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Free burritos keep the action going but, jeez, open a window would ya? Hardcore gamers no longer have to tread the knife-edge of actual life or death in the physical world while pwning n00bs in their favourite battle royale.…

TMI, luv. TMI. No, please don't look at Goatse. Stop. STOOOP The BBC has launched a mobile app – Own It – with a Beeb-approved interface aimed at keeping kids safer online when using baby's first smartphone.…

Taco titan's e-ordering fails when browser autofill takes over Chipotle Mexican Grill has been leaving money on the table, thanks to an apparent bug in the restaurant chain's e-commerce operation.…

And alleges outsourcing giant then struggled to deliver contracted services…

Oh no I didn't, says disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky's former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.…

It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early…

JavaScript packager seeks new boss amid internal friction, firings, unionization attempts…

IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block American drive-slinger Western Digital has pulled out of the storage systems business, telling the world last night that it is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN.…

Tech runs browsers in sandbox to humiliate malware Ink seller HP is buying endpoint security company Bromium, which already comes bundled with some HP computers under the Sure Click brand.…

37-year-old was extradited to Blighty to stand trial A Bulgarian phishing criminal who created fake versions of legitimate companies' websites as part of a £40m fraud has been jailed.…

Perception is an illusion, grasshopper Security surveys tend to confirm what we already knew a few months ago and the 2019 Global Cyber Risk Perception Survey (PDF) from Marsh and Microsoft does not disappoint.…

Prepare for aerial droppings, Virginians…

Payday landing for grandson of Churchill, chief exec Rupert Soames Brit outsourcing giant Serco was today named preferred bidder for a six-year £450m ferry and freight services contract between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney and Shetland islands.…

Lighter, flatter and forveal – ooh yes, forrrveeeeal The Apple rumour mill churned a perennial favourite back to the surface this week when new patent applications from the company referring to augmented reality tech were published.…

Chernobyl? That's cute Sellafield nuclear power station in Cumbria, northern England, is calling for help to increase the number of robots it uses to monitor and clean the site.…

Oh shoot, Climate Day. Quick everyone, look green! Google CEO Sundar Pichai used a trip to Finland to tell world+dog that the ad giant would be ploughing billions of Euros into European data centres.…

Pick one trained with salacious conversations for maximum fun Machine-learning chatbot systems can be exploited to control what they say, according to boffins from Michigan State University and TAL AI Lab.…

Ranger Services goes to ground over unsecured Azure blob Exclusive Tesco has shuttered its parking validation web app after The Register uncovered tens of millions of unsecured ANPR images sitting in a Microsoft Azure blob.…

The Reg chats to Dame Margaret Hodge MP about box slinger's tax affairs…

'Aggravating and alarming!' Nest users are shouting at Google to let them register G Suite accounts to their home assistant and automation devices.…

These things can mess with your brain Something for the Weekend, Sir? I never quite turned out to be the fine young woman my parents were hoping for.…

Operator refusing to apply automatic discounts next year…

In praise of mouse balls On Call Welcome to On Call, that time of the week when you can luxuriate in the aggravation endured by others, safe in the knowledge it would never happen to you, right?…

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Software house hits nuclear option after Ruby Gems yanked for moral reasons DevOps darling Chef had a nightmare Thursday after it emerged the software biz had inked a deal with US immigration, which sparked protest and a baffling counter-response.…

Aww, shucks. Cancel the End of the World party A huge collision in the Solar System’s asteroid belt may have triggered an ice age on Earth that froze our planet... some 466 million years ago.…

~~~WaRNiG!! Ur PC has THe Da Vinci m4Lw4rez!! CaLL 1-555-NOSCAM 2 f!x it~~~ Two Americans used bogus virus-infection alerts to bilk $10m out of PC owners, it is alleged.…

Biz bods head to Open Core Summit to ponder how to, you know, get paid…

Patch now before miscreants sail off with your apps, data Video IT departments using the Harbor container registry will want to update the software ASAP, following Thursday's disclosure of a bug that can be exploited by users to gain administrator privileges.…

Foul play ruled out at Menlo Park headquarters A Facebook employee died at the tech giant's Silicon Valley headquarters today in an apparent suicide.…