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Fans of 'cyber' flick Hackers can amuse themselves by visiting an exhibition of the characters' costumes in London - but time is running short if you want to catch a glimpse of Angelina Jolie's bizarre getups. "Back in the future of 1995, the teen techno-thriller Hackers burst onto cinema screens with its cyber phreak aesthetics, video game visuals and mind-bending techno soundtrack. For many, it was the vibrancy of the cartoon-like, surreal costumes that gave the film its unique identity, cult status and era-defining quality that still resonates today," burbles the London exhibition's description.

Fans of 'cyber' flick Hackers can amuse themselves by visiting an exhibition of the characters' costumes in London - but time is running short if you want to catch a glimpse of Angelina Jolie's bizarre getups. "Back in the future of 1995, the teen techno-thriller Hackers burst onto cinema screens with its cyber phreak aesthetics, video game visuals and mind-bending techno soundtrack. For many, it was the vibrancy of the cartoon-like, surreal costumes that gave the film its unique identity, cult status and era-defining quality that still resonates today," burbles the London exhibition's description.

The cockup, which happened on Monday, had locals in the borough of Tower Hamlets receive emails with hundreds of addresses visible. Register reader Patrick, who was the unlucky recipient of one such message, told us: "The email I received had 400 recipients in the To: field, I assume because Outlook has a limit of 500... Just assuming that I received all the Bs and Cs - then that's ~5,000 email addresses they leaked."

British AI-powered security startup Darktrace has enjoyed a bumper IPO Friday as its shares climbed 40 per cent on its London Stock Exchange debut. Raising £165m for the Cambridge-based cyber-security company and its backers, the IPO offered an opening value of £1.7bn. Darktrace says its "Enterprise immune systems" are designed to use machine learning to identify and respond to threats and incidents across cloud, IoT, virtualized networks, and industrial control systems.

The trouble with good ideas is that, taken together, they can be very bad. It's a good idea to worry about supply chain malware injection - ask SolarWinds - and a good idea to come up with ways to stop it. It's even a good idea to look at major open-source software projects, such as the Linux kernel, with their very open supply chain, and ask - is this particularly vulnerable? After all, a poisoned Linux kernel would be bad enough to make people forget SolarWinds.

British AI-powered infosec biz Darktrace is to go public in England's capital city, the company told the London Stock Exchange this morning. "The majority of senior management has been with Darktrace since inception, including its Chief Executive Officer, Poppy Gustafsson OBE" boasted the filing as it quoted the chief exec saying: "Developed by our talented software engineering teams in Cambridge, our artificial intelligence was the first on the market to be deployed at-scale in the enterprise, and today is responsible for protecting over 4,700 organizations worldwide from the most sophisticated cyber-threats."

The City of London Police, which has responsibility for intellectual property crime across the UK, has warned universities and scientists not to use "Open science" site Sci-Hub. The site does not have permission to host or offer access to those papers, which is why it has in the past been shuttered by US courts for copyright breaches.

CybelAngel announced its major UK expansion with a five-fold investment increase, a series of new hires to its sales and marketing team as well as a new UK office. CybelAngel's decision to expand in the UK follows a series of growth milestones and new additions to its portfolio less than a year after the company's $51 million total funding.

A London ad agency that counts Atlantic Records, Suzuki, and Penguin Random House among its clients has had its files dumped online by a ransomware gang, The Register can reveal. In the same accounts filed with UK register Companies House, it boasted of its position as the "Largest independently owned media agency in the UK by a significant factor", making it a juicy target for the Clop ransomware extortionists.

The National Cyber Security Centre picked its London HQ building not because it was the best or most cost-efficient location - but because the agency "Prioritised image over cost", a Parliamentary committee has said. NCSC's HQ in the English capital's Nova South development, a glitzy commercial building near Westminster, was procured in breach of GCHQ's own rules on leasing commercial buildings.