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Cross-device clipboard, OneDrive placeholder files, mixed reality headsets... Build Microsoft has announced the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a second wave of updates to its "Windows as a service" operating system. The first Creators Update was released in April 2017.…

For you, Fritz, the testing is not over Europe's top court has ruled that the General Court issued a flawed and unfair verdict against Dyson, Britain's best-known manufacturer.…

Oh go on, we'll throw in a soft-boiled Brexit The UK Labour has pledged a 30Mbps universal broadband speed by 2022, according to a draft leaked version of its manifesto.…

Web giant wants to invalidate Blackbird Tech's designs, get them thrown out of profession Cloudflare says it will go above and beyond to destroy what it claims is a uniquely dangerous patent troll.…

'You do not abandon your users' .NET Foundation chief tells El Reg Build Microsoft will not, after all, restrict its open source, cross-platform web framework ASP.NET Core 2.0 from running on the Windows-only .NET Framework.…

Now that's cast-iron antivirus An Avast software update pushed out on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the firm's freebie anti-malware software.…

Chief exec says 'significant chunk' of job cuts to come from Global Services Analysis "Collaboration" was the watchword from Openreach chief exec Clive Selley during BT's results this morning. An interesting expression given accusations it previously used its market heft to the disadvantage of its communications providers.…

Will the whistleblower please identify himself, asks IPCC The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating claims that the Metropolitan Police used outsourced Indian hackers to illegally access the email accounts of Guardian journalists and environmental campaigners.…

Will provide workload transition via Linux containers HPE is introducing a new generation of its mission-critical Integrity/HP-UX servers and providing a Linux container migration route to x86 server-land.…

Nine months after its buttocks ignominiously met terra firma The "giant flying bum" Airlander 10 airship has successfully flown for the first time since it nosedived into the ground last summer.…

Now regulate the ass off it Uber is really a transport company, not an internet company, in official advice given to the European Court of Justice. If it's followed by the court, the opinion will have significant impact on horizontally integrated platforms operating in Europe that present themselves as intermediaries and thus bypass many regulations.…

Cause unclear, users told to go through 'offline mode' Connectivity issues have left Brits unable to reliably access LastPass, the online password manager service, since Tuesday.…

Workers couldn't take their legally mandated breaks Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed pay out nearly $4m to thousands of underpaid employees – yet one of them is curiously annoyed with his court-backed windfall.…

Well, the divorce lawyers haven't been called yet Analysis At the Dell EMC World event in Las Vegas, the two put a good face on it, with no apparent resentment bubbling underneath, as was the case for Symantec and Veritas.…

How Sweden and Norway turned to ANPR Most people leaving Kielder forest park in Northumberland go east towards Tyneside, but you can also head north-west on an uncategorised road through open countryside.…

There's something cloudy in the air tonight. Oh Lord Against all odds, middle-of-the-road rocker Phil Collins – along with ex-Genesis pals – are some of the unlikely backers behind UKCloud.…

That'd be 0.4 pence a call – if anyone ever paid it A UK firm found responsible for orchestrating 99.5 million nuisance calls has been fined a record £400,000 (US$517,550) by the Information Commissioner’s Office.…

Profit plunges 19 per cent on back of 'challenging' year BT is to axe 4,000 jobs at worldwide, with profits plunging 19 per cent to £2.4bn during a "challenging" 2016/17 financial year for the former state monopoly.…

Beleaguered email client team gets its 'Dear John' letter A little over a year ago, Mozilla started pondering the future of Thunderbird. And this week, it's decided the troubled open-source email client must sleep in the spare room.…

Look, it's a fancy user interface, not actual intelligence Build Microsoft's Bot Framework received a minor feature injection at the Windows giant's Build 2017 developer conference, with the addition of Adaptive Cards for cross-platform rich media and support for new channels and the company's payment API.…

Claims it's for cybersecurity – but whose security exactly? The Taiwanese government intends to block Google's public DNS service, citing cybersecurity concerns.…

'We love privacy, just not this much privacy, not this fast' Mozilla wants the EU to tap the brake on a privacy process slated to deliver a new ePrivacy Directive by May 2018, calling the timeline “overly aggressive”.…

If it weren't for the pricing, this would be very dull stuff indeed When Dell acquired EMC one of the things we were promised was clever integration between Dell EMC hardware and VMware software.…

When your fake invoice strategy is black numbers on a black background, you're gonna fail Former security officer Yovan Garcia better have deep pockets: a California district court has presented him with a bill of more than US$300,000 for attacking his former employer's computer systems.…

Solid Q3 with no surprises There's very little to say about the latest numbers from the company building Australia's National Broadband Network, except to say that at least there's no bad news from the government.…

'Jakarta' release also adds software asset management, multi-cloud wrangling and more Cloud wrangling giant ServiceNow has announced the new stuff that will land in its next release.…

Buggy admin interface – where have we heard that before? Asus RT wireless routers have joined the SOHOpeless list – with poor cross-site request forgery protection affecting 30 variants of the devices.…

Various bits and bobs to break Intel's heart this year GTC Today at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang paraded a bunch of forthcoming gear – all aimed at expanding the graphics chip giant’s reach in AI.…

Crackdown coming this week over mid-air bomb blast scares, apparently America is prepared to ban laptops from cabins on flights to the US from UK and Europe, Homeland Security officials said today.…

Quadcopter hoons on notice That sound you can hear is Australia's drone army angrily hammering their keyboards to try and fend off the threat of re-regulation.…

Appeals judge confirms: RPost will get nothing and like it Domain registrar and host GoDaddy has won its battle with a patent-holding company that had accused it of violating a handful of claims related to basic email functions.…

S'wot the SEC told a court Three Chinese miscreants have made millions on the stock market using insider information stolen from US law firms.…

TITSUP: Total Inability To Stand Up Products Build Microsoft scrambled to get its Office 365 service back online after the cloud productivity suite was hit with a mid-day outage.…

California judges agree to rehear critical data privacy case – with huge implications The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to rehear a critical case on data privacy – one that may reset how Uncle Sam treats phone companies and internet giants, and may even prevent another ten years of fights over net neutrality.…

At its dev conference, Redmond is all about Azure, bots, Azure and also Azure Build At the Build 2017 developer conference today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella marked a Windows milestone – 500 million monthly active users – and proceeded to say very little about Windows or Office.…

Anything to give Optane some much-needed competition Space-age memory developer Nantero has pocketed millions in funding from Dell Technologies Capital.…

Children, please welcome Persirai to the class Researchers have discovered yet another IoT botnet.…

DocumentDB evolves to add Apache Tinkerpop support BUILD Microsoft has announced Cosmos DB, an evolution of its existing DocumentDB NoSQL database service, with new support for graph and key-value database types.…

Nanny State Index reveals just how hectored we are by modern-day Puritans The UK is the second least free country in the European Union, according to the latest Nanny State Index rankings from the European Policy Information Centre.…

At least while Intel glowers at us from the corner Analysis Dell EMC cannot say anything about the upcoming 14G server line because Intel has blasted it with non-disclosure agreements.…

Calling time on astroturf petitions Comment Some theoretical physicists have advanced the hypothesis that we may be living in a simulation, a kind of computer game. I wonder where they got that idea?…

Bad times for the state-owned bank The Royal Bank of Scotland is cutting 92 techies’ jobs in plans to outsource them to India, according to reports.…

But superannuation isn't flowing, dispute with Aus taxman unresolved Embattled payroll company Plutus Payroll will soon start paying ~1,000 contractors again after an almost-two-weeks hiatus.…

Attack loophole in Panda app sealed An Android anti-malware application from Panda Mobile Security has been updated after researchers discovered that an insecure update mechanism left users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.…

Chase for growth leaves investors cold Profit before tax at UK broadband provider TalkTalk climbed 17 per cent for the firm's full-year results, but revenue was down 3 per cent to £1.8bn compared with the previous year.…

Plus: Exec fashion no-nos, the big announcements, and another superhero flick

500,000 junk messages in a week paralysed Tutanota Secure email service Tutanota has built defences against newsletter bombs after becoming a victim itself.…

So what's up next then? HPC blog Just as Intel, the king of CPUs and the very bloodstream of computing announced that it is ending its Intel Development Forum (IDF) annual event, this week in San Jose, NVIDIA, the king of GPUs and the fuel of Artificial Intelligence is holding its biggest GPU Technology Conference (GTC) annual event yet. Coincidence? Nope.…

Well, outsourcing division sale would raise much-needed capital Analysis BT Global Services remains the problem child for the former state monopoly and something has got to give: sales generated by the division continue to go in the wrong direction (in part due to the decline in global outsourcing), bucking the upward swing across the wider group.…