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Problem: they can't pay like banks can... Plans to fine Britain's national utilities and infrastructure providers £17m for shoddy cyber security will be at the forefront of industry's mind once everyone "gets over" GDPR, peers heard at a House of Lords committee.…

Problem: they can't pay like banks can... Plans to fine national utilities and infrastructure providers £17m for shoddy cyber security will be at the forefront of industry's mind once everyone "gets over" GDPR, peers heard at a House of Lords committee.…

Fancy micropaying for the great Geek's Guide eBook? You were with us when we chucked our backpacks in the boot and drove up the M6 to Jodrell Bank in 2013 and five years on, you're still reading our travel series on UK locations that are covered in scientific or engineering glory.…

So he isn't in South America or on far side of moon? A groundbreaking study of toothbrush-tashed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's teeth has confirmed that the late, unlamented Fuehrer is still dead – and, more to the point, definitely died in Berlin in April 1945.…

AI will need flash guts, hisses storage flinger as it posts results Pure Storage posed widened losses of $64.3m in its Q1 ended April 30, up 12.5 per cent from $57.2m at the same time last year, while it saw an upswing in all-flash array sales.…

Don't horse about with personal data, watchdog warns A vet recruitment consultant that squirrelled away the personal details of almost 300 people from his former employer was today slapped on the wrists by the UK's information watchdog.…

We're falling behind, shout Shrivenham sorts Rise of the Machines The Ministry of Defence wants to compile a list of AI boffins with UK security clearance that can be hired to help build Britain's inevitable robotic military future.…

Watch as the overlapping product lines ... slowly melt away Dell EMC is hitting refresh on its bloated storage portfolio to simplify the number of lines on sale, and one of the early examples, say sources close to the matter, will be the merger of ScaleIO and XtremIO.…

It's neither the best technology, nor the most adaptable Radio in the UK passed a significant milestone on 17 May. For the first time, more than half of Brits now access radio digitally.…

Enough storage news to keep you going till beer o'clock As ever, it has been a heavy storage week. Here's our curated collection of goodies, goings-on and glitches.…

As bit barn builds subside, increased quotas and capacity will land at the same price OVH’s wave of global expansion is nearly done and the company will soon follow other public cloud operators’ leads by cost-cutting for customers.…

Reg reader finds mobile apps can't be cut or quieted Anyone who uses the Facebook phone app knows what a toll it can take both on your mobile data and free time to be plugged into the social network through your device.…

Houston? What does ‘No SD’ mean? Is this thing even on? An international space station astronaut took a GoPro camera for a space walk last week, but forgot to bring any memory.…

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Plan to paint US, China and Russia as rogues gather steam The European Parliament has been asked to adopt a new set of “norms” about online conflict.…

DDoS launchers increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks Attackers have noticed that the world is getting better at fending off massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, and are trying to overwhelm application processes instead.…

Now you can develop just like a massive sprawling open-source infrastructure project The OpenStack Foundation has launched its Zuul continuous delivery and integration tool as a discrete project.…

Experience Cloud to add commerce and content management facilities Adobe has announced it will acquire Magento Commerce, and fold the gobbled business's platform into its Experience Cloud.…

Also unveils silicon for 5G NR small cells, because big rigs will drown on traffic any year now Qualcomm has backed Facebook's plan to take over the mobile network with its Terragraph project: the chip-designer has revealed it's prepping silicon for backhaul systems using today's 802.11ad and 11.ay in the future.…

World+Dog can contact any student via a shared doc UPDATED Google and the Victorian Department of Education have set parents, students, teachers, and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner a poser: at what point does a feature become a vulnerability? Or just too creepy to put in front of kids?…

Bee-Zed immigrant asteroid has been here for billions of years – too late to build a wall Scientists have discovered the first “interstellar immigrant” living among our Solar System's matter.…

Cupertino beats Uniloc after judge disses 'sweeping, abstract' trollish patent claim Apple has had a lawsuit, filed by notorious patent holder Uniloc over safety electronics in notebook and phone batteries, thrown out.…

CallKit code no longer welcome in Middle Kingdom Developers of iOS apps distributed in China have started to receive notifications from Apple that they are required to remove CallKit, a software UI framework for integrating VoIP calling services, from their apps.…

First time scientists have detected positrons whizzing in storms A team of scientists today reported observing beams of antimatter firing from a ferocious hurricane on Earth for the first time.…

Get it? Address? As in, oh never mind Analysis Stop us if you've heard this one before: the rollout of IPv6 is going slower than expected.…

Design blunder exists in Intel, AMD, Arm, Power processors A fourth variant of the data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre security flaws in modern processors has been found by Microsoft and Google researchers.…

And has to cough up $350,000 in ill-gotten gains A bloke armed with a fistful of cellphone numbers has been sent down for 30 months for his role in a scam that fleeced folks out of $50m in bogus monthly charges.…

QLC SSD is the place to be Micron is introducing a 64-layer QLC flash 5210 ION SSD, opening a new front in the SSD-HDD marketing war.…

QLC SSD is the place to be Micron is introducing a 64-layer QLC flash 5210 ION SSD, opening a new front in the SSD-HDD marketing war.…

Some software blueprints doled out after years of complaints Following five years of hectoring, Tesla has released a portion of the open-source code it's obligated to provide under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).…

Europe, America getting twitchy about web search dominance US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has added his voice to a growing number of government officials calling for large tech companies to be investigated for potential antitrust violations.…

Three fixed, including critical remote code execution bug Infosec outfit Foregenix has uncovered six vulnerabilities in Dell EMC's data protection platform RecoverPoint, three of which have been fixed.…

Full details of case now available after Reg legal victory Computer parts reseller Aria Technology, which trades as Aria PC, is appealing against a ruling that it defrauded the UK taxman out of £750,000 of VAT.…

'It may be possible for an attacker to intercept your router' Taiwanese network kit maker DrayTek has 'fessed up to a vulnerability in a large number of its routers which could allow miscreants to hijack internet traffic or steal personal data.…

'It may be possible for an attacker to intercept your router' Taiwanese network kit maker DrayTek has 'fessed up to a vulnerability in a large number of its routers which could allow miscreants to hijack internet traffic or steal personal data.…

Hitches NHS cart to data, AI bandwagon, as medical groups urge patient choice The UK prime minister has been wooed by the promises made by proponents of artificial intelligence, today pledging more use of algorithms and data-crunching in the health service.…

Dan Dare has a think about Galileo in least interesting comic strip ever The Royal Air Force (RAF) is to take on command and control of UK military space operations, including a possible UK-based alternative to the EU's Galileo satellite constellation.…

Insecure 12-year old microsite handed attackers key The UK's Information Commissioner has slapped a £120,000 fine on the University of Greenwich after a security cockup by its computing and maths school compromised the data of almost 20,000 individuals.…

They've gone array The board at storage startup Reduxio has hired a shiny new CEO amid a wave of senior exec changes, sources have told El Reg.…

Revamped Antares booster lobs cargo freighter at ISS Orbital ATK's Cygnus freighter launched from Wallops Island, Virginia, this morning carrying supplies, spares and science to the International Space Station.…

Unclear if employees wanted to figure out shape of him Two UK hospital workers have reportedly been disciplined for accessing Ed Sheeran's personal details after he was admitted following a bicycle accident.…

Unclear if employees wanted to figure out shape of him Two hospital workers have reportedly been disciplined for accessing Ed Sheeran's personal details after he was admitted following a bicycle accident.…

We're no pushover Analysis Xiaomi's entry into Europe is as feared as it is anticipated. With its vow to keep profit margins on hardware below 5 per cent and make the rest up on services, er, somehow, the Chinese firm threatens a consumer electronics price war that goes way beyond phones. But it might be harder than pundits think.…

Bug behaviour in the wild Stob "Plastic-eating bugs [...] could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis," was the Guardian's rather chirpy take on this story, triggering the recollection of a childhood nightmare. I inhaled my mouthful of coffee. The office youngsters couldn't understand my panic. "It's the Doomwatch scenario!", I coughed. "The skies will soon be falling!"…

Cloudy tech seen in oversized suit holding temperature probe Hidden away among the interminably long keynote speeches at Microsoft's recent Build event was a project to delight the retro enthusiast.…

Microsoft slurps conversational-AI startup Semantic Machines Microsoft's decided its Cortana speech assistant needs a bit of buffing to survive in a world where Google AI can book restaurants and a parrot can turn the lights off with Alexa, so the company has acquired a conversational-AI startup called Semantic Machines.…

An incident that started with a lazy slave ended with a rousing recovery Who, me? If the thought of another week at work has you down, worry not: The Register has another instalment of “Who, me?” for you to read, so you can enjoy another tale of errors made by someone other than yourself!…

So ministers hit the airwaves to reveal looming ‘obligation’ for rapid abuse takedown and colossal fines for not doing it Just four of 14 social networks asked to consult with the UK government on regulation of social media attended the talks, so ministers have revealed plans to require rapid removal of abusive and objectionable material and substantial fines for not doing so.…

Retro computing fans wrap classic DEC fascia round world's fave hobby machine Always wanted a PDP-11, but don't have space for the iron? Good news: an obsolete computer enthusiast s offering beta tests of a kit designed to recreate the famous Digital Equipment Corporation box on a Raspberry Pi.…

Store-and-forward probe TESS warms up its cameras with a snap of 200,000 stars NASA’s exoplanet-spotting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has successfully manoeuvred around Earth’s moon.…