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Can we still have a GDPR moratorium, asks US domain-name body The Whois public database of domain name registration details is dead.…

Satellite operators reminded they need permission to relay broadband internet. Looking at you, Swarm… America's comms watchdog has served notice to would-be satellite network providers that it won't abide any more unauthorized launches and orbiting relays.…

Never. Is never a good time to get vulnerability fixes? Never is OK with you? Cool, never it is Let's nail this once and for all: Too many Android smartphone makers simply aren't rolling out Google's security bug fixes for the mobile operating system.…

Doing China's bidding seems to have rubbed off on Cupertino Apple has gone full swivel-eyed, control-freak crazy on its own employees with a demented internal memo decrying information leaks.…

Web standards body dressed down in spec spat The organization that tries to advance web technology standards – the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C – has run into a roadblock: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.…

Indian outsourcer HCL and private equity outfit SEP open their wallet HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners have slurped privately-owned database (DB) supplier Actian for £330m from current owner Garnett Helfrich Capital.…

Assume we're going to get hacked next time and plan for it The UK's National Health Service has learned from last year's WannaCry attack – and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to maintain services in the face of an even fiercer assault.…

Assume we're going to get hacked next time and plan for it The NHS has learned from last year's WannaCry attack and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to maintain services in the face of an even fiercer assault.…

Outfit loses 438 bitcoin in security snafu Indian Bitcoin exchange Coinsecure has mislaid 438.318 BTC belonging to its customers.…

Outfit loses 438 bitcoin in security snafu Indian Bitcoin exchange Coinsecure has mislaid 438.318 BTC belonging to its customers.…

His co-claimant wasn't so lucky, however RTBF trial A businessman has won the first ever “right to be forgotten” lawsuit against Google in London’s High Court – but a second man’s attempt to have embarrassing search results about him deleted has failed.…

But former state monopoly still the biggest single investor Fibre-building minnows passed nearly one million FTTP connections last year – more than double the amount BT's Openreach managed, according to a report from an industry body.…

Contract wrangle overshadows milestone The F-35 fighter jet has completed one of its years-long flight testing programmes – just in time for the United States to suspend all deliveries of the new supersonic aircraft.…

UK taxmen triaging projects to prioritise trucks' passage at Dover HMRC appears to be putting its flagship "making tax digital" (MTD) project on hold. Instead, it's all hands on deck at the Brit tax authority to handle its customs IT replacement system post-Brexit.…

Nice. But what about the UK firms MoD's spending £800m on? Comment Two senior British Army officers have visited Silicon Valley to trawl for militarily useful tech startups.…

Justice commish 'advises' Sheryl Sandberg to send her boss, but is Zuck best one to grill? Comment Politicians on this side of the Pond need to stop obsessing about getting Mark Zuckerberg in front of them, and start preparing to grill his subordinates.…

Teacher nabbed for allegedly allowing kids to give each other a 'bunch of fives'* A bored substitute maths teacher from Connecticut has been cuffed for allegedly starting a fight club in his lessons.…

Wake up accountants! Sage has ops issues There was a minor disturbance in the accountancy software market today: accountants even looked up from their books as Sage admitted sales were more sloppy than expected at the half-way stage of its fiscal ’18.…

S3 spillage spoils included driving licences and passports TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand, has suffered a data breach.…

Anyone can lob a car into space, but you need a Boeing rocket to bring it back Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg took a shot at SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch during a discussion with Politico’s Robert Allbritton last night.…

Just decide how deep you want to dive There are less than five weeks to go until Continuous Lifecycle London 2018 kicks off, and places are filling up fast.…

Pricey, but classy There’s a lot to be said for not buggering up a winning formula. And there’s something to be said in 2018 for a premier brand. Samsung's Galaxy S9 is the best all-round Android phone you can buy.…

How to tell if your algo is getting it right Machine learning (ML) is all about getting machines to learn but how do we know how well they are doing? Answer – confusion matrices and ROC space.…

Servers get composable, denser, drink doses of Intel FPGA and NVMe The server industry exhibited another spasmodic leap forward with a slew of news around composability, denser rack packing, Intel taking on Nvidia using FPGAs, and the onrushing NVME SSD tide.…

It really makes you sit and think, doesn't it? Something for the Weekend, Sir? A man on the internet wants me to take a look at his ring.…

One bird broke, replacement failed to launch, but now IRNSS is whole again India has successfully conducted the satellite launch needed to re-construct its Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).…

No, Mum, ‘Print to File’ doesn’t make the printer work On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support tension, terror and technical tragedy.…

It knows you’ve sat down and then turns on the tellie and adjust the lights Korean electronics giant LG and Italian homewares concern Natuzzi have teamed up to create the internet of furniture.…

Texas to jail CEO for at least five years, Feds' case still to come Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer has pled guilty to money laundering and the company he led has done likewise on charges of human trafficking.…

Former Adobe CFO Mark Garrett also sits on board of subs-happy Pure Storage Cisco’s tapped one of the few software vendors that has made a thorough and successful transition to software-as-a-service by appointing Mark Garrett, a former Adobe executive veep and chief financial officer to its board of directors.…

But no Daily Stormer please Cloudflare made its name proxying traffic for web servers, on network ports 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS), as a defense against denial of service attacks and their ilk.…

If you've got an old money store, check it for hacked gaps Concerns about a flawed crypto library that could allow Bitcoin theft have been revived following a post to a Bitcoin mailing list last week.…

One tool to rule them all Microsoft on Thursday moved its 'Project Honolulu' administration tools into general availability, dubbing the system Windows Admin Center.…

Zuck & Co end fight against California's privacy legislation One day after Lt Commander (All Your) Data Mark Zuckerberg was lightly sautéed by US Congress over Facebook's fast and loose relationship with user privacy, the Silicon Valley giant has dropped its opposition to a proposed California data protection law.…

Zuck & Co drop opposition to California privacy legislation One day after Lt Commander (All Your) Data Mark Zuckerberg was hauled over Congressional coals for Facebook's fast and loose relationship with user privacy, the company has dropped its opposition to a proposed California data protection law.…

Bank treated funbux buys as high-interest 'cash advances' Chase Bank is the target of a class action lawsuit accusing the bank of overcharging customers who bought cryptocurrencies with their credit cards.…

The pushback against regulation starts here IoT security regulations could stifle innovation without addressing the security problems at hand, a well-respected security researcher controversially argues.…

Income, pregnancies, personal activities, all up for grabs Facebook’s advertising platform is riddled with loopholes that can help miscreants obtain private information on individual users, according to a recent study.…

Eye-popping scores were thanks to emulators – claim Legendary video arcade games player Billy Mitchell will be wiped from the gaming industry's official list of record high scores.…

Eye-popping scores were down to emulators say Legendary arcade games player Billy Mitchell has seen his name wiped from the books by the gaming's body of record.…

Cab-hailing upstart shows it takes your privacy seriously Uber hid a database hack from America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) while the very same watchdog was investigating Uber for a separate database hack, it was revealed on Thursday.…

Cab-hailing company shows it takes your privacy seriously Uber hid a data breach from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) while it was investigating it for a data breach, the federal regulator revealed on Thursday.…

And just a handful of vendors will run the show Public cloud services will be a $302bn-plus global market by 2021 and ten vendors will account for nearly three-quarters of those sales, if the mystics at Gartner have read those tea leaves correctly.…

Irish court issues questions to top Euro judges in long-running scrap between privacy activist and Facebook Max Schrems’ battle to turn off Facebook’s trans-Atlantic data flows has crawled one step closer, as the Irish High Court today issued the EU's top court with a set of questions to rule on.…

£26.5m in new cash to see 2020 ground tests of Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine UK rocket botherer Reaction Engines Limited (REL) has raised £26.5m from backers in the finance and aerospace fields towards development of its Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE).…

Kremlin 'blurring boundaries between criminal and state activity' – director GCHQ‬ boss Jeremy Fleming has hailed the success of a cyber-offensive against ISIS last year and warned of the growing threat posed by Russia.…

None of the ISPs wanted the 'remedy' Ofcom has delayed plans to force incumbent telco BT's Openreach to open up its dark fibre network. For now.…

Tat bazaar hits back, says fraudulent activity detected A businessman has accused online tat bazaar eBay of trapping him in a Catch-22 style data retention loop after blocking him from deleting his company’s account on the site.…

Whopping 82% have never changed theirs – survey The vast majority of punters are potentially leaving themselves exposed to miscreants by failing to change the password and security setting on their routers - according to a survey.…

From one burning deck to another Recently departed DXC Tech UK boss Nick Wilson has swapped one troubled employer for another - he is the new global veep of professional services at the retirement home for legacy software, Micro Focus.…