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Security

New UK product security law won't be undercut by rogue traders upping and vanishing, government boasts

El Reg asks about phoenixing – but will answer convince world+dog?

02 Dec 09:15 |

Security

Three key ransomware actors changed jobs on October 18 – the same day REvil went dark

Underground industry grows in complexity and sophistication, says Santander Group researcher

02 Dec 05:58 |

Off-Prem

Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch

02 Dec 03:55 |

Virtualization

Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds

02 Dec 02:58 |

RE:INVENT

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data

02 Dec 02:01 |

Software

Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps

iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway

02 Dec 00:59 | 10

On-Prem

Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency

'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.'

01 Dec 23:06 | 6

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips

G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer

01 Dec 23:00 | 2

On-Prem

Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting

01 Dec 21:49 | 15

Paid Feature

Rewriting your disaster recovery plan might just save your company…and could transform it

Just be sure it actually works

01 Dec 21:00 |

SaaS

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas

01 Dec 20:01 | 10

Science

Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module

01 Dec 19:05 | 18

Webinar

The HPC cutting edge might just be swinging in your direction

E is for exascale, enterprise and … easy?

01 Dec 18:00 |

OSes

Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns

01 Dec 17:12 | 18

SaaS

So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years

01 Dec 16:19 | 1

Software

What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

01 Dec 15:27 | 5

Security

Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London

Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage

01 Dec 14:30 |

Software

Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog

EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls

01 Dec 13:50 | 17

Legal

Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company

Median pay gap reporting found less favour

01 Dec 13:08 | 2

Software

Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes

Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems

01 Dec 12:16 | 8

Software

Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange

01 Dec 12:02 | 4

Register Debate

Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have

Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants

01 Dec 10:45 | 7

Science

ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns

See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over

01 Dec 09:59 | 11

Software

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch

01 Dec 09:15 | 18

Event

Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop

December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out

01 Dec 08:30 |

Personal Tech

Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs

Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM

01 Dec 07:56 | 27

Security

UK watchdog's punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private

Is this what they call light-touch regulation?

01 Dec 07:28 | 20

Software

Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years

01 Dec 06:57 | 23

Science

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide

Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun

01 Dec 06:32 | 10

Software

Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning

01 Dec 05:58 |

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)

Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6

01 Dec 04:59 | 18

Security

UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help

01 Dec 03:56 | 34

Webinar

Everything else comes as a service these days, why not end-user hardware?

Here’s how DaaS can mean happier users, and much happier techies

01 Dec 02:00 |

Servers

Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in

01 Dec 01:03 | 7

Re:Invent

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers

01 Dec 00:09 | 5

Snapdragon Tech Summit

Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

Do you want a smartphone to know you that well?

30 Nov 23:00 | 7

Personal Tech

If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote

US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed

30 Nov 21:17 | 19

Security

It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected

And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified

30 Nov 20:11 | 5

Applications

AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language

Assemblers unite

30 Nov 18:59 | 14

Paid Post

Face it: Today’s development shortcut is tomorrow’s intractable problem

OutSystems insiders talk technical debt

30 Nov 18:00 |

Applications

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

There's always Use Another Browser

30 Nov 17:00 | 66

Security

Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers

Patches available for 150 affected products

30 Nov 15:59 | 22

Video

Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Parachute snagged on ship's bows

30 Nov 14:55 | 147

Security

Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states

And they might attribute cyber attacks if governments won't

30 Nov 14:02 | 18

Legal

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend

30 Nov 13:15 | 26

Science

You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

Broken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening

30 Nov 12:24 | 38

Re:Invent

Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity

30 Nov 11:34 | 124

Register Debate

The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers

From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution

30 Nov 10:45 | 66

Software

You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too)

30 Nov 09:58 | 34

Applications

Think that spreadsheet in your company's accounts dept is old? 70 years ago, LEO ran the first business app

Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin

30 Nov 09:30 | 82

AI + ML

UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps

Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg

30 Nov 08:26 | 20

On-Prem

Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change

IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter

30 Nov 07:56 | 10

Paid Post

Winter is coming … with a blizzard of live and virtual SANS Institute events

Or a long, hot summer of cybersec training, depending where you are

30 Nov 07:30 |

Science

Hubble space 'scope brings its Cosmic Origins Spectrograph back online

Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out

30 Nov 06:58 | 8

Off-Prem

Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem'

30 Nov 06:16 | 30

Science

AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways

Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords

30 Nov 05:01 | 29

Security

Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months

Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost

30 Nov 04:27 | 10

On-Prem

HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions

In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list

29 Nov 23:54 | 11

Science

James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA

Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies

29 Nov 21:58 | 23

Personal Tech

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits

That's so Meta

29 Nov 21:14 | 30

Autonomy Trial

UK Home Secretary delays Autonomy founder extradition decision to mid-December

Could be a Christmas surprise in store from Priti Patel

29 Nov 18:57 | 11

Webinar

Database sprawl is choking your organization. Here’s how to bypass it

You know where you want to go. Here’s how to get there

29 Nov 18:00 |

Personal Tech

Want to buy your own piece of the Pi? No 'urgency' says Upton of the listing rumours

A British success story... what happens next?

29 Nov 17:21 | 22

Software

All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed

Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently

29 Nov 16:36 | 12

Off-Prem

Nextcloud and cloud chums fire off competition complaint to the EU over Microsoft bundling OneDrive with Windows

No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses

29 Nov 15:35 | 31

Security

Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware

10 days after attack 'almost all systems' up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid

29 Nov 14:29 | 9

Databases

UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal

User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade

29 Nov 13:38 | 2

Science

UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches

Submissions must create a 'sense of pride.' What could possibly go wrong?

29 Nov 12:39 | 56

On-Prem

Threeshiba: Key Toshiba investor opposes firm's split

3D Investments said plan will result in 'three underperforming companies'

29 Nov 11:41 | 2

Register Debate

Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers

We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing

29 Nov 10:45 | 53

Software

Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out

Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day

29 Nov 10:00 | 20

Opinion

Smart things are so dumb because they take after their makers. Let's fix that

IoT still needs its lightbulb moment

29 Nov 09:15 | 84

Who, Me?

When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?'

29 Nov 08:30 | 139

Special series

Looking to get complex machine learning models into production? Serverless might be the answer

Oh-em-gee, it's only another free web lecture from our MCubed team

29 Nov 07:30 |

Personal Tech

It's 2021 and someone's written a new Windows 3.x mouse driver. Why now?

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer

29 Nov 06:58 | 36

AI + ML

Warning: China planning to swipe a bunch of data soon, so quantum computers can decrypt it later

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat

29 Nov 06:31 | 73

Off-Prem

Indian government warns locals not to use Starlink's internet services

If you are going to sell satellite internet subscriptions in India, you Musk get a license, says regulator

29 Nov 05:25 | 37

re:Invent

AWS is on the threshold of adulthood, but is nowhere near grown up

The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance

29 Nov 03:58 | 11

Security

Australia will force social networks to identify trolls, so they can be sued for defamation

At the same time, will overrule court decision that traditional publishers are liable for comments on social media

29 Nov 01:15 | 54

Advertorial

How Kubernetes simplifies the operation of fintech apps

From data security to automatic, safe scaling, we've got it covered

26 Nov 22:00 |

Applications

Chat among yourselves: New EU law may force the big IM platforms to open up

Send an iMessage to Facebook, and we'll talk

26 Nov 20:36 | 34

Networks

Sweden asks EU to ban Bitcoin mining because while hydroelectric power is cheap, they need it for other stuff

Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm

26 Nov 19:32 | 155

Paid Feature

Device-as-a-service is the next pandemic-accelerated trend

This is a good thing. Lenovo explains why

26 Nov 18:30 |

Analysis

The rocky road to better Linux software installation: Containers, containers, containers

Let's be real: Everyone is trying to catch up with Apple

26 Nov 17:25 | 70

Security

EU needs more cybersecurity graduates, says ENISA infosec agency – pointing at growing list of master's degree courses

Skills gap needs filling somehow

26 Nov 16:37 | 6

Science

Nuclear fusion firm Pulsar fires up a UK-built hybrid rocket engine

A win in the rocketry world: 'Flames came out of the right end'

26 Nov 15:20 | 54

Applications

Bad news for Tencent: Chinese companies steer employees away from Weixin or WeChat

Middle Kingdom's internet giant: It's a switch to enterprise apps. Try ours?

26 Nov 14:27 | 15

Security

Privacy Sandbox saga continues: UK watchdog extracts more commitments from Google over ad tech

Roll up, roll up. Come and be the CMA-approved trustee to keep an eye on the Chocolate Factory's antics

26 Nov 13:33 | 11

Off-Prem

Singapore's DBS bank suffers digital fail – yes, regulatory bodies have noticed

Might want to rethink that 'digital to the core' slogan

26 Nov 12:33 | 1

Security

Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK's Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech

Redesigned SafeToNet feature highlights tech law mess

26 Nov 12:23 | 63

Personal Tech

Reviving a classic: ThinkPad modder rattles tin to fund new motherboard for 2008's T60 and T61 series of laptops

When vendors don't update old models, someone must step up

26 Nov 11:28 | 39

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

You forced me to use this fancypants app and now you're asking for a printout?

'Just take the meds, Mr Sloper, and enjoy your holiday'

26 Nov 10:25 | 121

Episode 21

BOFH: What if International Bad Actors designed the vaccine to make us watch more Steven Seagal movies?

Pipe down – Nicolas Cage could be listening

26 Nov 09:30 | 152

On Call

Swooping in to claim the glory while the On Call engineer stands baffled

Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3

26 Nov 08:31 | 157

Paid Post

If you want to see off next year’s cyber-threats, the time to prepare is … now

Fast forward into 2022 with Sophos’ Cybersecurity Summit 2021

26 Nov 07:25 |

Legal

India backs away from digital services tax after US pressure

Will keep taxing, but consider payments as credits for future global tax regime

26 Nov 04:01 | 13

Personal Tech

LG Electronics anoints new CEO, elevates exec who grew laptop biz too

M&A department elevated in importance, gets more resources

26 Nov 00:58 | 1

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European Cybercrime Centre confident it's kicked credit card crims – again

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Amazon Appstore melts over Android 12 'Snow Cone'

Three key ransomware actors changed jobs on October 18 – the same day REvil went dark

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Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps

Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency

Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips

Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

Rewriting your disaster recovery plan might just save your company…and could transform it

Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

The HPC cutting edge might just be swinging in your direction

Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London

Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog

Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company

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Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have

ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop

Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs

UK watchdog's punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private

Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide

Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)

UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

Everything else comes as a service these days, why not end-user hardware?

Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

Qualcomm crams more smarts into flagship mobile chip: It's the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

If at first Amazon doesn't let you succeed, try, try again: Warehouse workers given second chance at union vote

It's the flu season – FluBot, that is: Surge of info-stealing Android malware detected

AsmREPL: Wing your way through x86-64 assembly language

Face it: Today’s development shortcut is tomorrow’s intractable problem

Microsoft adds Buy Now, Pay Later financing option to Edge – and everyone hates it

Visiting a booby-trapped webpage could give attackers code execution privileges on HP network printers

Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Lloyd's of London suggests insurers should not cover 'retaliatory cyber operations' between nation states

UK competition regulator to Meta's Facebook: Sell Giphy, we will not approve the purchase

You, me and debris: NASA cans ISS spacewalk because it's getting too risky outside

Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

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You loved running JavaScript in your web browser. Now, get ready for Python scripting

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UK privacy watchdog may fine selfie-hoarding Clearview AI £17m... eventually, perhaps

Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change

Winter is coming … with a blizzard of live and virtual SANS Institute events

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Euro-telcos call on big tech to help pay for their network builds

AI-enhanced frog stem cells start to replicate in entirely new ways

Panasonic admits intruders were inside its servers for months

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James Webb Space Telescope may actually truly launch this century, says NASA

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey rebrands himself a 'single point of failure' and quits

UK Home Secretary delays Autonomy founder extradition decision to mid-December

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Wind turbine maker Vestas confirms recent security incident was ransomware

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UK Space Agency wants primary school kids to design a logo for first Brit launches

Threeshiba: Key Toshiba investor opposes firm's split

Renting IT hardware on a subscription basis is bad for customers

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