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Make sure you reboot your box the right way Microsoft has sneaked out a patch to get Windows 10 PCs back online after an earlier update broke networking for people's computers around the globe.…

DNC figure John Podesta told to follow phishing link, instead of link to enable 2FA A single typo from a Clinton campaign aide gave Russian hackers access to a decade's worth of emails, some 60,000 in total, owned by Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.…

Job ad says software is lousy at this task and it needs a human to do the job! London language translation firm Today Translations has advertised for an TEXT “Emoji translator/specialist.”…

Current BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp to hang around on the board BMC Software has a new CEO: Peter Leav has won the role, and that of president, after leaving Polycom where he had the same two titles for the past three years.…

Why Veeam's new backup agent for Linux, of course! Veeam has given the world a Linux Backup Agent.…

It'll be virtual, natch, but so is the rest of your bit barn – in a bad way Israeli outfit Stratoscale has updated its Symphony suite so it can effectively become an on-premises Amazon Web Services (AWS) region.…

In limited quantities, some time next week. So don't bank on getting them under a tree Apple has finally put its Air Pod wireless headphones on sale.…

While Trump recruits Mickey Mouse CEO to advise on growing US jobs Thirty former IT staffers at Disney, who were replaced by foreign H-1B recruits, are now suing their ex-employer for alleged racial discrimination.…

All the single ladies... your ex-techbro boyfriends may have snooped on you, too A former Uber staffer claims the amateur taxi app maker routinely pried into customer records to spy on people, including celebrity riders and ex-partners of employees.…

Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe all have fixes galore to test and install Security patches for Windows, macOS, iOS and other Apple firmware, and a host of Adobe products, were emitted this week.…

Comms Minister puts a price on your head: a lousy AU$1.25 Australia's communications minister Mitch Fifield has put a price on Australian Reg readers' heads: a lousy dollar and twenty five cents.…

Or smut in South Dakota, Anarchist Cookbook in Alabama or Windows 10 in Wyoming Online retailers in America will soon be required by law to disclose to state governments what purchases their customers – meaning, you – have made.…

Flash for free or pick up a Nexus that's ready to roll Antipodeans can now buy secure, if pricey, Nexus 5x and 6P phones running the lauded hardened Android operating system dubbed "Copperhead".…

NSA whistleblower is trying not to let extradition possibility worry him NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned Donald Trump, as US President, may do a deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to extradite the whistleblower.…

And Brillo becomes Android Things Google has expanded its corporate grip over smart home company Nest, announcing that it will fold the company's developer platform into its own.…

CEO Brendan Iribe steps down from the top – was he pushed or did he jump? Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus is splitting in two, with one arm working on its Rift standalone high-end headset and the other focused on its Gear VR cellphone headset.…

Now, each of you, take this check for $95 and get the hell out of my sight A California court has ruled in favor of Apple Store workers who accused the iPhone giant of trampling over their employment rights. It is a bittersweet victory.…

We don't like to brag or anything, mumbles IT giant Analysis NEC has the biggest, baddest scale-out deduping backup-to-disk array on the planet and we virtually never hear about it. NEC is not a top-six purpose-built backup supplier, according to IDC, being neither a unit ship or revenue leader.…

Growth priority causes delayed cash flow break-even gratification Cloud storage gateway and enterprise file services startup Nasuni has had a funding round to grow its business further expansion in Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, meaning expansion outside North America.…

Multi-touch screen claims Microsoft has released highly selective figures on sales of the Surface Hub, its Windows-10 powered multi-touch whiteboarding wall.…

Alleges patent infringements by ... hang on, they work together? Having had its patent infringement lawsuits against Veeam seen off by the US courts, Symantec has now filed an IP infringement lawsuit against cloud-based security outfit ZScaler.…

Clean tech on the list Bill Gates is leading a $1bn climate-change venture with a roll-call of tech’s biggest names.…

Unnamed teen also gets rehabilitation order The 17-year-old lad who confessed to hacking crimes against UK ISP TalkTalk was today slapped with a 12-month rehabilitation order and had his iPhone confiscated.…

Setback follows Falcon 9 explosion Elon Musk's SpaceX has delayed the first manned launch of its Dragon capsule intended to carry astronauts into orbit by one year.…

Hole in retirement pot widens to £35m, remains 'fly in ointment' for investors Staff at cost cutting education tech supplier RM discovered today the deficit in the company pension pot has widened substantially.…

We can't give you what you need right now... Broadband-pusher 186k – as well as ISPs it supplies including Fast.co.uk and Firenet – is advising customers to seek other providers as it is unable to "continue to supply" its current service, in a notice sent to customers today seen by The Register.…

UK, Germany, Greece and others rapped for not acting on evidence The European Commission has begun legal action against seven member states over emissions cheating in the "dieselgate" scandal.…

What is it 741 people do exactly? The government's procurement arm, the Crown Commercial Service, has failed to save UK taxpayers' cash - according to the National Audit office.…

Supergrass Samsung walks free The great battery scam has reached a milestone in Europe. The European Commission this week imposed a settlement fine of €166m on a trio of Japanese manufacturers for operating the price-fixing cartel.…

Restructuring could be over by end of Feb next year Violin Memory has cut its CEO’s base salary from from $750,000 to $150,000 a year – although it's just for three months.…

Tech efficiency threatens to clobber old timers Analysis Squeezed between the giant pressures of hyper-convergence, the public cloud, object storage and software-defined/cheap commodity hardware, the old guard storage suppliers face shrinkage into shadows of their former dominant selves.…

Embarrassed Redmond keeps mum on how it managed to break DHCP With more and more Windows 10 users losing internet and network connectivity – thanks to a dodgy software update that broke DHCP – you'd have thought Redmond would be on the ball with a cunning fix. Sadly not: the only official advice is to go away and reboot your PC.…

A great camera let down by buggy software Review It's still not clear to this reviewer why people would want cameras in their home. Or even outside their home.…

Run Bash on Windows and perform other feats of command line magic Zeit, a San Francisco-based software startup, has released the 1.0 version of Hyper, a terminal emulator written in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Why? Well, why not?…

Sammy can't stand out from the crowd because of non-compete pact A provision in Samsung's 2014 patent-sharing settlement with Google could hurt the South Korean electronics giant's efforts to rebound from the Note 7 recall.…

Cloud concern ITIL-ises the big end of town, so created a service to get them moving Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced it's getting in to the managed services business.…

Can someone tell The Donald it 'fessed up ASAP and cancelled support contracts? Dell has admitted it violated United States sanctions against Iran.…

Sources tell of 10-hour data wiping disaster recovery plan after unique collapse The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has confirmed its more than two-day outage which has still downed customer-facing sites and systems was caused by the failure of new HPE 3Par storage units.…

Soundtrack choices: Beta The Devil You Know, or How Soon Is Now? VMware's quietly started asking for beta testers for its Cloud Foundation running on its own cloud, vCloud Air.…

API magic, that's what, with a little help from Comtrade Comtrade Software has introduced management packs for Nutanix that allow owners of the hyperconverged kit to manage it with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).…

Snuffing OpenStack cloud means it's all hybrid cloud and network function virtualisation from now on at Switchzilla Cisco will turn off its Intercloud Services (CIS) public cloud next year, The Register understands.…

This one ticks all the boxes: Runs as root ✔ Claims security ✔ Unpopular product with few updates ✔ McAfee has taken six months to patch 10 critical vulnerabilities in its VirusScan Enterprise Linux client. And these were nasty bugs as when chained they resulted remote code execution as root.…

Can any of ye scurvy dogs find 33 votes, asks increasingly frustrated president Iceland's Pirate Party (Píratar) has sailed away from an attempt to form a government for the nation.…

And seemingly some very odd stock movement before tweet sent The power of the president elect to shake things up was amply demonstrated on Monday morning – when a single tweet knocked more than $2bn off the valuation of Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F‑35 fighter jet.…

Command-injection hole can only be closed by killing web server – or the whole thing Owners of three models of Netgear routers are being advised to exploit a security hole in their broadband boxes to, er, temporarily close said hole. The alternative is to switch off the boxes until a firmware update lands.…

Government wants $7/month levy on broadband to fund loss-making services in the bush Australia's government has floated the idea that operators of broadband networks should pay a monthly levy to fund the National Broadband Network's loss-making wireless and satellite operations in remote areas.…

Blokes are worse at playing while listening to heavy metal Chaps, listen. Are you sick of losing at Monopoly every Christmas? Do you dread the sight of backgammon or the sound of rattling Scrabble tiles? The trick to winning board games could be to avoid listening to rock music, apparently.…

US senators demand top probe before Electoral College vote President-elect Donald Trump has dismissed a report by the CIA claiming that there is proof that Russian government hackers smoothed his route to the White House.…

So that's how Game of War can afford her A California chap says he blew $1m in money stolen from his employer on Game of War, a freemium phone game fronted by swimsuit model Kate Upton.…

Tectonic software shifts to free for up to 10 nodes CoreOS, maker of a minimalist version of Linux and software for containers, has made Tectonic, its Kubernetes management application, capable of automatically updating K8s clusters.…