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Brit on bail for nearly a decade hopes crim case will be binned The UK's communications watchdog Ofcom has overturned its ban on the use of GSM gateways (COMUGs) for overseas phone calls – leaving one of the longest prosecutions in modern English legal history hanging in the balance.…

Rejects SK Hynix partnership Court documents filed by WD in response to Toshiba claims show that it has made six bids to acquire Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC), the spun-out Toshiba NAND memory business.…

Ripping teens leave the file sharing to Sad Old Dads Fathers can now add "file sharing" to the list of things they do to embarrass their teenage children - alongside dancing badly in public.…

Claims 3D XPoint headed for niche use as 3D NAND storms ahead Intel's Optane 3D XPoint drives could be doomed to fail in the mass market because their performance and endurance advantages over 3D NAND SSDs are "nominal".…

Don't boil the ocean Artificial intelligence isn't going away. Even if the hype abates its presence will have succeeded in raising awareness of a smorgasbord of interlinking concepts, technologies and ideas – neural networks and machine learning, cognitive intelligence, recommendation engines, big data, statistics and analysis – that together let computers and software do more of the thinking and acting for us.…

Complaint lodged with Judicial Conduct Investigations Office Concerns have been raised over a judge's use of his personal email address to send out a ruling in a family court case, which contained sensitive personal information.…

Once the tap turns on again, GPUs will restore PCs and edge computing to glory Last month, one of my friends noted he’d been having enormous trouble trying to buy the components to assemble a virtual-reality-ready PC. Motherboards, memory, CPUs and solid state drives were easy to find, but the one absolutely essential component - a beefy GPU to drive a head-mounted display at a vomit-preventing 90 Hz - he couldn’t find anywhere. Every online vendor seemed to be out of stock, with long waiting times and stern warnings restricting purchases to ‘ONLY TWO PER HOUSEHOLD’. Why would anyone need two graphics cards? One for each eye?…

Scott Guthrie talks to The Reg about Azure Stack and the changing developer platform Exclusive Microsoft’s investment in cloud services is also improving its on-premises software, claims Azure and SQL Server boss Scott Guthrie.…

Seminal time-sharing OS needs emulator for ancient Honeywell DPS8M CPU Seminal time-sharing OS Multics - the Multiplexed Information and Computing Service - has been resurrected in a new simulator.…

17 annual pricing tiers – that's not a typo – now on offer Fresh from encouraging users to buy bundles of its stuff, Atlassian is changing the way it charges for cloudy versions of its software and says the result will be that “the majority of customers will receive an increase in their bill” of about US$2/month/user for JIRA and Confluence products.…

Mobile base stations have compute. These APIs will let you tap it The European Telecommunications Standards Institute has unveiled the first APIs created under its Multi-Access Edge Computing project.…

Four times as massive as a proton, a way to check out the strong nuclear force What happens if you get two charm quarks together in one baryon? Something four times as heavy as a proton that can help the world understand the strong nuclear force, according to boffins at the Large Hadron Collider.…

Open source is only for two-thirds of a life, says veteran Open source luminary Roland McGrath has decided “enough is enough” – after 30 years on the GNU compiler library project.…

Goes from #MAGA to 'can't happen' in eight tweets Trump winds back idea to create 'impenetrable Cyber Security unit' with Russia Goes from #MAGA to 'can't happen' in eight tweets and thirteen hours US president Donald Trump has revealed that he and Russian opposite number Vladimir Putin discussed creation of a joint “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” at the G20 Leaders summit, but then displayed Modern Presidential behaviour by quickly dismissing the chances of the unit ever materialising.…

Insider with a login, rather than an outsider with a hack, seems culprit for darkweb privacy panic It looks like the government's figured out how Australians' Medicare numbers were leaking and ending up on a Tor trading site: an insider abusing a login.…

Signups remain at <50%, revenue isn't right and don't forget Turnbull promised we'd all be connected in 2016 nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has announced it's passed the half-way point of its mission to re-wire the nation.…

Avanti Markets 'fesses up to cafeteria heist A US payment kiosk vendor has been stung by malware scum.…

Loews Hotels also added to data leak list Two more hotel chains are warning customers they were caught by the breach of Sabre's "SynXis" hotel booking service that emerged earlier this year.…

What's really going on in battle to block sale of top-level address Comment The Slovakian internet community is pressuring its government to block the sale of the country's .sk internet registry, asking for it to "be returned to the people of Slovakia."…

We're so sorry, says Brit biz's supremo after website leaked people's personal info UK car insurance and driving school giant The AA has at last admitted it accidentally spilled its customers' personal information all over the web.…

Settle this like the illogical humans you are – vote on which is best Poll A bloke was arrested after a shouting match with a pal over Star Wars versus Star Trek led to blood being spilled.…

Substandard certs, already in partial exile, soon to be shunned completely Google in two months will conclude its prolonged excommunication of misbehaving SSL/TLS certificate authorities WoSign and subsidiary StartCom, a punishment announced last October.…

Theft of trade secrets allegations will be the focus in self-driving car case Waymo has dropped three of the patent claims it had been pursuing against Uber and will instead focus on nailing the taxi app maker for trade secret theft.…

Anti-piracy DRM gets the green light, for now Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, director of the web standards trendsetter W3C, and Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire, has given his blessing to anti-piracy locks on web content.…

Old-skool addresses worth about $400,000 at auction Collapsed retail store RadioShack will auction off its public IPv4 addresses as part of its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.…

Top US soap-opera joins long list of orgs leaving stuff open on cloud storage World Wrestling Entertainment – the home of America's top costumed pantomime actors – has admitted that it exposed members online for anyone to see.…

Fitness band maker jogs off into the sunset for good Gizmo maker Jawbone is shutting down operations and will liquidate its assets.…

Didn't talk to organizers, don't have any plans yet Hark, ye internet peasants. Google and Facebook today trumpeted that they will join the day of protest against efforts to kill off America's net neutrality rules.…

£8m facility to help government identify and fix weaknesses The UK has kicked off development of an £8m data analytics facility for national infrastructure systems like energy and water.…

Miscreants rake in $1.5m, one annoying mobile pop-up ad at a time... A powerful and fast-spreading Android malware strain dubbed CopyCat has infected 14 million Android devices.…

That sort of lolly could buy you 15 million Soleros Oracle head honcho Mark Hurd has sold 350,000 shares in his company for a cool $17.4m.…

Borough councils hit due to a 'fibre break' A London-wide Virgin Media outage caused by a "fibre break" has left business customers across the UK capital without broadband - including a number of borough councils.…

Part of £700m investment pot that will also go on 'full fibre' The UK government has handed £16m to King's College London and the Universities of Surrey and Bristol to test 5G technology.…

Roving reporter returns from test track in deepest Baden-Württemberg Pictures Autonomous cars, what's not to like? According to their proponents, they will herald an accident, traffic and generally hassle-free age of transportation.…

Lack of patches and enabling local admin rights blamed The huge cyber attack that swept from Ukraine last week is still affecting companies, and several have been hit pretty hard, including the world's largest advertising business, UK-based WPP.…

Quantum dots show promise for fighting bacterial keratitis In early lab experiments on rabbits, eyedrops laced with nanoparticles appear to combat bacterial keratitis, a serious infection of the cornea which can, in severe cases, cause blindness.…

Closes London and NYC offices in pursuit of profits Online audio distribution platform SoundCloud is laying off two in five of its staff and closing several offices to cut its cloth in a crowded market dominated by music streaming giants.…

Will extend IT contracts a bit, but winnow 25-supplier plan The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) is the latest UK government body to beg for "just one more hit" with its system integrators, prolonging its IBM and Capgemini contracts by one year.…

How long have you been having these delusions? Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Tell me about your mother."…

It's snowing at 3AM. Servers are dying by the dozen. So our reader went outside and climbed a ladder to fix things up ON-CALL Why look at that: the calendar says “Friday” which means it's time for another edition of On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we relate readers' recollections of being called out to fix nasty things under nastier circumstances.…

Sixty rare possible candidates eyed from NASA's Kepler probe Astronomers have uncovered a potential treasure trove of hot Jupiters, a rare class of exoplanet, in our galaxy.…

Stuxnet, this ain't Don't panic, but attackers are trying to phish their way into machines in various US power facilities, including nuclear power station operators.…

Who thought SMBv1 was a good idea? Come on, fess up Perhaps noticing the popularity of Samba apps for Android, Google's decided to plant its own flag in the space, and yesterday released its official Android Samba Client.…

Paused awaiting new taxi laws Uber has given in to regulatory pressure in Finland, and is suspending its UberPOP until that country implements limited taxi deregulation next year.…

Broadcom chipsets, who uses those? Oh, practically everyone Google's latest Android security update has landed, and at least one of the bugs it patches is a treat: since it's related to Broadcom chipsets, it will reach far beyond the Android ecosystem.…

When the good guys use backdoors, they're not backdoors, understand? Australia’s federal government has shifted its ground on the encryption debate, and is now working to hem in the debate by constraining the definition of “backdoor”.…

Data from 100,000 workloads analysed to help you tune storage, instead of fighting fires Promo Good storage administrators are hard to find. Not only are skilled professionals in short supply, most organisations prefer multi-talented techies who can do more than just manually managing arrays…

Plus: Waymo? Way no! Levandowski swerves doc demand in trade secrets trial Taxi app turned lawsuit magnet Uber last week was sued by Donna Giacomaro, a resident of Levittown, New York, for text message harassment, in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and New York state law.…

Licensing dispute explodes into all-out patent war with Apple Qualcomm is upping the stakes in its legal war against Apple by accusing the Cupertino idiot-tax operation of infringing six patents.…

Tweet a GIF about that, Donald Chinese boffins say they have smashed yet another world fusion record using their EAST contraption – aka the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak.…