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[Johnnycab rolls his eyes] Oculus has been slapped with a lawsuit from a rival, which claimed that the Facebook-owned Virtual Reality outfit's founder broke a confidentiality agreement about its head-mounted display.…

Looking for a husband? This Irish no-frills spud-based stodge can help "Really dad?" It was with a slightly exasperated raise of the eyebrow that my daughter Katarina greeted the news last weekend that we were about to tackle classic Irish spud-based nosh boxty, the better to increase her chances of acquiring a suitable husband* when the moment arises.…

Seemingly, 'unlimited' means access to a frozen screen Furious Formula One fans are fed up with the glitzy motor racing contest's official mobile app, which spews out inaccurate driver information and regularly buckles on customers.…

A wholesome family adventure that stays the right side of cloying Film Review I don’t think there’s ever been as Disney-esque a movie as Disney’s new offering, Tomorrowland, from writers Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and Damon Lindelof (Lost).…

A touch of class for tech travellers Product Round-Up If you’ve been promising yourself a new laptop holdall for ages, why not use this Bank Holiday weekend to get yourself, as the saying goes, a brand new bag? We’ll be looking bags for women tomorrow, so everyone can get kitted out with something chic, but first the swanky stuff for men.…

Myth and mischief-making in fact and fiction Page File El Reg bookworm Mark Diston is joined by Vulture South's own Simon Sharwood and Vulture Central's Nigel Whitfield to pore through the latest from the publishing world. William Davies examines the current political and corporate obsession with wellbeing. Neal Stephenson's latest sci-fi tome adds a satirical spin to saving the world and Ms Lonelyheart Rosy Edwards gives an amusing kiss-and-tell account of her trials and tribulations using the addictive dating app Tinder.…

Media recording is boring as f**k Something for the Weekend, Sir? Last week, I promised you I’d rip my two mighty appearances on Granada Plus’s The Computer Channel (later relaunched as .tv) in 1997 from VHS. Well, a promise is a promise, if only half-kept. Here for your viewing curiosity is just one of my BAFTA nomination-worthy performances for a short-lived night-time satellite TV programme that was watched by literally tens of viewers.…

Crims could smuggle nasties in files 'downloaded' from web souk eBay is racing to fix a second serious security flaw that may allow criminals to spread malware through files seemingly hosted by the online tat bazaar.…

Tinker, tailor, soldier, Silicon Valley wonks A high-level private meeting between Silicon Valley execs, spies and others was held in the UK this month: on the agenda, the state of government surveillance, and what limits should be put on it.…

Can you beat off the stiff competition? Have you got what it takes? Find out As Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said about pornography: "I know it when I see it." What he may not have envisioned was that 50 years later, people would make a living from doing just that.…

Benioff doesn't get out of bed for less than $70bn Microsoft wanted to buy cloud giant Salesforce.com for $55bn, it is reported.…

Fine-control brain-powered technology with a solid use case Video Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a brain-controlled prosthetic arm that can perform fine motor movements well enough to drinking beer without spilling it.…

Snooping on calls? Stalking people in the streets? Surely some mistake US Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) wants America's mobile networks to reveal the types of customer information they share with Uncle Sam.…

TED Talk Man gives the Ministry of Justice a rude nickname Page File There are two interesting sides to Steve Hilton, the former political advisor once called “Cameron’s Brain”. One is a kind of Holy Fool, who in Government asked questions nobody else dare ask.…

Irritatingly stable firm just trundles along like a vintage Volvo Brocade's second quarter fiscal 2015 revenue was $547m, up two per cent year-on-year and down five per cent sequentially, as is Brocade's seasonal pattern. Net income was $77m, monstrously better than the $14m loss it announced a year ago.…

New Cabinet Office Minister lavishes fulsome praise on Maude’s fiasco Be afraid. The previous government’s “elite digital team” which so brilliantly borked most of Whitehall’s websites, and that failed to meet its own targets, may be put in charge of handling real money: your money.…

Ok so reseller recruitment was slow but we want to bed other partners too Huawei intends to hop into bed with nearly 50 per cent more partners this year in order to boost its sluggish enterprise sales in Europe.…

Quick, before Skynet takes control of the Five Eyes Research by American and Israeli academics has lead to the development of Astoria, a new Tor client specifically designed to spoil spooks' traffic analysis of the surveillance-dodging network.…

I think we should see other processors The latest top-of-the-range phone from handset maker and rising dragon Xiaomi will use the ambitious ten core Helio X20 processor from semiconductor company MediaTek.…

We so love FC and FICON still Cisco has introduced a new Fibre Channel fabric switch to better connect virtualised servers to all-flash arrays, seeing a rise in back-end array connection port-counts and speed needed to satisfy all-flash array IO demands.…

No e-autions or fixed line broadband included, sorry Crown Commercial Services has rung the bell on the mega ICT for Education framework, with 21 suppliers passing the entrance exam, one more than was originally planned for.…

A harsh lesson, now stand in corridor for four hours The University of London Computer Centre fell victim to a cyber-attack on Thursday.…

Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring - do something Regcast Sign up RIGHT NOW to watch The Register’s how-to Regcast on coping with Windows Server 2003 End of Service (EoS).…

You want it, fight for it, say Finns Nokia HERE, its mapping and location businesses, might be worth more than the former handset giant thought, as rival companies talk up the value, and a consortium of car companies square up to an alliance of Uber and China’s Baidu.…

Concerns about the threat to net neutrality and choice lead to investigation Vodafone India, country’s second-biggest mobile operator, has announced it will hold off offering zero-rated services amid a fierce political argument about the practice.…

He wrote the book, and he's going to bring it along Reg Events The Register's favourite economist cum metals trader cum miner Tim Worstall will be delivering our next Summer lecture on June 4 and launching his latest book to boot.…

Users with a fetish for risky encounters in public spaces will be thrilled Hackers have exposed the personal details and sexual preferences of 3.9 million users of hook-up site Adult FriendFinder.…

Gotta love those life-sustaining and genetically diverse little critters Marineboffins have spent three and half years at sea analysing plankton (singular: plankter) in the most comprehensive analysis of the organisms to have ever taken place.…

Is a distracted Whitman twisting or sticking? Comment HP storage revenues went backwards in its second fiscal 2015 quarter.…

Two windows, two users at a time? How is that possible? As we approach Cupertino's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) ripened rumours continue to fall off the Apple tree.…

We should be able to use threats though The UK’s data protection watchdog has said issuing fines "left, right and centre" is not the way to ensure privacy.…

A remarkable past, and a clouded future Oracle is celebrating 20 years of Java, which was officially announced at the SunWorld conference in San Francisco on May 23 1995. Java 1.0a2 was made available to download. In addition, Netscape’s Marc Andreessen came on stage to announce that Java would be integrated into the Navigator web browser.…

In fact, we're victim of a ‘predatory attack’, says snooper Controversial commercial spyware firm mSpy has denied it's been hacked, following an apparent breach of its systems several days ago.…

Two THOUSAND desktops a cluster, baby. Uh huh VMware has released a new version 1.2 of its EVO:RAIL software that turns servers from third parties into hyperconverged screamers.…

Cambridge boffins recovered crypto keys, plus Google and Facebook tokens Cambridge University boffins Laurent Simon and Ross Anderson say half a billion Android phones could have data recovered and Google accounts compromised thanks to flaws in the default wiping feature.…

Elves vs. Dwarves argument among retro-devs as Men just get on and play improved game Sinclair appreciation site World Of Spectrum recently relaunched its forums, after they fell over last year and users were forced to endure a temporary replacement.…

Little Knocking Sheep of Horrors The German fuzz have nabbed a 25-year-old prostitute for keeping her pet lamb in the Munich brothel where she worked.…

Things are ugly outside the Americas, new China deal might help HP has announced its results for its second fiscal quarter, and the news is mixed.…

Chinese kit-maker has stolen Europe from the yanks Chinese kit-maker Huawei isn't apportioning swelling sales outside the Middle Kingdom to NSA snooping fears, more that double digit growth in Europe is related to brand recognition a decade after it up shop there.…

Coffee king finds cheeky exploit a bitter taste Sakurity hacker Egor Homakov has found a way to dupe Starbucks into loading free cash onto the "coffee" chain's payment cards.…

Taskforce to try again with new education campaign for simpler security standard The The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council has created a taskforce charged with improving security among small businesses.…

'vCloud Air SQL' will bring disaster recovery for your DB coming to Virtzilla's vCloud Air VMware is beta testing a database-as-a-service offering running SQL Server 2008 R2 & 2012.…

RAID bug can corrupt the filesystem, patches incoming, caution advised Flaws have been found in the EXT4 filesystem that can cause data loss when running Linux 4.0 and higher.…

Agencies also hid major flaws in UC Browser The latest package of documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden details how the intelligence services planned to host man-in-the-middle attacks to install tracking and control software onto Android smartphones.…

ChromeOS getting 'em while they're young Chromebooks will be shipping to the tune of 7.3 million units this year, thanks mostly to educational sales.…

Who wouldn't want to own IP from firm that peaked 20 years ago? Dial-up era icon Lycos has finally gotten around to selling off its patents.…

Best way not to remember an answer? Lie to yourself Using secret questions to give people access to their passwords is a terrible idea, according to a new paper from Google.…

Take that Google cable, and weep Australia Singapore's dominant telco, Singtel, has announced a pilot deployment of 10Gbps broadband to a select group next quarter, and says that it expects the blistering fast Internet service to be generally available by the later part of this year.…

Dragon quenched with water landing SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule has made a splash-landing in the Pacific Ocean as planned after detaching from the International Space Station.…