Software You can wipe those smiley faces off: Unicode technical website is going to be out for 'a couple of weeks' Data center snafu borks site because of...something 14 Apr 01:57 | 30
Software We lost another good one: Mathematician John Conway loses Game of Life, taken by coronavirus at 82 British mathematician checks out 14 Apr 02:32 | 61
Security So how do the coronavirus smartphone tracking apps actually work and should you download one to help? Bluetooth, GPS, cell towers, code scanning: what’s the best way? 14 Apr 02:36 | 205
Part two Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13 14 Apr 03:08 | 22
Legal Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters! As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool 14 Apr 04:03 | 1
Security Zoom adds Choose Your Own Routing Adventure to keep chats out of China As Microsoft gives Teams a Brady Bunch upgrade 14 Apr 05:03 | 24
Legal India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize 14 Apr 05:58 | 12
Science Astroboffins suspect twin-star smash may be the culprit for most biggest and brightest supernova yet spotted A rogue pulsational pair-instability nova from a heavy star measuring over 100 times the mass of the Sun 14 Apr 07:01 | 9
On-Prem PC shipments went over a cliff in Q1, which may be only moderately terrifying Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities 14 Apr 07:33 | 12
Software Google extends e-commerce platform to help people in India find nearby food during lockdown Google Pay is about to get really useful in India's biggest cities 14 Apr 08:08 | 7
Comment Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness 14 Apr 08:56 | 72
Column A chief technology officer in a time of COVID-19: Keep calm and make the most of the whole business suddenly realising how important IT is Time to break ties with historic corporate inertia 14 Apr 09:41 | 27
Comment Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing It’s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in 14 Apr 10:44 | 55
Security Let's authenticate: Beyond Identity pitches app-wrapped certificate authority Enclave-bound service aims to be another nail in the password coffin 14 Apr 11:30 | 23
HPC Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront 14 Apr 12:15 | 22
Servers AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm? 14 Apr 13:00 | 12
Networks UK MPs fume after Huawei posts open letter stating: 'Disrupting our involvement in the 5G rollout would do Britain a disservice' Conservative politicos including IDS voice anger over 'untimely special pleading' 14 Apr 13:57 | 32
Roundup Microsoft's Teams clocks 2.7 billion minutes of meetings in a single day as April starts to run out for Windows 10 2004 Plus: New Edge build, more Office 365 branding snuffed 14 Apr 14:46 | 10
Networks From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard Amazingly, contractor for massive UK TV channels differentiates himself from 'mainstream media' 14 Apr 15:30 | 93
Interview Started from the bottom, now we're near: 16 years on, open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape draws close to v1.0 'It was really a long process because it's just volunteer work' 14 Apr 16:16 | 45
On-Prem Second-wave dotcom Uber-investor Softbank forecasts gargantuan losses as world economy faces slump Oh it can't be that baaa.... $16.7 BEEELLION?! 14 Apr 17:30 | 23
Software Integrate all the things: OpenText would like to knit together application data from across company boundaries ERP, warehousing, sales, accounts, supply chain all working together 14 Apr 18:15 | 5
Updated 'Come 75,000 workers, join us!' says Amazon. Just don't dare complain about the boss or you're out on your ear “Repeatedly violated internal policies” means go to the door 14 Apr 20:19 | 12
OSes April 2020 and – rest assured – your Windows PC can still be pwned by something so innocuous as an unruly font Adobe and Intel add their woes 14 Apr 22:02 | 44
Devops Stack Overflow banishes belligerent blather with bespoke bot – but will it work? 'The mean police, they live inside of my head, the mean police, they come to me in my bed...' 14 Apr 22:12 | 33