Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
Science
US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office
Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors
Edge + IoT
Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like
Making sense of blurry lines
PaaS + IaaS
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
Latest News
Applications
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity, despite opposition
Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back
22 Sep 12:14 | 1
HPC
'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov
Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance
22 Sep 11:20 |
Analysis
Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box
Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'
22 Sep 10:43 | 11
Off-Prem
UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing
Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money
22 Sep 10:00 |
Boatnotes II
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
22 Sep 09:12 | 31
Interview
An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated
FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework
22 Sep 08:31 | 2
Edge + IoT
UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones
Project wins £50k from government
22 Sep 07:45 | 15
Virtualization
Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?
Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps
22 Sep 07:26 |
Sponsored
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22 Sep 07:01 |
AI + ML
Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor
'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'
22 Sep 06:35 | 15
Software
Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release'
Full concurrency model at last
22 Sep 05:32 | 9
Legal
Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS
Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
22 Sep 03:58 | 2
Personal Tech
Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon
Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently
22 Sep 02:50 | 9
Security
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server
22 Sep 00:45 | 3
Security
Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report
Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed
21 Sep 23:36 | 4
LINUX
A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin
Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'
Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools
Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing
Happy birthday, Linux: From a bedroom project to billions of devices in 30 years
Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel
Personal Tech
Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard
Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom
21 Sep 21:23 | 3
Security
Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants
Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion
21 Sep 19:59 | 8
Legal
SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke
Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind
21 Sep 18:32 | 11
OSes
Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades
Two more years! Two more years!
21 Sep 17:42 | 8
Science
US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office
Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors
21 Sep 16:48 | 25
Software
Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets
455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir
21 Sep 16:03 | 2
PaaS + IaaS
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
21 Sep 15:13 | 8
Storage
Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools
Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m
21 Sep 14:27 |
More bang for your enterprise storage buck with parsimonious StorONE and Seagate
Virtual private clouds arrive with Flow Networking at silo-busting Nutanix as part of mega release
Druva quickens ransomware recovery with automated clean snapshot discovery
Japanese government minister gives mini-nod to WD-Kioxia merger
AI + ML
UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns
How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?
21 Sep 13:45 | 12
Security
Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
21 Sep 13:00 | 33
Updated
Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink
Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'
21 Sep 12:15 | 10
Security
UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters' personal data exposed in email blunder
We joke about lethal consequences of failure but this isn't funny
21 Sep 11:30 | 51
Sponsored
Hybrid learning is a good thing – let’s make it a good thing for everyone
The pandemic has accelerated innovation and investment
21 Sep 10:00 |
Edge + IoT
Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like
Making sense of blurry lines
21 Sep 09:15 | 10
Boatnotes II
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
21 Sep 08:29 | 99
OSes
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant
21 Sep 07:55 | 25
POLITICS
Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes
4 stars - did not warn us about 'digitalisation of the economy'*
This is AUKUS for China – US, UK, Australia reveal defence tech-sharing pact
Will build nuke-powered subs together and share cyber, AI, quantum and mysterious 'undersea capabilities' tech
Chips'n'China on the agenda as the Quad – Japan, India, Oz, US – prepares to meet
Not that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Plus: US lawmakers get 'in touch with Facebook whistleblower'
Science
China discloses new space tech: Coloured cargo labels to replace beige ones taikonauts found fiddly
Slaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and successfully sends it to Tianhe
21 Sep 07:32 | 12
Bootnotes
Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha
21 Sep 06:55 | 145
Networks
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
21 Sep 06:35 | 12
Video
NASA hopes VIPER rover will search for water in Moon's Nobile crater in 2023
Machine could help unlock natural resources for future lunar base dwellers
21 Sep 06:03 | 8
Swift 5.5 tries to grab devs’ interest with asynchronicity and concurrency features
TestRail 7.2 changes tooling to turn charts interactive
Foreman 3.0 crams Puppet ENC into plugin, takes steps towards better UX
Break point: Prometheus, JFrog, GDB, Boundary, Serverless Framework, Eclipse, Delphi, Kubermatic, and DataSpell
Security
Mafia works remotely, too, it seems: 100+ people suspected of phishing, SIM swapping, email fraud cuffed
Dare we say, these Euro cops ran mobprobe
21 Sep 05:16 | 10
Sponsored
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21 Sep 04:00 |
On-Prem
Chips'n'China on the agenda as the Quad – Japan, India, Oz, US – prepares to meet
Not that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly
21 Sep 02:58 | 2
PaaS + IaaS
Amazon Web Services set to support more Asia-Pacific currencies for customer bills
Australian users told first of plans to create 'Seller of Record' subject to regulatory approval
21 Sep 01:38 | 1
VIRTUALIZATION
After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark
Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV
Microsoft does and doesn't require VMs to meet hardware requirements for Windows 11
Either way, it's bad news for VirtualBox – it's stopped working
VMware starts customer testing for vSphere on network accelerators
Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product
Cisco suggests multi-SaaS integration and a hypervisor alternative as the path to happy hybrid clouds
Also tries to bust blades out of the box with new UCS-X series
Personal Tech
Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit
Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors
20 Sep 22:34 | 4
Security
Apache OpenOffice can be hijacked by malicious documents, fix still in beta
If you need another reason to try an alternative software suite
20 Sep 20:52 | 29
Legal
Eco-friendly warning from UK tech trade group: Some of you have dirty green credentials
IT sector at risk of public humiliation if CMA finds they're not up to code
20 Sep 19:01 | 3
Bork!Bork!Bork!
A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
Come for the bork, stay for the burger
20 Sep 18:15 | 11
Sponsored
Ransomware recovery: Start getting back up before you’re even hit
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20 Sep 17:30 |
On-Prem
Like a phoenix rising from the smouldering ruins of its data centre, OVH sets sights on IPO
Tells market not to worry – insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire'
20 Sep 16:25 | 6
Devops
GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise
IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic
20 Sep 15:14 | 10
OSes
Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools
Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing
20 Sep 14:31 | 5
Off-Prem
Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes
4 stars - did not warn us about 'digitalisation of the economy'*
20 Sep 13:46 | 45
Offbeat
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Plus: US lawmakers get 'in touch with Facebook whistleblower'
20 Sep 12:59 | 91
Updated
Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push
Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey
20 Sep 12:15 | 2
Science
US Federal Aviation Administration issues draft assessment of SpaceX Super Heavy impact
The environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact
20 Sep 11:43 | 21
SPONSORED STORIES
Operating your network isn’t enough. You need to develop (for) it
Time to drive NetOps beyond the command line
Virtual reality means the future of education is right before our eyes
Keeping the headset clean is as important as keeping the content clean
How AWS created Aurora, a database built for the cloud
Rewriting the rules with logs
Improve your business resiliency with disaster recovery in a hybrid cloud infrastructure
No need to be so DRaaStic?
Software
Crank up the volume on that Pixies album: Time to exercise your Raspberry Pi with an... alternative browser
The Register dips another toe in the Flow
20 Sep 10:47 | 21
Networks
Three UK says its 5G plans are under threat if tower merger with Euro giant Cellnex is blocked
According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog
20 Sep 10:02 | 14
Column
It's the end of the world as we know it, and we should feel fine
Honour thine ancestors, and move on
20 Sep 09:15 | 84
Review
A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin
Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers
20 Sep 08:30 | 13
Popular
Boatnotes II
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
OSes
Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools
Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing
Security
Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
Security
Apache OpenOffice can be hijacked by malicious documents, fix still in beta
If you need another reason to try an alternative software suite
Offbeat
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Plus: US lawmakers get 'in touch with Facebook whistleblower'
Security
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server
Bork!Bork!Bork!
A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
Come for the bork, stay for the burger
On-Prem
Like a phoenix rising from the smouldering ruins of its data centre, OVH sets sights on IPO
Tells market not to worry – insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire'
OSes
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant
Updated
Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink
Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'
STORIES
Who, Me?
I would drive 100 miles and I would drive 100 more just to be the man that drove 200 miles to... hit the enter key
When a server crash became a motorway dash
20 Sep 07:30 | 73
On-Prem
Chip glut might start in 2023, says IDC, and auto-chip traffic jam could clear this year
Shortages in today's supply chains persist and capacity is all but booked. But the future looks bright
20 Sep 07:05 | 22
PROMO
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20 Sep 06:30 |
Science
China's taikonauts return from heavenly palace after 92-day mission
Plenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules
20 Sep 04:57 | 16
