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Views from the morning after the night before Special Report 5G is like an all-night drunken brainstorm in which the world's brainiest telecoms boffins went wild, and really let rip. The morning after is a real headache.…

But he did get a $50 cheque, a piece of acrylic and a fuzzy glow that lasted for years On Call Reading On Call, El Reg's weekly instalment of readers' tale of support triumphs large and small, is the best way to start your Friday.…

Even when it had a copy, it still couldn't stop 300,000 copies from appearing on its site Facebook admitted, at best nonchalantly, on Thursday that its super-soaraway AI algorithms failed to automatically detect the live-streamed video of last week's Christchurch mass murders.…

Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.…

Rift S adds some technology... but not enough Hands-On It's the annual Games Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, where the great and the good from the games industry converge to show off their new products.…

Peak US govt bureaucracy locks investigators out of files covering '180' vulnerabilities Least you think working for Uncle Sam in Washington DC is glamorous or in any way enviable, behold this stunning achievement in bureaucratic cock-up, or perhaps conspiracy.…

US govt sounds alarm over wireless comms, caveats apply Medical gear maker Medtronic is once again at the center of a hacker panic storm. This time, a number of its heart defibrillators, implanted in patients' chests, can, in certain circumstances, be wirelessly hijacked and reprogrammed, perhaps to lethal effect.…

Study finds Android software slinging deets all over the place Folks using healthcare-related Android apps: after you've handed over your private details to that software, do you know where it is sending your data? If you don't, nobody should blame you. It turns out it can be a complicated and obfuscated affair.…

Figuratively speaking... Source code for cruise-control system allegedly uploaded to iCloud Tesla today sued ex-employee Guangzhi Cao for allegedly stealing the source code for the leccy car maker's Autopilot software.…

Evaldas Rimasauskas will pay back $50m, faces years in clink for phony hardware bill scam A Lithuanian citizen extradited the US has admitted bilking $122m from Facebook and Google by sending the tech giant's staff bogus invoices for computer gear.…

Credentials logged for years is antisocial network's latest Zuck-up Facebook today admitted it stored "some" of its addicts' account passwords in a plaintext readable format. For "some", read hundreds of millions.…

Store policy removed key features, alleges complaint Antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has lodged a complaint about Apple with the Russian competition authority.…

A rising tide lifts all boats – Samsung, SK Hynix saw increases too US chip slinger Micron has said that the end of memory oversupply issues is in sight, and demand for DRAM silicon will begin growing again later this year, especially in the cloud and data centre markets.…

The balancing act of strategy and tactics revealed Promo What does it take to reach a leading role in the security field? There are different paths to take to get there: some go directly from analyst to leadership, others have a more technical background in general IT, or excellent tactical skills acquired in a consultancy or vendor role.…

Sort-of union for bobbies has triggered criminal investigation The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), a sort-of trade union for police workers, has been battling to contain a ransomware strike on the group's computer systems, it confessed this afternoon.…

New entry in network attack hit parade: That 2017 Cisco WebEx flaw you patched already (right?) Attacks targeting a years-old – and patched – vulnerability in a Chrome extension for Cisco's WebEx are on the increase, according to security outfit WatchGuard.…

Pint-sized Scottish squawker wins tribunal appeal over £1.2m tax bill Obsequious breakfast TV host Lorraine Kelly has become an unlikely champion for the UK's freelance techies battling IR35 legislation – after a tribunal ruled she did not owe a £1.2m tax bill because she was not in fact an ITV employee.…

Never mind, we've got a fistful of spectrum and 5G's a-coming... Hutchison's Three UK network lost 44,000 active customers last year, but saw its revenue increase slightly to £2.439bn from £2.425bn.…

Sometimes life is pretty A-OK "I need a beer" is a phrase often uttered universally after a hard day's slog. But having cool, crisp refreshment fall into your lap as if by magic is something most of us can only dream of.…

Conspiracy theories abound as UK petitions website enjoys a Thursday TITSUP* When will lawmakers ever learn? Whenever the electorate is given a choice, they are bound to do something silly. In this case, overloading the UK Parliament's petition site with signatures on a Brexit-stopping suggestion.…

CMO talks post-merger relationships, open-source spats Interview Cloudera said it plans to become the darling of Wall Street in 18 months, in part by breaking into the $1bn turnover club. This promise comes a week after the company reported widening losses and sales that missed analysts forecasts, sending its share price down by almost a fifth.…

AI doesn't always work as well as you'd expect in real life GTC AI systems have superior abilities at recognising faces in theory, but when they're deployed in practice they often fail miserably.…

Reg talks to Microsoft as it finally pulls covers from new virty toy, reveals Win 10, apps and, er, 7? Windows Virtual Desktop has finally arrived, in preview form that is, and three months after the public preview was supposed to have begun.…

Redmond's anti-malware now coming to a Mac near you Microsoft nudged the Windows brand further out of the limelight today by thwacking its anti-malware package with the rebranding stick. Behold, Microsoft Defender ATP.…

Training classes will cover all security angles Promo As data thieves and hackers become more inventive, and more destructive, learning how to protect networks from attack and threats is zooming up organizations' lists of priorities.…

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, representatives of the International Game Developer Association (IGDA) warned that the World Health Organization (WHO) decision to treat computer gaming as a disorder on par with gambling and drug addiction represents a threat to free speech protections.…

410GB/s per package. We repeat, 410GB/s per package Samsung has unveiled a new generation of high-bandwidth DRAM chips called Flashbolt.…

You're free to bash the Bishap A man has pleaded guilty in America to a single felony count for his role in a $3m tech support scam operation.…

Aussie media claims Silicon Valley giant used surveillance tool to torpedo competitor Uber has once again been accused of using spyware tools to help it undermine a competing ride-share business.…

No joke, that's what they've genuinely named a 'fighter-like' military drone project Rise of the Machines The American government is trying to buy military drones in a programme it has named Skyborg, with a US govt spokesman comparing the madcap project to both Star Wars’ R2-D2 and IBM Watson.…

Calls for global action against white nationalism and tech giants that spread its message New Zealand police have started arresting some of those who allegedly shared a livestreamed video of the mass murder of 50 people in Christchurch last week.…

Good luck, says antivirus wildchild, I have no assets John McAfee has been ordered to cough up $25m for the wrongful death of Gregory Faull, his former neighbor in Belize, but refuses to pay and claims he has no assets.…

Come for the on-demand servers, stay for the sweet documentation On a rainy Wednesday morning in San Francisco, Google pitched its Cloud Platform (GCP) to power games, and brought friends along to sing its praises at the annual Games Developer's Conference.…

Kit-Kat API whacked, don't give hackers your phone. This WebView came rolling home Smartphones and other gadgets running Android 4.4 or later contain a bug that can be exploited by rogue apps to steal website login tokens and spy on owners' browsing histories.…

'We can replace it but we have no idea what the config is on the device' An IT department is pulling its hair out this month after realizing a coworker who died last year was the only person who could log into a crucial network switch.…

The Last Emporium Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi isn't all scooters, knickers and formaldehyde-free mattresses. It also makes smartphones, and sales of those in Europe helped grow international revenues by 118 per cent year-on-year, booking almost ¥174.9bn overall, or £20bn in calendar 2018.…

In-house or in the cloud? Right Mix Advisor will tell you HPE has pulled the sheets off a service designed to advise punters on the bits of their IT infrastructure to keep in-house, and the workloads to offload to public cloud data centres.…

Bloke hit delete on £500,000 of 'business-critical data' after he was let go for 'poor' performance An irate sacked techie who rampaged through his former employer's AWS accounts with a purloined login, nuking 23 servers and triggering a wave of redundancies, has been jailed.…

Play fair, chaps The European Commission has concluded its third probe into Google's business practices by whacking it with a €1.49bn fine. The third investigation dealt with advertising broker services that Brussels said foreclosed competition and raised prices for website operators.…

Merger so fresh, gabfest freebies had old logo Logowatch Now that star-crossed Hadoop-flinging lovers Cloudera and Hortonworks have ended their years-long competition-cum-courtship with a merger, what better way to seal the deal than visiting the Strategy Boutique?…

Cloud Foundation makes debut on Dell EMC VxRail systems VMware's Cloud Foundation hybrid cloud stack has hit version 3.7 and is available from April as a component of a pre-built private cloud appliance running on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) kit.…

Trump's exec order 'doesn't go nearly far enough', though GTC The US government needs to strengthen its commitment to AI with concrete funding, favourable immigration policies and better education if it's serious about remaining competitive, Democrat Congressman Jerry McNerney said on Tuesday.…

There's no place like Chrome, but... here are the other guys Google has offered to remind Android users in Europe that Chrome isn't the only game in town – similar to the "Web Browser Ballot" measure imposed on Microsoft a decade ago as part of a competition remedy.…

Go off-cluster if you wanna, plus 'batteries-included' Kubernetes containers Cloudera, fresh from the uneven merger with former Hadoop distro competitor Hortonworks, used its first major public event to thrust a new data platform hard at the enterprise.…

Customers spared from buying an iPhone while credit scoring system had a lie-down UK phone-slinger The Carphone Warehouse has received a slap on the wrist from the Brit advertising watchdog after an offer proved a tad too popular.…

Offsite specialists offer to take the strain Promo End-users often judge the efficiency of your IT by their first contact with your service desk. Do you have the resources to keep them happy and provide the fast and reliable support they need?…

Users unchuffed, devs pulling bricked wares off Google Play Android looks a little less open now that Google has begun to enforce draconian new rules on accessing a phone's call and text logs.…

You'll have £140m to play with – and be paid 0.1% of that Do you like drinking from poisoned chalices? Enjoy being paid below average for your skills? Britain's court service has just the job for you and, boy, it's a doozy.…

Pro features trickle down to the rest of us Analysis Apple's stealthy, unexpected refresh of its iPad range means it's serious about bringing professional features to a wider market. And so it jolly well should be.…

Facebook convos used to train chat dopey doppelganger A machine-learning software engineer has trained OpenAI’s too-dangerous-to-release language model on personal Facebook messages to show how easy it is to create a bot that can attempt to impersonate you.…