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Won't somebody please think of the children! (Adults are on their own) Ministers have backed a campaign designed to give young people greater deletion rights over the stupid content they generate as youngsters.…

LEDs, pah! UK inventor cooks up cheap fabric alternative to giant displays British inventor Andrew Fentem has come up with a way of cheaply turning fabric into large active displays.…

'Black Vine' gang, late of China, fingered as source of heist that lifted 70 million records The case for a Beijing-orchestrated hack of health insurer Anthem has firmed up with new details suggesting that the sophisticated hacking group responsible for the heist shared zero days with rival outfits.…

There will be tears – but it is worth upgrading Review So this is it. Microsoft has released Windows 10, the big one, the game changer which will make everything all right again after Windows 8.…

Outages and slow downloads leave customers cursing carrier from Manchester to Portsmouth If you can't reach a chum in the UK, chances are they've fallen victim to a substantial outage that's hit BT's voice and broadband services. Or a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) incident.…

Shoppers dubbed 'mad' 'bitch' etc by guys technologique France’s data protection authority, CNIL, has put nationwide tech appliance store, Boulanger, on notice following the discovery of some less than flattering records on customers.…

Screw creative, just use Angler. Cyphort researcher Nick Bilogorskiy says 10 million users may have been infected in as many days, thanks to a deadly malvertising and exploit kit campaign.…

Japanese fusion eggheads pull trigger on Earth's most powerful ray gun Nuclear fusion researchers at Osaka University in Japan claim they have made history by firing the world's most powerful laser – emitting a two-quadrillion-watt beam albeit for a very, very brief period of time.…

New networking hype cycle has good news for wireless, cautions for white-boxers Fibre channel over Ethernet is obsolete and software-defined networking is making users grumpy rather than delivering promised benefits, according to the new networking version of Gartner's Hype Cycle.…

75 nm cube lights the path to optical computing Boffins from Duke University reckon they've cracked one of the problems that holds back optical computing, with a tiny and very low-powered high-speed-switchable light source.…

You too can suffer the Windows phone experience, as an app For reasons El Reg doesn't quite understand, Microsoft has decided that the one thing missing from the Android user's life is the Windows phone app launcher experience.…

'Customers want more open and flexible approach', namely StoreVirtual with vCenter Hewlett Packard has stopped selling its ConvergedSystem 200-HC, the hyperconverged rig based on VMware's EVO:RAIL system architecture.…

Inject evil JavaScript code via the device name? Don't mind if we do Vulnerability Lab founder Benjamin Kunz Mejri says he's found a security bug in Apple's Mac and iOS app stores that could be exploited to inject malicious JavaScript code into victims' web browsers.…

The numbers are down, but Australia's Oz Cyber Force says things are getting worse The cost of “cyber attacks” in Australia appears to be stabilising and the country has never been subject to an attack at the national scale, but the government's Cyber Force (not its real name) is still pitching the growth of the threat.…

Humanity says “Hi!” to aliens in 55 languages on SoundCloud When NASA launched the two Voyager probes in 1977, it knew that they were on a one-way journey into the galaxy. So on the off chance they encountered another sentient species, NASA equipped both with a golden record full of information about Earth.…

'Underperforming product lines' to be put under microscope Citrix chief exec Mark Templeton has said he will retire, as activist investor Elliott Management takes a larger role in the company.…

Still counting the pennies While most telcos are baying for more radio spectrum to stuff with mobile internet broadband, the Indian operators are asking their government to hold off.…

Oh, Mr Darcy, was genius Pride and Prejudice author also a time traveler, pray tell? Cisco's 2015 Midyear Security Report has revealed that at least one group of malware-spreading scum has a literary bent.…

Who else, who else could turn half a billion dollars into nothing Twitter's share price lurched upward on Tuesday after the microblabber site posted revenue that well outperformed analysts' estimates.…

What was that about horses, stable doors and bolts? The US Census Bureau has asked for additional IT security training for its staff – including tips on how not to fall for phishing emails – in the wake of last week's server breach.…

Maybe a media and software company might like them better DHI Group, the company formerly known as Dice Holdings, has announced that it's selling off its Slashdot Media division following two successive quarters of declining revenue.…

'We know what we're doing' Net neutrality Tom Wheeler, chairman of America's broadband watchdog the FCC, has insisted that "we know what we're doing," as his regulator gobbles up more and more power.…

Weird pimple on Ceres remains unnamed and unexplained Pics and video When it comes to probing dwarfs, NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe has been hogging the limelight.…

3D XPoint is bit-addressable, non-volatile, works like RAM, and is coming in 2016 Intel and Micron today tore the wraps off their 3D XPoint memory chips, which have been more than three years in the making.…

Must go FASTER, must go FASTER US data center outfit Telx, target of a takeover bid by Digital Realty, has gone offshore for the first time, joining the Google-backed FASTER submarine cable consortium.…

Can he return home without fear of arrest? Can porcine creatures achieve takeoff? The US White House has formally declined a citizens' petition to issue a pardon to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.…

If you make an armoured box and put electronics on it, what do you expect? Vulnerabilities in “intelligent cash safe service” Brink's CompuSafe's cash management produces will be demonstrated at the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas next week.…

Looking for a solid value Android phone? Look no further than Lenovo’s proposition Hands On Chinese phone manufacturers have been threatening to make the big bucks brand name Android flagship market obsolete for some time now – but Motorola now looks the strongest challenger.…

A whopping five senior sales peeps leave all at once Five sales people have left NetApp simultaneously, including VP Americas channels sales Regina Kunkle. What gives?…

Unstoppable auto-updates? More like auto-borkage Windows 10's automatic updates feature has clashed with Nvidia's driver system, causing the new operating system to jump the tracks just days before it officially launches on Friday.…

Feathercock unlock fingered as cause of Mach 1 midair breakup The National Transport Safety Board has today given its verdict on last year's fatal Virgin Galactic crash, suggesting the cause of the tragic accident was human error and a lack of safety training.…

See – quite literally – what your boxen are up to “Less magic, more visibility” is what Puppet Labs reckons devops devotees need.…

100,000 sites off limits, but nobody knows which ones Official sources in Berlin are refusing to publish details of the 100,000 websites blocked in the Bundestag, because revealing them would “endanger national security”.…

We’ll give you a clue. It’s not O2, Vodafone, or Three The biannual survey of mobile networks conducted by RootMetrics has found that EE still leads the pack, and provides the best mobile phone coverage.…

Poor conditions? News to us, says operator Adecco Workers at a Google Express warehouse in San Francisco have filed to form a union, citing poor conditions, low wages, and lack of benefits.…

Tape? Nah. Blu-ray? Maybe. Weird variant? Possibly Comment How is Google’s retrieval service for non-essential data, Nearline, with its three-second retrieval latency, viable at the same cost as Amazon’s Glacier, when it uses tape with a 3-5 hour retrieval latency?…

Services head unit keeps your ISE blocks covered X-IO, the supplier of just-won't-fail ISE storage boxes, has added a data management services head unit which can support up to 11 ISE blocks, calling it an iglu.…

OK, nobody needs to get hurt, we’ll buy more Kindles Not content with crushing the high street, touting cloud services, and dominating e-books, Amazon has launched a music streaming service set to rival Spotify and Apple Music in the world of heavily marketed, mediocre pop acts.…

It won't take 'fiat currency' though. You've been warned, digi-hipsters A new VoIP service allows you to hide who you are by being web-based, having no registration checks, allowing you to spoof caller identity, and pay by Bitcoin.…

2.5 million machines hold Redmond back Exclusive Microsoft is paying customers to dump Windows Server 2003, The Register has learned.…

Flash vendor's fastest drive ever Review If evidence from last/early this year’s large technology shows is anything to go by, then 2015 might just be the year that consumer PCIe SSD market begins stirring – something that's long overdue.…

Give us your tired, poor, huddled masses and let us SPAM them with ADS Facebook is getting more push behind its totally altruistic Internet.org scheme, which will - incidentally - let it slurp up free content and personal information from billions of poor people worldwide while spattering them with ads.…

Eurozone buffer helps desktop PCs sales rise 20 per cent, however The free fall descent of the tablet distribution market accelerated for the second quarter of 2015, with channel fondleslab sales plunging by 22 per cent to 2.3 million across Western Europe.…

You didn't ask me but here's what I think anyway, says EDPS The EU's independent privacy watchdog has stuck his oar into negotiations on a new EU-wide data protection law.…

A testing time when trying to touch-type Security researchers have developed a browser extension that supposedly defeats biometrics based on typing patterns, with the exercise designed, in part, to promote greater awareness about the emerging technology and the privacy risk it might pose.…

Facebook ruling could yet scupper the whole deal The EU’s Justice Commissioner met her US counterparts last week in an effort to break the stalemate over data protection rights.…

Revived invite-only site has cleared out snitches, will rely on blockchain authentication Crime forum Darkode has relaunched with renewed security two weeks after it was obliterated in a global police raid that shut down the site and saw members arrested.…

Thinking outside the (gear) box Ford is scared of the future. It has to figure out how to survive in a time when manually driving your car to work is as archaic as commuting by horse.…

Plan to slow personal data exports for security's sake reversed after member tantrum LinkedIn has reversed a recent decision to make it harder for members to download information about those who've decided to connect with them on the business-centric social network.…

Grand Slam! He's dropped a floater with a lot of follow-through A spectre is haunting Stavanger Golf Club, a spectre which has been defecating into specific holes on the course.…