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Trump-China trade war latest: Brave patriot Apple decides to do exact same thing, will still make Mac Pro in US
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.…
Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies
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.…
After complaints over leaked Voice Assistant recordings, Google says: We hear you
Audio retention settings to be more transparent (if you know where to find them) Google has laid out what is and isn't recorded when you use your voice to operate its Assistant app, and tweaked some of its preference settings labels to be more upfront about what happens to your audio data. It also said sorry – again.…
Several months after the fact, CafePress finally acknowledges huge data theft to its customers
Maybe check your credit rating, says red-faced firm T-shirt flogger CafePress has finally informed its customers about a serious data loss dating back to February and first reported last month.…
Bored and looking for something to do with your fingers? Why not try speed-cubing at a central London pop-up?
Rubik's Cube mini-fest marks 39 years of eponymous toy Speed-cubers, artists, entertainers and at least one Guinness World Records judge will have their hands well occupied during next week's free-entry Rubik's Cube "Pop-Up Experience" in London.…
Better Bluetooth in Windows 10 and more local Azure toys via Docker containers
Also, a new font arrives and Microsoft struggles to keep Sets' coffin lid closed Roundup Another new Windows build, a flash of Bluetooth, and Azure gazes into Space: it's another Microsoft weekly roundup, categorically free of references to Dark Mode – except for that one (dammit).…
Alarmingly, Facebook needs more first-person shooter footage, US Energy dept buys AI-training chips, and more
Plus: Watch cute bot agents master hide-and-seek Roundup Let's kick your week off with the latest happenings in the world of AI and machine learning.…
HMRC's HTTPS howler: Childcare payments site cert expired at 1am on Sunday, down for hours
Gov.uk portal finally lurched back to life after lunch Updated Furious parents have lashed out at Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs after the UK tax authority let a key HTTPS certificate expire on its childcare tax credit portal.…
Microsoft: Dynamics 365 to hook up online, physical retail... 'cos we love tracking so much we want it offline too
Plus: Redmond unveils Connected Store Microsoft has new applications for Dynamics 365 that retailers will be pleased to note use data and AI to assist "personalisation" and optimisation across multiple retailing channels, including online and in-store.…
Devonitely not great: Torbay and South Devon NHS declares 'major IT incident'
Do not come to hospital unless it's critical, it tells patients on Facebook and Twitter Torbay & South Devon NHS has declared a state of emergency of the tech kind, warning that a “critical IT systems failure” has forced it to cancel all scheduled routine surgery and outpatients appointments.…
If you have enough of this type of gut microbe, you can get drunk for free after eating carbs
Well we say for free... but having too much of it means you prob have fatty liver disease Do you ever feel drunk, even though you swear you haven't touched a drop of alcohol at all? Well, your gut might be harbouring a type of bacteria that brews booze as a byproduct.…
Gearheads get their spudgers into an iPhone 11 Pro Max: Bi-lateral charging, anyone?
Plus: Start the week right by watching Apple's latest being dropped repeatedly A teardown of the iPhone 11 seems to have confirmed support for bi-lateral charging – the ability to charge another device using your phone's battery.…
Pizza prankster's prisoner plea plot perturbs police, Norks invading and Uber woes
Plus, a Windows NTFS flaw, Fortnite hacking, and much, much more Security roundup Here are a handful of security happenings in the past week that are worth noting - aside from what The Reg has already covered.…
It's ace that UK.gov 'in 2030 will be joined up, trusted and responsive' – but what about now?
A week of 'big-picture thinking' surprisingly small in detail Analysis In the last week there's been no shortage of "big-picture thinking" in digital government circles.…
Switch about to get real: Openreach bod on the challenge of shuttering UK's copper phone lines
With 2025 deadline, potential for disruption is huge Interview Most people are unaware of the huge infrastructure challenge the UK is about to undergo as 15 million phone lines are switched off.…
Calling all the Visual Basic snitches: Keep quiet about it and so will he...
Regulatory compliance? We've heard of it Who, Me? If it's Monday, then it must be time for another jaunt to the hallowed confessional of Who, Me? where Register readers confess their, or their co-workers', deepest darkest sins.…
When modernising your data warehouse and analytics, trust is everything – learn more from Google this week
Find out how your peers are doing getting ahead with Google Cloud Promo Even if you’re not worried about your traditional data warehouse delivering all the insight it could, you’re almost certainly worried about it staying secure and compliant.…
Where can you learn the limits and abilities of artificial intelligence? Try Westminster
MCubed doors open in just over a week Event It's barely a week till we kick open the doors at MCubed, but there’s still time for you to join us and learn from a lineup of speakers who’ve all put the theory behind machine learning and artificial into practice.…
Emergency button saves gamers from sudden death... of starvation
Free burritos keep the action going but, jeez, open a window would ya? Hardcore gamers no longer have to tread the knife-edge of actual life or death in the physical world while pwning n00bs in their favourite battle royale.…
Good old Auntie Beeb's mobile app berates kids for being rubbish online
TMI, luv. TMI. No, please don't look at Goatse. Stop. STOOOP The BBC has launched a mobile app – Own It – with a Beeb-approved interface aimed at keeping kids safer online when using baby's first smartphone.…
The '$4.4m a year' bug: Chipotle online orders swallowed by JavaScript credit-card form blunder
Taco titan's e-ordering fails when browser autofill takes over Chipotle Mexican Grill has been leaving money on the table, thanks to an apparent bug in the restaurant chain's e-commerce operation.…
Class-action lawsuit claims DXC 'selectively timed' job cuts to inflate short-term profit target
And alleges outsourcing giant then struggled to deliver contracted services DXC Technology has been named in another class-action lawsuit that alleges mass redundancies were used by senior management to boost earnings but left the company unable to service contracted clients properly.…
Disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy made me do it, says bloke in Russian court on hacking charges
Oh no I didn't, says disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky's former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.…
We sense a great disturbance in the Salesforce: File-slinging feature breaks down for more than 12 hours
It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early It has been a rough morning for Salesforce here in San Francisco: part of the cloud giant's sprawling empire fell over and stayed down for more than 12 hours. In fact, it stumbled over so hard, CEO Marc Benioff's techies are having to apply fixes to servers manually.…
Hey, NPM. How do you like your Bogensberger? He's, well, done: CEO Bryan ejects from biz
JavaScript packager seeks new boss amid internal friction, firings, unionization attempts NPM Inc, the JavaScript package registry, is looking for a new CEO. Bryan Bogensberger, hired in January to develop the company's enterprise business, resigned today "to pursue new opportunities."…
Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems
IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block American drive-slinger Western Digital has pulled out of the storage systems business, telling the world last night that it is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN.…
My Little Bromium: HP Inc inks security deal to slurp micro-VM slinger
Tech runs browsers in sandbox to humiliate malware Ink seller HP is buying endpoint security company Bromium, which already comes bundled with some HP computers under the Sure Click brand.…
Bulgarian phishing gang member who lived with his parents jailed for part in £40m fraud ring
37-year-old was extradited to Blighty to stand trial A Bulgarian phishing criminal who created fake versions of legitimate companies' websites as part of a £40m fraud has been jailed.…
Supply chain actors agree that everyone's a security risk – except themselves, of course
Perception is an illusion, grasshopper Security surveys tend to confirm what we already knew a few months ago and the 2019 Global Cyber Risk Perception Survey (PDF) from Marsh and Microsoft does not disappoint.…
Chased out of Australia by gun-toting locals, Google Wing relocates drone delivery trial to US
Prepare for aerial droppings, Virginians After being hounded out of Australian capital Canberra earlier this year, Google has declared that its Wing division will now start hassling innocent Americans with drone parcel deliveries.…
In the bag: Serco 'delighted' to grab £450m ferry and freight deal between Scotland and Northern Isles
Payday landing for grandson of Churchill, chief exec Rupert Soames Brit outsourcing giant Serco was today named preferred bidder for a six-year £450m ferry and freight services contract between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney and Shetland islands.…
Apple's looking at you, kid: Fanbois froth over AR patent docs for gaze tracking headset
Lighter, flatter and forveal – ooh yes, forrrveeeeal The Apple rumour mill churned a perennial favourite back to the surface this week when new patent applications from the company referring to augmented reality tech were published.…
World's largest heap of untreated nuclear waste needs more bots to cart around irradiated crap
Chernobyl? That's cute Sellafield nuclear power station in Cumbria, northern England, is calling for help to increase the number of robots it uses to monitor and clean the site.…
Google spaffs €3bn on power-grubbin' Euro bit barns while boasting of its 'biggest renewable energy purchase ever'
Oh shoot, Climate Day. Quick everyone, look green! Google CEO Sundar Pichai used a trip to Finland to tell world+dog that the ad giant would be ploughing billions of Euros into European data centres.…
It's possible to reverse-engineer AI chatbots to spout nonsense, smut or sensitive information
Pick one trained with salacious conversations for maximum fun Machine-learning chatbot systems can be exploited to control what they say, according to boffins from Michigan State University and TAL AI Lab.…
Tesco parking app hauled offline after exposing 10s of millions of Automatic Number Plate Recognition images
Ranger Services goes to ground over unsecured Azure blob Exclusive Tesco has shuttered its parking validation web app after The Register uncovered tens of millions of unsecured ANPR images sitting in a Microsoft Azure blob.…
'Ridiculous, rubbish, outrageous, complete bollocks': Just some reviews for Amazon's corporate contribution to Blighty's coffers
The Reg chats to Dame Margaret Hodge MP about box slinger's tax affairs Interview Amazon's latest PR efforts to paint itself as a responsible corporate citizen in the UK have been branded "complete bollocks" by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, a long-term critic of the online giant's tax practices.…
Google: Read my lips. You cannot link up a G Suite account with Nest smart home gizmos
'Aggravating and alarming!' Nest users are shouting at Google to let them register G Suite accounts to their home assistant and automation devices.…
Imagine if Facebook could read your mind: Er, I have some bad news for you...
These things can mess with your brain Something for the Weekend, Sir? I never quite turned out to be the fine young woman my parents were hoping for.…
Three UK slammed for 'ripping off' loyal mobile customers by £32.4m per year
Operator refusing to apply automatic discounts next year UK consumer charity Citizens Advice has accused telco giant Hutchison's UK network Three of "ripping off loyal customers" to the tune of £32.4m per year, by refusing to apply automatic discounts once contracts end.…
That time Windows got blindsided by a ball of plasma, 150 million kilometres away
In praise of mouse balls On Call Welcome to On Call, that time of the week when you can luxuriate in the aggravation endured by others, safe in the knowledge it would never happen to you, right?…
Calling all data-hungry disruptive orgs. It's time to disrupt the bugbears holding back your biz
Join us, Google, and one of its customers to gain real-world advice on extracting the most value from your info Webcast If you depend on your data to disrupt the market, you’ve probably already built a modern data-oriented infrastructure. But you are also likely coming up against some common challenges facing many organisations that operate at the cutting edge of data.…
DevOps biz Chef roasted for tech contract with family-separating US immigration, forks up attempt to quash protest
Software house hits nuclear option after popular Ruby code yanked for moral reasons DevOps darling Chef had a nightmare Thursday after it emerged the software biz had inked a deal with US immigration, which sparked protest and a baffling counter-response.…
Exploding super-prang asteroid to pepper Earth, trigger deadly ice age – no, wait, it happened 466 million years ago
Aww, shucks. Cancel the End of the World party A huge collision in the Solar System’s asteroid belt may have triggered an ice age on Earth that froze our planet... some 466 million years ago.…
Nice work if you can grift it: Two blokes accused of swindling $10m from the elderly with bogus virus infection alerts
~~~WaRNiG!! Ur PC has THe Da Vinci m4Lw4rez!! CaLL 1-555-NOSCAM 2 f!x it~~~ Two Americans used bogus virus-infection alerts to bilk $10m out of PC owners, it is alleged.…
Open-source companies gather to gripe: Cloud giants sell our code as a service – and we get the square root of nothing
Biz bods head to Open Core Summit to ponder how to, you know, get paid Analysis On Thursday, at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, companies building open-source code gathered to figure out how to survive having Amazon, Google, and Microsoft sell their software as a service without paying for the privilege.…
If you're using Harbor as your container registry, bear in mind it can be hijacked with has_admin_role = True
Patch now before miscreants sail off with your apps, data Video IT departments using the Harbor container registry will want to update the software ASAP, following Thursday's disclosure of a bug that can be exploited by users to gain administrator privileges.…
Facebook campus death plunge: Cops say man jumped from 4th floor in apparent suicide
Foul play ruled out at Menlo Park headquarters A Facebook employee died at the tech giant's Silicon Valley headquarters today in an apparent suicide.…
FedEx execs: We had no idea cyberattack would be so bad. Investors: Is that why you sold $40m+ of your own shares?
Shareholders NotHappy stock offloaded in NotPetya aftermath FedEx execs not only hid the impact of the NotPetya ransomware on their business but personally profited by selling off tens of millions of dollars of their own shares before the truth came out, a lawsuit filed by the delivery business’ own shareholders claims.…
Call-center scammer loses $9m appeal in stunning moment of poetic justice
But I only expected to pay $250,000, wails scumbag to wall of blank faces A call-center scammer has lost his appeal to overturn a $9m fine – after a court pointed out the crook had specifically waived the right to appeal when he pleaded guilty.…
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