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Russian Federation Council says CEO must have 'ideas to share' Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing calls to appear in front of Russian lawmakers, who – clearly aware that the chances of him accepting are almost zero – insist the invitation alone is noteworthy.…

Four-in-a-box servers Are Not Blades. They're a scale-out-and-up density play, geddit? Cisco has decided its UCS server family needs a new member for dense data centres and edge deployments.…

Said to have viewed case file she had a personal interest in A Crown court judge stands accused of breaching the Computer Misuse Act after allegedly accessing a case file that she had a personal interest in.…

April is the cruellest month – and the quickest rollout of an update in the OS's history Tracking company AdDuplex has given the first real indication of how fast the latest Windows 10 update is being rolled out. The answer is fast. Really fast.…

Many still unclear how 'right to erasure' will work "The right to erasure is not absolute," the UK Information Commissioner's Office told us as the question of the backup tech industry's exposure to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation was raised in the week after it came into force.…

Comms sat to treat Asia Pacific to exciting new HD programming. Rejoice! After taking an extra day to look over the second-hand Falcon 9 following its static fire on 25 May, engineers plan to light the blue touch-paper and stand well back on 1 June.…

The North East's Zeppelin warning system is largely forgotten Geek's Guide to Britain Mention the development of air raid early warning systems in the UK and thoughts will most likely jump to the Chain Home radar network of the 1930s.…

Probe of extra search area again fails to find plane Further efforts to find MH370, the Malaysian airlines Boeing 777 missing since March 2014, have again failed to find the plane.…

Could this be the end of RDBMS? Comment Oracle is industry’s single largest database vendor, which was great during the days before cloud and open source.…

New owner signals M&A possibilities – could a CA acqui-merge be back on the table? Software house BMC has been bought and sold again and now might do some buying and selling of its own.…

Dutch court rules orphan kit doesn't endanger users The Dutch Consumers Association has lost a court case trying to force Samsung to ship security updates for older phones.…

How much can a koala bear? Aussies forced to shop in inferior Amazon AU Amazon has decided that rather than try to collect Australia's Goods and Services Tax (GST), it's going to force locals to shop only at its Australian store.…

128GB, 256GB and 512GB modules offered as new storage tier below RAM, above SSD Intel’s teased the arrival of its Optane storage-class RAM in DIMMs.…

Virtzilla's annual innovation rally sees it express admiration for Adobe's SaaS transformation At VMware's 14th Radio conference in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, CTO Ray O'Farrell presented two possible paths for corporate adaptation in the face of market changes: BlackBerry's exit from the mobile phone business and Adobe's transformation into a software-as-a-service firm.…

Ghostbusters in Chrome 67 stop Spectre sniffs across tabs, plenty more fixes too Enhanced Spectre-protectors will soon come to the Chrome browser, as its desktop stable channel hit version 67.0.3396.62 and upgrades for Windows, Mac and Linux have started to flow.…

Russian security house to stay locked out of Uncle Sam's networks, for now A US district court has upheld the American government's ban of Kaspersky Lab software from computers of federal agencies.…

House slips privacy rules into Senate's files, crosses fingers The US House of Representatives has once again advanced a law bill that would always require the FBI and cops to obtain a warrant from a judge before forcing email providers to hand over people's messages.…

Flawed beyond repair, utterly broken, critically endangers the web – and that's the good news A newly released draft of the United Nations' masterplan to transition the internet to IPv6 has met a furious and despairing response from internet engineers.…

Canadian avoids maximum stretch behind bars after doing FSB's bidding The Canadian mercenary hacker who helped Russian agents break into thousands of Yahoo! webmail accounts will be spending up to the next five years behind bars in America.…

Yes, even yours SpamCannibal – a defunct service that issued blacklists of known spam servers – was hijacked early on Wednesday morning, spewing its own unwanted crap in the process.…

Call the, er, us? Police in Laguna Beach, California, have said a Tesla car – which the driver claimed had been operating in "autopilot" mode – has crashed into one of the force's stationary cop cars.…

Best git patching y'all A new version of Git has been emitted to ward off attempts to exploit a potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability – which can be triggered by merely cloning a malicious repository.…

Startup has powerful backer to help it crack China GPU-accelerated analytics company SQream has won $26.4m in B-round funding with lead investor Chinese multinational Alibaba tossing in cash following its cloud collaboration deal earlier this year.…

Ad astra, Al Bean and Don Peterson Obit The world lost two astronauts this past weekend – one a moonwalker that you've likely heard of, the other a pioneering spacewalker you might not know about.…

I see the world + its govt are taking an interest in you. Would you like some help with that? Microsoft's president and chief legal officer Brad Smith has issued a spectral antitrust warning from history for Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.…

400ft height limit will not apply to first-person-view fliers, says aviation regulator New drone laws will be brought forward by the British government today in Parliament – but we won't see the long-awaited Drones Bill.…

'Concerns' about cost and embarrassment fall flat Updated A US judge has given short shrift to Facebook's delaying tactics in its long-running legal battle over its use of facial recognition technology, saying the corporation's concerns about financial costs and reputation damage were thin and unconvincing.…

Meeellions could be spent extending Airwave until 'future date' for overhaul Exclusive The UK government is contemplating "a complete or a partial shutdown" of its ambitious programme to shift blue-light services off radio and on to 4G, The Register can reveal.…

UK.gov stiffens law after El Reg reveals low fine recovery rate The UK government is planning to make company directors personally liable for nuisance calls – two years after it first promised the powers to the data protection watchdog.…

Standing out from the crowd is getting difficult now Review Like a broken record, with every phone review we publish, some Reg readers insist that their ancient <insert brand here> is perfectly good and there's no need to buy a new one. But take a bow, dear curmudgeons, for you have been proved wise. A lot of people now think so too. The broken record is the hit of 2018.…

We're not saying the last one is connected, but.... Though there has been much handwringing and finger-pointing over what caused the last financial crash, one Reg reader experienced at first hand the type of muppetry that no doubt played a part.…

We're not saying the last one is connected, but.... Though there has been much handwringing and finger-pointing over what caused the last financial crash, one Reg reader experienced at first hand the type of muppetry that no doubt played a part.…

Cyber-insurance gig to be worth $14bn by 2022 Every industry has its collection of shocking stories, but Britain's cyber-insurance sector can always be relied on to top the lot.…

Benchmarks, startup drama, an array with 20 controllers... Argh! Beam me up, Scotty Huawei's flash arrays have done well in a SPEC filer benchmark, Pavilion has brought out an NVMe-oF array with 20, yes 20, controllers, Nutanix is growing, and OEMs are reportedly feeling the DRAM pressure. It's your week in storage.…

In-place upgrades arrive in Server 2019 and Semi-Annual, fonts sacrificed for containers One of the previews is for the Windows Server vNext Long-Term Servicing Channel, aka Windows Server 2019. The other previews the Windows Server Semi-Annual Channel, the version that gets a release every six months but is only supported for 18 months.…

As his company smashes Q1 2019 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff thinks the USA needs “a national privacy law … that probably looks a lot like GDPR.”…

Chap in Pompeii had his block knocked off by a block of stone as he limped away from volcano Archaeologists have found a headless body in Pompeii and concluded that his skull was removed by a big rock pushed into his path by the pyroclastic flow that presaged the city’s doom.…

Water fun fact of the day! Boffins have, for the first time, managed to separate water into its two isomeric forms to test how they react to stuff, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Tuesday.…

Imagine one giant virtual GPU at 2PFLOPS GTC Taiwan Nvidia chose its GPU Technology Conference in Taiwan today to unveil the HGX-2: its latest stack of high-end kit to run artificially intelligent software in data centers and the cloud.…

We know you’re busy, Mr Cook, but please reply before we become … unpleasant Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor has written to Apple with a request to remove messaging app Telegram from its App Store. Or else.…

'Joanap' and 'Brambul' harvest info about your systems and send it home US CERT has issued a Technical Alert that says two strains of malware are tools of the North Korean government.…

It turns out they’re the only intelligence agency with cyber-offensive capabilities The Australian Signals Directorate, the nation’s signals intelligence agency, may be turned inwards after all.…

404: Sense of humor – or professionalism? – not found npm, the widely used and defiantly lower-case Node.js package manager, on Monday briefly returned an error to users connecting to the registry via proxy who attempted the npm install command.…

And trims its headcount, too HP Inc execs claimed on Tuesday they are staying ahead of the rest of the market with solid sales in both printers and PCs.…

You (actually may not) have a new message waiting for you Facebook has been accused of purposefully misleading netizens into accepting its GDPR-friendly privacy policy – by tricking them with fake notifications.…

Govt tech nightmare caused by bad bosses, poor planning Canada's top auditor has issued a scathing postmortem report on Phoenix: the nation's disastrous attempt to overhaul a key government IT system.…

How's this any different to advertising in a teen mag, asks social network A lawsuit alleging that Amazon.com, Cox Media Group, Cox Communications and T-Mobile US used Facebook ads to discriminate against older jobseekers has been expanded to finger other organizations, including Facebook.…

Time for plan C, says DNS overlord stuck in a privacy bind A fight over private information and the internet's domain name system is heading to a German court, in a proxy battle between European legislators and American intellectual property lawyers.…

在6月15日之前投资特朗普酒店，以避开名单 US President Donald Trump has put a missile, in the form of trade sanctions, back on the launchpad, started fueling it, and programmed its computer to strike Beijing. The countdown clock for liftoff is set for mid-June.…

Not just clouds of steam backup-security biz has to worry about Analysis Seven months ago Barracuda Networks was gobbled up by private equity biz Thoma Bravo because it saw latent possibilities that couldn’t be realized under public ownership.…