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Chaebol blames 'popularity' for 'slight delay' of 2.5 months Samsung is getting flak from punters waiting an age for delivery of bundle deals offered on Galaxy phones back in September.…

Has learned from its mistakes... again TSB has again managed to capture the ire of thousands of customers after a technical glitch meant delays to payments into some accounts - just days after a damning report heavily criticised the bank for last year's IT meltdown.…

I dream of wires Something for the Weekend, Sir? Guess what I'm doing with my hands right now.…

Windows giant continues its quest for developer approval Kubecon 2019 Microsoft had a quiet Kubecon, with technology such as Azure Arc conspicuous by its absence as the company continued its efforts to be a good open source citizen.…

Or their marketing dept is talking utter hoop Halfords is telling potential DAB radio buyers that the digital radio tech is "super-fast" compared to analogue AM radio, which might come as a surprise to the laws of physics.…

You left your landline number in an error message, you doughnut On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's weekly peer into the dungeon of despair inhabited by those who twitch uncontrollably at the trill of a telephone.…

You're not alone. Head to Google Cloud's Global Cloud Digital Conference and find out how to ramp up productivity Promo Is the way your business works actually working? Are the members of your organization collaborating together to achieve goals? Are the tools intended to improve security actually being used?…

More evidence that building blocks for life on our home world replicable in outer space Scientists have detected alien sugars in Earth-bound meteorites for the first time, providing further evidence that some of the ingredients needed to kick start life on our planet may have been delivered from elsewhere in space.…

While there's still a rainforest left, that is Loon, an Alphabet-owned subsidiary, is collaborating with an internet service provider in Peru to set up wireless broadband internet over the Amazon rainforest using the Chocolate Factory's balloon fleet.…

Whale becomes an albatross around the neck of the container community In 2017, DevOps darling Docker decided to start calling the Docker open-source project by a new name, Moby – a decision the containerization upstart knew would be confusing and in fact baffled many developers at the time.…

Not so much 'going gold' as 'growing cold' Google has announced plans to close down its Cloud Print service over the coming year.…

Did you copy that? Xerox is escalating its takeover efforts against HP Inc with an explicit threat that it could soon begin a hostile takeover.…

Ad-tech arms race continues: DNS system exploited to silently follow folks around the web Developers working on open-source ad-blocker uBlock Origin have uncovered a mechanism for tracking web browsers around the internet that defies today's blocking techniques.…

About 20% of employees worldwide look for new jobs Millennial daycare provider WeWork says it will lay off about one fifth of its workforce – 2,400 employees – as it tries to get its finances in order.…

Save £££s on DevOps, container, continuous delivery, serverless advice and info Event The program committee for our Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 conference meets this week – which means the clock is ticking loudly on our blind-bird ticket offer.…

Good news? They're not paying the ransom A French hospital has suffered a ransomware attack that reportedly caused the lockdown of 6,000 computers.…

Beyond the spill chucker in G Suite docs - and Google Assistant too Google is adding AI features to its G Suite for business, using neural network processing for grammar-checking, spelling autocorrect driven by Google Search, and spelling suggestions tailored by words used in your organisation.…

'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by' After five years at Vulture Central, mainly covering government technology and telecoms, I'm off.…

Free software credits not for you? How about a free tier instead? Kubecon 2019 CI/CD darling Codefresh took to the high seas of Kubecon to announce that it would be flinging $100m at the open-source ecosystem, as well as adding a free tier for its Kube-friendly pipeline tech.…

From digital strategy to data practicality with the clever folks at Qumulo Webcast Let’s keep this simple. You’re looking to move to the cloud because you know just how powerful the model can be. You’ve seen what you can make possible, if you harness the wealth of data now available to your applications. You’re looking to deliver on your digital transformation goals, respond to new business opportunities and disrupt your entire market.…

Reminds us of a small island nation's attempt to leave a certain political union The US Department of Commerce has agreed to grant several exemptions to its ban on Huawei, in what appears to be the Chinese kit maker's second reprieve this week.…

Makes you think pen and paper would be a better alternative British Airways suffered yet another IT failure, causing knock-on flight delays and cancellations for thousands of unhappy travellers*.…

A new office for Blighty 'wherever Brexit lands' Devops pipeline outfit CircleCI has ignored Britain's looming withdrawl from the EU to set up a European beachhead in London, headed up by a freshly poached Facebook exec.…

Epyc apology, Chipzilla Intel has issued an open letter apologizing to punters and partners alike for its inability to meet demand for processors.…

Chroots maneuver Miscreants can potentially hijack Docker users' computers by tricking them into running malicious containers and waiting for them to kick off a simple copy command – thanks to a critical flaw.…

Bettåma than nöthurihag For many of us, assembling IKEA furniture is proof that while Scandinavians are no longer vikings, they can still ruin your day.…

Self-assessment phishing and phone scam alert raised The UK’s tax authorities have issued an official warning to contractors to watch out for self-assessment scams - and they don’t mean IR35 for a change.…

Fraudster oversaw operation with contraband phone A convicted fraudster housed in a maximum security prison in Nigeria managed to pull off a $1m (£775,000) online scam from behind bars.…

Yes, more energetic than a pedantic Trekkie correcting you Scientists have detected the most-energetic photons yet seen from a gamma ray burst, with energies nearing a trillion electron volts.…

Spare a thought for the lives of the creative accountants It can be tough in the repair industry, and no one knows that better than struggling corporation Apple.…

Rights warriors want governments to actually, y'know, do something – anything Amnesty International says the "pervasive surveillance" practiced by Facebook and Google represents a threat to human rights, a claim the two companies dispute.…

Better to iron out these flaws now before Musk fills these crates with people Video The Mk1 prototype of Elon Musk's Starship suffered what we're betting SpaceX will call an "anomaly" during a fuel tank test today.…

Sale comes within months of DNS overseer pushing through controversial contract change Special report The sale of one of the internet’s most popular registries to a private equity firm has revived concerns over how the domain name system is governed.…

Everyone's Ring to rule them all and in the narc-fest bind them Amazon's camera-infused doorbell biz Ring offers virtually nothing in the way of privacy or civil-rights protection for the surveillance video it collects and shares with police – according to US Senator Edward Markey (D-MA).…

Just don't forget where you put your keys and you'll be fine Google is taking new steps to ensure the volumes of data it stores for businesses are properly protected.…

Whither the £4m drone detection system? Police? Security? Bueller? Two airline pilots reported a near-miss with a drone while just 30 seconds from touchdown at London Gatwick airport earlier this year, an official report has revealed.…

Revenue growth lags as biz makes subscription transition Operating profit at accountancy software biz Sage dropped 10.5 per cent year-on-year to £382m for the company's 2018/19 results ended 30 September due to an increased investment in its cloudy products.…

Are you for real? splutters surveyor Sophos Half of UK public sector IT chiefs think the data they're responsible for protecting is less valuable than private sector information, according to a survey by antivirus firm Sophos.…

ACK! London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has published its first procurement notice to consolidate its IT "towers" in a contract worth £600m over five years.…

People person CEO urges staff 'if you like the One DXC logo, tell others' LogoWatch Words are cheap and what better way for the new man in charge of DXC to convince his troops that a more caring regime has taken over than by scrapping its current corporate colours and logo to something more daring.…

Lock the front door, you chumps A British video-editing startup exposed what is claimed to be "thousands" of user-uploaded videos, including family films and home-made pornography, in an unsecured Amazon AWS bucket.…

Ailing services integrator pulls in more cash from backers to pay off debts, rebrands US MSP arm Cash-strapped IT services integrator Getronics has finally confirmed its split with group CEO Nana Baffour and is getting an injection of capital following its cash-flow issues.…

C# and XAML devs get path to what UWP promised but never delivered At Microsoft's recent Ignite conference, the company promoted WinUI as the best path for desktop developers, and pointed towards the third-party Uno platform as an option for Windows 7 or web deployment.…

Haven't gotten around to patching since last Spring? Now would be a good time Thousands of Oracle E-Business Suite customers are vulnerable a security bug that can be exploited for bank fraud.…

Businessman gets 18 months for bogus cryptocoin sales A 39 year-old man from New York has been ordered to spend the next 18 months in prison after being convicted of cryptocurrency-based securities fraud.…

Linux was a 'cancer' but Microsoft is now defending it IBM, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have partnered with the Open Invention Network (OIN), a company formed to protect Linux from patent threats, to take on "Patent Assertion Entities", also known as patent trolls.…

Coalition aims to help users spot and remove covert trackers A collection of security, privacy, and digital rights groups have joined up to push a campaign against stalking software.…

You win some, you lose… 75 per cent of your share value The shares of satellite operators continued to plummet today after it became clear that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was going to seize valuable spectrum off them and resell it to mobile phone companies.…

But the big money's in Huawei's new (invite only) program Mozilla has decided to celebrate the 15th anniversary of its Firefox browser by expanding its bug bounty program to cover a range of new sites and services and - get this - triple its maximum payout.…

'Magic Leap has moved from being an IF company to a WHEN company,' claims outgoing director Augmented reality hype-machine Magic Leap has lost its chief financial officer (CFO) and creative director, putting yet more question marks over the company’s future.…