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Ah, the old bcc blunder, classic Data breaches at organisations that 'fess up to the UK's data protection watchdog are about seven times more likely to be caused by human error than hackers.…

US customers wake up to sleepy cloud service Updated Microsoft has warned that a "subset of customers in South Central US" may experience Azure problems today after cooling issues sent the servers scurrying for the shutdown button.…

£50m connectivity tech trial announcement marred by Panopticon-style horror The West Midlands is to become the first UK urban 5G testbed area at a cost of up to £50m – with one use for the new tech being China-style AI-powered CCTV cameras with automated facial recognition, according to the government.…

Party poppers in Mountain View, party poopers in Redmond Birthday cake makers, rejoice! There's a trio of tech industry milestones to celebrate or maybe commiserate.…

Frankfurt, Berlin regions to launch end of 2019, T-Systems 'trustee' deal to be retired Microsoft's Frankfurt and Berlin data centres will start shipping bits from the fourth quarter of 2019.…

Let's make it really easy for you… Slotting serverless into your infrastructure could save you money in the long term, by allowing you to move to a pay for what you actually use pricing model.…

But if you got yours in Europe, no worries Apple has 'fessed up to a production issue that affects iPhone 8s – but not those sold in Europe.…

But outgoing exec's own balance expected to see £1.7m boost Paul Pester has been booted out of TSB's top office after months of criticism over his handling of the IT chaos that hit the bank this year – but is still expected to take away about £1.7m.…

Security controls aren't there to just look pretty, you know Internet-connected 3D printers are at risk of being tampered with or even sabotaged because users fail to apply security controls, a researcher has warned.…

Take the fight to the cybercriminals Reg Webcast It’s a big bad world out there. Ransomware attacks are taking over as first among IT security worries, cryptojackers are hacking hardware to mine bitcoin holders’ assets and phishing websites are becoming more ingenious than ever.…

The Android comeback must wait a little longer IFA The world's largest annual electronics trade show, IFA in Berlin, was supposed to be where wearables and in particular smartwatches returned from the dead.…

Lock it down, lock it down now, researcher says An internet-wide scan on 230 million domains found 390,000 exposed source code directories.…

New teams in the USA and India to handle customer cases Veritas is planning to disband its UK-based specialist NetBackup Appliance support teams in favour of setting up new ones in the US and India.…

Number-two phone maker's sub-£400 bracket is getting a little messy Hands On "Who are Honor people?" a Huawei executive asked a few years ago, before answering his own question: "They try and wear a flower in their own hair. They are young people."…

Say farewell to Highlights ... if you even noticed it was there This time, Microsoft says, it really will be different: Redmond has promised to stop ruining Skype.…

Upgraded automation platform lightens the load As a developer, you would want to spend less time on drudgery and more on your apps. Microsoft’s answer to this is the recently introduced App Center, a continuous integration, delivery and feedback service for iOS, macOS, and Android developers.…

'Our largest win to date!' squeaks excited IT consultancy IT consultancy Wipro has signed a monster tech servies contract with Illinois-based Alight Solutions that should see the Indian outfit trouser as much as $1.6bn over the next decade.…

Brit broadband pusher admits hiccups in new billing engine Plusnet has admitted that some customer accounts showed other people's names and addresses during a planned upgrade to its billing systems.…

Competition is great, especially when the new contract's run by the old contractors BT has won a five-year contract to supply comms and IT services to various chunks of the NHS.…

ERP giant: You're just mad because you've 'fallen behind' SAP is pushing to have a lawsuit from competitor Teradata thrown out for good, arguing the claims are "factually groundless".…

US-only financing deal lasted all of a year Consumers looking to spread the cost of their Surface fix will have to look elsewhere for their fondleslab financing now Microsoft has brought the axe down on the programme.…

Latest exec hired to make the direct sales conflict go away Dell EMC has poached a channel veteran to lead its UK partner biz, sources have told The Register.…

Verification programme aims to weed out the miscreants Google has placed restrictions on tech support ads after admitting it's increasingly hard to tell promos for legit services from deceptions.…

Good news is that it was just a proof of concept... we hope Cisco has coughed to its Data Centre Network Manager (DCNM) software having a rather unpleasant vulnerability – but there's a patch for it.…

One day, one day... El Reg has once again curated a selection of storage news tidbits for all you thought leaders out there. Surely there's some sort of machine learning algorithm that can find the stuff and write it by now, hm?…

'Crashy McCrashface' sadly not an option this time around An impending Windows 10 release, Azure playing nicely with Google, and a blast through BASIC in the browser. It's the Microsoft round-up.…

Reseller boss wants in on large Euro companies HQ'd there The cash reserves at Computacenter (CC) – one of Europe's largest tech resellers – are a little lighter today after it slurped Misco Netherlands.…

Customers vent over another Tiresome System Borkage TSB customers that stuck with the embattled bank after this year's major IT foul-up have been left questioning their loyalty as systems went down again this weekend.…

Pop goes the printer... Who, Me? Monday morning can mean only one thing. No, not a general sense of foreboding – it’s Who, Me?, El Reg’s way of easing you into the week ahead with tales of other people’s mistakes.…

Almost 60% of breaches had an insider element in 2017 More than half of all healthcare data breaches reported during 2017 could be traced back to people on the inside of victim organisations, according to an annual study by Verizon.…

Bungled his paperwork by posting it to London sales HQ The nameless man suing Google is doing so over a blog post containing details of a criminal court report, making this a Right To Be Forgotten case, The Register can reveal.…

And, Microsoft is assisting fish farmers in Japan Roundup Hello, here's a quick roundup of what's been happening in the world of AI. Google has a new framework to help researchers develop reinforcement learning algorithms, and Google Assistant is now bilingual. Also watch how Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning Studio is helping Japanese fish farmers.…

Also: Belarus barely brushes botnet builder's bankroll Another week has come and gone. This one included some Fortnite flaws, a nasty Intel bug, and a voting machine maker whining about hacking contests.…

Air traffic messages over the Internet? All this and more Ciena gets to lead this week's networking roundup, courtesy of financial results that saw its share price jump nearly 13 per cent.…

Open source trusted execution component expected this fall At some point this fall, a team of researchers from MIT's CSAIL and UC Berkeley's EECS aim to deliver an initial version of an open source, formally verified, secure hardware enclave based on RISC-V architecture called Keystone.…

Global index for folks like you We have some good news. The number one place in the world if you work in tech is Amsterdam. And that's on criteria ranging from broadband speed to salary to the number of electric car charging points.…

Powerful tidal forces can restart fusion processes Black holes can bring dead stars back to life - even if it’s just for a few seconds, according to a new study.…

Fantasy sports outfit looks to hunt down group that bombarded its site A US sports gaming company is asking permission to unmask 10 people it believes were behind a massive DDoS attack on its website earlier this month.…

October iOS change reflects broader societal shift Apple will require all apps developers to include a privacy policy that outlines what they will do with their users' data, starting October 3.…

It's on a smashing orange gig with an Optane silver bullet Analysis NetApp hopes to have a MAX Data server persistent memory product announced before the end of the year, with single digit microsecond latency using Optane DIMMs, and tiering data to NVMe over Fabric-attached ONTAP all-flash arrays.…

Twelfth time's a charm Apple on Friday issued its 12th developer beta version of iOS 12, which should see general release in September, just days after the previous version began spamming beta testers and developers with errant update notifications.…

Boasts of passing billion buck annual revenue milestone "We expect to achieve Red Hat-like sales* by fiscal 2021," said Nutanix CEO and chairman Dheeraj Pandey in an earnings call as the company reported its Q4 and full year fiscal 2018 results.…

John McAfee-backed crypto-coin wallet eats humble pie Bitfi finally and reluctantly retracted its unhackable claim last night in the face of a new cold boot attack.…

Get the White House on the line – it's not even cubic IFA Alexa is built into so many appliances being demonstrated at IFA this week, you need a map* to them all. Basically it's everywhere, and on a global scale appears to be decisively winning the platform battle with Google.…

CFO asked to take the wheel Sage Group chief exec Stephen Kelly has unexpectedly stepped down from his director and CEO roles.…

Five Eyes to tech: We have ways of making you comply The Five Eyes nations have told the tech industry to help spy agencies by creating lawful access solutions to encrypted services – and warned that governments can always legislate if they don't.…

Featuring the world's fastest modem IFA Four major companies design the key chips for smartphones, and Huawei's HiSilicon became the first to announce its 7nm designs today at the giant IFA show in Berlin.…

Porridge for pic purloiner The last of the four hackers collared for stealing and leaking people's private nude photos from their online accounts back in 2014 has been sentenced to eight months' imprisonment.…

If this was full-touch, price tag would be eye-watering Hands On Out of thousands of smartphone vendors, TCL's BlackBerry Mobile unit represents one of a tiny handful targeting enterprise users. But its two QWERTY models to date have been priced at a premium, north of £500. Unveiled at IFA this week, budget model the KEY2 LE cuts costs in a bid to attract the corporate bulk buyers.…

MEPs remind everyone Facebook wasn't hauled off list. Roll on, review 2.0 Analysis More than two years in, Privacy Shield still isn't fit for purpose – and data protection experts and politicians want to see a bigger commitment ahead of its second annual review.…