On Call
Why should I pay for that security option? Hijacking only happens to planes
But if I give him my bank details, I'll be rich!
Security
UK, Australia, to build 'network of liberty that will deter cyber attacks before they happen'
Enhanced 'Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership' will transport crime to harsh penal regime on the other side of the world
Exclusive
'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government
Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?
Episode 1
BOFH: What a beautiful classic car. Shame if anything were to happen to it
And look, your COVID pass is all melted...
Software
Apple again extends waiver for in-app purchasing requirement for online experiences
We'll know the pandemic is over when Apple starts insisting on its cut of fees for events again
24 Jan 07:45 |
Security
Myanmar's military junta seeks ban on VPNs and digital currency
People would no longer be able to rely on VPNs for their preferred communication tool, Facebook
24 Jan 07:02 | 1
Networks
Cloudflare signals big Asian push, starting in Singapore
Seeks salespeople focused on expansion – and casinos – and adds a trio of senior managers
24 Jan 05:58 |
Update
Australian Prime Minister's WeChat Shanghaied by Chinese patriots
Politicians rush to blame Beijing, Tencent says the account was transferred from its original registrar and it's probing that shift
24 Jan 04:58 | 3
In-brief
IBM finally finds a private equiteer willing to purchase Watson Health
As poker players ponder whether tech is ruining their favourite game
24 Jan 03:01 | 3
OSes
Desktop-deprived Linus Torvalds releases first release candidate of ‘not huge’ kernel 5.17
Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests
24 Jan 01:15 |
Comment
Another US president, time for another big Intel factory promise by another CEO
Let's not get too excited about this right away
22 Jan 15:21 | 26
On-Prem
European silicon output shrinking, metal smelters closing as electricity prices quadruple, trade body warns
Probably something to tackle before those chip fabs are built, eh?
22 Jan 09:38 | 89
Analysis
Tougher rules on targeted ads, deepfakes, crafty web design, and more? Euro lawmakers give a thumbs up
'This is strongly limiting the scope of maneuver by Big Tech', expert tells El Reg
22 Jan 07:30 | 27
AI + ML
Meta trains data2vec neural network to understand speech, images, text so it can 'understand the world'
Whatever it takes, Mark
21 Jan 23:44 | 27
Security
Apple preps fix for Safari's web-history-leaking IndexedDB privacy bug
Disclosure of WebKit flaw appears to have prodded iBiz to undertake repairs
21 Jan 22:56 | 10
AI + ML
Nvidia pushes crowd-pleasing container support into AI Enterprise suite
As long as you're running on VMware
21 Jan 22:01 |
Friday FOSS Fest
Wolfing down ebooks during lockdown? You might want to check out Calibre, the Swiss Army ebook tool
When audiobooks just take too darn long...
21 Jan 21:13 | 43
Science
Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion
Freed of launch restraints, mirror segments can waggle at will
21 Jan 19:06 | 60
Security
Arm rages against the insecure chip machine with new Morello architecture
Prototypes now available for testing
21 Jan 18:21 | 31
IPV4 AND BEYOND
APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation
IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent
IPv6 still 5–10 years away from mainstream use, but K8s networking and multi-cloud are now real
Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking labels network observability and SDN vendor jargon
China sets goal of running single-stack IPv6 network by 2030, orders upgrade blitz
All levels of industry and government told to get moving, consumers encouraged to buy new Wi-Fi routers
AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks
10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain
OK so what's going with these millions of Pentagon-owned IPv4 addresses lighting up all of a sudden?
Network advertisement of military addresses by obscure corporation not so exciting after all
Legal
Multi-level marketing corporation that sells weightloss products sues ex-exec over 'fraudulent' Dell deal
Alleges he had an off-the-books agreement with reseller
21 Jan 17:29 | 5
Offbeat
'95% original' film star Spitfire could be yours for a mere £4.5m (or 0.05 Pogbas)
Freshly overhauled, several careful owners
21 Jan 16:28 | 47
On-Prem
You might want to consider the cost of not upgrading legacy tech, UK's Department for Work and Pensions told
Processes relying on 1980s ICL mainframe contributed to £1bn pension black hole
21 Jan 15:16 | 22
Science
Joint European Torus celebrates 100,000 pulses: Neither Brexit nor middle age has stopped '80s era experiment
Fusion energy projects nearing 40th anniversary
21 Jan 14:29 | 31
Popular
OSes
First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager
Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?
Legal
I own that $4.5bn of digi-dosh so rewrite your blockchain and give it to me, Craig Wright tells Bitcoin SV devs
Oh look, another High Court sueball over cryptocurrencies
Opinion
Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption
So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it
OSes
SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux
Run, run like RHEL
Security
For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads
Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'
Bootnotes
Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away
Nobody expects the Linux malposition, do they, Michael Palin?
Software
Foxstuck: Firefox browser bug boots legions of users offline
Outfoxed? Not if you read The Reg
Security
Bug in WebKit's IndexedDB implementation makes Safari 15 leak Google account info... and more
Glitch is spilling private data and there's not much Apple users can do about it
Science
Almost there: James Webb Space Telescope frees its mirrors and prepares for insertion
Freed of launch restraints, mirror segments can waggle at will
Who, Me?
Planning for power cuts? That's strictly for the birds
Please Mr Hitchcock, no more. The UPS can't take it
STORIES
On-Prem
Intel plunking down $20bn for at least two chip factories in Ohio
Announcement scheduled for today as Gelsinger meets with Biden at the White House
21 Jan 13:24 | 11
Updated
UKCloud acquired: Public sector specialist finally bags investment from current chair and private equity after reporting steep losses
Wolves no longer at the door of struggling Brit cloud slinger
21 Jan 12:43 | 16
Exclusive
'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government
Influencing billions in spending, the Cabinet Office will keep tabs on Whitehall with… a spreadsheet?!?
21 Jan 11:24 | 83
Episode 1
BOFH: What a beautiful classic car. Shame if anything were to happen to it
And look, your COVID pass is all melted...
21 Jan 10:32 | 51
Break point: Cloudera, NeuVector, Mirantis Secure Registry, Apache Hop, Java Operator SDK, and Istio
Better, faster, stronger: CUDA 11.6 puts finishing touches to 128-bit int support
To each their own: Waypoint introduces workspace scoping, UI improvements
Rust 1.58 continues efforts to get more friendly, kernel initiative progresses
On Call
Why should I pay for that security option? Hijacking only happens to planes
But if I give him my bank details, I'll be rich!
21 Jan 08:30 | 59
Security
UK, Australia, to build 'network of liberty that will deter cyber attacks before they happen'
Enhanced 'Cyber and Critical Technology Partnership' will transport crime to harsh penal regime on the other side of the world
21 Jan 08:02 | 54
Paid feature
If experience is the new storage battlefield, what does winning look like?
Time to look at on-prem storage through the cloud, says HPE
21 Jan 07:30 |
Security
Japan's Supreme Court rules cryptojacking scripts are not malware
Coinhive-slinger wins on appeal
21 Jan 06:58 | 14
On-Prem
EC president promises European Chips Act to quadruple homegrown production by 2030
'Most of our supplies come from outside Europe. This is a dependency and uncertainty we cannot afford'
21 Jan 06:44 | 21
Security
Russia's Putin out the idea of a broad cryptocurrency ban
Central bank worries that block-bucks reduce government control and are used by crims
21 Jan 04:57 | 20
Networks
China signs up 400 million new 5G subscribers in a year, more than doubling user population
730 million 5G services active in Middle Kingdom, while another 100 million 4G services came online too
21 Jan 02:54 | 6
Bootnotes
If you want less CGI and more real effects in movies, you may get your wish: Inflatable film studio to orbit Earth
What a retirement for the ISS: Gaining a totally feasible 'state-of-the-art media production capability'
21 Jan 01:36 | 38
Science
NASA's gamma-ray-burst alert satellite put into safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure
To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space
21 Jan 00:31 | 6
Security
Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts
Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken
20 Jan 22:29 | 8
Security
UK mulls making MSPs subject to mandatory security standards where they provide critical infrastructure
And to pay for the privilege. Consultation's open, though
20 Jan 17:15 | 10
Storage
Can you compose memory across a HPC cluster? Yes. Yes you can
GigaIO CTO talks up 'solution that has a lot of what CXL offers'
20 Jan 16:27 | 2
PAID FEATURES
How to tackle hybrid cloud security and DevSecOps
Putting the Sec into DevOps is key, says Red Hat
How to keep on top of cloud security best practices
Trend Micro outlines common misconfigurations and how to avoid them
How ransomware gangs went pro
They're developing new techniques 'in every area' says Darktrace
Location, location, location: how the cloud handles geospatial data
Using spatial data with AWS Redshift
Offbeat
Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma
If you love your job, going the extra mile might not be stressful or cause depression
20 Jan 15:44 | 22
Opinion
Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption
So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it
20 Jan 15:06 | 156
Security
'Now' would be the right time to patch Ubuntu container hosts and ditch 21.04 thanks to heap buffer overflow bug
Red Hat agrees
20 Jan 14:38 | 11
On-Prem
Fujitsu wants technology to shape a better future – its technology, of course
Quantum, HPC, and AI to take us to rainbow sunshine happy land
20 Jan 13:26 | 11
Software
The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst
Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption
20 Jan 11:51 | 72
Security
NortonLifeLock and Avast tie-up falls under UK competition regulator's spotlight
CMA invites comments from 'interested parties' on what merger means to them
20 Jan 11:03 | 7
Applications
Lots of new toys, caps lock still stuck on: ONLYOFFICE hits version 7
LibreOffice alternative unfurls latest productivity software update
20 Jan 10:15 | 14
Off-Prem
Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future
'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards'
20 Jan 09:30 | 29
OSes
SUSE announces something for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux
Run, run like RHEL
20 Jan 08:21 | 19
Security
Red Cross forced to shutter family reunion service following cyberattack and data leak
Director-general pleads with cyber-scum: leave this data alone, because the people involved have suffered enough
20 Jan 07:58 | 18
Advertorial
Being 'Threat-Led' is the answer. Your ISO certificate won’t save you from a breach!
The Vectra Masked CISO series gives security leaders a place to expose the biggest issues in security and advise peers on how to overcome them
20 Jan 07:30 |
LogoWatch
McAfee's and FireEye rename themselves ‘Trellix’
To evoke support for growing things, not the 1990s vendor of web-pages-made-easy-ware
20 Jan 07:01 | 19
Security
Singapore gives banks two-week deadline to fix SMS security
Edict follows widespread bank phishing scam claiming well over $6.3 million
SaaS
Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee
Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away
Science
SpaceX Starlink sat streaks now present in nearly a fifth of all astronomical images snapped by Caltech telescope
Annoying, maybe – but totally ruining this science, maybe not
AI + ML
AI tool finds hundreds of genes related to human motor neuron disease
Breakthrough could lead to development of drugs to target illness
19 Jan 22:40 | 1
Security
Need to prioritize security bug patches? Don't forget to scan Twitter as well as use CVSS scores
Exploit, vulnerability discussion online can offer useful signals
19 Jan 21:22 | 2
Security
Sniff those Ukrainian emails a little more carefully, advises Uncle Sam in wake of Belarusian digital vandalism
NotPetya started over there, don't forget
19 Jan 20:01 | 4
OSes
Version 7 of WINE is better than ever at running Windows apps where they shouldn't
Improved graphics card, multi-monitor, Direct3D, and 64-bit support
19 Jan 19:10 | 45
Security
Vulnerabilities and censorship tools among hot new features in Beijing's Olympics app
Visitors have to install it 14 days prior to arrival in China until their departure
On-Prem
Party on Semiconductor Street as worldwide 2021 revenues top record half a trillion dollars
Gartner reports 25.1% growth off the back of supply chain pain
Networks
Japan solves 5G airliner conundrum: Keep mobe masts 200m from airport approach paths. That's it
(And maintain a guard band.) US airliners melt down as rest of world moves on
WINDOWS LATEST
First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager
Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?
For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads
Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'
Microsoft patches the patch that broke VPNs, Hyper-V, and left servers in boot loops
Testing? Isn't that what users are for?
The inevitability of the Windows 11 UI: New Notepad enters the beta channel
It avoided Aero. Missed Modern. Now the update edges ever closer to release
Legal
UK data watchdog slaps Ministry of Justice with Enforcement Notice for breaking GDPR law
ICO threatens £17.5m fine over late processing of subject access requests
19 Jan 15:32 | 14
On-Prem
Fire in Berlin factory won't 'significantly' impact output, says ASML
Dutch semiconductor lithography bigwig reports net sales up by a third
19 Jan 14:45 | 2
Bootnotes
Microsoft sends HoloLens 2 into a care home... Nope, not a headline gag about retiring the tech. They actually did this
Hands-free kit a 'game changer' for doctors assessing residents during pandemic
19 Jan 14:02 | 4
Science
NASA's Curiosity finds signs of ancient life on Mars. Or maybe not. More data needed
Rover heats up samples, sniffs carbon signature associated with biological processes on Earth
19 Jan 13:13 | 27
