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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.…

And NSA can't stop slurping your phone records Roundup This week we dealt with buggered bookies, trouble at Ticketmaster, and a compromised Linux build from Gentoo.…

Giant grinning cartoon-like Tamagotchi thing built by Airbus, IBM blasts up into orbit The International Space Station will get its first AI-powered friend-droid by next week, after it was bundled into a Dragon capsule and launched into orbit aboard a Space X Falcon Rocket on Friday.…

Scumbag combusts his own leg with instant karma creepshot fail A pervert in Wisconsin, USA, surrendered himself to the cops after a plan to secretly take photos under women's skirts blew up in his face, er, ankle.…

Right to view, delete personal info is here – and you'll be amazed to hear why the privacy law passed so fast Analysis California has become the first state in the US to pass a data privacy law – with governor Jerry Brown signing the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 into law on Thursday.…

Infosec wizards show how spies can snoop on website traffic, redirect browsers over 4G Boffins have demonstrated how intelligence agencies and well-resourced hackers can potentially spy on people – by studying and meddling with mobile data flying over the airwaves.…

You will obey! You will obey! You will obey! You will obey! Nine tenths of us pathetic meatbags are just itching for a benevolent AI to take charge of our affairs and make all the big decisions.…

Follows Google with in-place hardware upgrade – kinda Older readers may recall an era where large computer firms shipped their systems with next year's upgrades already in place. In exchange for a large sum of money, a service technician would come round, open the box, and flick a switch.…

UN privacy expert: Britain no longer a privacy joke, but has more to do The UK's surveillance regime is no longer "worse than scary" – but there are still a number of imperfections, the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy has said.…

Telefónica's hippy wing promises credit drain refunds Telefónica's self-service mobile operator Giffgaff has said it will refund users after a billing cock-up.…

OK, that's an interesting strategy +Comment Western Digital has pushed out JBOD, primary and secondary object arrays, putting it into direct competition with its storage array supplier customers.…

China star asked for a muckle, got a mickle. Will it be enough? Xiaomi, the hugely hyped Chinese tech company, raised less money than it wanted in a private placement this week – the biggest Middle Kingdom IPO since Alibaba in 2014.…

Analytics firm aims to raise $193m on Nasdaq Data analytics biz Domo is to go public today with the aim of raising just under $200m, which if realised would value the company at less than a quarter of estimates in previous funding rounds.…

Currency fluctuation and rising component costs fingered If there is something missing on this sunny Friday, it could well be a collective yearning among Reg readers to know how HP Ink Inc is faring in the UK. Fear not, for we have the latest financials.…

Consumers attempt to block chip flinger's attempt to block sale of devices without their kit Consumers have come to the rescue of plucky little Apple in its ongoing stand-off with Qualcomm over patent infringements.…

Three stripes and you're out Adidas warned late on Thursday that hackers may have lifted customer data from its US website.…

Surgical investment pays off for performance in three UK cities Vodafone earned a fine for its rotten customer service, but it can now claim bragging rights as the best data network in three cities, as well as the lowest overall latency and ping rates on 4G.…

MPs: Fraudsters still damaging public purse and businesses The UK taxman has been told to crack down on online traders that aren't paying their fair share of VAT when they sell on sites like Amazon and eBay.…

DeepMind's 'Demis Hassabis is an individual' – Ministry of Fun Google is not advising the British government on AI, the Ministry of Fun assured this week, following the appointment of Google's Demis Hassabis as an advisor on AI.…

Standing on a dusty highway, waving my nozzle in the breeze Something for the Weekend, Sir? Mi dispiace, non parlo italiano.…

Tell us, what should the source shack be called post-Redmondisation? Poll In all the furore around the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft, no one has asked the obvious question: what should the service be called after its Redmondisation?…

Um, which hardware would that be, then? Analysis The EU has declared its intention to build exascale computing capability "on mainly European hardware".…

The cybercriminal's cash cow and the marketer's machine Special report Digital ad fraud is potentially lucrative, difficult to detect, and getting worse.…

If someone asks you why you’re working in a secure area, get your answer straight! On-Call Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register’s Friday foolishness in which readers recount tales of tech support jobs that went pear-shaped.…

Angry, irascible, but oh so talented New Wave author Obit Harlan Ellison, the legendary science fiction author who kickstarted the 1970s "New Wave" of science fiction has died in his sleep at the age of 84 at his home in Los Angeles.…

Blood-scanning radar could be built into a smartwatch AI may help people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels without puncturing their own skin, according to a research from the University of Waterloo.…

'We’re removable SSDs now’, says SD Association The SD Association, the industry body behind the SD card memory spec, has announced a new version 7.0 spec for its tech that makes the postage-stamp sized memory cards rather more interesting.…

Private tabs squeezed through anonymizing network taste like actual privacy Brave Software has updated its web browser so that its private mode actually supports privacy, or nearly – a few lingering technical issues still need to get ironed out.…

Seven years after AWS S3, but just in time for serverless Microsoft’s Azure Storage service has added an option to host static websites comprised of not much more than HTML, JavaScript and other client-side goodies.…

Шифтинг то а сепарате бут еqуал сыстем ит цлаимс The internet registry operator for Europe's .eu domains will forcibly dump yet more internet addresses, with a decision to kill off any domains in the Cyrillic language.…

Officials gather up previous canned statements, adds contents page... er... Analysis The Uk government's lightweight biometrics strategy has failed to make any serious policy recommendations – and instead reiterated a series of already announced promises and promising further consultation on governance.…

Recently-litigious Citrix sinks competitive FUD docs. Why might that be? References to F5 Networks have vanished from Citrix’s web page, and The Register understands a possible lawsuit is the motivation for the deletions.…

Conniving crypto creeps caught covertly concealing coin-crafting computer crime code Cryptocurrency-mining malware writers are dialing back their use of your compute cycles in order to avoid detection.…

If you downloaded anything from project's hub repos, consider it compromised If you have fetched anything from Gentoo's GitHub-hosted repositories today, dump those files – because hackers have meddled with the open-source project's data.…

Compromised payment cards detected in April, JavaScript code meddling revealed in June Online bank Monzo said it warned Ticketmaster that something weird was going on in early April, two months before the ticket-slinging giant revealed its payment pages had been hacked.…

Deutsche Telekom and others go with subscriber-focused lightweight approach Despite a decade of efforts, the rollout of IPv6 is still stubbornly sat at less than 25 per cent, in terms of internet traffic, with recent reports suggesting adoption may actually be leveling off.…

Infosec bod shops NameTests, claims leaky code exposes info Facebook has forked out an $8,000 reward after a security researcher flagged up a third-party web app that potentially exposed up to 120 million people's personal information from their Facebook profiles.…

Security researcher shops NameTests app as leaky javascript exposes user info Facebook has paid out $8,000 after a security researcher reported an app blabbing users’ info in what is possibly the first cash payment under the platform’s new data abuse bug bounty programme.…

Presumably, you're all typing on it wrong Apple's butterfly keyboards can be thwarted by little more than a speck of sand.…

Credit agency promises eight US states it will boost cyber security measures, escapes fine A former Equifax software engineering manager was today charged with insider trading – and has promised to pay back his alleged ill-gotten gains.…

Cue raised eyebrows – Cohesity and SUSE enter IDC has cast its eyes over object storage suppliers, and ejected DDN from its marketscape, brought in Cohesity and Cloudian, and shuffled around a few suppliers.…

Perm Sec declines to confirm if review will be published as planned next month The Home Office's massive project to replace the UK's radio infrastructure with a 4G network has shed 70 staffers and plans to expunge another 130, officials have said.…

FoI request reveals extent of attacks on UK healthcare NHS trusts across England experienced more than 1,300 hours of downtime in the last three years, according to results from a Freedom of Information request (FoI).…

Virty disk software quadruples max raw capacity per server Microsoft has quadrupled Storage Spaces capacity and made other improvements for IoT edge use.…

Networking, storage get some love in the latest drop of code The Kubernetes team has unloaded a new version – 1.11 – of the container orchestration platform.…

Dell EMC, Nutanix rule the roost Why go for plain old converged systems when you can hyper the hell out of your infrastructure? That seems to be the question that more and more customers are asking.…

A collaborator worthy of London's finest entrepreneurs. Wait, what? Muralwatch Keen fans of Crap Murals were seen heading to Shoreditch this morning, as a new artwork celebrating "two of history's greatest minds" was unveiled.…