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Mickey-taking Singapore biz turns takeover battle hostile Qualcomm is outraged – outraged, we tell you – by Broadcom's cheeky efforts to take over its board at the company's upcoming AGM.…

Yeah, the WinMobe is somehow still a thing WileyFox's Windows 10 Mobile – yes, you read that correctly – has been delayed again, and will now bump into Santa doing his rounds early.…

Back tax drinking songs break out across Irish pubs Apple has agreed to start paying the Irish government up to €13bn (£11.4bn) next year.…

You can probably strike these toys off your kids' Crimbo lists The French data protection agency has issued a formal notice to a biz peddling allegedly insecure toys, just in time for Christmas.…

Denies he downloaded any of it Under-fire Cabinet Office minister Damian Green has reportedly told an internal government enquiry that he has proof he was not the one who downloaded porn onto his Parliamentary computer.…

Factory reset The engineering chief and public face of Google's wearables efforts has bailed.…

Reeeyeeeeeese... of tha maaassssshyyyyyyunaahhhhh RotM If Coditany of Timeness was released without the high-tech fanfare, no one in the notoriously elitist black metal scene would bat an eyelid. Perhaps popular online US music mag Pitchfork would even give it a "6/10".…

And UK Department for Transport faces questions over scary rival study Updated A ground-breaking US study has shown that while drone collisions do pose a threat to airliners, the odds of a collision causing a crash are much lower than a rival British government study claimed.…

Defence of Damian shows relaxed attitude to account security UK MP Nadine Dorries revealed yesterday that she shares her parliamentary login information with her staff, in an attempt to defend recently resurfaced allegations about porn allegedly found on Damian's office computer.…

But is it just more regulatory posturing? Comment The chief exec of Ofcom, Sharon White, has told BT it must up its game to improve Blighty’s piss-poor fibre broadband penetration. While that might sound like tough talk, it’s also only words.…

Customers report woes at ATMs too. Xmas shopping? Maybe not Updated Nationwide UK’s online presence is anything but this morning, what with an unspecified tech infrastructure glitch that has prevented customers across Blighty from logging into their accounts or using ATMs.…

Execs aren't getting one either, says firm Exclusive Thousands of employees at Hewlett Packard Enterprise will not be taking home a bonus after falling short of sales targets for fiscal 2017, The Register can reveal.…

Unable to file time sheets Contractors plying their trade for DXC Technologies remain in the dark over what some claim is a billing system screw-up that has meant they'd gone unpaid for the past three weeks.…

Ancient assembler code checked out and now probe's mission can be extended NASA's announced that Voyager 1's already-amazingly-long mission will probably be extended for an extra two or three years, thanks to a successful attempt to use thrusters that haven't fired up since the year 1980.…

Android developers given 60 days to inform users, after that apps will do it for themselves Google has warned Android developers to give users better warnings about their apps' data collection behaviours, or it will flag their failings.…

Canadian outfit TIO acquired in Feb 'fesses up to unauthorized access PayPal has “identified a potential compromise of personally identifiable information for approximately 1.6 million customers.”…

Liberté, égalité and a promise of fraternité with management inside a fortnight French activists on Saturday occupied a Paris Apple Store as part of a campaign to try and shame Cupertino into paying local taxes.…

This time it's a 'Huge Dirty COW' and Linus Torvalds has cleaned up after it Linus Torvalds last week rushed a patch into the Linux kernel, after researchers discovered the patch for 2016's Dirty COW bug had a bug of its own.…

Google, Facebook, named as worthy of inquiry Australia's government has fulfilled a promise to probe Web giants' impact on the media, news and advertising businesses.…

Yup, that means if you code with it, your projects inherit the problem. Yay! RSA developers and admins have been given two critical-level authentication bugs to patch.…

Starts talks with Kaspersky to 'prevent the transfer of UK data to the Russian state' The United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre has effectively banned the use of Russian anti-virus products from government departments and revealed it is trying to “prevent the transfer of UK data to the Russian state” from Kaspersky Labs software.…

Plus: We'll see you at, er, NIPS next week! Roundup Here's a human-compiled, totally non-robot generated summary of AI news beyond what we've already reported the past month week.…

Maybe. After the bugs are cleaned out... Review Typically when reviewing new electronic products – especially if it's a system of interacting components – you start from a very positive place.…

Oh look, another AWS misconfiguration spillage The National Credit Federation, a US credit repair biz, left 111GB of thousands of folks' highly sensitive personal details exposed to the public internet, according to security researchers.…

Also his Picasso and that Wu Tang Clan album A World War II German Enigma machine will be among the valuables a US court plans to seize from convicted felon and shamed former pharmaceuticals exec Martin Shkreli.…

Box sales overall up 20% in Q3. PS: Was Lenovo's IBM x86 server buy a mistake? Dell is set to overtake HPE and become the number-one server vendor in terms of revenue and unit shipment numbers, according to IDC. Meanwhile, Lenovo's server shipments are under severe pressure.…

Transparency needed, from privacy to net neutrality In Washington, DC, on Wednesday, academics and policy wonks warned US Congressional representatives about the perils of inscrutable algorithms, a red flag entangled by tangential worries about privacy, data collection, and net neutrality.…

Maryland man cops to making illegal copies of top-secret code An NSA hacker has admitted taking home copies of classified software exploits – understood to be the cyber-weapons slurped from an agency worker's home Windows PC by Kaspersky Labs' antivirus.…

Ability to reset iTunes Backup passwords unravels layered protection, claims researcher After rapidly patching a flaw that allowed anyone with access to a High Sierra Mac to obtain administrative control, Apple still has more work to do to make its software secure, namely iOS 11, it was claimed this week.…

Hot take from crypto-guru Prof Matt Blaze Video With too many electronic voting systems buggy, insecure and vulnerable to attacks, US election officials would be well advised to keep paper trails handy.…

Settlement reportedly on the cards Toshiba and Western Digital may be about to settle their long-running legal dispute over Tosh's sale of its interest in a flash fab joint venture, held by the two, to a Bain-led consortium that includes WDC competitors.…

Revenue up, losses down – that's how you do business Nutanix has had a quarter to shout about with 46 per cent annual revenue growth and a reducing loss trend hinting at a profitable fourth quarter.…

Turns out you can't have all the subsidies after all, Musk The German government has removed Tesla's Model S from a list of electric cars eligible for subsidies after accusations that buyers are paying more than the subsidy price cap for its basic model.…

UK industry body calls for top-down change on diversity Fewer than one in five IT workers in the UK are female and those that do carve a living from the industry are paid – on average – 15 per cent less than men, a study by the BCS has found.…

Decade-old Damien Green MP row reheated by BBC Cabinet Office Minister Damian Green has been caught up in a fresh row over his Parliamentary computer habits after the BBC reported that he had porn on his parliamentary PC a decade ago.…

100,000 staff entitled to comp for 'upset and distress' caused Morrisons is responsible for the leak of staff personal details by an ex-employee, the High Court ruled today.…

Regulator: Excuse me, I'm an independent body Blighty's surveillance nerve-centre GCHQ has asked its independent oversight body to consider working together to decide what evidence to submit to court, saying it would make the process "more efficient".…

Might speed up the blockchain, but aren't they about cutting out the middle man? A new micropayments technology called Microraiden has launched on the Ethereum blockchain's main network.…

AWS RDS instances get virty to cut cloudy storage costs Delphix is integrating Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) into its database virtualizing platform.…

Oh good, because nothing ever goes wrong with online banking Taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland Group is shutting 259 branches and slashing 680 jobs, blaming the shift to customers banking online.…

Tackles former state monopoly's 'significant market power' Ofcom wants to slap new measures on BT to prevent it from undercutting rivals investing in super and ultrafast broadband.…

More sensible users would like regulation or permission first More than 20 per cent of Britons don't mind letting websites hijack their CPUs to mine cryptocurrency, a slightly stale survey has found.…

'Disabling the ME will reduce future vulnerabilities' In a slap to Intel, custom Linux computer seller System76 has said it will be disabling the Intel Management Engine in its laptops.…

Christopher Egan takes US prosecutors' deal A former Autonomy exec has entered into a deferred agreement with US prosecutors over charges that he and others deceived investors about the company's ill-fated $11bn (£9bn) acquisition by Hewlett-Packard.…

Adastral Park bundle on sale for a cool 10 Bitcoin BT research campus Adastral Park can finally buy up its domain names – just 17 years after giving a chap the sack for registering them.…

Premium model doubles capacity, ups IOPS 55 per cent Toshiba has doubled the capacity of its M.2 form factor XG5 flash drive to 2TB with an XG5-P (premium) model.…

Android v iPhone rated for crashes and crapitude Ten times as many Android users experience performance issues than iPhone users, although twice as many iPhone users report signal issues.…

UK insurance bods find new bit barn bouncer Exclusive Atos is lined up to replace DXC Technologies as the sole supplier of data centre hosting services to insurance giant Aviva when the existing deal times out in some 19 months.…

Backup sucks Hyperconverged system startup Datrium has spun out a DVX cloud instance for AWS.…

SpeechMatics bests world+dog at adding new language. How did it do it? Interview SpeechMatics, the company founded by British neural network pioneer Tony Robinson, has made major advance in speech recognition.…