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Frustration goes over lingering connection issues More than a month after promising to smooth over migration issues, ISP Frontier Communications is still being criticized for spotty service to former Verizon customers.…

Not happy with registration requirements The Chinese government could fragment the internet if it pursues new registration rules for online addresses, the US government has warned.…

Judge fails to see the funny side of YouTube stunts Four men that staged two art gallery thefts and a kidnapping as part of a "prank" for their YouTube channel have been jailed by a judge in the UK.…

But its other lawsuit against upstart drags on Operator of the dot-com registry and two root servers, Verisign, has settled one of its two lawsuits against upstart .XYZ.…

Privacy International campaign cases threatened with being dismissed for, er... frivolity The UK's only judicial body for hearing complaints against the intelligence services has ruled plaintiffs must show why their communications are "potentially at risk" of being collected by the government's mass-surveillance activities.…

Department of Labor steps in to speed up strike resolution The US Department of Labor (DOL) said it is now working with Verizon and the Communication Workers of America (CWA) to negotiate an end to a worker strike that is entering its second month.…

CRM-cloud floating free with Project Sayonara Salesforce is working to cut its dependency on Oracle with a project called Sayonara.…

Come on have a heart, the bank only made $4.3bn in Q1. The answer? Offshoring HSBC is to wipe out more than 800 of its UK-based techies in a move Unite the union has condemned as a ‘reckless’ drive to offshore jobs.…

Gutmans: Real-time response for apps and services Andi Gutmans, a pioneer in scripting language PHP and co-founder of Zend Technologies, has joined Amazon’s cloud.…

Report blames unis for crappy coursework Computer science degrees need to have a clearer focus on making grads more employable. In fact, according to a report into the low employment rates among students, institutions offering comp-sci courses are so terrible at it that employers look to holders of other degrees to fill the comp-sci-shaped hole.…

Tensegrity, magnetoshells and plasmonic propulsion NASA has announced the eight projects with "the potential to transform future aerospace missions" which will receive funding under Phase II of its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program.…

Call for, er, tailored action Updated Inter-banking messaging systems SWIFT’s security guidelines are "outdated and incomplete".…

Actifio acting as a cloud storage gateway Verizon business customers can now back up their data to Verizon’s cloud using Actifio copy data virtualisation.…

Do a good job, you won't need to buy it. Do a great job, you've got a startup StorageBod Any half-way competent storage administrator or systems administrator should be able to build a storage array themselves these days.…

Joins your mom in social media efforts GCHQ has belatedly joined Twitter.…

Capacity management temperature check Study If you spend any time reading vendor press releases you could be forgiven for thinking that IT resources are available in infinite supply at no charge whatsoever. The fact no IT resources are available without cost is rarely mentioned.…

'Paganism and sacrificial murder' in idyllic village Brit band Radiohead have got the good burghers of Middle England choking on their breakfast cereal with the video for single Burn the Witch, which reinvents an idyllic English village as a dark rural enclave of "paganism and sacrificial murder".…

2025 is coming. Get used to it Dell has turned its Oracle database migration suite into an exit out of Larry Ellison’s empire.…

Blackburn-based business bashed after 248 complaints A claims spam company from Blackburn has been fined £250,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after making over 17.5 million nuisance calls.…

Bank 'aware' of issue, sorting it out 'ASAP' Customers of Lloyds have been unable to access online banking since 10am this morning,…

Fibre customers claim it will always favour BT plc Communications providers Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone have called on Ofcom to dramatically reform BT's Openreach in a "10 point plan" published today.…

'Uncomfortable' gun in sock also pops cap in bystander A Kansas high school graduation ceremony ended prematurely for two attendees yesterday when one shot himself in the foot with a concealed handgun, in the process seriously wounding another.…

And it could just be the start The European Commission may impose its largest ever fine on a company for misbehaving - and for Alphabet's Google, it could just be the start.…

Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat From the outside, Elidir Mountain looks like an old industrial site that has returned to nature. The slopes facing the Llyn Peris reservoir have been hacked into terraces by slate quarrying – this was once the second-biggest quarry in the world, with 3,000 workers – but they are now peaceful.…

Getting up-close and on-premise with your data, email, logs... You can get many different services in the cloud these days, and cyber security is among them. These days, cloud service providers will take care of everything from email scanning through to watching where your employees surf (and stopping them from going there, if necessary).…

If you 'must' run Flash, run EMET, hacker begs. FireEye has detailed an attack on a recent zero-day vulnerability Adobe patched last week.…

Is that a KitKat in your pocket or are you just trying to p0wn me? Dell security researcher Alex Dubrovsky says malware writers have started a campaign that will soon see financially-motivated and/or data-stealing attacks plunder older Android devices through infected porn apps.…

Chap did no work, took the cash, then partied like it was 1999. Because it was On-Call Yes, we know that On-Call is supposed to be weekly and appear on Fridays. But we let some writers go on holidays and our mailbag is overflowing after recent stories of Microsoft help desk staff hanging up after 15 minutes and the reader paid to do nothing for three months.…

Sailfish derivative targeted at Russian users and regulators A Russian company called Open Mobile Platform (Открытая Мобильная Платформа) is developing its own mobile operating system to rival Android.…

Debian will put source code, not binaries, in contrib archive of contentious code The ZFS file system has come to popular Linux distribution Debian, but in a way the distro's backers think won't kick up another row over compatibility of open source licences.…

Runkeeper just doesn't know when to quit says Norwegian consumer advocates Three exercise-tracking apps keeps tracking you long after you stop exercising, according to Norwegian Consumer Council, a consumer advocacy group.…

Dirty drivers delayed release by a very useful week Linus Torvalds has loosed version 4.6 of the Linux kernel on the waiting world.…

Bought jewellery for his significant other with members' credit cards A man from the Australian state of Victoria has been charged after stealing, using, and publishing credit cards of political party members using basic tricks he learned from YouTube.…

Dumps Debian as preferred OS for running Docker and Kubernetes Google's decided the Chromium OS is its preferred operating system for running containers in its own cloud. And why wouldn't it – the company says it uses it for its own services.…

Cupertino says 'potentially false data' could come from tool reporting on running processes Apple has punted hacker Stefan Esser's app designed to highlight the security posture and running processes on iOS devices.…

Not because Salesforce is an ops genius but because sales people can sleep at night Salesforce.com's nasty outage and subsequent data loss haven't made a major impact on customers. CEO Marc Benioff has told The Register.…

Bada-Bing, bada-boom, you support scam's doomed Microsoft has laid out new rules for its Bing search engine designed to crack down on tech support scams.…

Former engineer claims ultrasound charging tech doesn't work A former VP of engineering at a startup that promises fast, wireless charging of electronic devices has claimed that the technology doesn't work and its CEO is misleading people.…

Billionaire dons self-stitched black cap to proclaim antitrust sentence Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on Amazon after the Bezos-owned Washington Post launched an investigation into his background.…

Rich uncle Cook makes it rain at Didi Chuxing Apple says it has invested $1bn in a Chinese ride-sharing company called Didi Chuxing.…

Data from US government makes for sober reading Nearly half of all Americans have not carried out a normal online task because of security and privacy fears, according to a new survey by the US government.…

20th Century foxes sign up second internet registry co. The Motion Picture Ass. of America will be given a direct line to kill domain names that it says contain pirated information.…

Google browser preparing to close the internet's screen door Google's Chrome web browser could be disabling all Flash content by default before the year's out.…

Bank network's quick to blame others, notes El Reg source Cybercrooks have once again broken into the SWIFT financial transaction network and stolen money from another bank.…

Good luck, tax self-assessment users A date has been set to formally decommission the government's online identity Gateway portal by 2018 - a move that raises serious questions as to whether the Verify replacement will provide a fit for purpose alternative.…

Cue - you guessed it - fire crew and angle grinder An Australian man whose penis somehow became lodged in a ring spanner earlier this week was freed in the traditional manner - by a fire crew bearing an angle grinder.…

September's trial date draws inexorably closer A Crown court judge has dismissed an abuse of process application made by three former directors of reseller Quadsys, who are facing trial over allegations of hacking into a rival’s database to steal customer and pricing info.…

Rebuilding SSDs should be faster than spinning disk drives Analysis RAID rebuilds are too slow with 4, 6 and 8 and 10TB drives. So erasure coding is coming in to shorten the failed disk data rebuild time and also use less capacity overhead. What happens when SSDs are used instead of disk drives? Will RAID be more or less acceptable than with disk drives?…

X-ray animation shows Tycho's inexorable expansion Astronomers have produced a fetching animation of the inexorable outwards expansion of the remains of the Tycho Type Ia supernova - a white dwarf in a binary star system which went bang in spectacular fashion back in 1572.…

Connecting the cars on the highway to Hell... IoT developers need to get their act together on security or the chaos caused by the likes of Anonymous in traditional computing will seem like a picnic, security vet Josh Corman warned the Building IoT conference in Cologne yesterday.…