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Cambridge Analytica’s PR crisis man claims ‘morale is pretty good now’ in office The egghead behind the mass slurp of Facebook users’ information has said the social network is in “PR crisis mode” – as Cambridge Analytica enacted a crisis management of its own.…

New US RAND report predicts a grim technological future AI could kick start a nuclear war by 2040, according to a dossier published this month by the RAND Corporation, a US policy and defence think tank.…

New Bezos scheme opens up vehicles as drop-off points Amid worries about social network and ad-related privacy invasions, Amazon is asking for invitations into people's homes and cars.…

Now, who wants to take a look at the revamped Yahoo Mail? The Disaster Formerly Known as Yahoo! has been fined $35m by US financial watchdog, the SEC, for failing to tell anyone about one of the world's largest ever computer security breaches.…

Audacious BGP seizure of Route 53 IP addys followed by crypto-cyber-heist Updated Crooks today hijacked internet connections to Amazon Web Services systems to ultimately steal a chunk of alt-coins from online cryptocurrency website MyEtherWallet.com.…

Plucky MVNOs snag top five spots for customer satisfaction You can stuff your VoLTE and Notched iPhones – bargain-conscious Brits are shunning the big mobile operators for cheap-as-chips virtual network operators instead.…

Revenues up 41 per cent, industry in 'recovery mode' Streaming revenues rose 41 per cent to become the largest source of income for recorded music in 2017.…

Salesfor.... who? CEO predicts CRM crown will be his Top brass at SAP are finally walking with some swagger after recording the firm's first ever €1bn-plus revenue cloud quarter, so much so that they even felt compelled to fire some warning shots at rival Salesforce.…

Plus: No one will say whether Huawei, ZTE are the baddies Banks could plug their security vulnerabilities by simply improving password protections, the deputy CEO of the Prudential Regulation Authority has told the House of Lords.…

We want to suck your... data up into our cloud The storage enterprise trade is simultaneously hoping what happened in Vegas does and doesn't stay there as the news of new products, tech developments, company changes and people moving jobs flooded out of the NAB conference in Nevada.…

Color-coded stellar searcher seeks out young stars AI systems can be trained to help astronomers identify if galaxies are still active in producing new stars, according to a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal.…

Platform fka Java EE gets new governance model, hopes for bigger community The Eclipse Foundation has today released the new governance model for Jakarta EE, with an emphasis on creating a cloud native, code-first and community-led project that is faster and more innovative.…

Hacking campaign goes after care providers and equipment If there's one thing security vendors love it's a catchilly-named piece of malware to whip up fervor over, and boy is it a good day to be Symantec.…

Hang Seng stock price fall leaves vendor facing blue chip index chop Lenovo is in danger of getting booted off the Hong Kong stock exchange's benchmark equity index because of its crashing share price.…

Until El Reg had a quiet word, that is Exclusive Ten days after Google lost a Right To Be Forgotten judgment in London's High Court, one of the search results the judge ordered the search giant to delete was still online – until The Register asked Mountain View what it was doing there.…

Here's how to ensure biz continuity at your workplace Opinion Businesses are becoming increasingly digitalised, with operations and customer experiences relying on data and devices being online all the time.…

Spanish daddy Sabadell talks up 'international integrations' TSB's Spanish owner Sabadell has proudly boasted about the success of its IT integration - amid widespread chaos for customers in Britain still grappling with the fallout out of a botched systems upgrade.…

Bumper update flings slew of 'Quality Improvements' at OS Windows 10 Springwatch participants got a treat last night in the form of a bumper update to Windows 10 1709 (aka the Fall Creators Update).…

Privacy International slams secret deals and 'dangerous lack of oversight' There is a "dangerous lack of oversight" of global surveillance networks, Privacy International has said, warning that intelligence-sharing deals could become a way for states to "outsource surveillance".…

It's about truckers Japan's investment cash firehose Softbank and America's definitely-not-Google holding company Alphabet want you to use Manbang, and are paying $1.9bn for the pleasure.…

Flagship iPhone is being outsold by ancient models Apple's £999 flagship iPhone X is being outsold by three-year-old models – providing further evidence that the 10th anniversary upgrade "supercycle" never happened.…

'Failure of in-branch services have all the hallmarks of an IT meltdown,' says Nicky Morgan The government is demanding urgent answers over a botched systems upgrade at TSB that has locked out up to 1.9 million customers.…

Can Suresh Vasudevan scale up and flog another startup? Ex-Nimble top dog Suresh Vasudevan is the new president and CEO of container intelligence outfit Sysdig.…

Q1 tax rate plunge, cost of traffic to feed ad machine jumps Google's parent company Alphabet has notched up another quarter (PDF) of swollen sales for Q1 2018, revealing the outcome of investments like its stake in Uber.…

... When he got there, the cupboard was bare... Microsoft: No it's not. Whew! Microsoft's US store appeared to have finally sold out of the Seattle software maker's relatively unloved mobile phone last week, but Redmond may yet find a few more hidden behind the sofa.…

Devs: Talk to your friendly neighbourhood DBA In DevOps the talk is of development and operations, of continuous pipelines and agile updates, of rolling out builds. But it often overlooks something rather critical – the database.…

Use iOS or Android, says Redmond, as telephony APIs sprout in Windows Microsoft’s given users of its collaboration apps on Windows Phone under a month’s warning of their demise.…

NASA's fourth release of 'roid-hunting data finds a couple of comets, no dangerous rocks Video NASA's fourth release of data from its NEOWISE asteroid-hunter may well come as a relief, as it's again failed to spot a rock worthy of Bruce Willis' attention.…

Don't log too much, nor keep the files for too long, to stay on right side of Euro privacy rules Sysadmins: while you're busy getting ready for the GDPR-regulated world, don't forget what your servers are storing in their logfiles.…

NATO exercise offers the chance to test full chain of cyber-defence command NATO and assorted partners have unleashed a massive cyber-attack on the fictional country of Berylia to test their ability to defend critical infrastructure against outside attacks.…

Live-traffic gives information-centric networking a boost Information-Centric Networking (ICN) over IP has taken another step towards deployment, with a trial conducted at the end of 2017 declared a success.…

Partner-penned post said SAP might be as good as Google or IBM ... one day Well this is awkward: SAP appears to have canned a blog post that appeared on SAP.com and said the company is struggling to win subscription revenue and is not yet the natural choice to house cloudy ERP.…

New version turns Meltdown mitigation into a feature The Xen Project last week sent the first release candidate of Xen 4.11 down the slipway, ahead of a few weeks’ testing and a planned release on June 1st, 2018.…

Rules nixed by US state court over First Amendment fears A Texas appeals court last week ruled that the US state's Relationship Privacy Act, which prohibits the disclosure or promotion of intimate images without the consent of those depicted, is unconstitutional.…

Zuck: Creepy data-harvesting was for YOUR own good Stop us if you've heard this one before: Facebook is trying to 'set the record straight' after it was once again caught flogging the ability to violate the privacy of its users.…

You'll have to wait until, well, next month, for the end of the internet as we know it Today, Monday, April 23, 2018, marks 60 days since the repeal of America's net neutrality safeguards was published in the United States Federal Register, and so it is the END OF THE INTERNET FOREVER!…

Unpatchable vuln found, exploited to run custom code Security researcher Kate Temkin has released proof-of-concept code dubbed Fusée Gelée that exploits a bug in Nvidia's Tegra chipsets to run custom code on locked-down devices.…

Researcher reveals demo attack code, full release in June Security researcher Kate Temkin has released proof-of-concept code to launch an exploit chain called Fusée Gelée, which relies on an as-yet-undisclosed vulnerability in past versions of Nvidia's Tegra system-on-a-chip.…

Space, the rhinal frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Trivialize... Scientists have solved a pressing mystery about our Solar System. Does Uranus smell like farts? Yes, yes it does.…

Space, the rhinal frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Trivialize... Scientists have solved a pressing mystery about our Solar System. Does Uranus smell like farts? Yes, yes it does.…

Not a bug, we're told: It's a feature. Really Updated Google has confirmed spammers can not only send out spoofed emails that appear to have been sent by Gmail users, but said messages also appear in those users' sent mail folders.…

US judge halts $33m class-action gravy train Analysis A US federal judge has approved a $33m class-action lawsuit against fitness tracker maker Fitbit – but put the brakes on a massive $8.25m lawyer award claim.…

Animals can sue, but don't have the ability to file intellectual property lawsuits A US appeals court has upheld a lower court's decision that a monkey can't own copyright.…

Show us your data says Euro Commish The European Commission is causing Apple more angst by probing its acquisition of Shazam.…

Open casket or open phone? Detectives from Largo, Florida, visited a funeral home in nearby Clearwater and tried, unsuccessfully, to unlock a phone with the hand of its deceased owner to aid an investigation.…

We're off the team and everything is awful A letter to UK science minister Sam Gyimah MP has outlined the impact of Brexit on Britain's space sector, and it doesn't make for happy reading.…

No surprise really Silicon Valley has historically been at war with Hollywood, so Amazon and Netflix's membership of a studio-dominated anti-piracy alliance may raise eyebrows. But it shouldn't: Amazon and Netflix are big studios now in their own right, and Apple is expected to join them.…

Everything's fine, says NVMe-over-fabrics array startup NVMe-over-fabrics array startup Pavilion Data Systems has laid off more engineers just a month after a previous cull during which co-founder Kiran Malwankar departed.…

Plans to hook up 500k Londoners to 1Gbps speeds in 4 years Community Fibre has won £18m from the UK government's broadband fund – the first outfit to do so since the cash pot was announced back in 2016.…

Complaints up 24% as horrible humans rake in the readies Microsoft has released stats showing that tech support scams are on the increase, with 153,000 complaints received and 15 per cent of complainants losing cold, hard cash.…