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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.…

Probe skipped past Pluto by 12,500km, so this rock needs to prepare for its close-up If we're not all too hungover when New Year's Day 2019 rolls around, NASA will hopefully have a fun set of photos to show us because on that day New Horizons probe has been told to go within just 3,500km of Kuiper Belt Object MU69.…

Fake accounts bought nasty spots about guns and race Facebook has 'fessed up to taking “approximately $100,000 in ad spending” from 470 fake accounts connected to Russia and which published spots “amplifying divisive social and political messages”.…

Flipper heck! Voice control is all the rage these days, but a team of Chinese researchers has come up with a way to subvert such systems by taking a trick from the natural world.…

Please pass the paperwork Qualcomm would like to spend around US$39 billion to acquire NXP Semiconductors, but the European Commission is taking its sweet time over its approval for the takeover.…

So Mozilla's going to give them their very own Tab, perhaps ahead of opt-out slurping Fewer than one per cent of users installing the Firefox browser bother to read the fine print regarding privacy, so the browser's makers at the Mozilla Foundation are going to put it in your face.…

Tells Cisco's Talos it's a feature, not a bug. Apple and Google disasgree and fixed it Which of Google, Apple and Microsoft think a content security bypass doesn't warrant a browser patch?…

WebUSB, WebShare, JavaScript Modules and more due any day now Google has wrapped up coding the desktop version of Chrome 61, and will be rolling it out for Windows, Mac and Linux “over the coming days/weeks”.…

Libel lawsuit bounces A US district judge has dismissed the libel lawsuit entrepreneur Shiva Ayyadurai filed against bloggers who rubbished his claims he invented email.…

Wage rows in limbo as IT giant drags heels over arbitrartion A former Oracle sales rep seeking to resolve a pay dispute has asked a California court to force the company to participate in arbitration over all wage claims against the database giant.…

Astroboffins predict cosmic collision for ice giant Four of the 27 moons orbiting Uranus are on a collision course and will smash into each other, creating new rings around the distant ice giant.…

Astroboffins predict cosmic collision for ice giant Four of the 27 moons orbiting Uranus are on a collision course and will smash into each other, creating new rings around the distant ice giant.…

Tell me again why slower internet is a good thing? America's comms watchdog has extended a comment period on a proposal to downgrade the definition of broadband to a slower speed.…

Strange tale takes a new turn as CEO fights back Analysis The CEO accused of caving in to pressure from Google when she fired an academic that was critical of the online giant has fired back.…

Exciting new problem for microblogging giant to completely ignore Updated Twitter has silently, and without warning, deleted reams of lists users have spent months curating. These lists are used by journalists, activists, and loads of other people, to organize and manage twits they follow and aggregate their tweets, links, photos, and videos.…

Are we looking at an advertising house of cards? Facebook promises advertisers access to more US customers than actually exist.…

Plenty of life left in this dinosaur Oracle plans to accelerate the pace of Java SE releases – and has moved Java EE's code repository to GitHub – in keeping with its avowed desire to step back from managing the beast.…

Plenty of life left in this dinosaur Oracle plans to accelerate the pace of Java SE releases – and has moved Java EE's code repository to GitHub in keeping with its avowed desire to step back from managing the beast.…

Biggest Sun flare in years could be heading our way Those living on the top and bottom of our planet are in for a superb light show over the next few days – as the Aurora Borealis in the north, and Australis in the south, will be on full display.…

Dragonfly dissected Symantec is warning of a resurgence in cyber-attacks against firms in the energy sector by a group of hackers it calls Dragonfly.…

Three reported to be 'interested' in a deal Beleaguered UK comms provider TalkTalk is set to go against the received "wisdom" of having multiple services to flog as it plans to pull out of the mobile market entirely.…

Reapers currently used solely for surveillance France is fitting weapons to its fleet of reconnaissance drones, according to reports.…

Fills storage tank with full-fat 3D NAND SSDs Tintri has refreshed its all-flash arrays with a four-model EC6000 series.…

Roach motel Analysis A year ago, Facebook was denying that it was a media company. No way, not ever. Not us! Then it said it was "not a traditional media company". But quite soon, it could be the media company that you never leave.…

Fancy talking to Virgin and Amazon? Get into the CAA Fancy a crack at bringing space flight to the UK? The Civil Aviation Authority is hiring an innovation manager charged with that plus helping commercialise drone tech – and more.…

WDC leads bijou $16m round for infrastructure build-out Elastifile, an Israeli startup developing a distributed file system for hybrid clouds, has picked up $16m in a funding round led by Western Digital Capital.…

Despite experts' concerns, adoption is rocketing in some parts of the world Analysis A survey on global mobile wallet adoption, published Tuesday, has sparked a lively debate about how banks and fintech might face off in the expanding market for mobile payments.…

Atlas Dynamics produces 'low radar footprint' autonomous flying machine A Latvian drone firm taking a punt at both the professional and military markets reckons its new model can stay aloft for five hours and fly for almost 100 miles (160km).…