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Seeks passporting clarity A UK fin-tech startup will seek regulation in Ireland if the government doesn’t preserve financial services passporting rights in its EU exit talks.…

How not to throw the baby out with the bathwater If you're considering doing a relaunch, a "reboot", or a revamp of any kind, there's a lot to learn from the story of the Mini.…

And fly it at more than 16 times the legally permitted height, we're told Rich fools who like remote control toys can now splurge £20,000 buying a gold-plated DJI Phantom quadcopter, we are breathlessly told.…

Glitzy gadgets begin to lose their appeal Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'd like you to consider my underwear.…

Firm's sure to use its sports lure to bring in the punters At the announcement of its results this week, Sky said that it was planning MVNO services based on the O2 network, which is run in the UK by Telefonica. Faultline has been forecasting a move by Sky into cellular for the past four years and is surprised that it has taken this long for the move to emerge.…

Can you rattle the tin for marketing? Really? Radbot Our quiz on startup branding revealed that a worrying number of you are not to be trusted with a hot iron - branding, soldering, or even wool setting, it seems.…

And he needed rather obscure controllers to get anything working again On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday frolic through readers' memories of jobs gone bad.…

Zen biz's only hope is to avoid Chipzilla's wrath, it seems On Tuesday, Intel said it expects to bank in the final quarter of the year $15.7bn in sales, plus or minus $500m. That's a billion-dollar swing.…

In the future code is going to be managed and deployed by other code Special report In an episode of Seinfeld from 1996, George is shocked when he discovers his former boss, Mr Wilhelm, has joined a cult, the Sunshine Carpet Cleaners.…

Viewing big initiatives as tech projects not helpful, say Brunel researchers Efforts by the previous UK government to rein in lavish Whitehall technology spending caused more harm than good in some instances.…

For a while there your Slack account could be hijacked with just a username Hipster collaboration platform Slack has shuttered an access control bypass that allowed users to hijack any account.…

VMware's also trying to stop Dennis Nedry in vSphere 6.5, but both trail the NSA and Xen Virtual machine security is suddenly a hot spot: VMware's building a new product for it and has added new bits to vSphere 6.5 to enhance it. And Microsoft thinks it has found a new way to secure VMs.…

Get your patching done, people, this Font-borne bug is being actively exploited Kaspersky Labs researcher Anton Ivanov says an advanced threat group was exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability before Microsoft patched it last week.…

Skeleton suggests beast as long as a London bus Australian paleo-boffins have revealed two new dinosaurs, Savannasaurus elliottorum and Diamantinasaurus matildae.…

Email pests seek clean machines for better hit rates. Malware authors are consulting IP blacklists designed to help fight spam in a bid to avoid detection and increase inbox hit rates.…

Big Blue claims ISP allowed DDoS. ISP says IBM rejected DDoS advice and services IBM has blamed a supplier for causing the failure of Australia's online census, which went offline on the very night millions of households were required to describe their disposition.…

Widespread flaw can be easily exploited to hijack PCs, servers, gizmos, phones Code dive Patch your Linux-powered systems, phones and gadgets as soon as possible, if you can, to kill off a kernel-level flaw affecting nearly every distro of the open-source operating system.…

Prolific malware murderer bags Mountain View's Security, Privacy and Anti-Abuse award Anti-malware machine and head of the Shellphish DARPA Grand Challenge bronze-medallist team has won US$100,000 from Google for security research efforts.…

43m credentials lifted, plus 58m more at Modern Business Solutions and 22m from FourSquare Another day, another three major breaches: this time at do it yourself web site builder “Weebly”, which has been revealed as secured feebly, as were FourSquare and Modern Business Solutions.…

It's the cloud economy, stupid Microsoft's first-quarter results for its 2017 fiscal year reveal a four per cent year-on-year fall in profit and 10 per cent dive in operating income.…

Lawyers now working to decide how much to knock off the Purple Palace offer US telecom giant Verizon says it has formally begun talks with Yahoo! on adjusting the terms of their merger.…

It wasn't us, gov! Hitachi Payment Services denies its ATMs were pwned A suspected security breach has led banks in India to warn 3.25 million customers to replace their debit cards or change the PINs.…

It's not the boardroom that needs a change, it's the classroom Women are still losing ground in the computer science and IT fields, despite corporate pledges to improve gender diversity in their ranks.…

NASty: Gen-two gear will add transactional file operations on block base Analysis XtremIO's rush to revenue glory is going to get accelerated with coming file data services added to its block base.…

Most targets were individuals with Gmail addresses Security researchers have shone fresh light on the allegedly Russian state-sponsored hacking crew blamed for ransacking the US Democratic National Committee's computers.…

Magnetic tech gives 14-foot-long tube a tiny lift A team of students from the University of Cincinnati has passed through to the final round of Elon Musk's Hyperloop challenge by demonstrating the magnetic levitation of hover engines.…

Your donation is insufficient. Please buy again Apple is silently stiffing customers who don't spend enough on the latest iPhones.…

Branch buffer shortcoming allows hackers to reliably install malware on systems US researchers have pinpointed a vulnerability in Intel chips – and possibly other processor families – that clears the way for circumventing a popular operating-system-level security control.…

Chipzilla market share WAS overstated, claims Advocate General An EU High Court Advocate General has recommended a review of the case that saw Intel slapped with a record fine after it was found to have coerced OEMs to avoid using rival companies' x86 CPUs.…

Half the population to be diagnosed by chatbots by 2025 As chatbot technology advances it will no longer be necessary to book an appointment to see a doctor as the whole meeting can all be done with the help of virtual personal health assistants, according to Gartner.…

Fast follower meets fast reacter Comment Dell and EMC are culturally separated by their different approaches to product development, to servers in Dell and storage in EMC. In the combined house, what will be the effect?…

OK, a bunch of uniformed lawyers had a thinly-disguised knees-up An earth-shaking blow has been struck in the never-ending battle to get Britain’s F-35 fighter jets and the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers to sea: Whitehall has asked the Americans for legal help.…

Nobody's really impressed, but take a look at the long term Vodafone has announced it will start rolling out its narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) focused network in four EU countries from the start of next year – and folk across industry are rolling their eyes.…

Tax or warfare? Right, where do I collect my rifle... A militant vegan has succeeded in forcing himself into the Swiss Army – and avoided paying extra tax as a result.…

We're the 'perennial price leader' in cloud. See that, AWS? We said it Gobbling data via S3 is what helped make AWS what it is - the world’s single biggest provider of public cloud.…

Craft feared lost as scientists scramble to recover data The status of the Schiaparelli probe remains uncertain, leaving scientists at the European Space Agency baffled after the lander’s signal cut out unexpectedly.…

Silence falls Fujitsu slashed the vocal chords of its UK employee consultation committee before it confirmed to personnel that mass redundancies were to take place, El Reg can reveal.…

Peak Blockchain. Just stop Poll The music industry has been a petri dish for some fairly atrocious digital ideas, but few can be as desperate as Blockchain.…

Accusations fly of vendors hijacking standards for their own purposes Analysis The US operators have ended their long love affair with sub-1 GHz spectrum, which was so important to their LTE coverage roll-outs, and are leading the world in harnessing high frequency bands to address the challenge of the expected capacity demands of the 5G era.…

Doesn't seem to've killed its appetite for acquisition UK-based infosec outfit NCC Group has weathered a tricky summer period that involved some contract deferrals and cancellations while still managing to post a profit.…

Property? Arrrr... no The CJEU has affirmed personal property rights over dynamically allocated IP addresses, a move which brings European data protection laws into play.…

Praises May for indicating date on Article 50 trigger Further uncertainty over Brexit could hamper Virgin Media's ability to get more broadband investment from its parent company Liberty Global, chief exec Tom Mockridge has warned.…

What do you do? Use manual typwriters or live in a Scottish croft? Our man advises Comment As production and usage of data keeps growing globally, it’s worth remembering that the US government wants access to your information and will use warrants, decryption or hacking to get to it.…

16k surviving 'ex-cons' punished for their sexuality will have to file paperwork The government is set to extend the posthumous pardon given to Alan Turing for gross indecency to all of those men who were convicted for homosexual acts under legislation which has since been repealed.…

Mass enterprise performance array migration has started Comment The use of disk drives to store performance data for enterprises is declining and, flash drives - SSDs - are taking their place. A wave of all-flash array (AFA) to disk array migration is starting to wash across data centres as generations of disk drive arrays give way to ones built with NAND flash drives. The tipping point has arrived.…

BT already has a subsidy for telephony, says representative body for councils Customers unable to afford speeds of 10mbps under the Universal Service Obligation (USO) should be offered a subsidy, the representative body for 370 councils has said today.…

'Exciting changes' for Microsoft's favourite cloud container fabric Mesosphere will open-source new features in its container and cluster management fabric as a leg-up to startups - "Y-Combinator" types.…

Plugin for popular disassembler OllyDbg allowed man-in-the-middle diddle Security researchers and the networks they rely on were at risk of breach by the hackers they investigate, thanks to now mitigated man-in-the-middle holes in a popular plugin for analysing debugger OllyDbg.…

It's hard being human Google DeepMind is trying to teach machines human-level motor control using progressive neural networks – so that the robots can learn new skills on-the-go in the real world.…