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Like watching a black screen dry (literally) A number of HP Inc device owners are complaining of seeing black screens for around five to 10 minutes after entering their Windows login information.…

Help wanted at Equifax. Badly Further evidence has emerged regarding the insecurity of Equifax’s web setup, as independent security researcher Scott Helme reports having uncovered all manner of problems with Equifax’s security header configuration.…

One home at a time With Apple playing catchup to Samsung, the big phone story of the year belongs to Essential. And the big story with Essential isn't really the phone.…

Answers on a postcard, please "Unprecedented challenge" was the phrase which kept being repeated in a recent Treasury Select Committee hearing regarding Brexit, the customs union and HMRC.…

Two months after the biz told El Reg, 'no, no, David Goulden is going nowhere'. Dell EMC president and boss of the Infrastructure Solutions Group, David Goulden, is leaving the business at the end of the company’s fiscal year, The Register can reveal.…

Lures thirsty reporters to watch webinar In an attempt to bribe entice viewers to expose their eyes to an upcoming online webinar introducing containers, Red Hat has offered free beer and burgers delivered right to the punter's premises.…

Go on, Supremes, have another look at that Microsoft ruling, wouldya? Google will not contest new warrants for overseas data - as long as they are made outside the Second Circuit, according to the US Department of Justice.…

Caveat emptor: It's not what you think While Apple was making the iPhone less dependent on a Mac or PC, this week, it was tying its Watch even closer to the iPhone - contrary to what Apple's marketing material wants you to think.…

Doors open in three weeks for AI and ML extravaganza Tickets are flying off the shelves for MCubed London, so if you want to ensure your place at our two day conference on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and data analytics, don’t hang around.…

Not that data watchdog expects to get that money paid A Welsh firm responsible for 146 million nuisance PPI calls has been slapped with a £350,000 fine by the Information Commissioner’s Office - not that the data watchdog is confident that penalty will be paid.…

Oi: Less contempt of court on Facebook and Twitter, says gov law bloke The UK's Attorney General is pondering whether to tighten up contempt of court laws and target Facebook and Twitter users who comment about live criminal trials.…

Waves off another exec in the name of progress Hewlett Packard Enterprise is waving bye to another long standing exec as it puts more meat on the new structure that is part of a wider plan to make more money build a long term operational and financial blueprint.…

Intros CENTA - that new money smell Three of the Bank of England’s cyber specialists have joined NCC Group to lead a newly established threat assurance unit at the UK-based security consultancy firm.…

It's coming for your jobs, very, very slowly ROTM It's the most eco-friendly DNA walker I know, computer scientist Damien Woods told The Register.…

But the mission is far from over, say scientists Cassini, one of NASA’s flagship spacecraft, is poised to meet its fiery end today as it plunges down into Saturn’s atmosphere at a speed of 123,000kph (77,000mph) per hour, where it will soon vaporise.…

Sounds like a good idea but looks can be deceptive Something for the Weekend, Sir? Right. Right. Right. No, left. I said LEFT! Oh for the love of humanity, swipe left now! My eyes! Sorry, no, I mean "My EARS!"…

It's 2017 and SVGA device can p0wn enterprise software. Sigh VMware's given vAdmins a busy Friday by disclosing three nasties to patch.…

We like your startups – now help post-Brexit UK and start selling abroad DSEI 2017 Britain should ramp up exports of defence tech wares after Brexit - and this means more than the traditional guns ‘n’ spyware, according to defence procurement minister Harriett Baldwin MP.…

You are our product, says The Social Network™, and we productised your racism Facebook has blamed its users for the fact that advertisers on The Social Network™ could target their ads to “Jew-haters” and other anti-Semitic terms.…

Lock down your UIs, developers – customisation can confuse cretins ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, the Friday feature in which we help Reg readers to recount times when they were asked to fix problems that should never have happened.…

Why people hate cheese and speaker worn in the vagina also score 'make you laugh, then make you think' awards 2017's Ig Nobel prizes have been awarded, again with the aim of shining a light on science that first makes you laugh and then makes you think.…

S3izure made things tricky for an hour, but was no apocalypS3 to match March mess The world received an unpleasant reminder of what it's like to live without the cloud on Thursday, after Amazon Web Services' Simple Storage Service fluttered for an hour or so.…

Jobs look to be on their way to India Storage management software vendor Veritas is shrinking its Sydney office, a move The Register understands will mean the loss of over 65 jobs in the support team stationed in the Australian city at risk.…

You're going to run a pair of servers to run things and pre-analyse their data, OK? The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has decided the world needs a benchmark for the Internet of Things, or at least for the gateways that will do initial processing of data that things generate.…

Bank wants centrally-managed control over access control Australian bank Westpac has decided the time is right to bring its Distributed System Access service in-house, rather than continue an arrangement that saw it tended by IBM.…

It's only 0.0026 per cent of traffic, but it's all in plaintext so deserves a red flag Google's Chrome browser will soon label file transfer protocol (FTP) services insecure.…

50 apps get pulled as ExpensiveWall malware runs riot in the store Google has had to pull 50 malware-laden apps from its Play Store after researchers found that virus writers had once again managed to fool the Chocolate Factory's code checking system.…

Women get the lowly frontend jobs, while the men bask in backend glory Three former Google employees filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the company on Thursday over charges of unfair pay and promotion.…

Larry previews 'self-driving' database plans Oracle kicked off its 2018 fiscal year by reporting more than $9bn in total revenues.…

Cloud-slinger trots out 4TB instances for in-memory databases Amazon Web Services has released a new line of server options aimed at companies looking to run in-memory databases like SAP HANA in its cloud.…

Black planet, black world Scientists studying WASP-12b, an exoplanet 871 light years from Earth, have determined that it reflects almost no light, making it one of the darkest planets in space.…

It did land, just not in one piece Video Elon Musk is succeeding in his ambition to make space launches boringly reliable, but it still understands that people like to watch things blowing up.…

Streaming operating systems, virtualizing base stations Cloudflare Internet Summit At the launch of the Mobile World Congress earlier this week, the mobile industry begrudgingly accepted that tech giants like Facebook, Apple and Google were increasingly influencing its business.…

Data science fad just won't die Not content to bait developers by declaring that Python is the fastest-growing major programming language, coding community site Stack Overflow has revealed the reason for its metastasis.…

Joins the blockchain bandwagon Microsoft has a unveiled a set of services it hopes will alleviate security concerns with its public cloud service.…

Former National Security advisor and CIA deputy head reflect on the online world Cloudflare Internet Summit The United States needs to define a new set of international rules that decides what the cyber equivalent of a missile attack is.…

Out of the way, I've got an IPO Spotify is embroiled in new legal objections over how it pays songwriters royalties... or doesn’t, as the songwriters insist.…

Something smelled fishy Iceland’s home delivery service exposed sensitive customer information for months until the problem was plugged this week, a UK security researcher discovered.…

We saw what you did there, Windows 10 web browser bods Microsoft held its Edge Web Summit on 13 September, announcing that the web browser now has “330 million active devices”, just over two years since its launch with Windows 10 in July 2015. The stat was explained as devices where someone actively uses Edge during the course of a month.…

Routine maintenance was just routine, not connected says retailer Argos shoppers who prefer to buy online rather than in-store via the laminated catalogue of dreams were out of luck this morning as the website crashed intermittently and pricing errors showed up.…

Jacky Wright to lead tech for UK tax collector HMRC has named Microsoft veep Jacky Wright as its next CIO, The Register can confirm.…

Tariq Rashid on programming AI Interview If you're going to learn about neural networks, you could do worse than learn it from someone who got five A levels (all grade As), has his MSc in Advanced Computing, and can tell you how to build your own neural network in 30 lines of code, even if you don't know any calculus.…

So if re-identifying folk from anonymised data is to be a crime... The UK’s Data Protection bill has landed with a hefty thud, offering up 200-plus pages of legislation for the geeks and wonks to sink their teeth into.…

www.howaboutno.co.uk, .uk, ... nope Customers of 123-Reg are experiencing a familiar feeling of annoyance, this time over a decision to automatically register them for .UK domains, which they will then have to pay for after two years.…

HMRC: About £1.5bn lost due to overseas sellers' tax swerve MPs have accused Amazon and eBay of profiteering out of companies based overseas that are fraudulently using their platforms to dodge VAT - and supposedly putting Brit SMEs out of business while they're at it.…

This Chinese firm is touting plastic ones DSEI 2017 A Chinese company reckons it’s going to test fly a personal drone air taxi in the UK - letting any old bod take to the skies after bonking two buttons in an app.…

Doctrine? More like advocacy The Ministry of Defence has issued a new strategy document for its drones, stating humans will be kept in the decision-making loop – yet critics are unhappy with the questions the doc sidesteps.…

Feed your brain over a beer Reg Events Forget information, bitcoin, even porn. There’s only one currency that ultimately matters in the digital world, and that’s power.…

Not looking good for the Thales Watchkeeper fleet Another two Watchkeeper drones crashed in the last year, taking the number of Watchkeepers destroyed in crashes up to four.…

Eight months sound like enough? No? Welcome back from the summer. Feeling refreshed? Good, now let’s talk General Data Protection Regulation from the European Union, due to swing into effect on May 25, 2018. You now have eight months to get your data infrastructure, tech policies and related procedures ship-shape. Not feeing so refreshed now, are you?…