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Grainy to clear pixels within milliseconds Video Don’t worry if the lighting is a bit off in your photos – artificially intelligent software can fix that.…

It's time national security agencies bring facts to the table Comment Huawei has won another sizeable contract, this time in Australia, and with it come the all-too-common accusations that the company is a national security risk.…

蒂姆，我们告诉你谨慎！ Apple's attempt to filter out text on its iPhones to appease the Chinese government would crash iOS – and now that bug, or feature, has been fixed.…

Follow the money: Florida judge signs off on new IP attack PayPal and Google have been hit with court injunctions telling them to freeze accounts associated with websites hosting pirated content.…

Don't panic: The Open Threat Exchange is still online AT&T has agreed to acquire security intel specialist AlienVault for an unspecified pile of cash.…

Underhand tactic of slagging off the competition backfires Arm has taken offline its website attacking rival processor architecture RISC-V within days of it going live – after its own staff objected to the underhand tactic.…

Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors Oracle is among the legacy tech losers in a Goldman Sachs spending report that quizzed chief information officers on the procurement areas they consider to be top priorities over the next six months.…

Decides not to report code blunder despite Europe's new GDPR privacy rules Holidaymakers who used Thomas Cook Airlines had their personal information spilled onto the internet no thanks to basic coding cockups.…

Chipzilla preps for quarterly public patch updates Exclusive Intel will today emit a dozen security alerts for its products – including details of another vulnerability within the family of Spectre CPU flaws.…

Firm smacks back: We 'did not manage Heartland's information security' Security services firm Trustwave has been sued by insurers in America over the 2008 hacking of US payment processing biz Heartland.…

Sophos webinar looks on the bright side of regulations that echoed around the world Promo Nobody can have have failed to notice a sudden flood of ingratiating emails at the end of May. It signalled the arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), two years in the making and finally coming into effect.…

♫ If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall ♫ Fresh from fighting content filters in the EU, Google is working on the ultimate content filter– which seals the user off in a spam-free bubble.…

Customer support to be saved, roadmap assurances delivered Exclusive DataDirect Networks (DDN) has come to the rescue of Tintri just hours after the array maker filed for bankruptcy in the US under Chapter 11.…

IET phone home. Just don't email... A decision by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to axe an ageing email alias service has left some of its members a-quiver with indignation.…

Pen test bods probe about a dozen orgs – all fail Companies are still leaving basic security flaws and points of entry wide open for hackers to exploit.…

It's not looking good for array-flinger The noose around Tintri's neck tightened today as Nasdaq confirmed it will delist the company's stock on Thursday July 12.…

Jeremy Wright fourth MP to lead DCMS since 2016 Today's reshuffle of UK politicos sees Jeremy Wright – a man whose parody account has seen more activity in 12 hours than his real one has in the past three years – appointed Secretary of Fun.…

Sysadmins seeking help with remote control software find something quite different Users taking to Twitter to moan about TeamViewer have received a bit of a shock when attempting to use the eponymous hashtag.…

That would be all of it then The US tax authority – the Internal Revenue Service – is looking at how AI can secure and protect taxpayers’ data held on its servers.…

Creepy? Nah. Selling peace of mind to hyper anxious parents The best thing in two new consumer wearables Vodafone launched today is not mentioned by the firm itself: each does away with the need for a smartphone.…

Of course researchers added machine learning to the mix too Smartphone hackers can glean secrets by analysing touchscreen user interactions, according to new research.…

Customers report Terribly Slow Banking Updated A UK bank's website and mobile app have flatlined this morning – and there are no prizes for guessing which embattled financial firm is struggling.…

Don't have a cow, but taxman test disappears MOO HMRC has attracted further ire from contractors affected by plans to squeeze them for a bit more tax under IR35 rules.…

Down four places to 35th – and beaten by Madagascar Britain's place in global broadband speed rankings has slipped four places to 35th, according to a survey.…

Amazon’s own auto-scaler now available for third-party apps AWS has announced that “Application Auto Scaling can be used to add scaling to any services that you build on AWS”, and Netflix has revealed the new feature started life as a custom job for the vid-streaming company.…

We answer your questions in five minutes Watercooler Hey El Reg, over the past few days I've seen news that Chinese chip biz Hygon is producing server-grade processors virtually identical to AMD Epyc processors. I'm kinda getting deja vu – you, too?…

How it all happened (clue: unsigned library loaded) Programmers at videoconferencing software house BlueJeans have been living through a developer's nightmare the past month or so – antivirus packages falsely labeling their code as malware.…

Researcher says routes are leaking because ISP giants aren't filtering route info The Internet's fundamental routing infrastructure, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), is so fragile that errors in one to four per cent of ISP route filters can propagate bad routes.…

Password-stealing backdoor lobbed at Windows boxes Security researchers have warned that someone's obtained copies of code-signing certificates from two Taiwanese companies – and is using them to sign malware.…

9100 and 9150 arrays slide out of the oven, added to line up IBM today added new models to its FlashSystem line to more than double the family's maximum capacity, push performance higher with Intel Skylake processors, and strengthen its NVMe-over-fabrics capabilities.…

Who needs software when humans can fake it for you? Nissan, last year accused by UK consumer magazine Which? of faking emissions data, has admitted its own “dieselgate”.…

Ten-inch Win 10 S Pentium tablet. Keyboard, pen $99 each Microsoft has revealed its long-rumoured smaller Surface device – and to The Register’s mind it looks a lot like the re-invention of the netbook.…

But Intel’s HAXM is still ‘Droid’s preferred hypervisor Google’s given its Android Emulator a tickle to add support for AMD processors and Microsoft’s Hyper-V.…

The light has only taken 13 billion years to reach us Scientists have spotted the brightest ancient quasar formed when the universe was less than billion years old, according to research published in The Astrophysical Journal.…

Grab those updates, including iOS 11.4.1 which may close off USB to prying Feds Apple has released the latest version of its mobile operating system complete with its Fed-blocking option.…

iOS 11.4.1 is out and the USB is closed for business Apple has released the latest version of its mobile operating system complete with its Fed-blocking new option.…

Privacy, net neutrality, mass surveillance... the small stuff On Monday, President Trump is expected to announce his pick for the next US Supreme Court Justice – a decision that will come with huge implications for technology and privacy.…

30 per cent error fix was a violation of CFAA, claim scores of angry fans The saga of class-action lawsuits looming over Apple's iOS battery management took a new turn last week – as the Cupertino giant was accused of violating American hacking laws.…

Wow, the SGI brand. What a blast from the past, sorry, future HPE has sold an SGI 8600 supercomputer system to a Swiss research institute for the Blue Brain Project’s modeling of a mouse brain’s thalamus and neocortex.…

Charming. First worm able to infect legacy systems has a module called 'network f*cker' Miscreants have developed the first strain of ransomware worm capable of infecting legacy systems, such as Windows XP and 2003.…

But experts aren't convinced... Updated Police suspect that high-tech thieves may have hacked into a Detroit petrol station before stealing 600 US gallons (2,271 litres) of fuel.…

CPUs, HBAs making up for disk drive controller decline Analysis Fabless semiconductor company Marvell has become 40 per cent bigger today by completing its $6bn Cavium gobble.…

Hostile takeover drove firm into the ground An investment fund and its manager have been ordered to pay up $20.3m after "misinformation, threats and combative behaviour" helped put NoSQL database biz Basho on a "greased slide to failure".…

Whither the Centriq now? Qualcomm's veep of data centre technologies, Dileep Bhandarkar, has left the company, it appears.…

Notebook undermines years of good security hygiene with style News reaches us that will leave password management outfits quaking in their boots. The Conran Shop has a solution for forgetful users, and it is a snip at a mere £22.…

Reg cries out into the voicemail void: Is anybody home? Tintri has shut down across EMEA according to claims from company insiders, customers have been left with no discernible support function and some staff told us they were laid off without any pay for June or redundancy terms.…

Bing curries favour with England. Not so much Croatia New builds, no outages and a few brokenhearted fanboys. It's the week at Microsoft.…

Hot dog! That's a lot of post 4-July week storage You'd be forgiven for feeling a bit like a runner-up at the annual Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest this morning; there was not that much storage tech news to digest last week. However, there's also a lot more to expect over the coming week, as the industry – mostly based Stateside – recovers from its extended 4th of July celebrations.…

Why your connection is as slow as the service itself Wi-Fi has been creeping its way on to UK trains over the last few years as the government seeks to deal with the issue of mobile dead-zones by getting the train companies to provide free connectivity.…

And then his colleagues pulled an all-nighter failing to fix it Who, me? Welcome once more to “Who, me?”, in which Reg readers ‘fess up to messes they made in the pursuit of IT excellence.…