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High Court judge reverses earlier toss-out decision London’s High Court has given the go-ahead for a Microsoft Azure consultant to sue Google because having the world's most widely used search engine caching images from his website - and hotlinking them to aggregator sites rather than his own - allegedly infringes his copyright.…

With its eye mostly on the domestic market Embattled Chinese electronics maker Huawei said it will plough ¥3bn ($436m) into Arm-based server chip development over the next five years.…

But industry is sceptical hybrid network tech will cut it Virgin Media has promised speeds of 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021 – although that won't be on full fibre.…

Infinity Display Flex extended 'beyond bezel' so users know not to peel it off Samsung reckons it has ironed out the death-inducing creases on its Galaxy Fold but is continuing to put the smartmobe through stress tests before a rescheduled September launch.…

Just another 22,000 to go... BT's Openreach is trialling 15 electric vans – out of a fleet of 22,000 carbon-emitting vehicles.…

Amazon Web Services' work-in-progress beta talks... but does not listen Amazon Web Services' Chatbot, released in beta yesterday, will alert you to issues, but the most interesting feature – where you issue commands for further diagnostics via a virtual user in a chatroom – is yet to come.…

Microsoft, you still have a problem Comment Microsoft has followed up its accidental Windows Insider emission with a grudging sort-of-explanation: something got changed and bad stuff happened. Soz.…

Patch your darn metal bird, sighs EU aviation agency Some models of Airbus A350 airliners still need to be hard rebooted after exactly 149 hours, despite warnings from the EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) first issued two years ago.…

Sticking with Ericsson and Nokia O2 has finally opened up on its Huawei-free 5G rollout plans: services will debut in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, London and Slough in October, with a further 20 cities to go live by the end of the year.…

'How many times in a week can we change an app without it falling over?' Banks with mountains of legacy tech risk causing more outages as they race to catch up with their "agile" competitors, the Treasury Select Committee was told.…

A FRAND in need is a FRAND indeed, pair square up for infringement battle German patent licensing firm IPCom is taking British mobile operator Vodafone to High Court, over claims the telco infringed on its 4G/LTE patents.…

ZTF J1539+5027 - where a year lasts under seven minutes Astronomers have discovered the fastest-known eclipsing white dwarf pair yet, with the dead stars whizzing around each other every 6.91 minutes, according to a Nature paper published on Wednesday.…

Derby City Council's head of tech will be on hand along with Nutanix and El Reg Webcast Moving to the cloud is not as simple as we have sometimes been led to believe. Many organisations are eager to benefit from the functionality and convenience that the cloud offers, though find themselves constrained by the past.…

Really? Johnny Cabs aren't that safe yet, eh? Quelle surprise GM Cruise, the General Motors-owned autonomous vehicle startup based in San Francisco, won’t be rolling out self-driving robotaxis in 2019 after all, as the technology isn't quite yet safe enough.…

Zuck to Uncle Sam: Go ahead, regulate me, regulate me like the naughty little founder I am Facebook is stronger than ever, despite the best efforts of the US government to rein it in over privacy and legal violations.…

Group connected to election meddling now selling spy tools A Russian software developer, currently under American sanctions for its purported role in the Kremlin's interference with the 2016 US elections, is now selling spyware to governments.…

Profits down, shares up Global silicon shipments might be falling off a cliff, but it's not all doom and gloom: American chipmaker Texas Instruments has just reported better-than-expected quarterly results off the back of fairly consistent analog component sales.…

Fund to be put on 'hiatus' after employee grumbles Microsoft's controversial Political Action Committee (MSPAC) appears to have hit the skids following vocal employee discontent over the group's activities.…

Commercial airliner customers fly away from beleaguered biz American aeroplane maker Boeing has swung to a $3.38bn loss from operations in its latest quarterly financial results following well-publicised woes over the 737 Max crashes and software failure.…

Privacy Board to keep tabs on potential naughtiness at the antisocial network Evil empire Facebook's devil-may-care attitude to privacy has bitten it on the backside – the Federal Trade Commission has imposed a record $5bn penalty for "deceiving users" about their control over private data.…

That's 20H1 for you, 20H1 for you and 20H1 for you Someone at Microsoft has accidentally parked a buttock on the big red button, emitting a surprise build of next year's Windows 10 to Insiders.…

Now how to use that mini cash pile? R&D, more staff and wider support services Networking software upstart Arrcus has pocketed $30m in funding to pay for a hike in R&D, double its headcount to roughly 100 staff and expand support operations.…

25-year-old Bradfordian cuffed by NCA over '20k' records breach Cops have cuffed a 25-year-old man from Bradford on suspicion of committing Computer Misuse Act crimes after Lancaster University suffered a data breach affecting more than 12,000 students and applicants.…

FREE INSIDE: Your obscure keep-cool protips The mercury is rising, expected to hit a sizzling 32°C (89.6°F) this afternoon at Vulture Central, and The Register's elite unit of pasty basement-dwellers, otherwise known as editorial, have scurried into the office to make the most of its semi-functioning air conditioning.…

Sharing is caring, guys Vodafone and O2 are to share their 5G radio antennas and joint network sites in an attempt to cut costs and speed up rollout.…

Facebook-for-suits dons an Azure waistcoat Microsoft has rewarded LinkedIn - the social-media-for-suits and corporate one-upmanship platform - for its contribution to the Redmondian bottom line by booting the outfit into the public cloud.…

Mr Justice Hildyard questions mountains of old deal paperwork Autonomy Trial The judge presiding over HPE and Mike Lynch's titanic courtroom clash has told HPE's lawyer to get to the point of his marathon cross-examination of Autonomy's former CEO.…

Visual Studio, ASP.NET Core and Linux: Some tension Hands On Microsoft loves Linux – but coding and deploying an ASP.NET Core application for the open-source OS comes with a bit of friction compared to using Windows.…

BT-owned outfit attracts a little less customer ire but still not doing customers proud In Brit comms regulator Ofcom's quarterly summary of broadband and landline whinges, Plusnet retained its complaint crown despite a strong challenge from Vodafone.…

Canonical drags the telco into the 21st century British Telecom has chosen Ubuntu OpenStack, developed by open-source specialist Canonical, as the cloud platform that will help support the introduction of 5G and fibre-to-the-premises connectivity in the UK.…

Machine-learning code predicts whether connections are legit or likely to result in a bad day for someone JPMorgan Chase is integrating AI into its internal security systems to thwart malware infections within its own networks.…

Catch all the photons if you can A small cube sat has become the first spacecraft in Earth’s orbit to fly using only the power of sunlight shining down on its solar sail, after it was successfully deployed on Tuesday.…

Someone just revealed the tricky kernel heap spray part Vital clues on how to exploit the notorious Windows RDP bug, aka CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, and hijack vulnerable boxes, emerged online this week.…

No names given, probably because we all know who they're talking about The US Department of Justice has begun a probe into possible anti-trust violations by US tech giants.…

I don't want to hear about hackers and keys, nerds – make it happen, or we'll pass a law making it happen Analysis If the cops and Feds can't read people's encrypted messages, you will install backdoors for us, regardless of the security hit, US Attorney General William Barr has told the technology world.…

'Fake news!' dev team cries VLC is said to be once again vulnerable to remote-code execution – meaning a malicious video opened by the software could potentially crash the media player, or joyride it to run malware on the host machine.…

Not a 'rogue engineer,' nor was the harvested wireless network data 'fragmented, despite Google denials' Google has offered to pay out $13m to settle a class-action lawsuit over the infamous "Wi-Spy" incident – when its Street View cars were caught slurping data from unsecured Wi-Fi access points between 1 January 2007 and 25 May 2010, when they got caught.…

In a nutshell: Plz don't shaft us The United Kingdom, incorporating Kingston*, has a new prime minister. That prime minister is Boris Johnson, and tech industry mouthpieces are falling over themselves to tell us what they think of him and his policies.…

Chris Kraft set the rules for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and the Space Shuttle Obit Chris Kraft, who created the concept of NASA's Mission Control, died yesterday aged 95.…

Must have been the cyber security course's day off Lancaster University - which offers a GCHQ-accredited degree in security - has been struck by a "sophisticated and malicious phishing attack" that resulted in the leak of around 12,500 wannabe students' personal data.…

Christmas come early for Sydney rozzers No one will ever say that police have an easy job, but sometimes, just sometimes, circumstances do half the work for them.…

The software itself is from SAP though IBM will help Aussie warfighters keep track of their bullets, after winning a Au$95.5m ($67m/£54m) contract to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for the Australian Department of Defence.…

Report claims forces trawl through data 'indiscriminately' Privacy rights groups have slammed UK police's "indiscriminate" grabbing of crime victims' data.…

Only fools rush into mobile payments and cryptocurrencies Feature On the first of July I walked up the main drag of Japan's eighth-century capital, Nara. As a mid-sized Japanese city, there are combini – convenience stores – every block or so. First among these is 7-Eleven, with over 20,000 outlets spread across its islands.…

Report suggests outsourced project management, new committee and more A report from right-wing think tank Freer has estimated failed government projects in the last few years have created delays totalling 34 years and wasted an eye-watering £7.5bn.…

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The EU goes to war against refrigerants – so the German upstart designed a system that uses tap water An unusual data centre cooling system that dispenses with expensive, environment-damaging refrigerants in favour of tap water is now available in the UK.…

Uh-oh, the more sizeable opponent Andromeda is next The Milky Way was formed after it engulfed a dwarf galaxy known as Gaia-Enceledus 10 billion years ago, astroboffins have suggested.…

20 WebKit flaws among latest batch of bug fixes On Monday Apple released a fresh round of security fixes for a load of its operating systems and applications.…

Logical step for the biz that wants to own its supply chain Apple and Intel are apparently in “advanced talks” over buying up the remains of Chipzilla’s defunct 5G modem business.…