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The Southern Rail experience without stepping on a train Brits have found themselves facing long delays in acquiring Railcards following a week of mysterious technical problems at railcard.co.uk.…

Sadly, the talent section won't involve serious coding The annual Miss America beauty pageant scholarship program has a tech entry this year, Microsoft developer Allison Farris.…

Ad giant 'intentionally complicated' opt-out systems Google's creepy obsession with users' locations is to be challenged in court – a lawsuit has accused the search-cum-ads biz of unlawfully invading users' privates and intentionally complicating the opt-out process.…

Still using it after last year's OS axe? No apps for you then Microsoft gave the still-twitching corpse of Windows Phone another kick yesterday as it confirmed plans to stop app updates from July 2019.…

Fixes for Lucky 13-type bugs could still be vulnerable More than five years after cracks started showing in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) network crypto protocol, the author of the "Lucky 13" attack has poked holes in the fixes that were subsequently deployed.…

GDS-commissioned report recommends bigger role for... who else but GDS? British government agencies have been warned they risk wasting time and effort trying out new tech projects without central coordination – and can expect a shiny new strategy next year.…

Who has the keys to your car? The perils of previous owners retaining unfettered access to the data and controls of connected cars after resale is a wider problem across the industry, The Register has discovered.…

Ex-Cisco CEO-chaired lobby leading the charge America's major tech companies are pushing back against India's proposed data protection laws, with a lobby group led by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers emerging as the protest organiser.…

While news sites cut cookies by 22% – but Google retains omnipresence IT consultants, software firms and campaigners spent months touting 25 May 2018 as the dawning of a new era – for better or worse, depending on who was selling the snake oil – but research published this month indicates minor changes in reality.…

ICANN appeals its appeal and tells German courts yet again that they're wrong The organization that oversees the internet's naming and numbering systems is continuing its embarrassing European legal campaign, insisting for a third time that the German courts have got it wrong.…

RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble High-performance computing geeks are sweating on a Red Hat fix, after a previous patch broke the Lustre file system.…

Incompatibility of apple.com with screen-readers said to harm the sight impaired Apple, which prides itself on design, faces a lawsuit alleging that its web page layout violates the law.…

21 year-old facing 31 charges for "no questions asked" cross-border cryptocurrency buys A 21 year old man from Mexico is facing more than two-dozen money laundering charges in the US for running an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange.…

Thousands of apps yanked for violating terms and conditions Apple has reportedly kicked off a mass removal of illegal lottery and gambling apps from the China version of its iOS App Store.…

Legal battle #433 over Pai's push to kill off rules Mozilla has filed its legal brief against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), accusing the telecoms regulator of abdicating its role, ignoring public comments and failing to understand how the internet actually works.…

The software's just fine, annual codefest agrees Analysis At the third annual PyBay Conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Python aficionados gathered to learn new tricks and touch base with old friends.…

Smut-slinging copyright troll cops to fraud and money laundering charges One of the attorneys behind notorious copyright operation Prenda Law has just agreed to plead guilty to a pair of felony counts.…

Veteran penguin botherer feels the need. For speed Longtime Linux slinger SUSE has emitted a kernel optimised for the cloudy world of Microsoft Azure.…

No end in sight yet to mystery maintenance 'issue' The US Patent and Trademark Office has taken a novel approach to dealing with the problem of patent trolls. The solution? Shut everything down.…

They fell off the Peak... They perished on the Plateau... They fell in the Trough... There's been a tragedy on the fields of emerging technology and nobody seems to have noticed. Once-promising trends that were toiling for recognition a year ago have simply vanished.…

'Super' + 'user's first name' login is crackers, see me after – clients Updated Private tutor networking website SuperProf has irritated teacher clients of a firm it recently acquired – by handing out hopelessly insecure passwords.…

But claims of 'complete system compromise' are a little extreme Bsides Manchester A newly discovered WordPress flaw has left installs of the ubiquitous content management system potentially vulnerable to hacking.…

Staff forced to whiteboard in terminals as cloud connection goes TITSUP* Updated London Gatwick Airport’s shiny new cloud-based flight information display system had a hard landing this morning as its vision of the future was brought down to earth with a bump.…

Three SMS platforms? Oh Redmond, you spoil us As Alexa and Cortana kicked off a conversation more awkward than the worst Tinder date and Visual Studio 15.8 dropped into the hands of delighted developers, what else happened last week at Microsoft?…

Concerns that voters will see right through him ignored Putting the digital into "digital secretary", Jeremy Wright has been slated to appear at the UK Tory party's annual gabfest as a hologram.…

The knowledge you need lies beneath Yes, you can become an instant storage thought leader with our unique highly available, deduplicated, cloud-native and multi-region storage newsfest. Here's everything worth knowing in the land of storage for the last week.…

But who are we to hold a grudge... Who, Me? Monday morning arrives once more for those of you holding the fort while colleagues are on holiday.So why not enjoy this extra special instalment of Who, Me?, El Reg’s weekly confessional column.…

New book details snatch for humanity's joystick Book Review It has been 14 years since Google IPO'd, and nine since Donald Trump burst onto Twitter. It’s five years since both the Snowden NSA disclosures and the birth of Cambridge Analytica. Over this period we’ve had a series of major data breaches, media organisations disrupted out of existence, and the emergence of hacktivists and the alt right.…

Uninvited middlemen may be messing with message Most people's DNS queries – by which browsers and other software resolve domain names into IP addresses – remain unprotected while flowing over the internet.…

El Reg vulture's take on the upset at this year's Black Hat and DEF CON Comment The hacking world's summer camp has ended. The last of the Black Hat USA, BSides Las Vegas, and DEF CON attendees and organizers have now left Sin City after a week of lectures, networking, and partying.…

When augmented reality becomes hospital visiting Remember when Pokemon Go suddenly became a thing and idiots ran off cliffs, into trees, through hospitals, and across lanes of traffic, causing plenty of accidents?…

If you're not already suffering from Black Hat/DEF CON overload Roundup It's time for another rapid roundup of computer security news beyond what we've already reported.…

Also, how Apple's Siri uses your location to improve its speech recognition Roundup Here's your quick roundup of AI news beyond what we've already written about this week.…

Research silenced amid copyright, trademark claim Updated If you were at BSides Manchester in England this week, you hopefully caught James Williams' presentation on the shortcomings of some commercial antivirus tools.…

Internet boxes blab coordinates on login pages Black Hat If you want to avoid the cops, or watch deliveries and call-outs by trucks and another vehicles in real-time, well, there's potentially not a lot stopping you.…

Oh good, we're out of the board games phase, then DeepMind’s artificially intelligent algorithms are directly controlling the cooling systems within Google’s data centers to improve efficiency.…

Talk about getting off on a technicality... It is a great day for those who dream of Internet-of-Flings sex toys. A key patent describing web-connected remote-controllable techno-dildos has expired.…

Hi, is that the FTC? Yep, they're at it again Google has responded to an outcry over how it continues to keep a record on people's whereabouts – even when they specifically opt-out – by changing the word of its misleading help page.…

'Made-up PR numbers' used by social giant to exaggerate online advertising audience Facebook brags it has a massive real audience, estimated to be about 2.23bn monthly users and 1.47bn daily users after culling more than 1.27bn fake accounts.…

Cache me outside, how 'bout dah? BSides Manchester Websites can be hijacked to turn their caches into exploit delivery systems.…

But just for a month - and what a month September will be for its directors The directors of the company at the heart of the ZX Spectrum reboot scandal have been ordered to pay yet more legal costs as they keep trying to kick their financial woes into the long grass.…

Think tank calls for open standards, interoperability Government departments should mandate interoperability when procuring systems and establish audit trails to track data use in order to benefit from data sharing, a think tank has said.…

Time for cyber-security firm to pull up the baggywrinkle? Security slinger Symantec is facing a bruising battle with activist investor Starboard Value, which has nominated five directors to the security firm's board after having amassed a 5.8 per cent shareholding.…

It's turtles all the way down The British government this week unveiled plans for an ambitious AI simulator to be used to test self-driving cars. It's part of a stated mission to make the UK the world's leading destination for testing autonomous vehicles.…

You’re not paranoid if they’re really out to get you The TUC, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, is lobbying to gain a legal right to be consulted on surveillance in the workplace, as it opened up on staffers’ growing concerns about their bosses snooping on them.…

Contract notice reveals yet another UK.gov systems migration to Bezos cloud The Home Office wants to dump all of Britain’s national-level police IT onto Amazon Web Services' public cloud.…

Just when you thought it was safe to hang out at the water cooler Just as DXC Technology workers thought they’d escaped a summer redundancy session the perennial cost-cutter has asked for volunteers to form an orderly queue to the exit door.…

The digital entropy of death BSides Manchester What happens to the numerous user logins you've accumulated after you die or become too infirm to manipulate a keyboard?…

At first they started out real cool... On-Call Friday is upon us once more, which can mean only one thing: it’s time for On Call, our weekly instalment of Reg readers’ tech support frustrations.…

Processes, Services, Installations: One UI to rule them all. Almost. An attempt to cure the headache of a Windows 10 desktop festooned with Linux distributions has arrived in the form of WSLTools from Opsview.…