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StatCounter fingers cache-poisoning caper for Bitcoin-slurping JavaScript hijack

The good news? Nobody appears to have lost any Bitcoin, says Gate.io

Qualcomm: Welp, there's a $5bn-ish Apple-shaped hole in the books, but at least we have other chip buyers

Chinese mid-tier phone-makers, 5G hype to the rescue

Upset fat iOS gobbles up so much storage? Too bad, so sad, says judge: Apple lawsuit axed

Analysis But at what point do advertised capacity specs become misleading?

Premiere Pro bug ate my videos! Bloke sues Adobe after greedy 'clean cache' wipes files

Videographer stung after app nukes '$250k' of footage

Ex-Microsoft manager sues former coworkers and Windows giant over claims of sex assault, gender discrimination

Software goliath says it's all about diversity ... and the bit about retaliation isn't true

Vulns in online shopping toolkit WooCommerce can blast a hole in your WordPress security

Rogue managers can seize control of web shops

Six lawsuits against FCC's 5G idiocy – that $2bn windfall for telcos – is bundled into one appeals court sueball

Tenth Circuit wins lawsuit lottery over terrible policy

Dell upping its margins again: Precision 5530 laptop will sting you for $13m. Yep, six zeroes

The monster workhorse with price tag to match

European Union divided over tax on digital tech giants as some member states refuse free money

Google: Hey, it'd mean more if there was global agreement

Former Intel love rat Krzanich finds his calling, lands at biz that sells tech to car dealers

Ex-Chipzilla exec may have told staff, 'Stick with me, this time next year we'll be millionaires'

International politicos line up to get shot down by Facebook

Firm: We know you wanna chat, guys, but Zuck won't Friend you

Lucky, lucky, Westminster residents: Who better to look after your housing benefits than Capita?

Ooh... and council tax too! Again! UK capital borough is truly spoiled

NAND so it begins: Micron mounts head-on attack against 10K disks

Heavily read-optimised QLC flash drive leads the charge

Watchdog slams political data slurpers' 'disturbing disregard' for voters' privacy

ICO's second report into data analytics in campaigning lands with a thud

Persuading world+dog to love Microsoft's AI assistant a step too far for Acompli founder

Hey Cortana, where's your VP?

We don' need no stinkin' bounties: VirtualBox guest-to-host escape zero-day lands at GitHub

Bug hunter rages at wearisome disclosure process

UK computer dealer Aria PC loses £750k VAT fraud appeal attempt in THAT case

Yes, the one where El Reg won the open justice verdict...

Setback for Qualcomm: It has to license modem tech to competitors

FTC antitrust lawsuit due for trial next year

Number-three disk drive maker Toshiba isn't shy about shipping 23.4m spinners in 3Q18

Will it increase capacity in a tuned-in MAMR?

Monday: Intel teases 48-core Xeon. Tuesday: AMD whips covers off 64-core second-gen Epyc server processor

Chipzilla more like Tyrannosaurus Rekt

'Blockchain SAVED my Quango'

Taxpayers splash £100m+ to save doomed agency

SMBs: We don't want to spoil all of this article, but have you patched, taken away admin rights, made backups yet?

Backgrounder If yes, wow, you're well ahead of the game

Dollar for dollar, crafting cryptocurrency sucks up 'more energy' than mining gold, copper, etc

Maybe time to put down that Bitcoin-mining rig and pick up that spade?

Astroboffins spot one of the oldest, coolest stars in the universe lurking in the Milky Way

Ancient light source may last trillions of years before dying

Dutch cops hope to cuff 'hundreds' of suspects after snatching server, snooping on 250,000+ encrypted chat texts

BlackBox IronPhones' IronChat app convos intercepted

DXC: Everything is going to plan, too well in fact... we've chopped so many staff, our IT projects are now behind

Profit stalls, sales downward, jobs off-shored, cuts deepen

Stop us if you've heard this one: Remote code hijacking flaw in Apache Struts, patch ASAP

Advisory issued over yet another critical security vulnerability

Facebook's open-source license drama-zone GraphQL gets swanky digs in Linux mansion

Modern data-fetching scheme could become industry standard

Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate Bitcoin cyber-heist caper

Gate.io exchange believed to be target of embedded attack

Russian computer failure on ISS is nothing to worry about – they're just going to turn it off and on again

The one place where you really don't want your comp to die

Facebook quietly admits role in Myanmar killing fields – but fret not, it will do better next time

Social networks played key role in genocide says UN, Amnesty

Foxconn denies it will ship Chinese factory serf, er, workers into America for new plant

Trump-heralded deal proving to be an expensive mistake

Macs to Linux fans: Stop right there, Penguinista scum, that's not macOS. Go on, git outta here

In the market for a MacBook Air, eh Linus?

HSBC now stands for Hapless Security, Became Compromised: Thousands of customer files snatched by crims

Bank fesses up: Hackers made off with folks' personal details

Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop as he confesses deep love for talking about toilets

Microsoft man opens three-day newfangled shithouse expo

Mobile ops and Wi-Fi set to scrap for spectrum in the glorious 5G future

To the death? Not necessarily, but the gloves are off

Apple replaces boot-loop watchOS edition with unconnected complications edition

QA? We've heard of it

British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey

Though you get what you pay for, mostly

Lloyds Banking Group: We're firing 6,240 to hire 8,240

This is all about 'digital', gonna be so digital you could cut yourself on our services

The nights are drawing in. Pour a cup of cocoa and join us for Windows 10 Autumnwatch

Fireworks night has been and gone. Microsoft stayed home

Russia inches closer to launching a crew again while NASA waits for a delivery from Germany

De-crewed? More like de-orbit if the ISS had to wait for Orion

GCSE computer science should be exam only, says Ofqual

Oh, and some exam boards might need to offer paper-based tests due to schools' crap IT kit

SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman

Tax efficient biz makes 1.73 pre-tax profit % on £1.508bn local sales in fiscal '18

ICO poised to fine Leave campaign and Arron Banks’ insurance biz £135,000

Finds orgs sent marketing emails promoting each other without consent

Oracle 'net-watcher agrees, China Telecom is a repeat offender for misdirecting traffic

Network admins really need to mind their MANRS

Till Microsoft finds it a place on the path unwinding, it's the circle, the circle of Skype

Roundup What's that coming over the hill? Is it ProcDump, a Linux ProcDump?

Disky business: Seagate hyperscale customers slow to 'digest' inventory

Analysis Antacid, anyone?

Mything the point: The AI renaissance is simply expensive hardware and PR thrown at an old idea

Comment There is no ghost in the machine

iPhone XR, for when £1,000 is just too much for a smartmobe

Review Most of the bang of the XS for not so much of the bucks

The PCIe bus is coming, and everybody's jumping... New York to San Francisco, an NVMe disco

The wheels of steel are turnin' and traffic lights are burnin'...

The Register translates VMware's VMworld Europe 2018 news into plain English – our free guide for every reader

Have you tried innovating your enterprise synergy today?

Fight AI with AI! Code taught to finger naughty deepfake vids made by machine-learning algos

It works for now because the forgeries are quite easy to spot

Woke Linus Torvalds rolls his first 4.20, mulls Linux 5.0 effort for 2019

Kernel release candidate adds support for two Chinese CPU families... will these be the final new CPU archs?

Cisco swings the axe on permanent staff – hundreds laid off worldwide this week

Exclusive Switchzilla's Customer Experience division experiences brunt of HR's 'limited restructuring'

Has science gone too far? Now boffins dream of shining gigantic laser pointer into space to get aliens' attention

Beam would light up planets, lead furious ETs back to Earth

Uncle Sam, D-Link told to battle in court over claims of shoddy device security: Judge snubs summary judgment bids

No spittin', no cussin', either, Cali judge rules

Tata on trial: Outsourcer 'discriminated' against non-Asian workers, claim American staff

Caucasian employees allege pattern of unfair treatment at Indian IT consultancy giant

Android fans get fat November security patch bundle – if the networks or mobe makers are kind enough to let 'em have it

And Apple fixes Watch-killing security patch of its own

Web Foundation launches internet hippie manifesto: 'We've lost control of our data, it is being used against us'

Comment Why can't we all go back to being nice to each other, like in the Usenet and IRC days, er, wait...

Solid state of fear: Euro boffins bust open SSD, Bitlocker encryption (it's really, really dumb)

Security experts frantically facepalming at stupid design

Google: All right, screw it, from this Christmas, Chrome will block ALL adverts on dodgy sites

Enough with the abusive ads, says ad-dependent biz

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