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Run for the tills! Software nasty infected registers, admits US chain American fast-food chain Noodles and Company says malware got into its sales registers, allowing it to slurp customers' payment card numbers.…

Regional Internet Registries sign contract with DNS overlord The internet's move away from US government control took a significant step forward Wednesday with the signing of a new contract.…

He raided bank account to buy shares in biz just before acquisition news, SEC claims A California chap is accused of illegally using inside information to pocket more than $68,000 when Apple took over mobile security biz AuthenTec.…

Final arguments to be heard next month over fate of bloke who 'broke into' FBI boxes Alleged Brit hacker Lauri Love, who is accused of compromising US government servers and faces extradition to America, has been bailed by a UK court.…

You need to go bother the Irish, says appeals court The Belgium Privacy Commission has lost its effort to force Facebook to stop tracking non-users of the website when an appeals court ruled it was outside its jurisdiction.…

Data slimming tech for Hybrid Cloud Prof Services partners Permabit has moved beyond OEMs, making the latest release of its dedupe technology available as a Linux software package so that ISVs, professional services folks and systems integrators in its Hybrid Cloud Professional Services partners programme can use it.…

Filing claims the CFAA blocks online researchers The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says the US Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) should be stricken for being unconstitutional.…

US politicos a side project for spies, claims report Well publicised attacks against the US Democrat National Committee exposed earlier this month are part of a wider pattern of attacks against a much broader range of US political targets, according to new research by Dell SecureWorks.…

Astro boffins use find to study star formations The Hubble telescope has captured images of a rare tadpole galaxy glittering with bursts of star formation, swimming in the black pond of space.…

CueSongs hits the run-off groove A music licensing startup backed by Peter Gabriel has gone into receivership, Music Week reports.…

And other telco oligopoly moans... Our resident maple leafer talks to digi rights group Opinion Openmedia, a digital rights advocacy group, has quickly become one of Canada's leading civil liberties organizations. Established in 2008 by Steve Anderson, Openmedia has run a series of successful campaigns which have made it the bane of Canada's telecoms oligopoly.…

Part of planned 9,000 job cuts and 200 branch closures Lloyds Banking Group is to chop 640 jobs in IT and back office functions as it forges ahead with plans to reduce its branch network's real estate.…

Plus: Dockercon nerds, bimodal silos, Twitter airport hijinks and more

Software biz needs to curtail ambitions and restructure for second time this year Atlantis Computing, the software house that produced a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offering and then expanded into general virtual server acceleration and on into hyper-converged appliances, is scaling its product line back to workspace software and hyper-converged appliances, with consequent job losses.…

Big Red to tear wraps off scale-out CPU with crypto, analytics acceleration Oracle's Sparc S7 processor codenamed Sonoma will not feature on-chip InfiniBand interfaces as expected.…

Never, mind, we're here now Xiaomi was expected to be the biggest arrival into the European phone market this year, but ZTE may have just grabbed the laurels. While Xiaomi is entangled with IP worries, delaying a European push, ZTE has steamed in with an attractive Android flagship, the Axon 7 - launched this week in Paris this week - one that you can order from Amazon right away.…

Moneyball-style data crunching applied to the beautiful game Manchester City FC has detailed plans to become the first football club to host a data hackathon.…

Fills top office with existing general, raids VMware for chief operations man It's all change at the top of virtual server backup biz Veeam: Co-founder and current chief Ratmir Timashev is stepping back from day-to-day ops by letting exec veep William Largent grab the controls.…

CEO: 'volatility inevitable' but look at our fiscal '16 financials, we are peerless Dixon Carphone - which, god help us, wants to become the fifth emergency service in the UK - this morning played down the personal impact of market “volatility” that a post-Brexit vote will “inevitably” cause as it reported bumper profits for fiscal ’16.…

Things you can't do in Oklahoma Bacon infused vodka may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but selling this improbable beverage in Oklahoma could land you in hot water.…

Westminster Magistrates to decide if Feds can get their hands on alleged hacker Alleged hacker Lauri Love, of Stradishall, Suffolk, who is said to have hacked into a number of US government agencies' websites, is at risk of killing himself if British authorities allow him to be extradited to the US, a court heard yesterday.…

But partnerships not the same as winning new biz – analyst BT has hopped into bed with Oracle in a deal that promises to provide the underlying network connectivity for Oracle’s hybrid cloud.…

High performance biz has grown... and customers.. well, they're a little different When IBM sold off its System x division to Lenovo Group in the fall of 2014, some big supercomputing centers in the United States and Europe that were long-time customers of Big Blue had to stop and think about what their future systems would look like and who would supply them. It was not a foregone conclusion that the Xeon-based portion of IBM’s HPC business would just move over to Lenovo as part of the sale.…

Yet denies sending bomb threat hoax Tweets to US airlines A British teenager has admitted taking part in cyber-attacks against Florida's SeaWorld theme park and Devon and Cornwall Police.…

Au revoir, auf wiedersehen and arrivederci! Vodafone has hinted it may pack its bags and relocate its London-based headquarters following the momentous decision to leave the EU last week.…

Says funding should be informed by a 'sound business case' ... WHAT? The Public Accounts Committee has advised the UK government to take a more evidence-based approach when deciding spending on science projects, according to a report published today.…

Tomorrow’s analytics depends on today’s decision Promo If you're an architect pondering your data infrastructure, one that's going to enable better decision making for your whole organisation, of course you're going to build it with the future in mind.…

Barmy burghers not the worst when it comes to price-padded procurement An unnamed local council has entered the hall of shame for making the most eye-watering tech purchase of 2015 - coughing up a 1095 per cent margin on an SD memory card.…

Feeling your way around non-password access systems The proliferation of password protection has become an assault on the senses. The rise of biometric authentication is helping to create some balance, enabling verification with a simple interaction, which, for many, is the fingerprint reader on a mobile phone. And once you start using the fingerprint/phone combo for NFC payments, the convenience it offers soon becomes habitual.…

From petrol to insurance, laws and more The UK has voted in favour of leaving the European Union and in the past few days the markets have reacted violently, plunging the pound to its lowest level against the US dollar since the mid-1980s.…

Not ad giant's fault it gobbled your youngsters' viewing habits, nod US appeals judges A US court has dismissed Google from a lawsuit accusing the advertising giant of illegally tracking small children online.…

Only the beginning for beleaguered Beetle-monger Volkswagen has reached a settlement in the USA – or rather, two settlements, since it had to satisfy both federal regulators and the State of California.…

Google blasts AV security with 'patch or pay the price' red alert Scores (or thousands, or millions) of enterprise and home Symantec users are open to remote compromise through multiple now-patched (where possible) wormable remote code execution holes described by Google as 'as bad as it gets'.…

Thomson Reuters 'working furiously' to secure 2.2 million sensitive records. The terrorist database used by global banks and intelligence agencies World-Check has reportedly leaked online.…

iLol'd A Florida man is suing Apple for $10bn and demanding a 0.5 per cent cut of future sales – because the iPhone, iPod and iPad allegedly ripped off his ideas.…

LTE control plane will help ease carrier transition The 3GPP has told the industry to get cracking on standardising the air interface for 5G.…

Controversial regulation gets second reading China has moved ahead with new Internet censorship security laws, with its upcoming cybersecurity bill getting a second reading in the country's legislature.…

Redmond takes service behind shed, shot heard Napster had it right, all those years ago: in the new world, you might “own nothing, have everything”. Except for “have everything”: in the second “death of free” today, Microsoft has put Xbox Fitness on the end-of-life list.…

App not on the level, and not in the spirit Google scans billions of "potentially harmful apps" on the Play store, but a malware app has slipped through, and is automatically rooting phones it infects.…

Dev pulls apart Parakeelia's Feedback to find DataFlex underneath An Australian developer has taken a look at the Liberal Party's controversial Feedback software, and guesses that MPs are paying a fairly steep licence for something developed on DataFlex.…

Out of sync with customers, or financial reality? Evernote has unveiled the switch that followed the bait, in the form of a new pricing structure that stops users of its free note-making application from synching more than two devices.…

Clicking on pop-up's close icon will postpone upgrade, Redmond exec promises Microsoft will change the controversial way it has been force-feeding people Windows 10 upgrades.…

He tells El Reg he'll never surrender on privacy US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has placed a hold on the 2017 Intelligence Authorization Bill – because it would allow the FBI to snoop on people's browser histories without a court order, and weakens oversight of the intelligence community.…

Ex-force cyber-boss boss of X-Force Oz The ANU / Australian Defence Force computer security joint venture isn't off the ground yet, but it's already acting as an attractor for similar operations. Yesterday, IBM announced it's going to set up a cyber-security office in Canberra.…

And you know what? Her policies are surprisingly sane Hillary Clinton today outlined her policies when it comes to tech – and they are surprisingly good.…

US government asks for quotes on massive Alliant 2 program The US government's General Services Administration (GSA) has opened bidding on what it says will be a $50bn IT services contract package.…

Maverick, it's not your flying, it's your AI-ttitude Today's generation of fighter pilots could be the last of their breed, thanks to an AI system dubbed ALPHA that's proving unkillable in air combat.…

We've heard of service with a smile but this is ridiculous Forget master passwords, literally. Password manager LogmeOnce has come up with a new-ish way to log into websites – selfies.…

VMs replicate to a single, converged secondary storage bin DR-as-a-Service supplier Axcient has extended its offering to provide a single silo in the cloud for five secondary storage workloads, taking on vendors such as Cohesity and Actifio.…

The power of automated persistence An "automated lawyer" chatbot service has successfully challenged and overturned more than $2.5m in parking tickets in New York and London, according to its inventor.…