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Which won't be terrifyingly hard: it's pretty good at making old kit like the way it moves The ink has dried, so to speak, on TLS 1.3, so it's time for work developing software to implement the standard to begin in earnest.…

When you log off forever, who can access your social media accounts? And your Bitcoin? The Australian state of New South Wales has ordered an inquiry into what happens to your social media accounts and digital assets once you’re dead.…

Still a better investment than art school or avocado toast University students are opting to use their student loan money to invest in cryptocurrency, rather than school.…

Denies ties to Cambridge Analytica and insists it didn't knowingly break the law AggregateIQ – a Canadian political advertising firm that played a role in the 2016 US election and the UK's "Vote Leave" Brexit campaign – left its applications and database credentials publicly accessible, security firm Upguard said on Monday.…

Talk about being in the pits: Hamilton, Mercedes gutted after weekend timing glitch Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was left fuming after a software glitch denied him an easy win in first race of the 2018 season on Sunday.…

Expect to hear a lot about censorship and criminals in the next few months Analysis As blowback against Facebook and its business model enters its third week, with netizens railing against the amount and type of personal data the social network has on them, calls for new privacy laws have started growing.…

Bye bye, says American Pai. Throw my server in the levy Federal Communications Commission boss Ajit Pai wants to cut some overseas companies out of the market for lucrative US government broadband contracts if they are deemed a threat to the Land of the Free™.…

'Non-public' FTC investigation a new headache for Zuckerberg The US Federal Trade Commission has confirmed it is probing Facebook over privacy concerns, sending the social network's share price into a downward spiral.…

More b*llsh... IT The UK government has published a details-light "cyber security export strategy" intended to help local SMEs win contracts abroad - despite having struggled to boost its own spend with small businesses.…

Brit industry, military locked out From the department of "You only just realised this?" come reports that the UK government has been somewhat taken aback that the EU plans to exclude Britain from the Galileo satellite programme due to Brexit.…

♫ It can fine you, it can block you ... but it can only suggest you... Oh-oh: protect data ♬ The UK's age verification overlord has issued guidance for checking whether citizens should be able to access online smut, emphasising data protection and its plan to take a "proportionate regulatory approach".…

No buyer found for moribund tat bazaar PwC’s Maplin Electronics’ administration team has laid off another bunch of hapless souls from head office as the protracted - and some might say doomed - search for a buyer to rescue the retailer runs on.…

Novel idea might reduce risk of accidents A bicycle industry chief has suggested that cyclists ought to be equipped with "bicycle to vehicle" beacons so they are more "visible" to autonomous vehicles.…

Are we really doing this? ask politicos The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to build igloos on the Moon with a view to creating an Antarctica-like outpost.…

All in all it's just another brick in the patent wall The Shenzhen Intermediate court has upheld an injunction against Samsung sought by Huawei in an intellectual property dispute.…

Longed-for firmware update borks some home networks. Be careful what you wish for Three weeks after a firmware update to BT’s home mesh networking solution, customers are still complaining that they have to constantly reboot their devices, with some being unable to connect at all.…

SHOCK NEWS: Positive reinforcement gets results Nudge theory – brainchild of Richard Thaler, a professor of behavioural science and economics at the University of Chicago – uses positive reinforcement and indirect suggestion to influence behaviour.…

Two former Violinists are back on the scene, as is SymbolicIO under new name Roundup In a week where we realised that spinning rust has plenty of life left despite the arrival of 100TB SSDs, here are all the minor developments that the Vulture storage desk found interesting but not enough to wax lyrical about. Let's go.…

Turns out performance at all costs has been rather costly Around 2003, a computer security portent that had been cheerlessly simmering away for years suddenly came to the boil.…

Bloated rc7 may or not be a sign of delays Linus Torvalds is pretty sure he’ll release version 4.16 of the Linux kernel next week.…

Source/target mixup proved that mirroring software worked perfectly Who, me? Grab a very small cake and a bunch of candles, dear readers, for today we mark the 10th edition of “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional for IT pros who broke things badly.…

Holy Hand Grenade proposes update to RFC 8140 but blows back on the court of King Arthur The Internet Engineering Task Force has a long and honourable tradition of April Fool's jokes, but to The Register's knowledge, this is a first: an April 1 document published ahead of time.…

Mark Pesce hailed as Best Columnist Register columnist and futurist Mark Pesce has been named Australia’s best IT columnist.…

Fungus found in the lab makes amino acids we think are alien Festering fungus has become a problem way down in the bowels of NASA, and could lead to false identification of extraterrestrial material.…

Telstra slapped in this week's instalment of 'telco sector brought to heel by regulator' Telstra's latest run-in with Australia's competition regulator has seen the nation's dominant carrier confess to scamming up to 100,000 customers through premium services to which they did not consent.…

Russian pro-propaganda accounts boosted, but posts remain in place so users can delete them or not A group of Russian “troll factory” operators indicted in February were tagged by Tumblr last year.…

$500m/year run rate fuelled by Cloud Foundry subscriptions, but big losses too Dell’s Pivotal Software subsidiary has filed for an initial public offering.…

Zuck takes out full-page ads to apologise as Tim Cook calls for 'well-crafted' privacy laws It was the weekend that had it all: promiscuous permissions dragged Google into the Facebook privacy row, Facebook apologised again while at the same time denying anything's wrong with its Android apps, and Tim Cook was totally not smug when he chimed into the privacy debate.…

Top tip: Switch on the VPN when doing naughty hacking, товарищ! Roundup Here's your easy-to-digest round up of information security news beyond everything we've already covered this week.…

Are we doomed? Roundup It’s been a grim week for AI. The deadly Uber crash and fallout from the scandal between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are a reminder of the ways algorithms can fail, and how they can be used against us.…

Are we doomed? Roundup It’s been a grim week for AI. The deadly Uber crash and fallout from the scandal between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are a reminder of the ways algorithms can fail, and how they can be used against us.…

Deteriorating web prompts browser maker to take a stand Mozilla intends to add basic ad filtering capabilities to its Firefox browser later this year, according to its recently updated roadmap.…

Deteriorating web prompts browser maker to take a stand Mozilla intends to add basic ad filtering capabilities to its Firefox browser later this year, according to its recently updated roadmap.…

Kuvee drowns its sorrows, blames Napa fires for demise The spit bucket of idiotic tech ideas has just grown a little lighter with the death of "smart wine" company Kuvee.…

Hipsters will have to go to iTunes now For the first time in seven years, Americans spent more on CDs and records than digital downloads.…

Forward-secrecy protocol comes with the 28th draft A much-needed update to internet security has finally passed at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), after four years and 28 drafts.…

Forward-secrecy protocol comes with the 28th draft A much-needed update to internet security has finally passed at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), after four years and 28 drafts.…

After weeks of stalling and delays, ICO wastes no time kicking down the doors Cambridge Analytica’s London offices will finally be searched by the UK's Information Commissioner’s Office, following a marathon week of arguing inside and outside court.…

Gang pilfered files from 320 colleges, 47 companies in 22 nations, Uncle Sam claims The US Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury on Friday charged nine Iranians with carrying out a series of internet attacks on more than 300 universities and 47 companies in the US and abroad, as well as federal and state agencies and the United Nations.…

Hookup hangout hangs up Craigslist has axed its personals ad section after US Congress passed an anti-sex-trafficking law.…

Hookup hangout hangs up Online classifieds board Craigslist says it can no longer host a personals section, thanks to the recently passed FOSTA bill.…

Hark, dear reader, the echoes of Enron Comment I've a special reason to remember Enron and the summers of 2000 and 2001. The mighty Enron was being lauded as a pioneer and an innovator. It was a Wall Street darling. IBM and AOL jumped into bed with Enron to create a new retail energy provider. The sun shone, and Californians had plenty of energy capacity.…

Oh. US President Donald Trump's signature. And he's threatening a veto Updated US Congress has approved a $1.3tr budget [PDF] that would see, among other science boosts, NASA's funding surpass $20bn.…

ICO gets search warrant... for firm accused of jamming up railway safety hotline A Scottish company suspected of making 200 million nuisance calls that may have blocked railway safety hotlines has been raided by the Information Commissioner's Office.…

For a while at least... spinning rust is going to stick around Analysis Flash chip bits cost eight times more than spinning rust and SSDs aren't going to get cheap enough to kill off disk entirely.…

Meanwhile, the company accounts are overdue Yet more financial claims are piling up against failing ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm Retro Computers Ltd, with the company's former web fixer threatening to sue over allegedly unpaid invoices.…

Second quarter results up nearly 60% from last year Micron's latest quarter revenues were up 58 per cent year on year, its CEO told an earnings call full of analysts eager to nibble at the chip-fryer's plate.…

Jobseeker? You may have heard of it... UK data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, whose HQ is a stone's throw from the buzz of Covent Garden in London, England, is on the hunt for a data protection assistant.…

The answer may dismay and confuse you Software is not a good, the Court of Appeal in London, England, has ruled.…

The answer may dismay and confuse you Software is not a good, the Court of Appeal in London, England, has ruled.…