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What's the RAF ever done for us, apart from being born on April Fool's Day? This Sunday marks the 100th birthday of the Royal Air Force - Britain’s military arm for the skies - as a separate Armed Force in its own right. The RAF has been at the forefront of technological innovations over the last century, many of which are still in use to this day.…

Allow me to show my moon to the balloon Something for the Weekend, Sir? Up, up and away-a-ay in my beautiful, my beautiful balloooooon……

Schools still underwhelmed by gaps in Cupertino's shiny slabs For us crazed weirdos who work in education – that's primary schools for me – I'll admit it was mildly encouraging to find our world was the main thrust of an Apple event this week.…

A fellow reader ♬ Is the very model of an ICT professional ♬ On-Call Easter Special Why look at that, it’s 07:00 GMT Friday, the slot when The Register usually runs “On-Call”, our tales of tech support woes.…

Topical inquiry launched by committee in UK’s upper house As the political handwringing about how to deal with the pesky internet reaches new heights, the House of Lords has launched an inquiry into the best way to regulate the web.…

Whether brain prodding worked is another matter Cambridge Analytica bought psychological profiles on individual US voters, costing roughly 75 cents to $5 apiece, each crafted using personal information plundered from millions of Facebook accounts, according to revealed internal documents.…

US president guns for Amazon in factually challenged tweet Opinion Combining his three favorite pastimes – trying to steal the news cycle, getting all his facts wrong, and spreading brain farts on Twitter – Donald Trump went on anti-Amazon tirade on Thursday.…

Privacy also a priority for Apple, unless you're Chinese On Thursday Apple released iOS 11.3, a free update to its mobile operating system that, among other new features and fixes, attempts to ease iPhone battery management.…

If at first you don't succeed, you're Redmond Microsoft today issued an emergency security update to correct a security update it issued earlier this month to correct a security update it issued in January and February.…

Big Blue swings the axe again, sales staff on the block IBM is undertaking another significant round of job cuts, according to multiple sources.…

Big Blue swings the axe again, sales staff on the block IBM is undertaking another significant round of job cuts, according to multiple sources.…

WebRTC flaw still dogs so-called 'secure' providers Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, turn out to be less private than the name suggests, and not just because service providers may keep more records than they acknowledge.…

Bureaucrats break internet norms by vowing to ban Blighty-based bods from Euro TLD Brexit has hit the internet, and not in a good way.…

Redmond shifts resources to focus on emerging tech Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has announced a business reorganization at Redmond to go along with his executive shake-up.…

Top Redmond exec defenestrates self amid biz reshuffle Windows supremo Terry Myerson is departing Microsoft after decades of service, according to a memo sent to all employees today by CEO Satya Nadella.…

Letter shows SCL gave psyops training to Brit defence staff Cambridge Analytica's parent biz had "routine access to UK secret information" as part of training it offered to the UK's psyops group, according to documents released today.…

Payload not smashed to smithereens, massive plus The European Space Agency (ESA) claimed today that the first test of the giant parachute destined for use by the ExoMars lander has been a success, paving the way for more ambitious trials before an eventual attempt on the Red Planet itself.…

Young, hungry and stranded punters pray for resurrection Updated Brit cloud provider Iomart is having an outage-ridden day - but its service-outage-hit customers are arguably having a far worse one.…

Former Google Brain project is Eager to eat your GPU Open-source machine-learning boffins rejoice! Numerical computation library TensorFlow 1.7.0 made a discreet appearance this morning, just a month after 1.6 dropped.…

When container realms collide BlackBerry is introducing a way to bridge two worlds: Microsoft's InTune container and the BlackBerry Dynamics sandbox.…

When container realms collide BlackBerry is introducing a way to bridge two worlds: Microsoft's InTune container and the BlackBerry Dynamics sandbox.…

Battle of the botched brands set to heat up Easter is a time for resurrections and so El Reg noted with interest that Palm, after an eight-year hiatus, has signed up Verizon as the first telco to stock the device when it launches this year.…

♫ I don't care what the weatherman says when the neural network says it's hailing Meteorologists are starting to experiment with deep learning tech to predict severe weather patterns.…

Y'all better bake in safeguards before 5G rollout, says ENISA Legacy technologies pose a threat to the European Union's telecommunications infrastructure, a study by cybersecurity agency ENISA warns.…

Agency warns of impact duff info has on fundamental rights The European Union has been warned to sort out data quality in its IT systems that manage asylum and migration, and improve efforts to ensure people know how to exercise their personal data rights.…

Even me nan has the interwebz BT monthly landline costs are to be trimmed by £7 from this weekend but only for customers who don't buy fixed-line broadband from any provider – in other words, hardly anyone.…

Get a licence or build something new. It's really that simple Comment One piece of paper. Just one lousy piece of paper. That's the difference between success and a potential $8.8bn payout.…

Er, the Home Office might want to get that fixed before Brexit The details of 600,000 foreign visitors have slipped through the cracks of the Home Office's database thanks to its "shambolic" exit checks system.…

Er, the Home Office might want to get that fixed before Brexit The details of 600,000 foreign visitors have slipped through the cracks of the Home Office's database thanks to its "shambolic" exit checks system.…

Who wears the pants round here? We all do when on stage Hewlett Packard Enterprises' legal and admin division – it is bigger than you might think – has issued guidance for staff presenting to colleagues, including some, er, dress code tips for male and female workers.…

Hands-on workshops, extra evening sessions - hoodies optional Promo As the global volume of data rises like an unstoppable tide, IT systems grow increasingly complex and sophisticated to accommodate it – yet cyber criminals constantly find ingenious new ways of stealing vital information or disrupting systems.…

And you can’t spend EBITA in the grave... Outsourcing. Let's talk about it. The agile and DevOps people can’t stomach the idea and will tell you that, intuitively, outsourcing something as core as software development ruins any chance of enterprise success. But wither comes this bone-deep skepticism among the cloud cognoscenti? Surely there’s value to be had. Surely.…

And you can’t spend EBITA in the grave... Outsourcing. Let's talk about it. The agile and DevOps people can’t stomach the idea and will tell you that, intuitively, outsourcing something as core as software development ruins any chance of enterprise success. But wither comes this bone-deep skepticism among the cloud cognoscenti? Surely there’s value to be had. Surely.…

Torpedoed ship's missives opened 77 years later The London Postal Museum has opened a wartime mailbag to the public in "Voices from the Deep", an exhibition of letters discovered 4.8km (3 miles) underwater in the wreckage of the SS Gairsoppa.…

A velvet rope for digital tat, to help with betas, promos and maybe Windows 10 S Microsoft has tweaked its Store to allow distribution of apps to a “private audience” of named users.…

So the support company fired the user. Twice. And doubled its fees too On-Call Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register’s weekly reader-contributed story of tech support trauma.…

Industry can have a slice of steaming supported stability ... if it can afford to pay SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 (SLES) has been released for the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer.…

Why pay for the firehose when you can make your own? While politicians and the public demand Facebook dam its indiscriminate dispensation of data, academics want to open the social network info-spigot wider still.…

Plantronics is new owner after private equity outfit offloads Lawyers are expensive at the best of times. Perhaps that’s why two acquisitions have closed just before the Easter long weekend?…

Gamers say performance woes haven't been addressed as Spring Creators Update looms A long-running glitch affecting some Windows 10 PCs continues to annoy gamers more than half a year after it was supposedly fixed.…

Gamers say performance woes haven't been addressed as Spring Creators Update looms A long-running glitch affecting some Windows 10 PCs continues to annoy gamers more than half a year after it was supposedly fixed.…

Aruba's AI moves, Marvell and Nvidia vehicle tech, and yes, the Open Networking Summit Network admins: unpatched MikroTik routers are being scanned by a botnet again.…

Pick your poison in IOS and IOS XE: denial-of-service or remote code execution? Cisco's ruined Easter for netadmins by revealing three critical-rated flaws, with fixes landing today.…

The Social Network™ all-but-admits its previous legalese for developers was useless Facebook has outlined a set of changes to its platform that impact developers and data brokers.…

US cosmo-boffins: Never mind the cost, feel the payload NASA has categorically stated it will not dump the troubled Space Launch System (SLS) in favor of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy any time soon.…

NSA-augmented ransomware hits snoops' home air industry WannaCry, the Windows ransomware that took off last May around the world, has landed on some computers belonging to US aircraft and weaponry manufacturer Boeing.…

Token effort won't stop not-backdoors legislation Digital rights campaigners are celebrating a small, symbolic victory, with the country's Senate voting to protect the integrity of cryptography.…

File under: Yeah, good luck with that, nice job you used to have New York's City Council is mulling a law that would make it illegal for employers to require workers be on-call to answer emails after clocking out for the day.…

Container tech darling suits up for enterprise sales Docker cofounder and CTO Solomon Hykes on Wednesday announced his departure for the company, citing the need for a CTO with experience selling to enterprise organizations.…

Website building biz warns exploit may come in hours Anyone running a website built with Drupal should stop whatever they are doing right now and install critical security patches.…