into the cloud.…

Orgs failing to pay fee will get smacked with further penalty The UK's privacy watchdog has slapped down 34 organisations that haven't paid fees under the country's new data protection regime.…

Of course Big Red finds another thing needing more automation IT bosses are crossing their fingers that biometrics and artificial intelligence will save them from security vulnerabilities that can emerge from an ever expanding corporate network.…

What's better than one Linux distro? Dozens of 'em, of course! The Windows Subsystem for Linux has begun to attract the attention of custom distributions with the arrival of Debian-based WLinux in the Microsoft Store.…

In 2024, boffins realise a Saturn V is parked outside Houston US space agency NASA published its long awaited National Space Exploration Campaign Report this week, and it makes for sobering reading for those still recovering from its 60th birthday celebrations.…

No soldering required – the Steves did it all for you A rare Apple-1 computer was yesterday sold to an unknown bidder for $350,000, fetching $50,000 more than seller RR Auction first anticipated.…

Safety critical feature plugged into high-end processor design Japanese chip designer Arm really doesn't want to be overtaken in the world of autonomous cars by the likes of Intel, Nvidia, and other rivals.…

Signs so far point to no data leak UK-based insurance services firm Premium Credit has hauled itself back online following a malware-based attack that struck the business more than a week ago.…

El Reg’s AI and Machine Learning conference lands next month Events We’ll be opening the doors at MCubed in just over two weeks time, but there’s still time to grab your space at The Register and Heise’s hype-free exploration of machine learning, AI and data science.…

Cupertino: If you've got any evidence, bring it Qualcomm has attempted to add another accusation to its 2017 lawsuit against Apple – this time claiming to a San Diego court that Cupertino wasn't just careless with proprietary info, but that it stole "vast swathes" of data to pass over to Intel.…

Hides don't-be-creepy switch in browser settings as spectre of GDPR looms Stung by criticism over its creepy cookie hoarding and automatic sign-in in Chrome, Google has pulled a swift U-turn. Kind of.…

Probe shines light on epic Ts&Cs and clever tactics to make users cough up Apps use sneaky tactics to get UK users to hand over more info than they need to – and privacy policies remain long and confusing.…

That sound ... yes, that lack of sound ... it's here Amazon Alexa devices stopped working in the UK and reportedly in parts of continental Europe this morning, with some users still complaining of intermittent outages at the time of writing.…

They know how to test kit for backdoors, apparently Canadian Center for Cyber Security chief Scott Jones has told a parliamentary committee there's no need for the country to cut Chinese comms giant Huawei out of its 5G rollout.…

Adland self-manager taunts world's largest web retailer The Advertising Standards Authority has alleged in an extraordinary statement that Amazon broke EU law by putting food supplements in a section of Amazon.com dedicated to weight loss and slimming items.…

You got to give credit – but critically, only where it is due... Comment Gather round, those who think you could make a go of it in tech retail or are currently working in the sector. Let's hear the tale of all that went wrong – and right – for Maplin Electronics Ltd, a once engaging and highly profitable business that smacked headfirst into a brick wall in 2018.…

Here's the recipe for cooking up your own AMD-Nvidia beast So, you’ve hunkered down and finally completed that online course on machine learning. It took weeks. Now, you have all sorts of ideas running through your mind on developing your own intelligent code and neural networks.…

Our programming language is still number one, insists database goliath Oracle on Tuesday delivered Java 11, in keeping with the six-month release cadence adopted a year ago with Java 9. It is the first "Long Term Support" (LTS) release, intended for Java users who prioritize stability over Zuckerbergian fast movement and breakage.…

The AI Now Institute's report ain't pretty New York University's AI Now Institute, a research hub investigating the wider social impacts of machine learning algorithms, has published a report critiquing how the US government uses the technology.…

It's been a rough September for the digital fun-bucks Monero's developers have emitted their second software bug postmortem examination in a month – this time for a flaw miscreants could have exploited to burn through exchanges' digital cash.…

Oh, and the last shreds of Metallica's credibility disappearing on stage It’s that time of year again: CRM loyalists flood San Francisco for the annual Dreamforce conference hosted by Salesforce – but day one hasn’t exactly gone to plan.…

Bloke sent down after spilling Uncle Sam's cyber-weapons The now-former NSA employee at the heart of the Kaspersky Lab exploit siphoning scandal has been thrown behind bars for five and a half years.…

Jobseekers' files follow internal records leaking online The United Nations has been hit with two damning data leak allegations in as many days.…

So is it goodbye, TCP? CloudFlare has puts its weight behind a new internet protocol that should make mobile browsing faster and more secure.…

Email queries get hash protection via Firefox Monitor Mozilla on Tuesday debuted a service called Firefox Monitor that it has been testing to help people see whether their email addresses have been compromised.…

Mozilla's Firefox Monitor makes a hash of email queries Mozilla on Tuesday debuted a service called Firefox Monitor that it has been testing to help people see whether their email addresses have been compromised.…

Privacy bod says 'remove all' function not living up to its name – netizens stay logged into Chocolate Factory If you tell Google's latest version of Chrome to delete all of its cookies – surprise, you may still end up with Google cookies on your computer.…

But Uncle Sam has already ruled out any actual laws and fines for breaking rules The US government has started the process to create fresh rules to safeguard Americans' online privacy, opening a "request for comments" on its initial proposal.…

StaffHub takes one for the Teams Microsoft rarely misses an opportunity to extoll the virtues of its collaboration platform, Teams, and this month’s Ignite is no exception.…

Experts brief Reg readers on how to keep bad actors at bay Broadcast On 26 September 2018 at 10am PDT, 11am MT, 6pm UK, we'll have a studio full of experts lined up to talk about insider threats and how even the best organisations can suffer from occasional bouts of "bad employee syndrome".…

Snoops cop to shady 'Workings' where data retention rules don't apply MI5 unlawfully tapped Privacy International's communications, and was unable to accurately identify or locate all the information it held on the NGO, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has heard.…

Hackers 'mainlining' vulns into projects – report Use of vulnerable open source components has doubled over the last year despite their role in the high profile Equifax mega-breach.…

Dell EMC's all-flash platform may have finally caught up with NetApp and HPE's XtremIO's X2 v6.2 release has filled the Nimble and SolidFire-shaped holes in its software – even though it has taken several years to do so.…

Office 365 seen lurking in the wings, sharpening an axe What might well be the last non-cloudy version of Microsoft Office has been nudged gently into the light.…

Two chances missed to swerve mainframe drive array bug The April 2018 US tax day outage was due to a faulty IBM disk array and could have been avoided twice – first with a more up-to-date microcode bundle, and second with a secret IBM script.…

Two chances missed to swerve mainframe drive array bug The April 2018 US tax day outage was due to a faulty IBM disk array and could have been avoided twice – first with a more up-to-date microcode bundle, and second with a secret IBM script.…

But no one will take the trouble to decipher them, right? Updated UK aggregator NewsNow has suffered a breach resulting in the leak of users' "encrypted" passwords.…

Can he make it to 12 months without telling anyone his real name? A man who has refused to identify himself to Google or the UK courts but is still trying to drag the ad tech company through a Right To Be Forgotten legal action has had his second attempt to take it to the Court of Appeal denied by a senior British judge.…

Because there ain't no party like a cloud storage party A year after Microsoft reintroduced placeholders for Windows users of OneDrive in the form of "Files On-Demand", Mac users of the cloudy file service are getting the same love.…

Someone should tell mobile industry. Oh, here we go The Czech Republic and Hungary top the world for mobile video performance – even though they don't have the fastest networks.…

Joins growing list of senior civil servants leaving public sector Exclusive Mayank Prakash, chief digital officer and CIO of the Department for Work and Pensions has quit today, The Register can exclusively reveal.…

Except that Eric S Raymond doesn't like codes of conduct Speculation and debate still surround Linus Torvald's decision to step back from Linux kernel development for a while, but the next kernel release candidate landed with far less sturm und drang.…