Blockchain

OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions

Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards

Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 2

India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm

In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain

Security12 May 2023 | 5

Tokyo has millions of surplus Wi-Fi access points that should be shared with blockchain, says NTT

Claims it's verified viability of city-scale network that would free vast resources, in Japan or elsewhere

Networks27 Apr 2023 | 29

DoJ, Treasury accuses 3 men of laundering crypto for North Korea

If the DPRK is named, you know it somehow involves Lazarus Group

Cyber-crime26 Apr 2023 | 3

To the Moon? Emojis can be financial advice, says judge

QED, NFTs are securities

Offbeat27 Feb 2023 | 36

Titanic mass grave site to be pillaged for NFTs

Comment Company claims that's the best way to put 'historical' legacy in the hands of the global public

Offbeat22 Feb 2023 | 56

Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist

Meanwhile South Korea's Do Kwon is sought for fraud by US authorities

Cyber-crime17 Feb 2023 | 7

Crypto mixer Sinbad looks uncannily like a remix of North Korea's notorious Blender

Lazarus Group’s favorite digi-dollar launderer may have risen again

Software14 Feb 2023 | 12

China unveils massive blockchain cluster running homebrew tech

1,000 servers capable of 240 million transactions a second, because Beijing wants to watch everything

On-Prem03 Feb 2023 | 16

Bankruptcy probe: Celsius cheated investors 'from the start'

If it walks like a Ponzi, quacks like a Ponzi, guess what it is?

Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 20

California toys with digital vehicle titles on private DMV blockchain

Because this is necessary, definitely can't go wrong

On-Prem28 Jan 2023 | 43

FBI catches up with infosec and crypto communities, blames Lazarus Group for $100 million heist

Well played, feds. What's next? Ransomware is rampant? Strong passwords are important?

Cyber-crime25 Jan 2023 | 4

Finally, ransomware victims are refusing to pay up

Near 50% drop in extorted dosh ... or so it says here

Cyber-crime19 Jan 2023 | 18

Crypto craziness craps out – and about time too

Opinion Fintech, you're better than this. Time to concentrate on more helpful stuff

Networks23 Dec 2022 | 150

Blockchain needs a reason to exist, Boris Johnson tells roomful of blockchain pros

As for Twitter, politicians need to grow thick skins and stop mistaking it for advertisement

Software02 Dec 2022 | 107

‘Mother of Internet’ Radia Perlman argues for centralized infrastructure

Inventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise

Networks02 Dec 2022 | 40

Japan's LINE shutters crypto exchange to focus on less controversial blockbiz

Decision is unrelated to recent crypto crashes, presages pivot to some kind of tokenised chat

Software29 Nov 2022 | 3

New York cracks down on carbon fuel-based crypto-mining operations

Two-year ban comes as state attempts to reduce emissions by 85%

Networks23 Nov 2022 | 33

Australian exchange pauses project to move stocks to blockchain

Distributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart

Software17 Nov 2022 | 31

NFT vending machine appears in London

Don't everyone rush at once

Offbeat04 Nov 2022 | 49

China promises its digital currency will offer 'controllable anonymity'

This means personal info will be captured but not used – unless you're a suspected crim

Software01 Nov 2022 | 30

Luxury smartphone brand returns with $41,500 device

If your mobile's not 18k gold with diamonds, do you even crypto bro?

Offbeat25 Oct 2022 | 48

Digital Ocean won't let new customers create resources in four DCs, won't say why

Can't even spin up the compute necessary to reply

PaaS + IaaS30 Sep 2022 | 14

Interpol seeks Do Kwon, man blamed for $40b crypto implosion

Founder of firm at center of fraud claims says he's 'not running' right now. Ditched the Fitbit, have you?

Personal Tech26 Sep 2022 | 4

Crypto biz Wintermute loses $160m in cyber-heist, tells us not to stress out

The other Tessier-Ashpool AIs are surely disappointed

Cyber-crime20 Sep 2022 | 10

Merge shifts Ethereum to full proof-of-stake, price slumps

Power consumption plummets, too, so there's that

Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 42

SWIFT to trial blockchain – but not for its core payment service

Hopes to streamline market data movements, but as 11,000 institutions use SWIFT this is a bit of a moment

Software15 Sep 2022 | 24

Feds freeze $30m in cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity

But the North Korean criminals are still over half a billion digicash dollars up

Security09 Sep 2022 | 15

FBI: Look out, crooks stole $1.3b in cryptocurrency in just three months this year

DeFi, as in, defying belief

Cyber-crime01 Sep 2022 | 9

DeFi credit scores: Coming soon to a blockchain near you

Tension between anonymity and identity in web3 is being tested as firms seek a way to control rampant fraud

Networks25 Aug 2022 | 12

Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers

Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 17

Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again

Accenture roped in to find the weakest link

Software04 Aug 2022 | 15

US puts $10 million bounty on North Korean cyber-crews

Kim will be shaking in his shoes

Security27 Jul 2022 | 7

Microsoft to blockheads: NFTs and blockchains aren't welcome in Minecraft

Cites flakiness of NFT community and speculative activity as inimical to the game's goals

Personal Tech21 Jul 2022 | 21

Tech professionals pour cold water on UK crypto hub plans

Government proposals unlikely to outlast the new Chancellor anyway

Software08 Jul 2022 | 36

Crypto sleuths pin $100 million Harmony theft on Lazarus Group

Elliptic points to several indicators that suggest the North Korea-linked gang was behind the hack

Cyber-crime01 Jul 2022 | 8

China's blockchain boosters slam crypto as Ponzi scheme

Communists reckon Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got it right

Software28 Jun 2022 | 59

DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (and Bitcoin) security

Blockchain not as decentralised as many assume, finds Pentagon sponsored research

Security22 Jun 2022 | 12

Bill Gates says NFTs '100% based on greater fool theory' amid crypto cataclysm

Comment Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies

Offbeat16 Jun 2022 | 87

China’s top court calls for blockchain to record vast number of transactions

Leases, IP rights, ownership of goods … it’s almost easier to list things the Supreme People’s Court doesn’t want on a blockchain

Software31 May 2022 | 21

HPE uses blockchain for distributed machine learning models

Peer-to-peer network between different nodes ensures parameters can be exchanged securely

AI + ML27 Apr 2022 | 1

Flaw could have granted criminals control over Ever Surf crypto wallets

Check Point uncovers web vulnerability that could have led to cryptocurrency theft

Security25 Apr 2022 | 1

Star loses $500,000 NFT after crooks exploit Rarible market

This isn't the moving-fast-and-breaking-things future we wanted

Security15 Apr 2022 | 37

Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm

Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype

Applications01 Apr 2022 | 59

Blockchain powered stock market rebuild started in 2017 delayed again

COBOL and Itanium to keep the job well into 2023 – past original 2020 go-live date

Software28 Mar 2022 | 24

China declares a new era of digitization has begun

Xi's vision for once-in-a-lifetime transformation includes singular identity cards, shared data, and huge clouds

Software18 Mar 2022 | 20

Cringe: Salesforce latest megacorp to jump on non-fungible tokens bandwagon

How to get nothing for something

SaaS10 Feb 2022 | 13

Indian PM says digital rupee will facilitate creation of global digital payment scheme

This is news to the rest of the world

Personal Tech04 Feb 2022 | 22

Avira also mines imaginary internet money on customers' PCs

Who should your PC work for: you, or your antivirus vendor?

Security10 Jan 2022 | 45

No defence for outdated defenders as consumer AV nears RIP

Opinion How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither

Security10 Jan 2022 | 96

Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable

Want fatuous stuff that treats you with contempt? Look no further

Personal Tech07 Jan 2022 | 98

Bitcoin 'inventor' will face forgery claims over his Satoshi Nakamoto proof, rules High Court

COPA load of that

Legal06 Jan 2022 | 76

Samsung adds non fungible token trading app to its tellies

Not as bonkers as it sounds seeing as Sammy suggests they’re already works of art

Personal Tech04 Jan 2022 | 30

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter planning move to blockchain. How will it work? Your guess is as good as ours

Don't worry, it'll be carbon neutral ...

Offbeat16 Dec 2021 | 26

Web3: The next generation of the web is here… apparently

Comment What is it for and how does it work? The Reg investigates

Software15 Dec 2021 | 98

Google launches lawsuit against a blockchain-enabled botnet

Two Russian men and 15 Does named in Glupteba Enterprise case

Legal08 Dec 2021 | 7