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Also a bald-faced liar When AT&T decided at the last minute it was going to join this week's "day of protest" over net neutrality, the reaction ranged from incredulity to bemusement.…

Uncle Sam says it won't trawl through travelers' phones Border searches of US citizens' mobile devices do not extend to data stored solely on remote servers, according to Kevin McAleenan, Acting Commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection Agency.…

Pulp-squeezing juicebags to drop a quarter of its workers Internet-tethered juicer maker Juicero is axing 25 per cent of its staff as the startup tries to shake off its status as a Silicon Valley punchline.…

Blade server initiates server portfolio conversion Huawei has announced a Xeon Scalable Processor conversion of its FusionServer portfolio, with a blade server leading the charge.…

Ninth Circuit panel urged to throw out injunction on software support biz The latest installment of the years-long legal battle between software support company Rimini Street and Oracle was acted out in the US Ninth Circuit court yesterday.…

Get your office benchmarking Crysi- *cough* I mean, working Amazon has rolled out its latest GPU computing box instance line, G3.…

Devon and Cornwall plod start using RC quadcopters +Comment Devon and Cornwall Police is launching its drone-equipped aerial surveillance team today.…

Paves way for thousands of sci-fi novel prologues to come true Luxembourg's parliament has passed a law that makes it the first European Union country to offer legal certainty that asteroid mining companies get to keep what they find in space.…

Server update Dark web marketplace AlphaBay's closure last week followed an international law enforcement operation and multiple raids, it has emerged. It has also been reported that a key suspect who was arrested in the raids has died in custody.…

Now-freed 'serial entrepreneur' has yet to face a full trial Peter Sage, the "serial entrepreneur" accused by HPE of defrauding it out of $17.5m worth of servers, has been freed from prison by the UK's Court of Appeal.…

MCubed makes it easy to get up to speed on the hard stuff If you’re in any kind of knowledge-based business, you may suspect your world is about to be rocked by machine learning and AI over the next few years.…

UK Office of Tax Simplification wants to scrap 'anachronistic and cumbersome' process Government tech often gets slagged off for being old and clunky. But spare a thought for the folks issuing stamp duty, who have to handle machines from the 1870s which "close down" at 2pm every day to be cleaned.…

Korean 'delicacy' cakes cars It's always The Register's pleasure to remind you that, however bad you think your day is going, someone else has it worse.…

From HAL to Slackbot Once cloud was accepted as something with various meanings, none of which our customers understood, the IT industry searched for the next big buzzword. It came up with not one but three terms often used interchangeably by people who don't know any better – bots, artificial intelligence and machine learning.…

Well, it gets a prosthetic thumbs-up from me Something for the Weekend, Sir? A VR headset is pressing down on the bridge of my nose. The strap is pulling out strands of hair from the back of my head. I have bruised shins after walking into a coffee table.…

Tech services division changes tack to be a light for customers in digital darkness Hewlett Packard Enterprise is rejigging execs and consolidating subsidiaries in its last remaining tech services division Pointnext – a business that has shrunk year-on-year for almost half a decade.…

So she used a pencil to work it out, then cut herself down to size to fix it ON-CALL Last Friday your correspondent snorkeled on a tropical island, but this Friday it's time for another edition of On-Call, our weekly column in which we recount readers' tales of being forced to take on tricky jobs for tricky people.…

BSides spills the beans on how to manage white hats at work Managing an IT department at the best of times can be a struggle, and managing a security team has its own special challenges.…

Brain maps reveal which neurons are responsible for which behaviors Scientists in the US have developed a computer program called JAABA that uses machine learning to map groups of neurons responsible for the different behaviors observed in tiny fruit flies.…

Cops rescue trapped technician Police were called to a bank in Corpus Christi, Texas, after a customer getting money out of an ATM was passed a note pleading for help from inside the machine.…

LISA Pathfinder's watch is over, but busting it can teach us to handle future, nastier, missions The European Space Agency is giving the LISA Pathfinder probe what it calls the “Bake, rattle and roll” treatment in the hope it teaches us how to make its successors even better.…

Bloke accused of fraud may well be the Wolf of LOL Street An MIT postdoctoral staffer was arrested and charged with insider trading after he allegedly searched online for tips on committing the crime.…

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (but we haven't checked that with our lawyers) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but perhaps whoever designed the web site for storage upstart Weka.io has gone a little too far: when Reg operatives decided to read beyond our story on the company we found its website appears to have borrowed ours!…

But can it run Crysis? Cray is supplying an Urika-GX analytics machine to the UK’s Alan Turing Institute for data science research.…

Inception fans can have fun with VMs-inside-VMs inside a cloud, all on Windows Server 2016 Microsoft’s added a new instance type to Azure and the ability to run nested virtualization.…

Antipodean not-backdoors plan will mirror UK Investigatory Powers Act, ensure law of land trumps laws of mathematics British signals intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) can crack end-to-end encrypted messages sent using WhatsApp and Signal, according to Australian attorney-general George Brandis.…

Only took two decades to spot dodgy authentication mechanisms A vulnerability hidden in Kerberos code for more than 20 years met its end in patches issued this week by Microsoft and several Linux vendors.…

You have no chance to survive make your time Music hosting biz SoundCloud, having just axed 40 per cent of its staff, is now trying to ward off rumors that it will go broke in less than two months.…

Gandi admits logins stolen, 750 web addfresses pointed to malware More than 750 domain names were hijacked through the internet's own systems, registrar Gandi has admitted.…

Gandi admits logins stolen, 750 web addresses pointed to malware More than 750 domain names were hijacked through the internet's own systems, registrar Gandi has admitted.…

People power! The open-source community has fought back and resurrected the development of OmniOS – an Oracle-free non-proprietary variant of Solaris, which had been shelved in April.…

Well, actually, do panic. A pending code change could bring a period of instability The community-driven organization overseeing Bitcoin on Wednesday warned that any Bitcoins received after Monday, July 31, 2017 at GMT-0700 may vanish into thin air or be rejected as invalid.…

Oh, and you owe us $5,000. Lots of love – California An Airbnb host who cancelled a guest's booking at the last minute because she was Asian has been fined $5,000 and told to attend a course on Asian American studies.…

Cloud giant worryingly coy about its intentions Amazon is apparently considering a plan to provide app developers with transcripts of people's conversations with their Alexa boxes.…

It's gonna be spectacular! At 0240 GMT* precisely on Friday, July 14, an epoch-defining moment will happen. And only real nerds – along with Reg readers – will know what that moment is.…

Switchzilla needs its five startups a day Cisco hopes to boost its enterprise security gear by snapping up real-time network behavior monitoring startup Observable Networks.…

After you've gained arbitrary execution on the cash machine, natch Flaws have been found and fixed in Kaspersky Lab's security software for cash machines and other embedded systems. Hackers can exploit the bugs to circumvent anti-malware defenses in ATMs.…

Did you know that US sanctions extend to the digital world too? DevOps darling Docker accidentally cut off the entire country of Ukraine earlier this week following an overzealous effort to enforce US sanctions against Russia.…

All to do with lowering latency, not Brexit. Got that? Google today cut the ribbon on a bunch of cloud services for UK customers that will be served up by racks rented from a data centre provider in Blighty's capital.…

New company is called... NewCo! Uber is getting a little bit of help in Russia and five other countries.…

Plus: Developers 'not part of your value chain' FISITA Plus Connected vehicle folk ought to spend less time worrying about the trolley problem and more time concentrating on connected tech instead, Transport for London's Michael Hurwitz told the FISITA Plus mobility engineering conference this morning.…

Names, phone numbers, emails released into the wild Healthcare firm Bupa suffered a data breach when an employee of its international health insurance division inappropriately copied and removed some customer information.…

Coolant leak crashed VNX array at web host's Paris data centre An external water-cooling leak crashed a Dell EMC VNX array at an OVH data centre in Paris and put more than 50,000 websites out of action for 24 hours.…

Great... if you could use it The phone sleuths at XDA-Developers have unearthed a handy undocumented feature in the latest version of Android.…

Privacy groups concerned by data-slurping 'tapping' law Plans by the Dutch government to increase surveillance powers are likely to face opposition from privacy activists.…

'We're watching you,' warns regulator Brit comms regulator Ofcom has created a dedicated Openreach Monitoring Unit, in a move reminiscent of the naughty kid at school being forced to sit next to the teacher.…

Strong opening by backup and security shipper Ransomware helped backup and security firm Barracuda to a solid first fiscal 2018 quarter, with revenues and subscribers both growing.…

NoSQL database flinger fades as former engineers work to save Riak Basho, once a rising star of the NoSQL database world, has faded away to almost nothing, The Register has learned.…

We want to put YOU centre stage Continuous Lifecycle will be back in London next May, and we want to ensure we have an up to minute, real world agenda by putting your experiences implementing DevOps, Containers, CD and Automation at the heart of the programme.…

Can't be GDP-arsed with this anymore For a regulation designed to safeguard data processing, the forthcoming GDPR has already generated a surfeit of info. Somewhere in Europe sits a growing compliance mountain.…