21st August 2006 Archive • The Register

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS

Apple faces further iPhone 12 supply chain woes, per famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Geek's Guide

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Whoops, our bad, we just may have 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry

UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Verity Stob

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

21st > August > 2006 Archive

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS

Apple faces further iPhone 12 supply chain woes, per famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Whoops, our bad, we just may have 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry

UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

21st > August > 2006 Archive

Men removed from jet for 'speaking Arabic'

Martian pole freckled with geysers

Dear Sir Bill Gates: invoice enclosed

ATI posts driver update for Linux, Windows

Two arrested over fake hols website

Morgan Stanley punters get refund over computer cock-up

Dell to ship more than 3m AMD-based PCs by year's end?

Amazon attempts antenna connection using kitten

Intel unveils Q963-based mobo

Google loses ground in search battle, AOL continues to freefall

Palm: 3G Euro Treo to launch 12 September

i-mate turns from HTC for Jaq smart phone

FDA approves viruses as 'food additive'

Romanian police cuff 23 ID fraud suspects

Sandisk unveils 8GB Flash MP3 player

Sony tickled pink over rose-tinted PS2

Wanted: Master of the Belgian language

Samsung shows 'world's biggest' LCD HDTV

DWP embarrassed by prisoner overpayments

Computer-based models to replace the investment advisor?

ATI revives TV tuners for HD, DVR era

IBM buys MRO Software

EDS keeps MOD schtum over settlement

LogicaCMG buys its way into top ten

Ignorance is bliss for dolphins

Uri Geller sues over Elvis pad

Spend £11,700 now and save £30! enthuses Waitrose

Access to Apple's iTunes goes bananas

SEC sues over stock market spam scam

Sony pushes PS2 under £100

Milton Keynes gets WiMAX

BBC cans Rose Tyler Doctor Who spin-off

Class action aims at Operation Ore

Flores' 'hobbits' on endangered list

Synaptics gets touchy-feely with smart phone concept

Nuclear Holocaust starts today: WSJ

Trojan exploits unpatched PowerPoint vulnerability

Mainstream press goes down on Dell

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Intel NDA blueprints – 20GB of source code, schematics, specs, docs – spill onto web from partners-only vault

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins