Security Cybersecurity giant FireEye says it was hacked by govt-backed spies who stole its crown-jewels hacking tools Not a great look 09 Dec 01:14 | 64
Personal Tech India's PM calls for e-waste to enter 'circular economy' while also promoting subsidies to factories that make e-waste Suggests industry forms a taskforce to do something eventually 09 Dec 02:24 | 4
Analysis Big Tech's Asian lobby slams Cambodian government's planned National Internet Gateway chokehold Because freedom, maybe also because it would make blocking their stuff easier 09 Dec 03:57 | 1
Software Cisco challenges the tyranny of Outlook with short, self-terminating Webex meetings Upgraded collab environment offers worthy post-COVID tweaks, also relies on oldies like Presence 09 Dec 05:58 | 23
AI + ML Japan pours millions into AI-powered dating to get its people making babies again Attempts tech fix to solve aging crisis 09 Dec 06:26 | 63
Personal Tech Apple fires warning shot at Facebook and Google on privacy, pledges fight against 'data-industrial complex' Offer does not apply in China 09 Dec 07:32 | 27
Personal Tech Australia mostly sticks to its guns in final plan to make Google and Facebook pay news publishers YouTube and Instagram exempted, Bill kicked into committee for a while 09 Dec 07:58 | 21
OSes CentOS project changes focus, no more rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – you'll have to flow with the Stream Founder talks of plans for independent distro 'rebuild' 09 Dec 08:27 | 156
Security Bitter war of words erupts between UK cops and web security expert over alleged flaws in Cyberalarm monitoring tool Pervade Software's product isn't perfect but neither is the police response to security concerns 09 Dec 09:30 | 27
Software Expect to work between Christmas and New Year as Brexit uncertainty continues, UK SAP users told T minus 23 days and there will very likely be last minute export/import changes 09 Dec 10:29 | 25
Bootnotes Reading El Reg while working from home? Here's a pleasant thought: Kaspersky says 1 in 10 of you are naked right now Those daily Zoom calls just got worse 09 Dec 11:25 | 78
Software Software contractor accused of favoring foreigners on work visas over Americans agrees to cough up $42,000 IT biz sued by US Dept of Justice on behalf of dev pays out fine, damages 09 Dec 12:30 | 20
Personal Tech OnePlus founder scores $7m from iPod inventor and other investors for audio startup 'Nothing' yet to speak of in terms of products, though 09 Dec 13:28 | 9
Science Useful quantum computers will be impossible without error correction. Good thing these folks are working on it What if the cat in the box could come back to life? 09 Dec 14:22 | 33
HPC HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chucks HPC chops into GreenLake Hardware infrastructure vendors' obsession with consumption-based tech continues 09 Dec 15:29 | 3
On-Prem Delay upgrading the UK's legacy border systems has added £336m to taxpayers' bill Spending watchdog report retells sad history of Home Office IT failings 09 Dec 16:30 | 34
Updated Apple appears to be charging Brits £309 to replace AirPods Max batteries, while Americans need only stump up $79 Typo? We've asked, but... well, y'know 09 Dec 17:15 | 126
Software GitHub Codespaces preview version still has some glaring omissions, CEO insists it will be ready when it's ready Rival GitPod sees perfect opportunity to say: Pssst, we've got that stuff 09 Dec 19:15 |
Security EU Medicines Agency hacked, BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine paperwork stolen, probe launched Regulatory submissions for COVID-19 jab candidate 'unlawfully accessed' 09 Dec 20:09 | 48
Personal Tech Facebook crushed rivals to maintain an illegal monopoly, the entire United States yells in Zuckerberg’s face Multi-AG, FTC antitrust lawsuits focus on 'the wrath of Mark', potential break-up of social media giant 09 Dec 20:55 | 42
re:Invent Amazon continues its tsunami of announcements, now with AI in mind. We spoke to an AWS lead to decode it all Inference can be expensive but the cloud giant's working on that, we're told 09 Dec 21:58 |
Analysis When it comes to privacy, everyone says America needs a new federal law ASAP. As for mass spying, well, um… huh what’s that over there? Congressional hearing on Privacy Shield oddly productive affair 09 Dec 23:06 | 42
Personal Tech AMD's latest top-end RX 6900 XT GPUs vacuumed up in minutes... maybe even by some actual gamers Ready Player None 09 Dec 23:58 | 16