Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late
Where's the PowerShell command to ban all meetings forever?
Security
Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo
Blundering mouthpiece sent arrogant line to journalist by accident
Column
Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged
Countless people signed away the right to have their trauma acknowledged, and that can’t stand
Personal Tech
iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat
Sulphorous stench was self-immolating Apple product
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Offbeat
Lego's Space Shuttle Discovery: No trouble with Hubble, but the stickers will drive a grown man to insanity
The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set
21 Apr 08:31 | 1
Security
REvil ransomware gang claims it stole top-secret tech designs – including Apple lappies – from Quanta Computer
Threatens to release designs and data if not paid. But dangles 2005-vintage ThinkPad as proof it's serious
21 Apr 07:57 | 2
Promo
Your cloud security is static – and you’re open to more risk than you realize
Make your move before the cyber-crims make theirs, says Sysdig
21 Apr 07:30 |
Legal
Toshiba rejects private equity buyout offer on grounds it was scarcely credible
Tells CVC and other would-be buyers to get serious and read Japanese regulations, or go home
21 Apr 06:58 |
Devops
Not saying you should but we're told it's possible to land serverless app a '$40k/month bill using a 1,000-node botnet'
CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack
21 Apr 06:23 | 2
Science
China has a satellite with an arm – and America worries it could be used to snatch other spacecraft
Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress
21 Apr 05:58 | 14
Legal
Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure
Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference
21 Apr 04:46 | 11
Security
Japan accuses Chinese military of cyber-attacks on its space agency
200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost
21 Apr 03:30 | 1
Don't Miss
Truth and consequences for enterprise AI as EU know who goes legal: GDPR of everything from chatbots to machine learning
Column Regulations On A European Approach For Artificial Intelligence
Networks
Chinese officials declare intention to become network superpower, tout glorious 5G rollout that's smaller than local carriers' claims
Great Leap Forward sees broadband speeds surge, 99 per cent of villages hooked up, all for $6/month
21 Apr 02:17 | 5
AI + ML
US Army develops natural-language voice-command AI for robots, tanks, etc. For search'n'rescue. For now
Judge, JUDI, and executioner?
21 Apr 01:14 | 8
Personal Tech
We seem to have materialized in a universe in which Barney the Purple Dinosaur is designing iPhones for Apple
Is there a back button for reality?
20 Apr 23:56 | 13
Security
China broke into govt, defense, finance networks via zero-day in Pulse Secure VPN gateways? No way
Crucial flaw won't be fixed until next month
20 Apr 22:20 | 2
Software
Node.js 16 released with Apple Silicon binaries, JavaScript V8 engine turned up to nine
All supported releases will now support ECMAScript modules - but progress on moving away from CommonJS is slow
20 Apr 20:42 |
Security
Would be so cool if everyone normalized these pesky data leaks, says data-leaking Facebook in leaked memo
Blundering mouthpiece sent arrogant line to journalist by accident
20 Apr 19:51 | 20
Applications
Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late
Where's the PowerShell command to ban all meetings forever?
20 Apr 19:23 | 27
Sponsored
With the cloud, letting your emotions run over may mean the costs do too
Time to take things cool and slow
20 Apr 18:00 |
Personal Tech
iPhone XR caught fire after getting trapped in airline passenger's seat
Sulphorous stench was self-immolating Apple product
20 Apr 16:20 | 28
Security
Do you expect me to talk? Yes, Mr Bond, I expect you to reply: 10k Brits targeted on LinkedIn by Chinese, Russian spies
Campaign launched to alert public sector staff that not everyone on the internet is nice
20 Apr 15:48 | 8
PaaS + IaaS
'Unhealthy' Azure Portal instances in UK West take a little lie-down over lunchtime
A brief nap can do wonders when you're under the weather
20 Apr 14:25 | 8
Software
What next for Visual Studio? Microsoft's monster IDE can't please everyone and 64-bit will not solve legacy problems
Redmond is in a pickle with loyal Windows devs on one side and cloud-based Linuxy future on the other
20 Apr 13:35 | 15
Off-Prem
IBM's cloud services echo its Q1 financial results: They're both down
Strategic imperative Cloud & Cognitive Solutions grows 0.8%, good old hardware spares execs' blushes
20 Apr 12:29 | 3
Security
We need to talk about criminal adversaries who want you to eat undercooked onion rings
Cisco Talos discovers flaws in air fryer, connected chip cooker firm fails to fix
20 Apr 11:37 | 47
Software
Global pharma firm GSK opens Pandora's Box of its SAP system to find 28,000 variations on a process
Why can't business users just stick to the script?
20 Apr 10:02 | 8
Bootnotes
God bless this mess: Study says UK's Christian beliefs had 'important' role in Brexit
Church of England first left the European bloc in the 16th century
20 Apr 09:15 | 190
Column
Harassers and bullies succeed in tech because silence is encouraged
Countless people signed away the right to have their trauma acknowledged, and that can’t stand
20 Apr 08:31 | 103
Video
Watch this: Ingenuity – Earth's first aircraft to fly on another planet – take off on Mars
History in the making for the tiny open-source-powered whizzing chopper
20 Apr 07:39 | 45
Security
Bank of England ponders minting 'Britcoin' to sit alongside the Pound
Taskforce and two forums to consider Central Bank Digital Currency
20 Apr 06:56 | 76
On-Prem
Foxconn and Wisconsin reach new deal to do something different at Donald Trump's favourite (flop of a) factory
Speculation of shift to EVs swirls as governor who once said $3bn subsidy plan was a con now thinks it 'works for taxpayers'
20 Apr 05:45 | 10
Networks
If your internet wobbled last weekend, you have Vodafone India to thank for it
It's always BGP (when it’s not DNS). Absent route filtering didn't help either
20 Apr 04:32 | 7
Off-Prem
Microsoft pledges Malaysian Azure region after winning government cloud gig
Complete with availability zones, coming real soon now after it turns local kids onto the cloud
20 Apr 01:24 | 1
Personal Tech
Far-right internet haven Parler to be allowed back onto Apple's App Store with added content moderation
Social network for web outcasts can be downloaded again from next week for iThings, we're told
20 Apr 00:24 | 27
Personal Tech
Lock up your Peloton smart treadmills, watchdog warns families following one death, numerous injuries
Trendy exercise gear 'poses serious risks to children', says CPSC
19 Apr 23:36 | 50
Security
Who knew Uncle Sam had strike teams for SolarWinds, Exchange flaws? Well, anyway, they are disbanded
Lessons learned and mission accomplished, apparently
19 Apr 22:28 | 11
Updated
'There was no one driving that vehicle': Texas cops suspect Autopilot involved after two men killed in Tesla crash
Model S took corner at high speed, left road, and smashed into a tree
19 Apr 21:30 | 119
Security
WordPress core contributor proposes treating Google FLoC as a security vulnerability
Let's opt every WordPress site out of FLoC. Nice idea, but security update? Really?
19 Apr 20:27 | 27
Bootnotes
Brit Salesforce exec Gavin Patterson becomes transfer target for controversial European Super League
Ex-BT boss is familiar with the football lifestyle – being paid millions for doing very little
19 Apr 19:30 | 17
Security
Won't somebody please think of the children!!! UK to mount fresh assault on end-to-end encryption in Facebook
Change the record, nobody's fooled by this now
19 Apr 18:45 | 99
Promo
Your data warehouse’s future is balanced on the edge – whether you know it or not
Looking for the way ahead? Follow the Yellowbrick Summit
19 Apr 18:00 |
On-Prem
UK digital secretary Oliver Dowden starts national security probe into proposed Arm-Nvidia merger
Share price immediately dips for GPU-maker
19 Apr 17:30 | 27
Software
Microsoft bows to the inevitable and takes Visual Studio 64-bit for 2022 version
When 4GB is just not quite enough
19 Apr 17:01 | 23
Security
Codecov dev tool warns of stolen credentials from compromised script, undiscovered for two months
Environment variables full of secrets uploaded to attacker server
19 Apr 16:03 | 8
