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Investigatory Powers Act suggested as good model for local crypto workaround The issue of lawful access to encrypted communications featured in Australia's news over the long weekend, but we're none the wiser to what our government has in mind beyond it being based on the UK Investigatory Powers Act.…

We can probably ignore Theresa May, but Angela Merkel wants digital rules The two most powerful women in Europe still have their eyes firmly on internet regulation.…

Phone with no customers latches onto least popular major carrier The much-anticipated Essential Phone has been inked into a deal with Sprint to be the sole endorsed carrier for the handset.…

Now looking for COO, CFO, CMO, general counsel, SVP of business; maybe temp CEO Uber's board has accepted all the recommendations made in a report into sexual harassment – which may include giving its controversial CEO a leave of absence.…

Fooling marks into divulging bank details made £2m a week The jailed kingpin behind a multimillion-pound fraud has admitted attempting to run an almost identical con from behind bars.…

'Optane on a string instead of captive in the box' Analysis An Apeiron Optane array has five times the throughput, more than 6 times the IOPS, and up to 38 times lower latency than an Aperiron flash array.…

This story has: Maths, Google, 'fake' pharma, explicit screenshots... +Comment Our Monday here at The Reg's London offices has been cheered to no end by Google News, which has been spitting out odd pharmaceutical-related "journalism" throughout the day.…

Modular nasty can seize direct control of substation switches and circuit breakers Security researchers have discovered malware capable of disrupting industrial control processes.…

Don't blush, just flush Rather than forcing kids to suffer the embarrassment of composing their own wind sections in the toilets at schools, one solution proposed in northern Europe is to pipe in sweet music to drown out any anal-based arias.…

Someone should inform the marketing team Word of T-Mobile US outages has reached customers, social media, support representatives and The Register – just not the network's marketing team.…

Charge connected to 2016 Munich mass-murder weapon German police have arrested a man they suspect of being the administrator of a dark net website. The site is said to have been used to buy a gun used in a 2016 mass murder.…

Ringleader passes 30 per cent of earnings to their stooges Security researchers have discovered a ransomware variant that targets Macs rather than Windows PCs.…

Ex-Telefonica man will receive full parental leave pay A Capita man working in a Telefonica call centre has won a sex discrimination lawsuit against the outsourcing giant after bosses threatened him with a pay cut if he took paternity leave.…

'We'll send you to Kings Cross... or Coventry, you've got a week to decide' DXC Technology staff who continue to ignore orders to haul their asses 4km (2.5 miles) across London to repopulate shiny offices in Kings Cross will soon be locked out of the building they're reluctant to exit.…

Eat your gruel and we won't go to international arbitration court The Toshiba memory business saga careers on with a consortium including WDC set to raise its bid to ¥2tn or more.…

Yes, the one that lives in your mobile ... Scientists are working on a way of using the internal orientation sensors in smartphones to defend against efforts to trick voice recognition systems.…

Big Blue shoots self in foot... has Theresa considered a career change? A cost-cutting measure at IBM to shift a hybrid cloud lab to a new location has itself been scuppered by a cost-cutting measure, insiders have told The Reg.…

Backups encrypted but key was the same across all UK hubs A recently resolved flaw in Virgin Media wireless home routers gave hackers a means to gain unauthorised administrative-level access to the devices.…

Canadian bank's bête noire spills the beans Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions' source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed.…

Scientists fork reality, sorta A team of researchers has created the largest virtual model of our universe, complete with billions of galaxies, to probe the effects of dark energy and dark matter.…

...or maybe not. Opinion is divided Updated The mystery of the "Wow!" signal, a radio burst recorded from outer space in the 1970s, may been solved. Or not. Not everyone is convinced.…

Comma.ai software adapted for the Chevy Volt Develop a self-driving car and regulatory trouble may follow, as Uber has discovered. Develop a self-driving car kit and the situation is the same.…

Paging Commissioner Pai: Your 'plan' is less popular than Trumpcare It's a funny thing, but the ability to buy an internet connection and not have the company you buy it from control what you can see and at what speed you can see it is a popular thing in the Land of the Free.…

Avoid blue screens of blazing death, please The days of listening to the captain speaking on a flight may be numbered, according to Boeing.…

1,600 PG&E customers hit by gizmo prang A wayward quadcopter is being blamed for a power outage in Google's back yard this week.…

Coincidentally, a large number of government reps turn up to crackdown confab A proposal to punish African governments for shutting down internet access by refusing to give them any new IP addresses for a year has been shot down.…

Chipzilla sends not-so-subtle threat to ARM crew Intel used the 40th anniversary of its x86 architecture to warn chip rivals to mind their step when emulating its instruction set.…

Volumes to swell further post Brexit, bean counters predict The quantity of non-EU IT workers coming to the UK to fill local skills gaps swelled to a new high of 36,015 in 2016.…

Scum threaten to leak deets of upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer behind the critically acclaimed Witcher games, yesterday admitted that some of its internal files and concepts for upcoming title Cyberpunk 2077 have been snaffled by hackers and held for ransom.…

What about the rest of us? Microsoft has released a new preview of Windows 10's Fall Creators Update, showing off elements of its new Fluent Design System and introducing a host of new features.…

Boffins claim fluorescent dyes could help detect fake booze Think you know your Bell's from your Balvenie? Your Jim Beam from your Jameson? Well, if a team of German researchers have their way, an artificial tongue might have you licked.…

Trojan deletes root access to dodge detection A powerful Android trojan with novel code injection features that posed as a game was distributed through the Google Play Store before its recent removal.…

So much for the European data fortress? The European Commission is pushing measures that would force tech firms like Facebook and Google to hand over their data to police in different member states.…

Probe into theft of personal info from car repair centres The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has seized computers and phones in its probe into nuisance callers suspected of stealing people's details from car repair centres throughout the UK.…

Three US teams clash in one far-out Robot Wars episode Three citizen teams in the United States will get to fire deep-space satellites from NASA's newest rocket, Space Launch System, as part of the agency's Cube Quest Challenge.…

Hacking attempts come amid diplomatic crisis in the Gulf Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera yesterday said it was being targeted with systematic hacking attempts.…

Getting a grip on AI, and putting it to work The speaker lineup for Mcubed – our three-day dive into machine learning, AI and advanced analytics – is virtually complete, meaning now would be a really good time to snap up a cut-price early-bird ticket.…

So what does this mean for Verify? Oh wait... Minister for the Cabinet Office Ben Gummer, architect of the Conservative Party's manifesto and the man responsible for "digital transformation", has lost his seat in the general election.…

Then again it has been four years coming Microsoft has officially decommissioned the Skype-calling support service SkypeKit, leaving some old VOIP handset users on hold.…

Folk google tiny party that may play kingmaker to Tories The Democratic Union Party's website has crashed as people woke this morning to google the group that may play kingmaker after the Tories fell short of a majority in the UK general election.…

The sun really does shine out of my behind Something for the Weekend, Sir? Nice t-shirt. Where did you get it?…

Sysadmin outsmarts rats with wings, but they manage to have the final turd ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's Friday column in which we share readers' recollections of odd jobs in odd places at odd times.…

Reasoning is one part of the puzzle to general intelligence Analysis The ability to think logically and to reason is key to intelligence. When this can be replicated in machines, it will no doubt make AI smarter.…

Purple Palace as we know it to close on June 13th Yahoo!'s shareholders have formally approved the sale of the company's operating businesses to Verizon.…

Cracked Labs shines light on surveillance capitalism The data collection industry, fattened on info snippets gleaned from social media and mobile devices, affects people's lives but operates without meaningful scrutiny.…

Noble gas found on 67P by Euro probe Rosetta Scientists working on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe mission have found xenon on Comet 67P – a discovery that introduces a link between the cosmic rock and Earth for the first time.…

Version 6.1 awaits your pleasure. Redmond's also upgraded its FreeBSD to v. 11 Microsoft's extended BSD support in Azure.…

Who's the cat who won't cop out when there's danger all about? SoftBank. Damn right Google parent Alphabet has offloaded its robotics businesses SCHAFT and Boston Dynamics to SoftBank.…

Servers soar, PCs pop, debt drops and all agree 'reasonable progress' has been made Dell Technologies has posted its first set of quarterly results and declared “reasonable progress” has been made towards integrating EMC and Dell.…

Huawei's decided to get into Microsoft’s hybrid cloud too UPDATED Services company Avanade is going to sell Microsoft Azure Stack hardware.…