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Government-backed campaign going after bug that was patched in 2017 An ongoing Iranian government-backed hacking campaign is now trying to exploit a Microsoft Outlook flaw from 2017.…

It's not a two Huawei street just yet, says top brass The US Department of Commerce is holding strong on the ban on US firms selling kit to Huawei, despite word from the White House that sanctions against the Chinese firm might be lifted.…

We talk to one CEO about why bans aren't the answer but federal regulation is Facial recognition is having a rough time of it lately. Just six months ago, people were excited about Apple allowing you to open your phone just by looking at it. A year ago, Facebook users joyfully tagged their friends in photos. But then the tech got better, and so did the concerns.…

You looking at me, FaceTime? Old farts will complain that the days of actually looking someone in the eyes while communicating are over thanks to digital technology and mobile phones.…

Recent policy remains unclear about what's disallowed Updated YouTube, under fire since inception for building a business on other people's copyrights and in recent years for its vacillating policies on irredeemable content, recently decided it no longer wants to host instructional hacking videos.…

Like your cousin at the end of the BBQ, social network has pretty much blacked out Facebook has found itself on the wrong side of the July 4th holiday buzz as the grandparent-approved social network has had severe server problems.…

Shin Yi-chi denies he stole The US Department of Justice has convicted Shin Yi-chi, an electrical engineer and former academic, over illegal exports of US-made silicon with potential missile guidance applications to China.…

No admission of guilt, but plenty of new rules to follow Taiwanese networking equipment vendor D-Link will have to submit to a decade of product security audits after agreeing to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission.…

Oh and surprise, surprise... full fibre roll-out remains 'low' Openreach still needs stronger independence since being not-quite cut from the BT fold, telecoms regulator Ofcom has found.…

Chip designer to make another foray into enterprise software... troubled security outfit in its sights When the chips are down, it seems, Broadcom is hell bent on expanding its software portfolio. If the tipsters are correct, the chip designer is close to buying legacy security outfit Symantec for $15bn.…

Get up-to-date with developments in the world of operational technology Sponsored webcast While many organisations may still be at the starting blocks of what has been termed the Internet of Things, the operational technology world has made considerable advances, routinely handling data coming from thousands of pieces of equipment.…

Redmond fires up the Delorean and heads back to simpler times Strange things are afoot within the hallowed halls of Redmond, as Microsoft's Twitter account went decidedly retro this week.…

Not WannaCry... this time it's Cisco An ongoing network issue with provider Cisco has caused all outpatient appointments and elective surgery to be cancelled at two North Midlands hospitals in the past 24 plus hours, The Register can confirm.…

DevOps-tating automation cockup... or machines trying to take over the web? El Reg talks to the CTO Interview Internet services outfit Cloudflare took careful aim and unloaded both barrels at its feet yesterday, taking out a large chunk of the internet as it did so.…

Opines that there's 'absolutely no way on Earth this was written from a clean sheet' Axel Rietschin, kernel engineer at Microsoft, has claimed that ReactOS, an open source operating system intended to be binary-compatible with Windows, is "a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel that Microsoft licensed to universities."…

Dutch Bangla falls victim to coordinated ATM scam A prominent Russian hacker crew is seemingly expanding its reach – having just pulled off a multi-million dollar cyber-heist in Bangladesh, we're told.…

Follows £70m settlement over allegations it charged for monitoring phantom crims Outsourcing giant Serco has agreed to cough up £22.9m to the UK's Serious Fraud Office in fines and costs related to its electronic tagging scandal.…

Once mighty business killed by cloud computing IBM finally pulled the plug on Netezza on 30 June, a family of data warehousing and analytics appliances that have been around for the past 15 years.…

Academics, journal deny making a boo boo An academic paper published in Nature has been criticized by a data scientist – who found a glaring schoolboy error in the study when he tried to reproduce the machine-learning research.…

Really? Looks like a strategic project to us A couple of days ago and without fanfare Google went live with Fuchsia.dev, a developer site for its new operating system, currently called the Fuchsia Project.…

Another day, another appalling Internet of S**t security flaw Smart home company Zipato hardcoded the same private SSH key into every one of its hubs, leaving its system open to hacking, researchers revealed this week.…

Tech exec challenges startup over default tracking Superhuman, an email startup betting people who deal with a lot of messages will pay $30 a month for a more organized inbox, has come under fire for not providing privacy by default.…

Bag your MCubed discount early-bird tickets now – and join us this autumn Event Most firms don’t have unlimited funds, developers, nor data to throw at a problem. But that doesn’t mean they can’t benefit from machine learning and artificial intelligence.…

Connectivity to us-east1 knackered for hours, still no fix Fiber-optic cables linking Google Cloud servers in its us-east1 region physically broke today, slowing down or effectively cutting off connectivity with the outside world.…

Disaster and tragedy in Barents Sea A Russian submarine, believed to be tasked with spying on foreign communications, has lost 14 crew members after a blaze broke out aboard the nuclear-powered vessel.…

Stuffed mole toys arrive at JavaScript biz after chief exec demands to know who was talking to El Reg JavaScript package registry NPM Inc and three fired employees locked in a labor rights battle reached a settlement on Friday, The Register has learned.…

When you meant to type /127 but entered /12 instead Last week, an internet routing screw-up propagated by Verizon for three hours sparked havoc online, leading to significant press attention and industry calls for greater network security.…

Border cops accused of loading tourists' mobiles up with snoop app in Muslim area Authorities in a tumultuous region of China are ordering tourists and other visitors to install spyware on their smartphones, it is claimed.…

Also: Still rocking SQL Server 2008? The end is near The brave souls in Microsoft's SQL Server 2019 Early Adopter Program can now get their hands on Windows-based container images of the venerable database software. Previously, Linux-based container images were available.…

I like big data centres and I cannot lie Taiwanese power distribution and thermal management specialist Delta Electronics has introduced a mammoth of a UPS system designed for the needs of the largest of bit barns.…

A chunk of the internet vanished today. Lucky it's not used for anything important, right? Updated Cloudflare, the outfit noted for the slogan "helping build a better internet", had another wobble today as "network performance issues" rendered websites around the globe inaccessible.…

Chocolate Factory overtakes Amazon as European sales surge 45.1% – people clearly didn't hear the cries of frustrated Google Home users Google's creepy and dare we say invasive smart home kit is outgrowing sales in Europe of the creepy and dare we say invasive equivalent from arch-rival Amazon.…

Parachutes not included as the Launch Abort System gets a work-out NASA completed the Ascent Abort-2 test of its Orion spacecraft today, deliberately crashing a test version of the capsule into the ocean after successfully demonstrating the Launch Abort System (LAS) would do its thing.…

Excuse us, we mean 'Jasmine Development' Google has started building a new hyperscale data centre in Henderson, Nevada, expected to cost a cool $600m.…

It's a virtualized world and everyone's welcome. Even Citrix and VMware Microsoft's newly acquired FSLogix has been tasked with upping the speed of Office 365 ProPlus in virtual environments, including those of rivals Citrix and VMWare.…

Complains attraction was rigged We'd do anything for the fruit of our loins – like buying them not one, but two train sets at Pecorama and almost instantly regretting it – but a doting mum from Folkestone, Kent, has really taken the biscuit after shoving a hundred quid into an allegedly rigged claw machine.…

Also, happy Asteroid Day! Let's party like it's 1908 Roundup Beyond the crowd-pleasing Falcon Heavy landing antics there were other adventures in space last week that you might have missed.…

Another vendor mounts the crossbars South Korean DRAM and NAND fabber SK Hynix has been developing storage-class memory that will compete with 3D XPoint and which The Register understands is currently under R&D process.…

Mysteriously missing update finally arrives in preview form. World shrugs The next version of Windows 10, aka 19H2, finally arrived in the hands of testers last night to a collective "meh".…

Static display jet last ran in 1983 Feature What do you do when your jet-powered speedboat restoration project grinds to a halt because of bureaucracy? Obviously, you find yourself a convenient Vulcan bomber and start restoring the engines to running condition, as the Bluebird Project is currently doing.…

Forget about past technical decisions made by fiat, this time your thoughts matter Google on Monday released its robots.txt parsing and matching library as open source in the hope of its now public code will help encourage web developers to agree on a standard way to spell out the proper etiquette for web crawlers.…

Stop, hammer time NASA engineers are trying to fix an instrument on the Mars Insight lander that was supposed to burrow five metres (16 feet) into the Red Planet's surface – and has instead tapped out at just 30 centimetres (one foot.)…

Sammy tries to slurp some of those app developer dollars Maintaining Bixby's reputation for being late and underwhelming, Samsung's digital assistant has finally got its own marketplace.…

This genie is definitely not going back in the bottle From the department of closing the barn door after the horse has warped away at light speed, comes this latest news. Although the creators of DeepNude have torn down their slimy software that removes clothes from women in photos, the code continues to spread all over the internet.…

Patch, punch, it's the first of the month Google today posted a fresh round of Android security fixes.…

Miscreants grabbed sensitive footage belonging to officers in Miami, elsewhere, it is feared In yet another example of absent security controls, troves of police body camera footage were left open to the world for anyone to siphon off, according to an infosec biz.…

Postal package triggered test equipment, buildings evacuated, no one exposed Staff were evacuated today at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters after a package believed to contain the chemical weapon sarin was delivered to the antisocial network.…

Concerns snubbed as DNS overlord signs secretive deal, paves way for $$$ increases The price caps have been taken off .org domains, meaning that more than 10 million largely non-profit organizations will end up paying more for their online presence each year.…

Move believed to be response to Seoul's stance on forced labour during WW2 Just a day after the G20 free trade summit ended, Japan has restricted exports of some mobile phone components to South Korea.…

Data centre joint venture bankrolled by Singapore sets its sights on Europe Colocation giant Equinix is about to test a new business model - the company has entered a joint venture to build bit barns specifically for hyperscale customers.…