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Customers hacked off as online and mobile service wobbles HSBC has confirmed it is experiencing problems with its online and mobile banking operations after customers took to social media to complain about the lack of service.…

This time the Saturn 1B We ventured back into the world of plastic bricks this week with the building of a Saturn 1B to add to our growing rocket garden.…

I can show you my Three Widths swimming certificate if it helps Something for the Weekend, Sir? As I leave the premises face-first, my ears ring with those oh-so-familiar parting words: "…and never darken our doors again!"…

They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0 Intel's ten-nanometre Ice Lake architecture has landed in Xeon processors for workstations.…

The company's IT might be on fire, but my needs trump those of the many On Call A call from the executive floor is rarely a harbinger of happiness, especially when one is wading knee-deep through the molasses of malware. Welcome to one Register reader's experience in On Call.…

Nobody wants to run their own data centers anymore, says CFO Amazon.com has released its Q2 2021 earnings, and revealed that revenue from its cloud business Amazon Web Services has jumped 37 per cent to an annualised rate of $59 billion – a figure that takes it past Cisco's annual revenue and puts it within striking distance of Lenovo.…

You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror It seems some of us are, in the year of our lord 2021, still reusing the same password for multiple sites, plugging personal gear into work networks, and perhaps overly relying on browser-managed passwords, judging from this poll.…

Toxic smoke from fire forces Australian residents indoors just two days after COVID lockdown lifted Tesla's battery technology is extremely hot in Australia right now – but not in a good way. A 300-megawatt lithium-ion battery built in the state of Victoria using Tesla tech is literally on fire.…

We mention this because Intel stopped shipping them yesterday, ending a strange story Intel has stopped shipping the Itanium CPU.…

Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed China has cracked down on big tech again, this time telling some of its biggest players to get rid of pop-up ads in apps.…

Crew not in danger, NASA insists The International Space Station tilted 45 degrees today after Nauka, a just-docked Russian module, suddenly and unexpectedly fired its thrusters.…

And come April next year, accurate disclosures of personal data usage will be required Google's pending Play Store policy changes are bringing various privacy improvements – but also include a security enhancement and disclosure requirement that deserve mention.…

Qualcomm tells us it has permission to provide 4G-only Snapdragon 888 chip Huawei officially announced its latest flagship smartphones on Thursday, both lacking 5G capabilities due to ongoing US sanctions.…

Fewer than one-in-four staff want to be in the office for more than three days a week Less than a quarter of Cisco's 77,000-strong workforce want to spend three days or more in their office when COVID-19 restrictions lift – and so Switchzilla is embarking on a "great hybrid work experiment."…

Like FLoC, FLEDGE isn't yet ready to fly for web-based ads, judging from this proof-of-concept exploit code Google's effort to build a "Privacy Sandbox" – a set of technologies for delivering personalized ads online without the tracking problems presented by cookie-based advertising – continues to struggle with its promise of privacy.…

Turns out that Austin factory shutdown was nothing but a blip Samsung Electronics is flying high on the back of a surge in memory prices and demand expected to remain strong for the rest of 2021.…

That's 0.25 DUPs! The cost of the UK's new "national flagship" to replace the Royal Yacht Britannia has already ballooned by £50m in just two months, it was revealed yesterday.…

Elderly lab negotiates tricky docking Russia's elderly Nauka module has made it to the International Space Station (ISS), some 25 years since construction of the research module began.…

More than 120 messages caught trying to filch credentials from customers of USAA Bank, Microsoft Between July 13 and July 16, someone took over the Mailgun account owned by restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill and placed an order for login credentials using misappropriated marketing messages.…

New policies give users more control, but ad tracking still on by default Google has shared details of upcoming changes to Android including the ability to blank a device's advertising ID, and a new safety section for apps in the Play store.…

Doing both in one system might be 'somewhat elegant' but user experience remains to be seen, analyst says Couchbase, the NoSQL database beloved of modern applications developers, is trying to build a bridge to the old world with its 7.0 release.…

Former state monopoly talks up FTTP build out, as does Virgin Media BT's revenues slipped during the three months to the end of June – when French-owned Altice took a 12.1 per cent stake in the business and the telco went some way to resolving an industrial dispute.…

'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?' Red Hat is collaborating with Nutanix to make OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux a fully supported solution on the Nutanix native virtualization platform, AHV.…

Great, maybe the trend can FOAD now A dual-format auction of a physical and digital non-fungible token (NFT) version of a job application penned by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has come to a close – and the physical side has emerged victorious, by an order of magnitude.…

Company confirms it's investigating adding Chipzilla to multi-source vendor list, alongside TSMC and Samsung Qualcomm's strong financials for the third quarter of 2021 come with a warning. Supply shortages aren't over yet – and the fabless chip maker may be turning to Intel to help meet demand.…

Aims to heal perplexing split between Canvas and Model-driven apps Microsoft's Custom Pages, an effort to converge its two different low-code Power App platforms, are now in public preview - though it is more hybrid than truly converged.…

Now that's agile Northern Ireland's Department of Finance has awarded IT services firm Equiniti a contract worth up to £80m to build a land revenue and benefits system in a procurement four years in the making.…

Court finally hands down written ruling – and it's very bad news for UK exec Analysis Autonomy personnel were instructed to destroy hard drives at the company's offices nearly a year after the buyout of the software bz by HP, a court ruling in ex-CEO Mike Lynch's extradition battle has revealed.…

YouTuber's project already well past its goal Neil Thomas, host of the RMC vintage computing and gaming YouTube channel, is crowdfunding a colouring book of vintage computing hardware.…

Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls Around 20 million people in England are in the dark over plans to share their GP medical records with a NHS Digital database, according to a study by not-for-profit consumer watchdog Which?…

Reason for probe unknown, but CEO claims it will vindicate company's claims Israel's Ministry of Defense says the nation's government has visited spyware-for-governments developer NSO Group to investigate allegations its wares have been widely – and perhaps willingly – misused.…

And you've patched them all, haven't you, diligent readers? Western cybersecurity agencies have published a list of 30 of the most exploited vulnerabilities abused by hostile foreign states in 2020, urging infosec bods to ensure their networks and deployments are fully patched against them.…

Please shop online instead while it's safely disposed of, says branch of CCTV specialist MASCO Masco, a Hungarian chain of stores specializing in property surveillance and protection tech, has asked customers to avoid its head office because an unexploded World War II bomb has been found nearby.…

Memorandum details plans to turn that around with rapid development of security baselines, not mandates The Biden administration has issued a National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems to address what it describes as a "woefully insufficient" security posture.…

Attack turned off encryption function, which made snooping rather easier Law enforcement agencies in Taiwan are investigating a cyberattack on over 100 local political figures and dignitaries who used the messaging app LINE.…

You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using 'em Comment Amazon Web Services has announced the retirement of the network structure underpinning its third cloud service, the EC2-Classic network underpinning the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.…

As web search giant stalls end to work-from-home to mid-October Google employees can continue working from home until October 18 – after the web giant pushed back the date for staff to return to its offices from mid-September.…

Legal eagles determined to overturn decision to throw out antitrust lawsuit targeting Instagram, Whatsapp acquisitions Attorneys General from 46 US states, plus Guam and Washington DC, have appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that claims the social media giant illegally acquired its competitors to maintain a monopoly.…

Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities Boffins in Finland have scanned the open-source software libraries in the Python Package Index, better known as PyPI, for security issues and found that nearly half contain potentially vulnerable code.…

Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind Microsoft will not support a semi-annual release channel in the forthcoming Windows Server 2022, and users requiring frequent updates will be directed towards Azure Stack HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure).…

Shrinking survey could signify decline of UWP Windows 11 has reared its Fluent-designed head in the latest set of usage figures for Microsoft's operating systems.…

Great, it's not like employers need more reasons to haul you back to the office Firms looking to save money by shifting to more flexible ways of working will need to think carefully about IT security and the additional cost of breaches linked to staff working from home.…

Do the browser polka Browser maker Vivaldi has introduced Accordion Tabs in version 4.1 – yet another way to deal with tab overload.…

Space is hard Two spacecraft with a lot to prove are ready for launch in the coming days.…

Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit Xero says that problems linked to its login infrastructure – not security woes – were to blame for yesterday's mega wobble that saw customers locked out of the cloud-based accounting software for almost eleven hours.…

Recognise this one? Oh dear... Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study.…

Early birds really do get the worm, it would seem Browser maker Mozilla has enhanced its Virtual Private Network (VPN) service with split tunnelling and doubled the monthly pricing plan for new customers that don't want to commit to a one year contract.…

Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten speaks to the Reg about 10 years of studying DevOps adoption Interview On the 10th anniversary of its first survey, the multi-vendor State of Devops report concludes that DevOps is still "rarely done well at scale," and that "almost everyone is using the cloud, but most people are using it poorly."…

Cell tower acquisition faces full inquiry from Britain's Competition and Markets Authority Cellnex's efforts to buy the UK mobile infrastructure assets of CK Hutchison – including some 6,000 cell towers – have hit a regulatory snag after the competition regulator opted for a full inquiry into the deal.…

Chief exec Pichai wants to 'help people get the information they need,' even as YouTube fingered for conspiracy guff Google parent Alphabet has reported financial success across everything from artificial intelligence to video streaming – thanks in no small part to the pandemic and increased efforts from ransomware ne'er-do-wells.…