Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions Not a machine-generated headline, we swear 17 Jan 2021 | 27
MIT professor charged with failing to disclose China ties while hitting up US Dept of Energy for research grant Academic also charged with hiding foreign assets, false tax statements 15 Jan 2021 | 11
Quixotic Californian crusade to officially recognize the hellabyte and hellagram is going hella nowhere The Reg speaks to Stanford boffin behind decade-long push for SI prefix 14 Jan 2021 | 98
Four women seek release from forced arbitration to sue Infosys for widespread gender discrimination IT consultancy favors male and Indian workers, watchdog told in complaint 14 Jan 2021 | 48
Airbnb, or not to be, if you're headed to Washington DC: Biz cancels bookings over fears of inauguration insurrection Hosts, guests paid off to 'ensure hate group members are not part of the Airbnb community' 13 Jan 2021 | 19
Privacy pilfering project punished by FTC purge penalty: AI upstart told to delete data and algorithms Face-recognition biz hammered after harvesting people's pics, videos without permission 13 Jan 2021 | 21
Microsoft emits 83 security fixes – and miscreants are already exploiting one of the vulns in Windows Defender Patch Tuesday Redmond keeps us hanging with on-premises Exchange flaw still to be fixed 12 Jan 2021 | 12
How I found a bug in YouTube that let me watch private videos I wasn't allowed to, says compsci student Theft-by-a-thousand-cuts flaw fixed 12 Jan 2021 | 9
Parler games: Social network for internet rejects sues Amazon Web Services for pulling plug on hosting Updated And no, Parler wasn't hacked either. Its public posts were simply scraped 11 Jan 2021 | 140
Buggy code, fragile legacy systems, ill-conceived projects cost US businesses $2 trillion in 2020 Software quality crisis made worse by developer shortage, report claims 09 Jan 2021 | 118
UK watchdog sniffs around Google Chrome's Privacy Sandbox as it may give Choc Factory all the sweeties Ad giant's cookie replacement plan runs into resistance 09 Jan 2021 | 19
Loser Trump is no longer useful to Twitter, entire account deleted over fears he'll whip up more mayhem Don't worry, Mr President, we've found another platform for you: /dev/null 09 Jan 2021 | 348
Boeing will cough up $2.5bn+ to settle US fraud charge over 737 Max safety Cash will go to airlines that bought the danger jets, victims' fund 08 Jan 2021 | 64
Trump silenced online: Facebook, Twitter etc balk at insurrection, shut the door after horse bolts and nearly burns down the stable Even ecommerce platform Shopify permanently shutters Don's shops 07 Jan 2021 | 173
What happens when a Chrome extension with 2m+ users changes hands, raises red flags, doesn't document updates? Let's find out Analysis Oh yes, I'm the Great Suspender, pretending I'm doing well 07 Jan 2021 | 35
JetBrains' build automation software eyed as possible enabler of SolarWinds hack Maker of developer tools says it played no role in the attack, hasn't heard from investigators 07 Jan 2021 | 18
America says banks can now transact using so-called stable crypto-coins. What does that actually mean? Feature We talk to the experts after US Treasury's OCC blesses blockchains, digi-bucks 06 Jan 2021 | 27
Be careful where you log into GitHub: Dev visits Iran, opens laptop, gets startup's entire account shut down Service restored, code silo gets license to serve Iranian programmers 05 Jan 2021 | 47
Happy New Year: Jan 1, 2021 security cert expiration causes havoc for some Check Point VPN users Outdated clients stop working, organizations with thousands of end-points told to switch out .sys files 05 Jan 2021 | 15
Intel accused by distributor of breaking promises, shipping subpar enterprise-friendly Falcon 8+ drones Tech slinger upset it can't unload $560,000 worth of flying Chipzilla gizmos 04 Jan 2021 | 6
Dell Wyse Thin Client scores two perfect 10 security flaws Come on in and enjoy our unprotected FTP server and unsigned configuration files 21 Dec 2020 | 34
Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play No one's AMPing up the love 19 Dec 2020 | 42
Wait ages for an antitrust battle and three come along at once: Google sued by 38 US states over search monopoly Silicon Valley titan allegedly screwed rivals with exclusionary agreements 17 Dec 2020 | 15
About $15m in advertising booked to appear on millions of smart TVs was never seen by anyone, says Oracle Yes, Oracle the database giant. 2020 keeps on being 2020 17 Dec 2020 | 52
GitHub will no longer present a cookie notification banner – because it's scrapping non-essential cookies Privacy turns out to be fairly easy 17 Dec 2020 | 60