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Push to get punters inhaling one cloudy product Cisco has belatedly crashed the integrated security party with SecureX – a platform that slaps together Switchzilla's network, endpoint cloud and application security stuff.…

Plus birth certificates, job interview data and more A leak of 10,000 records at a Leicestershire care home provider exposed elderly patients' wishes not to be resuscitated, detailed care plans and precisely how much councils paid for individual patients' care.…

How'd you kids meet? Oh, we were helping control an imaginary disease outbreak in a landlocked country Data science platform Dataiku is teaming up with military alliance NATO to create a system to help it build and "deploy" AI projects.…

Plus or minus a few caveats A California judge has given the go-ahead for a $240m lawsuit against AT&T for porting a subscriber's phone number to a hacker, allowing the criminal to steal $24m in cryptocurrency.…

Management software for smart devices to ease entry into ecosystem This week, Amazon announced a software layer to help Internet-of-Things makers integrate Amazon Device SDKs with their IoT gear, further complicating the already confusing technical landscape of dubiously secured, privacy-challenged network-ready appliances.…

High-speed hedgehog pr0n ahoy The Register's very own "Got Brexit Done" tea towel finally arrived this week and brought with it important news for Blighty's hedge dwellers.…

Biz bags fat funding round Revolut, the British-based mobile banking app, has raised $500m (£385m) in fourth-round funding which gives it a theoretical value of $5.5bn (£4.3bn).…

Wrap your assets up well before you send them on their journey Promo Like those in most organisations, you are probably savvy enough by now to have put in place strong security measures that keep your data safe from thieves and prying eyes wherever it is stored.…

Expert panel sesh turns heated on infosec conference's opening day RSA As they do every year, the names behind the RSA crypto-system took the stage in San Francisco for the RSA Conference's crypto panel, sharing their thoughts on the pressing issues facing the information security world.…

'It's time to stop pretending they have driverless cars. Because they don't' The deadly crash of an Apple engineer's Tesla was down to the victim being overly trusting of the car's Autopilot software while distracted by his phone, America's National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded this week.…

Probe raises serious questions about private v public web management Updated A bug in software pushed out by Cloudflare resulted in failures at the heart of the web's infrastructure, according to a report published this week by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).…

Google so sorry after devices fly the coop in multi-hour outage Google has apologized for 16 hours of downtime for countless Nest cameras that left angry owners unable to watch live video streams from their gizmos.…

Pair engineer malicious code from public source tweak before official binary releases Google has updated Chrome for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address three security vulnerabilities – and exploit code for one of them is already public, so get patching.…

Digital transformation? Pah, pass the tins of beans and firelighters The top level of IT management is preparing for a recession in 2020 while getting poor results from the industry’s most hyped technologies, a study by the Hackett Group found.…

Good for privacy – or an alarming move towards further internet centralisation? Mozilla has started rolling out encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) by default for US users of the nonprofit's Firefox browser.…

Chinese tat bazaar's latest smartphone effort will set you back £459 Xiaomi's Mi Note 10 phablet – first introduced last November – has hit UK shores with the entry-level model retailing at £459.…

Still not the last word for VirnetX after 10-year fight The United States Supreme Court has kicked out Apple's attempt to overturn a judgement in one of the cases in its 10-year patent fight with VirnetX.…

Data warehousers likely hoping it's not, er, Apache on their efforts Databricks, the company behind the popular open-source big data tool Apache Spark, has released an ingest technology aimed at getting data into data lakes more quickly and easily.…

A preview of muddy paws all over your on-prem resources, or a passwordless future? Hybrid environments can now join the preview party for FIDO2 support in Azure Active Directory.…

Throughput boosted and encryption in transit added to temporary counterparts AWS has added persistent file systems for its FSx Lustre storage service, which lets you use a high-performance clustered file system on demand.…

Aw, how generous Hey, Linux fans! Microsoft has got your back over fileless threats. Assuming you've bought into the whole Azure Security Center thing.…

That'll be good for their credit rating Financial software behemoth Intuit – owner of QuickBooks, TurboTax and Mint – is splashing more than $7bn to get hold of Credit Karma and its 100 million customers.…

Whew! Defense dept will 'detect and avoid unintended consequences' – so that's fine, right? The US Department of Defense has formally adopted a set principles to ensure the ethical development and deployment of AI technology for military use.…

Lynch's man backed auditor but how much did it truly know? Autonomy trial Mike Lynch's expert accounting witness told the High Court that because Deloitte signed off Autonomy's accounts, everything must have been legal and above board.…

It's going to be hard for the GSMA to come back from this The cancellation of Mobile World Congress over the coronavirus outbreak has had dramatic repercussions – for Barcelona, where the event was supposed to take place; for larger phone brands, which had to radically re-evaluate their launch strategies; and for smaller brands, for whom exhibiting or attending MWC represents a significant chunk of their marketing capital.…

This bodes well Bork!Bork!Bork! There are two things one doesn't want to see before boarding a roller coaster. The first, an employee clutching a large bolt, saying "No, I don't know where it came from either..." The second begins with B.…

Private equity outfit makes concessions, key questions still remain The little-known private equity firm trying to buy the .org internet registry for $1.1bn has made a last-ditch effort to keep the deal alive, promising a series of commitments over pricing and control.…

Appears she ignored report that concluded the tech is highly inaccurate The head of London’s Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, has angered critics of facial recognition technology by accusing them of being “highly inaccurate or highly ill-informed.”…

Cops hope for high-tech solution A small-time criminal's seized €54m Bitcoin fortune has been lost – after the digital keys to unlock the loot were, get this, accidentally thrown away.…

Afil-alas, we hardly knew ye Afilias has pulled out of a controversial race to run Colombia’s trendy .co top-level domain – just days after fresh accusations emerged that the tendering process favored the American corp.…

Absolutely not entertaining an offer that could you just repeat one more time? HP on Monday delivered better quarterly financial results than expected.…

'She was an American hero and her pioneering legacy will never be forgotten' Obit Katherine Johnson, the pioneering African-American mathematician whose calculations ensured NASA's astronauts safely set foot on the Moon in 1969, died today. She was 101.…

Inrupt promises a pro-privacy solution to managing, protecting personal data Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has staffed up his startup, dubbed Inrupt, with a handful of notable hires that make its internet salvation mission a bit more plausible.…

Eddy Kayihura hopes to fix troubled regional internet registry Interview In November, Rwandan IT expert Eddy Kayihura took over as CEO of Afrinic – Africa’s troubled regional internet registry, which is responsible for allocating the continent's IP addresses among other resources. This month he spoke to The Register about his plans for the future, including the overhaul of the registry.…

At least it didn't head back to the drawing board like Samsung Huawei has lifted the lid on its latest pholdable – the Mate Xs. This is the follow-up to last year's coveted tablet hybrid, which was released in China late last year.…

Also: Musical Soyuz seats ahead of next ISS mission Roundup SpaceX gets its feet wet, digging for victory with Mars InSight and a changing of the ISS guard await rocket fanciers in this week's summary of space news.…

Internet of Security is the name of the game, instead of that other 'S' word Arriving fashionably late, Azure Sphere, Microsoft's take on turning the Internet of Sh*t into the Internet of Updates, has finally reached General Availability.…

The re-badged progressive web apps should help fill it out a bit Huawei is boasting of some encouraging stats for its Google Play replacement after the Trump administration stopped the Mountain View giant doing business with the Chinese comms bogeyman.…

Moss green? Rust red? Is this Pokémon? Unfazed by the cancellation of Mobile World Congress, Realme has pulled the sheets off its latest blower – the Realme X50 Pro 5G.…

With public cloud vendors now offering on-prem, why OpenStack? Cost and avoiding lock-in – Red Hat Interview OpenStack allows you to say "I am the Jeff Bezos of my cloud," Red Hat's Sean Cohen, senior manager product management, told The Reg at the launch of OpenStack's Platform 16, its enterprise cloud platform, which has just become generally available.…

Plus: Looking for a 'deep learning boost'? Chipzilla's your man Intel will sling out fresh silicon aimed at hardware across the nascent 5G market: including new second-generation Xeon processors and a low-latency Atom P5900 for next-gen mobile base stations.…

But critics advise to take that with a 'pinch of salt' The UK's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has promised that HMRC will not be "heavy-handed" in pushing its IR35 tax reforms.…

And it does 5G, but who cares? Undeterred by the coronavirus derailing Sony's MWC launch plans, the Japanese firm launched three new devices in a virtual press conference early this morning. Predictably, the most exciting handset is also the newest flagship phone – the 5G Sony Xperia 1 II.…

Tight-lipped chaebol still won't talk about the dodgy app, though Samsung has admitted that what it calls a "small number" of users could indeed read other people's personal data following last week's unexplained Find my Mobile notification.…

Also: Beware the disconnected car Roundup Between fanboys swooning over new Windows icons and a cracking time being had by Surface Laptop 3 owners, over the past week, Microsoft tinkered with backups and nudged Azure Sphere closer to release.…

RIP 'Mad' Mike Hughes The sad news that steam-rocket fan "Mad" Mike Hughes has taken his final flight reached Vulture Central over the weekend.…

Elon Musk roasts OpenAI, says should be more open Roundup Hello readers. If you're struggling to keep up with all the AI-related news spewed out and have already read what we've covered this week, then here's more.…

The operating system that will not die lingers on in NatWest's ATMs Bork!Bork!Bork! In a welcome change from burger-based BSODing, here's Windows 7 tugging at the purse strings in a NatWest ATM in the East Midlands.…

'As soon as I got the note saying I'm inside, I started chasing another role' Ahead of IR35 private sector rules, defence firm BAE Systems has issued a blanket assessment on all its contractors and freelancers that forces them into PAYE terms regardless of their individual circumstances.…

Face it: In 2220, your great-great-great-great-great-great grandkid will not find a compatible SoC for your tat Column If you've got a grand-and-a-half to splurge on rose-gold pocket tech, here are two contenders. One is a 512GB Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max, which can tell the time and make phone calls. The other is an 1820 Garcerand French repeating pocket watch (see below) with verge escapement and quarter repeater, which tells the time. No phone calls, but otherwise in good condition and working well.…