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What's the worst subject line for an email CC'd to world+dog? Car heating tech biz Webasto's cunning plan to get all its resellers to sign up to say they consented to having their data accessed, as required under GDPR regs, went a bit wrong when the German company accidentally CC'd a large number of people in its UK dealer network.…

Problem is, the scientists don't understand how it's doing it Neural networks can predict your biological age and sex just by analysing the pattern of your heart beats, according to new research published on Tuesday.…

Sharpen your IT negotiation tactics at this year's IT Sourcing, Procurement, Vendor and Asset Management Summit Promo Are you an IT sourcing and procurement leader, finance manager, asset manager or vendor management leader facing the ever steeper challenge of enhancing business performance while also optimising costs?…

Scram CamScanner, says Kaspersky An Android PDF maker with more than 100 million downloads from the official Play Store has been caught silently installing malware on victims' phones.…

Hybrid IT and Intelligent Services are slightly on the low, too, compared to last year HPE announced its fiscal third quarter results for this year on Tuesday, reporting mixed results with an overall dip in sales and growth in gross margins compared to the previous year. However, the enterprise giant couldn't do the biggest job – actually turning a profit.…

A Palestinian living in Lebanon and his friends don’t love America? Bye bye visa An already controversial policy of searching people’s mobile phones and laptops at the US border has returned to the spotlight after a 17-year-old student claimed his visa was revoked in response to social media posts written by other people that appeared on his feeds.…

Reputation matters more than code correctness, boffins claim Git, distributed version control software used by developers to manage source code, includes a command to generate what's known as a pull request, which provides developers with a way to share changes they've made to their copy of a project with the upstream version.…

Former Waymo bigwig in way mo' trouble The former Uber exec at the center of the ride-broker's battle with Google over self-driving car tech has been hit with more than 30 criminal charges.…

A great deal or were consumers Bulldozed by the chip giant? AMD has agreed to pay purchasers of its FX Bulldozer processors a total of $12.1m to settle a four-year false advertising lawsuit.…

'A more ethical, reliable and sustainable phone' – but is anyone buying? Fairphone, whose devices are designed to be sustainable and made in exploitation-free factories, will kick out its third unit in mid-September, priced at €450.00 including VAT.…

Starting a war over stopped trams? Unlikely, says intelligence boffin NATO's secretary-general has once again declared that members of the alliance will respond with force to cyber-attacks, in line with Article 5 of its founding treaty.…

Security plus Linux application support – enough to tempt enterprises? Google has rolled out its "first Chromebook Enterprise devices," these being a couple of Dell Latitude laptops launched at the VMWorld shindig currently under way in San Francisco.…

Also: Storage shenanigans and that Xbox fragrance gets its own ad Round Up The Microsoft gang continued their summer of software emissions with a SQL Server 2019 Release Candidate and yet more Windows 10 previews in this week's round-up.…

CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry VMworld Ahead of day-two of VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to further overhaul the virtualization giant's reputation in the open-source world.…

That time we found those lovely old geysers on one of the icy giant's MOONS As the world took down the bunting from the Apollo 11 celebrations, another anniversary rolled around: this weekend marked 30 years since Voyager 2 had its final planetary encounter, with Neptune.…

Why the EV market is stalling UK government efforts to offset carbon emissions via the adoption of electric cars were last week slammed by the Science and Technology Committee.…

'Majority' of shipment expansion in Middle Kingdom – Gartner Huawei reported very little smartphone shipment growth outside Greater China in Q2 due to uncertainty over the US government's trade shenanigans, Gartner has claimed.…

About your data breach the other day, lads... Transport for London is looking at ways to improve its processes after a Register reader queried why he was being asked to write down his password on a paper form for railway staff to read.…

Presenters withdraw from the PHP Central Europe conference, show organizers call it quits Under the heading, "Diversity Matters!" the website for the PHP Central Europe developer conference (PHP.CE) says, "PHP Central Europe Conference is committed to creating a conference that is as inclusive as possible."…

Audio books with closed captions? That's a lawsuit Book publishers are suing audio book specialist Audible for using machine learning technology that automatically transcribes audiobooks to text, claiming that this violates copyright law.…

EA and ESA subscribers can get 12 free months of updates With Windows 7's official retirement less than five months away, Redmond is offering some business customers a way to squeeze a bit more life out of the beloved OS.…

The fix for the fix is in Apple has issued an update to address a potentially serious security flaw it re-opened in the latest version of iOS.…

CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes VMworld Michael Dell sounded off against the China-US trade war today at VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, branding the ongoing row as "unproductive."…

Ninth Circuit approves partial stay on injunction Qualcomm won’t be obliged to license key patents to its competitors – for now – after it won a stay at the Ninth Circuit.…

25 complaints target Taiwan-based chipmaker and its manufacturing customers On Monday, Globalfoundries (GF), a chip maker based in Santa Clara, California, said it filed patent infringement claims in the US and Germany against 20 companies that use processors from rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).…

Legal argument reflects president’s refusal to follow rules of public office Donald Trump should be allowed to block people from his Twitter feed because it is not an official government account, the president’s lawyers have re-argued in a legal appeal.…

NASA space ace accused of hacking ex-wife's bank account mid-orbit and mid-divorce A NASA astronaut has been accused of breaking into her wife's bank account while working aboard the International Space Station.…

Fleshbag crew spared from robotic companion for the moment by Kurs kerfuffle Russia's robotic Soyuz MS-14 test mission hit a glitch over the weekend after a botched attempt to dock with the ISS.…

You got hurt, we get it. But you can't ignore your data-center's workhorse Comment If you mention Storage Area Network and Logical Unit Numbers to IT professionals of a certain vintage, you are likely to encounter eye rolling and invective. The least unprintable of the epithets you'll hear may include "outdated," "pain to manage," and "an impediment to getting real work done."…

Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news VMworld It's that time of the year when VMware gets customers, analysts, and tech press under one roof to do a victory lap and brag about all the stuff it's been up to.…

Including AV patches, VPN attacks, data leaks, and security cam holes Roundup Summer is winding down, although there are plenty of computer security news bits and bytes to go around.…

Lawsuit argues event bosses breached deal by failing to prevent audience hostility Crown Sterling, a Newport Beach, California-based biz that calls itself "a leading digital cryptographic firm," is suing UBM, the UK-based owner of the Black Hat USA conference, in America for allegedly violating its sponsorship agreement.…

I like trucking, I like trucking and I like to truck Who, Me? Welcome to Who, Me?, The Register's weekly tale of reader misdeeds, accidental or otherwise.…

Including another, larger GPT-2 reveal Roundup Let's kick off this week – a four-day week for the UK – with some recent AI-related news beyond what we've already covered.…

Including another round of 10th-gen Intel Cores Hot Chips Now that the Hot Chips conference is over until next year, let's bring you up to speed quickly on developments from and around the Silicon Valley event.…

FCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico.…

Chocolate Factory sees some benefits in a censorship model Google may be lax in policing policy violating videos on YouTube, but at least it's adding oversight where it's needed – to mute overly opinionated employees.…

Investors peeved Larry Ellison owned 40% of the biz he paid billions in Big Red cash to buy Three members of Oracle's board of directors say a class-action lawsuit, filed against Oracle in the US by Oracle shareholders over Oracle's 2016 acquisition of NetSuite, should go forward.…

It’s a class action agreement so guess who gets the $4m payout? If you guessed the plaintiffs, guess again The programmers behind augmented-reality pest-chasing Pokemon Go have settled a class-action lawsuit in the US brought by angry homeowners who claimed the video game encouraged people to trespass on their land.…

Right to bear arms doesn't cover armed UAVs If you were wondering whether your right to bear arms extends to the right to bear an armed drone, we have bad news.…

Solution Centre WONTFIX amid EOL date shenanigans Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates to make it seem less important – and is now telling the world it EOL'd the vulnerable monitoring software before its final version was released.…

27-year-old also shipped weed, flogged 'how-to' fraud guides A hacker from Kent, England, has handed over almost a million quid in Bitcoin following a lengthy police investigation.…

Make that the winning move, are we right? Webcast It feels as though everyone's talking about edge computing, and yet, once you've torn through all the hype and bluster, what are you left with? What actually is it?…

Advice 'falls woefully short' The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed has said UK government guidance on private sector changes to off-payroll working falls "woefully short".…

Bawwww we don't have anything like Amazon bawwww The European Commission wants to set up a €100bn wealth fund to invest directly in local technology companies to help businesses fight international giants like Apple, Google and Alibaba.…

11?!! This cost me 12! Do you want to ruin me?! Just like the market stall owner in the The Life of Brian, it turns out internet service providers want customers to haggle with them to cut better deals.…

New powers? No thanks The Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have pushed back against US President Trump's proposal to put them in charge of policing social media firms he claims are biased against right-wingers.…

Ow, ow, my forehead is on fire Hot Chips Now your humble Reg vulture is back from the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley, it seems right to briefly run this Microsoft development by you all.…

It hasn't gone away, you know Autonomy trial Just how far has HPE come in proving its $5bn fraud allegations against former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and co-defendant CFO Sushovan Hussain? While the world basks in the summer sun, we had a close look at the last three months of court hearings to decide.…

Standard enables more security key options with passwordless a future possibility GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.…