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Founded pro-Big Tech think tank Readie Former UK lottery quango Nesta pocketed cash from Google to set up a Big Tech-friendly think tank.…

Software engineer? Lawyer? Not a lawyer, even? Sure, have a go RTBF trial Google allows software engineers, as well as its dedicated Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) operatives, to make decisions about which search results ought to be deleted on request – and places such requests onto its internal bug-handling systems.…

Ex still has place in the helicoptery, defencey bit of Airbus’s heart Airbus won't eradicate Microsoft Office from its entire user base after all it seems: the Defence, Space and Helicopters units will retain the on-premises version due to the "legal and national security implications" of storing sensitive data in the cloud.…

Help desk covered his tracks by telling ALL callers to reboot their PCs Who, me? Welcome to the ninth edition of Who, me? In case you’ve come late to the party, it’s The Register’s Monday column featuring readers’ tales of stuffing things up.…

Data science firm says it did have Facebook data, but didn’t harvest it Chris Wylie, the whistle-blower who has alleged the knowingly improper use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica, says The Social Network™ has suspended his account.…

Social network plans to 'take action' against all who misused data UPDATED Chris Wylie, the whistleblower who has alleged the knowingly improper use of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica, says The Social Network™ has suspended his account.…

Promises launches by 2020, no word on whether wooden heat shields will make a comeback China’s told the world it plans to get into the recoverable satellite business.…

Intel tosses in code because data centre hypervisors are too bloated for embedded use The Linux Foundation has announced a new hypervisor for use in embedded and internet of things scenarios.…

Grab some popcorn: Redmond’s asked for feedback on the idea Microsoft’s about to test a new feature of Windows 10 that will force users to employ its Edge browser under some circumstances.…

50 million profiles leaked and ‘politically weaponized’ against US voters Analysis Facebook has “suspended” any business with controversial analytics firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) and its holding company, following claims by CA’s former director that the social media ad slinger’s data was purloined and used for political dirty tricks.…

50 million profiles leaked and ‘politically weaponized’ against US voters Analysis Facebook has “suspended” any business with Cambridge Analytica and its holding company following claims by CA’s former director that the social media ad slinger’s data was purloined and used for political dirty tricks.…

Begun, the battle of the home eco-systems has Comment After years of hype, the connected home is finally here thanks to a range of new products available this week from Google-owned Nest.…

Developments for our future overlords Roundup Welcome to this week's AI roundup. We have news on a machine learning model used by Google to make music that doesn't sound completely bad, improved translation between English and Chinese from Microsoft, and a new test bed for Waymo's self-driving trucks.…

It's the week in security Roundup The lingering fallout of security flaws in AMD processor chipsets has dominated the news this week, and it ain't over yet.…

Come for the nose job, stay for the... denials of any wrongdoing A Los Angeles plastic surgeon has been accused of watching porn videos on a screen while performing surgery.…

Biz left with fewer reps after limit on sales, marketing spend Rimini Street, the third-party support thorn in Oracle's side, has reported increased revenue and operating profit in 2017 – but complained unspecified covenants have prevented it from investing in sales staff or marketing.…

Hardware flaws may be amplified by slapdash software, tuning out bug now a priority Google has escalated the priority and severity rating of a bug that has been silencing microphones on its Pixel smartphones running Android 8.1, aka Oreo.…

To ensure privacy, stay offline, don't maintain public repos that trace back to you Talk about the ultimate Git Blame.…

New commercial alt-cash crafters turned away from slurping cheap electricity A city in upstate New York has become the first in America to effectively ban any new commercial-grade cryptocurrency miners from powering up.…

Governments refuse to get sucked into policy shambles, kibosh DNS GDPR plans An effort to resolve conflicts between upcoming European privacy legislation and the global Whois service for domain names has, predictably, failed, raising fears that cybercriminals will take advantage of the impasse.…

Bezos Bunch under the microscope of anti-monopoly cops Amazon has had its Japanese headquarters raided by police as the web giant finds itself the focus of an antitrust probe.…

CCTV commish welcomes amendment 3 years after first suggested UK government will be forced to debate a code of practice for cops' use of automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems after Labour MPs tabled an amendment to the Data Protection Bill.…

Study examines the cutting edge of cybercrime Crooks are increasingly turning to Monero over Bitcoin, according to a new study on the economics of cybercrime.…

Yeah, well... can they do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke? A neural network can wipe the floor with fleshy researchers at that most tedious of cosmic tasks – spotting craters.…

Slurps HyperFile chum for file, cloud storage gateway chops Object storage supplier Cloudian is buying Italian firm Infinity Storage to add file access and cloud storage gateway functionality to its services.…

App biz's Nice Guy makeover yet to convince all regulators Birmingham authorities have asked for more information on Uber's business model and operations before granting it a new licence.…

Oh, and billionaire owner Li Ka-shing retires Mobile operator Three UK reported a fall in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA)* of 2 per cent to £437m for its full-year results – largely due to an IT and network upgrade.…

It's your body Notch your mind "The Notch"* is either the curse of 2018 phone designs – or the only interesting thing about boring phone designs in 2018, depending on how you look at it. Now details of a Microsoft phone patent have emerged that could make future phones less Notchy.…

'Entrepreneurs!' 'Elon Musk!' 'Smartphones!' chirps Lord as UK space stares into abyss Countries are pouncing on space work originally destined for the UK like a “feeding frenzy of hyenas” according to a selection of representatives from the UK industry and education sectors.…

Citizens not keen on having habits tracked are watching closely A spec for online age verification is due to be published on Monday, a decision backers hope will pacify opponents of the smut checks.…

Forced punters to cough extra £40 for pre-configured laptops Currys PC World today apologised for forcing customers to pay an extra £40 for pre-configuration on their laptops that they didn't request – a dodgy practice brought to light by consumer charity Which?…

Streaming monolith starts move into home gear Analysis As Spotify nears an IPO, it is edging towards making home music gear, with a voice-powered speaker the most likely debutant.…

Parallel access filesystem for disks gets new life Case study IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) started out as a parallel access filesystem for disk-based arrays – so some may have expected it to fall over and die in the face of lightning fast access NVMe SSD and NVMe fabric access arrays.…

Pop this in your mouth and say 'Rastapopoulos' Something for the Weekend, Sir? Like to get wet, confides (or asks) the manufacturer in suitably moist English.…

Meet our new roundup of networking news, this week feat. Cisco, Juniper and more This week's network-news-in-five minutes has Palo Alto Networks acquiring a startup, a slew of Cisco switches, Juniper's fabric fetish, network monitoring and more.…

Continuous Lifecycle earlybird offer facing chop at midnight Events We’ll be pulling down the shutters on our earlybird ticket offer for Continuous Lifecycle London this evening, meaning you’ve got just hours left to save £100s on conference and workshop tickets.…

Come and chillax with us, nontrepreneurs! The taxpayer is helping fund a "Decelerator" for burnt-out startups in Shoreditch to help them "reflect and reprioritise".…

Earth-shattering change to biz? You'll be the judge of that It's hard to believe there once was a more innocent time when if somebody used the phrase "digital transformation" you might think they were being pretentious about making the switch from renting films on DVD delivered in the post to Amazon Prime downloads. But there's still a lot of confusion around the term – even more so when people start to ask organisations that have started down that path whether it has worked.…

$142 billion in kit shipped last year, half from Dell, Cisco and HPE Analyst firm Canalys has claimed 2017 saw record shipments of data centre infrastructure.…

And he couldn’t do that, until tech support showed printers and staplers don’t mix On-Call Why look at that! Friday is upon us, which means it’s time to read this week’s edition of On-Call, our weekly column featuring Register readers’ recollections of tech support jobs gone wrong.…

Britons never, never, never shall be wage slaves. Oh wait Cyber security professionals in Germany earn on average 17 per cent more than their UK counterparts.…

Face it, you're not going to adopt ChromeOS without integrating stuff you already run Google’s beefed up Chrome Enterprise, its US$50-a-year management service for Chrome OS devices.…

Subcutaneous smart card doesn’t cut it in Sydney A self-described “cyborg” who slipped a public transport smartcard under his skin has pled guilty to riding trains without a valid ticket and copped a fine, plus costs.…

Which may be why Google’s changed the name to ‘Wear OS’ LogoWatch LogoWatch Google’s re-branded Android Wear, the cut of Android for wearable devices, as “Wear OS by Google” and added the tag line "make every minute matter".…

How far down does water drip? Water covers most of the Earth’s surface and flows deep beneath it as well. But how deep it travels is unknown.…

And how it works doesn't leak. Gulp! A secretive unlocking tool offered to cops and government agents has some computer security bods worried over its privacy implications.…

Alert adds detail to 'Dragonfly' cyber-attack disclosed last year The US Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday issued an alert warning of ongoing cyber-attacks against the West's energy utilities and other critical infrastructure by individuals acting on behalf of the Russian government.…

For those planning an out-of-the-world trip, solar radiation is on the rise Space is getting deadlier. The amount of solar radiation has increased from previous solar cycles, according to new measurements made by a team of researchers.…

In Constantinople it works, not good news for the Turks Encrypted email provider ProtonMail says its service has been blocked in Turkey, but can still be accessed via a VPN, DNS, or Tor.…

Code-sharing websites may be forced to install automatic infringement filters Code-repository GitHub has raised the alarm about a pending European copyright proposal could force it to implement automated filtering systems – referred to by detractors as "censorship machines" – that would hinder developers working with free and open source software.…