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Opposition candidate planned to find leaker-in-chief another bolt-hole Julian Assange will sleep easy tonight – assuming he sleeps at all – after Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno Garcés retained power.…

Candidate Trump promised to make tech companies hire Americans first, but the deadline for action in 2017 has passed Applications for the United States' H-1B visas open tomorrow, as usual. Which isn't what many expected after president Donald Trump made reform of skilled workers visas one of his key campaign promises.…

Stretched 787 stretches its wings and A319neo Euro-hops. Airbus and Boeing have both debuted new commercial jets.…

The rogue forklift is mightier than the keyboard, says Australian report Blackouts in Australia can be caused by snakes, birds, bats, and cats, but precious few by Russian hackers.…

Visit a malicious web page and JavaScript extracts user names Splunk has patched a slip in its JavaScript implementation that leaks user information.…

Standards org confirms RAM will double density, speed, become persistent The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has revealed that a full standard for DDR5 memory will arrive in June 2018, along with a new NVDIMM-P standard to house the memory, connect it to computers and protect the contents of RAM.…

ASA and Firepower kit have death clock. Fix it by rebooting If you're the lucky owner of Cisco Firepower or Adaptive Security Appliance devices, check the version number and see if you need to reboot your kit.…

Firm that claims credit for Trump and Brexit arrives to pitch marketers and pollies The company has repeatedly claimed it helped Donald Trump win the US presidency and got the Brexiters' "Leave" cause over the line has arrived in Australia.…

It'll feel a bit malware-y, but you'll be funding quality journalism without noticing it Readers will be aware that these are tough times for the media. And The Register is no exception: like many other publishers we need to diversify our revenue base.…

Advises developers to move to GitHub Redmond's open source code repository CodePlex is to close on December 15, 2017 and Microsoft is advising users to move their stuff over to GitHub.…

And congregation, caboodle – OK enough with the synonyms already! Did you enjoy the synonyms? Friday’s alphabetically-ordered-by-supplier-name collection of sub-prime storage news starts here:…

Ex-worker claims African-American shoppers were targeted A former Apple Store employee has accused the Cupertino giant's retail arm of racial and religious discrimination.…

W3C not happy President Trump is spoiling for yet another fight and this time, much to the despair of internet experts, it is net neutrality.…

We won't mistreat customers on this, vows company best known for mistreating customers Update US cable giant Comcast is looking to calm public outrage over its newfound ability to sell the browsing histories of its customers.…

Pays high price for 'elphaser' backdoor antics A former IT administrator working at a cowboy boot manufacturer has pled guilty to hacking the servers and cloud accounts of his employer after they fired him and had him removed from the building.…

Best educate yourself about what you can do Improved technologies in the banking sector have failed to stem the rising tide of fraud in the US, according to a study by analytic software firm FICO.…

Less-than-rosy Palmer leaving Zuck's $2bn lawsuit magnet Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is stepping down from his position at parent company Facebook.…

我绝对是中国人 WikiLeaks released the third tranche of its leaked CIA documents trove on Friday, which in this episode focuses on anti-forensics tools.…

Internal blog from worldwide HR exec confirms extent of offshoring Just shy of one-third of IBM's global workforce is now based in India and Bangladesh, a leaked internal blog has indicated.…

Pivots away from direct sales to web download and channel +Comment We heard that storage startup OSNEXUS had laid off its outside sales staff and pre-sales engineering staff on Tuesday.…

Researchers publish intel on US election meddlers Security researchers have published more intel on the tactics of the infamous Russian government-linked hacker crew blamed for compromising the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during last year's US presidential election.…

No need for top hats and red flags says secretary of state A UK minister has reassured the motor industry that buyers of driverless cars will not have to employ a gentleman with a red flag and top hat as he outlined a UK testbed for autonomous vehicles yesterday.…

I'm Guybrush Threepwood, mighty hacker Spreading ransomware has become a point-and-click exercise following the release of a file-scrambling malware interface for unskilled wannabe cybercrooks.…

Cult status is not enough for Mr Money Pants There aren't too many software frameworks that lend their name to industry events but Kubernetes, the open-source container manager, is one.…

Leave the day job to the machines, and get your proposals in We’ve had a cracking response to our call for papers for M, but more than a few people at the cutting edge of AI and machine learning have been in touch to ask for extensions.…

Charges for 40Mbps packages to be cut by 40 per cent Ofcom could force BT's Openreach to slash the prices it charges rivals for access to its superfast broadband network under plans that could shave millions off consumer bills.…

Tech companies will struggle to take over the road One of BMW's board members threw down the driving glove at the tech industry yesterday, saying that while established car makers were transforming themselves into tech companies, tech companies would struggle to turn themselves into auto manufacturers.…

Under Brexit, service faces five-fold rise in transactions Confidence in HMRC's £70m Customs Declaration Service, a computer system that HMRC itself describes as "business critical", has collapsed, the Treasury Select Committee warned today.…

Your bot looks cute but it's easy to crack Something for the Weekend, Sir? Car horns symphonise accompanied by a chorus of yelling cyclists as I shimmy on foot through oncoming traffic. Strictly, I come dancing on to the tarmac, cavorting between the lanes, prancing out of the way of motorbikes and generally tripping the traffic light fantastic.…

Plus: The strange case of the ghost keyboard that typed random rubbish ON-CALL The sun came up, the world kept turning, another Friday rolled around and so, therefore, did another edition of On-Call, The Register's weekly recount of readers' reminiscences about odd jobs.…

Your fancy ML algo is only a small part of the puzzle Artificial intelligence these days is sold as if it were a magic trick. Data is fed into a neural net – or black box – as a stream of jumbled numbers, and voilà! It comes out the other side completely transformed, like a rabbit pulled from a hat.…

Developers puzzled by binaries' bitcode explosion Apple's iOS 10.3 this week brought with it minor storage space gains, thanks to the debut of the iGiant's revised storage scheme, the Apple File System.…

Browser makers unite to make web design great again With the release of Safari 10.1 this week, four major browsers in the space of a month have implemented support for CSS Grid, an emerging standard for two-dimensional grid layouts in web applications.…

Right? You're keeping backups, right? No? Well, do it now Today, March 31, is supposed to be World Backup Day. Where did that one come from? Isn't every day a backup day?…

US tech giants react to UK Home Secretary Rudd Big Tech has told the UK government it will do more to remove extremist content from their networks, but has refused to offer concessions on encryption.…

And they dare call El Reg The Sun of science and technology – the nerve! Powerful solar wind and radiation have stripped away most of the Martian atmosphere, transforming the planet from one that could have been wet and with the potential to harbor life, to the barren dusty place it is today.…

All of a sudden dedicated instances are looking a lot better than multi-tenancy A group of researchers, one from Microsoft, say they can extract information from an Amazon Web Services virtual machine by probing the cache of a CPU it shares with other cloudy VMs.…

First, find it, which is hard. Second, see if it occludes stars, which is really, really hard Planet 9 will be easier to find if we know what we're looking for, so a French astronomer has set himself the task of trying to wrap the enigma in some parameters.…

Virtzilla says hardly anyone isn't using its Distributed or Standard Switch already VMware's let vSphere users know that it will end support for third-party virtual switches.…

'Very big cut' hits teams in US IBM is once again laying off folks – this time swinging its axing mostly through sales teams in the US.…

Suggested workaround for exploited flaw: Upgrade to a non-EoL operating system Microsoft will not patch a critical security hole recently found and exploited in IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003 R2 – the operating system it stopped supporting roughly two years ago.…

And put a sat in orbit without any explosions. Yawn Pics Elon Musk's promised revolution in affordable orbital delivery has begun: today his upstart SpaceX successfully launched a refurbished rocket from Earth, carrying a commercial satellite into orbit, and then landed the rocket's first stage on a sea barge.…

Yeah, not so fast, Comcast, Verizon et al, say US states President Trump has yet to sign off on congressional legislation that allows American ISPs to sell their subscribers' online habits to advertisers – but US states aren't waiting for his signature and are moving to protect their constituents' privacy.…

Just what rules is this upstart putting in place? Analysis A police report appears to support the claim that Uber was not to blame for a recent crash of its self-driving car in Tempe, Arizona.…

Telco lands mega-deal to host first responders' broadband US phone giant AT&T has landed a $6.5bn contract to build a private wireless broadband network for emergency responders.…

Let's go over the pros and cons Hands-on How fast things change: once upon a time (last week), Tor was seen as a tool for the paranoid and the criminal. VPNs were aimed at safeguarding traffic over insecure hotel and conference Wi-Fi networks – or for business.…

That's £768.8m down the drain Financial fraud losses in the UK totalled £768.8m in 2016, up 2 per cent on 2015, according to Financial Fraud Action UK.…

This time it's palm oil instead of a single dead cow Poll First it was vegetarians and vegans complaining about plastic banknotes. Now the Bank of England has managed to upset environmentalists at the WWF – wildlife, not wrestlers – over plans for new plastic £20 notes made using palm oil.…

Meanwhile, wannabe iTunes gift card moguls reportedly fire up their email UK cops have arrested a man they suspect of extortion and Computer Misuse Act offences – and according to reports, "someone in control of the Turkish Crime Family email account" claimed that arrest was to do with $100,000 Apple iTunes gift card debacle.…

Cost works out at about $1m per petabyte Following boastful tweets by American president Donald Trump about job creation, Ford is set to open its very own Michigan data centre for its connected cars.…