Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10
If it's not broke, don't f- ... never mind
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly
Take your breath awayyyyyyyy
Register Debate
When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly
Is hardware by subscription bad for customers? Readers have their say
Analysis
NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems
As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out
In brief
Prisons transcribe private phone calls with inmates using speech-to-text AI
Plus: A drug designed by machine learning algorithms to treat liver disease reaches human clinical trials and more
04 Dec 15:48 |
The RPG
Battlefield 2042: Please don't be the death knell of the franchise, please don't be the death knell of the franchise
Another terrible launch, but DICE is already working on improvements
04 Dec 09:00 | 4
Security
American diplomats' iPhones reportedly compromised by NSO Group intrusion software
Reuters claims nine State Department employees outside the US had their devices hacked
04 Dec 01:54 | 13
Security
Utility biz Delta-Montrose Electric Association loses billing capability and two decades of records after cyber attack
All together now - R, A, N, S, O...
03 Dec 22:06 | 8
Security
Feds charge two men with claiming ownership of others' songs to steal YouTube royalty payments
Alleged scheme said to have netted $20m since 2017
03 Dec 21:54 | 10
Software
Hot not-Spot-bot spot: The code behind Xiaomi's CyberDog? Ubuntu
Your four-legged open-source friend? CIMON says 'Maybe'
03 Dec 21:18 | 6
Science
What will life in orbit look like after the ISS? NASA hands out new space station contracts
The end is coming, and nobody wants a homeless 'naut
03 Dec 20:23 | 10
Paid Feature
Protecting your critical infrastructure is one thing…protecting your backups is the same thing
Do you know what your recovery position really is?
03 Dec 19:43 |
Interview
Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it
Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations
03 Dec 19:36 | 17
Offbeat
Chill out to the sounds of an expert typing on a variety of mechanical keyboards
A truly rare groove
03 Dec 18:45 | 8
Security
Netgear router flaws exploitable with authentication ... like the default creds on Netgear's website
Don't just install the patch, change your router passwords too
03 Dec 17:30 | 9
SaaS
Not only was the UK Financial Ombudsman Service's Workday system months late, 38 IT workers' jobs are at risk
Questions remain over data warehouse dependencies and redundancies
03 Dec 16:56 | 5
Re:invent
AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps
Plus: Why company foresees growth of Rust, already widely used internally
03 Dec 15:43 |
Bootnotes
One white cat and a volcano short of a Bond villain: Rocket Lab's Peter Beck shows off the 'Hungry Hippo'
Neutron updated, but the Spectre of SpaceX looms
03 Dec 14:44 | 15
Register Debate
When it comes to renting tech kit, things can get personal, very quickly
Is hardware by subscription bad for customers? Readers have their say
03 Dec 14:02 | 9
Legal
Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer
Did it during work time and got paid for it, affirms Court of Appeal
Networks
Two Chinese companies leave US: China Telecom told it can't stay, DiDi gets out of Dodge
Just being practical here, but maybe they can share a cab?
OSes
NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems
Analysis As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly
Take your breath awayyyyyyyy
03 Dec 10:27 | 64
Bootnotes
When you think of a unit of length, do you think of Antony Gormley's rusty anatomy?
Angel of the North asteroid story upsets us mightily
03 Dec 09:30 | 43
On Call
How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?
Fix the printer, fix the phones
03 Dec 08:31 | 111
PaaS + IaaS
AWS adds another Arm CPU to its cloud: Apple's M1
Updates bare metal Macs-a-service and claims up to 60 per cent better price performance vs cloudy x86 Macs
03 Dec 08:01 | 2
Paid Feature
Where in-memory caching makes sense
AWS hails strong performance
03 Dec 07:30 |
Virtualization
Xen and the art of hypervisor upgrades
Version 4.16 adds first look at TPM 2.0 and better big.LITTLE support
03 Dec 06:57 |
Software
Singaporean superapp Grab IPOs – badly – and promises to focus on maps and money
Shares fell over 20 per cent in its first day on NASDAQ
03 Dec 06:14 | 4
Personal Tech
Qualcomm doesn't fear custom chips – in a weird way its modems matter more
Carriers covet fast, reliable modems, and when they're baked into SoCs it's hard to ignore 'em
03 Dec 05:31 | 6
Off-Prem
ByteDance launches a public cloud that offers TTaaS (TikTok as a service)
Volcano Engine also offers all the IaaS and SaaS you'd expect from a hyperscaler
Legal
Alibaba exec accused of mishandling sexual assault case wants alleged victim to apologise
Manager was fired, now wants his reputation restored with post on a prominent website
SaaS
Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour
Updated Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now
Break point: Grafana, Wasmer, Rust, Julia, PyTorch Live, Fleet, and Qt Creator
Who’s there? JupyterHub 2.0 gets role-based access control going
OCR Engine Tesseract 5.0 converts to float for faster training and recognition
Skint but looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer
On-Prem
US trade watchdog opposes Nvidia's Arm buy, mostly over fears about datacentre innovation
FTC sues to block deal because it would be bad for competition
03 Dec 00:06 | 22
Security
BadgerDAO DeFi defunded as hackers apparently nab millions in crypto tokens
Badger, badger, badger, coin theft, coin theft!
02 Dec 22:58 | 16
Personal Tech
Texas' anti-moderation social network law blocked by judge
Enforcing rules on content is in everybody's interest, court decides
02 Dec 22:05 | 11
Personal Tech
You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case
How to coordinate 16 Arms
02 Dec 22:03 | 7
Legal
Ubiquiti dev charged with knocking $4bn off firm's value after insider threat spree
Prosecutors claim Nickolas Sharp even posed as a whistleblower to press
02 Dec 21:05 | 8
OSes
Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10
If it's not broke, don't f- ... never mind
02 Dec 20:05 | 49
Science
ESA's Mars Express picks up plaintive bleeps of China's Zhurong rover, adding much-needed comms redundancy
We're all ears
02 Dec 19:01 | 6
Applications
Santa's sack is bulging with browsers: Vivaldi 5.0 arrives full of festive cheer
Keeping one's privates private
02 Dec 17:00 | 9
Popular
Analysis
NixOS and the changing face of Linux operating systems
As with packaging systems, lightweight efficient approaches look set to lose out
Personal Tech
You've seen the Raspberry Pi CM4 in a mini-ITX case. Now here's four in a mini-ITX case
How to coordinate 16 Arms
Interview
Why your external monitor looks awful on Arm-based Macs, the open source fix – and the guy who wrote it
Q&A with the developer of BetterDummy: from macOS secrets to his motivations
On-Prem
Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire
Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across
On Call
How do you call support when the telephones go TITSUP*?
Fix the printer, fix the phones
Security
BadgerDAO DeFi defunded as hackers apparently nab millions in crypto tokens
Badger, badger, badger, coin theft, coin theft!
OSes
Microsoft makes tweaks to Windows 11 Start Menu for Insiders but stops short of mimicking Windows 10
If it's not broke, don't f- ... never mind
Personal Tech
Texas' anti-moderation social network law blocked by judge
Enforcing rules on content is in everybody's interest, court decides
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
A smarter alternative to password recognition could be right in front of us: Unique, invisible, maybe even deadly
Take your breath awayyyyyyyy
On-Prem
US trade watchdog opposes Nvidia's Arm buy, mostly over fears about datacentre innovation
FTC sues to block deal because it would be bad for competition
STORIES
PAID FEATURES
Face it: Today’s development shortcut is tomorrow’s intractable problem
OutSystems insiders talk technical debt
Database sprawl is choking your organization. Here’s how to bypass it
You know where you want to go. Here’s how to get there
When digital transformation is the goal, network renovation isn’t good enough
Keeping secure with iomart in the second wave of SD-WAN
Winter is coming … with a blizzard of live and virtual SANS Institute events
Or a long, hot summer of cybersec training, depending where you are
On-Prem
Co-Operative Bank today 'terminated' Capita's outsourcing contract years before it was due to expire
Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across
Legal
UK data watchdog fines government office for disclosing New Year's gong list
New IT systems set up incorrectly, published CSV files which included names, addresses
Virtualization
SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware
Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family
Bootnotes
What a bunch of bricks: Crooks knock hole in toyshop wall, flee with €35k Lego haul
Police still trying to piece everything together
02 Dec 13:00 | 103
Snapdragon Tech Summit
Specs appeal: Qualcomm and Meta insist headgear to plug you into the metaverse will 'supersede mobile'
'You're on the go, you take it with you, it's always contextually relevant, you don't have to take it out of your pocket'
02 Dec 12:15 | 16
Paid Feature
Don’t forget the employee experience, wherever your employees happen to be
Keeping smart people means thinking smart … even if you’re a building
02 Dec 11:30 |
Register Debate
Computers cost money. We only make them more expensive by trying to manage them ourselves
And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it?
02 Dec 10:45 | 54
Interview
Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'
It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage
02 Dec 10:00 | 21
Security
New UK product security law won't be undercut by rogue traders upping and vanishing, government boasts
El Reg asks about phoenixing – but will answer convince world+dog?
02 Dec 09:15 | 35
Security
European Cybercrime Centre confident it's kicked credit card crims – again
Poised to reveal similar haul to 2020's €40M loss prevention total
02 Dec 08:21 | 4
Paid Feature
Are you a challenger bank or a technically challenged bank?
Equinix: Either way, our digital infrastructure can help
02 Dec 07:30 |
Software
China to create workers' paradise for ride share drivers
Communist China (belatedly) recognises that drivers are people who need food, sleep, bathrooms, and unions
02 Dec 06:57 | 5
Software
Amazon Appstore melts over Android 12 'Snow Cone'
Running the latest version of Android? Appstore apps no longer work
02 Dec 06:30 | 15
Updated
Three key ransomware actors changed jobs on October 18 – the same day REvil went dark
Underground industry grows in complexity and sophistication, says Santander Group researcher
02 Dec 05:58 | 4
Off-Prem
Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS
The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch
02 Dec 03:55 |
Virtualization
Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami
Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds
02 Dec 02:58 |
RE:INVENT
All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform
Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data
02 Dec 02:01 | 2
Software
Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps
iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway
02 Dec 00:59 | 27
On-Prem
Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency
'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.'
01 Dec 23:06 | 26
Personal Tech
Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips
Snapdragon Tech Summit G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer
On-Prem
Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto
Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting
SaaS
Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic
Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas
Science
Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS
Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module
01 Dec 19:05 | 36
OSes
Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead
Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns
01 Dec 17:12 | 25
SaaS
So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all
That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years
01 Dec 16:19 | 1
Software
What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16
Can we just postpone these changes to next year?
01 Dec 15:27 | 9
Security
Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London
Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage
01 Dec 14:30 |
Security
Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog
EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls
01 Dec 13:50 | 50
Legal
Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company
Median pay gap reporting found less favour
01 Dec 13:08 | 4
Software
Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes
Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems
01 Dec 12:16 | 11
