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Meet's L337 feat brings heat An Arizona teen is facing three felony tampering charges after the cops said code he wrote to exploit an iOS security hole downed a 911 call center.…

We asked US watchdog to reveal formal gripes against Cupertino Exclusive Apple and its products prompted almost 500 complaints to the US Federal Trade Commission in the past 22 months – a number that suggests the iGiant has cut the rate at which consumers express dissatisfaction.…

The wages of sin include a Ferrari F430 The leader of a spamming gang that took over corporate servers and private email accounts to send out spam has pled guilty to charges of computer hacking and identity theft.…

Highway safety bods didn't warm to DIY auto auto. Funny that George "Geohot" Hotz is cancelling his Comma.ai self-driving car project after the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) threatened to fine him tens of thousands of dollars over safety concerns.…

Wait... That's more than sterling's devaluation Apple has taken advantage of a more competitive sterling exchange rate to hike its computer prices – by far more than sterling fell. Cupertino raised some UK prices by as much as £500.…

Most enthusiastic bankers are in London and the South East The UK's only NHS sperm bank has stopped recruiting donors after a trawl for men prepared to schlep to Birmingham to make a deposit turned up a mere handful.…

Say hello to more cash, drivers – and goodbye to your bottom line, Uber Two Uber drivers who had taken the taxi app to an employment tribunal successfully argued that UK minimum wage laws apply to Uber's British drivers, as part of a larger ongoing case against the company.…

Because it isn't necessarily storage IO at all Analysis The best IO is... no IO. Windows Server 2016 has code to supercharge data storage IO speed by not treating it as IO anymore.…

Exploit can halt attacks from IoT devices Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network.…

33-year-old Cardiff man faces trial next year over six terrorism charges A Cardiff man said to be a member of ISIS and who is alleged to have trained terrorists in the use of encryption will be put on trial in March.…

Take RN exercise Unmanned Warrior, add drone data and Esri's ArcGIS maps... The Royal Navy's Unmanned Warrior exercise, which concluded last week, was a good jolly for the various drones and other sensor-laden toys the RN wants to buy. Yet the real value is in the data processing, which is where mapping firm Esri came in.…

Learn how in Automic Webinar Promo As a Register reader you are no doubt aware of Gartner's "Hype Cycle", a useful snapshot to assess the maturity emerging technologies.…

She don't call, she don't write, wail worried midlands burghers The good burghers of Kettering have been left in a pre-Christmas tizzy as Lindsay Lohan appears to be on the brink of reneging on her promise to turn on the Northants powerhouse for Christmas.…

Somewhere a Lenovo engineer is crying over how your OS is accessing the SSD Following last month's criticisms, Lenovo has released a BIOS update for its Yoga 900 range of laptops, finally allowing them to support GNU/Linux installations.…

Customer service will go dead on Halloween... but will anyone notice? Up to 300 workers at Japanese IT godzilla Fujitsu are to strike over pay and pensions next week in Manchester.…

Chipzilla’s M.2 format SSD for data centre server reading use Intel has released a tiny, single-sided and heavily read-optimised SDD for server use in data centres.…

Who's it for? How much is it? Let us explain Is HP’s ambitious 3-in-one phablet replacement for PCs for you? Probably not for most of you, you may gather, but it does make for a fascinating proposition, and obvious sense for some workers wrestling with cumbersome old kit.…

Cautious distie sees revenues slip, losses climb Veteran distie Northamber almost introduced a note of cheeriness as it unveiled its full year results today. Almost. The firm still unveiled a slip in revenues, increasing losses compared to last year, and said profitability is probably at least a year away.…

Almost six times as many web page threats found this year compared to 2013 Malware threats in search results are getting worse despite the best efforts of Google and other vendors.…

Tanking stock sends market capitalisation below $15m limit The NYSE has suspended trading in Violin Memory shares and is delisting the stock because it has not maintained an average global market capitalisation of at least $15m over 30 consecutive trading days.…

Merci Dieu que je suis anglais, eh, vieux fruit? Something for the Weekend, Sir? I live in a bag-arse.…

'Powerful tool against' avoiders The European Commission has announced plans to overhaul corporate tax across the single market, including the introduction of a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB).…

Life as a tech entrepreneur Radbot Last time you said that a fair chunk of you have used crowdfunding to buy product.…

Which is nice, but they offer ambiguous clues about the mission's failure NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has sent home fresh snaps of debris from the European Space Agency's (ESA's) failed Schiaparelli lander, offering a few more hints about what went wrong.…

You can't duck and cover from AtomBombing Wonderful: a security researcher has found a way to abuse the system-level Atom Tables in Windows – all versions of Windows, through to Win 10.…

It sounded funny until the user suggested she throw water on an electrical fire On-Call Welcome to another instalment of On-Call, The Register's last-day-of-the-week look at all the fun of fixing stuff.…

Party like it's 1985 1955 2015 WHAT DATE IS IT ANYWAY? Back in January, Cisco dropped a bunch of NTP (network time protocol) patches; now, it's emerged that the research behind that round of fixes also turned up other bugs that haven't yet been fixed.…

One of two CelebGate hackers goes down, but uploader remains at large The 36 year-old hacker behind some of a massive public leak of private celebrity photos has been sentenced to 18 months prison.…

Privacy Shield no protection for user data, says Digital Rights Ireland An Irish privacy advocacy group has filed a legal challenge against the US-EU Privacy Shield data transfer framework, on grounds of its allegeldy lax privacy protections.…

Don't drink and drive and Snapchat while naked from the waist up. Especially near Police A young woman's attempt to take a topless selfie has ended up with a rear-end cop bonking.…

Coin.mx chap is headed for the slammer A Florida ex-school board member has pled guilty to making a false statement in relation to the running of an illegal bitcoin exchange.…

Sexual activity data included in leak of 550,000 folks who gave blood in Australia since 2010 Australia's Red Cross has admitted to a significant data breach that saw haveibeenpwned.com sent a file containing records on 550,000 blood donors. The source of the file, or just who has been able to access it, are not known.…

The W3C wants to hook your bluetooth s**t to Websites, because shiny Vendors including Google have spent a few years crafting an API they hope to push into browsers that will make this month's Internet of Things conflagrations pale by comparison.…

DNS saviour hosting mass hackathon this week Dan Kaminsky, chief scientist for the cybersecurity firm White Ops, reknowned for fixing flaws in the DNS system, has a new project push on and he's looking for coders to lend a hand.…

Also sky blue, oceans wet, Bezos rich Amazon Web Services continue to contribute handsomely to the bottom line of its parent company, as the cloud compute outfit saw sales top $3.2bn.…

Galaxy Note 7 disaster burns billions Samsung's global Galaxy Note 7 recall has already wiped out 96 per cent of its mobile division's profit margins, the company announced yesterday.…

Complaints abound as new limits placed on ISPs handling data The FCC has formally approved its new rules for internet service providers on the handling of customer data, and it seems few people on either side are particularly happy.…

Datto’s SIRIS 3 data protection platform includes what it claims is the industry’s first ramsomware detection capability.…

Who needs an escape key when you've got high-res emoji buttons? Apple confirmed Thursday that its new Macbook Pro line will feature a touchscreen display to replace function keys.…

Twitter takes axe to mobile app A day after announcing it was cutting 9 per cent of its staff, Twitter has added more woes to its workers by announcing it will be closing the Vine mobile app.…

Programmed for safety, automated vehicles promise slow going Self-driving cars get pitched as a way to reduce traffic fatalities, but safety may limit their appeal.…

The E3900 family doubles performance Intel has made a big play for the expanding internet-of-things market with an updated Atom processor that offers double the computing and three times the graphics performance.…

Chip designer chases self-driving car market as smartphone sales slow Chip designer Qualcomm has agreed to purchase Dutch rival NXP Semiconductors for $47bn.…

Paddles towards black ink pool wearing StorNext life belt Made it! Quantum is back in profit after five loss-making quarters.…

Good news if you're Chinese, though Samsung already had plenty to worry about before its flagship phone started exploding.…

Foundation chiefs betting on tech firms' appetites to prove interoperability Openstack Summit Don't expect future implementations of OpenStack without vendors first having cleared a new battery of emerging conformity tests.…

LOL! You can totes sign in here Cybercrooks are posing as customer support staff from UK banks in a ruse designed to hoodwink gullible customers out of their credentials.…

It's technically impossible to do what you want, Skype said Belgium has fined Skype €30,000 for failing to comply with a court request to intercept users' communications, something Skype claims was technically impossible at the time of the request.…

So much for breaking up the SIs then The Home Office has extended its mega Fujitsu contract to 2018, meaning that when the contract ends it will have been running for the best part of two decades.…

Microblogging network operating at a loss of $78m Twitter today confirmed recent press reports that it is reducing headcount by 9 per cent – about 350 people – in an attempt to become profitable in 2017.…