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US loosens ZTE stranglehold, but China Mobile blocked from operating as virtual carrier ZTE has had some good news in America, but China Mobile has had bad news.…

And keep your hands up if you knew the lost data was - eek! - unencrypted The list of organisations notifying customers that they're affected by the Typeform data breach continues to grow – and at least one victim has publicly claimed the breached backup data was unencrypted.…

Deep sigh, because a rush to stay compliant became a virtual DDoS Australia's welfare payments agency couldn't cope with a surge in user traffic it knew was coming last weekend and went TOESUP (Total Outage Ends Support for Usual Performance), with problems continuing until Tuesday, July 3rd.…

Ex-Bluemix global program director, 60, sues Big Blue A laid-off IBM cloud sales ace is suing the IT giant for age discrimination, alleging he was forced out for being too old.…

Stock in US biz plunges as patent spat gets very serious The ongoing war between US-based memory maker Micron and Asian DRAM manufacturers went nuclear today.…

Bio-boffins' feathers ruffled after miscreants flip 'em the bird, costing charity a lotta Zloty A Polish charity is on the hook for 10,000 Zloty (£2,010, $2,648) after a tracking device it put on a white stork was stolen in Africa – and its SIM card used to make a ton of expensive phone calls.…

Giving dozens of devs access to profiles suddenly looks dumb No less than four federal agencies in the US are now investigating Facebook following yet more revelations over how it gave vast quantities of personal data to developers.…

FC director module and switch cranked up to 32Gbit/s HPE has added Cisco 32gig Fibre Channel gear to its product range, making it ready for the bigger data access needs of NVMe over Fabrics.…

Winter HTTPS is coming A looming deadline – now less than three weeks away – means that Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings.…

650 new SMEs added to G-Cloud framework, but 'SME' includes Bezos' Brit limb UK.gov has trumpeted the addition of almost 650 new small businesses to its G-Cloud marketplace – but SMEs might want to put the Champagne on ice as sales figures reveal that AWS UK is classed in that group.…

We'll tell you what to say Wikipedia is appealing to its users to swing a knife-edge vote in the European Parliament – even though the crowdsourced encyclopaedia itself won a specific exemption from the legal changes the EU has proposed (PDF).…

From a remand prison cell, no less A bankrupt and imprisoned Australian Hells Angel has somehow won a million-dollar lottery ticket.…

Wait... you didn't read the user agreement? Although Google stopped mining Gmail accounts for data useful to advertisers last year, it left an API open allowing others to do just that, the Wall Street Journal reports.…

Data protection watchdog is always watching, CCTV firm told A firm has been fined £4,500 for processing personal data without registering with the UK’s data protection watchdog and failing to comply with the body’s missives.…

Still work to do, and could take some lessons from Microsoft It appears that IBM's Human Resources department has skills that extend beyond the laying off of large swathes of staff.…

Another day, another UK public health data breach Confidential information on 150,000 NHS patients has been distributed against their wishes for years due to a "coding error" by healthcare software supplier TPP.…

Buy your MCubed ticket now and save hundreds Events If you’re sweating about how to get on top of machine learning and AI, snap up an early bird ticket for MCubed, our three-day delve into how real organisations can exploit these technologies.…

Multi-array abstraction layer oversees storage provisioning Analysis Last year flash array shipper Pure Storage built plug-ins so that container orchestrators, such as Docker and Kubernetes, running in a server could interact with an array and provision storage for a stateful container.…

All insist financial data is safe – but not names or emails More entities affected by the data breach at web form and survey company Typeform have come forward, including budget hotel chain Travelodge and UK political party the Liberal Democrats.…

Just look at these beefy margins DXC Technologies, which laid off more than 20,000 staff in its first year of life, is trying to convince more investors to put their money where the biggest mouths are when exec compensation is voted for next month.…

How excited to be? Cautiously, unless you need to get cracking with testing for P's big changes Google has emitted a new beta of Android P, but it's not obvious how excited to get about it.…

White boxes, multi-coloured light, 800 Gbps and backhoe-proofing, thanks in part to Zuck Vodafone has become the latest carrier to white-box its optical traffic.…

Going public is all about 'financial flexibility for future initiatives' Analysis Why has Dell Technologies gone public again? In an interview with CNBC, CEO and chairman Michael Dell’s answer was “Well uh look I think aaahhh … it was the best option to simplify the capital structure.”…

Big switch-style fabric comes to pizza boxes Campus networks will get the same capabilities as data centre networks, after Juniper networks squeezed EVPN-VXLAN fabric functionality into campus-size implementations.…

Bundled messages app caught emitting photo albums at 2am without permission, say punters Samsung's Messages app bundled with the South Korean giant's latest smartphones and tablets may silently send people's private photos to random contacts, it is claimed.…

Watson? Down! WebSphere? Down! VMs? Now charged by the minute! IBM has cut the price of cloud services three times in a week.…

Plan could reduce the number of central server operators Internet overseer ICANN is considering a self-managed governance model for the world's Domain Name System root servers – and one of the outcomes could be a reduction in the number of root servers.…

Hurrah! Now we can have a security panic about a violent game instead of a moral panic! Free third-person slaughter-fest Fortnite has attracted over 100 million players but many of them are falling foul to malware attacks as they try to beat other players.…

Alleged perp's apology to watchdog chairman didn't work A Californian man is accused of threatening the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai and his family, over the decision to rescind net neutrality rules in the US.…

Two blokes charged by SEC settle out of court America's financial watchdog, the SEC, has accused two men of illegally banking $1.4m by selling shares in the bafflingly renamed "blockchain" startup UBI Blockchain.…

Doesn't help that its latest phone – the U12+ – basically sucks Smartphone manufacturer HTC will slash almost a quarter of its employees in an effort to become profitable.…

Telco faces shareholder revolt over outgoing CEO's bonus It doesn’t look to be smooth sailing for British Telecom’s outgoing boss, Gavin Patterson, as a recommendation to reject his bonus has arrived in time for the next shareholder meeting.…

You wouldn't think so Once thought to be one of the most contagious design features on a smartphone, the spread of the "Notch" appears to have been contained.…

Nation mourns stop motion classics hero Peter Firmin, co-creator of The Clangers, has died aged 89. Firmin also designed the puppet Basil Brush and Bagpuss.…

Traffic-fiddling malware may have met its match Clean-up efforts to respond to the VPNFilter malware have accelerated with the release of a free check-up tool.…

Five-year private ownership period to end in Q4, according to paperwork sent to the SEC Dell Technologies Inc is proposing to become a publicly traded corporation again, according to a filing lodged with America's financial regulator the SEC this morning.…

Cloud support busters? If you can find a human at the end of a number A sysadmin given just three days to respond to the threatened deletion of a mission-critical system has prompted a vigorous debate about the quality of cloud support.…

Hopes to slow plummet by flinging off, er, profitable bits SUSE, a 25-year veteran of the Linux world, has been acquired by private equity outfit EQT after less than four years in the hands of former owner Micro Focus.…

Lakes of data, buckets of quantum. IntelliMouse?! It's 7 days in Seattle Seven days is a long time in the Microsoft world, although possibly not long enough to complete an April 2018 Update of Windows 10. This week brought both good and bad news from the bowels of Redmond.…

... platter baby, round round The spinning rust of storage whirls the players around again and again – even the flashy and cloudy sorts who supply kit with no moving parts. When it comes to some of this industry's variables – supply, demand, partnerships and advances in tech – events dear boy, events happen.…

Folk stung for Nominet fees, biz promises to cover the costs UK domain registrar Namecheap has admitted that some customers have been unable transfer or register domains, but passed the buck to its supplier Enom.…

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ support arrives in Alpine 3.8.0 and Raspbian gets an update for newbies Owners of dimunitive Raspberry Pi computers rejoice! Alpine has emitted version 3.8.0 of its super light Linux distribution, with some special attention given to the latest iteration of the hardware.…

So what did our reader turn off? And what was it running? Oh dear … Who, me? Hello? Anyone there? We understand that plenty of you in the northern hemisphere might not bother this week. For those of you who are still working, welcome to another instalment of “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional column in which readers reveal their worst mistakes.…

Ancient protocol's key vulnerability is fixable Among the many problems that exist in the venerable Network Time Protocol is its vulnerability to timing attacks: turning servers into time-travellers can play all kinds of havoc with important systems.…

Some new directors have ties to Chinese elite, government Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor ZTE last week complied with US President Donald Trump's demand that it appoint a new board.…

UCS and HyperFlex owners at risk of outages thanks to faulty firmware Cisco’s issued a Field Notice warning that its USC servers and hyperconverged HyperFlex kit could be brought low by disk drive firmware.…

By swallowing VMware tracking stock, but seemingly not VMware itself Dell is about to reveal a plan to go public again, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Wall Street Journal.…

Casualties include posh food store Fortnum & Mason, Australian voter data Spanish Web form and survey company Typeform has announced a data breach dating back to May, when someone gained access to one of the company's backup files.…

White boxes bash Cisco, Android peer-to-peer speeds up and more net news Roundup Did you ever wish you had a half-a-gigabit-per-second connection you could fire up anytime, at zero cost? You can, it turns out – but only between paired Android phones.…

Including DeepMind code, and Donald Duck's robo-cousin Roundup Welcome to this week's AI roundup – a mix of news and links beyond what we've already published this week.…