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Remember, folks, don't tweet your bank details Updated The Co-op Bank's online service appears to be experiencing wobbles as customers complain they can't get in.…

Denies automated dialling then files to strike company off government register. Hmm A firm promising to generate leads for businesses has been fined £70,000 for making more than 100,000 nuisance calls – although it has denied using automatic dialling.…

Sell our interest we must, but current flash still needs cash... Toshiba says it is now talking to Western Digital about joint investment in a flash fab development.…

Let's all affirmerate our modes of acceptancy Something for the Weekend, Sir? Would you mind leveraging a time unit while I ideate my ecosystem?…

Making machines eat our words Several years back, the Google "Brain Team" that was behind Tensorflow hatched another novel neural tool: Word2Vec.…

Companies told to quit hoarding customer data and get a grip on where it's held Incoming data protection laws could bring with them a wave of "no win, no fee"-style companies, experts have said.…

Decades of preaching about meatware complicated dev life "The talks get a little repetitive, don't they?" she said as we were walking out of the elevator and through the lobby, escaping the latest two-day DevOpsDays nerd fest. Unable to resist the urge to mansplain, I meekly volunteered that most of the attendees are first-timers, so, you know, maybe it's new to them.…

Kwon Oh-hyun quits on the same day company posts monster profits Samsung Electronics vice-chairman and CEO Kwon Oh-hyun has announced his resignation, citing the “unprecedented crisis” of the bribery scandal that saw Samsung vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong jailed for bribery.…

Spoiler alert: this story has a twist at the end On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's weekly wander through readers' recollections of tech support traumas.…

Kubernetes-coralled containers also get the software-defined networking policy treatment Cisco's popped out version 3.0 of its software-defined networking Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) product, but there's a more significant update coming early next year.…

Open-source project aspires to spare you from dependency hell Managing software applications in large organizations can be quite complicated, particularly for codebases with lots of dependencies.…

No, Chrome isn't slowing down – you're just silently digging up cyber-cash Updated Sketchy websites are increasingly using cryptocurrency mining as a source of income.…

Your essential security news soaking Roundup We almost wanted to feel sorry for Equifax, were it not for the fact that the credit biz takes to IT security like a duck to an acid bath. After a brutal few weeks under the spotlight, on Wednesday night it suffered another hacking scare.…

New EuroCloud almost matches US cloud, if you can be bothered signing up Citrix has opened a new cloud region somewhere inside the European Union.…

Symmetrical 10Gbps over cable TV networks coming any year now Cable Labs, the networking research outfit lab operated by cable television network operators, says it has finalised a new spec capable of delivering symmetrical 10Gbps data services over hybrid fibre coax networks.…

The cloud market's going nuts and Juniper rode it in Q1 and Q2. So what's wrong now? Juniper Networks has issued preliminary results for its third quarter and the news is bad: forecast revenue of between US$1,290m and $1,350m won't happen and the company instead believes it will score between $1,250m and $1,260m.…

Steady as she goes predictable revenue rise for low-profit biz It's getting predictable. Barracuda has posted yet another year-on-year revenue rise with yet another small profit. Boring is good, though, right?…

Woman stands up to powerful bully. What happened next will not shock you Analysis Twitter was today accused of censorship after it froze the account of actress Rose McGowan – who had just publicly slammed rampant sex fiend Harvey Weinstein.…

Microsoft's latest fixes blamed for crashing WSUS-managed boxes during start-up Microsoft's October batch of security patches and bug fixes caused some corporate PCs to suffer blue-screen-of-death crashes when starting up this week.…

Cable Labs goes full duplex for DOCSIS 3.1 – but can ISPs and modems keep up? It's become so common that it virtually defines current internet usage: fast download speeds and relatively slow uploads.…

Hyatt grievance, see? Hyatt has provided the perfect excuse for folks trying to explain to bosses or spouses why a film they watched in their hotel room for just seven minutes appeared on their company or personal credit card.…

Neural-network interface layer to assist machine learning Amazon and Microsoft on Thursday rolled out open-source software called Gluon in the stated hope of simplifying the implementation of machine learning.…

Apple upgrade made my year-old wireless hi-fi 'useless', says Reg reader Wireless speaker maker Pure appears to be more the first casualties in Apple's war on 32-bit iOS apps.…

€850m data centre given go-ahead after two-year delay Ireland's High Court has dismissed planning appeals preventing the construction of Apple's County Galway data centre, Reuters reports.…

See this IMAP, Zuck? It's pointing right at you Exclusive The company that writes the open-source software for three-quarters of the world's Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) email servers has a plan that could kill off proprietary chat services like Facebook's WhatsApp. And that means you, too, Slack.…

But 'Aeroscope' doesn't talk directly to existing aviation systems DJI, the Chinese drone firm, is launching its own Wi-Fi based drone identification and tracking system, Aeroscope, aimed at placating regulators who want to put limits on small drone flights.…

But it doesn't talk directly to existing aviation systems DJI, the Chinese drone firm, is launching its own Wi-Fi based drone traffic management system, aimed at placating regulators who want to put limits on small drone flights.…

Are we shocked? *Cough* Google, Apple *Cough* OnePlus mobiles are phoning home rather detailed information about handsets without any obvious permission or warnings, setting off another debate about what information our smartphones are emitting.…

UN, you had better say yes... Jodrell Bank is going forward for nomination as a World Heritage Site early in 2018.…

Using microwaves to fry bits into submission WDC has given up on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and is developing a microwave-assisted technique (MAMR) to push disk drive capacity up to 100TB by the 2030s.…

We just have a little self-confidence problem is all Everybody chill. Alibaba founder Jack Ma says we don't need to worry about robots taking our jobs. Phewee.…

Why every platform is eventually destroyed in a flame war Techies are often at odds with the world – but nothing matches the venom they save for other geeks foolish enough to devote their lives to other platforms.…

'People have been left in the dark for too long' Equifax may soon face the wrath of UK politicians after the chairman of the country's House of Commons Treasury Committee demanded answers from the firm over its handling of its recent data breach.…

X-IO maths man claims it can minimise mill hash work with buckets of blooms Analysis A new and deduping X-IO ISE 900 all-flash array has puzzling puny processors yet kicks out good performance when deduping.…

And lobbying US government against it is NOT modernising IT Oracle loves open source. Except when the database giant hates open source. Which, according to its recent lobbying of the US federal government, seems to be "most of the time".…

Whatever's going on, overall sales are down leaving HP Inc and Lenovo lords of a shrinking land Analyst outfits Gartner and IDC have reached opposing conclusions on the same set of events.…

Don't blame staff, blame... A row has broken out at the European Patent Office over the quality of its work.…

El Reg meets new CEO Jim Chirico on his tenth day in the job INTERVIEW “Avaya”, the company's newly-minted CEO Jim Chirico tells The Register, is “a company that promises solutions for what the customers demand we need to be.”…

Установка Linux, Дмитрий! Microsoft is investigating how some of its products were sold to businesses and government offices within Russia and Crimea despite strict sanctions against such sales.…

Matches Salesforce and pals with API-fest and promise of apps built on SaaS Workday says it's got APIs in its pocket and is ready to join the PaaS party HR-centric enterprise SaaS concern Workday will enter the platform-as-a-service business.…

Have you tried collapsing the waveform and polarizing a photon again? Intel reckons it's stolen a base in the race to build quantum chippery, by shipping a cryogenically-cooled 17-qubit chip to Netherlands-based QuTech.…

We've not seen orbital bling out this far before VIDEO Back in January, a Spanish-led group of astroboffins turned telescopes skywards to watch an occultation of dwarf planet Haumea, and got a surprise.…

Researchers go public after BPC Banking's long silence on SQL injection bug Rapid7 has gone public with news of an e-commerce SQL injection vulnerability, saying it couldn't raise a response from the vendor.…

Wait, wait, this just in... make that 23 billion Taiwanese dollars Trade officials in Taiwan have hit American chip designer Qualcomm with a NT$23.4bn (US$774m) fine for abusing its dominant position in the wireless electronics world.…

When government aspires to be one big API, surely this needs to change While Australia's federal government scrambles to hose down a hacking incident, it's important to ask why a defence contractor of any size could run a network so insecure it exposed default administrative interfaces to the Internet.…

El Reg comes to the rescue of reader unable to control gear from smartphone In August, when wireless speaker maker Sonos decided to update its privacy policy to allow it to gather more data on its customers from their devices, it characterized the consequences of refusing to accept the change as being left out of future feature upgrades.…

You may end up in the clink with 'hacker' on your criminal record A California bloke fighting a computer hacking conviction has lost his final appeal after the US Supreme Court declined to hear his case.…

You're formatting messages the wrong way Attention anyone using Microsoft Outlook to encrypt emails. Researchers at security outfit SEC Consult have found a bug in Redmond's software that causes encrypted messages to be sent out with their unencrypted versions attached.…

Hello, world? More like: Goodbye, world At Pier 70 in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, where ships once were built, code-hosting biz GitHub held forth on building and shipping code, and on the people who do so.…

Court tells hosting biz to protect identities of netizens A Washington DC judge has told the US Department of Justice (DoJ) it "does not have the right to rummage" through the files of an anti-Trump protest website – and has ordered the dot-org site's hosting company to protect the identities of its users.…