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Don't take our name in vain, DJI veep tells trade union Drone manufacturer DJI has publicly challenged a pilots' union to release the disputed results of an aircraft collision study it sponsored.…

With a knick knack, piggyback, throw broadband folks a bone In its on-going efforts to break Blighty's broadband dependence on BT, regulator Ofcom has today proposed a cap on Openreach's rental charges for smaller providers accessing its ducts and poles.…

'Substantial upfront cash payment' from licensing spat Apple has handed over a cool €1.7bn (£1.5bn) cash payment to Nokia following an intellectual property dispute with the Finnish firm.…

Wants to hand out £40m from £200m full-fibre investment pot The government is to begin trialling a gigabit voucher scheme with small businesses in autumn, according to proposals seen by The Register.…

Jailbreak it the official way, kids... Review Student debt in the United States now stands at $1.2 trillion. In the UK outstanding student loans top £100 billion. Microsoft has made an fascinating contribution to the student debt crisis, by attempting to increase it.…

Heard about this, Cray? DDN says it will provide support to stranded ClusterStor customers following Seagate’s product line shutdown - only they are not stranded.…

Wait, come back. There are some... good bits, promise Skype revolutionised IP-based video calling to such an extent it became a verb, much like Google. This largely consumer technology went pro in 2011 when Microsoft bought the firm for $8.5bn.…

Backpack PC aimed at designers who move between metaphorical mice and VR HP Inc has released a backpack PC for the office.…

Telematics torched in BMWs, Infinitis, Nissan Leaf and some Fords A bunch of mid-age Ford, Infiniti, Nissan and BMW vehicles are carrying around a vulnerable chipset from Infineon that America's ICS-CERT reckons is easy to exploit.…

Stallman says ZFS-on-Linux is impossible ... now Red Hat has dedupe without GNU legals Red Hat has acquired “the assets and technology of Permabit Technology Corporation”, a data-shrinking concern, for an undisclosed sum.…

Room-temperature single-photon-emitter boosts conventional networks Single-photon emitters aren't a new thing in physics labs, but they usually require liquid-helium-chilled freezers.…

Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app Netflix has identified denial of service threat to microservices architectures that it's labelled “application DDOS”.…

Prank prompts 'vinyl sounds so much better than toys' debate Canadian indie outfit Arcade Fire has released an album on a USB-flash-drive-packing fidget spinner.…

38 lines of code later, you're owned. Good thing the fix is in, eh? McAfee has moved to patch a bug that falls under the “didn’t you get the memo?” category: among other things, its free Security Scan Plus online tool retrieved information over HTTP – that is, in plain text.…

Facebook hits the acqui-hire button to boost its instant-messaging assistant Facebook has acquired Ozlo presumably to help the gigantic social network improve its virtual assistant M on its Messenger platform.…

Entertainment giant acknowledges attack, stays mum on details HBO is the latest entertainment giant to have its precious content stolen and leaked by hackers, including program episodes and possibly Game of Thrones scripts.…

Facial recognition? Amazing. Edge screen? How is that even possible? Eagle-eyed code-jockeys have dug out some intriguing details about the new Apple iPhone – most notably that the company is still desperately chasing Samsung.…

Enceladus, Europa will not be habitable, scientists warn The possibility of alien life on the icy planets and moons in our Solar System could be lower than previously thought, because any water on them will quickly vaporize, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.…

Amber alert! The UK's Home Sec is heading this way Executives at Facebook, Google and other terrorist-enabling online services are said to be quaking in their boots as UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd swoops into Silicon Valley this week to read them the riot act.…

Watchdog goes to court to open up black box system Google's advertising systems that connect people's in-store purchases to their online browsing may face regulatory review – because the Chocolate Factory won't disclose details about how it slices and dices its data.…

'We do not plan to continue selling to these accounts' Amazon has sold around $30,000 worth of consumer tat over a period of six years to several accounts that may have been clicking on the basket in service of Iran - in possible violation of US-imposed sanctions against that country.…

How would that work, exactly? Comment Steve Bannon, President Trump's chief policy strategist who has been dubbed "the Second Most Powerful Man in the World", wants a clampdown on Silicon Valley.…

A viable option with a slew of new difficulties Some Toshiba creditors and shareholders are thinking the unthinkable, saying the company should seriously consider declaring itself bankrupt.…

Hong Kong’s richest man just got a bit richer UK mobile operator Three's Hong Kong-based parent company Hutchison is to flog off its fixed-line phone business for HK$14.5bn (£1.4bn).…

What's a few more billion between friends, eh? US defence technology firm Raytheon’s advanced GPS project has encountered yet more cost-inflating delays, according to reports.…

Can Seagate escape coming HDD crash? Analysis The flash industry is worth more than twice the disk drive industry in terms of product ship revenues. Trends suggest a shrinking disk drive industry will squeeze the three drive manufacturers, leaving Seagate with no escape.…

Security analysts: None of our systems were pwned Hackers have leaked what they claim is information stolen from FireEye/Mandiant after apparently breaking into the incident response biz's network. Mandiant has denied this.…

The best of the rest from Black Hat and DEF CON Analysis BSides, Black Hat, DEF CON... For the last six days, Las Vegas has been home to the top brains in the computer security industry and the business menagerie that follows them – causing some panic among locals.…

Troubled NoSQL database-flinger was in ‘financial freefall’, court docs show Basho, the biz that developed the Riak distributed database, has been put into receivership after it stopped paying the bills to its main creditors.…

Court orders, stipulations and legal wrangling continues Western Digital, which has dropped a preliminary injunction request, and Toshiba have agreed that Tosh will give WD at least 14 days' advance notice before closing any sale or transfer of its flash foundry joint venture interests, which won’t take place for many months.…

But industry folk unconvinced by methodology MP Grant Shapps has released the final version of his latest report into broadband speeds in the UK, which concludes 6.7 million people may not receive speeds above 10Mbps.…

Goal is 'Level 5', where vehicle reacts like human-driven one Universities, carmakers, local authorities and tech and insurance firms are involved in an array of part-government-sponsored self-driving vehicle pilots across the UK.…

Save real dosh on artificial intelligence The early bird ticket offer for MCubed, our three-day extravaganza of machine learning, AI and analytics, ends this evening, giving you just a few hours to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for the conference and our deep dive workshops.…

Even students set to feel the wallet burn from August Cable giant Virgin is once again hiking up the price of its broadband and phone bundles, according to a list of new pricing arrangements seen by The Register.…

Actual reports of transgressions are up, though The number of white collar crime prosecutions in the UK fell by 12 per cent between 2015 and 2016, despite a 4 per cent increase in the number of reported offences.…

All this will pass says CEO Morrow, once ISPs consolidate and stop discounting nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has hit back at critics of its network and business plan in a pair of missives attributed to CEO Bill Morrow.…

Experiment used Elon Musk's OpenAI framework - no wonder he's so down on AI DEF CON Machine learning tools can create custom malware that defeats anti-virus software.…

Out of beta, still won't let you read Linux files from Windows Microsoft's head-turning Windows Subsystem for Linux will emerge from beta to become a fully-fledged-and-supported feature of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.…

Banned and yanked from Apple's App Store Apple's Chinese app store has been suddenly shorn of privacy software as Russia and China are both clamping down on virtual private networks.…

Good news: Chelyabinsk-sized rattler won't wipe us out, will let us test asteroid defences NASA's preparing another round asteroid defence tests, thanks to the October fly-by of a rock that may come within a cosmic whisker of the Earth.…

Dev thinks we need to keep notable .SWFs readable for the sake of posterity A group of developers have taken to GitHub with a petition to save Adobe Flash, despite the company's largely-welcomed decision to end support for the oft-reviled software in 2020.…

Social media speculation forced their hand, hence the pre-press paper explaining their interest After Twitter-leaks, a trio of exoplanet-hunters have decided to go public with observations they reckoned weren't quite up to broadcast-quality but which is rather significant: the first possible detection of a moon orbiting an exoplanet.…

Dev bounces back with 'fair enough' as rc3 for 4.13 lands Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has fired off an expletive-laden rant of the sort that only he seems to find acceptable.…

Tells Desert Island Disks that Indie apps don't hand over metadata Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has reiterated the company's position that weakening the encryption of messaging apps isn't going to give governments what they want.…

'SlowLoris' flaw could see a mouse of a machine take down an elephant of a server An SMBv1 bug described late last week at DEF CON won't be patched, because Redmond says it only needs a suitable block on connections coming from the Internet.…

You're leaving stuff ON that deserves to be OFF DEF CON Windows Server admins keep making mistakes that let criminals target the OS, according to Microsoft's lead security architect for Azure management Lee Holmes, Redmond therefore wants you to harden up by using PowerShell Just Enough Administration.…

Worries about 'espionage, sabotage, or other nefarious activities' cough - NSA! - cough A major US House of Representatives committee wants 22 government agencies to tell it where they've got Kaspersky products in their networks.…

Company points figure at registrar; registrar points right back Billion-dollar online marketing company Marketo had a bad week when it failed to renew its main dotcom domain name.…

With apologies to Bonnie Tyler Scientists are gearing up for the hotly anticipated total solar eclipse on August 21 by preparing a series of experiments.…