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Shopped online at Macy's last month? Might want to toss, or at least check, that card
Magecart making life difficult yet again for shopping website US retailer Macy's says that hackers planted a card-stealing malware script on its site and harvested customer details for eight days last month.…
Brexit bad boy Arron Banks' Twitter account hacked: Private messages put online
And the fake news merry-go-round is already in full swing Brexit-supporting businessman Arron Banks has had his Twitter account hijacked and his private messages dumped online by person or persons unknown – and random script kiddies are trying to claim the credit for it.…
'Big Bang': Great for creating the universe, but not as an approach to IT migration, TSB told
Poor testing and supplier oversight to blame for 'unprecedented' cockup TSB's disastrous migration of its core banking data and payment records of five million customers has today been slammed by an independent report from London City law firm Slaughter and May.…
AWS shoves Java 11 support into Lambda serverless toy box
As well as managed nodes for K8s and new FireLens container logging service Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hauled in Java 11 support to its Lambda serverless platform, along with other upgrades and a new service for container log management.…
Second time lucky: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation
US Dept of Justice books one-way plane ticket in his name A rape investigation involving everyone's favourite cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker, Julian Assange, has been dropped, Swedish prosecutors told the world's press today.…
Cisco blasts sueball at 3 ex-employees it claims handed trade secrets over to same rival
Two high-level engineers and one managing director accused of stealing from Switchzilla Cisco has filed a complaint against three former employees in the district court of Northern California, having accused them of stealing its intellectual property before jumping ship to a competitor.…
HPE has only gone full Kubernetes, pops open new Container Platform
Bare metal or run on any cloud thanks to, er, EPIC BlueData acquisition HPE has announced its Kubernetes-based Container Platform, which can be deployed on bare metal, any public cloud or virtualized infrastructure. Availability is promised for early 2020.…
London has decent 5G availability but speeds lag behind Birmingham and Cardiff – research
Over 60% access better than anything found in US and SK 5G in London is so far lagging behind Birmingham and Cardiff, according to research into the tech's early deployment.…
Who loves Brexit? Irish distributors ... after their sales jump by a third
Analyst says firms insuring against hard exit by the UK Figures from tech industry analyst Context show a remarkable jump in server, storage and networking sales in the Republic of Ireland through the last two quarters, pointing to companies continuing to invest in insurance against a hard Brexit.…
DXC is 'fixable', new boss says, unveiling plans to up headcount and tackle red accounts
CEO insists firm can compete with big rivals on cloud DXC is broken but fixable, the beleaguered outsourcing provider's new chief exec has assured the 130,000 employees still on its payroll.…
Royal Bank of Scotland IT contractor ban sparks murmurs of legal action
Freelance techies claim they face 20% pay cut Exclusive IT contractors with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are mulling legal action following a decision to get rid of all freelancers ahead of controversial changes to UK off-payroll worker tax legislation next year.…
50 years on: Apollo 12 failed at selfies but succeeded at dismantling a probe
Mind where you're pointing that thing, Al Part 2 Welcome to the second part of our Apollo 12 retrospective, where we look at the breaking of cameras and the (almost) breaking of the lunar module pilot. You can read about the eventful launch in Part 1, here.…
Microsoft joins Google and Mozilla in adopting DNS over HTTPS data security protocol
Some concerned it hands too much power to too few Microsoft has put its weight behind the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) security protocol, greatly increasing the likelihood of it becoming a default internet standard.…
Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon
Pool of companies itching for a slice of the $2.6bn contracts has now grown to 14 A total of 14 companies have now entered the race to develop landers to deliver goodies to the Moon as NASA plans to send the first woman and the next man to our nearest rocky companion by 2024.…
Iran kills the internet for its people's own good as riots grip the Middle Eastern nation
Country offline for third day in response to protests Iran has been offline for three days after the government responded to widespread protests by killing the internet.…
American telcos get 90 days to wrap up deals with, er, dangerous Chinese supplier – that's Huawei the news goes
US Department of Commerce relents-ish on blockade plans US telcos will be able to continue doing business with Huawei for the time being.…
The US Army recruits WALL-E, er Chris H, as its next-generation bomb disposal robot
Terminator it ain't, but should prove useful and a little lovable The US Army has is building a new 248-strong robot regiment to help defuse or detonate explosives and has just spent $109m on the new hardware, which bears an unfortunate similarity to the beloved cartoon character WALL-E.…
You're about to gouda major change in Microsoft cloud security after Redmond agrees to go Dutch on data
Will take the GDPR hit for all cloud biz so you don't have to Microsoft says it will be making a data protection deal it struck with the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security into a global policy for its cloud services.…
Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors
Multinational cop agency reportedly set to issue statement Multinational police agency Interpol is due to say that tech companies deploying strong encryption helps paedophiles – unless they build backdoors for police workers.…
Apple's latest keyboard travels back in time to when they weren't crap
It's Magic! The MacBook keyboard nightmare is over – Apple's latest attempt reverts back to something remarkably similar to the key design it was using up until 2016. The one that worked.…
Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware
You have four days left to nab what you need Intel is removing drivers and BIOS for its old desktop boards so anyone running an old Pentium-based PC has four days to get hold of anything they might need.…
Pack your bags, you're going to America, Lord Chief Justice tells accused Brit hacker
High Court throws out Nathan Wyatt's extradition appeal A Briton once suspected of hacking Pippa Middleton's iCloud account – although he was cleared after a police probe in 2016 – now faces deportation to America.…
Anomaly-free SpaceX fires up SuperDracos, ISS astros go iFixit in orbit, and Buran turns 31
Plus: That time the first American in space gave 'nauts an on-air telling off Roundup Last week SpaceX proved its Crew Dragon abort engines can work, ISS 'nauts embarked on an EVA to fix their particle physics detector, and Searching for Skylab got a director's cut of sorts.…
'Literally a paperweight': Bose users fume at firmware update that 'doesn't fix issues'
Lexus of speakers fails to address months of complaints, say users Firmware updates to Bose TV soundbars don't seem to have fixed the problems for everyone and have even managed to add some new issues.…
From humble Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka
Today you toil. Who knows what tomorrow brings? A former Unix sysadmin has been elected the new president of Sri Lanka, giving hope to all those IT workers who fear they are trapped in a role where the smallest of decisions can have catastrophic consequences if it goes wrong.…
If it's not cloud, GTFO: Sage flogs payments business to US firm Elavon for £230m
Continues big old offload of 'non-core' assets UK accounting software biz Sage is flogging its payments arm to US firm Elavon for £230m, the latest asset offload of its "non-core" businesses in favour of those with a cloudier flavour.…
NASA told to get act together on commercial crew vendors as chance of American-free ISS rises
Missed your deadlines? Here, have some more taxpayer dosh Auditors minced no words in their assessment (PDF) of NASA's Commercial Crew providers: overdue, overbudget and overpaid.…
The Bloodhound Gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record
Supersonic air detected Bloodhound LSR hit 628mph (1,010kph) in high-speed testing over the weekend, as fast as its current rocket will propel it.…
Rapid-fire Windows 10 builds, Azure on Arm not for the eyes of mortals, and Teams at 10,000ft
All the Microsoft excitement you missed while installing 19H2 Roundup As Microsoft luxuriated in the Ignite afterglow, the hardworking Reg gnomes deep within the Windows mines managed to unearth a nugget or two of news you may have missed.…
Ex-Capita accountant who claimed £10k bung to leave was blackmail has appeal thrown out
You didn't work 2 weeks straight so you couldn't have been whistleblowing, tribunal rules A Capita accountant who turned down a £10,000 bung to leave the firm only to be sacked anyway has lost her appeal against a rejected Employment Tribunal case.…
Email! HUH! Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing...
... thanks to today's entrant in the Who, Me? hall of shame Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend and a cheery hello to the week with another seepage from The Register's confessional in the form of our Who, Me? column.…
Pemex hit by ransomware, US Postal Service gets a copycat and new WhatsApp bugs
Plus, 1Password gets a boatload of cash It's time for another Register security roundup of the week's smaller stories you may have missed.…
Twitter wants help with deepfakes, and Microsoft Azure will rent out new AI chips for its cloud users, and more
Plus a deepfake video that will freak you out Roundup Here's this week's collection of AI-related news that we found interesting. Read on to find out more about a new chip coming to Microsoft Azure and how Twitter hopes to deal with deepfakes.…
HP to Xerox: Nope, your $33.5bn bid falls short of our valuation
Board keeps door open... HPOX not a total impossibility, at least not if Carl Icahn has his way HP’s board has spurned the advances of Xerox, saying the $33.5bn opening bid “significantly undervalues” the business.…
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer
If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again SC19 Intel today confirmed the identity of the GPU-based math-accelerator chip it will offer to supercomputer builders.…
Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter
The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating At the second annual Cultured Meat Symposium in San Francisco on Friday, donuts featured prominently on the breakfast menu and lunch involved only plant-based options. Attendees the day before had the opportunity to sample mechanically prepared beef burgers, courtesy of robo-restaurateur Creator, but lab-fabbed meat didn't make an appearance. Give it about five years – that was a guestimate from one attendee.…
5G SIM-swap attacks could be even worse for industrial IoT than now
Trust your hardware? Pah, you oughta trust nobody Claims that 5G offers “better security” for IoT may not ring true – with the technology remaining vulnerable to SIM-jacking attacks within private Industry 4.0-style deployments, according to infosec biz Trend Micro.…
Physicists are rather giddy after creating a rare type of laser using laughing gas
Tanks of nitrous oxide needed for, erm, science eh? A team of researchers have built a terahertz laser that might one day see through clothes, book covers, and even skin, using laughing gas, according to a paper in Science.…
Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java, AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes
The case that just won't die The US Supreme Court has agreed to once and for all decide the copyright case between Oracle and Google after nine years of legal wrangling.…
Denial of service kingpin hit with 13 months denial of freedom and a massive bill to pay
Illinois man gets more than a year in the slammer for $550K DDoS scheme A US court has sentenced the operator of a massive DDoS service to 13 months in prison.…
Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK
Meanwhile, his co-defendant has troubles getting into land of the free The US State Department has until 1 December to get its paperwork in order and show how it wishes to proceed in attempting to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch to face charges.…
1Password hopes to cross some items off its todo list with help from $200m in venture capital
Though not much detail on said list, except security and privacy Some 14 years after it was founded and with no external funding taken in during that time, 1Password has finally succumbed to the charms - and $200m in cash - of venture cap biz Accel.…
Tonight on Tales from the Crypto: It lives! GPU flinger Nvidia bouncing back after miner affair
Just goes to show, stick with what you know The ill-conceived and costly error of doubling down on the crypto-market is almost a distant memory for Nvidia as the GPU maker reported results that indicate an upward turn in fortunes.…
White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome
Change rolled back, but it's not a good look An experimental feature silently rolled out to the stable Chrome release on Tuesday caused chaos for IT admins this week after users complained of facing white, featureless tabs on Google's massively popular browser.…
Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers
Admits open-source API bigger than any one company, but it is not letting go Google's Cloud Run service, which lets you run containers on Kubernetes (K8s) using a serverless model, has hit general availability, and El Reg has taken it for quick spin.…
TalkTalk says it's yet to close deal on FibreNation as UK telecoms industry reels over Labour's nationalisation plans
'The news overnight ... making everybody in the sector pause and consider' TalkTalk has yet to find a buyer for its infrastructure investment vehicle Fibre Nation, the business revealed in its results for the half year to 30 September.…
[NSFW] What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over
Still a better love story than Twilight NSFW In what is certainly a crowded field, step forward the Doncaster Free Press and take a bow for the best local news headline of 2019: "Doncaster traffic bollard used by man for sex 'killed' in road smash".…
Use the courts, Jeff: Amazon to contest Microsoft scooping $10bn JEDI contract
Bezos' empire strikes back claiming 'unmistakable bias', self-recused defense chief denies it Amazon is headed for court to contest the surprise decision to hand Microsoft the $10bn US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract.…
Huawei's first Google-free phone stripped and searched: Repair not too painful... once you're in
Mate 30 Pro's modular innards praised, but glue still abundant The good geeks of iFixit have ripped open Huawei's first Google-free handset, the Mate 30 Pro, to find a serious battery powering the big screen and sophisticated camera setup.…
Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker
I'll huff and I'll puff... Something for the Weekend, Sir? Help, I forgot my keys! [rummage] Oh yes, of course – ah don' need no stinkin' keys, my front door locks smartly.…
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