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Inside the bizarre ongoing Rigzone saga Analysis David Kent, of Spring, Texas, USA, was sentenced to prison earlier this month for hacking Rigzone.com, a oil and gas industry website he founded and sold to employment data biz DHI Group, in an effort to build a second site, Oilpro.com, into an acquisition target.…

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Euros angry over privacy policy Yet another European nation is turning up the heat on Microsoft for extracting heaps and heaps of telemetry and other intelligence from Windows 10 PCs.…

Dev finds fun bug in tricky but powerful source control tool A quirk in the way Git handles data deduplication can be exploited to crash most computers with a single Git command.…

Can you say 'collateral damage'? Two members of the US House of Representatives today introduced a law bill that would allow hacking victims to seek revenge and hack the hackers who hacked them.…

Americans will not only foot bill for implementation but will also need to buy another telly Jessica Rosenworcel, a commissioner at America's broadcast watchdog the FCC, has criticized a proposed set of TV standards as a "household tax," due to its lack of backwards compatibility.…

Experts find maritime computer defenses lacking If there's anything worse than container security, it would appear to be container ship security.…

They have an honest explanation, of course Facebook and Twitter have come under attack for deleting tens of thousands of posts that may provide vital clues to how and to what extent the Russian government was able to able to influence the US presidential elections.…

Mysterious malicious code silently chews up CPU cycles to craft cash on visitors' dime Updated Politifact, the Pulitzer Prize-winning website devoted to checking the factual accuracy of US politicians' words, appears to have been hacked so that it secretly mines cryptocurrency in visitors' browsers.…

Cupertino iGiant scrambles to fix crash bug Apple is working on a fix for a bug in iOS 11 that prevents some peeps from running GarageBand.…

Plus resistive RAM news – it's a week in storage chess Storage roundup At the end of this week we can lift the lid just a little on Quantum's mystery Castle storage project, say that the latest 12TB LTO tape format is coming nearer and add a few tidbits about GPDR, NAS in the cloud and Tintri array automation.…

Thou shalt not fly within 150m of people or built-up areas A drone photographer who took pictures of the Tornado steam engine has been given a community punishment by Essex Police in the UK – after Network Rail complained his craft was being flown too close to a railway line.…

Back in the ring... so what are its chances? Analysis Violin Systems, the renamed Violin Memory, is like a boxer who could have been a contender and is now chasing redemption, getting up off the floor after what should have been a knockout blow.…

Nasty activated by home button unless device gets factory reset Crooks have come up with a strain of Android ransomware that both encrypts user data and locks victims out of compromised devices by changing PINs.…

Firm built round improbable concept now to be known as Virgin Hyperloop One Richard Branson, the billionaire behind the Virgin brand, has reportedly invested an undisclosed sum in Elon Musk’s barmy Hyperloop supersonic tube train project, seemingly competing with the billionaire ideas man's own firm.…

Ride-hailing biz free to continue operating until negotiations end Londoners can keep on using the Uber ride-hailing app. For now.…

Jan Philipp Albrecht on transatlantic data flows, anonymity and AI Interview "Now I've heard that one before. Let me think, where was it... Ah yes. It was Google!"…

Remember, folks, don't tweet your bank details Updated The Co-op Bank's online service appears to be experiencing wobbles as customers complain they can't get in.…

Denies automated dialling then files to strike company off government register. Hmm A firm promising to generate leads for businesses has been fined £70,000 for making more than 100,000 nuisance calls – although it has denied using automatic dialling.…

Sell our interest we must, but current flash still needs cash... Toshiba says it is now talking to Western Digital about joint investment in a flash fab development.…

Let's all affirmerate our modes of acceptancy Something for the Weekend, Sir? Would you mind leveraging a time unit while I ideate my ecosystem?…

Making machines eat our words Several years back, the Google "Brain Team" that was behind Tensorflow hatched another novel neural tool: Word2Vec.…

Companies told to quit hoarding customer data and get a grip on where it's held Incoming data protection laws could bring with them a wave of "no win, no fee"-style companies, experts have said.…

Decades of preaching about meatware complicated dev life "The talks get a little repetitive, don't they?" she said as we were walking out of the elevator and through the lobby, escaping the latest two-day DevOpsDays nerd fest. Unable to resist the urge to mansplain, I meekly volunteered that most of the attendees are first-timers, so, you know, maybe it's new to them.…

Kwon Oh-hyun quits on the same day company posts monster profits Samsung Electronics vice-chairman and CEO Kwon Oh-hyun has announced his resignation, citing the “unprecedented crisis” of the bribery scandal that saw Samsung vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong jailed for bribery.…

Spoiler alert: this story has a twist at the end On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register's weekly wander through readers' recollections of tech support traumas.…

Kubernetes-coralled containers also get the software-defined networking policy treatment Cisco's popped out version 3.0 of its software-defined networking Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) product, but there's a more significant update coming early next year.…

Open-source project aspires to spare you from dependency hell Managing software applications in large organizations can be quite complicated, particularly for codebases with lots of dependencies.…

No, Chrome isn't slowing down – you're just silently digging up cyber-cash Updated Sketchy websites are increasingly using cryptocurrency mining as a source of income.…

Your essential security news soaking Roundup We almost wanted to feel sorry for Equifax, were it not for the fact that the credit biz takes to IT security like a duck to an acid bath. After a brutal few weeks under the spotlight, on Wednesday night it suffered another hacking scare.…

New EuroCloud almost matches US cloud, if you can be bothered signing up Citrix has opened a new cloud region somewhere inside the European Union.…

Symmetrical 10Gbps over cable TV networks coming any year now Cable Labs, the networking research outfit lab operated by cable television network operators, says it has finalised a new spec capable of delivering symmetrical 10Gbps data services over hybrid fibre coax networks.…

The cloud market's going nuts and Juniper rode it in Q1 and Q2. So what's wrong now? Juniper Networks has issued preliminary results for its third quarter and the news is bad: forecast revenue of between US$1,290m and $1,350m won't happen and the company instead believes it will score between $1,250m and $1,260m.…

Steady as she goes predictable revenue rise for low-profit biz It's getting predictable. Barracuda has posted yet another year-on-year revenue rise with yet another small profit. Boring is good, though, right?…

Woman stands up to powerful bully. What happened next will not shock you Analysis Twitter was today accused of censorship after it froze the account of actress Rose McGowan – who had just publicly slammed rampant sex fiend Harvey Weinstein.…

Microsoft's latest fixes blamed for crashing WSUS-managed boxes during start-up Microsoft's October batch of security patches and bug fixes caused some corporate PCs to suffer blue-screen-of-death crashes when starting up this week.…

Cable Labs goes full duplex for DOCSIS 3.1 – but can ISPs and modems keep up? It's become so common that it virtually defines current internet usage: fast download speeds and relatively slow uploads.…

Hyatt grievance, see? Hyatt has provided the perfect excuse for folks trying to explain to bosses or spouses why a film they watched in their hotel room for just seven minutes appeared on their company or personal credit card.…

Neural-network interface layer to assist machine learning Amazon and Microsoft on Thursday rolled out open-source software called Gluon in the stated hope of simplifying the implementation of machine learning.…

Apple upgrade made my year-old wireless hi-fi 'useless', says Reg reader Wireless speaker maker Pure appears to be more the first casualties in Apple's war on 32-bit iOS apps.…

€850m data centre given go-ahead after two-year delay Ireland's High Court has dismissed planning appeals preventing the construction of Apple's County Galway data centre, Reuters reports.…

See this IMAP, Zuck? It's pointing right at you Exclusive The company that writes the open-source software for three-quarters of the world's Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) email servers has a plan that could kill off proprietary chat services like Facebook's WhatsApp. And that means you, too, Slack.…

But 'Aeroscope' doesn't talk directly to existing aviation systems DJI, the Chinese drone firm, is launching its own Wi-Fi based drone identification and tracking system, Aeroscope, aimed at placating regulators who want to put limits on small drone flights.…

But it doesn't talk directly to existing aviation systems DJI, the Chinese drone firm, is launching its own Wi-Fi based drone traffic management system, aimed at placating regulators who want to put limits on small drone flights.…

Are we shocked? *Cough* Google, Apple *Cough* OnePlus mobiles are phoning home rather detailed information about handsets without any obvious permission or warnings, setting off another debate about what information our smartphones are emitting.…

UN, you had better say yes... Jodrell Bank is going forward for nomination as a World Heritage Site early in 2018.…

Using microwaves to fry bits into submission WDC has given up on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and is developing a microwave-assisted technique (MAMR) to push disk drive capacity up to 100TB by the 2030s.…

We just have a little self-confidence problem is all Everybody chill. Alibaba founder Jack Ma says we don't need to worry about robots taking our jobs. Phewee.…

Why every platform is eventually destroyed in a flame war Techies are often at odds with the world – but nothing matches the venom they save for other geeks foolish enough to devote their lives to other platforms.…

'People have been left in the dark for too long' Equifax may soon face the wrath of UK politicians after the chairman of the country's House of Commons Treasury Committee demanded answers from the firm over its handling of its recent data breach.…

X-IO maths man claims it can minimise mill hash work with buckets of blooms Analysis A new and deduping X-IO ISE 900 all-flash array has puzzling puny processors yet kicks out good performance when deduping.…