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Meanwhile, Russia brings three ISS crew safely home yet again SpaceX finally got the SES-12 comms satellite into orbit this morning while a trio of International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned in a trusty Soyuz capsule after 168 days in the black.…

Trio says their V2X flavour totally dunks on 802.11p radio Qualcomm, amid all of its corporate wranglings with Broadcom, is branching out into silicon for connected cars thanks to a three-way tie-up with Panasonic and Ford.…

It's about an impeached commander-in-chief... and infosec. Get your popcorn Pop murder mystery scribe James Patterson has teamed up with former US President Bill Clinton to co-author novel about a commander-in-chief going undercover to prevent a catastrophic cyber attack.…

Cambridge Uni powwow broods on Facebook, Wannacry Privacy of medical data and the machinations of surveillance capitalism were under the spotlight at a Cambridge University symposium last week.…

Thankfully, now there are data integration platforms for that Data integration has been an IT challenge for decades. Long before cloud, even before client server. Back then, though, it was relatively simple – you were working with systems of record, desktop databases and business systems.…

In Putin's Russia, battery life outlive YOU Russian boffins at the Moscow Institute of Physics (MIPT) have emitted a prototype nuclear battery packing 3,300 milliwatt hours of energy per gram.…

When everything's smart, the potential for dumb mistakes becomes enormous Earlier this year I lamented the inevitable death of Moore's Law - crushed between process node failures and exploits attacking execution efficiencies. Yet that top line failure of Moore's Law hides the fact that chips in general are now cheap.…

Crossed wires, a Commodore 64 clone and bankruptcy beckoning Who, me? Welcome again to “Who, me?”, The Register’s Monday mess – because it tells readers tales of breaking things.…

The manual is confusing, to be fair, but a third of users read it wrong and are dangling data If you're sysadmin of an organisation using Google Groups and G Suite, you need to revisit your configuration to make sure you aren't leaking internal information.…

What a time to be alive Brace yourself, world: the Unicode Consortium unleashes version 11.0 of its Emoji and general standard on Tuesday June 5th, and will right the terrible wrong that is the absence of red-headed emoji.…

Crypto chat Cooks an update Under attack from Russian regulators, embattled encrypted chat app Telegram has apparently resolved a side-spat with Apple.…

Virtualisation is creating traffic handoffs that don't depend on physical ports Virtualization changes everything – and in the case of the routers that keep the Internet working, it's not always in a good way.…

Authorities start rounding up ride share drivers, passengers Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that Uber is “finished” in the nation and not long afterwards local authorities started finding ride-sharing operators.…

Champagne on ice, but MiniBooNE's 15-year hunt has produced promising results It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle, the sterile neutrino.…

But he’s released a new kernel anyway and called it 4.17 Linus Torvalds has decided the world’s not ready for version 5.0 of the Linux Kernel, so he’s given us version 4.17 instead.…

Network news covering cloud, a breach at Netgear's spin-out, plus Red Hat wraps Ribbon and more ROUNDUP FireEye has borrowed from the credit card industry to try and detect malicious logins.…

Plus: Those neural network stock photos... Roundup Here's a quick roundup of all the important announcements in AI this week.…

Not to forget, moans about bad AI photos. AI roundup Here's a quick roundup of all the important announcements in AI this week.…

Reg vulture gets its claws on Reolink's Argus 2 Review One of the interesting side effects of being asked to test smart-home technology is that you get grumpier about it.…

And the internet says... Redmond, keep your forking hands off our favorite website Poll Microsoft has held talks with GitHub with a mind to potentially buy the popular source-code warehouse, folks closely familiar with the discussions have claimed.…

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting security news going on.…

Machine-learning conference organizers warn someone is trying to get boffins into bed A cheeky website is pretending to take attendee registrations and hotel bookings for folks heading to the upcoming Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Montreal, Canada, at the end of this year.…

Machine-learning conference organizers warn miscreants are trying to get boffins into bed A dodgy website is providing fake registrations and hotel deals for the upcoming Neural Information Processing Systems conference happening in Montreal at the end of this year.…

Second worst stingray in history (RIP Steve Irwin) Someone may have spied on smartphones in or near the White House using a fake cellphone tower – and miscreants are said to have abused SS7 weaknesses to swipe US citizens' private information, it emerged this week.…

Second worst stingray in history (RIP Steve Irwin) The US government has confirmed someone spied on smartphones in America's capital using a fake cellphone tower – and miscreants abused SS7 weaknesses to swipe citizens' personal information from a major wireless carrier.…

Which bright spark should we blame after this illuminating revelation of current affairs? Philips' Hue smart-home lighting has had an embarrassing outage with its API going offline for four hours on Thursday, preventing customers from accessing the system remotely.…

Banishment comes after bias investigation that found nothing Facebook's controversial Trending section has fallen out of fashion and will be removed next week, along with products and third-party partner integrations that rely on the Trends API.…

'Hardware failure' blamed for ruining revelries Updated Businesses and punters in Europe are in for a long and frustrating night – after Visa's payment services in the region went TITSUP: a Total Inability To Support Usual Purchases.…

Infamous IoT menace lives on in its hellspawn Cybercrooks are using the infamous Mirai IoT botnet as a framework to quickly add in new exploits and functionalities, it has emerged.…

Debt collectors to be unleashed if product doesn't arrive Indiegogo has given flailing Retro Computers Ltd a fortnight stay of execution on its threat to call in debt collectors after the ZX Spectrum reboot biz failed to deliver a product by the end-of-May deadline.…

Plus: SIM-swapping scam costs customer thousands TSB customers have reported receiving letters from the British bank containing other people's details in the embattled firm's latest cock-up.…

US Department of Defense insistent on single vendor The Pentagon has pushed back its controversial single vendor cloud contract deal, saying it doesn't want to "rush toward failure".…

Machines join the march against identity fraud There’s a conundrum called know your customer (KYC), the process of verifying the identity of a company’s clients. A decade ago, KYC was a mild inconvenience that could be tackled using some familiar procedures.…

Cops comb area to net wannabe keepers Bee thieves have created a buzz in Sweden after two million Apis mellifera were stolen – in what appears to be among the largest stings of its kind in Europe.…

ALIS logistics software woes continue at US-UK training unit Delayed upgrades to F-35 fighter jets along with bespoke logistics software that displays spare part lead times in years are keeping some aircraft grounded, according to a report from the US air force station where the core of Britain's future F-35 operators are being trained.…

Watch out for those white-box-flingers, though, Mike Top dog Dell barked loudest in IDC's latest server quarterly tracker, overtaking HPE in both revenue and units, while white boxes made a strong showing on hyperscalers' shopping list.…

Spoiler alert: he didn't Facebook has been accused of violating users' human rights and failing to create adequate risk management structures in a heated exchange with stockholders yesterday.…

Japanese conglomerate balances book after nuclear power plant shutdown Toshiba has finally offloaded its chip unit for $18bn (£13.5bn) to US private equity house Bain Capital weeks after getting the green light from Chinese regulators.…

Once the agenda goes up, so does the price We're close to confirming the lineup for Serverless Computing London, our three-day exploration of all things sans server, cloud native and more, which means you don't have long to grab a super bargain blind bird ticket.…

Trashy ideas return to whence they came Something for the Weekend, Sir? I am looking for a fit man.…

iomart-owned outfit TITSUP* as trencher slices through critical cable HostingUK and its big brother, iomart, are still struggling to restore online services more than 12 hours after a bit barn blackout.…

Interpretability in machine learning is a minefield Neural networks – the algorithms that many people think of when they hear the words machine learning – aren't very good at explaining what they do. They are black boxes.…

Tech support chap wondered why client seemingly had a blank cheque for the stuff! Turns out they did … mostly On-Call On-come again to On-Call, The Register’s Friday column in which readers share tales of tech support oddities.…

New orbit will skim just 30 miles above Death Star lookalike The Dawn spacecraft orbiting dwarf planet Ceres will soon make its final course change as NASA boffins set it up for a closest-ever flyby yet to get a warts-and-all look.…

Regional director takes giant to court in discrimination row A former Oracle regional sales director has sued the American database goliath, claiming he had been fired unlawfully after 13 years of employment for seeking medical treatment under US Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).…

‘Self-innovation is the only way for us to climb the world's technological peaks’ Chinese president Xi Jinping has given a major speech on the country’s science and technology agenda, and signalled that China will innovate for itself rather than source technology from the rest of the world.…

Q1 2019 beats expectations, full-year guidance raised VMware’s mainstream server virtualization users haven’t felt a lot of love in recent years The company’s focussed on the cloud, containers and software best suited to very large enterprises.…

‘Power event’ blamed, hit subset of kit in US-EAST-1 Updated Parts of Amazon Web Services' US-East-1 region have experienced about half an hour of downtime, but some customers' instances and data can't be restored because the hardware running them appears to have experienced complete failure.…

Neural network comedy – literally, no laughing matter Researchers in Japan have tried to build an artificially intelligent system to make people laugh – but, surprise, surprise, the jokes it told were terrible.…