Thomas Claburn

UK competition watchdog investigates Apple and Google 'stranglehold' over the mobile market

Apple doesn't want to bite

Software23 Nov 2022 | 28

Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy

AI agent proves better than most people in classic game of trust and betrayal

AI + ML23 Nov 2022 | 13

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone

Software22 Nov 2022 | 81

IBM manager sues for $5m claiming postnatal demotion

Congratulations on the twins! By the way, our discrimination laws are 'subject to interpretation'

On-Prem21 Nov 2022 | 14

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

Even in Club Fed, that's a long time

Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 134

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

ACLU argues for the Fourth

Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 104

FTX disarray declared 'unprecedented' by exec who cleaned up after Enron

Corporate funds bought employee homes, no accounting department, uncertainty about who's an employee, and other baffling behavior

Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 111

Security firms hijack New York trees to monitor private workforce

Employee management tech raises eyebrows in the Big Apple

Security17 Nov 2022 | 57

Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week

Nightly and Developer Edition users will be able to test the new cruelty

Applications17 Nov 2022 | 11

Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict

Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected

Systems16 Nov 2022 | 13

Open source community split over offer of 'corporate' welfare for critical dev tools

Special report Linux Foundation presents IT and help to key volunteers – and some wonder if this is a deal with the Devil

Software16 Nov 2022 | 20

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out

Security16 Nov 2022 | 70

After 47 years, Microsoft issues first sexual harassment and gender report

Faint praise: Windows giant tries to follow best practices and wants to improve

Legal16 Nov 2022 | 4

Commercial repair shops caught snooping on customer data by canny Canadian research crew

Naming no names, but study finds trustworthy techs are hard to find

Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 66

FTX collapse prompts other cryptocurrency firms to suspend withdrawals

Bankruptcy filing for $32 billion firm follows inability to give customers their money

Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 89

Apple boosts bug bounties but may not fix some bugs in past operating systems

Where's your spirit of Ventura?

OSes28 Oct 2022 | 9

You're Shipt outta luck: App sued for treating delivery workers as contractors

'No, no, they're shoppers, not employees' ain't gonna fly with DC AG

Personal Tech27 Oct 2022 | 47

Feds accuse Ukrainian of renting out PC-raiding Raccoon malware to fiends

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal

Cyber-crime26 Oct 2022 | 1

And then the SEC said, we'll claw back bad bonuses

If there's been an accounting blunder, execs may have to return incentives

Offbeat26 Oct 2022 | 19

Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover

Software25 Oct 2022 | 16

Python team wraps version 3.11.0

Latest release brings better speed and more comprehensible error messages

Software25 Oct 2022 | 6

Red Hat, Intel open centers for the edge

Shuttling sensor data all the way into the cloud is so 2014

Networks25 Oct 2022 |

Uncle Sam says Chinese agents tried to interfere with Huawei criminal case in US

Beijing also sought to recruit academics and officials in America, and more claimed

Security24 Oct 2022 | 9

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

Hands On Long live the King's English or something like that

Applications22 Oct 2022 | 339

IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees

Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme

Systems21 Oct 2022 | 36

Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data

You can kiss my Californian ass, says ad giant

Personal Tech20 Oct 2022 | 16

AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education

Analysis Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals

AI + ML20 Oct 2022 | 27

IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week

Exclusive And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled

On-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 20

How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm

Special report AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one

AI + ML19 Oct 2022 | 75

'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected

SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software

Security18 Oct 2022 | 21

Meta shares latest hardware – you can't wear it on your face, so don't panic

More capable kit ready for more demanding machine learning tasks

Systems18 Oct 2022 | 1

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

Space scientists lament loss, say it won't be the same without actual working instruments

Science17 Oct 2022 | 40

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10

FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher

Redmond says OME isn't supposed to be used for security, just for something else

Security14 Oct 2022 | 13

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Comment Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

Personal Tech14 Oct 2022 | 92

Microsoft HoloLens proves to be a headache for US soldiers

Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR

Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 17

Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

Exclusive Security expert challenges claim that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting kids

Security13 Oct 2022 | 142

Prison inmate accused of orchestrating $11M fraud using cell cellphone

Judge rejects defense effort to toss warrantless device search on privacy grounds

Security13 Oct 2022 | 29

How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

Check your rooftops: Flying gear caught carrying network-intrusion kit

Cyber-crime12 Oct 2022 | 35

Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff

About to get a lot trickier to justify contractor status for app-hired folks

Personal Tech11 Oct 2022 | 73

PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea

It'll just go back to randomly shutting down accounts

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 85

Lufthansa bans Apple AirTags on checked bags

Updated Wouldn't want anyone to know how much luggage is lost, eh?

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 46

No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk

Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom

Science10 Oct 2022 | 27

That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? Here's how to break it

RPKI is supposed to verify network routes. Cyber-researchers suggest ways to potentially defeat it

Security09 Oct 2022 |

Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

How's your day going?

Cyber-crime07 Oct 2022 | 58

AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared

They can't be any worse than some human developers

AI + ML07 Oct 2022 | 17

Google reveals Pixel 7 phones with 1.7 Stadias of security fixes promised

This and wearables fortified with machine learning to serve you, human

Personal Tech06 Oct 2022 | 17

Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft

Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice

Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 14

American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China

LA DA ain't happy about handling of poll workers' info

Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 23

IBM battles to settle yet more age discrimination claims

While accused of already breaking terms of an earlier deal

On-Prem04 Oct 2022 | 4

Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app

Analysis Totally not for data collection

Software04 Oct 2022 | 45

From today, America and UK follow new rules on how they can demand your data from each other

Cops and Feds get easier info sharing, Britain benefits most

Security03 Oct 2022 | 19

Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids

Wait, wait, hear us out

Science01 Oct 2022 | 33

Google delays execution of doomed Chrome extensions

Busineses get a little longer with Manifest v2, everyone else... it depends

Applications30 Sep 2022 | 20

How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms

Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password'

Research29 Sep 2022 | 38

Reverse DNS queries may reveal too much, computer scientists argue

When you combine it with DHCP, that spells TRACK ME

Networks29 Sep 2022 | 25

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Twitter search spam campaign hides China riots, researchers say

Block Fi seeks bankruptcy protection as 'shocking' FTX contagion spreads

San Francisco politicians to vote on policy endorsing lethal force for robots

FAA wants pilots to be less dependent on computer autopilots

UK competition watchdog investigates Apple and Google 'stranglehold' over the mobile market

Meta's Cicero chatbot can probably beat you at Diplomacy

France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

IBM manager sues for $5m claiming postnatal demotion

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

FTX disarray declared 'unprecedented' by exec who cleaned up after Enron

Security firms hijack New York trees to monitor private workforce

Mozilla will begin signing Mv3 extensions for Firefox next week

Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict

Open source community split over offer of 'corporate' welfare for critical dev tools

Swiss bankers warn: Three quarters of retail Bitcoin investors are in the red

After 47 years, Microsoft issues first sexual harassment and gender report

Commercial repair shops caught snooping on customer data by canny Canadian research crew

FTX collapse prompts other cryptocurrency firms to suspend withdrawals

Apple boosts bug bounties but may not fix some bugs in past operating systems

You're Shipt outta luck: App sued for treating delivery workers as contractors

Feds accuse Ukrainian of renting out PC-raiding Raccoon malware to fiends

And then the SEC said, we'll claw back bad bonuses

Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

Python team wraps version 3.11.0

Red Hat, Intel open centers for the edge

Uncle Sam says Chinese agents tried to interfere with Huawei criminal case in US

How I made a Chrome extension for converting Reg articles to UK spelling

IBM withholds healthcare subsidies from some retirees

Texas sues Google over alleged nonconsensual harvesting of biometric data

AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education

IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week

How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm

'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected

Meta shares latest hardware – you can't wear it on your face, so don't panic

Collapsed Arecibo telescope to be replaced by school

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Microsoft HoloLens proves to be a headache for US soldiers

Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

Prison inmate accused of orchestrating $11M fraud using cell cellphone

How Wi-Fi spy drones snooped on financial firm

Uber, Lyft stock decimated as US aims to classify gig workers as staff

PayPal decides fining people $2,500 for 'misinformation' wasn't a great idea

Lufthansa bans Apple AirTags on checked bags

No, no, hear us out, say boffins: Foot fungus to measure your walk

That thing to help protect internet traffic from hijacking? Here's how to break it

Binance robbed of $600 million in crypto-tokens

AI co-programmers perhaps won't spawn as many bugs as feared

Google reveals Pixel 7 phones with 1.7 Stadias of security fixes promised

Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft

American software biz CEO arrested for allegedly storing election data in China

IBM battles to settle yet more age discrimination claims

Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app

From today, America and UK follow new rules on how they can demand your data from each other

Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids

Google delays execution of doomed Chrome extensions

How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms

Reverse DNS queries may reveal too much, computer scientists argue

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