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London cops claim he's got his databases mixed up A financial IT worker is suing London's Metropolitan Police for £1m after claiming the force recorded an identity fraudster's criminal conviction against his name.…

There’s more than one way to store and process your data Sponsored webcast While many organisations like the speed, efficiency and cost benefits of the public cloud, some like to keep a few things to themselves by keeping their own in-house IT systems.…

Adjustments to HTTP/2 Prioritization allow faster delivery of web resources Cloudflare figures it has fixed the web, at least insofar as speedy page loading on its network is concerned.…

Hot tip for Reg readers: There are Easter eggs to be found The UK's Ordnance Survey has followed up the Mars map with a little something to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in its own, distinctive cartographic style.…

If there's another use for the tech, venture capitalists aren't particularly interested Huge expectations for blockchain have been created by large suppliers such as IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and SAP, institutions such as The World Economic Forum, some government officials and many market research companies.…

Also: 60 Starlink sats shoehorned in a Falcon 9 fairing, bound for orbital shenanigans Roundup Pull up a chair and tuck into a sachet of dried astro-nosh with a round-up of space news you might have missed.…

The only winning move is not to play, as a wise computer said The use of fully automated AI systems in military battles is inevitable unless there are strict regulations in place from international treaties, eggheads have opined.…

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero When a star dies, destroying so much around it, it’s the small, dense rocky planets that are the objects most likely to be left standing while the heavy, gassy planets crumble and perish.…

Plus plenty of other fixes from Redmond and Adobe – and special guest star Citrix Patch Tuesday It’s that time of the month again, and Microsoft has released a bumper bundle of security fixes for Patch Tuesday, including one for out-of-support operating systems Windows XP and Server 2003.…

Not great for US importers who have to pick up the bill, good news for Taiwan and Vietnam The ongoing trade war between two of the world’s largest economies is starting to seemingly affect electronics production – with US output growing slightly faster than it did a year ago, and production in China slowing down.…

First major US city to restrict, scrutinize future Big Brother technology San Francisco has become the first major city in America, if not the world, to effectively ban facial recognition technology and other forms of state surveillance.…

Plug pulled on SMT tech as software makers put security ahead of performance Analysis In conjunction with Intel's coordinated disclosure today about a family of security vulnerabilities discovered in millions of its processors, Google has turned off Hyper-Threading in Chrome OS to fully protect its users.…

Unhappy taxpayers want refunds of a different kind, lodge lawsuits across Cali Updated Intuit, the biz behind America's most popular tax-filing software, was sued this week for seemingly hiding a free version of its product from search engines.…

You thought the memory glut was almost over? Think again Analysis Chinese NAND flinger Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) will be mass-producing 64-layer 3D NAND flash chips by the end of the year and price competition could get ugly in 2020.…

Intel CPUs dating back a decade are vulnerable to latest cousin of Spectre Intel on Tuesday plans to release a set of processor microcode fixes, in conjunction with operating system and hypervisor patches from vendors like Microsoft and those distributing Linux and BSD code, to address a novel set of side-channel attacks that allow microarchitecture data sampling (MDS).…

Fast filer swallows $31m A $31.7m funding round has been closed by scale-out filesystem flogger WekaIO, positioning it for possible acquisition by a storage industry player.…

Meet Murphy & Browne: Not a crap cop show, but the pair to represent 63k poor employees Less than 0.6 per cent of Capita's workforce applied for the two non-exec director roles that afford the lucky winners – if that's the right term – a seat on the board and possibly an executive biscuit budget.…

Swiss bankers to get new neighbours in colocation agreement IT services peddler and data centre operator DXC Technology is buying a 285,000 square foot (26,477m) data centre in Clifton, New Jersey, previously owned by the US division of investment bank Credit Suisse.…

British provider's calls, text and data all grind to a halt Virgin Mobile has been having a miserable Tuesday as customers found their handsets reduced to lumps of shiny plastic by a network-wide outage.…

Shareholders left counting cost of 40% annual payout squeeze. CEO says balance sheet needed some love after 5G spectrum auction overheads Vodafone investors are crying rivers this morning after the telco slashed a FY19 dividend payout to beef up its balance sheet. The disposal of operations in India contributed to steep losses.…

Just a downpayment, says administrator Jim Bridenstine US President Donald Trump has put at least some money where his mouth is and requested an additional $1.6bn to land US astronauts on the Moon by 2024.…

One-month stay of execution won't sweeten $10m in fines Former Autonomy chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for fraud over the 2011 sale of the British software company to Hewlett Packard.…

Cloudy accounting service takes an extended morning tea break Updated Accounting software giant Sage has been having a few irritating interruptions this morning as users encountered difficulty counting beans with the company's services.…

'Wouldn't it be ironic if all paths used by open-source developers lead to Microsoft?' Anyone still worry about the Microsoft monopoly? Executive director of the Eclipse Foundation Mike Milinkovich does.…

SANS brings three immersive training events to London Promo IT security training specialist SANS Institute is bringing three major training events to London this summer and autumn, each offering a bumper programme of intensive courses designed to arm security professionals with the skills they need to defend against data breaches and malicious attacks.…

In space no one can hear you complete form P6719 in triplicate for astro-mandarins Japanese space agency JAXA has been given the all clear from eggheads to attempt a landing on Mars' largest moon, drill into it, and bring a sample back to Earth without an Andromeda Strain incident.…

Cloud giant's structure, staff practices revealed Deep dive Companies inside and out of Silicon Valley have found their own ways to rapidly develop and deploy features and functionality.…

What did you think we meant? Our Moon is getting cooler, causing it to shrink. Now, research published in Nature Geoscience on Monday suggests that shrinkage is leading to a whole lot of shaking going on, with a little help from Earth too.…

Rap for surveillanceware chaps in chat app voice yap trap flap – now everyone patch A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims' smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target's number, and they're in. The victim doesn't need to do a thing other than leave their phone on.…

That's how you pronounce 😾😾😾: A means to bury spyware deep inside pwned networking gear Security weaknesses at the heart of some of Cisco's network routers, switches, and firewalls can be exploited by hackers to hide spyware deep inside compromised equipment.…

I'm going to hold a summit, says Pai. Just get on with it, demands fellow commissioner Faced with growing political and legal anger, Ajit Pai, the chairman of America's communications watchdog, has again promised to do something about robocalls – and again left critics fuming over his foot-dragging antics.…

330 PoPs and counting Network, cloud, and hosting provider BSO has gobbled up British enterprise connectivity specialist IX Reach, creating, it claims, "the largest privately owned telecom operator in the world."…

Legal action over 30% cut iGiant takes from software sales allowed to continue Folks can sue Apple in the US for forcing app developers to pay the iGiant a 30 per cent commission, America's Supreme Court has decided.…

Robot overlords making robot overlords A Cambridge-based chip design upstart led by former Arm executives has secured $5m (£3.84m) in venture capital to expand its engineering team and generate more sales.…

Plus: Investigators granted access to Jules' room in Ecuadorian embassy A woman accusing Julian Assange of sexual assault has welcomed the decision to reopen an investigation into the WikiLeaks founder.…

Need something older than the last two major updates? Tough – get on the update treadmill Adobe has left customers reeling after bringing an axe down on old versions of its Creative Cloud line-up.…

But an even faster Maglev method is also in the works The East Japan Railway Company (JR East) began testing a 10-carriage 400kph (249mph) bullet train on Friday night.…

Yep, PowerToys is back ... well, the open-sourcey reboot is, anyway Roundup Bored of Build? Suffering from cloud cramping? It wasn't all Azure, Azure, Azure from Microsoft last week.…

One of 20 firms to receive fail badge UK tech reseller Computacenter has had a big red warning slapped on it for not having enough women on its board of directors.…

Watch your back, Larry E: New tech's hitting Beijing on Wednesday Huawei is about to make life more complicated: it is gearing up to launch its own database product, featuring machine learning and compatible with Arm-based processors.…

Department to appeal High Court ruling over ministerial powers UK Home Office ministers are to appeal against a High Court judgment, handed down a few weeks ago, that prevents them from ordering regulators like Ofcom to stop carrying out their statutory duties.…

Hackers got in via offsite machine used for cloud performance testing A customer email from biz automation outfit ConnectWise has revealed that a ransomware attack was to blame for an outage which crashed its systems for a whole day earlier this month.…

Mind the fap Commuters on London's Wandsworth-Clapham service last Friday morning had yet another reason to awkwardly avoid each others' gazes as grunts and groans from what sounded like a pornographic film oozed out of the train's Tannoy system.…

Applies for European Arrest Warrant Sweden's deputy director of public prosecutions Eva-Marie Persson is reopening the rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.…

Out of 25 million? Cripes The Office of the Australian Data Information Commissioner's quarterly report has revealed that more than 10.5 million Ozzies – about 40 per cent of the lot of them – had their personal data slurped in one single incident in the first three months of 2019.…

'No side agreements' Autonomy Trial With the Autonomy Trial in full swing over HPE's allegations that the British software company fiddled its accounts to inflate its buy price, what exactly were the corporation's internal rules on recognising revenue? An internal presentation from its general counsel, obtained by The Register, sheds some light.…

Live code-breaking and beer A curse follows Enigma, the cryptography device deployed by Adolf Hitler's military during the WWII to protect their Morse communications from the Allies. That curse? Invisibility.…

Engineer reveals departmental porkies, gets told never to leave his desk again Who, Me? Monday has once again reared its head, and with that we welcome you back to Who, Me?, El Reg's weekly column where techies tell us about incidents from days of yore.…

Plus, Diachenko strikes again with Indian data find Roundup Last week, a Symantec boss stepped down, a Chinese hacker was called out, and an AirBnB hidden camera creep was cuffed.…

Nobody likes monopolies Northern Virginia is the most important data centre market on the planet, with more than a gigawatt of colocation capacity, and even more servers hidden in cloud data centres.…