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US prosecutors ask top court to mull overseas data slurping The US Department of Justice has formally asked the Supreme Court to hear its appeal in Microsoft's Ireland warrant legal row.…

Senator Schumer asks Ajit Pai to protect Americans. Good luck with that A US Senator is looking to turn up the heat on a particularly annoying new robocall practice.…

Oh no, not Ohio's Dept of Rehabilitation and Corrections A crew of useful idiots called Team System Dz defaced US government and business websites over the weekend in the name of medieval terror bastards Daesh (aka the Islamic State).…

Never again, he tells El Reg Analysis Here's a resurrected startup that isn't a startup anymore and wants nothing to do with VCs, ever – Coraid.…

Motoring monolith stalls as punters slam into website UK car insurance giant the AA caused all sorts of confusion on Monday after accidentally sending out a "password update" email to people.…

Theresa showers DUP with gold to prop up minority government The Democratic Unionist Party is to receive an extra £1bn in funding from Brit taxpayers, including £150m to spend on broadband infrastructure, after it agreed to prop up Theresa May's minority government.…

So, about that '1,000 games bundled with Vega+' boast, Retro Computers... The owners of the rights to about 200 games to be bundled with the ZX Spectrum Vega+ is withdrawing permission for them to be included with the consoles unless its maker pays royalties for games on a previous device, The Register has learned.…

DevOps vendor acquires intelligence platform After a $50m investment January 2016, Israel-based software delivery automation vendor JFrog is in acquisition mode – specifically, it's eating some analytics brains.…

Let off the hook Dell has agreed to drop its suits against Hitachi and Hitachi LG Data Storage after previously alleging it had been part of a conspiracy to fix prices for optical disk drives. There has been no mention of any settlement.…

Finds 1,788 cases of potential harm The National Audit Office has slapped the NHS Shared Business Services for its failure to handle a backlog of misdirected clinical correspondence, which will cost £6.6m to work through.…

Two words: Sweet 2FA Comment Just under 90 Parliamentary email accounts were compromised by a brute force attack on the parliamentary network over the weekend. And there is a long-established technology which can normally see off this kind of attack.…

Mobility conference maps the future Promo Are you a senior technologist, engineer, communicator, strategist or academic interested in the automotive industry? An all-day conference staged by FISITA, the international membership organisation for the automotive mobility engineering profession, will provide the answers you seek.…

Sharing is caring, SAN-shine Interview An NVME over fabrics controller-less array is not a SAN because it can’t share data. That was the essence of Datrium CTO Hugo Patterson’s view.…

'Where all the sexy ladies at?' Snoop asks hall of middle-aged suits The great and good of the music industry - and Jeremy Corbyn - descended on UK’s lively Glastonbury music festival this weekend, while in another part of the world a hip hop old-timer went on stage to die.…

2-day meeting will focus on getting firms to open back doors The Australian government looks set to take a hard line on encryption at this week’s Five Eyes meeting, and encourage the other nations in the network to jump on the back-door band wagon.…

HMS Queen Elizabeth prepares to sail for the first time Britain’s largest ever warship, aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, is due to sail from her Rosyth dockyard on her maiden voyage today.…

Takes hyper-converged infrastructure appliance lead – analyst Dell EMC overtook Nutanix to become the leading hyper-converged infrastructure appliance shipper in 2017’s first quarter.…

£$% ambient... light! Can't see.. darn.. phone... screen A new anti-glare film could help us see our phones a little bit better on a bright day.…

Products, hookups, support, click relief and more Here's a storage news item garage sale. Come on in and check out our array of goodies; there's something for everyone.…

Bundles of future chip wrappers allegedly nabbed from London rail station Two men have been charged with theft for allegedly helping themselves to bundles of free newspapers from London Bridge railway station.…

It's 'Amazon' how far behind it is... Opinion Apple has been promising to revolutionize TV for years but hasn't yet found the time to do so. Last week, Apple announced two new and likely expensive hires, former Sony Pictures Television presidents, Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg – who are known for Breaking Bad, The Blacklist and other golden TV shows – to help it transform television.…

Yahoo!,Tumblr users need to register new email addresses Verizon has moved to unwind an old deal between Yahoo! and AT&T that allowed users to run merged AT&T and Yahoo! email accounts for login to some Yahoo! services.…

'I stopped trying to be polite about their BS', says Torvalds who plans Linux 4.12 next week Linux lord Linus Torvalds thinks he'll be able to give the world version 4.12 of the Linux kernel next week.…

And that's just the stuff Google can count on mobile devices Google's revealed just how perilous humanity's future existence has become, by shedding a light on our YouTube viewing habits.…

Brute force attack on weak passwords, cracked <90 email accounts The Parliament of the United Kingdom has admitted it experienced a “sustained and determined cyber attack” over the weekend and says <90 email accounts have been compromised as a result.…

Your bike ride/Glastonbury/hookup with a hottie looks a bit less epic now, eh? No matter what you did over the weekend, you'll struggle to top Elon Musk's after his space trucking venture launched 11 satellites atop two rockets, both of which stuck perfect landings on barges.…

Microsoft to Tavis: here's the fix. Any chance we could have a day off? Google Project Zero bug-hunter Tavis Ormandy has alerted the world to yet another way Microsoft's anti-virus tool Windows Defender could be attacked.…

IDC's tracker finds FlexPods flourishing, Vblocks/VxBlocks faltering Analyst firm IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker shows overall converged systems revenue for 2017's first quarter increased year over year but only because of bonkers growth in hyper-converged systems.…

Left hand quits trying to meet right hand, waves at customers saying 'don't break Skype' Earlier this month, Microsoft gave the world .NET Framework 4.7 and urged users to install it for the usual reasons: more fun bits to play with and a security improvements.…

Project Goldilocks to whitelist VMs' expected behaviour and snuff 'em if they deviate VMware's long-expected security product will emerge in Q3 under the name “App Defence”.…

Debian devs noticed errata to deep docs and now the fit's hitting the shan During April and May, Intel started updating processor documentation with a new errata note, and over the weekend we learned why: Skylake and Kaby Lake silicon has a microcode bug.…

USB-toting admin 'upgraded' Windows and Linux systems with something nasty that Police can't really explain A contractor in the Australian State of Victoria has managed to infect an unknown number of speed cameras with a virus, over sneakernet.…

'The reduction in leverage is significant' – Parker Everyone’s favourite people pimp Capita has permanently outsourced its Asset Services businesses to Link Administration for £888m – a fleeting injection of cash in the bank that will be used to reduce debts.…

What could possibly go wrong? Cisco, IBM, HP, McAfee and SAP are among plenty of western technology companies that have been showing their source code to Russian authorities in exchange for the right to sell their products in the country.…

Good day to be an attorney, or a Maserati salesman Health insurer Anthem has today agreed to pay $115m to settle a class-action suit brought on by its 2015 cyber-theft of 78.8 million records.…

Van Eck phreaking getting surprisingly cheap Side-channel attacks that monitor a computer's electromagnetic output to snaffle passwords are nothing new. They usually require direct access to the target system and a lot of expensive machinery – but no longer.…

OneWeb gets green light to pipe internet through 720 orbiting satellites America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, has approved OneWeb's proposal to launch an ISP on the backs of 720 orbiting satellites.…

Pish, hackers, smackers, says Rex Tillerson Analysis US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has expressed a willingness to work directly with Russia on cybersecurity and other issues.…

Unreleased 64-bit ARM versions, Server editions among dumped data Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.…

Given the amount of data it already has on you, why bother? Google has said it will no longer scan the content of Gmail messages to sell targeted adverts to users of the free service.…

Record $120m penalty will be doled out by FCC for bonkers binge of junk dialing America's comms regulator, the FCC, will fine a Florida Man $120m for flooding the country with nearly 100 million robocalls in three months.…

You're not using the password from the sticker, are you? Virgin Media has urged 800,000 customers to change their passwords to guard against possible hacking attack.…

Up and down goes the Retro Computers Ltd litigation yoyo The £52,000 costs order granted against troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd has been set aside by the Senior Courts Costs Office, a branch of the High Court, as the wrangle between RCL and two former directors rumbles on.…

As DeepMind slurps up more more patient data for Streams Google has decided to wipe people’s medical records from its search results - just as its AI branch DeepMind extends its grips on UK patients’ medical records.…

That's a £50k penalty and another shaming for Kent-based MyHome Installations Electrical survey provider MyHome Installations Ltd, which entered the hall of shame on the Beeb's Rogue Traders for pressure selling to pensioners, is facing a £50,000 fine for nuisance calls.…

They're oldies but could still spill the goodies, say experts Russians hackers are trading the email addresses and passwords of top UK politicians and diplomats.…

French firm and new pals WND announce, err, ambitious plans French Internet of Things connectivity firm Sigfox says it is partnering with a hitherto unheard-of firm, WND-UK, to cover "95 per cent" of Blighty by 2019.…

'Tactics like this are bad for business and customers' The fight between Bezos' poster child and Walmart just got real – Amazon has officially called out the groceries juggernaut for petty schoolyard tactics.…

Paltrow, we have a problem Current and former NASA scientists have called bullshit on claims seen on alternative "wellness" wallet-relieving blab-blog Goop, run by former famous actress and current linens-for-rich-ladies slinger Gwyneth Paltrow.…

No, says Datrium, 'cos you can't share data. E8 sort of agrees Analysis What is a SAN and is an NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeF) array a SAN or not? Datrium says not. E8 says... maybe.…