Event
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Explainability, model testing, experience reports – we've got everything you need next month
Register Debate
Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts
As the wisdom of the crowd decides
Review
Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time
The kiddiwonks won't even know they're learning
On Call
He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended
Go pivot on this
Latest News
Business
Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud and take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors
Deal dilutes Chinese stake enough for Trump to tentatively approve
20 Sep 03:50 | 2
Roundup
Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind
Plus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM
19 Sep 13:13 | 5
Analysis
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 debut derailed by website glitches, bots, lack of supply
Chip giant dinged for failing to block automated buying
18 Sep 22:39 | 22
Science
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
NASA's long-lived spacecraft reaches another milestone
18 Sep 21:00 | 36
Review
Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy
Quality comes in small packages
18 Sep 20:13 | 25
Security
Online fraud prevention biz fails to prevent CEO's alleged offline fraud
Security upstart NS8, which raised $123m in funding, let its leader have sole control over revenue records
18 Sep 18:47 | 8
Software
Your anti-phishing test emails may be too easy to spot. NIST has a training tool for that
Phish Scale hopes to make life easier for blue teams gazing at click rates
18 Sep 18:05 | 13
Business
It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash
Some aspects are 'eerily similar to the peak of the 2000 bubble' warns Bernstein
18 Sep 17:15 | 12
Business
Top 5 billionaires find that global pandemics are good for business – and their wallets
Richest boys' club wealth grew by $101.7bn between March and June
18 Sep 16:30 | 12
Security
Bad news for 'cool dads' trying to bond with their teens: China-owned TikTok and WeChat face US download ban by Sunday
Unless the Orange One steps in to save the day. Fancy that!
18 Sep 15:20 | 29
Networks
Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity
All is well. Unless you trust everything you see on the internet
18 Sep 14:26 | 47
Register Debate
Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts
As the wisdom of the crowd decides
18 Sep 12:00 | 8
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops
Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play
Flushed out
18 Sep 11:20 | 40
Review
Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time
The kiddiwonks won't even know they're learning
18 Sep 10:45 | 42
Security
Iran's RampantKitten spy crew were snooping on expats and dissidents for six years
So says Check Point, piecing together Telegram-busting malware clues
18 Sep 10:00 | 4
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Register Lecture: Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GNSS?
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Evolving Datacenters without Complexity
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Transforming infrastructure to enable top-performing development teams
Cloud
Amazon gets its tax excuses in early amid rising UK profits – but leaves El Reg off the press list. Can't think why
A charm offensive, or just plain offensive?
18 Sep 09:20 | 40
Event
How is your machine learning project coming along? Get some inspiration from our MCubed Online conference
Explainability, model testing, experience reports – we've got everything you need next month
18 Sep 09:00 |
Bootnotes
As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!
They're called glasses, look it up
18 Sep 08:30 | 111
Personal Tech
iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail
You didn't want to run that hot Cupertino code? Too bad, loser
18 Sep 07:57 | 23
.NET 5.0 enters RC phase but don’t throw away your standard-conform apps just yet
What’s that smell? OpenJDK 15 lands with hidden classes, more garbage collection
What’s the point: Qt, Qbs, cri-o, HashiCorp Sentinel, and a new CNCF radar
C++ extension for Visual Studio Code ready for prime time, hugs Arm devs
Personal Tech
Apple 'proud to support Indian customers and their communities' – but maybe not so much for COVID-slammed retailers
Online Apple store comes to India even as millions remain in containment zones
18 Sep 07:33 | 2
On Call
He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended
Go pivot on this
18 Sep 07:15 | 159
Cloud
Alibaba wants to get you off the PC upgrade treadmill and into its cloud
Pitches tiny 'cloud computer' that streams apps and OSes over WiFi and hooks up to USB-C displays
18 Sep 06:34 | 47
Security
Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe
Extortionware is bad but it never killed anyo... never mind
18 Sep 05:55 | 104
Software
Thunderbird implements PGP crypto feature requested 21 years ago
As Mozilla kills off secure file transfer tool because – shock! – it was being abused
18 Sep 05:03 | 50
Policy
Pakistan to smartphone-makers: Come for the low tax, stay to create your replacements
Floats industry plan that requires ramp-up of locally made components and complete tech transfer
18 Sep 03:31 | 5
Policy
USA still hasn’t figured out details of WeChat ban but promises users won't be punished
Three days remain before definition of prohibited transactions drops
18 Sep 02:15 | 13
Security
Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior
It starts with a backpack of $200 of electronics and poor Wi-Fi security
17 Sep 23:47 | 24
Networks
Internet Archive's way cool Wayback Machine gets way more websites in Cloudflare fail-over pact
And Cloudflare customers get way better availability
17 Sep 22:56 | 5
Analysis
Strap in for the wild ride that is invest.com: A failed legal battle, millions of dollars on the line... and that Yo! app
Plus: Strange $12m sale rumors surround top domain name
17 Sep 21:56 | 4
Personal Tech
Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?
Disclosed tracking, helicopter parenting programs are still kosher
17 Sep 19:28 | 24
Popular
Science
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
NASA's long-lived spacecraft reaches another milestone
On Call
He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended
Go pivot on this
Networks
Did this airliner land in the North Sea? No. So what happened? El Reg probes flight tracker site oddity
All is well. Unless you trust everything you see on the internet
Cloud
Amazon gets its tax excuses in early amid rising UK profits – but leaves El Reg off the press list. Can't think why
A charm offensive, or just plain offensive?
Review
Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy
Quality comes in small packages
Review
Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time
The kiddiwonks won't even know they're learning
Cloud
This is how demon.co.uk ends, not with a bang but a blunder: Randomer swipes decommissioning domain
Namesco says soz, Brit data watchdog investigating
Security
Iran's RampantKitten spy crew were snooping on expats and dissidents for six years
So says Check Point, piecing together Telegram-busting malware clues
Security
Bad news for 'cool dads' trying to bond with their teens: China-owned TikTok and WeChat face US download ban by Sunday
Unless the Orange One steps in to save the day. Fancy that!
Personal Tech
iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail
You didn't want to run that hot Cupertino code? Too bad, loser
STORIES
Security
Video encoders using Huawei chips have backdoors and bad bugs – and Chinese giant says it's not to blame
Telecom kit maker points finger in the general direction of Middle Kingdom's complicated supply chain
17 Sep 18:42 | 86
Analysis
New strategy, Cloudera? Hadoop flinger launches NoSQL database, visualisation tools in head-scratching flurry
Another facet of its data platform vision thing
17 Sep 17:31 | 3
Personal Tech
Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II
Snapdragon 865-powered, 120Hz tall boy focuses on fun and games
17 Sep 16:46 | 30
Software
Flashy tabs and no Flash: Apple rolls out Safari 14 to macOS Catalina, Mojave users
End of the line for Adobe's multimedia nightmare on iGiant's browser
17 Sep 16:02 | 2
Cloud
AWS hoping to pick up stream with Cloud Digital Interface: Low latency cloud network for uncompressed video
Cloud connection with the performance of 12G-SDI - as long as VMs are physically close together
17 Sep 15:15 | 2
Security
GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections
Never mind real-world viruses, get your networks into lockdown ASAP
17 Sep 14:27 | 16
Artificial Intelligence
How do you solve 'disruption' at the UK border after Brexit? Let's call Peter Thiel! AI biz Palantir – you're hired
Oh, and Smart Freight System software in beta by April... will be used from December. WCGW?
17 Sep 13:45 | 73
Emergent Tech
What did they do – twist his Arm? Ex-Qualcomm senior veep joins SiFive as CEO, RISC-V PC for devs teased
Vector-math processor core for high-perf computing promised, too
17 Sep 13:00 | 12
