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Demand that bigots resign was really a call for tolerance, food delivery upstart CEO insists Following the election of Donald Trump, Matt Maloney, CEO of food delivery service Grubhub, sent a message to employees decrying Trump's behavior and warning that similar behavior from employees would not be tolerated.…

Column makes case for holding social media giants to account The UK's Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has fired another warning shot at Facebook over its paused plans to share data with WhatsApp, writing a newspaper column in which she outlines her concerns.…

So you won’t be able to, you know, mock Mariano Rajoy like this… Pics Spain's ruling Popular Party has proposed banning internet memes. No word of a lie.…

Mmmm, soft, tactile, sensuous fabric… wait, why is your head on fire? Google's new Daydream View VR is knocking out users' phones. Early adopters using the headset with Google's new Pixel phones have told El Reg that the phone shuts down within minutes because of thermal issues.…

Three straight quarters of bottom line swelling. Looks and smells like a recovery. Sort of 2016 will forever be remembered for the Brexit vote, the Donald's presidential victory and maybe, just maybe, the year that Acer's bottom line recovery started in earnest. OK, the last one is a long shot.…

Fluffy tree-dwellers carry ancient disease, say boffins Blighty's dwindling population of red squirrels is riddled with leprosy, according to new research.…

IDTechX report takes a swipe at other analysts' 'hype bubble' The Internet of Things is mostly a hype bubble, with real-world spending and deployments being just a fraction of their predicted level, according to a report by analysts IDTechEx.…

Embedded bugs are hard to catch Radbot Every company has its ups and downs. Those downs could be exploding phones or a sudden unmovable overstock of Clinton merchandise (or conversely an uptick in Trump-the-statesman t-shirt demand). Bigger organisations can better absorb the illness of a member of staff or a surge in demand beyond all expectations, although no one is totally immune.…

Senior economic adviser to president-elect says rate to be cut to 15-20 per cent Despite plans by president-elect Donald Trump to repatriate American multinationals' funds, Ireland's corporate tax advantage over the US is likely to persist.…

GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 offer 'alternative to university' GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 are searching for would-be Qs, technically minded apprentices keen to cut their teeth working for British intelligence. Would-be tech quartermasters have until 14 November to get in their security service apprenticeship applications for this year's scheme.…

Following a proven and successful model... er, hang on London's Metropolitan Police is set to copy the UK government's cockup-ridden digital services framework by developing its own, according to a contract published, for some reason, on the Welsh government website.…

But no formal announcement on wedding "No comment" is what SimpliVity usually says to questions about a rumoured takeover by HPE (it's what HPE says too).…

IoT blamed. Again. At least five Russian banks weathered days-long DDoS attacks this week.…

Chinese teams kill Safari, laugh at four-second Flash hack Power of Community The Google Pixel fell to a team of Chinese hackers alongside Apple Safari and Adobe Flash at the PwnFest hacking competition in Seoul on Friday.…

And, allegedly, he was only harassing bloody lawyers too The managing director of software firm Gravy Solutions represented himself at a case management hearing on Thursday morning, where he stands accused of harassing staff members of solicitors' firm Kemp Little.…

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No chance of making people on the web less horrible, though Chrome Dev Summit At SFJazz – the first freestanding jazz arts center in the US – on Thursday in San Francisco, Google riffed on the virtues of Progressive Web Apps as a vehicle for efficient and engaging content delivery.…

Just imagine if virgins came flat-packed too Something for the Weekend, Sir? This week, I have been worried about getting it to stand up.…

PostIt notes down for the big communications face-off The early days of the internet provided ways to chat, bicker and "collaborate" with others in the world, and decades later we're still working on making that experience better.…

Tech bosses endorse thin clients, throw hands in the air over millennials Register Roundtable Sometimes technology visions bubble along under the radar, quite often scorned then, following a change of name or emphasis, ubiquitous. Utility computing became the cloud, and we know how that’s taken off. Groupware became collaboration. Thin clients have morphed into VDI, and… Well, seems like a good time to get a bunch of CIOs together and thrash out just what’s going on here.…

Cyber-crooner tries to prove code can be creative too Feature AI are often seen as cold, calculating machines, devoid of any warmth or humanity. One way to make AI more relatable and human-like could be encouraging them to take part in human activities like making music.…

Ad monster whines to EC about antitrust probe into Android Google has responded to the European Commission's complaint that it is abusing its market power with the Android mobile phone operating system by griping that Microsoft and Apple are worse.…

AI will improve UK government's digital services, apparently The UK government is looking at ways to revamp its digital services with the help of machine learning and AI, according to a new report released by the Government Office for Science.…

Korean chap finds flaws in moments, scores $100k apiece for fun Power of Community If Jung Hoon Lee is not the world's best hacker, he can't be far from the top of the dais: the 22 year-old South Korean better known as Lokihardt has an uncanny knack for finding zero-day exploits in the world's most popular and most secure systems.…

Off-the-shelf service absorbs improbable quantity of our cash A webpage form on the UK Ministry of Defence’s GEMS employee suggestion website cost taxpayers nearly £280,000.…

And ship the engines to Turkey for overhauls and upgrades Britain will have to send its supersonic F-35 fighter jets to Italy for heavy overhauls, the UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed to The Register.…

Four-hour round trips averted by just pretending email had reached its destination On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our week-ending wander through readers' tales of horrible problems they've been asked to fix at horrible times.…

LinkedIn says regulator sent letter to the wrong office Russia looks to be on the verge of blocking access to LinkedIn because it claims the site isn't complying with its law requiring Russians' personal data to be stored on Russian soil.…

Redmond's new security bulletin feed aims to stop cut and paste data dredging Microsoft's replaced its eyeball-friendly Security Bulletins page with a new Security Updates Guide that pipes out machine-readable bug data over a RESTful interface.…

We know, we know, we didn't predict this one, either Comment As we reported today, Mellanox announced today it has broken through the 200Gb/sec barrier. We're told it will ship an end-to-end 200Gb/s interconnect solution in the first half of 2017.…

One title was known to have been bought by suspect in murder of MP Jo Cox Prominent British bookseller W H Smith voluntarily shut its website for emergency "maintenance" last night after being warned by The Register that it was selling a a range of DIY terror manuals – such as the Improvised Munitions Handbook that offer procedures for making bombs and explosive booby-traps.…

Russians – of course – blamed With half of America celebrating the victory of the Republicans and President-elect Trump, and the other half mourning the result, a targeted phishing campaign engulfed various US think tanks and NGOs the week.…

Make America INT8 again Nvidia continued its run of solid financials Thursday by turning in a $2bn quarter.…

Someone's definitely looking for a new job, ironically Global recruitment giant PageGroup says a hacker infiltrated its network and accessed job applicants' personal information.…

Ingest billions of records per minute with no indigestion HPC blog Kinetica presented its in-memory database solution at the recent OpenPOWER European Summit in Barcelona, and served up some benchmark results. You can see the entire presentation in the video below, but here are a few highlights.…

The best apps will come from America, using Amazon, which will be paying all that tax Amazon Web Services is rolling out new Mobile Hub features aimed at simplifying the development of secure mobile apps.…

And Viacom's gonna pay for it! Sony is set to axe a handful of popular TV networks from the PlayStation Vue streaming service.…

Move over Brexit, this is Calexit With protests against Donald Trump's US presidential election victory turning violent in California, a group of venture capitalists from Silicon Valley are funding an initiative to allow the Golden State to cede from the US.…

Commerce pact became a political football – but was it really that bad? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is almost certainly dead. Or at least America's role in it is.…

So great, offload as much as possible from CPUs, the greatest interconnect ever InfiniBand will go from 100Gbps to 200Gbps next year – and The Register spoke to Mellanox's marketing veep Gilad Shainer to find out what to expect.…

A gentle guide to where we're at with AI Comment Remember that kid in middle school who was deeply into Dungeons & Dragons, and hadn't seen his growth spurt yet? Machine learning is sort of like that kid – deep, wide, and short – and not so tall.…

Big Blue starts making performance promises HPC blog Rani Borkar, IBM’s vice president of OpenPOWER development, gave attendees at the OpenPOWER Foundation Summit in Barcelona at the end of October a sneak peek at the vendor's upcoming Power9 processor. I captured it on video (see below) to show you what to expect.…

British low tech finds the places high tech can't reach Low tech sometimes succeeds where high tech fails – as one ingenious company is proving.…

Usernames, emails, and IP addresses may have been exposed A news and comment website for Democratic voters fears data loss after an attack it blames on pro-Trump hacker trolls.…

IT bungler takes scalpel to org chart, cuts out layer of middle management Those caring souls at Capita have inevitably taken the knife to the business, cutting out an entire layer of management and slicing and dicing the divisional structure, six weeks after its first ever profit warning.…

Big Water boys take on Big Data Backgrounder We introduced Iguazio in September. Assembled hacks were given a deep dive into the company at its Herzliya, Israel HQ this week.…

SEC filling reveals internal knowledge of hack years before 'fessing to it Yahoo! knew it had been compromised by a state-sponsored hackers in 2014 despite not publicly disclosing this crucial information until 2016.…

Very British regulator sends a lot of very stern letters The Information Commissioner's Office has penned and sent more than 400 letters to online gambling businesses it believes are using personal data to promote their websites.…

The Sub1 spots fastest solution then uses six motors to spin columns A robot has reportedly broken the world record for solving a Rubik's Cube in the shortest time – the third occasion this year it has fallen.…

All fun and games till the shutters come down This Damn War Fire alarm tests are a good idea; you generally want the warm feeling that when something decides to combust, you'll be able to tell people about it with a loud ringing or wailing noise.…