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Sat, 21 Apr 2018 00:09:49 GMT
FTC's heavily redacted report says everything's hunky dory
The US Federal Trade Commission has released an audit of Facebook's privacy practices and it turns out there's nothing to worry about, at least as far as accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is concerned.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:06:47 GMT
Twitter's loss is the EFF's gain
Twitter says it will no longer run ads from beleaguered security vendor Kaspersky Lab.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:21:15 GMT
Ask for clear budgets, better training and yup, public engagement
The state of the NHS's digital infrastructure and a lack of clear budgets risk holding back the UK’s efforts in genomic medicine and research, MPs have said.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:59:09 GMT
Just 23k requests in first half of 2017, says Windows giant
Government requests for people's data from Microsoft fell to the all-time low of 23,000 in the last half of 2017, as Redmond's rate of rejecting the requests rose to a high of 17 per cent.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:13:06 GMT
Comparison shopping websites won't use Chocolate Factory fix
Calls are mounting for the European Commission to issue a non-compliance notice against Google over attempts to address complaints about its market dominance.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 06:57:12 GMT
When the dotcom bubble burst, the surviving techies learned the true meaning of just-in-time training
On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s Friday column in which readers share tales of tricky tech support tasks.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 06:32:09 GMT
We’ve done everything you asked - even implemented SAP - pleads Chinese vendor
ZTE has hit back at the United States’ newly-imposed ban on American companies selling to the Chinese networking vendor.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:16:10 GMT
Let’s get up to date on the crazy world of reverse mergers
The “what will Dell do to/with/for/about VMware” rumour mill has started spinning again.…
Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:25:56 GMT
Chip designer pushes hundreds out the door in cost-cutting drive
Qualcomm says it is planning to eliminate more than 1,200 positions in an attempt to cut overhead costs.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:14:18 GMT
Social media giant continues its loving embrace of GDPR privacy rules
Facebook is quietly changing its terms of service to shift 1.5 billion users away from Europe to the US while continuing to claim it wants to offer greater privacy protections.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:31:13 GMT
Nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and Auntie's Capita deals
Capita's fortunes of late may be in general decline but the UK's much loved IT outsourcing biz can always rely on the British Broadcasting Corporation – propped up by license fee payers – to dish out cheques.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:06:59 GMT
Court hears Catherine Lesjak recall vicious infighting over doomed $11bn buyout
Hewlett Packard's chief beancounter, Catherine Lesjak, was at "war" with former CEO Leo Apotheker, who tried to fire her immediately before he himself was defenestrated, a US court has heard.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 09:11:13 GMT
High Court judge put boot into ad tech firm
Comment Google's efforts to claim that it should be exempt from EU data protection laws because its search engine is "journalistic" really did not impress the judge in the Right To Be Forgotten trial.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:02:12 GMT
Is it worth competing with SpaceX prices?
Russia has dropped a broad hint that it might leave the space launch business to private operators.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 03:03:11 GMT
And AWS is closing in on $20bn a year, says nine-page letter to investor we read to spare you the new age derp
Amazon has announced the yield from its money mine for the full year 2017: on full-year sales of US$178 billion, it generated an operating income of $4 billion and net income of $3 billion.…
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 00:56:12 GMT
auDA bins plans for direct .au sales to focus on governance and not pissing off members
The administrator of Australia’s top level .au domain, auDA, has been told to reform or be forcibly stripped of its role.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:47:11 GMT
Probe to see if Musk was up to something quite atrocious
Updated California's workplace safety monitor is investigating Tesla over the conditions at its main assembly plant.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:59:11 GMT
ACCEPT AND CONTINUE. ACCEPT AND CONTINUE
Comment Facebook has previewed its new privacy settings, developed to meet new European privacy legislation that comes into force next month.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:25:14 GMT
Staff refused stat minimum terms to exit voluntarily, you can guess what happened next
IBM is preparing a redundancy chute for the good folk working in its Digital Business Group (DBG), The Register can reveal.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 15:04:09 GMT
Intelligence agency a pipeline for women in infosec
RSA 2018 Former members of an Israeli intelligence unit say their operation could serve as a model for the tech companies looking to bring more women into their ranks.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 14:01:11 GMT
Judge allows face recognition lawsuit class action status
A US federal judge on Monday ruled that a lawsuit filed over Facebook's use of facial recognition technology can proceed as a class action, raising the possibility the social network could face billions in damages.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:05:06 GMT
Onwards and upwards...until the next reorg
Brit mega-comms firm BT has given its flagging b2b divisions a corporate facelift, merging the wholesale, public sector and business units into BT Enterprise.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 10:18:12 GMT
No, BT and Plusnet, you're not off the hook either
Despite efforts to return to its roots as a broadband-only biz, TalkTalk remains the most moaned about ISP in the UK, according to data from regulator Ofcom.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:27:11 GMT
Same-day delivery of mails, texts, and docs for investigators probing crime or terror
The European Commission has outlined its desire for a new legal instrument that would require carriers, clouds, email service providers, and operators of messaging apps, to produce someone's data within six hours to assist investigations of “criminals or terrorists”.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 06:03:11 GMT
Members are not amused, ponder summons and debunk legal arguments
The recently-sidelined former CEO of Cambridge Analytica has declined the opportunity to make a second appearance in front of the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.…
Wed, 18 Apr 2018 05:30:07 GMT
The best thing about beating your head against a brick wall? It feels great when you stop
Huawei has acknowledged the US market may be a lost cause, at least for now.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:40:08 GMT
Trial of ex-CFO Sushovan Hussein continues
Software outfit Autonomy lied to a British financial regulatory panel, an American court has been told by the panel's former chairman.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 14:18:11 GMT
Plus: Former CEO snubs MPs
The number of Facebook users whose data was compromised via quizzes "is much greater than 87 million", Cambridge Analytica's former director of program development has told MPs.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 06:26:12 GMT
Yes, this is the same France that wants not-backdoors for the rest of us
France's government has built an encrypted messaging app for government use.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 05:23:11 GMT
Two million addresses down, 4.2 billion to go - oh, plus the IPv6 address space
Russia's telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has started blocking IP addresses linked to secure messaging service Telegram.…
Tue, 17 Apr 2018 05:03:07 GMT
Admin overhaul clarifies legals, funding, but can't solve problem of who drives standards
If all goes according to plan, the venerable Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will this week tackle a fiendishly difficult problem: standing on its own administrative feet.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:36:28 GMT
American suppliers barred from selling to Chinese tech giant
The US government has imposed a seven-year export ban on ZTE for repeated violation of trade laws.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:21:11 GMT
Accidentally pulled cloth off pivot table in Grenfell Tower FoI
A London borough has been slapped with a £120,000 fine from the data protection watchdog after unlawfully identifying 943 owners of vacant property in a Freedom of Information (FoI) response.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:57:08 GMT
Scottish punters don't want to subsidise crappy speeds in England
Scotland is unhappy about Westminster's plans to introduce a 10Mbps universal service obligation, with the Scottish Rural Economy Secretary calling it "grossly unfair".…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:34:27 GMT
MPs slam Gov.uk over risk of making patient address sharing 'normal practice'
MPs have voiced “serious concerns” about NHS Digital’s leadership, claiming execs paid “little regard” to the ethics of sharing patient details for immigration enforcement, and are too close to government.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:51:08 GMT
The great AOL outage of 1996, explained by a chap who made it happen
Who, me? Welcome again to Who, me? In case you've missed previous editions of the column, it's a confessional in which readers share their stories of having broken stuff. Badly.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 04:58:13 GMT
Not so, huffs Xerox chair
In January, Xerox and Fujifilm decided their best chance of surviving the printer-copier downturn was a multi-billion dollar mutual rescue package led by the Fuji Xerox joint venture. Now, a lawsuit alleges Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson rushed into the deal against instructions from the company's board.…
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 02:00:06 GMT
How dark can crims really go?
Ten members of the US Congress have asked the FBI to explain its battles with Apple, after doubts were raised over the extent to which criminals use encryption to "go dark" and evade law enforcement authorities.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:37:19 GMT
Doing China's bidding seems to have rubbed off on Cupertino
Apple has gone full swivel-eyed, control-freak crazy on its own employees with a demented internal memo decrying information leaks.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 15:15:01 GMT
His co-claimant wasn't so lucky, however
RTBF trial A businessman has won the first ever “right to be forgotten” lawsuit against Google in London’s High Court – but a second man’s attempt to have embarrassing search results about him deleted has failed.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:31:41 GMT
Contract wrangle overshadows milestone
The F-35 fighter jet has completed one of its years-long flight testing programmes – just in time for the United States to suspend all deliveries of the new supersonic aircraft.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 13:55:12 GMT
UK taxmen triaging projects to prioritise trucks' passage at Dover
HMRC appears to be putting its flagship "making tax digital" (MTD) project on hold. Instead, it's all hands on deck at the Brit tax authority to handle its customs IT replacement system post-Brexit.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:40:05 GMT
Justice commish 'advises' Sheryl Sandberg to send her boss, but is Zuck best one to grill?
Comment Politicians on this side of the Pond need to stop obsessing about getting Mark Zuckerberg in front of them, and start preparing to grill his subordinates.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 11:31:09 GMT
Wake up accountants! Sage has ops issues
There was a minor disturbance in the accountancy software market today: accountants even looked up from their books as Sage admitted sales were more sloppy than expected at the half-way stage of its fiscal ’18.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:27:13 GMT
One bird broke, replacement failed to launch, but now IRNSS is whole again
India has successfully conducted the satellite launch needed to re-construct its Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS).…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 07:03:10 GMT
No, Mum, ‘Print to File’ doesn’t make the printer work
On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, The Register’s reader-contributed tales of tech support tension, terror and technical tragedy.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 03:58:09 GMT
Texas to jail CEO for at least five years, Feds' case still to come
Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer has pled guilty to money laundering and the company he led has done likewise on charges of human trafficking.…
Fri, 13 Apr 2018 01:58:13 GMT
Former Adobe CFO Mark Garrett also sits on board of subs-happy Pure Storage
Cisco’s tapped one of the few software vendors that has made a thorough and successful transition to software-as-a-service by appointing Mark Garrett, a former Adobe executive veep and chief financial officer to its board of directors.…
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:55:30 GMT
Zuck & Co end fight against California's privacy legislation
One day after Lt Commander (All Your) Data Mark Zuckerberg was lightly sautéed by US Congress over Facebook's fast and loose relationship with user privacy, the Silicon Valley giant has dropped its opposition to a proposed California data protection law.…
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:00:00 GMT
Bank treated funbux buys as high-interest 'cash advances'
Chase Bank is the target of a class action lawsuit accusing the bank of overcharging customers who bought cryptocurrencies with their credit cards.…
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