OSes Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on Windows 10X: OS designed for dual-screen PCs axed It was just so good, we're cannibalizing it for parts, says Redmond 19 May 00:14 | 75
Personal Tech China all but bans cryptocurrencies Banks told not to transact, web platforms blocked from hosting or advertising, citizens told to look elsewhere for investments 19 May 01:17 | 69
Google IO More power to web apps, cries Google, and more privacy, too Without harming the ad business, natch 19 May 02:40 | 20
Personal Tech Google and Samsung merge their wearable OSes, tease Fitbit baked into the combo Who could possibly have predicted that developers would shun two small ecosystems? 19 May 03:58 | 10
Security New Zealand hospitals infected by ransomware, cancel some surgeries Intrusion believed to have entered through email 19 May 04:59 | 24
Servers Glimpse of 3GHz 128-core Ampere Altra Max server processor emerges as Oracle teases more cloudy Arms Even World of Warcraft is getting on the RISC-y bandwagon 19 May 05:58 | 7
Security The Microsoft Authenticator extension in the Chrome store wasn't actually made by Microsoft. Oops, Google Guess they'll let anyone in here 19 May 07:02 | 45
AI + ML Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API! 'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day 19 May 07:28 | 13
Security Australian Federal Police hiring digital evidence retrieval specialists: Being a very good boy and paws required Hounds can sniff out SIM cards that a human might miss 19 May 07:58 | 29
Applications UK data watchdog fines 'pandemic partner' biz £8k: It sent 84,000 marketing emails to people who'd given info for track and trace Tested.me Ltd broke the PECR, says Information Commissioner's Office 19 May 08:28 | 36
Personal Tech iFixit slams Samsung's phone 'upcycling' scheme for falling short of what was promised Dude, where's my unlocked bootloader? 19 May 09:12 | 50
Security Uptime funk: Microsoft has lifted availability of Azure Key Vault to 99.99% But beware the SLA: Just how much would an outage actually cost you? 19 May 10:01 | 8
Interview Faster Python: Mark Shannon, author of newly endorsed plan, speaks to The Register The biggest challenge? 'Backwards compatibility of features that we might not even know we have' 19 May 10:47 | 47
Off-Prem Keeping track of one cloud provider's data products is a 'full-time job' so forget mixing and matching, says Gartner Multi-cloud for data is too complicated 19 May 11:34 | 7
Software GitLab tries to address crypto-mining abuse by requiring card details for free stuff Tweak only affects shared runners and new users signed up after 17 May 19 May 12:15 | 10
Security Miscreants started scanning for Exchange Hafnium vulns five minutes after Microsoft told world about zero-days Being slow to patch just means you'll get pwned faster 19 May 13:02 | 16
Personal Tech To what do we owe the Honor? Huawei spinout breaks silence with two pro ultraportables New MagicBook 14 and 15 include 11th-gen Intel chippery, Xe graphics 19 May 13:47 | 1
Science Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet Probe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent 19 May 14:35 | 45
OSes Android 12 beta lands bringing better personalisation, speed upgrades, and some privacy tools borrowed from iOS 14 Google Pixel phone not required 19 May 15:20 | 10
Legal Parliament demands to know the score with Fujitsu as Post Office Horizon scandal gets inquiry with legal teeth 'Government's got to take responsibility for this,' rages opposition MP 19 May 16:09 | 76
Off-Prem AWS App Runner: Fast path from GitHub to deployed application, but limited features in first release Google Cloud Run envy? 19 May 17:13 |
Networks That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer trying a quick fix 'We feel bad about what happened' 19 May 17:49 | 68
Legal Apple seeks to junk claim that iOS is an 'essential facility' in legal spat with Epic Games Fortnite maker 'has no factual, expert, or legal support for its theory' 19 May 18:48 | 21
Personal Tech Qualcomm promises 5G 6nm Snapdragon 778G chip in mid-range phones by summer Honor, iQOO, OPPO, Realme, Xiaomi, Motorola onboard so far 19 May 20:58 |
Updated Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management Network boss Andrew Lee disputes claims made by those leaving the internet chat community 19 May 21:50 | 32
AI + ML Twitter: Our AI image-cropping algorithm is biased toward White people, women And that's why we've let humans take back control 19 May 23:26 | 12