Cloudflare slams AWS egress fees to convince web giant to join its discount data club
Lower your prices and play nicer, CDN goliath suggests
24 Jul 2021 | 4
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Google fixes 'Chromebork' one-character code typo that prevented Chrome OS logins
Bug of the week Programming blunder is the second such snafu this month
23 Jul 2021 | 5
Never mind the trolls, Discord hosts 'significant volumes of malware' in its CDN
Biz insists it's trying as hard as possible to scrub clean its IRC-for-the-2020s
23 Jul 2021 | 7
Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere
Games giant pushes back on claims of poor pay, harassment, and more in discrimination lawsuit
23 Jul 2021 | 19
Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it
Updated If you're wondering why some websites disappeared today
22 Jul 2021 | 36
NPM is Now Providing Malware – or was until recently
Password-stealing package outed by security firm evokes sense of déjà vu
21 Jul 2021 | 5
Spanish cops cuff Brit bloke accused of playing role in 2020 celeb Twitter hijacking
'PlugWalkJoe' also said to have meddled with TikTok, SnapChat
21 Jul 2021 | 10
Journo who went to prison for 2 years for breaking US cyber-security law is jailed again
Deletion of employer's YouTube account deemed violation of release
20 Jul 2021 | 23
Open-source dev and critic of Beijing claims Audacity owner Muse threatened him with deportation to China in row over copyright
'Who knows how he may be received...'
20 Jul 2021 | 48
Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly
One publisher's attempt to roll the internet back to a more innocent time
20 Jul 2021 | 91
IBM's 3% sales growth may not seem like much but it's the biggest it's had in three years
Maybe keep the email systems down a little longer if it helps this much?
20 Jul 2021 | 10
That time a startup tried to hire me just to push clients' products in job interviews
Veteran technologist Terence Eden recalls upstart's solicitation for shills
10 Jul 2021 | 55
Biden order calls for net neutrality, antitrust action, ISP competition – and right to repair your own damn phone
Market dominance of tech giants in President's cross-hairs
09 Jul 2021 | 77
Security warning deluge from 'npm audit' is driving developers to distraction
Can we have less infosec theater, please?
09 Jul 2021 | 17
Google herds FLoC back to the lab for undisclosed post-third-party-cookie ad tech modifications
Privacy advocates say surgery on bird-themed system must happen in public
08 Jul 2021 | 13
In conversation with Gene Hoffman, co-creator of the internet's first ad blocker
Interview El Reg revisits those early days of the internet and learns of the NSA tipping off Boeing about French spying
08 Jul 2021 | 32
IBM insiders say CEO Arvind Krishna downplayed impact of email troubles, asked for a week to sort things out
Behind the curtain: Server crashes, thumbs down on Slack, staff compared to shoemaker's kids, and more
08 Jul 2021 | 74
Bogus Kaseya VSA patches circulate, booby-trapped with remote-access tool
Phishing campaign aims to capitalize on slow fix deployment, it seems
07 Jul 2021 | 3
Florida Man sues Facebook, Twitter, YouTube for account ban
Golf fan has opinions on America's First Amendment and Section 230
07 Jul 2021 | 154
Age discrimination case against IBM leaks emails, docs via bad redaction
Documents detail exec worried that failure to transfer some laid-off workers 'will blow a hole in our rhetoric'
06 Jul 2021 | 56
Kaspersky Password Manager's random password generator was about as random as your wall clock
Could be brute-forced due to design blunders, according to infosec outfit
06 Jul 2021 | 78
Google has second thoughts about cutting cookies, so serves up CHIPs
Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State, no fish involved
02 Jul 2021 | 61
IBM email fiasco complicates sales deals, is worse than biz is letting on – sources
Unreliable messaging interferes with contract completion, we're told, as Slack channels flooded with memes
01 Jul 2021 | 57
Good guy Russia gives enterprises, cloud platforms a free brute-force security test using Kubernetes clusters
Thanks, Vlad, for the cyber-check-up and the containerization case study
01 Jul 2021 | 6
