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Org does to privacy what hurricanes did to your house Disaster relief org FEMA has admitted, conveniently on a Friday night, to accidentally leaking banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million hurricane and wildfire survivors.…

What interesting timing US prosecutors have slapped three more criminal charges on ex-Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch, accusing him of securities and wire fraud regarding HP's acquisition of his company.…

Vuln hunters warn malicious applets can bust through protections, snoop on or hijack access gizmos…

Someone get that old FDIV-bugged Pentium out of web giant's servers What's that old saying? Ah, yes, it's right here in Google's corporate handbook: never apologize, never explain.…

Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher Netflix is adamant that the path of its Bandersnatch trademark lawsuit should be for the judge to throw the case out. How does El Reg respond?…

Mummy, why is Gramps talking to that tree? Ontario oldsters were left dazed and confused after munching their way through a succulent platter of cannabis-laced chocolate brownies.…

No lie, says Zuck and co, it was a separate data thing that we forgot to mention Comment Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's dodgy data-gathering practices at least four months before they was exposed in news reports, according to internal FB emails.…

Flash! Servant of the universe The great NAND flash price slump will accelerate the uptake of SSD storage, industry sources have predicted, with PCIe/NVMe SSDs possibly accounting for half of the market by the end of the year.…

Digital secretary responds to Commons Science and Technology Committee, sort of…

Using private info for funding decisions branded 'toxic' "Rich" and "granular" patient data from hospital and GP records could be shared with policymakers and researchers under new plans from NHS Digital.…

We'll keep an Excel in the hillside, we'll keep on coding in the Vales The best part of half a million students in Wales will be able to get their hands on a free copy of Office 365 ProPlus as the Welsh Assembly lobs cash Redmond's way.…

Illegal streaming gang served up sports from 800 channels…

You can't assume active participation from someone who didn't untick something Requiring someone to uncheck a pre-ticked box doesn't count as valid cookie consent under EU law, the adviser to the bloc's top court has said.…

Flat Holm island holm to foolish trio for one long, cold morning…

Big Red in net debt for first time in over a decade – reports Amid stalling growth, analysts have warned that Oracle can't indefinitely repurchase stock to maintain its share price.…

Hire was rubber-stamped by sleeping watchdog The general overseeing British Army recruitment joined Capita shortly after the company won its "disastrous" Recruiting Partnership Programme (RPP) with the Ministry of Defence.…

Voice services go TITSUP* to round out the week Updated The UK's O2 mobile network knocked off early for the week today as some customers found themselves unable to use voice services.…

Cisco says assurance solution will be just the ticket Promo Infrastructure failure is a major cause of concern for enterprises, incurring huge costs in troubleshooting and a multiplicity of monitoring tools.…

An entire data centre the size of a sugar cube? Sweet! Scientists in the US, working alongside Microsoft, have managed to encode "hello" into a readable strand of synthetic DNA, using a fully automated data storage system.…

We might not have signed up users, but at least we created a standard. It only cost £154m...…

Views from the morning after the night before Special Report 5G is like an all-night drunken brainstorm in which the world's brainiest telecoms boffins went wild, and really let rip. The morning after is a real headache.…

But he did get a $50 cheque, a piece of acrylic and a fuzzy glow that lasted for years On Call Reading On Call, El Reg's weekly instalment of readers' tale of support triumphs large and small, is the best way to start your Friday.…

Even when it had a copy, it still couldn't stop 300,000 copies from appearing on its site…

Maker insists the privacy cock-up has been fixed, mostly An undisclosed number of Nokia 7 Plus smartphones have been caught sending their identification numbers to a domain owned by a Chinese telecom firm.…

Rift S adds some technology... but not enough Hands-On It's the annual Games Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, where the great and the good from the games industry converge to show off their new products.…

Peak US govt bureaucracy locks investigators out of files covering '180' vulnerabilities…

US govt sounds alarm over wireless comms, caveats apply…

Study finds Android software slinging deets all over the place…

Figuratively speaking... Source code for cruise-control system allegedly uploaded to iCloud Tesla today sued ex-employee Guangzhi Cao for allegedly stealing the source code for the leccy car maker's Autopilot software.…

Evaldas Rimasauskas will pay back $50m, faces years in clink for phony hardware bill scam A Lithuanian citizen extradited to the US has admitted bilking $122m from Facebook and Google by sending the tech giant's staff bogus invoices for computer gear.…