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Caution urged on downloads after Apple tears down utility Apple has removed an app called Adware Doctor:Anti Malware &Ad from the macOS App Store following claims it sent users' browser histories to a remote server in China.…

When I said I have $2m in the bank... Bouxtie had everything you can dream of in a Silicon Valley startup. A stupid name (it's pronounced "bow-tie"), a vastly over-confident CEO with a story, millions in VC money, and a nonsensical business model built around an app.…

And they're sitting on a giant cash pile, much to chief exec Nikesh Arora's glee Two things are happening at Palo Alto Networks: it is losing less cash, and the latest exec to reside in the head shed is rubbing his hands together at the prospect of selling more tech as a service.…

It's not you, it's just that our talents just no longer align Chip designer Arm has celebrated its upcoming TechCon 2018 San Jose shindig by showing 180 unlucky employees the door.…

El Reg leaked memo sent weeks before crooks swiped payment cards Exclusive Just weeks before being hacked in late August, British Airways' parent IAG was planning to outsource its cybersecurity to IBM, admitting it needed a "group-wide strategic and proactive approach" to counter threats.…

Second exec says bye on same day – all while boss Elon Musk smokes a joint Updated Tesla's chief accounting officer (CAO), Dave Morton, has run for the hills after a matter of weeks at Elon Musk's electric car company.…

And ODM stands for Original Dollar Makers in latest server digits It's money for DRAM time at Round Rock server HQ, which we hope is buying the beers this afternoon. Dell dominated the server space and raked in the most revenues in 2018’s second quarter, according to IDC.…

Fraud on rise and IT workers (of all people) most susceptible The number of UK companies on the receiving end of business scams involving email has risen by nearly two-thirds – 58 per cent – in the last year, new data from Lloyds Bank has revealed.…

It wasn't all Brocade! insists CEO as revenues jump 13% Data centres and storage sales sent Broadcom's third-quarter earnings sailing past estimates, thanks in part to the buy of Brocade.…

Crooks cracked phone number accounts with passcode '1234' Two crooks scammed Vodafone customers in the Czech Republic out of $26,000 thanks to weak telco-issued PIN codes.…

Phone maker keen to settle 'Notch-gate' Nokia has reinstated the ability to hide the display cutout – "The Notch" – after seemingly pulling it due to a request from Google, according to a company representative.…

Thomas Kurian to take 'extended leave' from Big Red Oracle's cloud guru Thomas Kurian has reportedly taken extended leave from the firm.…

Data harvesting? Breaches? Whatevs – ICO survey People are more trusting with their data than they were last year – despite data harvesting and breaches dominating news agendas throughout 2018.…

Rewind and replay in slowmo Special Report Five years have passed but the wounds left by the acquisition and dismemberment of Europe's biggest technology company at the hands of Microsoft remain open.…

Stop, collaborate and listen: Ice is back we need a brand new invention UK.gov and Canadian airliner manufacturer Bombardier want you – yes, you – to come up with ideas for using artificial intelligence to stop ice building up on aeroplane wings.…

Replace those end-of-life VPN devices, they won't be patched Cisco has taken delivery of a bulk order for 29 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) IDs.…

Time to ride spinning-up persistent memory caching whirlwind? Analysis Super-fast storage array access looks to be coming, with persistent memory front-end caches in the accessing servers.…

Nothing to look forward to now… except perhaps the 1980s Something for the Weekend, Sir? Oh, the things I could do with a third hand! It could hold things steady while my other two hands are occupied. Hang on, I have a better idea: I could use my two existing hands to hold the things steady while my third hand gets down to work.…

Serverless Computing London early bird tickets finish tonight Events Our early bird offer for our very own Serverless Computing London conference finishes tonight, so if you want to get bang-up to speed on Serverless, FaaS and more, and save hundreds into the bargain, the time to act is now.…

Tech support scrubs up well... with a bonus BANG On-Call The end of the week is upon us, which of course means another instalment of On Call, El Reg’s column where our dear readers share their tech support crises.…

Manufacturers seem reluctant to do anything about it The privacy issues thrown up by connected cars don't seem to be going anywhere soon.…

Sprinkling a little machine learning into bad behavior detection Comment Businesses find themselves in a world where the threat to their networks often comes not simply from a compromise of their computers, servers, or infrastructure, but from legitimate, sanctioned users.…

BMC software updates to check code signatures after researchers hit red alert Researchers claim to have discovered an exploitable flaw in the baseboard management controller (BMC) hardware used by Supermicro servers.…

Stack Overflow's worldwide dev survey spills pay figures Software developers, you're getting a raise, on paper at least.…

Edinburgh's in Canada, right? No? Oh … umm … sorry? The Linux Kernel Maintainers' Summit was planned for Vancouver, Canada, in October – but it's been moved to Edinburgh, Scotland.…

Report calls for government data 'firewall', spy-free schools, up-to-date laws Campaigners have sounded a fresh alarm against the normalisation of surveillance across the UK, the effects the “nothing to fear, nothing to hide” rhetoric, and unchecked experiments with public data-sharing.…

Report calls for government data 'firewall', spy-free schools, up-to-date laws Campaigners have sounded a fresh alarm against the normalisation of surveillance across the UK, the effects of the “nothing to fear, nothing to hide” rhetoric, and unchecked experiments with public data-sharing.…

Chocolate Factory cuts characters from address bar for the sake of brevity (yeah right) Google Chrome has suddenly stopped displaying www. and m. in website addresses in its URL bar, confusing the heck out of some netizens.…

The old space telescope isn't giving up NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, is back scanning the stars after an period of hibernation and repair.…

Carmaker won't void warranties, fling sueballs at pros seeking security vulnerability rewards Tesla will allow vetted security researchers to hunt for vulnerabilities in its vehicle firmware risk free – as long as it is done under its now-tweaked bug bounty program.…

Who knew what on warrantless state snooping? Analysis Despite repeated denials, some under oath, US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appears to have known – and may even have pushed for – the warrantless spying program that was approved by President George W Bush in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.…

Middle Kingdom just needs 'five years' to take the crown While America today is ahead of the world in artificial intelligence, China will take the lead in five years, Google China's former president Kai-Fu Lee said today.…

Cruel Kim's alleged cyber-crew outed in rap sheet The US government has formally accused the North Korean government of being behind the Sony pictures hack, the WannaCry ransomware that crippled the UK's National Health Service and other organizations, and a series of online bank heists including $81m stolen from Bangladesh's national bank.…

380,000 payment cards, personal info slurped by crooks British Airways on Thursday said it is investigating the theft of customer data from its website and mobile app servers.…

Made the jump to Win10? Have an extra 12 months of September support Windows 7 hold-outs were thrown a lifeline by Microsoft today – as were administrators exhausted by the pace of Windows 10 updates.…

Play container records on any private or public cloud turntable HTBASE has pulled the covers off Juke, its hybrid and multi-cloud container deployment and migration kit.…

Tin-foil retailers expecting a windfall as hat-makers arrive en-masse The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) got a version bump to 3.9 this week and if you’re a user, grab it as soon as you can since it fixes a multitude of security issues as well as adding some handy features.…

Before you buy that banana, look at this Hikers, bikers and builders have contributed to an unlikely British success story.…

Database upstarts' revenues grow as sales plans take shape "Antipathy" towards legacy database vendors is at an all-time high because Internet of Things data is arriving too fast for them to handle – so say execs at two competitors that went public last year.…

Look on the bright side, there’s always the cloud. What could go wrong? Microsoft threw its army of small business customers a treat in the form of confirmation that Windows Server 2019 Essentials was on the way. But it followed this up with the less-than-savoury news that it would probably be the last.…

New hire has work cut out. Say it with us: Ggnagh... gna- digital transformation Beleaguered outsourcing biz Capita is turning to IBM Global Business Services (GBS) – another beleaguered outsourcing biz – to onshore its managing partner for North America, hiring him as chief growth officer.…

Right in the middle of Inbound 2018 conference, no less Sales and marketing software slinger HubSpot has suffered an outage – amid the Inbound 2018 marketing conference and just one day after it revealed plans to shift all its cloudy plumbing onto AWS.…

You will use the new debugger and you will like it, OK? Microsoft has updated the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, giving devs some new debugging toys and a beefed-up language server.…

Telly taxpayers' info sent in the clear The UK's TV Licensing agency has taken its website offline "as a precaution" after being blasted for running transactional pages that were not sent over HTTPS.…

Refurb growing and almost half say 'no way' to Apple New research has highlighted a revolution in how Brits buy phones as punters become more discerning.…

JPL code still running after four decades. How's your Python looking? Yesterday saw the 41st anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch from the Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 41 – and SpaceX fire up its next Falcon 9 at the neighbouring Launch Complex 40 pad.…

Former Minister of Fun slams lack of interoperability and reliance on faxes Faltering NHS IT systems are "costing lives", health secretary Matt Hancock has said ahead of announcing a further £200m for trusts to create digital testbeds.…

Researchers break certificate authorities' domain validation Researchers based in Germany have discovered how to spoof certificates they don't own – even if the certs are protected by the PKI-based domain validation.…

Mobile? Don't even go there, says store-closing, data breach victim Data-breach-hit Dixons Carphone is on track to meet its profit expectations for the current fiscal year as the World Cup beefed up sales of TVs to more than offset crappier demand for computing kit and white box goods.…

Pity the external software devs – they only just found out about this! The government's no-deal Brexit scenario has thrown another technical spanner into HMRC's works, as bosses admitted delivering the plan would put a strain on its other work.…