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Maybe Wednesday's strike helped a bit Ride-hailing apps like Uber or Lyft are the biggest contributor to traffic congestion in San Francisco, according to a study published in Science Advances today.…

Big Red sets phasers to kill in space-opera-esque battle Amazon offered lucrative jobs to not one but two Pentagon officials deciding which tech giant will land the military's mega JEDI cloud contract, Oracle now claims.…

See that girl, watch that scene, digging that 'Ponzi' scheme Another cryptocurrency caper has been hit with a fraud lawsuit – this time OneCoin, set up and run by the self-titled "CryptoQueen" Ruja Ignatova.…

Big Apple residents weren't too appy with apartment block's high-tech security system The owners of a Manhattan apartment block have agreed to give their tenants mechanical keys to end a court battle over a keyless smart-lock system.…

Parliament also wants a word with Sheryl Sandberg The Canadian parliament says it plans to subpoena Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg as part of a probe into Cambridge Analytica's shenanigans.…

But it's for privacy! You know us. We're Google, privacy champions. Always championing privacy, us Google I/O Google, the largest handler of web cookies, plans to change the way its Chrome browser deals with the tokens, ostensibly to promote greater privacy, following similar steps taken by rival browser makers Apple, Brave, and Mozilla.…

Um, are we supposed to feel proud about this? Wow. Pat yourself on the back, Blighty. The average download speed for fixed-line broadband in the UK almost surpassed the global average of 57.9Mbps, comms regulator Ofcom revealed today.…

French telco's cyber arm consumes second infosec specialist of 2019 Orange has snaffled Belgium-based security services outfit SecureLink for a whopping enterprise buy price of €515m.…

Who will rid us of this costly mess? Um, the private sector, mumbles Cabinet Office UK.gov still has "no meaningful" blueprint on how the disastrous Verify programme will be propped up when the public sector pulls funding in 2020, according to an influential Parliamentary Committee.…

Buddies up with Microsoft to stir a bit of Azure into the mix The Red Hatters continued flinging out new products today with the announcement of OpenShift 4, ushering in automation, autoscaling and, er, Azure Functions.…

This gov idiocy is making the UK a less safe place to go online Opinion A startup is claiming to have signed age verification contracts with a host of smut site operators – and is hoping 40 per cent of Britons will display their privates to it in July.…

'Into a club-worthy Ibiza anthem,' apparently Clearly not sated by his weird collab with Icelandic muso goblin Björk a few years back, renowned telly zoologist and Britain's dad Sir David Attenborough is showing the world that, at the age of 93, it's never too late to drop some sick clubland beats.…

And after that he's having tea with an archbishop. No, really America’s foreign secretary is to deliver a telling-off to the UK over the British government’s decision to maintain the Huawei status quo for 5G networks, according to reports.…

Microsoft software-targeting malware gets commands from code hidden in attachments A recently uncovered malware infection uses the basic functions of Microsoft's Exchange Server to remotely monitor and control computer systems.…

US case's star witness takes stand in London Autonomy Trial Autonomy's former US head of sales testified to London's High Court how he took part in a secret US grand jury legal hearing against British software firm Autonomy's chief financial officer.…

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice... aka York Mild exaggeration is a time-honoured tradition for disgusted Brits whingeing to their local newspapers about everything under the Sun.…

Perv messed with the wrong woman – an IT security bod An Airbnb "superhost" has been arrested and jailed after a guest discovered a camera hidden inside an internet router placed in the bedroom.…

Accountancy SaaS CCH falls over, thanks to nasty infection A global software-as-a-service platform catering to accountants is in damage control mode after a malware infection knocked its services offline.…

Pair cuffed in Israel The administrators of a news website dedicated to the dark web have been arrested by the FBI and cops in Israel on suspicion of receiving commission for directing readers to a Tor-hidden souk that sold drugs and weapons.…

AI. Privacy. AI. Privacy. AI. Privacy. AI. Priva... Google I/O Google on Tuesday gathered developers to the open air Shoreline Amphitheater beside its Mountain View, California, headquarters to witness and applaud its latest technological marvels amid natural splendor.…

Foot dragging causing real harm to Americans caught up in scams No less than 42 US state attorneys general have warned that the epidemic of robocalls sweeping the nation is causing serious harm to ordinary Americans.…

Self-driving cars are gonna need a decent amount of internal networking Chip designer Marvell is hoping to boost its multi-gig Ethernet business by acquiring American competitor Aquantia, primarily known for high-speed transceivers.…

Or so claims Symantec Months before top-tier hacking tools, likely built by the NSA, were leaked to the public by a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, the exploit code was apparently being used by Chinese state hackers to infiltrate systems.…

Not all documents are created, er, stored equal Cloudy storage provider Dropbox has enhanced its bit barns with a tiered storage architecture that divides the contents of the platform into frequently accessed "warm" data and "cold" data, with the latter less likely to be disturbed.…

But revenues for Q1 2019 flat as a pancake Virgin Media has so far managed just 1.7 million Lightning connections, nearly halfway to its original stated aim of connecting 4 million premises by the end of 2019 to speeds of 300Mbps.…

Tech salaries up almost 2 per cent in 2018 Average salaries for tech jobs advertised in the UK are up 1.7 per cent compared to last year, according to jobs-board botherers at Reed Technology.…

Alibaba, Azure and more used for badness, warns infosec biz Spammers are increasingly turning to common file-sharing and object storage services such as Google Drive and Microsoft Azure, in an attempt to evade ever-better corporate filters.…

All subsequent updates will have a Big Blue tint Red Hat pushed out a minty-fresh update to its Enterprise Linux platform in the form of version 8 at its Boston shindig today.…

Bankrupt competitor can't pay $845m for trade secrets theft After a long and bloody struggle, Dutch chip-making kit vendor ASML surveys the battlefield: its enemies are dead, and all that's left are their assets.…

Still a solution looking for a problem? Seems that way Blockchain remains a solution to a problem that doesn't exist and of the supply chain projects that got past sign-off, most remain in the pilot phase.…

Engineers knew of problem in 2017. Management didn't until after fatal crash As the 737 MAX scandal rolls on, "software delivered to Boeing" has been blamed by the company for the malfunctioning of a safety display.…

Splashing out on software-defined file and object storage plus ... some extras Privately owned HPC powerhouse DDN is buying software-defined storage business Nexenta and becoming a full-scale enterprise storage supplier.…

Competition commissioner finds grounds to investigate The European Commission is to investigate Apple over charges to music streaming services, according to the Financial Times.…

Head to Westminster for the best in DevOps, containers, and more... Events Continuous Lifecycle London kicks off in just one week, but there’s still time to grab a spot at our three-day exploration of modern software development and deployment.…

Wear a helmet, hipsters The scourge of cities around the world, app-rented e-scooters aren't just a thorn in the side for urban curmudgeons – they're also behind a rash of head injuries.…

Also: NASA's 2024 Moon dreams get another soaking from the big bucket of reality Roundup SpaceX moved on from the exploding Crew Dragon and Rocket Lab celebrated a fifth launch last week while NASA's five-year Moon plan looked in ever more danger of unravelling.…

Joss sticks lit at the Open Infrastructure Summit OpenStack executive director Jonathan Bryce took to the stage of the open source outfit's shindig in Denver, Colorado this week with a message of collaboration, openness and... clowns.…

£500k social network scotched less than two weeks after launch Who, Me? Are you hoping to make it through the week without a major balls-up? El Reg's fingers are crossed for you – but remember, not everyone is that lucky.…

Quick-fire summary of the past few days of news Roundup Welcome back, Brits, from your three-day Bank Holiday week. Allow us to catch you up on recent infosec comings and goings.…

Meet South America's Stoned Henge Pic Humans have been tripping off hallucinogens for at least a millennium, according to a crew of archaeologists who discovered a 1,000-year-old pouch of mind-bending drugs in a Bolivian cave.…

Browser-based access to hosted code environments. Plus: .NET 5 and GitHub-Azure Active Directory sync Build At its Build conference in Seattle on Monday Microsoft highlighted a handful of enhancements to its developer portfolio, including a preview of a pending browser-based development environment called Visual Studio Online (VSO).…

IntelliCode kinda available, online text editor to suggest sentence rewrites Build Microsoft today announced various AI-related tools during its annual Build developer conference in Seattle.…

Sanders blasts John Deere in John Deere-buying country A person's "right to repair" their own equipment may well become a US election issue, with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders making it a main talking point during his tour of Iowa.…

The cutthroat world of children's food in the spotlight After a year-long investigation, a top California exec has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly hacking into a competitor's website and stealing their customer data in an effort to ruin their business.…

Also: A new Windows Terminal is here and on GitHub Build The biggest news of Microsoft's annual developer get-together, Build, this year was the arrival of the Linux kernel as part of Windows Subsystem for Linux 2. Oh, and a new tab-happy Windows Terminal? It's in GitHub.…

Mozillans scramble over the weekend to undo damage On Friday, Mozilla detected a great disturbance in its Firefox browser, as if millions of voices had cried out on social media in annoyance.…

Woeful 1809 market share, Google warns testers off Edge, and we fire up Visual Studio once again Roundup Today, Microsoft's annual developer shindig Build kicks off in Seattle, USA. Ahead of that event, the gang still found time to tinker with Windows, fiddle with API packaging, and celebrate Solitaire.…

Which model is real? The top one? The one on the bottom left? Or the one on the middle? Roundup Hello, your regular AI roundup. We have a video of Mark Zuckerberg making a bad joke at F8, a neural network that generates fake whole human bodies, with their clothes on, and more. Enjoy.…

Find the expert or product you need in Frankfurt Promo The ISC High Performance conference is back, taking place this year in Frankfurt, Germany, from 16 to 20 June, and bringing together thousands of users and exhibitors with a shared interest in the latest high performance computing (HPC), big data, and cloud technologies.…

'I am the passenger / And I ride and I ride / I ride through the city's backsides' A man in Taiwan swallowed one of his wireless Apple AirPods while he slept but succeeded in retrieving the wayward earpiece – and found it still worked after its dark passage through the human body.…