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Wikipedia co-founder calls for strike against Facebook et al The other Wikipedia co-founder has called for a 48-hour boycott of all social media platforms to demonstrate users' desire to regain control of their data and privacy.…

Another step towards self-reliance amid US trade tiff China-owned semiconductor giant Tsinghua Unigroup, which already manufactures flash memory, is about to try its luck at making DRAM – a much more complicated endeavour.…

Don't forget to swing by the nearest recycling bin Another milestone was reached today in the long, drawn-out death of Windows Phone: Microsoft has stopped distributing app updates to the dozen or so Windows Phone 8.x devices not already consigned to the recyclers.…

Says bye to Big Blue Infosec veteran Bruce Schneier has said he'll step down as a "special advisor" to IBM's security business to, in part, focus his time on teaching the next generation of security pros.…

Also: It wasn't only the toilets that were whiffy at Glastonbury last weekend Roundup Microsoft's future might be Chromium Edge, machine learning and Azure, but there was no escaping the Ghost of Windows Past this week.…

Case heads to Federal Claims Court in a little over a week Ahead of its first day in Federal Claims Court in Washington, Oracle has made a filing outlining its position against the Pentagon's award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract to Amazon Web Services.…

'Thou shalt not flame El Reg' not among them, sadly* The Archbishop of Canterbury has used a Facebook Live interview to launch a "digital charter" to provide guidelines for how Anglicans should use social media.…

Staff twitchy about new corporate shell, but it's just serving a Suisse role, says firm DXC Technology has said it incorporated CXD Infrastructure Solutions to house a data centre asset acquired under a co-location agreement with Credit Suisse, and not - as many staff fear - to offload legacy ops.…

Launching every two weeks? Sure, so long as your satellites keep off the lard After a few days of frustration for small-sat flingers, Rocket Lab, the company's Electron rocket finally left its New Zealand launch-pad over the weekend.…

Can we get a translator in here? President Donald Trump said he plans to revoke the ban, or, er, grant some licences to American companies supplying components and services to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.…

Your quick guide to what's been happening in machine-learning world Roundup Here's your rapid-fire summary of AI-related news beyond what we've already covered lately.…

Did someone say ID cards? Former British prime minister Tony Blair has once again stuck his head above the parapet - this time to call for "a proper identity system in the UK" to underpin digital government.…

It's not me, it's you: 'Breaking up has never been easier' Fed up mobile customers can finally dump their providers by text from today, under new rules from Blighty's comms regulator, Ofcom.…

Terminate and do what? Who, me? Monday is here, and with it comes another tale of student hijinks in the computer room courtesy of our not-feeling-that-guilty Register readers in our weekly Who, Me? feature.…

We'll be over there bashing our head on the wall while you read this Roundup As June turns over to July, here are some additional bits of security news besides our regular infosec coverage.…

Podcast series tackles hot topics from phishing and privacy to cloud services Promo Get up to speed with everything you need to know about keeping yourself and your business safe on the web, social media, and the cloud, without having to leave your desk, during the Sophos Security SOS Week from 8-12 July.…

Seventeen years after Kylix, Embarcardero adds a complete Linux toolchain to Delphi Hands On Texas software house Embarcadero Technologies has said it will license FmxLinux for Delphi, allowing developers to compile desktop applications for 64-bit Linux.…

Getting dodgy batteries fixed can take up to THREE weeks As Apple's MacBook Pro recall is entering its second week, new details are starting to emerge about the extent of the danger posed by its notebook batteries – and just how irritating the repair process is proving to be.…

And sticking those stamps on packages, intercepted by the Feds, it is claimed Two suspected dark-web dealers allegedly shipped tens of thousands of meth packages across America using postage stamps... that could be traced to one of their home addresses.…

Not a particularly sweet ending to the week Health implant maker MedTronic is recalling some of its insulin pumps following the discovery of security vulnerabilities in the equipment that can be exploited over the air to hijack them.…

Rap for crap yakety-yak app chaps as chats zapped in hours-long nap Well, it's official: the weekend starts here.…

Surrender your privacy if you don't want to be turned away as software Analysis Google's reCAPTCHA v3 system, designed to separate people from bots during website interactions, is more likely to give you the benefit of the doubt as a human if you happen to be signed in to your Google Account – and is more likely to deem you dubious if you're trying to protect your privacy, recent research suggests.…

The major problem with anti-piracy DRM, part 1024 If you bought an ebook through Microsoft's online store, now's the time to give it a read, or reread, because it will stop working early July.…

But just imagine Stuxnet: Consumer Edition Comment Iran claims that recent surges in electricity demand, leading to blackouts and brownouts, were caused by too many cryptocurrency miners’ power-hungry machines being hooked up to the national grid – though all may not be as it seems.…

Claims more than 200k Italians had data harvested after just 57 downloaded app The Italian data protection regulator has fined Facebook a cool €1m for alleged privacy offences connected to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…

Yeah - because hardware is better these days, we're going to need to charge you more. Much, much more... cPanel has dropped a bombshell on its customers with a price hike for its services that has left some running for the door marked exit.…

Western Digital 'fesses up to taking 6 exabyte hit, Toshiba still mum A power failure in Yokkaichi, Japan, has thrown Toshiba and Western Digital’s flash supply into chaos – and will have a significant knock-on effect on global supplies, say analysts.…

Massively devalued pound anyone? Oh, no... we'll draw post Brexit punters in with big data Yep-she's-still-the-UK-Prime-Minister Theresa May took time off from packing today to launch a strategy to increase tourist visitors to the fair islands.…

Popular smart bulbs get an interesting upgrade Philips is getting rid of the need for a specialized and proprietary hub in the latest version of its Hue smart bulbs, indicating that the days of conflicting and confusing smart home products may finally be coming to an end.…

Not the murdery gangsters, a pair of together-forever gay penguins Microsoft isn't the only one hobnobbing with penguins this week. Visitors signing up for an evening tour of London Zoo next week will find it has had a few tweaks to celebrate Gay Pride month.…

Next-gen 24GHz cellular broadband roll-out stalls amid 'personal animosity' claims Special report A growing inter-agency row over America's use of particular radio frequency bands for 5G phones has burst into the open – with a senior US Department of Commerce adviser fingered as the main source of problems.…

Buy our networking gear and get rid of vaping. Think of the children! Comment From the department of "Just what can't IoT do?" comes plans from Ruckus to both aid digital learning while also stamping out vaping.…

Firefox Focus frozen as Mozilla redirects Android effort ... despite small market share Mozilla has announced what is currently called Firefox Preview (codename Firefox Fenix), a new mobile web browser for Android.…

NASA announces plans to send RTG-powered drone to Saturn moon. Titanians only have 15 years to prepare NASA plans to terrorise the skies with a plutonium-powered drone. Thankfully not those above Gatwick, but the dense haze surrounding the Saturn moon Titan.…

Needed: 10 brave Brits to volunteer to become ex-Big Bluers. Worst might be over, people IBM has fired the starting gun on voluntary redundancies for UK staff working in the Technology Support Services (TSS) unit of the Global Technology Services division (GTS). The number it is looking for? Ten.…

I can absolutely do that for you, Dave The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This time we head into low Earth orbit for a space whodunnit with Observation. But first let us fondly bask in the nostalgic glow of classic adventure games – the primordial goop to which Observation clearly owes its lineage. Oh, and E3 was a thing that happened.…

You'd be lucky if it survives until next Thursday Something for the Weekend, Sir? There is a graveyard in my office.…

All for the want of a drop of lubricant On Call Distract yourself from the come-hither finger of a Friday trip to the pub ahead of the weekend with a trolley-based tale from the On Call vaults.…

See Google, there are other ways to run browser content blockers smartly Software engineers working on the Brave browser have rewritten the browser's ad blocking engine in Rust and seen massive speed increases as a result.…

Saves time, only a little accuracy lost, unexpectedly understands dark matter Neural networks can build 3D simulations of the universe in milliseconds, compared to days or weeks when using traditional supercomputing methods, according to new research.…

Join us at Minds Mastering Machines: We have a score of tickets to give away Event If you’re a charity or a non-profit doing something amazing and think you could do even more with a crash-course in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or advanced analytics, we want to hear from you.…

Development paused after AI experts sounded alarm. Amazon et al take note, eh? Axon, the largest supplier of body cameras to America's cops, will not add facial-recognition technology to its gear anytime soon, it announced Thursday.…

They managed to scrape by with the lowest possible passing grade: D- Washington DC has been hit with yet another discouraging assessment of the Uncle Sam's IT management and security practices.…

Our 'X-ray specs' software can be misused? And everyone wants it? Oh no, who'd have thought, say creators A machine-learning-powered perv super-tool that automagically removed clothes from women in photos to make them appear naked has been torn offline by its makers.…

Do my Ive's deceive me? No, Sir Jony exits Cupertino, which will be among his first clients British Essex boy made good Sir Jony Ive will step down from his role as Apple's chief designer.…

... Are ... are we the baddies? Hackers from the Five Eyes intelligence agencies have been accused of breaking into systems at Yandex, dubbed Russia's Google.…

Plus: Barristers spar amid reading comprehension test Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch oversaw the launch of what was purported to be a new product line in order to fraudulently pad its revenues, HPE’s lawyers have alleged.…

Windows giant cheered on by Linux Foundation as it seeks membership of private security-focused message board Microsoft's transformation into a fully paid-up member of the Linux love-train continued this week as the Windows giant sought to join the exclusive club that is the official linux-distros mailing list.…

May 2019 Update cautiously nibbles the toes of its predecessors Microsoft's Windows nightmare looks to be coming to an end as usage figures for The Update of The Damned began to tail off last month.…

Chocolate Factory play catch up to AWS and Microsoft... again Deep Learning Containers (DLC) has entered beta stage, according to Google's Cloud Platform team.…