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Half of government grant to infosec training biz suspended as MPs demand probe Infosec training biz Hacker House has been catapulted to Parliamentary prominence after reports that co-founder Jennifer Arcuri secured UK government funding because of her personal relationship with now-Prime Minister Boris Johnson.…

Hurry up – nearly beer o' clock Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the UK tax collector, has issued a winding-up order against tech services outfit Getronics over unpaid VAT, an issue the company said will be "resolved today".…

Guys, just pick up the phone and change! Following an Ofcom review of broadband pricing, a bunch of British ISPs have promised to allow loyal customers access to better deals once their contracts end.…

Don't worry, DCMS is about to publish 'yet another strategy' The UK government's ageing IT systems make "extracting data expensive and sometimes impossible" – yet there is no central repository that lists creaking kit in need of replacement, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has found.…

There's an 'undeclared war' going on A US lobbying group is calling for open standards as a solution to the supposed security threat posed by Huawei.…

Want a peek at what's coming in Red Hat? Step this way CentOS has told devs that they can now get stuck into Stream, a new Linux distro it built with code planned for the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).…

Jeez, this building lark is hard... Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset, southwest England, will cost about £2bn more to build than previous estimates and will miss its deadline for completion.…

UK's top mobile network 'fully cooperating' with investigation The UK's communications regulator has launched an investigation into mobile network EE after an outage earlier this year may have left some customers unable to access the emergency services.…

A K9 to tide you over until hoverboards come out Shambling military-grade mechanical monstrosity maker Boston Dynamics has officially launched its dog-like robot, Spot.…

A billion by next year? Microsoft dropped a fresh build of 2020's Windows 10 last night as the company trumpeted 900 million devices running the operating system.…

I want mine on parchment right now, young man, and none of your diggy-till nonsense "Our research shows that most people do not want digital receipts. Consumers prefer and trust paper and there is the very real worry about data security that needs to be considered."…

Systemd-managed home folders are secure, portable, extensible... albeit with broken SSH login All Systems Go Systemd inventor Lennart Poettering told the crowds at the All Systems Go Linux user-space event in Berlin he intends to reinvent home directories to fix issues with the current model that are otherwise insoluble.…

Rip and replace only $3.5bn! Won't slow 5G rollout either The cost of banning Huawei from European 5G markets would be minimal, and not significantly slow the deployment of upgraded networks, according to an analyst whose opinion flies in the face of some mobile operators.…

The Good, the Bad, and the Wunderful Stob In the opening chapter of his latest book How JavaScript Works (pub. Virgule-Solidus, 2018, c. £24.19, pp 279), Douglas Crockford introduces us to a selection of English linguistic idiosyncrasies that he will inflict on his readers.…

Plus: Who needs a visa to Europe when you've got a Space Bridge? Roundup While NASA splashing the cash on Orion modules may have grabbed the headlines, the fate of India's lander continued to perplex, assembly of the Space Launch System continued and Blighty pondered a Space Bridge.…

Tune in to discover how you can make the best of both worlds, private and public Webcast Public, private, hybrid, multi... with so many options open, how do you build a full-stack cloud solution that takes advantage of all available resources in the best possible way?…

While you're at it, fix Java too Adobe has released an update to clean up a trio of vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, its long-running web application platform.…

Lone 'no' vote nixes renewal of W3C's Privacy Interest Group Google has blocked a proposed revision of the charter of the Privacy Interest Group (PING), a part of the W3C web standards body, over concerns that establishing an unchecked "authoritarian review group" will create "significant unnecessary chaos in the development of the web platform."…

Pro tip: When you’re removed as a Reddit moderator, you may want to review your life choices Yesterday, September 23, was officially autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere: a fact that prompted a very frustrated gamer to ask Atari what was going on with the product that he had forked over hundreds of dollars for more than a year earlier.…

This persistent large-capacity memory may be the fuel your app needs Comment Among all the uncertainties in this world right now, there is at least one constant: applications still absolutely rely on data storage.…

Hack spee included 2014 JP Morgan Chase data theft On Monday, Andrei Tyurin, a 35-year-old Russian national, pleaded guilty in New York to charges of computer intrusion, bank and wire fraud, and online gambling in connection with a sustained hacking campaign targeting US financial institutions.…

Hackers can inject system commands via version 5 of software, no patch available An anonymous bug hunter has publicly disclosed a zero-day flaw in the version 5 of the popular vBulletin forum software than can be exploited over the internet to hijack servers. No patch is known to be available.…

Workers brought over from India were supposed to tackle specific projects – not fill a pool for short contracts Pradyumna Kumar Samal, the CEO of two US tech firms, was this month jailed for seven years for what prosecutors called “the largest and most sophisticated H-1B scheme ever prosecuted" in Seattle.…

Office rental biz supremo huffs about 'scrutiny' as he ejects WeWork's wildman CEO and co-founder Adam Neumann has been pushed out as chief exec of his post-profit property management biz.…

As Reg readers will know, you'll have to click a few buttons first Firebox builder Mozilla has confirmed to UK Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan that Britons won't be getting DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) by default once the feature is included in the next run of browser updates.…

With the hope of running more enterprise applications AWS has joined the .NET Foundation as a Corporate Sponsor, which means the cloud giant gets a seat on the Foundation's Advisory Council as well as helping to fund the foundation's activities.…

UK.gov wants 'algorithm' to be shared with other tech firms UK prime minister (at time of writing) Boris Johnson announced to the UN Security Council today a plan to block the sharing of violent videos on social media after terrorist attacks.…

Court green-lights Franco's exhumation from opulent mountainside mausoleum The Supreme Court in Spain has ruled that the government can exhume the remains of General Francisco Franco, who became dictator after the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until his death in 1975.…

Three more months before all jobs stop and deletion starts In what seems to be becoming a bit of a habit within the halls of Redmond, Microsoft has extended the life of another product, this time the doomed Azure Scheduler.…

See? That Trump fellow's not so bad after all Texas Senator Ted Cruz hailed "a great day for the men and women at Johnson Space Center" as NASA awarded the contract for building Orion spacecraft to Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colorado.…

Preview Insiders up to date with 19H2 toys. Or are they? Microsoft last night loaded up the confus-o-canon once more with updates for those more cautious Windows Insiders in the Release Preview ring.…

International sites needn't worry about European findings The so-called Right To Be Forgotten from unflattering search results does not extend outside the EU's borders, the European Court of Justice ruled this morning.…

McAfee study finds poor setups, even worse visibility The ongoing rash of data leaks caused by misconfigured clouds is the result of companies having virtually no visibility into how their cloud instances are configured, and very little ability to audit and manage them.…

Seems there is some work involved, as one AWS punter discovers Adopting the latest hip technology – like "going serverless" – does not always work out as well as we'd hope.…

That is something up with which all 11 judges would not put British Prime Minister (PM) Boris Johnson's advice to the Queen to suspend Parliament was unlawful and therefore the House's prorogation was also illicit and should be recalled as soon as possible, said a judgement handed down at the Supreme Court this morning.…

Gets 2 months to prove its bona fides and make regulator Morden happy Transport for London has granted Uber a two-month licence to continue running services in the capital while it proves it is a fit and proper operator – but it must comply with extra conditions.…

Block by IP, very naaice Kazakhstan officials blocked 93,000 websites from domestic access in a ham-fisted attempt to blacklist an adult massage parlour.…

Shingle spit and you'll miss this science and history on t' beach gem Geek's Guide to Britain An isolated spit of land on the Suffolk coast, so narrow that in places you can cast a stone from one side to the other, seems an unlikely place to find the remnants of nearly a century of advanced scientific military research, but that's exactly what you will discover if you visit Orford Ness.…

The glass gizmo emits visible light too A tiny laser, a thousand times thinner than the average single strand of human hair, might be able to slip inside microprocessor chips or take closeups of human tissues one day, according to a paper published in Nature Materials.…

From now until 2025, let's call it 'meaningful universal connectivity' Wondered why all those government initiatives to expand broadband internet provision into poor or remote areas never seem to come to fruition? It's because we've been misdefining what broadband means all along.…

Jump-start your next decade at the Global Digital Conference this week Promo If you’ve decided that your traditional data warehouse or analytics tooling isn’t fit for the next decade, you should take time out to join Google Cloud’s Global Digital Conference tomorrow – Wednesday, 25 September.…

Developers, developers, developers, developers (dev... velopers, dev... splutter...) Microsoft on Monday launched .NET Core 3.0 and Visual Studio 2019 16.3 at its virtual .NET Conf that is under way this week.…

We are the knights who say... Nim! The Nim programming language reached v1.0 on Monday, bringing with it a stability guarantee and enthusiasm from its community of fans.…

From Lambda to Azure, and all points in between, join us this November in London Event If you’re thinking of shifting over to serverless and function-as-a-service, join us at the aptly named Serverless Computing London from November 6 to 8.…

Yeah, well, tough, you get a brand rejig instead Logowatch Remember Yahoo!? It used to be Google but failed to get better, keep current, or do anything useful.…

AI marketing tool sparks lawsuit Vimeo's cloud-based video-editing app Magisto analyzes thousands of people's faces using AI and stores their biometric data in a database without their consent, it is claimed.…

Update browser ASAP after Google gurus spot miscreants abusing bug to hijack PCs Microsoft today issued a rare emergency security update for Internet Explorer to address a critical flaw in the browser that's being exploited right now in the wild.…

Judge blasts Big Blue for trying to wriggle out of revealing Operation Baccarat blueprints IBM was ordered late on Friday to produce communications from CEO Ginni Rometty and other executives related to Operation Baccarat, the IT giant's alleged company-wide-plan to replace older workers with younger ones.…

And yet manages to blag a federal tariff exclusion. #MAGA! Apple has proudly announced it will make its next-generation Mac Pro at its plant in Texas after it received federal tariff exclusions on parts imported from China into America.…

CEO says sorry in U-turn so hard, boffins at CERN thought space-time was distorting Embattled Chef has U-turned and vowed to not work with two US immigration agencies beyond its ongoing contracts, following immense community and employee pressure.…