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Dozens of terabytes exposed, your tax dollars at work Three misconfigured AWS S3 buckets have been discovered wide open on the public internet containing "dozens of terabytes" of social media posts and similar pages – all scraped from around the world by the US military to identify and profile persons of interest.…

Highway to the donger zone A US navy pilot in an EA-18G GROWLER is facing stiff action – after crafting a novel flight pattern that left much of central Washington state staring up at an anatomy lesson.…

Chairman tells El Reg nobody will even notice its passing Controversial certificate authority StartCom is going out of business.…

Metadata lookup is super-charged, though, claims infinite-io Infinite IO has enabled clustering of its metadata accelerators to scale performance.…

You know, the surprise attack intended to sink aircraft carriers Her Majesty the Queen will commission the new British aircraft carrier named after her into Royal Navy service in three weeks – on the anniversary of an infamous naval battle where numerous warships were sunk.…

At least until there's some sort of strategy. Jeez – GLA London's Metropolitan Police force's use of "intrusive" technologies "without proper regulation" could put a fundamental principle of policing at risk, the London mayor has been told.…

Row, row, robot boat gently laying pipes The UK Ship Register signed up its first unmanned vessel on earlier this week.…

Concerns raised over data breach Thousands of Lloyds Avios Rewards American Express credit card customers have been targeted by fraudsters, the bank has admitted.…

Ruse of the Machines It's alive, it's terrifying, and it does perfect backflips! Boston Dynamics' gymnastic research robot Atlas has caused a minor panic on social media. With skills like this, surely humans are doomed?…

Finding out how to sail through consecutive green lights The UK Autodrive connected car consortium will start practical trials of its connected and autonomous cars on the streets of Coventry, it has declared.…

Must cough £300k soon after £87k ICO slapdown Ofcom handed down a £300,000 fine to business phone and broadband company True Telecom after concluding a year-long investigation yesterday.…

A digital service that works for users, but not government The abolition of the paper tax disc is costing the UK government £107m due to an increase in car tax evasion.…

That flagship you just bought? Here's one better BBK Electronics' OnePlus venture rolled out its second flagship of 2017 yesterday, the OnePlus 5T going on sale just five months after its predecessor, the OnePlus 5 in June.…

He built a plane called Digital Innovation and told readers: 'Come Fly With Me' The Register is reviewing its relationship with columnist and Shoreditch entrepreneur Mr Steve Bong MBE after Mr Bong admitted to having a close working relationship with the Kremlin this week, in a piece titled Yes, I took Putin's roubles to undermine Western democracy. This is my story…

Over-hyped tech inches a step closer... maybe Mobile operator EE has proudly announced the success of a "breakthrough test" for 5G, but what do these tests signal for future 5G usage?…

Z-NAND has near-3D XPoint access latency and could scale capacity faster too Analysis How does Korean flash and DRAM chipper Samsung's Z-NAND compare to Intel and Micron's 3D XPoint?…

Aviva and Centrica wanted cloud giant love. 1 outsourcer... wasn't ready... to let go Updated Insurer Aviva and energy supplier Centrica are the latest big customers to indicate plans to ditch outsourcing giant DXC Technologies, The Register can reveal.…

Discoursing Descartes with my robotic pet Something for the Weekend, Sir? I have awoken to the sounds of electronic growling. Making my way downstairs, I discover teethmarks in the bannister, a pool of oil by the back door and the remains of a torn-open jumbo box of AA longlifes in the kitchen.…

By George (Kurian), he's done it Analysis There's a new energy at NetApp. The Microsoft Azure NFS deal was a great confidence booster, and the two recent acquisitions of Greenqloud and Plexistor provide stepping stones to a high-performance, on-premises storage future and a stronger hybrid cloud play.…

Ripple effect will later expand, says firm Blockchain tech found another friend in American Express and UK customers of Santander. Well, sort of.…

Can't blame middle managers - they always get the stick What drives organisations to change their ways? What's the match that lights the powder keg of actually doing something new and different in IT? That's the question I usually get from organisations that want their approach to software to be more "agile", who want to go through "digital transformation", and, yes, "do DevOps".…

Boffins pinpoint homes based on people's device movements Anonymized location data won't necessarily preserve your anonymity.…

Fake sites spread fake stories to fuel pump and dump or other foul ends Criminals are exploiting “fake news” for commercial gain, according to new research.…

Convolutional neural networks aren't foolproof nor fully documented, that much is clear Face ID has been a bit of a thorn in Apple’s side for its iPhone X, no thanks to claims the AI-powered login mechanism can be tricked by cheapish masks or relatives of handset owners.…

User's busted PC was on a network, so she demanded the network help desk On-Call Why hello there Friday and hello there, also, this week's instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly column that recounts readers' tales of tech support terror.…

Epson old-timers go from dot matrix to not matrix Microsoft's latest batch of software updates for Windows has been blamed for a mysterious ailment befalling some poor old Epson dot-matrix printers.…

Breaker, breaker Electric Ducky, we got ourselves a one-driver convoy. And a new Roadster Elon Musk has launched the “Tesla Semi”, complete with a guarantee that it will not break down for one million miles of driving.…

Navigating the hype Sponsored There is no doubt it can be difficult to navigate the various claims made by storage vendors when it comes to performance of their products.…

Naughty you: 'No show rate is at historic highs' for tests and that pollutes Redmond's data Microsoft can't give away enough of its beta exams, so it will start charging for them.…

Back to capex spending, but refunds offered to those who bail on multi-year commitments Microsoft's added reserved instances to Azure, with an out-clause for cloudy quitters.…

'New editing experience' called Gutenberg coming too, but it might hate your plugins WordPress 4.9 has debuted, and this time the world's most popular content management system has given developers plenty to like.…

It's mostly an IoT-centric system integrator now, but may sprout new scale-out arrays Hitachi Vantara, the mash-up of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Pentaho and the Lumada IoT assets from the Hitachi Insight Group, is working on new scale-out storage products to support its ambition to become a system integrator for analytical workloads and the myriad data sources that feed them.…

Fresh round of overhauls, and some aren't happy about it US broadband watchdog the FCC signed off on a pile of new rules Thursday – including laws that will dictate how telcos handle robocalls, cut access for poor Americans to subsidized phone service, add controversial changes to TV station ownership rules, and regulations for fiber cable installation.…

Knew we shouldn't have told you about the Stingray A New York judge has told cops that they need to get a warrant before they can use the controversial Stingray phone-tracking device to hunt down suspects.…

Lab suspects Chinese spyware was on home computer Kaspersky Lab, the US government's least favorite computer security outfit, has published its full technical report into claims Russian intelligence used its antivirus tools to steal NSA secrets.…

Algorithms will label innocent people terrorists, DHS warned A group of 54 computer scientists and academic researchers on Thursday asked the US Department of Homeland Security to rethink its plan for employing software algorithms to determine whether immigrants to the country should be admitted or deported.…

Just didn't get round to fixing it – our bad Alt-coin wallet software maker Parity has published a postmortem of the bug that put millions of dollars of people's Ethereum on ice – and has admitted it knew about the flaw for months. It just hadn't got round to fixing it.…

'Advance video content' and years of backups dangled in the cloud The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has joined the long list of organisations to leak sensitive data from a poorly secured public-facing Amazon Web Services S3 bucket.…

Patch incoming, hardware recall required to fully address underlying problem Analysis Amazon has pushed out an emergency security update to its door-unlocking system called Key – which is used by couriers to let themselves into people's homes to drop off packages inside when folks are out.…

Nothing like unauth'd hijacking, Heartbleed-style bugs to patch ASAP Oracle has published an out-of-band software update to address a handful of security flaws in parts of the PeopleSoft HR software.…

Plus AWS creds, public-facing S3 buckets packed with info Chinese drone maker DJI left the private key for its dot-com's HTTPS certificate exposed on GitHub for up to four years, according to a researcher who gave up with the biz's bug bounty process.…

Analytics biz now a first-party service on Azure Databricks and Microsoft are getting cosy in the cloud, in a move that will give the Spark-wrangling company access to a new set of customers.…

Is the Oracle of Omaha cutting his losses? Legendary investor Warren Buffett appears to be cutting his losses on his IBM investment, slashing his shares by one-third in the last quarter.…

GPDR compliance and deduped cloud backend Backup Exec, Veritas' SME backup product, now sports a subscription-based payment scheme, deduping cloud backends and offering GDPR compliance help.…

MPs kick the ethics question back into touch AEV Bill A new law won't force driverless cars' software developers to explicitly consider the infamous Trolley Problem – but the UK government may later decide to implement something similar.…

Details from decommissioned UK webshop scoured Pawnbroking and secondhand goods outlet Cash Converters has suffered a data breach.…

You've grown so much, you piece of @£$ Terdot, a banking Trojan that has been around since mid-2016, has been re-engineered with updated information and credential thievery as well as social media account monitoring functionality.…

Smacked in Florida, California Tezos, the blockchain startup that raised $232m in July, has been served with at least two US class-action lawsuits for allegedly defrauding fundraisers as well as breaking rules for offering securities.…

Yes, and Azure NFS and HCI also looking good While still well short of its fiscal 2015 revenue glory days, NetApp has said its all-flash array sales are on fire, and expects more of the same.…

Non-disclosure agreement prompts uproar Chinese drone maker DJI faces questions from infosec researchers about its bug bounty programme. Sources have told The Register that a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) they were invited to sign would result in the company "owning their actions".…