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Made the jump to Win10? Have an extra 12 months of September support Windows 7 hold-outs were thrown a lifeline by Microsoft today – as were administrators exhausted by the pace of Windows 10 updates.…

Play container records on any private or public cloud turntable HTBASE has pulled the covers off Juke, its hybrid and multi-cloud container deployment and migration kit.…

Tin-foil retailers expecting a windfall as hat-makers arrive en-masse The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) got a version bump to 3.9 this week and if you’re a user, grab it as soon as you can since it fixes a multitude of security issues as well as adding some handy features.…

Before you buy that banana, look at this Hikers, bikers and builders have contributed to an unlikely British success story.…

Database upstarts' revenues grow as sales plans take shape "Antipathy" towards legacy database vendors is at an all-time high because Internet of Things data is arriving too fast for them to handle – so say execs at two competitors that went public last year.…

Look on the bright side, there’s always the cloud. What could go wrong? Microsoft threw its army of small business customers a treat in the form of confirmation that Windows Server 2019 Essentials was on the way. But it followed this up with the less-than-savoury news that it would probably be the last.…

New hire has work cut out. Say it with us: Ggnagh... gna- digital transformation Beleaguered outsourcing biz Capita is turning to IBM Global Business Services (GBS) – another beleaguered outsourcing biz – to onshore its managing partner for North America, hiring him as chief growth officer.…

Right in the middle of Inbound 2018 conference, no less Sales and marketing software slinger HubSpot has suffered an outage – amid the Inbound 2018 marketing conference and just one day after it revealed plans to shift all its cloudy plumbing onto AWS.…

You will use the new debugger and you will like it, OK? Microsoft has updated the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, giving devs some new debugging toys and a beefed-up language server.…

Telly taxpayers' info sent in the clear The UK's TV Licensing agency has taken its website offline "as a precaution" after being blasted for running transactional pages that were not sent over HTTPS.…

Refurb growing and almost half say 'no way' to Apple New research has highlighted a revolution in how Brits buy phones as punters become more discerning.…

JPL code still running after four decades. How's your Python looking? Yesterday saw the 41st anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch from the Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 41 – and SpaceX fire up its next Falcon 9 at the neighbouring Launch Complex 40 pad.…

Former Minister of Fun slams lack of interoperability and reliance on faxes Faltering NHS IT systems are "costing lives", health secretary Matt Hancock has said ahead of announcing a further £200m for trusts to create digital testbeds.…

Researchers break certificate authorities' domain validation Researchers based in Germany have discovered how to spoof certificates they don't own – even if the certs are protected by the PKI-based domain validation.…

Mobile? Don't even go there, says store-closing, data breach victim Data-breach-hit Dixons Carphone is on track to meet its profit expectations for the current fiscal year as the World Cup beefed up sales of TVs to more than offset crappier demand for computing kit and white box goods.…

Pity the external software devs – they only just found out about this! The government's no-deal Brexit scenario has thrown another technical spanner into HMRC's works, as bosses admitted delivering the plan would put a strain on its other work.…

They wish. Backdooring, encryption, and governments Analysis Not since the days of the US Clipper chip in the early 1990s, have backdoors put there by government decree to bypass encryption been this fashionable with governments.…

They wish. Backdooring, encryption, and governments Analysis Not since the days of the US Clipper chip in the early 1990s, have backdoors put there by government decree to bypass encryption been this fashionable with governments.…

Then exploited pix to demand more X-rated snaps, Feds claim A former NASA contractor was arrested and charged on Wednesday for allegedly sextorting women.…

No official patch for under-attack ALPC vuln – so grab these mitigations instead The Windows ALPC security hole that emerged early last week remains unpatched, even though it is being actively exploited by hackers to gain total control over PCs.…

If they fall for this social-engineering trick, of course Vid Beware using your web browser's autofill feature to log into your broadband router via Wi-Fi and unprotected HTTP. A nearby attacker can attempt to retrieve the username and password.…

It's always a good idea to know who you're talking to A proposal for securing BGP – the protocol that lays out the traffic pathways of the internet – has a another backer: NIST, aka America's National Institute for Standards and Technology.…

Cover-up – or just admins following usual upgrade cycle? Health-insurance biz Premera Blue Cross has been accused of deliberately knackering one of its computers to cover up details of a cyber-break-in. The organization denies any wrongdoing.…

ShapeCloud scheme to build bit barns on demand At Huawei's Operations Transformation Forum 2018 gabfest in Munich, Germany, this week, the Chinese giant teased "ShapeCloud" – a concept designed to help telcos build bit barns for government customers.…

Tables did not turn but rotated a little for Facebook, Twitter at senate hearing Comment It takes time for society, and the law, to catch up with technological advances. But based on this morning's hearing at the US Senate Intelligence Committee, the law is rapidly catching up with the main purveyors of what we have all come to call "social media."…

Open up your eyes and look around: It's just an illusion A recently observed neutron star collision was so violent it sprayed jets of radio signals that appeared to travel faster than light, it has just emerged.…

Google slammed for no-show Facebook and Twitter executives faced pointed questions from American lawmakers this morning over what they were doing to prevent foreign agents manipulating their sprawling online estates.…

Online ad giant returns fire in bid to use IP freely Facebook is suing BlackBerry for alleged patent infringement six months after BlackBerry sued Facebook for alleged patent infringement.…

Weird error message triggered by Azure update blunder Folks around the planet are today unable to use Microsoft Skype and Office 365's Outlook due to a baffling "Throttled" error message.…

So is that a yes or a no? Huawei has addressed the issue of tweaking a phone's performance to improve its benchmark scores, after being caught redhanded.…

Code of conduct will guide tech firms' work with health sector The UK government has said the NHS should be "fairly rewarded" by private firms that slurp patients' data.…

Will hire 100 heads, add NVMe to line DDN is forking out more than $60m for Tintri's business and will begin supporting the trembling, sweaty owners of the bankrupted firm's arrays this week, it confirmed today.…

Tax 'em 3%, say some. Noooo! cry Luxembourg, Ireland Warring European governments have been urged to quickly come to an interim agreement on a levy on tech giants’ revenues – and could drop plans to tax the sale of users’ data to get there.…

Except that one. Nobody wants that kept for posterity Call recording is coming to the consumer version of Skype, although users of the Windows 10 UWP incarnation will have a bit longer to wait.…

Northern Ireland capital is tops for just about everything mobile As if you needed another reason to love Belfast, residents of the Northern Ireland capital enjoy the fastest and most reliable mobile network performance in the UK, while Londoners are stuck in the slow lane.…

Sent 1.42 million mailers to unconsenting folk in a year A scurrilous marketing agency that fired 1.42 million emails at prospective customers was today saddled with a £60,000 fine by the UK’s data watchdog.…

Office 2019 users need not apply Microsoft's incoming updates to Outlook on Windows and web aim to strip away the cruft that has built up in the interface over the years.…

One does dev, the other ops, and they're believed to be former white hats A pair of cybercrooks who may have started out as legit infosec pros have expanded their operations outside Russia and begun attacking banks across the world.…

Hate leads to... a single vendor The Pentagon has pushed back the deadline for its $10bn cloud services contract by three weeks.…

Ungrateful! We've already given staffers mobiles, now they want patches too! Small businesses are dopey about the importance of regular patches and updates for their employees’ smartphones. And larger ones aren’t much better.…

Pour an aquavit, pour a gin, take a deeeep breath ... Juniper and Ericsson are extending a long-standing love-in to cover 5G network tech.…

Twitter account using 19-year-old's online alias also taunted law enforcement A British teenager has pleaded guilty in court to making hoax bomb threats to schools and airports while posing online as part of a hacker crew, a police agency has alleged.…

Email fraud skyrockets and ransomware is back, baby! Cybercrims are ramping up their efforts to target employees through fraudulent email and social media scams, according to a new study by email security firm Proofpoint.…

Toddler-level interruptions and todo lists. Guys, try harder IFA I didn't see a blockchain toothbrush at IFA in Berlin last week, but I'm sure there was one lurking about somewhere. With 30 vast halls to cover, I didn't look too hard for it. But I did see many things almost as tragic that no one could miss – AI being squeezed into almost every conceivable bit of consumer electronics.…

*By which we mean missed bin collections, fly-tipping etc. A local politician has launched his own chatbot, in what El Reg can only imagine is a bid to one-up health secretary Matt Hancock.…

Machine-learning medic beats fleshy docs' diagnoses, according to study AI can predict when you’ll keel over and die clutching at your chest from a heart attack better than doctors can, apparently.…

Search giant complains of misrepresentation, database titan raises an eyebrow An advocacy group funded in part by Oracle posed as a Russian internet troll farm to call attention to what it claims is Google's failure to police online political ad sales.…

Behind scheule, over budget ... stop us if you've heard this one New Zealand's government has decided to stop sending good money after bad by suspending an Oracle implementation that's so far cost the country NZ$100 million (£51m/ $65.4m).…

First light for Australia-Singapore Cable In response to another – yet another – failure on the SeaMeWe-3 submarine cable, Australian telco Vocus has lit up its ASC submarine cable ahead of schedule.…

Pumpers and dumpers, flash crashers and other miscreants under the SEC's spotlight The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put out a call for proposals on a new system that would be able to identify possible stock scams posted on Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks.…