American schools' phone apps send children's info to ad networks, analytics firms
Get used to it, kid
Geek's Guide to Britain
The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different
Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits
Security
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered
AI + ML
How to hide a backdoor in AI software – such as a bank app depositing checks or a security cam checking faces
Neural networks can be aimed to misbehave when squeezed
Latest News
Personal Tech
Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook says
Antisocial giant surprisingly vocal in dismissing chat app rival's 'stunt'
05 May 20:54 |
Software
Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face
30% of employees reportedly walked out following sudden rule change
05 May 20:00 | 11
Off-Prem
AWS to cut Python 2.7 off at the knees in July with 'minor version update' for Chalice
Seriously, it's time to move on
05 May 19:03 |
Databases
Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly
New Spark 3.0 connector will appeal to users too, analyst says
05 May 18:10 |
Security
21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable 'full remote unauthenticated code execution', millions of boxes at risk
Nearly 4 million to be exact, say researchers
05 May 17:20 | 7
Applications
Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel... if you're into that kind of thing
Add yet another Chromium browser to your collection
05 May 15:30 | 18
Legal
Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to ban Trump, asks FB to look at own 'potential contribution' to 'narrative of electoral fraud'
Looks like you can safely ignore that friend request... forever
05 May 14:59 | 21
Security
East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder
'Was a Mailchimp sub too hard?!' asks Reg reader
05 May 14:01 | 18
Personal Tech
As pandemic buying continues, Chromebook shipments soared 275% in Q1, says analyst
Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing
05 May 13:14 | 8
Security
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered
05 May 12:27 | 3
SaaS
Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest
The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"
05 May 11:42 | 10
AI + ML
How to hide a backdoor in AI software – such as a bank app depositing checks or a security cam checking faces
Neural networks can be aimed to misbehave when squeezed
05 May 10:57 | 8
Geek's Guide to Britain
The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different
Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits
05 May 10:03 | 15
Personal Tech
Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500
Which is a lot of money for this crap
05 May 09:12 | 14
Databases
UK's Department for Work and Pensions continues to move off Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse in pursuit of a single version of the truth
Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red's system refuses to die
05 May 08:06 | 5
Security
What not to expect when you're expecting: Fertility apps may be selling intimate health secrets
Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices
05 May 07:32 | 19
Covid Logfile II
Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways
Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic
05 May 07:01 | 14
On-Prem
Dell, Foxconn sign up for Indian servers-and-PCs manufacturing subsidies
India wanted five global players. And it got only five applications from qualifying companies
05 May 06:31 | 1
Off-Prem
Wipro rolls out 'COVID-19 vaccination camps' in India to keep staff alive during virus super-surge
We speak to IT outsourcing giants as human malware grips nation
05 May 05:58 | 1
Android Studio 4.2 enlists project upgrade assistant in bid to ease migration
The great internet meltdown of 2020? Find out what really happened at Continuous Lifecycle Online
HAProxy adds configuration flexibility in Kubernetes Ingress Controller 1.6
Prometheus gets conformance program to certify compatibility
Networks
India approves 5G trials – if they don't use Chinese 5G kit
Government department wants carriers to facilitate testing of homegrown tech for India-specific use cases
05 May 04:44 | 1
Networks
Norwegian telco Telenor writes off its Myanmar operation
Military coup creates such a nasty environment it’s hung up on $780 million of assets
05 May 02:04 | 2
Networks
Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline
Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble
05 May 00:11 | 10
On-Prem
Chipmaker TSMC to build 'up to five' more factories in Arizona
Copper State turns silicon?
04 May 22:24 | 12
Applications
American schools' phone apps send children's info to ad networks, analytics firms
Get used to it, kid
04 May 21:09 | 37
Security
'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely
Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code
04 May 19:56 | 42
Kubecon Europe
Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
More goodies for OpenShift, plus Konveyor to Kubernetes in association with IBM
04 May 18:24 |
Devops
Pega set to launch 'context-aware' APIs that let users tweak back-end processes without breaking front end
Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says
04 May 17:30 | 2
Personal Tech
Samsung stops providing security updates to the Galaxy S8 at grand old age of four years
Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on
04 May 16:47 | 67
Science
Spent Chinese rocket stage set to make an uncontrolled return to Earth
Friends don't drop rocket remnants on friends, m'kay?
04 May 15:53 | 58
Storage
HPE debuts storage-as-a-service platform based on a new storage array: Alletra
The race to keep up with AWSs and Microsoft of this world.
04 May 15:00 | 1
Legal
Apple vs Epic Games trial kicks off featuring the same old arguments, hundreds of angry Zoombombing tweens
'Hello? I would please like Fortnite Mobile back...'
04 May 14:03 | 13
Software
RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone
For testing only - but new distro compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux getting close to release
04 May 13:44 | 13
Bootnotes
File this next to Mars bars under 'things that should not be deep-fried': Marks & Spencer's Colin the Caterpillar
How was this allowed to happen? Ah right, food delivery app publicity stunt
04 May 12:42 | 34
Applications
Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open source
Which is good because that's why the audio editing software is so popular
04 May 11:37 | 33
Software
WTH are NFTs? Here is the token, there is the Beeple....
76.23kWh per-transaction footprint... WTF, people?
04 May 10:02 | 63
Column
House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason
Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do
04 May 09:15 | 40
Databases
Stuck in R/3verse: East Sussex County Council struggles to move forward with £25m SAP replacement
Hardware supporting ageing system is mired in performance issues
04 May 08:30 | 14
Promo
How are you supposed to secure your workers when they could be anywhere?
Find out at the Anywhere Workspace Event
04 May 07:30 |
Personal Tech
Vietnam thanks Samsung for all its help, asks for more to go beyond mere manufacturing
Samsung in turn asks for access to clean 'leccy at high-level love-in
04 May 06:57 |
