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Nothing at all wrong with this China's version of Twitter, Sina Weibo, has warned its 340 million users they have until next Friday to verify their accounts using their real names.…

Friend boasted on social media about trading skillz A former financial analyst at Amazon.com pled guilty on Thursday to securities fraud for helping a former fraternity brother trade Amazon stock based on insider information.…

So stopping antivirus software from spotting malware is now a feature? A design flaw within the Windows kernel that could stop antivirus software from recognizing malware isn't going to be fixed, Microsoft has said.…

Class actions already piling up against identity theft brokers Less than 24 hours after credit monitors Equifax revealed it had lost the personal data of more than 130 million Americans, two class action suits have been filed.…

Tourists' passport details and credit card numbers exposed Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online as a result of a misconfigured database.…

Court suggests recent EU ruling on bulk data retention could put national security at risk The UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which oversees the country's spy agencies, has said the European Court of Justice should rule on the legality of the government's mass-surveillance legislation.…

Beleaguered company says it's 'cooperating' with investigation The FBI is investigating allegations that Uber used its "Hell" program to track drivers from rival firm Lyft.…

'I see you're trying to land. Please reboot the flight control system to continue' Initial software development for the F-35 fighter jet is coming to an end, while future tweaks to the aircraft’s onboard systems will be rolled out like smartphone app updates, according to reports.…

But it's still behind the curve compared to Azure and AWS In a bid to attract large enterprise clientele shackled to Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure, Google Cloud has announced a direct connection offering.…

Want gold, top brass? Make clouds float, hit $80 stock price Oracle’s top earners will only be able to earn more equity if the company delivers on its cloudy promises and pays out for stockholders, according to a revamped compensation plan.…

'You can have any colour you want, as long as it's ours' Sponsored You want to move from an on-premises Office suite to Office 365 in the cloud. It'll save you money in the short term and free you from providing local infrastructure. That's nice. But whoa – not so fast there. Securing cloud-based productivity systems like Office 365 takes a little forethought.…

A Wordpress site? Really? Credit reference agency Equifax has been criticised for its breach response in the wake of the disclosure on Thursday of a megahack that affected the data of up to 143 million people in the US alone.…

Judge mulls whether to dismiss suit after ITC ruling Arista Networks has called its long-running patent dispute with Cisco "breathtakingly broad, unprecedented and insane" in a hearing regarding an antitrust suit against Switchzilla.…

Motorolaesque panic buy? Not really Google is set to relieve HTC of its mobile phones unit, according to a report in Taiwan's Commercial Times, leaving the company to focus on its Vive VR helmet.…

8-char password limits? HTTP-YES HSBC has been faulted for redirecting business customers to a website that is not obviously secure.…

Someone's noticed Big Blue’s deal with Hortonworks Big data company Cloudera has acquired an artificial intelligence research firm in a bid to expand its machine learning offering and get customers to part with more of their cash.…

Bare-bones offerings from AmAzureGoog don't compute Huawei is delivering an enterprise storage service in its public cloud to which enterprises can transfer mission-critical apps from on-premises without changing their applications or processes at all.…

Every $1 of sales costs array supplier $1.50 +Comment Hybrid and all-flash array supplier Tintri is haemorrhaging cash – the latest quarterly results show every $1 of sales costs it $1.50. And its been getting worse. In the previous quarter $1 of sales cost it $1.01.…

JBOF ... or perhaps you'd prefer to look into a Barreleye Analysis Will NVMe over Fabrics nuke the storage array into a JBOF winter or will array technology extend itself into new combinations of compute controllers, media and network links? Huawei has both technology strands in development with a high density 1U JBOF and a 4U x 16-blade Barreleye system.…

If someone filmed it, it must be real Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'm on deadline for two concurrent articles and another client has asked me to rebuild their app with a new welcome screen by tomorrow morning, which is also when I shall be training a classroom of delegates how to use spectrophotometers to create custom-calibrated ICC profiles.…

Package management client hits 1.0 Facebook, known for telling tales about about users it doesn't have, has spun another sort of yarn.…

Desktop team cleans up mess created by developers, and doctors confused by disks On-Call Welcome agin to On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we share readers' stories of being asked to achieve the improbable, by people who are impossible.…

Servers, switches, PCs all did well, but traditional arrays left a nasty balance sheet stain Weakness in traditional disk array sales held Dell Technologies back as it posted otherwise solid results for the second quarter of its FY 2018, the numbers for which were released a year on from the formal conclusion of its EMC acquisition.…

One language called Ansible to rule them all While tech luminaries fret about the world-killing potential of self-directed computers amid galas and globetrotting, the industry's worker bees see automation as salvation from soul-killing drudgery.…

South Park doing what it does best: making you laugh, uncomfortably Science fiction author John Scalzi once wrote that “In the role playing game known as The Real World, 'Straight White Male' is the lowest difficulty setting there is.”…

Did, did these bio-boffins just sass us? A team of scientists has proposed a new classification system that grades how advanced alien civilizations are by examining how an exoplanet uses energy.…

New collaboration tool is 'recommended upgrade' to HipChat, beats it on price Atlassian has decided HipChat is terminally un-hip and created a new product with which to take on Slack in the messaging-with-benefits market.…

Registrar put crucial domains in limbo. Is that good enough for a big cloud? IBM's cloudy global load balancer and reverse DNS services have been impacted by a DNS mess inflicted on Big Blue by a domain name registrar.…

Future robocars will not need steering wheels or brake pedals A draft US law that will let self-driving cars potentially swerve mandatory vehicle safety requirements has raced through the House of Reps.…

Grow up, dweebs – this won't break the internet, says Big Red A looming battle over corporate social responsibility on the internet has taken an interesting turn. Oracle has backed a proposed US law that will penalize the operators of sex-trafficking websites.…

143m in US, unknown number in UK, Canada – gulp! Vid Global credit reporting agency Equifax admitted today it suffered a massive breach of security that could affect almost half of the US population.…

Android 8.0 bug runs internet traffic over LTE rather than Wi-Fi The latest version of Android, version 8.0 aka Oreo, contains an unfortunate bug that causes phones to burn through their monthly mobile data allowances.…

Air Force picks Florida as new center for mini-shuttle Video SpaceX today successfully launched the US Air Force's secretive mini-space-shuttle X-37B from the biz's launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, Florida.…

No, it's not because they have Trump-pee-tapes Analysis When Edward Snowden revealed the extent of illegal operations carried out by American spy agencies, many wondered whether the US Congress was either unaware or had simply turned a blind eye toward them.…

Hey Jeff, do you know the way to San Jose? Or, er, Austin? Amazon has gone full "The Bachelor" in its search for a city to host a second corporate headquarters.…

To be fair, the kid is only 13 A teenage tearaway with a passion for building botnets was apparently caught using the same Skype ID he used for hacking activities when applying for jobs.…

Security tool slated for Creators Update promises to rat on misbehaving apps, bad staff Microsoft says its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will include new capabilities in the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection security suite.…

Thousands unable to load app or access and sync files Many users are experiencing disruption with Google Drive cloud storage and file backup today.…

White-hats warn voteware kaput weeks ahead of Bundestag poll Software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure, according to research by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).…

Who needs sunlight when you've got Netflix? Scottish pensioners are up in arms that Virgin Media has had the audacity to build a huge cabinet outside their homes in East Renfrewshire, near Glasgow, which is reported to be blocking their light.…

Their data slurp laws don’t comply with human rights – watchdog Most EU member states’ rules on data retention do not comply with fundamental human rights, according to a survey by civil rights campaign group Privacy International.…

Says hi to the Next global sales chief in radical biz overhaul Exclusive The first implementation of a planned major reorg at Hewlett Packard Enterprise was outlined last night with a new chief sales officer named and the heads of the Americas and EMEA ops confirmed as exiting the business.…

But hurry – MCubed tickets are moving fast Reg Events If you want to get a grip on what machine learning and AI can do for your business – and what it can't – you should really join us in London next month for MCubed.…

But experts reckon Blighty's still in the slow lane The government has today unveiled a "co-ordination hub" to test driverless cars under its £100m Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) investment programme.…

All we want is life beyond the iPhoneDome… Huawei surpassed Apple for two months running this summer to be the world’s no 2 phone brand by volume behind Samsung, according to box counters Counterpoint Research.…

And what does this mean for competition case law? Analysis The European Court of Justice's ping-ponging of Intel's billion-euro EU antitrust suit appeal might mark an evolution of rebate-based competition case law, legal eagles have said.…

Registrar finally plugs web address hijacking vulnerability Thousands of UK companies were at risk of having their .uk domain names stolen for more than four months by a critical security failure at domain registrar Enom.…

Lots of lovely data, less of lovely privacy Opinion A smart city is, inherently, a surveillance city, and citizens' privacy could potentially be the cost of the efficiency gains.…

Stay ahead of the latest ploys Promo Ransomware has become one of the most damaging threats on the internet. In recent years viruses have proliferated, spreading through spam emails and off-the-shelf malware kits that even criminals with minimal IT expertise can use to hijack and encrypt data, then demand a ransom to unlock it.…

Need a few air-gapped apps on one screen? Here's how Researchers at Australian think tank Data61 and the nation's Defence Science and Technology Group have cooked up application publishing for the paranoid, by baking an ARM CPU and secure microkernel into a KVM switch.…