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Vietnamese airports hacked by propaganda-spouting ninnies Flight information screens at Vietnam's two main airports were hacked over the weekend to spout pro-Chinese propaganda.…

Mini-robots float round your body and zap your neurons Google and drug giant GlaxoSmithKline are spending £540m on a new joint venture, Galvani Bioelectronics, in a bid to develop and commercialise bioelectronic medicine.…

Second GDS leader in the past year to go Stephen Foreshew-Cain, the head of the UK's Government Digital Service, has stepped down from his position after just nine months in the role – amid rumours that GDS is for the chop.…

'Strange goings on' prompt Dublin bish to send trainees abroad A group of Irish trainee priests are being packed off to Roma, after claims some fathers-in-training at their existing berth in the Emerald Isle had developed a predilection for gay hookup site Grindr.…

It's a new system undergoing trials, give it time, groans MoD press office US restrictions on the F-35 fighter jet's targeting system will make it “almost impossible” for training to be carried out in the UK, the Ministry of Defence fears – but its press office insists the constraints are normal.…

Operator asks: Have you tried switching it on and off again? EE customers basking in the first days of their hols abroad have frustratingly been unable to access their phones due to a major outage across the network.…

UK bank drops passwords, rolls out voice recog for phone banking Barclays is abolishing passwords for its telephone banking customers in favour of voice recognition.…

Kisses £185k salary goodbye HMRC's chief digital and information officer, Mark Dearnley, is waving goodbye to his £185,000 per annum job in September as he departs for the private sector.…

Shouts pull.... people run for their live....lihoods Microsoft is expected to release more than 100 employees across the UK organisation from the shackles of employment, multiple sources have told The Register.…

Flash arrays could make parallel file systems redundant Comment Parallel file systems were developed to overcome delays servers experienced when accessing files on disk storage systems. Flash arrays get rid of disk access latencies and so weaken the need for parallel file systems.…

WHOMP: Half a petabyte Combine WDC’s SanDisk InfiniFlash with IBM’s Spectrum Scale and you have the DeepFlash 150 array: probably the world’s fastest parallel file system box.…

Billions wasted on gaining ground in Middle Kingdom market After pouring over two billion dollars into its Chinese operations, Uber has thrown in the towel and is set to sell its Chinese arm to a local rival, according to reports.…

Can your post-agile job be done by AI in the future? Historian Francis Fukuyama in 1992 reckoned with the fall of the Iron Curtain and the replacement of Communist systems behind it with liberal democracies, we had reached the end of history.…

Buy-buy baby: Building a disciplined cloud There’s no doubt about it: cloud computing is a leveller, both outside organisations and in. But do we really want a free-for-all democracy in which anyone can procure anything at will? And if not, how do we stop it?…

Search for elusive particles may shed light on dark matter Scientists working on the Large Underground Xenon experiment recently announced they had found no signal of dark matter. But although the results were not quite what they hoped for, it has left them feeling even more determined to hunt down the universe’s most mysterious particle.…

It's not cool to kill a demo, but you can watch all the pr0n you want Black Hat Neil Wyler and Bart Stump are responsible for managing what is probably the world’s most-attacked wireless network.…

Is Acronis backup the fastest of them all? EMC partner architect says not Analysis + comment Acronis claims its Backup 12 product is "the fastest data protection technology in the world." An EMC partner senior tech architect says no, it's not, and has figures that he says proves it.…

Can you bring yourself to say you need assistive technologies for a free OS? POLL Microsoft's year-long Windows 10 free upgrade offer ended over the weekend, but it's still possible to secure Redmond's finest – even the new Anniversary Update - for the low low price of 0.00 in whatever currency you prefer.…

Huawei now a solid third in global sales race Smartphone sales have just about stalled at the disappointing figure of about 3.5 million a day, each and every day of the year.…

New standard aims to escape the vuln/validation trap Cisco and the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have quietly taken the covers off an important development for cryptographers: the first implementation of the Automated Cryptographic Validation Protocol (ACVP).…

First 'capture orbit' passes 'apojove', probe breaks out its cameras to celebrate The Juno is on its way back to Jupiter after successfully reaching 'apojove', the high point of its first orbit of the gas giant. And now the craft is heading for its closest encounter with Jupiter.…

One careful owner, only ever driven to low-Earth orbit, top speed 6,300 km/h Vid A SpaceX video posted late last week is as boring as it gets: the Falcon 9 rocket doesn't even lift off.…

Trojan customised for to target specific users, then goes on its merry way Russia's Government is reporting that malware designed to steal data has been found state systems at two dozen agencies and critical institutions.…

Did respectable researchers overstep the mark? Your theory welcome, Sinophiles China is apparently cracking down on white-hats, with local reports saying the founder of a 5,000-strong ethical hacker community has been arrested.…

Work from home or work whenever you can is the current plan If your Indian suppliers aren't at their most responsive, or you've spent a bit of time on hold to a business process outsourcer over the weekend, look to the heavens for an explanation.…

You know the drill, people: patch and push Developers using Intel's Crosswalk SSL library: it's time to patch and push out an upgrade.…

vBulletin forumware powering site is known as a sieve The latest forum to leak, Disney's Playdom, was running the vBulletin forumware already known to have leaked big back in June.…

Hand back all that stolen loot, demands London court A South London chap has been ordered to pay back more than half a million pounds he stole via hacked payment card numbers.…

Woman accused of funneling toner to reseller denies charges A Las Vegas woman stole printer ink worth $6,715,531 from her employer and sold it to a reseller on the other side of America, it is claimed.…

Wheeler laughs off latest attempt to kill Title II classification A group of US telcos has formally asked the courts to overturn the Open Internet rules put in place by the FCC, America's broadband nanny.…

Bonus story: The saga of the five-inch 'toothbrush' gun It's been 37 years since The Village People's hit song In the Navy associated the armed service with an acceptance of homosexuality.…

More shenanigans at everyone's favorite non-profit internet monopoly The independent ombudsman at DNS overseer ICANN has used his last day on the job to fire a broadside over the ".gay" top-level domain.…

The 1970s called and wants its attitudes back Kaspersky has apologized for displaying a sexist pop-up advert in its security software. It's not sorry about showing adverts on people's PCs, however.…

Because getting someone else's keystrokes is just fine SwiftKey has shut down the cloud synchronization feature of its keyboard app after people reported seeing strangers' email addresses and phone numbers on their phone screens. The Microsoft-owned biz insists there isn't a problem with its security.…

And Hillary's campaign staff pwned, too Updated The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – which represents Democrats in the US House of Representatives – has been hacked, and miscreants have made off with a massive amount of data.…

When being spoilt for choice is sometimes still no choice at all Sysadmin blog Microsoft Office remains one of the most important software products available, despite some rather nasty flaws. For me, Microsoft Office and video games anchor me to Windows. While video games seem set to remain largely Windows-only for the foreseeable future, Office is losing its grip.…

Support for older systems less than satisfactory Comment As your humble HPC correspondent for The Register, I should probably be running Linux on the array of systems here at the home office suite. But I don't. I've been a Microsoft guy since I bought my first computer way back in 1984.…

Cet article est également livré avec un peu de Français Big data upstart Talend rang the bell to open the Nasdaq at 9.30am today in New York City – as the company makes one of the few initial public offerings (IPOs) this year.…

'Entirely comfortable paying money to criminals' grumbles infosec bod A “ransomware guarantee” from security outfit SentinelOne has been dismissed by critics as a marketing stunt.…

Please Ms CFO, can we have some new hardware? Big businesses tend to be exceptionally risk averse. There's a general reluctance to adopt new, bleeding-edge technology because the priority – understandably – is to be able to maintain productivity.…

Hardware 'incumbents' battered – but small fry may drop out soon AWS continues to dominate the cloud infrastructure market but Microsoft and Google are growing faster than the book-punting behemoth, research from Canalys shows.…

Compensation please The owner of mobile network Three UK, CK Hutchison, has lodged a legal challenge against the European Commission. The Telegraph, which broke the story, says a filing has been filed with the General Court (formerly the Court of the First Instance), after the European Competition Commission blocked the acquisition by Hutchison.…

Small print reveals extent of crashing division Microsoft has revealed how badly its Windows phone business has crashed via paperwork filed with America's financial regulator, the SEC.…

British solutions for British problems! Say something like that The UK's Ministry of Defence is to launch a “defence and security accelerator” for startups dabbling in so-called “miltech”.…

Group Policy changes require Enterprise or Education edition Group Policy changes in Windows 10 Anniversary Update, set for release shortly, mean that users of the Pro edition can no longer disable some of the more intrusive aspects of the operating system.…

Rusty spinners give way to new-fangled solid tech WDC beat its own better-than-expected preliminary results estimates with a $3.495bn quarter but swung to a $351m loss with fewer disk units sold. Layoffs are coming.…

Useless to drug dealers? Tell me more... Review The P9 Plus deserves to be Huawei’s real flagship of 2016, and given the price tag, it’s a belter. Like the iPhone Plus, it feels like a very different beast to its smaller sibling.…

Back in Bacs A UK government regulator is calling for greater competition in banking payment infrastructure provision.…