Science San Francisco approves 'CEO tax', hopes to extract up to $140m a year from corps with wide exec-staff salary gap Plus or minus a load of caveats 06 Nov 02:12 | 43
Security Tech support scammer dialed random number and Australian Police’s cybercrime squad answered Cops used the opportunity to figure out remote access traps 06 Nov 03:05 | 126
Security Ransomware attack shutters Brazilian courts. But did attackers breach the virtual machine divide? Six-day outage predicted as rebuild commences from untouched backups 06 Nov 04:31 | 6
SaaS AWS to drop new cloud region into Hyderabad – home of Microsoft’s Indian HQ Promises mid-2022 opening of full three-AZ region in central Indian city 06 Nov 05:59 |
Science America's democracy on the brink, Brexit looming, climate crashing... when better to get the first fast radio burst from our own galaxy? 'u ok m8?' 06 Nov 06:32 | 34
Bootnotes Elon Musk's ancient April Fools' gag about 'Tesla Tequila' made real in lightning-shaped bottle At $250 for 750ml, the joke’s on buyers who bought the whole batch in hours 06 Nov 07:36 | 49
On Call Let's... drawer a veil over why this laser printer would decide to stop working randomly Easiest call-out ever (after a pinch of sleuthing) 06 Nov 08:15 | 170
SaaS Alibaba Cloud on the cusp of turning a profit after growing 60 percent in a year Don’t mention the postponed Ant Group float. Do mention the 881 million monthly mobile users and how they're spending more, more often 06 Nov 08:43 | 2
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Shopping online for Xmas? AI chatbots know whether you want to be naughty or nice 'What are you buying, Dave? We should talk about this' 06 Nov 09:30 | 75
Software Blazor: Full stack C# and Microsoft's pitch for ASP.NET Web Form diehards 'Two to three times faster' in .NET 5.0 - but is running .NET in the browser a good idea? 06 Nov 10:15 | 22
Security Snap-crappy: 183 Brit local authorities operate 80,000 CCTV cams between them, says surveillance watchdog Please make sure you're obeying the law, outgoing commissioner pleads 06 Nov 11:01 | 19
SaaS Network driver issue shaves 12 more hours off Microsoft's '365' infrastructure, and yeah, it was Exchange Online again Company famed for iffy patches demonstrates its email prowess 06 Nov 11:45 | 34
Exclusive Three rips up call centre outsourcing contract with Capita 2+ years early A sliver of functions coming back in house, most being offshored to India and 380 UK roles put 'at risk' of redundo by Capita 06 Nov 12:28 | 46
Job Alert Time to move on? From dev work to telco engineering to server-wrangling, there are plenty of jobs in this week's Reg listings Perhaps mentoring wet behind the ears devs is your cup of tea? 06 Nov 13:15 | 1
Personal Tech Apple opens pre-orders of iPhone 12 Mini and Pro Max models, the cheapest and most expensive in the lineup Smaller handset £699 going up to £1,099 for top-tier flavour 06 Nov 14:02 | 18
Software UK's 'minimum viable product' for Brexit transit software will not be ready until December, leaving no time for testing Fills you with confidence, doesn't it? 06 Nov 15:02 | 59
Security Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware gang pwns British housing biz via suspected phishing attack Same people who killed Travelex and revenge-published personal data when ignored. Nice folk 06 Nov 16:08 | 4
Video Hey, over here, I'm talking... Academics help computers figure out which way you're facing when you speak Which could be useful for AI assistants as they'll know whether you're barking orders at them or the kids or the TV 06 Nov 16:10 | 6
Security Ransomware crims read our bank balance and demanded the lot, reveals Scotland's Dundee and Angus College But we rebuilt the entire institution in 5 days, says principal as he looks back on February attack 06 Nov 17:17 | 26
Personal Tech Straighten up the tie pin, dear! Razer slaps on a suit with its totally-not-gaming laptops Meet the Razer Book 13 06 Nov 18:29 | 8
On-Prem More evidence your work/life balance has gone to $%£*: Atlassian says user-interface interactions show hours tacked on to workday You're probably reading this on your work laptop when you should have been down the pub 06 Nov 19:14 | 23
In Brief Never mind the White House. At least we know who's going to Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic to fling ship into space again Also: Another delay for SpaceX, Artemis I gets its fairings and Kelly twin prepares for a lengthy mission in politics 06 Nov 20:04 | 3
Personal Tech Apple wants privacy 'nutrition labels' on all new and updated apps in its software store from next month How many grams of carbo-spy-drates are in your favorite applications? 06 Nov 21:27 | 22
Updated Let's Encrypt warns about a third of Android devices will from next year stumble over sites that use its certs Expiration of cross-signed root certificates spells trouble for pre-7.1.1 kit... unless they're using Firefox 06 Nov 23:58 | 38