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Software

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance

Software

Microsoft has gone to great lengths to push its tech, but survey suggests many devs slipped through the .NET

Among the findings, WPF remains most-used desktop framework despite years of promotion for UWP

Software

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain

Software

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated'

07 May 08:30 | 4

Black Hat Asia

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

Algos guiding self-driving cars don’t expect to see a STOP sign next to food. So if someone put a pic showing apples at a busy intersection ...

07 May 08:01 | 5

On Call

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-

07 May 07:30 | 6

Science

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years

07 May 07:01 | 5

Security

Cisco HyperFlex web interface has critical flaw that lets attackers get `root` and execute arbitrary commands

You know the drill: shake your head in disbelief, then figure out if patching will wipe out a weekend or be merely inconvenient

07 May 05:52 | 2

Black Hat Asia

Kids in Hong Kong and other highly surveilled states worry infosec careers are just asking for trouble

Asia is already short millions of trainees; expert warns talent pipeline will dry up in response to government snooping

07 May 05:11 | 2

Networks

China is upset India excluded Chinese equipment from 5G network trials

Why are you giving yourself a kick in the innovation economy?

07 May 04:03 |

Security

Google Play to require privacy labels on apps in 2022, almost two years after Apple

Developers want to do this, says Google. Ummm ... guys, you do remember the thousands of malware nightmares you’ve hosted and sold?

07 May 02:57 | 3

Getting The Cloud But Keeping Control

IBM Chips In To Drive 2 Nanometer Semiconductor Manufacturing

Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover

SoC-Driven Inference Datacenters Becoming New Reality

Personal Tech

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

07 May 01:49 | 8

Security

UK vaccine booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Wanna find out if Jane Brit has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this NHS site

06 May 18:37 | 12

Software

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance

06 May 17:36 | 12

Security

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 modem code flaw exposed Android smartphones to possible snooping

Good thing researchers spotted it, no evidence of exploit in the wild

06 May 16:11 | 6

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Fancy a decongestant? Cisco intros ‘slow drain’ tech for 64gig Fibre Channel

Backblaze discovers old truth: SSDs break less often than disks

Alletra: First details on what’s in HPE’s new arrays

Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX

On-Prem

Just one in 5 Googlers plan to swerve the office permanently after COVID-19

Free breakfast, lunch and dinner? Listening to Ryan Reynolds talk shit? Massages for gratis? Why the hell wouldn't they return

06 May 15:15 | 10

Legal

Day 3 of the Apple vs Epic trial: What actually is an iPhone anyway?

Microsoft Xbox exec called up to explain differences with gaming console

06 May 14:30 | 20

PaaS + IaaS

There may have been problems with the JEDI deal but you still wouldn't have won, Oracle told by US govt

They were not the cloud we were looking for, says DoD in brief to Supreme Court

06 May 13:31 | 14

Software

Microsoft has gone to great lengths to push its tech, but survey suggests many devs slipped through the .NET

Among the findings, WPF remains most-used desktop framework despite years of promotion for UWP

06 May 12:45 | 18

StorageOS v2.4 brings Encryption at Rest and Rapid Application Recovery

Python programmers prepare for pumped-up performance

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

Software

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain

06 May 12:15 | 70

Networks

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

Default passwords, no updates, and your data's flowing through these

06 May 11:30 | 32

On-Prem

OVH outlines three-point 'hyper resilience' plan after Strasbourg fire

Please insert tape number 363 of 4087*

06 May 10:45 | 21

Event

A web-era pandemic. Loving K8s without ruining Earth. Chaos engineering – and more at Continuous Lifecycle Online

There are so many reasons to join us next week at our tip-top DevOps conference, get your ticket now

06 May 10:01 |

Graphic images

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

On the other hand he was fine

06 May 09:15 | 48

Databases

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg

06 May 08:30 | 23

Offbeat

Big dogs get new ride-share service from Singaporean giant Grab

What a time to be alive

06 May 07:55 | 5

Security

Chrome on Windows turns on Intel, AMD chip-level defenses against malicious websites

Terms and conditions apply

06 May 07:23 | 2

Video

The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs

There was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody

06 May 06:15 | 53

Black Hat Asia

JET engine flaws can crash Microsoft's IIS, SQL Server, say Palo Alto researchers

Trio claim database queries can lead to remote code execution

06 May 04:59 | 14

Science

If you're the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch

For everyone else, get back to work and ordering those Amazon Prime deals

06 May 03:48 | 20

UPDATE

VMware amends bug report claiming ‘Unauthorized API’ behind critical flaw - now says it's an 'unauthorised end point'

Whatever the source, remote code execution possible on vRealize Business for Cloud – which knows a lot about your private and public platforms

06 May 02:52 |

AI + ML

Robo-taxis hit the streets of Beijing – albeit a small fleet in a geo-fenced suburb

Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too

06 May 00:50 | 9

AI + ML

Can your AI code be fooled by vandalized images or clever wording? Microsoft open sources a tool to test for that

Counterfit automatically creates adversarial inputs to find weaknesses

05 May 23:27 | 4

Personal Tech

Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims

Antisocial giant dismisses chat app rival's 'stunt' in escalating war of words

05 May 20:54 | 25

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 | 111

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 | 4

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 | 28

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 | 35

A web-era pandemic. Loving K8s without ruining Earth. Chaos engineering – and more at Continuous Lifecycle Online

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Microsoft has gone to great lengths to push its tech, but survey suggests many devs slipped through the .NET

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

Latest News

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Cisco HyperFlex web interface has critical flaw that lets attackers get root and execute arbitrary commands

Kids in Hong Kong and other highly surveilled states worry infosec careers are just asking for trouble

China is upset India excluded Chinese equipment from 5G network trials

Google Play to require privacy labels on apps in 2022, almost two years after Apple

Getting The Cloud But Keeping Control

IBM Chips In To Drive 2 Nanometer Semiconductor Manufacturing

Xilinx Keeps Pushing Programmable Logic As It Awaits AMD Takeover

SoC-Driven Inference Datacenters Becoming New Reality

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

Google will make you use two-step verification to login

IBM says it's built the world's first 2nm semiconductor chips

Telcos crammed 8.5m fake comments against net neutrality into FCC's inbox

UK vaccine booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 modem code flaw exposed Android smartphones to possible snooping

Get our Weekly newsletter

Fancy a decongestant? Cisco intros ‘slow drain’ tech for 64gig Fibre Channel

Backblaze discovers old truth: SSDs break less often than disks

Alletra: First details on what’s in HPE’s new arrays

Another storage-as-a-service competitor enters the ring: Dell launches APEX

Just one in 5 Googlers plan to swerve the office permanently after COVID-19

Day 3 of the Apple vs Epic trial: What actually is an iPhone anyway?

There may have been problems with the JEDI deal but you still wouldn't have won, Oracle told by US govt

Microsoft has gone to great lengths to push its tech, but survey suggests many devs slipped through the .NET

StorageOS v2.4 brings Encryption at Rest and Rapid Application Recovery

Python programmers prepare for pumped-up performance

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

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

OVH outlines three-point 'hyper resilience' plan after Strasbourg fire

A web-era pandemic. Loving K8s without ruining Earth. Chaos engineering – and more at Continuous Lifecycle Online

Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Big dogs get new ride-share service from Singaporean giant Grab

Chrome on Windows turns on Intel, AMD chip-level defenses against malicious websites

The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs

JET engine flaws can crash Microsoft's IIS, SQL Server, say Palo Alto researchers

If you're the 1% and have 10 mins to spare this July, bid for a place on first Blue Origin space tourism launch

VMware amends bug report claiming ‘Unauthorized API’ behind critical flaw - now says it's an 'unauthorised end point'

Robo-taxis hit the streets of Beijing – albeit a small fleet in a geo-fenced suburb

Can your AI code be fooled by vandalized images or clever wording? Microsoft open sources a tool to test for that

Signal banned for booking obviously targeted ads? That story's too good to be true, Facebook claims

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

AWS to cut Python 2.7 off at the knees in July with 'minor version update' for Chalice

Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly

21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable 'full remote unauthenticated code execution', millions of boxes at risk

Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel ... if you're into that kind of thing

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Cisco HyperFlex web interface has critical flaw that lets attackers get `root` and execute arbitrary commands