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Ever since Snowden it's been the default – report Encryption is making it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to detect dangerous offenders, according the the National Crime Agency's (NCA) yearly assessment of serious organised crime in Britain.…

Quickly follows 2018's Pro Mobile parts AMD spent a pretty penny marketing its desktop-grade Ryzen Pro chips, to launch this week, but we'll summarize the new line for you in just a dozen words: they are cheaper than rival Intel parts, and have nice enough graphics.…

Rumours of meatball-based escalation unfounded Weekend shoppers can now add trolley rage to the list of reasons to avoid their local IKEA store after an altercation in southeastern Germany ended up with a visit to hospital.…

Dust disables costly kit and repairs are EXPENSIVE Two Apple customers, fed up with the keyboards used in recent model MacBook notebooks, filed a lawsuit against the company on Friday in a San Jose, Calif, federal court.…

Bumkins still lag cityzens on connectivity A group of cross-party MPs have urged digital secretary Matt Hancock to whack a legal obligation on the UK's four mobile operators to provide 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK's landmass by 2022.…

So many good reasons not to get with the program Here you are, doing the DevOps so hard you've broken the spine of your DevOps Handbook, but Robin won't get with the whole "culture thing".…

Is this how you tame the beast, though? News Corp publications and networks traditionally rail against government intervention, but the media giant's boss Robert Thomson has urged governments to establish "algorithm review boards" to help police Google and Facebook.…

Where to begin with born-to-be-scaled stuff Given the hype around microservices, it's tempting to question whether the task of managing microservices has also been oversold. Isn't it just just like managing a traditional piece of software? Well, no. Here's why.…

Automated filth shows plan just grist to the privacy activists' mill Web-dwellers who don't use Tor but are worried about the UK's impending smut block interrupting their viewing habits have been offered a simple way to satisfy their urges – porn by Email.…

Client was silent on critical network details and little things like multi-tenancy Who, me? Welcome again to “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional column in which techies unburden their souls by revealing that they have broken stuff.…

Users advised to stop using and/or uninstall plugins ASAP to stop Pretty Grievous Pwnage A professor of Computer Security at the Münster University of Applied Sciences‏ has warned that popular email encryption tool Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) might actually allow Pretty Grievous P0wnage thanks to bugs that can allow supposedly encrypted emails to be read as plaintext.…

Arise, ‘Citrix Hypervisor’ and ‘ Citrix SD-WAN’ Citrix has rebranded most of its stuff.…

At an inquiry into news and ads, of all things. Is Big Red playing a deeper game? Oracle has “provided information … about Google services” to Australian regulators.…

Contact form data left on server for more than TWO YEARS, then came ransomware The Australian State of New South Wales' reproductive and sexual health organisation Family Planning NSW has advised users of an April 2018 ransomware attack that may have compromised sensitive information.…

Developer's dreams of driving off in a Ferrari dashed Admins of the Ubuntu Store have pulled all apps from a developer who signed himself "Nicholas Tomb", and from his e-mail signature apparently wanted to crypto-mine himself into a Ferrari.…

Open networking foundation reckons SDN controller devs can sort it out at their end The Open Networking Foundation is moving to address the protocol vulnerability revealed last week in OpenFlow, but won't revise the protocol. Not yet, anyway.…

VID Why crawl when you can fly? Because flying in a thin atmosphere is hard, but Mars 2020 will try anyway NASA has announced that its Mars 2020 mission will include a small helicopter.…

Infosec bods remind devs, users to check for patches Electron – the widely used desktop application framework that renders top programs such as Slack, Atom, and Visual Studio Code – suffered from a security vulnerability that potentially allows miscreants to execute evil code on victims' computers.…

Sanctions for Chinese networks-and-smartmobe outfit one week, diplomacy the next United States President Donald Trump has signalled an intervention to avoid job losses at Chinese networking-kit-and-smartmobe-maker ZTE.…

Hacking laws in the limelight in Georgia and DC, plus new iPhone anti-tampering Roundup Here's a roundup of everything that's happened in the world of infosec this week, beyond what we've already covered.…

Find out more about Google Duplex, the Atlas robot, and what caused Uber's deadly accident Roundup Here's a summary of this week's AI news, beyond what we've already covered.…

One small step for Musk, one giant leap for Bangladesh After a day's delay, Bangladesh's first satellite was today successfully launched atop the first SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket.…

But wait! Is that a shining white knight come to save us all? So we finally have a date: June 11, 2018.…

Afrinic in limbo in aftermath of sex harassment claims A protest vote against corporate mismanagement at Africa's main internet body has sent the organization into freefall.…

Senator Wyden asks FCC, mobile carriers to investigate stalker tech Updated An American telco that provides costly phone services to prisoners has been accused of harvesting location data on American phone users – and selling it to the police with no oversight.…

University claims the Bezos Bunch nicked its ideas for language processing Amazon is the target of a patent complaint from a US university that claims the Alexa assistant ripped off its technology for processing voice commands.…

Dell teases high and low-end hyperconverged kit at .NEXT Nutanix .NEXT attendees were this week furnished with details about a heavy duty server and skinny ROBO box – two new Nutanix-based hyperconverged systems from Dell.…

Cheltenham biz awarded $30m in damages against Emerson Facebook's open data centre initiative used stolen British know-how, a Californian jury ruled yesterday.…

Just as the $50m returned from Big Red court battles lifts profits Oracle third-party support slinger Rimini Street has added Salesforce to its portfolio, which isn't going to ease any tension that still exists with Larry Ellison's lot following a protracted court battle.…

Public Accounts Committee recommends department chains its wallet shut Britain's Ministry of Defence's spending plans for the next decade "lack cost control" and contain a £20bn black hole, according to the House of Commons' influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…

Researcher finds security hotspots on some rail networks Vulnerabilities on the Wi-Fi networks of a number of rail operators could expose customers' credit card information, according to infosec biz Pen Test Partners this week.…

Storwize catches up with rivals, adds cube of ML sugar to block storage too IBM is again playing catch up with rivals by adding a heavy sprinkling of dedupe dust to its near two-year old Storwize arrays and other products.…

Falcon 9 launch countdown stops at the last minute The launch of SpaceX’s updated Falcon 9, with Bangladesh’s first satellite perched on top, was halted at the 58 second mark.…

Is line-of-sight gear good enough for this kind of work? Southend Airport has trialled an anti-drone system – though its air traffic control boss cheerfully admitted the airport doesn’t have any “outstanding issues with ‘rogue’ drone operations”.…

Stop. Err, wait a minute, Mr Postman A man is facing charges of theft and fraud after the mail of parcel delivery service UPS was redirected to his home address.…

Top Brit judge thinks we'll warm to our Panopticon overlords A senior British judge has highlighted the benefits of legislation that obliges people to carry their mobile phone at all times.…

We've got 39 questions and Zuck has answered none Facebook has told MPs on the the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee that it will have to finish the homework it's been set over the weekend.…

Life insurance and pensions biz admits they're working on it Some customers of life insurance, pensions and asset management biz Aegon have been unable to log into their accounts following an IT upgrade over the bank holiday weekend.…

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Devs are lapping up Lambda, and this has already redefined the future of computing "Serverless" didn't get a single mention in Amazon's quarterly earnings call. Neither did its poster child, AWS Lambda. Apparently it's not the sort of thing investors want to hear about, even if the developers that keep dumping cash into Amazon's pockets do.…

If you find our user interfaces unintuitive, that's YOUR problem, chum Something for the Weekend, Sir? “I want you to kill Barbra Streisand.”…

Freshly passed law means intent is no longer important The ban on shining lasers at cars and aeroplanes has been strengthened with a five-year prison sentence now available for those who train their laser pointers on ships, aircraft or air traffic control towers.…

Or refuse to put them in promoted playlists R&B artist R. Kelly can no longer be found on playlists curated by streaming music giant Spotify after it introduced a new New Hate Content and Hateful Conduct Public Policy.…

Where there’s smoke, there’s wet paper On-Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register’s continuing column recounting readers’ tech support traumas.…

It's not a security problem, but full-year results will likely be late Symantec’s shares have slumped after the company revealed it “has commenced an internal investigation in connection with concerns raised by a former employee.”…

Blockchain comes to the cable biz, acquisitions, Red Hat Summit and more Roundup What happened in networking this week? Well, for starters, Nokia acquired analytics company SpaceTime Insight, and will roll its capabilities into its Internet of Things business.…

Blog post shamed video vault, has since been ‘reposted as intended Cisco has edited a blog post in which it said YouTube is an unsuitable place for its ads to appear.…

Won't say why, will say it's not sure it can fix the problem without your help UPDATE Telstra has advised users of its cloud who run self-managed resources that their “internet facing servers are potentially vulnerable to malware or other malicious activity.”…

There's still not enough GPUs to go round however Nvidia continued to report strong numbers in its first quarterly results this year, despite failing to supply graphics cards to vendors on time due to a shortage of chips.…

Class action seeks a Zuck-ton of money for privacy invasion Facebook can add a class action lawsuit to the list of legal woes it faces over data misuse revelations.…