Databases Feds cuff Detroit man for allegedly hacking University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Data pilfered from PeopleSoft HR database sold to tax fraudsters, it is claimed 19 Jun 00:50 | 1
Security Australian PM says nation under serious state-run 'cyber attack' – Microsoft, Citrix, Telerik UI bugs 'exploited' Won't say who the attackers are working for – just don't mention 中国 19 Jun 01:12 | 37
Servers Latest Xeons land in new Huawei server despite looming US ban Although Huawei’s details are rather thin on this one 19 Jun 03:13 | 4
Personal Tech By emptying offices, coronavirus has hastened the paperless office Analyst predicts seven-football-fields-per-minute printing plunge 19 Jun 05:03 | 95
Networks Netgear was told in January its routers can be hacked and hijacked. This week, first patches released – after exploits, details made public Two models get hot-fixes, er, looks like 77 more to go? 19 Jun 06:03 | 18
Updated Health Sec Hancock says UK will use Apple-Google API for virus contact-tracing app after all (even though Apple were right rotters) It's The Reg wot warned it 19 Jun 06:34 | 209
Personal Tech Xiaomi and NXP ride a bus to Moscow with a wearable Mastercard Threesome now plan to march East and conquer Europe 19 Jun 06:56 | 2
On Call PC printer problems and enraged execs: When the answer to 'Hand over that floppy disk' is 'No' Time for the Windows pantomime: 'Oh yes it does...' 'Oh no it doesn't' 19 Jun 07:29 | 141
Pic Check out the night sky in all its X-ray glory: Everything from hot gases to supernovas and massive black holes eROSITA telescope shows a busy, energetic universe 19 Jun 08:15 | 12
Bork!Bork!Bork! What does London's number 65 bus have to hide? OS caught on camera setting fire to '22,000 illegal file(s)!!' And look, confirmed hacker sitting up front 19 Jun 08:59 | 63
Security At Mozilla VPN stands for Vague Product News: Foundation reveals security product will launch eventually, with temporary pricing, in unspecified places But it does have a name. 'Firefox Private Network' is out, ‘Mozilla VPN’ is in. 19 Jun 09:42 | 15
Devops It's 500 Friday at GitHub as source shack takes an hour-long morning totter A week of wobbles ends in a good, old fashioned TITSUP* 19 Jun 10:25 | 5
SaaS ServiceNow slammed for 'tone deaf' letter telling customers contracts can't be tweaked as COVID-19 batters businesses 'If that is true, that is a horrendous admission' – analyst 19 Jun 11:03 | 42
Job Alert Security experts, systems managers and developers: Lots of intriguing job openings to look through this week If you're looking around, there's a lot on offer 19 Jun 11:46 |
Legal A memo from the distant future... June 2022: The boss decides working from home isn't the new normal after all Because nobody wants to be the new Yahoo! apparently 19 Jun 12:30 | 122
Software Google isn't even trying to not be creepy: 'Continuous Match Mode' in Assistant will listen to everything until it's disabled I always feel like / somebody's dropping eaves / and I have no privacy 19 Jun 13:15 | 61
Networks Police and NHS urge British public not to call 101 and 111 non-emergency numbers after behind-the-scenes kit failure Vodafone responsible for maintaining system infrastructure 19 Jun 14:00 | 16
Legal IR35 tax reforms for UK freelancers glide through committee stage: D-Day set for 6 April 2021 *Cough* But are they freelancers? *cough* – HMRC 19 Jun 14:45 | 34
Personal Tech Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag £499 nabs early birds 5G, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage 19 Jun 15:25 | 5
Storage Ex-director cops community service after 5,000-file deletion spree on company Dropbox 'Revenge' attack cost biz £100k, say police 19 Jun 16:04 | 44
On-Prem Can't get your Pi fix online? The Cambridge shop's back open for business, Brits Doors remain closed at that other hub of nerdery, the Centre for Computing History 19 Jun 16:48 | 12
Networks Huawei going to predict the future? Nope, say company leaders when asked about Joe Biden winning US election 'We don't know what he stands for' 19 Jun 17:30 | 44
Software Microsoft emits a colourful Windows Terminal preview Yeah, about that whole JSON thing... 19 Jun 18:18 | 36
Security Australia's Lion brewery hit by second cyber attack as nation staggers under suspected Chinese digital assault Wait and see before pointing the finger, warns threat intel boffin 19 Jun 19:10 | 76
AI + ML Good luck using generative adversarial networks in real life – they're difficult to train and finicky to fix An AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register 19 Jun 20:00 | 14
Security Hey NYPD, when you're done tear-gassing and running over protesters, can you tell us about your spy gear? City council demands snoop gear kit reports, mayor OK with that 19 Jun 21:55 | 81
Analysis Sure is wild that Apple, Google app store monopolies are way worse than what Windows got up to, sniffs Microsoft prez 'Far more formidable gates to access to other applications than anything that existed in the industry 20 years ago' 19 Jun 23:44 | 133