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Leaked voicemail trove includes names and phone numbers from random callers to DNC WikiLeaks has started to promote a subset of the documents retrieved from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as “The DNC recordings”, offering the world 29 MP3 files retrieved from the DNC voice mail system. The Register's crack forensics team can reveal that one of the voice mails may be what experts refer to as “an ass call” and was probably made at a zoological garden.…

Mobileye's new best friends are BMW and Intel, and Elon says he's not worried Automotive motion-sensor outfit Mobileye has announced that it's broken up with 'leccy car-maker Tesla.…

It's up and down like the Assyrian Empire! Or at least rather wobbly Salesforce.com's troubled NA14 instance has had another brownout, by our count the third in recent weeks.…

R: you ready for a top-ten spot? It's no surprise that C and Java share the top two spots in the IEEE Spectrum's latest Interactive Top Programming Languages survey, but R at number five? That's a surprise.…

Class action engineers ways to pull down glass ceiling Qualcomm has settled a gender discrimination lawsuit before it even made it to court.…

Australian governments' liking for data-matching needs more than promises of privacy Australia will conduct a census on August 9th and for the first time will retain name and address details in the data set created by the nationwide data dredge.…

Turns out a simple thing could have saved his life The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its preliminary report into the Tesla crash that killed Joshua Brown, a 40-year-old Ohio man who was using the car's Autopilot function at the time of his death.…

Verizon to test gear to boost speeds to homes, businesses Verizon will soon test communications gear that can provide next-generation 40Gbps fiber broadband services in America.…

New security system downs sky spies from seven miles away Vid A new joint venture between aircraft manufacturer Airbus and California startup Dedrone is selling a security system that can spot drones miles away and knock them out of the sky.…

iPhones' NFC chips sought for own transaction tech, rather than ApplePay alone You can't make it up: the last industry in Australia to enjoy the privileged status of “protected and guaranteed by government”, the banks, want the country's competition regulator to rubber-stamp it acting as a cartel against Apple.…

The Earth moved for all of us but spatial wonks got out of bed and did something about it Geo-boffins are getting ready to nudge Australia to the north, so its national map data agrees with the new world of GPS.…

DoJ says pair exploited web tools to file fake returns Two people have been jailed for their involvement in a scam that exploited the US IRS "Get Transcript" website to defraud the American government.…

And now denies it. But hey: News cycle! In the latest of a series of implausibly appalling statements, Republican presidential nightmare Donald Trump encouraged the Russian government to hack into the servers of US government officials in order to provide him political ammunition against his Democratic rival.…

Device life measured in minutes Microsoft has admitted that the battery problems hitting some Surface Pro 3 owners aren't down to hardware failure, but rather a software issue.…

Performance review sparks deletion, 110 offices knackered A former employee of Citibank has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for crippling the bank's internal network.…

Anonymizing tool team concludes investigation and fires two others Web activist Jacob Appelbaum humiliated, intimidated, bullied and frightened numerous people in the internet community and subjected others to "unwanted sexually aggressive behavior."…

You can't get internet there, but Giant Red Spot is clue to 'energy crisis' Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be responsible for stirring an atmospheric hotspot into a frenzy, causing it to be hundreds of degrees warmer than anywhere else on the planet.…

Failure forces humans to 'manually' feed ravenous pooches and pussies Outage Humans have been forced to temporarily interact with their dogs or cats – perhaps both – after PetNet’s internet-controlled smart feeder system suffered a blackout.…

Alliance is to splurge cash on plethora of new hardware and software Anti-Soviet defence pact NATO's IT division wants to award €3bn (£2.5bn) worth of “cyber, air and missile defence” contracts, spanning everything from buying new keyboards to improving space satellites.…

One gift from God (a) man did not want to see A church organist is due before the beak next month after he allegedly thrust his pink pipe through a glory hole in excelsis and “waited” for someone to make sweet music.…

You don't even need to know web design to be a baddie Cybercrime miscreants seem to be flocking to a one-stop online web business shop.…

Nicola Sturgeon’s home county stalked by angry Struthionforme Residents of Ayrshire are living in fear of a marauding family of ostriches that have mysteriously appeared in the usually quiet Scots region.…

And sent Constable Ned Kelly on an 11-week training course to use the things Police in Essex, UK, are using polygraph tests on convicted criminals – in its own words, “to help manage the risk posed by convicted sex offenders.”…

Total Inability To Support Usual Per... one server? UK-based web host Heart Internet has restored service to customers whose email has been titsup since Monday. Users were unable to use the service due to a single server failure.…

Don't worry, outsourcing giant is still doing a roaring trade Outsourcing giant Capita has hinted that the UK's decision to leave the EU will have an impact on its bottom line, while recording a sales increase of 5 per cent to £2.4bn for its first half-year results.…

New non-linear view poses threat to cosmic order Some crazy and terrible things have happened in 2016, but none can be more shocking than Microsoft PowerPoint adding a quite useful new feature for presenters. The ubiquitous slide presentation software has finally made a break with linearity.…

Processor design nets £100m in last quarter for Cambridge-based biz Cambridge-based processor design business ARM has posted substantial revenue and profit increases for the months in the runup to the Brexit vote.…

Chimera cybercrook competitor hands victims the keys Private keys of the Chimera ransomware have been leaked by a rival cybercriminal.…

Last quarterly results before the great Cavium slurp commences In its last quarter as an independent company, QLogic grew revenues 2.6 per cent and profits by 700 per cent in a year. Its future lies inside Cavium and it has to deal with a declining Fibre Channel business.…

You don’t always have to do everything yourself. Really There are some bits of computing that you just don’t want to trust other people with. They’re just too sensitive. But at the same time, there are some things that people can do as well or better than you, for a lower cost.…

Yahoo, DNC emails and, er, business cards

The difference between doing it and saying you're doing it After roughly 20 years, agile software development has wheedled its way into most every developer's mind as The Way Good Software Is Done. Like flossing, while we can all agree agile is a good idea, we're not quite up to snuff on keeping all our teeth in our heads, so to speak.…

Layered chippery leading to potential SSD capacity doubling Western Digital, via its acquired firm SanDisk, along with Toshiba, has started pilot production of 64-layer 3D NAND.…

Sure you want to rely on 'digital' to plug slashed jobs? UK MPs have warned that HMRC (HM Revenues and Customs) may struggle to overhaul its expensive £10bn IT systems with Capgemini, and that further cuts could ultimately waste more taxpayers' cash.…

Explo-Xen ... it rhymes with explosion Code dive A super-bug in the Xen hypervisor may allow privileged code running in guests to escape to the underlying host.…

19 century optics gets the 21 century treatment NASA Goddard boffins and engineers have taken inspiration from the Fresnel lens to craft a “photon sieve” they hope will help them observe the processes that heat the sun's corona.…

Remote 'complete account compromise' possible, Google hacker finds A dangerous zero-day vulnerability has been found in popular cloud password vault LastPass, which The Register has been told can completely compromise user accounts.…

Four unpatched bugs remain after nine found Nine security holes, four of them still unpatched, have been found in the Osram smart light bulb system, potentially giving attackers access to a home or corporate network.…

VXer mass posts to Reddit in sorrowful bid to make a living The eager-but-pwned net menace behind the JigSaw ransomware has been found targeting Reddit users with multiple malware in a bid to snare victims.…

Pay your dues, noob, or talk to Dunning and Kruger Cisco wants incident responders to be more self-conscious.…

Nearly US$15 BEEELION set down for 2.0 litre 'dieselgate' Volkswagen's “dieselgate” part-settlement has received preliminary approval from a US judge.…

DIY VR cam: only US$30k Facebook needs VR content for its Oculus Rift VR headset, so it's made good on its March promise to publish its Surround360 camera design and software.…

You're Putin me in a tough spot, here Poll Security intelligence firm ThreatConnect thinks it has found a smoking gun that links the leaked US Democratic Party emails to Russian hackers.…

Switches moving, routers and security decline The tough networking market continues to make growth difficult for the big names: Juniper Networks has reported flat year-on-year Q2 2016 revenue and has warned of a flat outlook.…

505-day trip won't engage much commercial interest An airplane powered by nothing more than the Sun's rays has completed its 42,000-km (26,098-mile) journey around the world after landing in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.…

What is it with the Japanese, radiation and made-up creatures? Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Co is upset that Pokemon Go players on the hunt for monsters are being lured into the Fukushima Nuclear Exclusion Zone.…

Hashed passwords exposed, too Custom 3D model printing biz Shapeways has been hacked, who gained access to customers' shipping and email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords.…

Cook: Hey, we thought it was going to be even worse Apple is trying to put the best face on another bad quarter by saying it exceeded its own meager expectations.…

ISPs fudging performance claims in ads? Say it isn't so! The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is setting its sights on broadband speed claims, again.…

But privacy watchdogs warn they'll be gunning for it come 2017 Europe's data protection authorities will hold fire for one year on the new Privacy Shield agreement, withholding any potential legal challenges until mid-2017.…