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Slitheen tool smuggles browsers into cyber-Tardis Computer boffins in Canada are working on anti-censorship software called Slitheen that disguises disallowed web content as government-sanctioned pablum. They intend for it to be used in countries where network connections get scrutinized for forbidden thought.…

And ahead of mystery launch event in May The base tech specs for Microsoft's Windows 10 Cloud laptops have leaked out ahead of a rumored launch next month, giving you an idea of their target market. Clue: Google-powered Chromebooks in education.…

Important legal ruling divides North America Canada's comms watchdog has come out strongly in favor of net neutrality – despite efforts by one of the Trump Administration's key telecoms advisors to tip the scales in the other direction.…

Cloud object storage pricing tumbling downhill +Comment Research house 451 says the cloud price struggle has moved away from virtual machines (VMs) to object storage, and fingers IBM for initiating the round of price cutting.…

Another EMC acquisition let go Dell has sold its in-cloud backup SW biz Spanning to private equity house Insight Venture Partners, ending just four years of ownership.…

Pop-up requested permission to share data with nearby devices even when app not in use LinkedIn irked privacy advocates by dropping a Bluetooth-enabled "Tinder for marketers" feature into its mobile app on Thursday.…

Azure Stream Analytics to connect your fridge to the cloud for chilled machinations Microsoft's commitment to Azure has tickled it to the market's movement towards edge analytics provoked by the wave of IoT devices, and has launched a new analytics service so the twain shall never part.…

What data did marketing agency subcontractor have access to? Following The Register's report on the Metropolitan Police breaching its own data protection statement by handing the addresses of tens of thousands of London firearms owners to a marketing agency, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has written to the force demanding the decision be investigated.…

2016 figures show only 35 of 1,752 applications were turned down in part or full The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has published its annual report, revealing that less than 2 per cent of surveillance applications made under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) were declined in 2016.…

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat? Teenage hackers get mixed up in cybercrime mostly to gain bragging rights over peers rather than to get rich, according to a new study.…

Change yours if you're worried, but operator insists issue is limited to earlier models Vodafone says that anxious customers of its home femtocell box are safe, despite experiencing continuing brownouts. Although Vodafone is replacing the Alcatel-made units on request, it has declined to carry out a full recall.…

Do you know where your advertisements are going? Big Red does Oracle's acquisition of digital advertising tracking business Moat has been valued at over $850m, according to reports.…

The tech-fulled radicals redesigning society Reg Lecture Politics and society is about to get stranger and we're not even talking about what's going on in Westminster.…

Pursuing extra financial firepower to see off rivals Western Digital Corporation (WDC) is aiming to bulk up its bid for Toshiba's memory biz with state-backed funding support.…

Going native Anyone looking to deploy cloud in any meaningful way will struggle to find skilled practitioners. It's a situation faced by so many enterprises, no matter what cloud system is being deployed.…

Election nixes online court plans – for now The controversial "conviction by computer" Parliamentary Bill has been scrapped ahead of June's general election, according to reports.…

GNOME all the way, baby Review The arrival of Ubuntu 17.04 this month was completely overshadowed by Mark Shuttleworth's decision to abandon the Unity desktop for a stock GNOME Shell interface.…

Six months later and you've lost 70 per cent of the RRP iPhones maintain their resale value much better than Androids. That much you probably already know – but which are the worst droids to resell?…

There's a steering wheel in my pants. It's driving me nuts Something for the Weekend, Sir? Stop squeezing my knob. No seriously, I've had enough.…

Urine a wee spot of dribble, sysadmin says when offered stinking fused mess On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday re-telling of readers unforgettable on-the-job experiences.…

Web giant wants to accelerate collaboration amid Western competition Analysis Chinese tech powerhouse Baidu plans to "open up" its self-driving car designs to help automakers in China overtake Western rivals.…

Vulnerable unpatched systems expose exploitable SMB networking to world+dog The NSA's Equation Group hacking tools, leaked last Friday by the Shadow Brokers, have now been used to infect thousands of Windows machines worldwide, we're told.…

Vulnerable unpatched - or unpatchable - boxes expose SMB networking to world+dog The NSA's Equation Group hacking tools, leaked last Friday by the Shadow Brokers, have been used to infect thousands of Windows machines, we're told.…

Now, now, don't be mean about Moby, dicks Docker seemingly became Moby this week, a rebranding exercise that sparked more confusion than clarity among those following container software.…

And would you believe it? The Kardashians are front and center America's trade watchdog has warned more than 90 celebrities that they need to disclose when they are paid to promote a product – or risk facing an investigation.…

Charges against white-haired-one have reportedly been drafted United States attorney-general Jeff Sessions says the Trump administration will make it “a priority” to arrest leakers, including Julian Assange.…

Crushed CEO says critics are comparing apples with oranges Meet this week's bonkers startup Juicero – the San Francisco maker of a $400 fruit juicer that's bagged $120m in funding from investors.…

Drift tests on actual 777 part show plane probably hit ocean north of search area Australian scientists have released a new analysis of debris from missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 and again asserted that the search for the Boeing 777 was conducted in the wrong place.…

Sysadmin holidays cancelled in March and September, starting in 2020 Updated Microsoft's explained how often it intends to offer “feature updates” to Windows 10: twice a year in March and September.…

Tianzhou-1 will now refuel the Tiangong-2 orbital lab as China prepares a proper space station China's ambition to launch a permanently-crewed space station is a little closer today after the nation successfully launched its first robot space truck.…

Musketeers bag $100,000 after hitting the brakes on allegations Less than three months after Tesla sued a former manager, claiming he'd stolen its blueprints and tried to poach staff, the flash automaker has settled out of court.…

If you can access them in California, so can the Feds Google has been ordered by a US court to cough up people's private Gmail messages stored overseas – because if that information can be viewed stateside, it is subject to American search warrants, apparently.…

Row over Yelp review menaces web immunity Analysis Tech giants and rights groups have flooded the California Supreme Court with a dozen friend-of-the court briefs pleading for the reversal of a defamation ruling that threatens online speech protections.…

Understatement of the month: 'Mistakes were made' The CEO of computer security biz Tanium has admitted his staff logged into hospital networks and accessed live IT systems during product demos with potential customers.…

Understatement of the month: 'Mistakes were made' The CEO of Tanium has admitted staff at his computer security biz logged into live hospital networks for product demos with potential customers.…

Quick clue: President Snowflake is a compulsive liar Analysis On January 6, president-elect Donald Trump had a meeting with the heads of the intelligence services and came out with one action point: cybersecurity.…

Don't worry guys, Yahoo! is coming to the rescue Verizon today turned in financial results of a nightmare first quarter of 2017 that saw the nation's top wireless carrier shed more than 300,000 postpaid subscribers.…

We WILL make you open up infrastructure access, vows regulator Ofcom has set out exactly how it plans to prise open BT's grip on the UK's telecoms infrastructure, in a move designed to make it easier for competing telcos to install fibre broadband connections.…

Ambassador, with these 1,800 layoffs, Fuji really is spoiling us Unite the Union wants Japan's ambassador to the UK to intervene in the long-running dispute with Fujitsu over the company's proposals to axe almost two thousand employees locally.…

Watch out, whitelist mafia, you might be swimming with the fishes The world's biggest digital advertising company Google is reportedly building an ad-blocker into Chrome – and it's already attracted the attention of Europe's most important competition regulator.…

Traffic Alchemist turns base metal into gold An elaborate online ad scam that disguised junk traffic as views on reputable sites has been costing advertisers as much as $7m per month.…

Welcome to Lex: AWS's AI-as-a-platform-service If you couldn't feel the love this week, you're lacking a heart.…

Another day. Another strategy... If a week is a long time in politics, it must be an eternity at Redmond, where the strategy team is seemingly obliged to create a new one every few minutes. Here's another for you.…

Claimants say features not included, updates were dangerous A class-action lawsuit has been launched against Tesla on the basis that updates to its cars' autopilots are "vapourware."…

There's a steering wheel in my pants. It's driving me nuts Something for the Weekend, Sir? Stop squeezing my knob. No seriously, I've had enough.…

Sweet MFA... but there's no documentation available for users Mastercard has unveiled its new biometric card which adds a fingerprint sensor to the chip as a replacement security measure to the four-digit PIN.…

Engineers working on firmware updates Multiple models of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi Routers have vulnerabilities that might be exploited to create a botnet, security researchers at IOActive warn.…

€500,000 to improve expertise and regulatory capacity The European Commission plans to set up an observatory and forum on blockchain and distributer ledger technology (DLT) to help it understand what role public authorities should play in developing and helping uptake of the technologies.…

OK... that's a new one Former critics' darling HTC will unveil its 2017 flagship on 16 May, hoping that a squeezy case will win back buyers.…

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