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Data, digital or tech knowledge 'not essential' for £66,665 role The UK government appears to be under the impression that knowledge of data policy or the tech sector isn't a pre-requisite to become the head of data strategy in its digital department.…

Repeated misuse of consumer champion's mugshot leads to defamation sueball Consumer champion Martin Lewis, Britain’s Money Saving Expert, has declared he is suing Facebook for defamation over fake adverts featuring his face that repeatedly appear on the under-fire social network.…

Sales won't rise for until 2020 says new broom. Share price rises Britain's fave outsourcing badass Capita today reported a £513.7m pre-tax loss for 2017 and tapped investors for £701m in a rights issue that it will use to fund restructuring and toward paying down debts.…

Users continue to report issues despite claims it's fixed Updated UK bank TSB's efforts to upgrade its systems has left numerous customers without online banking services – and some report having the wrong account details.…

Continuous Lifecycle London will help you reshape your pipeline If you’re contemplating a radical overhaul of your software development operation or are simply planning the next step in a finely planned evolution, you should be joining us at Continuous Lifecycle in London next month.…

No one said it'd be easy AI isn't immune to one of computing's most basic rules – garbage in, garbage out. Train a neural network on flawed data and you'll have one that makes lots of mistakes.…

... support to a Capgemini call centre (and one in India) Burger-flipping grease-monger McDonald's is ditching Atos and will instead buy IT support services from rival French integrator Capgemini, The Register can reveal.…

Oi, remember who you picked as our one-and-only engine supplier? +Comment Uncle Sam has raised the possibility of sanctions against Turkey for buying Russian anti-aircraft missile systems – putting the UK's supply of overhauled F-35 fighter jet engines at risk.…

Oi, remember who you picked as our one-and-only engine supplier? +Comment Uncle Sam has raised the possibility of sanctions against Turkey for buying Russian anti-aircraft missile systems – putting the UK's supply of overhauled F-35 fighter jet engines at risk.…

Patents the pretence, cloudy control planes competition a more likely cause Citrix has taken legal action against desktop virtualization challenger Workspot, alleging patent infringement and false and misleading public statements.…

‘I was a snot-nosed kid fresh out of college and thought I knew everything!’ Who, me? Another working week beckons so once again let’s kick it off with a fresh instalment of Who, me? For those of you new to the column, its The Register confessional for IT pros who broke things.…

Firepower, AnyConnect and ASA appliances and clients need patches Cisco has announced a suite of patches against a bug in its Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) implementation.…

SmugMug now the proud owner of more than twenty billion photographs Yahoo!’s photo-sharing service Flickr has been acquired by SmugMug.…

Unveil first code, joins giants in industry standard-club Last week, the Data61 division of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) released the first RISC-V version of its seL4 microkernel.…

No, 5G won't ride to the rescue this year or next Troubled Swedish vendor Ericsson has turned in another loss, but is hopeful that it's still closing in on its planned turnaround.…

Quihoo 360 plays the responsible disclosure game Chinese company Quihoo 360 says it's found a Windows zero-day in the wild, but because it's notified Microsoft, it's not telling anyone else how it works.…

Your guide to this week in infosec Roundup Here's a roundup of this week's security news, beyond what we've already covered.…

And how does Hey Siri work? Read about it here Roundup Hi, here's a few interesting bits and pieces from the world of AI. A public tax form from OpenAI reveals the crazy salaries of top AI researchers. There are more competitions pushing for improved image recognition models on mobiles, as well as training systems as fast and cheap as possible.…

But it's still hard to shake some concerns Review It's something we all do when we get home: rummage around in your pockets or bag, find your keys, identify the one you want and then stick it in your front door to gain access.…

FTC's heavily redacted report says everything's hunky dory The US Federal Trade Commission has released an audit of Facebook's privacy practices and it turns out there's nothing to worry about, at least as far as accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is concerned.…

Health Stream, are you out there? The guy that found your data leak wants a word A US healthcare company seemingly exposed on the public internet contact information for roughly 10,000 medical professionals.…

Twitter's loss is the EFF's gain Twitter says it will no longer run ads from beleaguered security vendor Kaspersky Lab.…

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now? RSA has copped to a security vulnerability in the backend systems powering the smartphone app for its annual security conference, held this week in San Francisco, USA.…

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now? RSA has copped to a security vulnerability in the mobile app it served to attendees of its annual security conference, held this week in San Francsico.…

Scalded smoker wants injury damages, healthcare bills paid Amazon, LG Electronics and KMG-Imports are being sued by a man in the US State of Rhode Island for selling a vaping box and batteries that allegedly burst into flames and set him on fire.…

Kane Gamble gambles and loses on hacking skills The British teenager who was sufficiently talented and stupid to hack the webmail of the head of the CIA was today sent down for two years.…

Because 10.13.4 is seemingly unstable and performing poorly An increasing number of Mac loyalists are complaining that the latest desktop operating system update from Apple is killing their computers.…

Relive that sphincter-loosening Blue Screen of Death Video Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that 20 years have passed since Windows 98 memorably fell over during Bill Gates' presentation at Comdex.…

Relive that sphincter-loosening moment all over again Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the fact that 20 years have passed since Windows 98 memorably blue screened during a Bill Gates presentation at Comdex.…

Vessel charts a course to pirate tax haven A Playmobil pirate ships's journey to the Caribbean sea risks being scuppered as its supplies run low.…

Plenty of laser research already going on – but there's more than one way to melt a drone The EU is planning to build a laser cannon with double the power of Britain's under-construction Dragonfire zapper, according to reports – but the general state of the tech doesn't automatically mean Europe will be trying to snaffle Brit raygun smarts.…

What a time to be alive Wireless charging is becoming an ever more popular way to juice up consumer gadgets, but an international team of scientists may have figured out how to scrap the mat too.…

Still firmly in Big Mike's clutches despite IPO Pivotal has set its initial public offering share price at $15, with hopes of raising $555m and an anticipated $14-$16 price band. The shares are expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange from today.…

Ask for clear budgets, better training and yup, public engagement The state of the NHS's digital infrastructure and a lack of clear budgets risk holding back the UK’s efforts in genomic medicine and research, MPs have said.…

UK mobe network ups charges for sunshine selfie-takers, just in time for their hols Mobile operator Three UK is celebrating the approach of British summer by, er, hiking its charges for some of its services.…

At least 100 out at cloud data wrangling biz, sources claim Troubled private-equity-owned Veritas started making layoffs in the UK yesterday as its parent continues to implement cost-cutting measures.…

Just 23k requests in first half of 2017, says Windows giant Government requests for people's data from Microsoft fell to the all-time low of 23,000 in the last half of 2017, as Redmond's rate of rejecting the requests rose to a high of 17 per cent.…

Comparison shopping websites won't use Chocolate Factory fix Calls are mounting for the European Commission to issue a non-compliance notice against Google over attempts to address complaints about its market dominance.…

And garners industry attention Buoyed by the usual high quality feedback from readers, the office automated beer delivery service has taken a step towards reality with a suitable moniker.…

Bros gig, smellies, branded socks... Here are our tales. Tell us yours Some tickets to a Bros reunion gig in return for a favourable article? £1,500 to do a straight rewrite of a press release? Or some "free" man perfume from Kaspersky called Eau d'Eugene. Just what would you accept as a gift bribe to do someone's corporate bidding?…

Grumble grumble where's me suet pudding in Bovril etc Something for the Weekend, Sir? Blank faces abound. No, not all are blank: some are horrified, revolted even. What did I say?…

Secretive company talks up the need for open community Apple has open-sourced FoundationDB, a distributed ACID-compliant NoSQL datastore, three years after acquiring the company that developed the technology.…

When the dotcom bubble burst, the surviving techies learned the true meaning of just-in-time training ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s Friday column in which readers share tales of tricky tech support tasks.…

We’ve done everything you asked - even implemented SAP - pleads Chinese vendor ZTE has hit back at the United States’ newly-imposed ban on American companies selling to the Chinese networking vendor.…

Oh no, wait, that is the news. Except the cheap part Pic Water that once flowed across the surface of Mars caused the formation of mud cracks that were spotted by NASA's Curiosity rover, scientists have confirmed.…

And a plan to have users of Sun hardware upgrade if they want Solaris 11.4 and proper patches Oracle will deliver “update releases” of Solaris every northern Summer, under a new plan it revealed this week along with news of the Solaris 11.4 beta and a hurry-along for users of old Sun hardware.…

Let’s get up to date on the crazy world of reverse mergers The “what will Dell do to/with/for/about VMware” rumour mill has started spinning again.…

Chip designer pushes hundreds out the door in cost-cutting drive Qualcomm says it is planning to eliminate more than 1,200 positions in an attempt to cut overhead costs.…

Java fixes lobbed out, Spectre Solaris patches issued Oracle this week emitted its April security update, addressing a total of 254 security vulnerabilities across dozens of products.…

Cloud tech tweaks end anti-censorship workaround Google has made technical changes to its cloud infrastructure that have caused collateral damage to an anti-censorship technique called domain fronting.…