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Chillout by raising some cold hard cash for vulnerable youngsters It might be high summer now, but if you fancy chilling out with the great and the good of both tech and entertainment, sign up for October’s Byte Night now.…

Creators call for political backing and 'new momentum'... so not a mercy killing then? Politicians have been told to help the UK's flailing Government Digital Service gain new momentum by unpicking Whitehall power structures.…

HP Ink refreshes its schleppable workstation range days after Dell did the same A couple of days back we covered Dell’s new portable workstations and now HP Ink has launched some too.…

All it took was a three-fingered salute and some autoexec.bat action On-Call Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register’s attempt to make Fridays tolerable by bringing you fellow readers’ tales of terrifying tech support jobs they somehow survived.…

Clueless DNS overseer sees lazy efforts torn apart – again European data regulators have torn up the latest proposal by internet overseer ICANN over its Whois data service, sending the hapless organization back to the drawing board for a third time.…

And you thought AI couldn't get any more mind-boggling Scientists have built neural networks from DNA molecules that can recognise handwritten numbers, a common task in deep learning, according to a paper published in Nature on Wednesday.…

It's the largest dwarf galaxy to smash into us yet found Around eight to ten billion years ago, a neighbouring dwarf galaxy known as the Sausage galaxy smashed into the Milky Way leaving a smattering of gas, dust, and stars.…

100-seaters are now a duopoly, too, so please don’t mention the trade war Aerospace giant Boeing looks to have addressed a weakness that Airbus exposed last year, by proposing a joint venture with Brazilian plane-maker Embraer.…

Slow virtual server provisioning incident mistakenly given Red Alert status IBM’s cloud is having a bad day.…

Alleged unethical behavior from a grey hat? Who'd a thunk it? A former worker at NSO Group – the Israeli biz infamous for selling zero-day exploits to governments nice and nasty – has been charged with stealing his employer's spyware, and trying to sell it for $50m on the black market.…

DARPA-funded white hat emits timeless advice AppSec EU IT admins should focus on the fundamentals of network security, rather than worry about sophisticated state-sponsored zero-day attacks, mobile security expert Georgia Weidman told London's AppSec EU conference on Thursday.…

Big Cable lobbyists abandoned after grassroots campaign California lawmakers promised to introduce the "strongest net neutrality protections in the nation" on Thursday morning, just weeks after a key piece of the legislation was gutted at the committee stage, sparking online fury.…

Big Cable lobbyists abandoned after grassroots campaign Californian lawmakers promised to introduce the "strongest net neutrality protections in the nation" on Thursday morning, just weeks after a key piece of the legislation was gutted in committee, sparking online fury.…

White and black hats tinker with XML .SettingContent-ms files as a method to deliver malware Hackers have been experimenting with a newly discovered technique to commandeer Windows 10 boxes.…

A summer of straightened smug holiday snaps beckons As the US partied and the UK made increasingly desperate “well, we dumped YOU” jokes, the GIMP team celebrated 4 July by emitting a fresh stable build of the arty application with a function aimed at fixing drunken photos.…

60% faster IOPS Analysis NetApp has beaten IBM's biggest, baddest all-flash storage box in an industry-standard benchmark.…

Spending watchdog's report also has barbs for outsourcing and, of course, Brexit UK government bodies collect data "as an afterthought" or when they've been caught off-guard in a grilling, Parliament's Public Accounts Committee's chairwoman Meg Hillier has said.…

Pirates: We saved the internet! The European Parliament has kicked back a vote on proposed copyright law changes until September to allow tempers to cool and the agreed text to be re-examined.…

'Not an issue with our network', say UK2.net techies Updated ISP TalkTalk is no longer on speaking terms with Brit hosting provider UK2.net – as far as networking their customers over the internet is concerned.…

Partial beer for a partial outage? Brit hosting provider UK2.net is no longer on speaking terms with TalkTalk – at least as far as customers of the telco are concerned.…

Redmond filings hint at portable computer for the less flush Microsoft fans hoping to sate their desire for a Surface device without selling a non-vital organ to fund it may have taken a step closer to realising their dreams this week.…

MEPs call for urgent fix The Privacy Shield deal governing transatlantic data flows should be suspended if the US doesn't comply by 1 September, the European Parliament has said.…

Israel claiming it was Hamas Security researchers have unpicked mobile apps and spyware that infected the mobile devices of Israeli military personnel in a targeted campaign which the state has claimed Hamas was behind.…

No sir, you CANNOT import this stuff from outside the EEA again The bosses of a now defunct distributor have coughed a seven-figure settlement to Cisco after admitting they violated trademark laws by importing kit from outside the European Economic Area.…

This whole business is starting to look like a cargo cult Finding a new form factor for personal computing is harder than Microsoft thought. Reports suggest Redmond has gone back to the drawing board for its "Andromeda" handheld due to incomplete software.…

Committee warns on potential for huge pain if there's a gap The UK government has been told to urgently start negotiations for a data adequacy deal with the European Union – or risk damaging business and placing a prohibitive burden on small firms.…

Folk confronted by 'Invalid Properties' error on login Employees signed up to Sage's 50cloud Payroll service have been having problems accessing their payslips after an update borked servers.…

Not just another generic court building. Oh no London is to get a new court building, billed as a legal centre for tackling cyber and online economic crimes.…

One does not simply 'remove' data from key servers Cryptographic key servers are in "direct violation" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, a software developer has claimed.…

Big Red Buttons cause big trouble Who, me? Special Welcome to a special edition of “Who, me?” The Register’s opportunity for readers to get their worst mistakes off their chests. We’re usually here on Mondays, but with the United States Independence Day making for slow news days, we decided to keep The Register’s servers red-lining by running an extra column.…

Weak password, no 2FA, loose policies ... and only luck limited the damage The developers of Gentoo Linux have revealed how it was possible for its GitHub repository to be hacked: someone deduced an admin’s password and perhaps that admin ought not to have had access to the repos anyway.…

New optical standards give cable operators lots of headroom as they fibre up Boffins at CableLabs, the cable TV network operators' pet research house, have turned out two fresh photonic standards: the P2P Coherent Optics Architecture Specification; and the P2P Coherent Optics Physical Layer v1.0 Specification.…

This matters because carriers follow where BoffinNets first tread Europe's GEANT and Australia's AARNET have joined The Internet Society's Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative.…

Government trumpets savings, Big Blue trumpets quantum blockchain innovation revolution IBM and Australia’s federal government have signed a billion-dollar five-year whole-of-government procurement deal.…

Hardware hassles mean rc7 was needed, spark discussion about release cadence The Xen Project has missed the deadline to ship version 4.11 of its hypervisors by almost five weeks, sparking debate among developers about the length of its release cycle but not worrying the Projects leaders.…

Version 52.9 now does PGP and S/MIME right, adds another dozen bug-splats Thunderbird has pushed code with fixes for a dozen security vulnerabilities – including the EFAIL encryption mess that emerged in May.…

'Stylish' add-on made sites look pretty, but did ugly data slurpage Firefox and Chrome have removed a browser extension from their stores following revelations it was phoning home with users' web-surfing histories.…

The Social Network™ fixed it in time for Independence Day Facebook’s content-cleansing bots have flagged the United States Declaration of Independence as hate speech.…

Wants a 2019 entry. Good luck with that Chinese tech darling Xiaomi, flush with cash from a private equity placement, thinks there's never been a better time to crack the US market.…

Go on. Log in one more time. Just for posterity Hotmail turned 22 today having ushered in an era of web-based email, great swathes of spam and one of the greatest ever security cock-ups.…

Watchdog notes rise in schemes at risk of flopping The Home Office’s plan to shift the blue-light services to 4G has been branded unachievable, its Digital Services at the Border project is at high risk of failure and five other tech projects are facing deep issues.…

Vega+ scandal lingers as desperate board delays crunch-time vote again The ZX Spectrum reboot scandal will drag on for at least another month as Retro Computers Ltd’s embattled directors have again delayed a showdown that could lead to their dismissal.…

It took 6 hours to realise certain Big Blue storage fluff had KO'd Updated Storage systems in several of IBM's European data centres have been down since the small hours, with engineers battling to fix an unspecified "network-related" problem they identified six hours after the outage began.…

SATA flash drives to put low-cap disk on endangered list Seagate has fired a new Barracuda SSD at the home server, PC and notebook disk replacement markets.…

Anyway, it's only a trial – and it's what the public would want! The commissioner of London's Met Police has insisted the public "expect" cops to trial the facial recognition tech that is subject to two legal challenges in the UK – while admitting she doesn’t expect its use to result in “lots of arrests”.…

Hiring suits in UK for phase 1 of corporate conquest Apple is to set up an alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to reach more suits in the corporate world, The Register can reveal.…

Wannabe Die Hard with the literary genius of The Da Vinci Code Book review The Register has read the The President Is Missing by Bill Clinton and James Patterson so you don't have to. Don't say we never do anything for you...…

Fancy that What is billed as the "first large-scale empirical study of media permissions and leaks from Android apps" has found that an alarming number can help themselves to your screen.…

Never mind the cuts and outsourcing – there's always room for a Chief Design Officer UK banking giant Lloyds has hired former Microsoft design guru Dan Makoski and plonked him in the newly created role of Chief Design Officer.…

Year of the Linux Desktop imminent for a quarter century Though it may not have managed to bring Linux to the desktop in any meaningful sense, 4 July marks 25 years since the first stable release of not-a-Windows-emulator, Wine.…