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Only thing left now is a Supreme Court bid in row over Android and Java copyright Over eight years of feuding between Oracle and Google over the use of Java code in Android may be nearing its end following a Tuesday court ruling.…

Judicial review into law launched Campaign groups have today launched a legal challenge against an exemption in the UK's Data Protection Act that could prevent citizens gaining access to immigration data held on them.…

Western Oz infosec audit report was shocking, but only 'cos it made public Internal cybersecurity audits rarely make it to the public domain, but when they do it’s often an eye-popping read.…

If you're after an away ticket, now you know who to call Fat-fingered staff at London football team West Ham United have upset some fans following a ticket confirmation email bungle.…

Who knew you could get away with not IDing yourself to a court for 9 months? A man trying to sue Google is so terrified of being doxed by the ad tech company's Lumen Database that he has managed to hide his name from High Court judges for almost a year.…

More millions handed out to Atos, CDW, AWS... The UK government handed about twice as much cash to large firms for 'digital services' than small ones over the past four months – but still brags about helping SMEs "flourish".…

Now for the other half More than half (51.8 per cent) of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites are actively redirecting to HTTPS for the first time.…

Programmable device company needs to program some profits Lattice Semiconductor has hired a shiny new CEO, Jim Anderson, to plot a way forward for the silicon, reference designs and boards maker.…

Survey says one in five security pros have been asked to screw over their employer The threat from rogue insiders, for so long dismissed as scare stories, has quietly bubbled back on to the official worry list.…

And those legal costs just aren't going away Two directors of ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd have resigned as their attempt to stave off a five-figure legal costs bill for the company proved unsuccessful.…

We've got you covered Amid the inexorable flurry of storage industry releases this week, Datera announced increasing revenues and new hires, DriveScale attempted to crack Europe, Maxta touted its Hyperconverged (Un)Appliance, which looks pretty much like any old HCI, and Rubrik got chummy with Cisco bigwig John Chambers.…

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying Schools across the UK may have thought results fever was over for another year – but, thanks to the nation's privacy watchdog, they might not get to relax just yet.…

Cites being left behind by US and China in tech stakes The European Union reckons 5G R&D needs a boost – so it has slung a loan of €500m in the general direction of Finland.…

Hunting the known unknowns Analysis Who'd have thought it? Diagnostic event streams and log files are fashionable at last.…

Meanwhile, UK mobe market is still crashing Huawei overtook Apple in Q2 as the world's number-two phone maker, according to fresh stats from Gartner.…

Join us in October for a human scale take on machine learning and AI Events If you want to find out what machine learning and AI really looks like in the workplace and beyond, join us at MCubed in October and find out.…

Picture of a human + elephant = Chair. Good job. You don’t always need to build fancy algorithms to tamper with image recognition systems – adding objects in random places will do the trick.…

Wave the the CPU trust flag if you're feeling safe enough Linux v4.19-rc1, release candidate code published on Sunday, allows those building their own kernel or Linux distribution to choose whether or not to trust the CPU hardware random number generator, a decision that has become complicated in the wake of the revelations about government surveillance over the past five years.…

Millions to be spent on a feasibility study to see if Brits can do their own thing in space The UK is about to press the big red button on its own satellite navigation system as an agreement for access to the EU’s Galileo programme looks more and more unlikely.…

Researchers manipulate gyroscopic controls with ultrasonic attack A group of university researchers have developed a way to remotely control motion-sensing devices using only sound waves.…

It may be the oldest and largest planet, but it took a long time Jupiter may be heavier than all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but it took a surprisingly long time to balloon in size.…

Local privilege escalation in procedure calls It's not bad enough to take Microsoft out-of-cycle, but CERT/CC has just put out a warning of a new privilege escalation bug in Windows.…

Database ops need less 'muck' says AWS boss Andy Jassy VMworld US VMware's quest to automate admins out of a job continued at VMworld, with the company bedding down with Amazon to add a bit of its virtualisation sauce to the AWS Relational Database Service (RDS).…

Are Adam Sandler fans human? Court didn't rule on that ... The defendant in the “Adam Sandler downloader” case has had another win, in a long-running a case over whether or not he downloaded the movie “The Cobbler”.…

Sticky Notes, Green Screen of Deaths and Skype. There is no rest for the Windows watcher While storm clouds gathered over the UK in time for the August holiday, all was sunny in world of Microsoft. Except, perhaps, in the Israel office. While Redmond goes toe to toe with Tel Aviv over licencing, what else happened last week in Windows land?…

AMD promptly dumps it and hires TSMC for next-gen chips GlobalFoundries is putting its pursuit of 7nm chips on hold indefinitely.…

But, hey, it's not like it had been warned hundreds of times over several years... Analysis Facebook has banned 20 organizations and individuals in Myanmar, including the country's commander-in-chief, following a United Nations report formally accusing the military regime of serious human rights abuses.…

Complaint accuses group of setting up fake site, hotline An Illinois law firm is suing a rival it says was impersonating it online in a bid to steal clients.…

Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson calls ruling 'farcical' A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the online distribution of CAD files for 3D printed guns, upholding a temporary injunction issued in late July.…

No, we're not pulling your leg VMworld US VMware today showed off a port of its bare-metal ESXi hypervisor for 64-bit Arm servers at its VMworld US shindig in Las Vegas.…

Normal policy – or punishment for stepping outside ad giant's walled garden? Updated The CEO of Epic Games, maker of smash-hit shoot-em-up Fortnite, continues to savage Google for disclosing a security hole in his software.…

Data Domain and VxRAIL to the fore against a multi-cloud backdrop VMworld US EMC has been singing off a multi-cloud and hyper-converged songsheet at sibling VMware’s Glitter Gulch VMworld event.…

Your quick announcement summary VMworld US The VMware world's VMecca – VMworld 2018 US – is upon us this week in Las Vegas.…

Plus: Feds break up another 'dark-net drugs op' Roundup Summer rolls on, Reg vultures are making the most of their hols before the September rush hits, and in the past week, we saw Lazarus malware targeting Macs, Adobe scrambling to get an emergency patch out, and Democrats losing their minds over a simple training exercise.…

Creators ticked off for running CPU flat out over the break Who, Me? It's that time of the week again, where Reg readers 'fess up to IT errors and jokes that went awry, in the hope of some catharsis.…

Your need-to-know Roundup It's a long weekend in England and Wales, with many Reg vultures taking time out and making the most of what's left of the quiet August month.…

Just waiting for the tech bros to disrupt this dump delivery service Everyone knows that America's big cities and especially San Francisco live in their own financial bubbles.…

Day one: Dance moves. Day two: Committing crimes? Video Are you a bad dancer? Do you want to pirouette like a ballet pro? Don’t worry you can fake it until you make it – with the help of artificial intelligence.…

Everything's embiggening – just don't ask about the Dell split VMware keeps growing its sales like, depending on your opinion of the virtualization giant, weeds in an unkempt garden, or a lottery jackpot prize pool.…

Billionaire bashed with 'hypocrisy' stick by activists Almost five dozen CEOs at US tech giants and other big businesses this week denounced the White House's immigration policies in an open letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.…

Find flaw, report flaw, fix flaw, get paid. Bish, bash, bosh Facebook has patched a remote-code execution flaw discovered in one of its servers.…

Time for the internet to grow up? Critical US DMCA safe harbor rules in the spotlight Analysis The US Supreme Court has been asked to take a good hard look at a critical piece of internet law that shields ISPs and websites from legal action when their users pirate copyrighted stuff.…

Avoid OS build 17134.191 on tablets, it wrecked our gear, complain owners Some Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners claim Redmond's July 24 Windows 10 update broke their devices.…

Don't install August update, world+dog warned McAfee has pulled a version of its Endpoint Security software after folks reported the antivirus software was crashing their Windows machines.…

No need for GPU/TPU acceleration? We'll see Tachyum is developing a processor that it alleges will run everyday applications as well as AI code that would normally require a GPU-like hardware accelerator.…

Simple, really – follow the congested links Back when net neutrality was a thing, engineers at the Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) tested US interdomain links, and found them mostly flowing freely.…

P&G wakes up to internet abbreviations, LOL Giant multinational Procter & Gamble has filed for trademarks incorporating internet slang abbreviations including LOL to appeal to younger consumers – but it can expect to face challenges from hundreds of companies who, er, already thought of the idea ages ago.…

US firm Secureworks lifts lid on further targeting of academia US infosec biz Secureworks reckons it has uncovered a login credential-hoovering operation linked to Iran that targeted universities across a number of Western nations.…

1970s tech 'Picasso', two previous owners One of only 50 working Apple-1 computers goes up for auction next month in Boston. The board is a later model than the one that fetched $815,000 in 2016.…

Broadband Forum standards, ZTE drags down optical market, and more The Broadband Forum has dropped the first open-source code in an access interoperability project designed to support cloud-based access infrastructure and services.…