Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist So is that three or four stars?
Been hit by LockerGoga ransomware? A free fix is now out Software nasty used to cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, cops say
By Jove! Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth in 70 years next Monday Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars
iPhone 14 iFixit teardown shows Apple's learning on repairs Video Or was forced into a rethink by legislation
'Last man standing in the floppy disk business' reckons his company has 4 years left Extinct media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige Storage20 Sep 2022 | 2
Microsoft low code branches into lightweight GUI widgets Building features into Teams, Outlook without JSON coding possible with new Cards play Applications20 Sep 2022 | 4
Another Big Fund exec under investigation by China's anti-corruption watchdog Ren Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC Systems20 Sep 2022 |
SETI seeks amateur astronomers to find hot Jupiter-like exoplanets Much better use of time than 'hot singles in your area' AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 1
Excel's comedy of errors needs a new script, not new scripting Opinion Microsoft reanimates the wrong corpse Applications20 Sep 2022 | 40
Linux Foundation launches European division Open Source Summit Plans to drive more open source – and more transparency – into public sector Software20 Sep 2022 | 5
Internet Society recommends development of Solar-System-scale routing framework Needs to be autonomous, interoperable, and capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes Networks20 Sep 2022 | 15
Creatives up in arms over claim that AI is killing human art In brief Plus: Cruise expanding self-driving robotaxi operations, and more AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 19
China to launch space tourism by 2025, says industry veteran Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning private sector Science20 Sep 2022 | 2
Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results Applications20 Sep 2022 | 48
Google's AI call center agents all take the morning off Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said … AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 6
NASA to live-stream SLS rocket fuel leak repair test For those on tenterhooks over this Moon mission Science20 Sep 2022 | 10
Provider choice: the critical multi-cloud frontier Learn how to lose the hypervisor lock-in with Nutanix Webinar
Uber explains how it was pwned this month, points finger at Lapsus$ gang From annoying MFA alerts to 'several internal systems' infiltrated CSO19 Sep 2022 | 12
Been hit by LockerGoga ransomware? A free fix is now out Software nasty used to cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, cops say Security19 Sep 2022 | 1
iPhone 14 iFixit teardown shows Apple's learning on repairs Video Or was forced into a rethink by legislation Personal Tech19 Sep 2022 | 13
Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist So is that three or four stars? Cyber-crime19 Sep 2022 | 13
Don't want to get run over by a Ford car? There's a Bluetooth app for that That is, if the driver and/or car has very quick reflexes and a clear signal Personal Tech19 Sep 2022 | 49
GPT-3 'prompt injection' attack causes bad bot manners In Brief Also, EA goes kernel-deep to stop cheaters, PuTTY gets hijacked by North Korea, and more. Security19 Sep 2022 | 8
By Jove! Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth in 70 years next Monday Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars Science19 Sep 2022 | 20
Cisco SMB revolution: selling hardware with no subscription required In Cisco's world this makes a $125 Wi-Fi AP 'easier to buy' – maybe easier than its own Meraki kit? Networks19 Sep 2022 | 9
Bad UI killed the radio star Who, Me? Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data Storage19 Sep 2022 | 33
Getting from A to B with modernization Join us for best practice advice on migrating OpenShift applications and workloads to AWS Webinar
Where in the world is Terraform Labs' alleged crypto-crasher Do Kwon? South Korean prosecutor believes he is on the run from charges laid over Luna stablecoin crash Legal19 Sep 2022 | 8
Philippines decides outsourcers need incentives to stick around, after all Just three months ago senior bureaucrat said 'Tax perks are not that important to investors.' Contortions now in place to keep cash flowing Channel19 Sep 2022 | 4
Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more CSO19 Sep 2022 | 4
Arm execs: We respect RISC-V but it's not a rival in the datacenter Analysis Competition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks Systems17 Sep 2022 | 49
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Can reflections in eyeglasses actually leak info from Zoom calls? Here's a study into it About time someone shone some light onto this Research17 Sep 2022 | 61
America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime As President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations Personal Tech17 Sep 2022 | 9
Appeals court already under fire for upholding Texas no-content-moderation law Big Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 106
School chat app Seesaw abused to send 'inappropriate image' to parents, teachers This is why we don't reuse passwords, kids Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 22
Stand back, the FTC is here to police gig work If only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 16
Heart now pledges 30-seat hybrid electric commercial flights by 2028 We've heard something like this before ... Boss suggests earlier design wasn't that useful to industry Bootnotes16 Sep 2022 | 67
White House puts $50m into floating wind turbine projects Government wants access to the 60% of offshore wind potential stuck in deep waters Science16 Sep 2022 | 42
Don't say Pentium or Celeron anymore, it's just Processor now, says Intel Logowatch Totally not confusing Personal Tech16 Sep 2022 | 79
Linux luminaries discuss efforts to bring Rust to the kernel Open Source Summit After 31 years, a second programming language will be allowed in OSes16 Sep 2022 | 57
Researchers build ML models to forecast food shortages Secondary data in weather, macro-economics to help governments and orgs figure out where to focus their aid AI + ML16 Sep 2022 | 2
Building the barricades against identity-based attacks Join our webinar to hear more about the value of Zero Trust unified identity protection platforms Webinar
Document Foundation starts charging €8.99 for 'free' LibreOffice Only in the Mac App Store, as part of FOSS-for-biz strategy software org admits may not quickly deliver results
By Jove! Jupiter to make closest approach to Earth in 70 years next Monday Gas giant to come within just 365 million miles. Viewing conditions will be ideal even if you only have binoculars
Bad UI killed the radio star Who, Me? Rules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data
Grand Theft Auto 6 maker confirms source code, vids stolen in cyber-heist So is that three or four stars?
Indonesia accuses Google of abusing monopoly Asia In Brief PLUS: Qualys CEO says APAC has infosec advantages; Singapore's Sea ebbs in Americas; Toshiba's tepid takeover update; and more
GPT-3 'prompt injection' attack causes bad bot manners In Brief Also, EA goes kernel-deep to stop cheaters, PuTTY gets hijacked by North Korea, and more.
Cisco SMB revolution: selling hardware with no subscription required In Cisco's world this makes a $125 Wi-Fi AP 'easier to buy' – maybe easier than its own Meraki kit?
iPhone 14 iFixit teardown shows Apple's learning on repairs Video Or was forced into a rethink by legislation
Don't want to get run over by a Ford car? There's a Bluetooth app for that That is, if the driver and/or car has very quick reflexes and a clear signal
Uber explains how it was pwned this month, points finger at Lapsus$ gang From annoying MFA alerts to 'several internal systems' infiltrated
Actual real-life hoverbike makes US debut at Detroit Auto Show 'I feel like I'm literally 15 years old and I just got out of Star Wars and jumped on their bike,' says test driver Offbeat16 Sep 2022 | 62
Google previews streaming connector for BigQuery All your data on one platform, opines the Chocolate Factory Databases16 Sep 2022 | 2
Was there life on Mars? Perseverance scrapes up promising samples Fact organic matter was found in sedimentary rock, which preserves fossils here on Earth, 'important' Science16 Sep 2022 | 13
UK govt refuses to give up on scoring Arm dual-listing for London Can UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets? Systems16 Sep 2022 | 26
IoT is not just for business – how do we make it work for the public sector? Civica highlights why it’s time to change your perspective on the Internet of Things in new report
When DevOps and cyber security collide How can the IT industry stop the CVE rot and get software bug numbers down?
Easy infrastructure management across the edge and the cloud Managing flexible clouds with HPE GreenLake for HCI
Managed document-based data stores come of age Why enterprises are choosing Amazon DocumentDB to power their mission critical applications
Open standards body for digital wallets announced Open Source Summit No, not the dodgy cryptocurrency kind Off-Prem16 Sep 2022 | 4
Former Reg vulture takes on Nominet – by running for board seat After extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside Networks16 Sep 2022 | 27
The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring Column Even Torvalds pronounces it 'fairly sane' Software16 Sep 2022 | 52
Keeping printers quiet broke disk drives, thanks to very fuzzy logic On Call In the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter Storage16 Sep 2022 | 122
US bans some foreign investments in chips, AI, quantum computing Not aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China
Queen's shooting star was actually meteor, not SpaceX junk Video Expert tells El Reg: 'It was unusual, a geometrical curiosity'
EU puts smart device manufacturers on the hook for cyber security Requires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters Systems16 Sep 2022 | 69
China can destroy US space assets, Space Force ops nominee warns Wants swarms of small satellites that are harder to destroy – and outsourcing to improve cybersecurity Security16 Sep 2022 | 25
Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked Updated AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 41
US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database Texts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 57
California Governor signs child privacy law requiring online age checks Get ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 58
Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps Power consumption plummets, too, so there's that Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 40
Upstart claims its chips beat Nvidia's A100 on AI oomph That's nice, but what about Nv's H100? AI + ML15 Sep 2022 | 2
Winning the Oscar for high performance development teams Learn how to ensure high quality software delivery in our CI/CD benchmark webinar Webinar
We should give Taiwan $4.5b to protect chip fabs from China, say US senators Gotta keep those phone processors and GPUs coming, folks Systems15 Sep 2022 | 15
Biden administration to dole out $900m for electric vehicle infrastructure 34 states and Puerto Rico sharing pot to fund chargers along interstate highways Science15 Sep 2022 | 21
Food security group, Linux Foundation working on crop data standard 'Sharing of agricultural data can help develop solutions to some of the food system's most pressing challenges' Software15 Sep 2022 | 8
Testing of Starlink internet under way in Antarctica Bandwidth-starved researchers rejoice Networks15 Sep 2022 | 11
Ex-Broadcom engineer asks for house arrest over IP theft Admits guilt, but claims he took files to jog his memory, afraid he'd not keep up with 'younger engineers' Cyber-crime15 Sep 2022 | 20
Microsoft Outlook sends users back to 1930 with (very) mini-Millennium-Bug glitch Planes unlikely to fall out of sky after December 31, 2029, El Reg can confirm Offbeat15 Sep 2022 | 77
Former Cisco boss launches upstart to rattle old employer's cage John Chambers' Nile wants to remove humans from network management Networks15 Sep 2022 | 15
Samsung investing $5b in efforts to be carbon neutral by 2050 That's quite the challenge to neutralize – making chips and electronics is hardly ecofriendly Systems15 Sep 2022 | 6
Iran steps up its cybercrime game and Uncle Sam punches back Criminal charges, more sanctions, and a $10m bounty, oh my Cyber-crime15 Sep 2022 | 13
Microsoft rolls out stealthy updates for 365 Apps Good thing Redmond has a brilliant track record with patches Applications15 Sep 2022 | 49
Former Newport Wafer Fab owner linked to buyback from China's Nexperia If you think customers were impatient before, this report won't soothe their worries Systems15 Sep 2022 | 11
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