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Claims it's for cybersecurity – but whose security exactly? The Taiwanese government intends to block Google's public DNS service, citing cybersecurity concerns.…

'We love privacy, just not this much privacy, not this fast' Mozilla wants the EU to tap the brake on a privacy process slated to deliver a new ePrivacy Directive by May 2018, calling the timeline “overly aggressive”.…

If it weren't for the pricing, this would be very dull stuff indeed When Dell acquired EMC one of the things we were promised was clever integration between Dell EMC hardware and VMware software.…

When your fake invoice strategy is black numbers on a black background, you're gonna fail Former security officer Yovan Garcia better have deep pockets: a California district court has presented him with a bill of more than US$300,000 for attacking his former employer's computer systems.…

Solid Q3 with no surprises There's very little to say about the latest numbers from the company building Australia's National Broadband Network, except to say that at least there's no bad news from the government.…

'Jakarta' release also adds software asset management, multi-cloud wrangling and more Cloud wrangling giant ServiceNow has announced the new stuff that will land in its next release.…

Buggy admin interface – where have we heard that before? Asus RT wireless routers have joined the SOHOpeless list – with poor cross-site request forgery protection affecting 30 variants of the devices.…

Various bits and bobs to break Intel's heart this year GTC Today at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang paraded a bunch of forthcoming gear – all aimed at expanding the graphics chip giant’s reach in AI.…

Crackdown coming this week over mid-air bomb blast scares, apparently America is prepared to ban laptops from cabins on flights to the US from UK and Europe, Homeland Security officials said today.…

Quadcopter hoons on notice That sound you can hear is Australia's drone army angrily hammering their keyboards to try and fend off the threat of re-regulation.…

Appeals judge confirms: RPost will get nothing and like it Domain registrar and host GoDaddy has won its battle with a patent-holding company that had accused it of violating a handful of claims related to basic email functions.…

S'wot the SEC told a court Three Chinese miscreants have made millions on the stock market using insider information stolen from US law firms.…

TITSUP: Total Inability To Stand Up Products Build Microsoft scrambled to get its Office 365 service back online after the cloud productivity suite was hit with a mid-day outage.…

California judges agree to rehear critical data privacy case – with huge implications The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to rehear a critical case on data privacy – one that may reset how Uncle Sam treats phone companies and internet giants, and may even prevent another ten years of fights over net neutrality.…

At its dev conference, Redmond is all about Azure, bots, Azure and also Azure Build At the Build 2017 developer conference today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella marked a Windows milestone – 500 million monthly active users – and proceeded to say very little about Windows or Office.…

Anything to give Optane some much-needed competition Space-age memory developer Nantero has pocketed millions in funding from Dell Technologies Capital.…

Children, please welcome Persirai to the class Researchers have discovered yet another IoT botnet.…

DocumentDB evolves to add Apache Tinkerpop support BUILD Microsoft has announced Cosmos DB, an evolution of its existing DocumentDB NoSQL database service, with new support for graph and key-value database types.…

Nanny State Index reveals just how hectored we are by modern-day Puritans The UK is the second least free country in the European Union, according to the latest Nanny State Index rankings from the European Policy Information Centre.…

At least while Intel glowers at us from the corner Analysis Dell EMC cannot say anything about the upcoming 14G server line because Intel has blasted it with non-disclosure agreements.…

Calling time on astroturf petitions Comment Some theoretical physicists have advanced the hypothesis that we may be living in a simulation, a kind of computer game. I wonder where they got that idea?…

Bad times for the state-owned bank The Royal Bank of Scotland is cutting 92 techies’ jobs in plans to outsource them to India, according to reports.…

But superannuation isn't flowing, dispute with Aus taxman unresolved Embattled payroll company Plutus Payroll will soon start paying ~1,000 contractors again after an almost-two-weeks hiatus.…

Attack loophole in Panda app sealed An Android anti-malware application from Panda Mobile Security has been updated after researchers discovered that an insecure update mechanism left users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.…

Chase for growth leaves investors cold Profit before tax at UK broadband provider TalkTalk climbed 17 per cent for the firm's full-year results, but revenue was down 3 per cent to £1.8bn compared with the previous year.…

Plus: Exec fashion no-nos, the big announcements, and another superhero flick

500,000 junk messages in a week paralysed Tutanota Secure email service Tutanota has built defences against newsletter bombs after becoming a victim itself.…

So what's up next then? HPC blog Just as Intel, the king of CPUs and the very bloodstream of computing announced that it is ending its Intel Development Forum (IDF) annual event, this week in San Jose, NVIDIA, the king of GPUs and the fuel of Artificial Intelligence is holding its biggest GPU Technology Conference (GTC) annual event yet. Coincidence? Nope.…

Well, outsourcing division sale would raise much-needed capital Analysis BT Global Services remains the problem child for the former state monopoly and something has got to give: sales generated by the division continue to go in the wrong direction (in part due to the decline in global outsourcing), bucking the upward swing across the wider group.…

Narrow swings, big data The internet is buzzing with claims about the role of data and use of algorithms by politicians to swing votes.…

No 133t hax0ring needed to hijack accounts, warns fraud watchdog's report Identity crimes remain among the greatest threats to UK businesses online.…

Paranormal bugs in bprd Veritas has patched multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in its NetBackup software and the appliance by the same name.…

Union steps up survival efforts as Dutch parliament debates King Battistelli The staff union of the European Patent Office on Tuesday applied to the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to force greater accountability on the organization and its president, Benoit Battistelli.…

Try not to download anything nasty from the Play Store Nearly 40 per cent of Android users are vulnerable to a security design flaw that Google won't fix until the next major revision of the mobile operating system.…

Linac 4 will pump more energy into LHC's proton smasher A 10-year construction project in CERN's Swiss/French mountain lair has come to an end – and a few years of testing and integration are about to begin.…

There can be only one and it looks like the vote is bad news for the LEDE brand Competing Linux-for-routers distributions OpenWRT and LEDE will soon vote on a proposal to heal the schism between the two.…

Spare your hypegasm, this is a research roadmap John Cioffi, known as the “father of DSL”, reckons we're nowhere near the limit of copper transmission speed, delivering a presentation claiming Terabit performance is feasible.…

Big Blue Oz isn't renewing contractors or hiring new ones, even on projects with deadlines More evidence that IBM is cutting costs in multiple ways: the company's Australian tentacle is making it very, very hard to hire contractors.…

The anti-AMD racks up 48 per cent revenue jump Graphics chip and ARM systems-on-chips hardware slinger Nvidia says its gaming, datacenter, and automotive groups were to thank for a quarter that saw its profits more than double.…

President treats America like an episode of The Apprentice US President Donald Trump today fired FBI director James Comey.…

Australia's needy IT sector gets its annual dose of validation The IT sector always loves it when the Australian government acknowledges its existence in the federal budget, and 2017-2018 is no exception.…

He also feels cloud is yet to make a dent in the enterprise – but AI might fix that ServiceNow's new CEO John Donahoe has introduced himself to the company's community at its Knowledge17 conference in Orlando, Florida. Along the way he introduced some new machine learning-fueled automation tech and offered his opinion that IT departments can put a stop to future corporate re-organization efforts.…

Get patching ASAP as exploits are being used in the wild – and fix Adobe stuff, too Microsoft has today published patches for more than 50 security flaws in its products – including three serious holes being exploited right now in the wild. These updates should be applied as soon as possible.…

Dems demand U-turn on FCC decision to kill rules Almost all female Democrats in the US Senate have come out against the push by FCC chairman Ajit Pai to tear up America's net neutrality regulations, arguing the rules are important for women nationwide.…

And only released Macron, Clinton campaign files – hmm It's been a busy week already on Capitol Hill. We've heard yet again revelations of Russian hackers breaking into US Republican and Democrat campaign computers – and interfering with France's presidential election.…

Telnet security flaw fix finally lands – or just use SSH, yeah? Cisco has patched a critical security flaw in its switches that can be potentially exploited by miscreants to hijack networks – a flaw disclosed in the Vault 7 leak of CIA files.…

Programmers left with not-quite-as-good .NET Core Build Microsoft has made a change to its forthcoming ASP.NET Core 2.0 web framework so that it is now incompatible with the Windows-only .NET Framework, causing confusion and annoyance for some .NET developers.…

KPMG appointed to pick over bones of Midlands-based biz The loss of contracts with strategic vendors and the subsequent decline in sales forced components distributor Entatech to call in administrative receivers, The Reg can confirm.…

You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers Toshiba, threatened wth financial calamity, has told WDC to butt out and stop interfering in its bid to sell its memory business.…

You threaten us with contract lawyers? We'll give you lawyers Toshiba, threatened wth financial calamity, has told WDC to butt out and stop interfering in its bid to sell its memory business.…