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Viber said to be next target of stop-terrorists-talking effort Russia's telecom regulator Roskomnadzor has taken a more granular approach to its battle with Telegram: instead of deep-sixing IP addresses by the millions, it says it's blocked 50 VPN providers from landing traffic in the country.…

146 million people, 99 million addresses, 209,000 payment cards, 38,000 drivers' licenses and 3,200 passports Equifax has published yet more details on the personal records and sensitive information stolen by miscreants after they hacked its databases in 2017.…

Soon-to-be-staunched Linux network process folder bleeds info about smartmobe use The forthcoming Android P release will protect the operating system's network processes against snoops and nasties.…

32 cores, 64-bit, no Intel, of course Microsoft loves this thing Pic Broadcom's axed Arm server processor project today rose from the grave – as Cavium's 64-bit 32-core two-socket Armv8-A ThunderX2 chip.…

Without a shadow of a doubt WASP-96b has the clearest atmosphere yet Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanet completely devoid of clouds, according to a paper published on Monday in Nature.…

Yes, you read that right Build SQL Server running on Linux, with embedded R and Python, is Microsoft's most successful server product ever, said JG "John" Chirapurath, general manager of Azure Data, in an interview with The Register at Build 2018.…

Yes, you read that right Build SQL Server running on Linux, with embedded R and Python, is Microsoft's most successful server product ever, said JG "John" Chirapurath, general manager of Azure Data, in an interview with The Register at Build 2018.…

‘A number of enterprises’ escalated mystery storage problem to HPE HQ Defects in HPE 3PAR storage area networks caused “a series of abnormal outages” that resulted in systems to track prisoners on release from incarceration in the Australian State of New South Wales (NSW) becoming unavailable.…

Police opt to end charade over document download row Cops in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, will not pursue charges against a 19-year-old fella who had dared to download a cache of public documents.…

New study shows the Sun will turn into a planetary nebula after all The Sun will shed a large chunk of its mass to turn into a planetary nebula, a gigantic globe of luminous gas, as it nears the end of its life cycle.…

Not what you'd expect in industrial kit University researchers have developed a new method for rooting out recycled memory chips in industrial control devices.…

Planned dev deal tweak lets programmers keep 95 per cent of revenue Build Microsoft says it will take less money from Windows developers selling apps in its store, making its marketplace significantly more appealing than competing app stores in certain cases – assuming revenue share rather than market size is the primary consideration.…

Flash be Nimble, Flash be quick HPE has condensed, upgraded, future-proofed and guaranteed Nimble storage, both its all-flash and hybrid product lines.…

Beginning of the end for Win-only .NET Framework? Build At its Build developer event under way in Seattle, Microsoft announced .NET Core 3.0, coming in 2019, with support for Windows desktop applications.…

Cryptocoin malware outfit takes aim at 'Drupalgeddon' bug A set of high-severity vulnerabilities in Drupal that were disclosed last month are now the target of widespread attacks by a malware campaign.…

At Redmond's 2018 dev conference, it's all Azure and AI Build At its Build 2018 developer conference in Seattle, Washington, on Monday, Microsoft showered attention on artificial intelligence, as it did last year, leaving Windows chatter for later.…

Compared to 151 million in 2016, perhaps due to dupes rather than spy boom The United States’ Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its annual Intelligence Community Transparency Report last Friday, revealing the extent of America’s domestic intelligence-gathering efforts.…

Next-gen TXT offers rich messaging services, should make it onto most 'Droids soon ANALYSIS A couple of weeks ago, the world learned that Google's desire to gain more than a toehold in the world's messaging market had spawned a new "Chat" app.…

Stock-jocks disappointed that 40 per cent growth won't last Arista has turned in just over 40 per cent growth for Q1 2018 over the same quarter last year, recording US$472.5 million revenue for the quarter.…

Where did that smoke come from? What does the switch marked 120/240 do? Who, me? Welcome to another edition of “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional in which readers explain how they broke things.…

UK Information Commissioner orders firm's founder to cough up professor's dossier The UK Information Commissioner's Office has told Cambridge Analytica's parent company SCL Elections to comply with an academic's data request, or else.…

Rates Amazon a ‘miracle’, regrets not backing Google and feels AI is overrated Famed investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have strongly criticised cryptocurrencies and machine intelligence at the annual shareholder meeting of Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company they serve as chair and vice-chair respectively.…

If Facebook knows you use the same password on Twitter, both can hassle you to change Two comp-sci boffins have proposed that websites cooperate to block password re-use, even though they predict the idea will generate "contempt” among many end users, .…

Probe prepared for sandstorms and more when it makes tricky parachute plunge VID NASA’s successfully launched Mars InSight, the probe it hopes will help us to understand the interior of the Red Planet and therefore a little more about how rocky planets form.…

Little good news to increase your trust in machines here, to be honest Roundup This week's AI roundup includes an alarming report from California's Department of Motor Vehicles about how shoddy autonomous cars still are, a Waymo self-driving car crash, and some news from Facebook's F8 conference and its new job posting.…

Schools hacked, voters DDoSed, Apple's Linux fix, IBM Java patch, and more Roundup May is already upon us, and as usual it has been a busy week for security news. Here's a summary of what didn't make it into El Reg this week, well, until now.…

Ploy to plant malware in NPM's JavaScript registry foiled NPM, the biz responsible for the Node Package Manager for JavaScript and Node.js, has caught a miscreant trying to tamper with web cookie modules on Wednesday and managed to exile the individual and associated code before significant harm was done.…

Pai accused of reverse Robin Hood for business buddies Special report This week, one year after the US government's General Accountability Office (GAO) formally recommended that it do so, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved $8bn it held in a private bank to the US Treasury.…

GPU giant rails against rumors of stiffing sellers Nvidia has cancelled a partner program after just two months – just as regulators started taking an interest in complaints of anti-competitiveness.…

Begun, the laser wars have, it is claimed The US military has formally complained to China after blinding lasers were fired at Uncle Sam's aircraft coming in to land at the American airbase in Djibouti.…

Life in plastic, it's fantastic Comment Apple enabled payments in macOS Sierra in 2016, and it failed to set the world on fire. Will Google's move to support its own payment system on desktop web browsers fare any better?…

Mountain View's Empire Strikes Back against election meddling Google is overhauling its political advertising system in an effort to crack down on shady election ads.…

May the force of furious loyalists force an end to this farce The long-simmering dislike for the keyboard on recent Apple MacBook Pro computers has reached peak pique: A fed-up MacBook Pro owner identifying himself as Matthew Taylor has created a Change.org petition asking Apple to recall every MacBook Pro released since late 2016.…

Semiconductor microparticles: Assemble! Scientists have demonstrated a method of corralling micron-sized silicon particles to allow the construction and reconfiguration of new hardware, which has the potential to revolutionize chip design.…

Semiconductor microparticles: Assemble! Scientists have demonstrated a method of corralling micron-sized silicon particles to allow the construction and reconfiguration of new hardware, which has the potential to revolutionize chip design.…

80% chance you won’t see an Atlas V through the California fog NASA's Mars InSight will launch from California’s Vandenberg airbase tomorrow morning, with the aim of discovering how rocky planets form.…

Too stool for school as log jogger gets case of the runs A phantom plopper was literally caught with his pants down after New Jersey cops arrested a top education chief in the act of dropping the kids off... just not at the pool.…

Mercurial imaging detracts from a solid advance Review The launch of the Huawei P20 Pro has prompted much debate over its camera: is it great or an over-hyped fraud?…

Ongoing beancounter ballsup spoils second ruler server launch Supermicro has estimated revenue growth in its Q3 of fiscal '18 ended 31 March but the final audited numbers are still being worked out as part of a multi-quarter dispute with NASDAQ over reported transactions.…

UAV arms race with drug lords is upon us An American government employee has publicly claimed that a criminal gang used a swarm of drones to fend off an FBI raid.…

Act 1 of real estate consolidation play Virgin Media is axing nearly 800 jobs from its Swansea call centre, with the site expected to be shut down by autumn next year.…

What's the plan, guys? The two UK government departments most exposed to Brexit have yet to show progress on how their IT systems will cope with the "unprecedented" challenge of leaving the EU – Parliament's Public Accounts Committee today warned.…

Tug of war over corporate tentacle pulls '80s entrepreneur into fray A fresh war of words has erupted over at ailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd – this time over the corporate involvement of legendary British inventor Sir Clive Sinclair himself.…

How The Social Network and its partners use that info is a total black box Comment Mark Zuckerberg recently endured a grilling from the US Congress over Facebook's inability to stop bleeding user data. A week later, investors rewarded his company with a $50bn increase in its market capitalisation on news that – surprise! – a massive userbase pays big dividends.…

Sharpen your defensive skills Promo As the security landscape constantly changes, keeping your data and systems safe from a growing variety of attacks becomes more challenging than ever.…

Sorry I slept in but my computer didn't make me go to bed early Something for the Weekend, Sir? Please pass on my regards to Mrs Cromwell for selling me her fig.…

Version 28 brings non-free third-party repos for some reason The Fedora Project has released Fedora 28, a significant update which includes something shunned for years – an official repository for non-free third-party apps.…

Watery remains of meteorites could be trapped in craters A team of physicists have uncovered evidence that the Moon may have had liquid water on its surface at one point.…

Anger and frustration went both ways on an outsourced vendor help desk ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed column in which we tease out tales from the trenches of tech support.…

Dust off your definitions of free speech and censorship in the digital age, people GoDaddy has decided it will have no part in keeping a site called altright.com on the web. The site promoted white supremacist views.…