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Something smelled fishy Iceland’s home delivery service exposed sensitive customer information for months until the problem was plugged this week, a UK security researcher discovered.…

We saw what you did there, Windows 10 web browser bods Microsoft held its Edge Web Summit on 13 September, announcing that the web browser now has “330 million active devices”, just over two years since its launch with Windows 10 in July 2015. The stat was explained as devices where someone actively uses Edge during the course of a month.…

Routine maintenance was just routine, not connected says retailer Argos shoppers who prefer to buy online rather than in-store via the laminated catalogue of dreams were out of luck this morning as the website crashed intermittently and pricing errors showed up.…

Jacky Wright to lead tech for UK tax collector HMRC has named Microsoft veep Jacky Wright as its next CIO, The Register can confirm.…

Tariq Rashid on programming AI Interview If you're going to learn about neural networks, you could do worse than learn it from someone who got five A levels (all grade As), has his MSc in Advanced Computing, and can tell you how to build your own neural network in 30 lines of code, even if you don't know any calculus.…

So if re-identifying folk from anonymised data is to be a crime... The UK’s Data Protection bill has landed with a hefty thud, offering up 200-plus pages of legislation for the geeks and wonks to sink their teeth into.…

www.howaboutno.co.uk, .uk, ... nope Customers of 123-Reg are experiencing a familiar feeling of annoyance, this time over a decision to automatically register them for .UK domains, which they will then have to pay for after two years.…

HMRC: About £1.5bn lost due to overseas sellers' tax swerve MPs have accused Amazon and eBay of profiteering out of companies based overseas that are fraudulently using their platforms to dodge VAT - and supposedly putting Brit SMEs out of business while they're at it.…

This Chinese firm is touting plastic ones DSEI 2017 A Chinese company reckons it’s going to test fly a personal drone air taxi in the UK - letting any old bod take to the skies after bonking two buttons in an app.…

Doctrine? More like advocacy The Ministry of Defence has issued a new strategy document for its drones, stating humans will be kept in the decision-making loop – yet critics are unhappy with the questions the doc sidesteps.…

Feed your brain over a beer Reg Events Forget information, bitcoin, even porn. There’s only one currency that ultimately matters in the digital world, and that’s power.…

Not looking good for the Thales Watchkeeper fleet Another two Watchkeeper drones crashed in the last year, taking the number of Watchkeepers destroyed in crashes up to four.…

Eight months sound like enough? No? Welcome back from the summer. Feeling refreshed? Good, now let’s talk General Data Protection Regulation from the European Union, due to swing into effect on May 25, 2018. You now have eight months to get your data infrastructure, tech policies and related procedures ship-shape. Not feeing so refreshed now, are you?…

Don't agree to new terms? No salary or bonuses for you Frankenfirm DXC Technologies is proposing to kill off the final salary pension scheme for former EDS staff and will refuse to fund pay rises and bonuses to those affected who do not sign over to the new package.…

Carry on, X-IO: Suitcase-sized Axellio for the edge computing crowd X-IO has devised a portable Axellio all-flash server/storage system that you can take on an airline, with the flash in the overhead locker and the main enclosure in checked luggage in the hold.…

The inevitable kick in the arse Promo Two much-publicised ransomware attacks earlier this year, including one on the NHS, have raised the profile of the ransomware menace that hangs over businesses of all sizes.…

Backscatter boffins get Things talking over kilometres One of the favoured low-power radio techniques in Internet of Things research is “backscatter communications”: the transmitter sends a signal to a Thing, and the Thing modulates its data onto the reflection, and that's then decoded by a receiver.…

Distributed cloud company now working on Ryzens that warm your shower French cloud concern Qarnot wants to use AMD processors to heat water.…

Just landed on the Moon and fancy a drink? Step on up Scientists have created the first map that traces the water content on the surface of the Moon, in the hopes that it may come in handy for astronauts searching for drinking water or fuel.…

Electronics resurgence program gets US$75 million more for 2018 The United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to find the electronics industry's next iteration of Moore's Law and has loaded up a US$75 million defibrillator to jolt industry into making it happen.…

Kuiper-belt-bound craft needs a few weeks of tweaks to prepare for Space Duck 2.0 The New Horizons probe has successfully ended its five-month hibernation and resumed chats with its mission controllers.…

Sigh. Admins of free AWS instances just didn't tick the right boxes. Lazily-configured software has again created a security incident, this time resulting in 4,000 instances of open source analytics and search tool Elasticsearch inadvertently running PoS-stealing malware.…

Says this will send you to 'Trellotopia'. Seriously. Who writes this stuff? Trello has figured out that there's life beyond the confines of a browser, so has created desktop apps for MacOS and Windows.…

Apache Struts was popped, but company had at least TWO MONTHS to fix it Equifax has revealed that the cause of its massive data breach was flaw it should have patched weeks before it was attacked.…

Enterprises can lock down Telemetry a little more Microsoft's taken another small step towards addressing those worried about Windows 10's impact on their privacy by adding more controls over what apps can do in the Creators Update of the OS.…

说下次你是俄国人 The Trump administration has blocked the purchase of a US semiconductor company by a Chinese investment firm, citing national security concerns.…

Plan to dehumanize shopping taken as threat to beloved mom-and-pop stores A startup called Bodega AI, facing an unanticipated Twitter tempest, has rushed to reassure people that it isn't out to kick mom-and-pop stores to the curb.…

Nope, not over the securities fraud, or the drug price hike Martin Shkreli, the obnoxious smirking hedge fund manager nicknamed Pharma Bro, is going to jail after a series of Facebook posts convinced a judge that he's a menace to society.…

Senator Wyden not happy with continued obfuscation The director of national intelligence (DNI) has refused to say whether US spying agencies are using legislation specifically intended to cover only foreigners in order to spy on American citizens.…

Cupertino Idiot Tax gets a $50 increase to cover chip charges Apple has raised the price on much of its iPad Pro tablet line.…

Scientists reignite the idea of water-bearing asteroids bringing oceans to Earth Scientists have found evidence that there may be ground ice on Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth.…

Hard drive hound ready for duty Sniffer dogs have been used to detect drugs and explosives for years, but now Delaware police have a new type of K-9 – one trained to sniff out hard drives and electronic storage devices.…

Hold our beers, Equifax Experian and Annual Credit Report.com – an organization set up by Equifax, Experian and Transunion to meet US consumer finance regulations – left themselves exposed to a serious vulnerability in Apache Struts earlier this year.…

Sorry bros, you'll have to tell it to the jury – and give us the Stroz Report too Uber has lost a pair of appeals at the center of its ongoing trade secrets case with the Alphabet-owned Waymo Inc.…

Government departments have 90 days to rip and replace Despite pending legislation to ban US federal government offices from using Kaspersky Lab security software, Homeland Security has issued a Binding Operational Directive demanding that the products be removed within 90 days.…

Claims of sweat resistance and durability are lies, litigious customers contend Apple pitches its Powerbeats headphones to the public with images of celebrated athletes and ad copy insisting that the devices are durable and sweat resistant.…

Searching your phone should require a warrant, says lawsuit The US Department of Homeland Security is being sued by 11 travellers who had their smartphones and laptops seized and searched at the US border.…

AR Scorpii was the first white dwarf pulsar to be found Scientists trying to crack the mystery behind the fastest-pulsating white dwarf have found that its brightness levels change over a timescale of decades.…

Lord Scriven says UK.gov response 'not worth the paper it is printed on' The use of 20 million facial images by the police "has said gone far beyond using them for custody purposes", according to the Biometric Commissioners’ annual report.…

West London techie trio spurred into action for homeless youngsters A trio of plucky Reg fans from Shepherd’s bush are braving the mean streets of London next month to raise money for Byte Night - and you should really join them.…

Yes, we meant specifications... and think up a name, would you? Oracle has named the Eclipse Foundation as the new host for Java Enterprise Edition, but said the platform won’t get to keep its name.…

That's part one sorted. Now, who's supplying the sharks? The Dragonfire laser cannon consortium has unveiled a fullsize mockup of its shipborne blaster at the Defence and Security Exhibition International arms fair in London.…

Months of patient work by American cops went into this Five “bikini baristas” have been charged with prostitution after a lengthy undercover police investigation revealed the women were serving drive-through customers while only wearing their smalls.…

Matt Hancock uses speech on the internet to pontificate about liberalism... Digital minister Matt Hancock has confirmed that the Data Protection Bill will be published tomorrow, in a speech promising internet laws "based on liberal and not libertarian values" that "cherish freedom yet prevent harm to others".…

iPhoneX feature receives stony-faced reaction from security buffs Security watchers have given Apple’s introduction of facial recognition technology a cautious welcome.…

Samsung has little to fear Comment You may or may not know that the phrase "industrial revolution" was coined by a Frenchman.…

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Last major data deal between EU and third country took 4 years The UK is risking a data economy worth £240bn if it doesn’t secure a “simple” transition deal that minimises disruption of data flows after Brexit, the Confederation of British Industry will warn today.…

Cause, accountability, responsibility When the Knightscope K5 surveillance bot fell into the pond at an office complex in Washington, DC, last month, it wasn’t the first time the company’s Future of Security machines had come a cropper.…

Come and bite the hand that feeds Are you pondering a career in technology journalism? We've got good news for you in that case – El Reg is hiring an intern to work on our London newsdesk.…