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
Thomas is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and covers software development, DevOps, computer security, and more for The Register.
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
