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As in on the regular, not... oh never mind Employees of US government agencies are largely ignoring basic security measures.…

No probs, says Huawei: It's a big world, we don't need America Don't trust the Chinese – that seemed to be the theme at Tuesday's open US Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Capitol Hill.…

Roses are red, your countertop's ruined, Cupertino has more trouble a-brewin' Apple HomePod owners say the $349 smart-speaker is prone to damaging wood surfaces.…

Brilliant boffins back bullsh*tting bureau bollocking Four cryptography experts have backed a US Senator's campaign to force the FBI to explain how exactly a Feds-only backdoor can be added to strong and secure encryption.…

Roses are red, spy agencies are black, US g-men don't fsck around when under attack Three people are in hospital after a car rammed a barrier at the NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, today at around 0655 ET (0355 PT, 1155 UTC).…

Flash! A-aaaah! King of the Impossible! Flash storage was once a plaything for moneyed-up, high-performance tech elite. No more. Now, it’s finding its way into Joe Average’s enterprise architecture. Here’s where it came from, where it is today, and where it might be going.…

Raid on 75-year-old's home yields over a thousand pills Silver surfers are known to rattle from the numerous pills foisted on them by doctors as their health fails, but one Tennessee veteran stands accused of possessing drugs with an altogether different purpose.…

Online backup biz slurped by Carbonite Dell Technologies has agreed to offload cloud backup subsidiary Mozy to web-based storage outfit Carbonite for $145.8m.…

Swansea firm carries on direct marketing, lands extra fine A Welsh home improvement firm has been fined after ignoring a warning to stop contacting people who had opted out of marketing calls.…

Handset division headless Chialin Chang, president of smartphones at HTC, has resigned. No successor has been announced.…

New front opens in Russian firm's legal fight with US gov Kaspersky Lab, the antivirus house, now claims that the US government's ban on its products amounts to punishment without trial.…

Fighting the Xeon SP tide IBM is bashing out a set of go-faster POWER9 servers in the face of mounting competition from Xeon SP systems.…

NY court rules pics can be accessed if relevant to litigation Privacy settings on Facebook do not protect users from handing over photos, posts or metadata that is relevant to a court case, a New York judge has ruled.…

Brand recognition and stock Android. Is the gamble paying off? HMD's Nokia-branded Androids haven't exactly got reviewers raving – but they are shifting in decent numbers. Counterpoint reckons HMD sold 4.4 million Nokias in the final three months of 2017, with total sales to date topping around 10 million. That's enough to put it in the UK Top 3 again, analyst Neil Shah reckons.…

Consider it a wakeup call for websites – it's time to end the scourge of awful banners Starting tomorrow, Google, which makes most of its money from online advertising, will begin blocking egregious ads in its Chrome browser under limited circumstances – though it would really rather not.…

And Queen Lizzie will too A British warship has set sail for the South China Sea, paving the way for aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to do the same thing in three years’ time.…

It's all about the content, guys BT and Sky have splurged £4.464bn to show 160 Premier League games a season from 2019/20 until 2021/22.…

UK.gov schtum on false positives, appeals process and long-term impact Analysis The Home Office launched its swish new tool to fight online extremist content to much fanfare, leading news bulletins and generating reams of coverage. But it also faced a whole host of criticism and concern.…

UK.gov shtum on false positives, appeals process and long-term impact Analysis The Home Office launched its swish new tool to fight online extremist content to much fanfare, leading news bulletins and generating reams of coverage. But it also faced a whole host of criticism and concern.…

5G auction to go ahead in April Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…

5G auction to go ahead in April Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…

Think of it as a Version 1.0... Real World Test Last year Apple transformed the fortunes of its iPad. In the spring the iconic fondleslab looked so neglected, it was declared "done". Sales were half of what they had been at the iPad's peak.…

The future of transport looks like a sensor-riddled computer Discussions about the future of cars quickly turn to the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles. But the acronym of choice in such discussions is CAVs – connected and autonomous vehicles – and the "connected" part is already with us. While there are only a handful of fully autonomous vehicles trundling about public roads, most cars already gather data and many exchange it with their makers.…

Chipmaker names 18 carriers who'll get real with 5G real soon now, promise Qualcomm has fleshed out the details of what's going to land in the hands of the 18 carriers who last week signed on for “standards-compliant” 5G trials.…

Jury awards Redmond some pocket change in patent dustup Microsoft has been awarded just over a quarter of a million dollars in its patent infringement case against Corel.…

It's slipped a disk, though, because services supremo admits new services plan is very much a work in progress IBM believes it is "the backbone of the world's economy" and has told its services staff to hold their heads high and behave accordingly as the company rolls out new services offerings it hopes will let it dodge the implosion of outsourcing.…

Y'think we're stretching this Valentine's date thing too far? A pair of academics have reproduced part of a moth's brain as an artificial neural network – and taught it to recognize numbers to a fairly high accuracy with just a few training examples.…

Someone's got to get it scaling! Microsoft's wanted a really good federated identity scheme ever since the early 2000s, when it gave the world Project Hailstorm, aka ".Net My Services", to let a web of online services know a little about you and the information you are happy to share with others.…

Shambling corpse of ancient, shoddy, buggy, crypto shoved towards the grave Developers working with OpenSSL can finally start to work with TLS 1.3, thanks to the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that landed yesterday.…

NASA to take Mars meteor from London and use it for target practise ahead of 2020 mission NASA has decided to use fragments of Martian meteorites for target practice ahead of the Mars 2020 mission, then send one back to Mars.…

After flubbing its early responses, Microsoft's thrown sysadmins a bone Microsoft's added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to Windows Analytics, the company's telemetry analysis tool for sysadmins.…

After flubbing its early responses, Microsoft's thrown sysadmins a bone Microsoft's added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to Windows Analytics, the company's telemetry analysis tool for sysadmins.…

Nobody wants slow SaaS or cross-cloud comms, but Citrix wants you to cough up to stop it Citrix has bought traffic optimisation company Cedexis for an undisclosed sum.…

Version 6.7 should land in Q2, may end support for older CPUs VMware's still trying to encourage upgrades to version 6.0 and 6.5 of its vSphere platform, but that hasn't stopped it from working on a new version too.…

Grouchy Grupe gets a year and a day behind bars after going loco on network hardware A former IT administrator at the Canadian Pacific Railway has been jailed for 366 days for sabotaging the organization's computer network.…

Here's a bumper crop of security fixes you do not want to miss Patch Tuesday Serious security flaws in Outlook and Edge are headlining a busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday.…

House Dems send snotagram to watchdog boss Analysis US lawmakers have weighed in on the FCC's controversial vote to scrap America's net neutrality rules, demanding information on the millions of fake comments submitted to the watchdog's public consultation on the decision – and asking pointed questions about how the federal regulator handled them.…

Y'all loved AMP for the web, now get it in your inboxes Having last year axed its scanning of Gmail messages after years of withering privacy criticism, Google has decided to court controversy again in this area.…

Outside storage outfit blamed for data leak blunder Western Union has confirmed one of its IT suppliers was hacked, and that customer information was exposed to miscreants.…

US telco reveals bright idea in response to robberies, ID theft Analysis An FCC commissioner has come under fire for seemingly suggesting that Verizon should be granted a legal waiver from his own agency's rules.…

Unicode clumsiness allowed months of malware installations Telegram has fixed a security flaw in its desktop app that hackers spent several months exploiting to install remote-control malware and cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable Windows PCs.…

Victory for web biz after law troll claimed CDN ripped off designs An US court has trashed a patent at the center of Cloudflare's legal war with patent troll Blackbird Technologies – and thrown out the latter's case against the web biz.…

Need faster storage? Box slinger claims updated software boosts SMB kit performance Lenovo has refreshed its line of storage-area-network boxes for small and medium businesses with improved software.…

Claims stealthy tech will cut costs and power consumption Silicon design startup Tachyum, founded by ex-Skyera top brass after they sold out to Western Digital, has bagged funding to continue developing cloudy chips.…

WikiLeaker 'considers himself above the normal rule of law' says Chief Magistrate Infamous cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange has failed yet again to get his arrest warrant for jumping bail quashed by an English judge.…

WikiLeaker 'considers himself above the normal rule of law' says Chief Magistrate Infamous cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange has failed yet again to get his arrest warrant for jumping bail quashed by an English judge.…

Yes, I need an 8K livestream in every room Alternative network provider Hyperoptic today tested speeds of 10Gbps at the former Olympic village in east London.…

Advises punters to move to 123 Reg... no, you heard that right Web-hosting outfit Hotchilli has told punters the best way it can continue to serve their needs is by, er, shutting up shop.…

Composable infrastructure kit doubles down on Cisco servers Dell EMC has smushed its three-product VxBlock range into a single, more scalable composable infrastructure – the VxBlock 1000.…

Me? Single biggest shareholder? Kneel before my portfolio Activist investor Carl Icahn is ranting that Fujifilm's zero-sum acquisition of photocopier biz Xerox leaves him as a "passive minority owner of a Fuji subsidiary".…