Interview
The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'
Brian Exelbierd, Red Hat Liaison and CentOS board member, gives the company perspective
Software
Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive
Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone
Bootnotes
One careful driver: Make room in the garage... Bloodhound jet-powered car is up for sale
Price negotiable, but if you've got £8m to spare then the land speed record is up for grabs
Security
I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg
Hyperion Gray founder relates 'holy f**k' moment when he realised
Latest News
Security
Decade-old bug in Linux world's sudo can be abused by any logged-in user to gain root privileges
Sudo, make me a heap overflow! Done, this system is now yours
26 Jan 21:12 | 4
Security
Apple emits emergency iOS security updates while warning holes may have been exploited in wild by hackers
Plus fixes for iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, XCode, iCloud for Windows – and a day after Google disclosed Nork op
26 Jan 20:45 | 1
Software
Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft
Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech
26 Jan 20:09 | 1
Science
A Twitter world-improvement plan that doesn't involve deleting Twitter? Unleash the boffins, says microblogging biz
Academics can apply for free access to historic Twitter data, so there is a use for the well of human misery after all
26 Jan 19:19 | 1
Virtualization
Google's Git commits point to project on pared-back Android for virtualized environments
Meet MicroDroid, a base image for on-device VMs that might never see light of day
26 Jan 18:31 | 1
Software
Got Surface Hubs? Better get cracking: Windows 10 for Whiteboards to resume rolling out in February
Windows 10 Team Creators Update due for support axe in March - yes, two months from now
26 Jan 17:17 |
Internet of Things
Drone smashes through helicopter's windscreen and injures passenger
Two feet sideways and it could have been the pilot: report
26 Jan 16:22 | 21
Networks
Huawei has been Biden its time, but there's no sign new US president will reverse American sanctions
Press secretary won't say nay or yea on Entity List, but prez says 'we need to play a better defense'
26 Jan 15:45 | 5
Rider team lets .NET devs in on IDE plans, though it’s mostly about catching up with Java tooling
HAProxy Ingress Controller 1.5 introduces mTLS support, gives load balancing experts more power
Whose job is it anyway? Cloud Security Alliance updates controls matrix to include logging and monitoring
Let’s get visual: GitLab 13.8 introduces pipeline editor, simplifies rebasing and issue interaction
Software
A new take on programming trends: You know what's not a bunch of JS? Devs learning Python and Java ahead of JavaScript
O'Reilly's opinionated survey says low-code on the up and modern web dev is 'chilling'
26 Jan 15:07 | 6
Security
I was targeted by North Korean 0-day hackers using a Visual Studio project, vuln hunter tells El Reg
Hyperion Gray founder relates 'holy f**k' moment when he realised
26 Jan 13:30 | 21
Cloud
UKFast ex-boss Lawrence Jones appears in court to face rape and sexual assault charges
Multi-millionaire granted unconditional bail, case moving to Manchester Crown Court
26 Jan 12:56 |
Cloud
East London council breaks off 20-year Oracle relationship to shack up with cloud ERP nobodies by year's end
From one of the world's largest software suppliers to... who?
26 Jan 12:03 | 8
Bootnotes
One careful driver: Make room in the garage... Bloodhound jet-powered car is up for sale
Price negotiable, but if you've got £8m to spare then the land speed record is up for grabs
26 Jan 11:22 | 55
Interview
The killing of CentOS Linux: 'The CentOS board doesn't get to decide what Red Hat engineering teams do'
Brian Exelbierd, Red Hat Liaison and CentOS board member, gives the company perspective
26 Jan 10:27 | 85
Security
UK Cabinet Office spokesman tells House of Lords: We're not being complacent about impact of SolarWinds hack
Lib Dem blows raspberry at Sir Humphrey-style non-answer
26 Jan 09:30 | 41
Webcast
You may be heading for the cloud with K8s and microservices... but what about your storage?
Tune in next month to learn a raft of cloud-native storage knowledge
26 Jan 08:30 |
Personal Tech
Apple slapped with €60m lawsuit from Italian consumer rights org for slowing down CPUs in old iPhones
Third time's a charm? Suebell number three filed by Euroconsumers members
26 Jan 07:27 | 40
Artificial Intelligence
AI clocks first-known 'binary sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system'. Another AI will be along shortly to tell us how to pronounce that properly
The cosmic ballet goes on
26 Jan 06:25 | 21
Security
North Korea infected infosec bods with backdoors via dodgy blog pages, Visual Studio files – Google
Security eggheads discover their PCs chatting with Kim Jong Un's hackers
26 Jan 04:45 | 12
Software
Google, Microsoft pitch in some spare change to keep Mozilla's Web Docs online bible alive
Turns out having coherent API documentation is useful for, well, everyone
26 Jan 03:13 | 14
Personal Tech
What's a COVID-19 outbreak? Amazon gets all Trumpy over Alabama warehouse workers' mail-in vote to form a union
Meanwhile, staff get unexpected backing from football players
26 Jan 00:53 | 43
Analysis
In a trial run, Google Chrome to corral netizens into groups for tailored web ads rather than target individuals
The third-party advertising cookie: Barely tolerated anymore. We can rebuild it, internet titan insists, we have the technology.
25 Jan 23:14 | 26
Security
Biden said to be assembling cyber dream team to sort out US govt computer security
With a little $10bn package proposed to help them on their way
25 Jan 22:00 | 14
Sponsored
The digital road to energy transition
Huawei paves a clear path for the energy industry's digital transformation
25 Jan 20:00 |
Security
Digital burglars break into the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Miscreant fingered server that held docs related to credit applications down under
25 Jan 18:01 | 8
Personal Tech
Smartphones are becoming like white goods, says analyst, with users only upgrading when their handsets break
Upgrades? It's a bit of a Hotpoint
25 Jan 17:02 | 139
Updated
Going, going, gone... until March: UK comms regulator delays 5G spectrum auction over pandemic logistics
Some things can wait, even if it is central to the 'economy's recovery'
25 Jan 16:15 | 8
Webcast
Restructuring causing trouble with your Microsoft 365 tenancy? Here's a trio who can help you out
Tune in here to find out how to smooth those tricky tenant-to-tenant migrations
25 Jan 15:28 |
Software
The API that will not die: Microsoft opens crypt to unleash Win32 on Rust
Going low-level with C# and more
25 Jan 14:47 | 13
Personal Tech
Apple: Magsafe on the iPhone 12 may interfere with pacemakers and cardiac defibrilators
No, no, this shocker isn't related to the price of the hardware
25 Jan 12:34 | 21
Software
Fedora's Chromium maintainer suggests switching to Firefox as Google yanks features in favour of Chrome
'They're not closing a security hole, they're just requiring that everyone use Chrome'
25 Jan 11:45 | 82
Cloud
UK government's cloud ERP strategy seems to be in stasis following top civil servant's move to COVID-19 task force
Or maybe it's that no one wants to touch this complex SaaS migration
25 Jan 11:01 | 5
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Freezing in Newcastle? You're not alone: For one lonesome creature, the world stopped on 31 Dec 2020
The Natwest ATM of woe says no, bleats a plaintive: Børk!
25 Jan 09:30 | 14
Who, Me?
You would expect a qualified electrician to wire a building to spec, right? Trust... but verify
What could be wrong when two UPSes commit seppuku?
25 Jan 08:15 | 215
In Brief
Google AI ethics co-boss locked out of work account while probing controversial ousting of colleague
Plus: GPT-3 seems especially hostile toward Muslims. And Cruise, Microsoft work together on self-driving cars
25 Jan 06:54 | 51
DevOps
Tesla axes software engineer for allegedly pilfering secret Python scripts after just three days on the job
WARP Drive process automation code said to be 'extremely valuable'
24 Jan 10:04 | 103
In brief
ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex
Plus: SonicWall hacked, Qualcomm security wobble, warrantless cellphone monitoring by US snoops revealed
23 Jan 08:36 | 62
Science
There may be not one but two new air leaks in International Space Station: Russian boss tells us not to panic
Microscope needed to find tiny punctures in the hull
23 Jan 00:58 | 50
Personal Tech
We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news
Meanwhile, web giant agrees to cough up euros to French publishers
22 Jan 23:49 | 80
Personal Tech
Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist
Miscreants hit with $31m fines tho only pay what they can afford: $3.7m
22 Jan 21:02 | 42
Security
Scottish enviro bods shrug off ransomware gang's extortion attempt as 4,000 files dumped online, saying it's nothing big
Awa' an bile yer heid, SEPA tells ransomware scum
22 Jan 19:00 | 25
Updated
Clop ransomware gang clips sensitive files from Atlantic Records' London ad agency The7stars, dumps them online
Medium-sized firm, big revenues, big target
22 Jan 17:23 | 16
