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As most chip suppliers take a hit on sales Having been humiliated by Samsung in 2017, Intel has reclaimed its customary place as the world's largest semiconductor supplier.…

'Baby by myself the stain grows more obvious...' An Oracle AI bot has spewed out an alleged song based on dozens of Eurovision entries.…

Hardly practical but the headroom is there Micron's Ballistix Elite brand of DDR4 memory has been overclocked by almost 60 per cent using liquid nitrogen cooling.…

Also: Repeated reboots to get a Windows 10 update installed? Just like the (not so) old days What do Windows 10 and SpaceX's Starlink launch have in common? One needs updating and might explode without warning. The other is an operating system.…

Plus: Battery software updated following vehicle fires CEO Elon Musk is to embark on a comprehensive expenses review at Tesla, according to Reuters.…

Biz will do almost anything for money (as long as it is cloud-related) Dell Technologies' cloudy division Virtustream has expanded its range of professional and managed services with the launch of xStreamCare.…

Risky business: Azure cloud rains bills Hundreds of Microsoft customers awoke yesterday to find hundreds of Azure invoices of other customers in their inbox. Each customer was emailed not only their own invoice, but scores of bills intended for others.…

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies... Something for the Weekend, Sir? I am undergoing the lie detector test and it is not going well. I should have guessed something was up when they affixed the wires: temples and wrists are OK but it seems a little unnecessary to route what suspiciously looks like an AC mains cable to my groin.…

How to avoid the Icarus effect – and what we mean by that Sponsored webcast Attacks and outages happen, in the cloud as anywhere else. Back in the day, when we used on-premises solutions like Exchange we would surround ourselves with an ecosystem of technologies to mitigate risk, so why should cloud-based solutions be any different?…

Do the thing ASAP, you know how it works by now Among a bumper crop of 57 security issues Cisco divulged on Wednesday was a fix for a trio of vulns, one critical, in networks management tool Prime Infrastructure.…

DON'T ASK ME STUPID QUESTIONS, JUST GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE On Call It's Friday, and so it must be time to remember the days when standby tech support staff were blessed with nerves of steel in today's On Call.…

Singing competition stunned by suspicious spree of SMSes The winner of a Russian talent show for children has been stripped of her crown following confirmation that software was used to swing a public vote in her favor.…

And how it could be you being impersonated next Video Here’s another our your regular reminder that AI software can be creepy.…

If orange is the new black, she's back in black After seven days of freedom, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning is back behind bars for refusing to testify before a secret federal grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.…

Flash automaker insists victim 'immediately removed his hands from the wheel' In a preliminary report issued on Thursday, the US National Transportation Safety Board on said that a Tesla 3 crash on March 1 in Delray Beach, Florida, occurred while the vehicle's Autopilot system was active.…

The failure to shift to IPv6 is now literally a criminal matter A fella who allegedly conned his way into pocketing 750,000 IPv4 addresses has not only lost them, but now faces a lengthy stretch behind bars in America, if convicted.…

Most exciting Enid Blyton book yet – Five accused of international fraud? Ten people have been accused of masterminded the theft of roughly $100m from bank accounts using the Goznym malware. Five have been arrested, charged, and are facing prosecution, and five have been indicted and remain at large. An eleventh person linked to the software nasty is awaiting sentencing after admitting his crimes.…

DoS cyber-attacks are not just for websites, they may also be for aircraft ILS Video Aircraft instrument landing systems (ILS) are susceptible to radio signal spoofing using off-the-shelf equipment, boffins have found, calling into question the adequacy of aviation cybersecurity.…

Beijing slams Trump's 'abuse of export control measures', vows to take some sort of action China today signaled that it’s in no mood to roll over and play nice in the ongoing trade war with America, promising instead to "fight to the end."…

Well, it is the nation that brought us Nineteen Eighty-Four Video A man was pulled to one side, grilled, and fined by cops after he hid his face from a facial-recognition system being tested on the streets of south east England.…

Plan to force everyone onto Assistant stalled after customers say: Mess with the Nest, die like the rest Google has backtracked somewhat on a plan to kill off the popular Works with Nest smart home program after customer fury.…

$450 massive capacity micro flash card could go in a drone or a snapper too As of today, you can now buy a 1TB micro flash card to store massive amounts of pictures and videos on your camera or mobile phone – though it'll set you back a not inconsiderable $449.…

As soon as defences are sold as a product, hygiene suffers The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has become the latest government body to plead with admins to implement security best practices on Microsoft's Office 365 platform.…

But have latest changes finally made a positive difference? The British Armed Forces have shrunk 1 per cent over the past quarter, with the Army more than 8 per cent below its manpower target for 2020.…

Making that migration to Azure Database for PostgreSQL that little bit easier As it continued to wipe the residue of Build from the streets of Seattle, Microsoft made good on Azure database promises with a slew of updates for its cloudy database stack.…

Yep, THAT would-be siloed IT smasher, conceived in Theresa May's brainpan 8 years ago... The Police ICT Company has paused a procurement process to find a "partner" that will oversee tech purchases and administer contracts on behalf of forces across the UK – a contract said to be worth up to £500m.…

Blind bird tickets getting ready to take off Events We're pleased as punch to reveal that our second keynote at MCubed 2019 will be AI pioneer, and chief scientist and co-founder of Quantellia, Dr Lorien Pratt.…

Customer ordered £260 plonk from same year – bargain! Buying an entire bottle of house red at a restaurant is often enough to make wallets scream with terror, but one fortunate diner at Hawksmoor in Manchester saved a corking £4,240 when they were served the wrong Bordeaux last night.…

It looks like you're trying to build a full-stack web app in Visual Studio Code. Would you like some help with that? Microsoft has flung out an early toolset aimed at getting full-stack web applications up and running faster for Visual Studio Code users.…

Switchzilla takes slow boat from Middle Kingdom amid Prez Trump's latest hike Cisco has said US president Donald Trump's latest trade tariff hike on Chinese imports barely forced it to up its own prices because it had shifted some production outside the Middle Kingdom in anticipation of the policy.…

Ad goliath's latest has struck all the right compromises Hands on Let's get this over with straight away: if you want a new smartphone but don't want to pay an increasingly stupid price tag, then get the Google Pixel 3a. It's $399 or £399, and it does everything you want and does it really well.…

Bolt on some backup, et voila Analysis Datrium has relaunched its DVX product as Automatrix, a multicloud data platform with compute and five data services.…

A vulture removes his anorak and straps on a Rift for BBC's nerd goggles attempt Updated Doctor Who fans, faced with waiting until 2020 before the blue police box appears on their screens once more, were thrown a virtual reality bone by the BBC today.…

Helpful videos, ebooks, whitepapers and more now online to help you get onto the world's top cloud platform Sponsored Cloud computing brings a host of benefits, from the ability to respond quickly to market dynamics to scalability and flexible cost structures. Little wonder that it is becoming an increasingly attractive option for enterprises of all sizes.…

Software lobbed up into the clouds without having to recompile a line, apparently Swiss software upstart LzLabs says its first customer has successfully kicked the mainframe habit and moved all of its big iron applications into the cloud – without having to rewrite or recompile any code.…

.NET Framework? Mono? Xamarin? .NET Core? Blazor? Java interop? Interview "There will be just one .NET going forward, and you will be able to use it to target Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, tvOS, watchOS and WebAssembly and more," Microsoft's Richard Lander promised on the announcement of .NET 5.0 at the Build 2019 developer conference.…

Audio perception enhances visual cues, boffins explain to El Reg Programmers trying to teach AI bots how to play video games may be missing one vital component in their models: sound.…

Dead-tree devotees who recently signed up may want to check their statements The Magecart credit-card-skimming malware that is the bane of internet shoppers has been spotted again, this time on the Forbes magazine subscription website.…

Fail Huawei, fail Huawei, fail Huawei: Executive order targets IT, telecom systems President Donald J. Trump today declared yet another national emergency in the US – this one over the threat of unidentified foreign adversaries exploiting vulnerabilities in IT and telecom systems and services.…

Low wages and job insecurity, with an added hint of dehumanizing social control Uber drivers, who have been vocal about low wages and lack of benefits, may soon be less so, at least for those booking its more expensive Uber Black and Uber Black SUV rides.…

Make your app answer all the easy questions, like, 'Where can I download Chrome?' Microsoft has open sourced a machine-learning algorithm that powers part of its web search engine Bing.…

Amazing how fast Pai and his team can move when motivated On Wednesday morning, after years of actively ignoring demands that phone companies be made to block robocalls by default, the head of America's telecoms regulator had a sudden change of heart.…

A pairing problem makes an account compromise possible, although improbable Google is offering free replacements of its Titan Security Keys, used for two-factor authentication, after learning the widgets' Bluetooth connections could be compromised by nearby hackers.…

Cert authority Sectigo funds Lets Encrypt transparency log Let’s Encrypt has wheeled out a new certificate transparency log called Oak, which is funded for a year by the certificates arm of Sectigo (formerly known as Comodo).…

You have a year – Ofcom Bad luck, ISPs and networks – Brit comms regulator Ofcom has made good on its threat to make firms inform punters about better broadband, mobile, pay TV and home phone deals before their contracts expire.…

Get it? Lengths. Users now have 240 extra characters to play with Doubtless with an eye on the current furore surrounding security and authentication, Microsoft has tweaked its Azure Active Directory policies to allow, er, longer passwords.…

It all went a bit Pete Tong for the Peeping Toms Britain's Supreme Court said today that rulings from a secretive UK spy tribunal can now be appealed against after a legal challenge from pressure group Privacy International.…

Third version since 2016 Earlier this week, Huawei teased the launch of a new database product, featuring machine learning and compatible with Arm-based processors.…

UK.gov-backed scheme confirms deal with Indian outfit Tata to end 2023 Outsourcing giants must be rubbing their hands with glee after the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) Corporation issued a tender for a £1.5bn contract to build the tech to run pension admin services.…

Auditors poked around for a week after too many Peeping Toms had a trawl Home Secretary Sajid Javid has confessed to Parliament that MI5 bungled the security of "certain technology environments used to store and analyse data," including that of ordinary Britons spied on by the agency.…