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Save real dosh on artificial intelligence The early bird ticket offer for MCubed, our three-day extravaganza of machine learning, AI and analytics, ends this evening, giving you just a few hours to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for the conference and our deep dive workshops.…

Even students set to feel the wallet burn from August Cable giant Virgin is once again hiking up the price of its broadband and phone bundles, according to a list of new pricing arrangements seen by The Register.…

Actual reports of transgressions are up, though The number of white collar crime prosecutions in the UK fell by 12 per cent between 2015 and 2016, despite a 4 per cent increase in the number of reported offences.…

All this will pass says CEO Morrow, once ISPs consolidate and stop discounting nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has hit back at critics of its network and business plan in a pair of missives attributed to CEO Bill Morrow.…

Experiment used Elon Musk's OpenAI framework - no wonder he's so down on AI DEF CON Machine learning tools can create custom malware that defeats anti-virus software.…

Out of beta, still won't let you read Linux files from Windows Microsoft's head-turning Windows Subsystem for Linux will emerge from beta to become a fully-fledged-and-supported feature of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.…

Banned and yanked from Apple's App Store Apple's Chinese app store has been suddenly shorn of privacy software as Russia and China are both clamping down on virtual private networks.…

Good news: Chelyabinsk-sized rattler won't wipe us out, will let us test asteroid defences NASA's preparing another round asteroid defence tests, thanks to the October fly-by of a rock that may come within a cosmic whisker of the Earth.…

Dev thinks we need to keep notable .SWFs readable for the sake of posterity A group of developers have taken to GitHub with a petition to save Adobe Flash, despite the company's largely-welcomed decision to end support for the oft-reviled software in 2020.…

Social media speculation forced their hand, hence the pre-press paper explaining their interest After Twitter-leaks, a trio of exoplanet-hunters have decided to go public with observations they reckoned weren't quite up to broadcast-quality but which is rather significant: the first possible detection of a moon orbiting an exoplanet.…

Dev bounces back with 'fair enough' as rc3 for 4.13 lands Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has fired off an expletive-laden rant of the sort that only he seems to find acceptable.…

Tells Desert Island Disks that Indie apps don't hand over metadata Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has reiterated the company's position that weakening the encryption of messaging apps isn't going to give governments what they want.…

'SlowLoris' flaw could see a mouse of a machine take down an elephant of a server An SMBv1 bug described late last week at DEF CON won't be patched, because Redmond says it only needs a suitable block on connections coming from the Internet.…

You're leaving stuff ON that deserves to be OFF DEF CON Windows Server admins keep making mistakes that let criminals target the OS, according to Microsoft's lead security architect for Azure management Lee Holmes, Redmond therefore wants you to harden up by using PowerShell Just Enough Administration.…

Worries about 'espionage, sabotage, or other nefarious activities' cough - NSA! - cough A major US House of Representatives committee wants 22 government agencies to tell it where they've got Kaspersky products in their networks.…

Company points figure at registrar; registrar points right back Billion-dollar online marketing company Marketo had a bad week when it failed to renew its main dotcom domain name.…

With apologies to Bonnie Tyler Scientists are gearing up for the hotly anticipated total solar eclipse on August 21 by preparing a series of experiments.…

Cofounder brings us up to date on network status DEF CON A Tor Project grandee sought to correct some misconceptions about the anonymizing network during a presentation at the DEF CON hacking convention in Las Vegas on Friday.…

Much love for tiny microcomputer DEF CON The BBC’s Micro:bit computer board may be winning over school kids, but hackers have found its wireless capabilities and programmable nature make it an excellent tool for mischief.…

We've got three years to shore up election security DEF CON After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election count, the US invested heavily in electronic voting systems – but not, it seems, the security to protect them.…

Peculiar goings-on at auDA – we look under the covers and follow the money Analysis The chair of Australia's .au internet registry has resigned just days before a vote of no confidence in his leadership.…

I’d like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding... DEF CON The world chess champion who was beaten by a computer today told the DEF CON hacking conference that we shouldn’t fear AI systems, but instead need to embrace them.…

That was one expensive email for the storage specialist Seagate will cough up $5.75m to settle a lawsuit brought after its bungling staff accidentally handed over employees' sensitive information to fraudsters.…

Epic fails and l33t pops celebrated by hackers Black Hat The annual Pwnie Awards for serious security screw-ups saw hardly anyone collecting their prize at this year's ceremony in Las Vegas.…

Researchers say software prisons can hide nasty attack payloads Black Hat Docker containers are the perfect disguise for malware infections, warn researchers.…

Investigators can look forward to better thumbscrews for making digital assistants squeal Last year, police in Bentonville, Arkansas, investigating the death of Victor Collins, demanded that Amazon turn over audio recordings that may have been made by an Amazon Echo device in his home.…

E-marketplace giant looks to levy Alexa success for consumer healthcare Analysis Amazon is gearing up to take advantage of the burgeoning market for personal healthcare technology, but has been warned not to underestimate the power of the incumbent enterprise market in hospitals.…

I picked a hell of a day to quit sniffing packets Virgin America's staff and contractors have been told to change their passwords after a hacker raided the airline's systems.…

Attempt to make Blighty an innovator in the field The UK has launched a £45m competition to support research in electric vehicle battery materials, technologies and manufacturing processes.…

Bring some Vaseline because you're gonna have a rawhide We've added a fair few thoroughbreds to this week's storage corral. Let's send in a wrangler and see what we've got.…

Are you using payment system over public Wi‑Fi? Black Hat USA Security researchers say they have come up with two separate "attacks" against ApplePay, highlighting what they claim are weaknesses in the mobile payment method.…

DRaaS-tic times call for DRaaS-tic measures DRaaS supplier Axcient is merging with eFolder, and eFolder will be the combined business’s name.…

Ripe target for ne'er-do-wells... Black Hat Vulnerabilities in widely deployed Radiation Monitoring Devices (RDMs) present a potential mechanism for triggering false alarms and worse, according to research unveiled at Black Hat on Wednesday.…

More than 1,000 pieces of networking hardware seized City of London cops today confirmed they have confiscated hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit Cisco networking gear.…

How's business on the other side of that $2.4bn void? Western Digital earned the revenues it said it would in its final fiscal 2017 quarter and gave an object lesson to Seagate in how to run a storage drive business.…

No internet better than Facebook's internet, say NGOs Two-thirds of the planet doesn't have internet access - but some aren't keen to see Facebook make a bridge across that digital divide.…

'We're not naive about work to be done,' as revs drop 14% Data warehouse biz Teradata has reported (PDF) a second consecutive drop in revenues for this year, as its licensing shift beds in.…

Real savings on artificial intelligence Let’s make this quick. The early bird ticket offer for MCubed, our three-day extravaganza of machine learning, AI and analytics, will evaporate Monday evening, giving you just a few days to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for the conference and our deep dive workshops.…

Plus: We take a sneak peek at London's other tube network, Mail Rail Royal Mail’s Postal Museum, hidden round the corner from its central London sorting depot, is opening to the public after an 18 month refurbishment project.…

Including post-coital clean-up In yet another demonstration that truth can be stranger than fiction – or at least as strange – a landlord has 'fessed up to entering his married tenants' flat and having sexual relations on their bed.…

70% of IT workers risk burnout: Don't let that be you. Pub. Now! It's that time of year again, dear readers: it's Sysadmin Day 2017. Today is that one day a year where employers and coworkers are expected to give a token acknowledgement of the trials and tribulations of their overworked IT staffs and usually fail to do so.…

That's biz file sync and share, but rebranded, natch Box has topped Gartner's magic quadrant as the analyst wizards cast their judgemental eyes over the content collaboration market.…

Cortana, turn off my computer! Microsoft's latest Windows 10 Insider Preview lets you link to an Android phone, with synchronised web browsing the first supported feature.…

Or just wait and buy it when it's ready Something for the Weekend, Sir? Good Afternoon, Alistair Dabbs. Do you still write in the direction of Hi-Tech, didn't you? Perhaps you will find fascinating the following information.…

Also appoints EE chief exec Marc Allera as consumer boss BT's profits plunged 42 per cent to £418m for the first quarter, as the former state monopoly paid off £225m in settlements in relation to the accounting scandal in Italy.…

Watt's all this about cyberspy threat leaks... Analysts weigh in Analysis The energy sector across multiple Western countries is under intensified assault by hackers. Security experts warn that industrial systems are wide open to potential exploit once hackers secure a foothold, the most difficult part of the hacking process, using targeted phishing or similar tactics.…

'Staff in uproar' as relocation suddenly on the cards Exclusive Virgin Media is to consider shuttering more than one-third of its sites across the UK amid a review of its multi-million pound annual spend on facilities, according to a letter to staff seen by The Register.…

Forget Brexit, lets use grease and dead things to heal a gaping political chasm A turf war has broken out among the scribes at Vulture Towers North over the fried delicacies that should and should not be included in the world famous Full English gut buster Breakfast.…

Update 1 for v. 6.5 gets 90% of the way to heaven on the client VMware's popped out the first update to vSphere 6.5 and it's unusually interesting for this sort of minor release.…

Life lesson: don't display messages on screens if you don't know who'll see it! On-Call The end of the week is nigh and to ease your passage into the next phase of existence – the blessed weekend - El Reg brings you On-Call, our Friday column chronicling readers’ stories of jobs with strange beginnings and sticky endings.…