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Classy company tells Harvard compsci chap to Zuck Off Aran Khanna, the Harvard student who disclosed Facebook Messenger's location-spaffing qualities, had his internship offer withdrawn by Zuckerberg and Co because he – not they – had failed to appropriately consider users' privacy expectations.…

No need to beware of geeks bearing gifts, this time Nutanix is getting welcome support from Citrix for its brand-new KVM-based hypervisor effort.…

Hiding from your problems does make them go away after all. Who knew? The Swedish director of public prosecutions, Marianne Ny, has announced that she will end the investigation into Julian Assange's alleged sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.…

One week to cut your code and claim the crown Competition Calling all you programmers out there! We have a simple challenge for you – and if you win, you bag yourself a rather smart Smart TV. Read on to find out how you can get involved...…

Knowledge-sharing community lends its weight to flash domination thesis Decades of disk domination are coming to a close: Wikibon sees flash replacing disk entirely for primary data storage enterprise and hyper-scale cloud data centres over the next ten years.…

Bonus: It hides the Cortana search box Stardock has released Start10, a Start menu alternative which replaces Microsoft’s Windows 10 Start menu with one that will make former Windows 7 users feel at home.…

Turd transmutation device also makes 'leccy and ash William Henry “Bill” Gates III – Harvard drop-out, Microsoft founder, and second richest man in the world – has revealed that his latest invention will burn your rubbish as well as turning your turds into fresh drinking water.…

Bluetooth-a-like tech helps weirdo send unwanted dick pic to alarmed passenger Perverts have latched onto Apple's AirDrop as a means of pushing unsavoury content at unsuspecting commuters.…

Bank and health info included in more than a petabyte of files left lying around More than a petabyte of data lies exposed online because of weak default settings and other configuration problems involving enterprise technologies.…

Overpaid creative team has coined the Ronseal name of 'Drone Racing League' The hitherto sexy underground world of drone racing is to follow in the footsteps of most spectator sports by becoming a commercialised advertisement platform, as New Yorkers prepare to receive their very own Drone Racing League™.…

Yet blocking common tech is 'crazy' says infosec bod Export control screening for individuals hoping to purchase everyday consumer technologies extends beyond just antivirus software downloads, according to several sources contacted by The Register.…

It's all down to silicon chippery crunching the waves Transmitting and receiving on the same radio frequency, at the same time, has been demonstrated by the UK's University of Bristol in a new YouTube video.…

Apart from the upgrade fails, bugs, and missing features, great Microsoft released Windows 10 two weeks ago, on 29 July, encompassing an ambitious global rollout whereby users of Windows 7 and 8.1 receive an in-place upgrade via Windows Update.…

Proceeds from track by former F1 star Martin Brundle to benefit charity A rather impressive Scalextric track designed by F1 commentator and former driver Martin Brundle, featuring "the best corners, chicanes and sections" from 2015 Formula 1 circuits will go under the hammer later this month in aid of the BBC's Children in Need.…

The Borg's got fingers in so many integration pies it's frightening Gartner this week popped out its new Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems and the news is good for Nutanix, Cisco and HP.…

Rosetta approaches perihelion, boffins blend excitement and nervousness Video If the Philae lander hitch-hiking on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko isn't dead, its dark hiding-place might just protect it from being destroyed by the heat as comet, lander and the Rosetta spacecraft swing around the sun.…

'Yeah Mr EE, totally CE. EE CE. Totally CE' Exclusive EE failed to label its "Power Bar" phone charging devices with the correct marking to show that the product complied with European safety directives, The Register has learned.…

People ... using the internet ... to sleep with each other? Egad Dating app developer Tinder went ballistic this week over the suggestion people might use it for facilitating casual sex.…

UK LOL compilation show beats all others, bar the news Internet cat videos really are conquering the world, or at the very least have started doing so in Australia, a nation now stripped of all sporting prowess, where the UK's Channel 5 production Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud has topped the nation's free-to-air TV ratings.…

Rescue efforts continue after warehouse packed with dangerous goods detonates Vid China is today trying to determine the cause of extensive explosions in the port city of Tianjin that have left at least 44 dead and hundreds injured.…

BlackCert working on internet-of-thing security bling Eccentric infosec man John McAfee is now the proprietor of a Certificate Authority named BlackCert.…

Advanced phishers leave with still baited hooks. Dropbox has added dongle-driven two factor authentication to its cloud sharing services for more highly risk-averse users in a bid to foil phishing attempts.…

Someone's reverse-engineered ROMMON to craft an admin-level attack Cisco has warned users to watch out who's got admin access to kit, because it's seen malicious ROM images in the wild.…

Thousands of throwaways for the other five billion Samsung has joined the likes of Google, Facebook, SpaceX and O3B with a proposal to bring the Internet to those who don't yet have it.…

News Corporation snuffs educational tablet biz in another MySpace moment Rupert Murdoch's unerring nose for a future tech market failure has struck again, with the company writing down its Amplify education business.…

On the upside, the ROI is amazing if you've an appetite for risky investments Records have fallen as malvertising clocked its most prolific month in history, making it one of the biggest threats to endpoint security.…

Remember that stupid gun-shaped case? Canadian Police thought it was the real thing The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has armed itself with rifles and tasers to confront a man who appeared to have a handgun in his belt.…

API changes also mean every single public tweet every now searchable Twitter has lifted one of its basic rules: the 140-character limit on messages sent with the service.…

All-flash array biz finishes its homework for initial public offering Pure Storage, funded to the tune of $470 million and valued at around $3 billion, has filed for an IPO.…

Verison 1.8 adds container signing to prevent man-in-middle attacks Docker has tackled the problem of secure application container distribution with a new system that supports signing container images using public key cryptography.…

Fondle-giant to lumber out of Oregon at last Microsoft has quietly announced when its Surface Hub will ship, and if you're impatient, you won't be pleased: it won't be until January 1, 2016.…

Chambers dances out the door of an embiggened Borg Cisco's new CEO Chuck Robbins has had the pleasure of reporting ahead-of-expectation results for Q4 of 2014/15.…

It's the perfect job for Malcolm Turnbull and his Digital Transformation Office Australia's government has all-but-decided the nation should go to a plebiscite to decide whether local marriage laws should be altered to permit same-sex marriage.…

Marvel at the mysteries of this playable poser DEF CON 23 Attending the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas is always an unusual experience, but among the most celebrated features of the event are its unusual attendee badges.…

And how Microsoft made it possible Analysis Lenovo has sold laptops bundled with unremovable software that features a bonus exploitable security vulnerability.…

More than half of America leans toward criminal charges for Fast Eddy / hero whistlebower Despite the best efforts of the internet, US citizens favor the filing of criminal charges against Edward Snowden, say researchers.…

Norweigan company ponders future as the numbers go south Opera Software has announced a 45 per cent revenue boost for its second quarter of financial year 2015 while hinting at a possible buyout, but didn't draw much attention to its $3m losses.…

Adreno 530 and 510 to power next-gen mobile graphics Qualcomm has yet to publicly share hard specs on the Snapdragon 820, its forthcoming flagship mobile system-on-chip (SoC), but on Wednesday it served up an amuse-bouche by unveiling the components that will handle the pixel-bashing operations in the new chips.…

Two sets of directors, twice the potential for screw ups? HP has confirmed the captains of industry who will sit on the two boards formed when the organization splits in two. The IT giant will pull in execs from sectors ranging from automotive and clothing to private equity.…

Hyperscaler's SSD also gets performance boost SanDisk has revved its CloudSpeed Ultra SSD, doubling capacity to 1.6TB by using smaller sized cells.…

Outburst on conference call reflects efforts to control critical issue The chairman of ICANN has been recorded ranting over domain-name privacy: the DNS overlord wants owners of "commercial" websites to reveal their personal details in the WHOIS database.…

Creepy requests for info up by 52 per cent over the previous half year Twitter's transparency report reveals it has received 52 per cent more requests for account information than ever before, affecting 78 per cent more account holders, during the last six months.…

The exodus of sales people leaving Sunnyvale continues NetApp’s SVP for Americas Sales and its president of US public sector sales, Mark Weber, has left the company, taking up a position at the Washington-based Catholic University of America, a higher education institution founded by the US bishops.…

Currency fluctuations will make US products more expensive across the board As currency changes make tech products more expensive, Gartner says CIOs need to re-examine their budgets.…

Cambridge uni folk apply brains, confirm the obvious The hated Care.data scheme was dysfunctional and undemocratic from the get-go, according to a new case study from wannabe boffins studying on Cambridge University's Masters of Public Policy programme.…

El Reg and NewsThump also briefly vanished into the abyss Large chunks of the intertubes, including popular programmers' hangout Stack Overflow, were blanked from view earlier this afternoon after a hiccup at cloud hosting and DDoS mitigation outfit Cloudflare.…

Biz takes refuge from vicious computer market in almost-as-vicious handset market While the mobe power base is shifting from the traditional players to the new upstarts, with Samsung and HTC suffering at the hands of Huawei and Xiaomi, Asus is having a good time in the good old handset market.…