Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition
Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back
Interview
An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated
FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework
Analysis
Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box
Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'
Security
Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials
Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources
Latest News
Bootnotes
Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia
Between COVID and corvids, locked-down Aussies can't catch a break - or a coffee lowered from the treetops
23 Sep 06:01 |
Servers
Memory prices to dive in late 2022, says Gartner
Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory
23 Sep 04:28 | 1
Off-Prem
AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand
Hopes three availability zones will be hobbit-forming for local businesses and government agencies
23 Sep 02:54 | 2
Personal Tech
Microsoft wants you to know it hasn't forgotten about Surface
Laptops added or refreshed, and another go at making dual-screen phones a thing
23 Sep 01:44 | 1
Personal Tech
Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time
Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically
23 Sep 00:37 | 4
Security
Zoom's $15bn merger with Five9 probed by Uncle Sam for national security risks
Vid-chat giant's ties to China under the microscope by AG-led panel
22 Sep 23:46 |
Security
Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters
file:// is blocked? Oh OK, we'll just use File:// or fiLE://...
22 Sep 23:07 | 4
Comment
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous
Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie
22 Sep 22:02 | 3
AI + ML
Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'
22 Sep 21:18 | 6
Security
Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin
Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset
22 Sep 20:36 | 34
Servers
More than three years after last release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 appears
Back from the brink with new features
22 Sep 19:47 | 5
PROMO
Your apps are heading to the cloud. So why leave your files on that creaking NAS system?
Break free from the silos at Nasuni CloudBound21
22 Sep 19:00 |
Networks
Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack
What in the blazes?
22 Sep 18:01 | 28
AI + ML
Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS
Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code
22 Sep 17:13 | 2
Personal Tech
Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones
25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day
22 Sep 16:32 | 9
NSFW
Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey
'Warning: this report contains highly offensive language and discussion of content which may cause offence'
22 Sep 16:03 | 48
OSes
Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future
This could very well be the last release based on 16.04
22 Sep 15:17 | 1
HPC
First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative
EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico
22 Sep 14:28 | 9
Servers
Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions
Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors
22 Sep 13:37 | 32
LINUX
Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets
455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir
A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin
Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers
Dependable Debian is like a rock in a swirling gyre of 'move fast and break things', and version 11 is no different
A lot of effort has gone into this release and it shows – everything 'just works'
Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools
Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing
Security
Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials
Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources
22 Sep 13:00 | 14
Applications
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition
Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back
22 Sep 12:14 | 22
HPC
'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov
Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance
22 Sep 11:20 | 13
Analysis
Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box
Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'
22 Sep 10:43 | 31
Off-Prem
UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing
Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money
22 Sep 10:00 | 2
Boatnotes II
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
22 Sep 09:12 | 64
Interview
An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated
FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework
22 Sep 08:31 | 3
Edge + IoT
UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones
Project wins £50k from government
22 Sep 07:45 | 21
Virtualization
Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?
Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps
22 Sep 07:26 |
PROMO
Would you like to clone your best programmer?
Now you can. By using OutSystems on AWS, as this webinar shows
22 Sep 07:01 |
AI + ML
Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor
'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'
22 Sep 06:35 | 42
Software
Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release'
Full concurrency model at last
22 Sep 05:32 | 16
PATCH WORK
Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
Apache OpenOffice can be hijacked by malicious documents, fix still in beta
If you need another reason to try an alternative software suite
WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job
Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself
Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999
Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue?
Legal
Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS
Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
22 Sep 03:58 | 5
Personal Tech
Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon
Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently
22 Sep 02:50 | 24
Security
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server
22 Sep 00:45 | 8
Security
Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report
Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed
21 Sep 23:36 | 5
Personal Tech
Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard
Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom
21 Sep 21:23 | 3
Security
Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants
Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion
21 Sep 19:59 | 8
Legal
SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke
Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind
21 Sep 18:32 | 15
OSes
Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades
Two more years! Two more years!
21 Sep 17:42 | 11
CRYPTO-CRACKDOWN
Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants
Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion
US SEC chair calls for crypto regulation
Says digi-bucks are 'rife with fraud, scams, and abuse' that have created a 'Wild West' of speculation and naughtiness
Cryptocurrency world must protect itself from 'low-quality patents' says Square lawyer as biz joins Open Invention Network
'I think the legislative framework around patents needs a deep examination, and I don’t think I'm alone in saying that'
Crypto-coin startup said its bot could generate huge profits from your Bitcoin. It was a scam, says SEC
Founder and promoter accused of running 'Ponzi-like scheme'
Science
US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office
Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors
21 Sep 16:48 | 31
Software
Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets
455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir
21 Sep 16:03 | 2
PaaS + IaaS
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
21 Sep 15:13 | 13
Storage
Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools
Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m
21 Sep 14:27 |
AI + ML
UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns
How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?
21 Sep 13:45 | 12
Security
Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
21 Sep 13:00 | 44
Updated
Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink
Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'
21 Sep 12:15 | 10
Security
UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters' personal data exposed in email blunder
We joke about lethal consequences of failure but this isn't funny
21 Sep 11:30 | 57
Sponsored
Hybrid learning is a good thing – let’s make it a good thing for everyone
The pandemic has accelerated innovation and investment
21 Sep 10:00 |
Edge + IoT
Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like
Making sense of blurry lines
21 Sep 09:15 | 10
Boatnotes II
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
21 Sep 08:29 | 107
OSes
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant
21 Sep 07:55 | 25
SPONSORED STORIES
Operating your network isn’t enough. You need to develop (for) it
Time to drive NetOps beyond the command line
Virtual reality means the future of education is right before our eyes
Keeping the headset clean is as important as keeping the content clean
How AWS created Aurora, a database built for the cloud
Rewriting the rules with logs
Improve your business resiliency with disaster recovery in a hybrid cloud infrastructure
No need to be so DRaaStic?
Science
China discloses new space tech: Coloured cargo labels to replace beige ones taikonauts found fiddly
Slaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and successfully sends it to Tianhe
21 Sep 07:32 | 13
Bootnotes
Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha
21 Sep 06:55 | 148
Networks
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
21 Sep 06:35 | 12
Video
NASA hopes VIPER rover will search for water in Moon's Nobile crater in 2023
Machine could help unlock natural resources for future lunar base dwellers
21 Sep 06:03 | 8
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Security
Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
Boatnotes II
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
Security
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server
Security
Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials
Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources
Applications
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition
Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back
Updated
Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink
Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'
OSes
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant
Boatnotes II
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
Security
Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report
Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed
Bootnotes
Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha
STORIES
Security
Mafia works remotely, too, it seems: 100+ people suspected of phishing, SIM swapping, email fraud cuffed
Dare we say, these Euro cops ran mobprobe
21 Sep 05:16 | 10
Sponsored
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21 Sep 04:00 |
On-Prem
Chips'n'China on the agenda as the Quad – Japan, India, Oz, US – prepares to meet
Not that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly
21 Sep 02:58 | 2
PaaS + IaaS
Amazon Web Services set to support more Asia-Pacific currencies for customer bills
Australian users told first of plans to create 'Seller of Record' subject to regulatory approval
21 Sep 01:38 | 1
