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It's so unreal, didn't look out below. Watch the time go right out the Windows Microsoft has glued LinkedIn and Office 365's Word together so it can automatically help folks write or update their résumés – and find them new jobs at the same time.…

These critters might soon be airdropping your shopping Four British cities have been picked as testbed areas for drone operators hoping to work out new business models for their wares.…

2-day email turnarounds as users wail over payment lags Aviva's shiny new online pension system has had a very senior moment that caused difficulties with processing payments, running quotations, accessing valuations or accepting new applications.…

Group warms up for greater powers once GDPR hits The leader of the Austrian data protection authority has been elected chair of the body responsible for helping organisations follow European privacy laws.…

The 1970s called, they want their double entendres back The UK's gummy-mouthed Advertising Standards Agency has given Poundland a gentle spank over a series of smutty tweets and posts on Facebook published over the Xmas period.…

Xeon D-2100 a coincidence, Chipzilla assures us Intel will today add the D-2100 x86-64 system-on-chip to its lineup of Xeon D x86-64 processors, billing it as its "fastest low-power edge processor."…

That's 'Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data'. Nice Tech giants including Microsoft, Google and Apple have given a proposed US law on overseas data sharing the thumbs-up.…

Retro Computers: 'We have not been issued with an ultimatum' Retro Computers Ltd, the infamous ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm, has been given until May by crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to deliver its years-late product or expect a visit from a “third party collections agency”.…

Retro Computers: 'We have not been issued with an ultimatum' Retro Computers Ltd, the infamous ZX Spectrum Vega Plus firm, has been given until May by crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to deliver its years-late product or expect a visit from a “third party collections agency”.…

Permission? Who needs it? Religiously turning off location services may not save you from having your smartphone tracked: a group of IEEE researchers have demonstrated it's possible to track mobes even when GPS and Wi-Fi are turned off.…

Funding from Russia dries up, staff chopped, buyer sought UK budget smartphone maker Wileyfox has called in the administrative receiver Quantuma, The Register can confirm.…

Spectrum-moaning campaign must not run again Three's campaign for a spectrum cap on mobile operators has been deemed "misleading" by the Advertising Standards Authority for implying it was run by an independent body.…

The container war is won – but what now? Red Hat, better known for its Linux distro despite years of work in middleware and Java, last week pushed further into cloud through the purchase of CoreOS for $250m.…

They solve a problem of high flash capacity, says CTO... wait, what? Interview We spoke to several people about Intel ruler and Samsung mini-ruler SSDs and thought we'd have some fun getting a point of view from Infinidat.…

It only took 8 months to create a recruitment framework Whitehall has not done enough to prepare for the "byzantinely complicated task" of Brexit, including putting the right technical skills and resources in place, a report by Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned.…

Network boxen buying cycle has limbo-ed down too low, so prepare for on-subscription cloud services assault NETGEAR has announced it will spin out its “Arlo” security camera range as a new, listed, company of the same name.…

Well, melee. Dust-up? Minor inconvenience? But it's coming!! Tens of thousands of websites are going to find themselves labeled as unsafe unless they switch out their HTTPS certificate in the next two months.…

Code trove wasn't to blame: Uber didn’t have multifactor authentication on repos that included AWS credentials Uber’s confessed that it didn’t use multifactor authentication on its GitHub account, an omission ultimately led to the data breach it revealed in 2017 after keeping it secret for more than a year, after using its bug bounty program to bribe the hacker to stay schtum.…

Crooks allowed to create subdomains on people's sites Namecheap has admitted it let customers set up and control subdomains for domain names belonging to other customers, allowing miscreants to distribute malware from strangers' websites.…

They drive slower, less often, and take cheap trips, joint study with Stanford concludes Uber drivers who identify as women make seven per cent less than their male counterparts on average, research has found.…

Search results serve our rivals, not our produce, biz complains Google is being sued for more than $200m (£143m) by makers of fruit bouquets – because the web giant unfairly prioritized competitors' wares over their arty produce in search results, allegedly.…

Better-than-expected performance created 'the quietest pace in space' In other space news today, the boffins in charge of the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder mission have wrapped up the final results for the space-based gravitational wave dry run.…

BezosMart doesn’t like being told it was w…wr…wrong The researcher behind the teaser of a new method to crack Amazon.com’s “Key” connected door locks has revealed how his method works, and criticised Amazon’s response to his work because it detailed the flaw before shipping a fix.…

LIbrary update slip means it's time to reset the 'Days since last big breach' counter to Zero Website analytics outfit Mixpanel has admitted to harvesting passwords.…

Ad giant billed subscribers for Wi-Fi data, punters claim Google's mobile telecom service Project Fi is billing customers for internet data delivered over home and public Wi-Fi networks, according to a lawsuit filed in the US on Monday.…

Fidelity wanted to 'tell the other side of the story' with astroturfing dot-com Analysis Cable biz Fidelity Communications has been forced to admit it was behind an astroturfing campaign against a city-run fiber network in America's Midwest.…

El Reg says: Ignore the Big Red Planet lobby, get your ASCII to Europa SpaceX today parked Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in Earth's orbit, using a Falcon Heavy lifter, with a rocket strapped to the flash motor to take it on to Mars.…

Part may be rattling inside 5th-gen machines, can cause fires Lenovo has recalled its flagship Thinkpad X1 Carbon laptops because some may literally have a screw loose.…

Falcon Heavy blasts off, 2 boosters return, 1 destroyed Video After years of setbacks, SpaceX today successfully launched its Falcon Heavy three-in-one rocket and delivered into orbit its cherry-red payload – Elon Musk's very own Tesla Roadster.…

Emergency patch lands, shuts pair of remote exploitable holes, one used by Norks Adobe has issued an emergency security patch for two bugs in its Flash player – after North Korea's hackers were spotted exploiting one of the flaws to spy on people investigating the creepy hermit nation.…

Startup CEO admits he lied about education, wealth It turns out bullshitting your way to fame and fortune is illegal in California's playground of tech startups, rather than a viable business model. Who knew?…

L-F-R-U-D-L-R-U-F: Welcome to the cube Extremely well-funded startup Rubrik has bought distributed database backer-up and fellow startup Datos IO.…

Bad luck, Ecuador. Your cleaners must really want their cupboard back by now "Mr Assange is not present at court today," said the judge who denied the cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker's latest bid to make legal proceedings against him go away.…

Rackmount server competition for PowerEdge 14G Xeon SP rackers Dell is producing one- and two-socket rackmount servers using AMD Epyc processors alongside its Xeon SP server family.…

Minister promises strategy in June – just six years late, then Brit Home Office bods have denied that retaining millions of custody images of people who were never charged falls foul of case law, while asserting that automatic deletion is not technically possible.…

£36m sunk on developing proprietary software Middle-class Brit online supermarket nirvana Ocado posted losses of £500,000 for 2017, down from £12m profit the previous year – largely thanks to its "transformation" into a technology provider flogging robot-operated warehouses.…

Ampere Computing serving against reigning champ using reheated X-Gene tech Carlyle Group-backed Ampere Computing, run by ex-Intel president Renée James, has launched a server-grade Arm system-on-a-chip to take on Chipzilla.…

It's enough to send UK staff on 'mental wellbeing days'. Done that? Talk about Big Blue! IBM's latest redundancy programme for Global Technology Services staff in the UK and Ireland "descended into near farce" after it reopened the voluntary element and told those it had previously agreed to let leave that they now are not going anywhere.…

And social media giants will be the ones to clean it up UK Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a review of British laws governing online communications in her latest shot at big tech firms.…

Don't panic, Captain Mainwaring! Every single one of the 200 NHS trusts in the UK so far assessed for cyber security resilience has failed an onsite assessment, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee were told yesterday.…

Promises lower prices and faster shipping HPE has taken on Dell and the white boxers in the desktop and tower server space with promises of special, low-priced deals and faster ships.…

Not long left to save £100s You’ve got just one month left to save a bundle of cash on conference and workshop tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London 2018.…

Toil no more, ye 40-year-old DevOps Someone's been kicking up the "NoOps" ant pile again. There it was, sitting there finally rebuilt after the annual upturning, and The Lord of Cartography, Simon Wardley says: "I think you'll find that the new legacy is going to be DevOps." That said, it is winter, so the ants are moving a bit slower than usual.…

Amazon and Huawei did okay, but overall shipments dipped between six and twelve per cent The tablet computer market took a steep dip in 2017 according to analyst firms IDC and Strategy Analytics.…

Sat's battery is full and stuff thought to be broken in 2005 is working again NASA has updated the status of its once-was-lost, now-is-found IMAGE satellite and revealed the bird's power supplies are operational. The space agency will therefore attempt to revive the mission – if it can can money to fund the effort.…

Cisco and Apple kit eligible for better cyber insurance from Allianz Analysis Global mega-insurers Allianz and Aon have just given IT buyers and the security industry plenty to ponder by cooking up a deal with Apple and Cisco that makes users of those companies’ kit eligible for a special class of cyber insurance.…

Patches available, bug affects Alpha and Itanic mainframes Forget Meltdown and Spectre. Someone's found a local privilege escalation in the operating system world's elderly statesman OpenVMS when running it on VAX and Alpha processors.…

Two cuffed on suspicion of US ATM Jackpotting plague US authorities have arrested a pair suspected of being involved in a recent wave of Automatic Teller Machine "Jackpotting" heists.…

The future is female – or at least female friendly While the world worries about savvy computers taking people's jobs, it may want to focus more on how to retrain its men, who are evidently ill-equipped for work that's increasingly social.…

Certificate exchange used as a side-channel before the certs get to work Video A security researcher who last year demonstrated that X.509 certificate exchanges could carry malicious traffic has now published his proof-of-concept code.…