Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou admits lying about Iran deal, gets to go home
Updated US drops charges, extradition attempt halted
25 Sep 00:20 | 1
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For the nth time, China bans cryptocurrencies
Coin prices drop after People's Bank reiterates crackdown
24 Sep 21:51 | 6
Frustrated dev drops three zero-day vulns affecting Apple iOS 15 after six-month wait
Security Bounty program slammed over 'broken promises'
24 Sep 19:43 | 6
Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS
Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden
24 Sep 18:41 | 1
EurekAI... Neural network leads chemists to discover 'four new materials'
All said to conduct lithium atoms, may be useful for electric car batteries
24 Sep 17:36 | 4
Scientists took cues from helicopter seeds to invent tiny microchips that float on wind
Video 'Microfliers' could carry sensors to monitor air pollution and more
24 Sep 16:29 | 5
With just over two weeks to go, Microsoft punts Windows 11 to Release Preview
What's that coming over the hill? Is it new hardware? Is it new hardware?
24 Sep 15:33 | 18
Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much
Biodiversity increasing, endangered species gradually returning despite radioactive terror pig presence
24 Sep 14:45 | 20
You have to bring AI tools into your CI/CD workflow? We've got it covered. Watch this
Special series Join us in October for the next MCubed webcast in which you'll learn all about deploying real-life machine learning in a DevOps world
24 Sep 13:45 |
HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector
Comment Because HPE does not do public cloud? No, no, it is 'for the good'
24 Sep 13:02 | 11
Tech contractors fume over payday outage at Giant Pay after it sniffs 'suspicious activity'
Technical difficulties, please stand by
24 Sep 12:26 | 18
Parking is expensive. It can cost an arm, a leg, and a Windows licence
Bork!Bork!Bork! Activate Windows and put up a parking lot
24 Sep 11:29 | 5
'Nobody in their right mind would build a naval base here today': Navigating in and out of Devonport
Boatnotes II Twisting and turning like a twisty-turny thing
24 Sep 10:49 | 17
CutefishOS: Unix-y development model? Check. macOS aesthetic? Check (if you like that sort of thing)
Review Also a range of homegrown apps. Still in beta, so plenty of rough edges, though
24 Sep 10:01 | 45
Nothing works any more. Who decided that redundant systems should become redundant?
Something for the Weekend, Sir? It'll all come out in the wash
24 Sep 09:14 | 68
BOFH: You'll find there's a company asset tag right here, underneath the monstrously heavy arcade machine
Episode 17 Flame purifies all
24 Sep 08:30 | 137
UK Ministry of Defence tries again to procure £1.7bn tri-service recruitment system
New guys can't do a worse job than Capita, right? Right?
24 Sep 07:45 | 29
Stop worrying that crims could break the 'net, say cyber-diplomats – only nations have tried
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is a bit miffed its 'Don't attack the internet core' norm is misunderstood
24 Sep 07:28 | 7
Check your bits: What to do when Unix decides to make a hash of your bill printouts
On Call Symbol shenanigans turned out to be the least of the government's problems
24 Sep 07:02 | 87
Getting Kubernetes up and running is one thing. Managing it successfully is quite another
Sponsored Don’t be a Kubernetes dummy, download this ebook
24 Sep 06:30 |
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
24 Sep 06:02 | 20
Apple warns of arbitrary code execution zero-day being actively exploited on Macs
Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too
24 Sep 05:01 | 10
Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of
'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired
24 Sep 02:58 | 9
If you're not sold on the benefits of 5G, Ericsson suggests you keep an eye on gaming, home broadband
NA CEO predicts takeoff in 18 months max
24 Sep 01:35 | 16
California Governor signs bill protecting warehouse workers from unsafe quotas
AB 701 takes aim at Amazon and other warehouse operators that prioritize productivity over health
23 Sep 23:52 | 11
Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit
Tech trade groups argue prohibition on moderation is unconstitutional
23 Sep 21:57 | 155
Dell bids adieu to the era of big acquisitions, concentrates on paying down debt and Michael's new book
Partnerships are our future, says tycoon
23 Sep 21:14 | 4
Boston Dynamics' Spot robot embarks on its latest thrilling adventure: Insurance!
US company equips cybernetic pooch to help in building inspections, post-disaster assessments
23 Sep 20:27 | 6
One-size-fits-all chargers? What a great idea! Of course Apple would hate it
Updated Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it'
23 Sep 19:44 | 154
In a dark place because your K8s apps still want local storage? It’s time to see the light
Sponsored Find out how to crack the portability conundrum
23 Sep 19:00 |
Facebook overpaid FTC fine by up to '$4.9bn' to protect Zuckerberg, lawsuits allege
A whole lot of ███ in documents which finger Peter Thiel and execs
23 Sep 18:15 | 20
GNOME 41: Slick with heaps of new features for users and devs – but annoyances remain
It'll take time for desktop environment to make its way into Linux distros anyway
23 Sep 17:30 | 23
Need US mobile data? Cellular data plan launches on the Helium Blockchain
The Great Gig in the Sky, or a new plan on GigSky?
23 Sep 16:45 | 3
Remember when UK watchdog spent a bunch of cash with Google warning people about ad scams ... on Google?
Mountain View still ducking questions over whether it'll reimburse that
23 Sep 16:06 | 5
Two Northern Irish cops face Computer Misuse Act charges over Twitter trolling campaign
Prosecutors considering evidence for a number of offences
23 Sep 15:16 | 6
Eclipse Data Connector arrives for GAIA-X, Europe's plan to protect its cloud data from foreign tech firms
But local providers slip in favour of US tech - even at home
23 Sep 14:29 | 1
BT jittery about Cellnex snapping up UK mobile tower assets
Brit telco says buyout will mean less competition, higher prices, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria
23 Sep 13:43 | 6
UK Ministry of Defence apologises – again – after another major email blunder in Afghanistan
This time affecting candidates for potential relocation
23 Sep 13:00 | 34
DORA explorers see pandemic boost in numbers of 'elite' DevOps performers
Or is it that they're just more inclined to complete surveys about themselves?
23 Sep 12:14 | 14
Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on
High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon
23 Sep 11:26 | 25
If you're Intel, self-driving cars look an awful lot like PCs
Hardware capabilities, latest feature updates? You'll get what you pay for
23 Sep 10:43 | 31
Researchers finger new APT group, FamousSparrow, for hotel attacks
Espionage motive mooted in attacks which hit industry, government too
23 Sep 10:00 | 8
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah, it's just Windows suffering from a bit of vertigo
Bork!Bork!Bork! Up above the streets and houses, XP's flying high
23 Sep 09:15 | 11
How many Android containers can you fit on your VM?
Interview The Register speaks to Canonical about running the OS in the cloud
23 Sep 08:30 | 1
Infosys admits it still hasn't fully fixed Indian tax portal
Deadline came and went, but over 750 'resources' are still hard at work
23 Sep 07:58 | 14
Here's an idea: Verification for computer networks as well as chips and code
Systems Approach What tools are available? What are the benefits? Let's find out
23 Sep 07:28 | 8
Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning
Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done
23 Sep 06:58 | 40
Unable to test every tourist and unable to turn them away, Greece used ML to pick visitors for COVID-19 checks
Inside the software built to figure out groups of potentially infected, asymptomatic passengers
23 Sep 06:26 | 29
Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia
Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break
23 Sep 06:01 | 22
Memory prices to dive in late 2022, says Gartner
Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory
23 Sep 04:28 | 5
AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand
Hopes three availability zones will be hobbit-forming for local businesses and government agencies
23 Sep 02:54 | 9
Microsoft wants you to know it hasn't forgotten about Surface
Laptops added or refreshed, and another go at making dual-screen phones a thing
23 Sep 01:44 | 9
Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time
Unexplained service issue blamed after customers unable to leave gratuities electronically
23 Sep 00:37 | 17
Zoom's $15bn merger with Five9 probed by Uncle Sam for national security risks
Vid-chat giant's ties to China under the microscope by AG-led panel
22 Sep 23:46 | 7
Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters
file:// is blocked? Oh OK, we'll just use File:// or fiLE://...
22 Sep 23:07 | 32
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous
Comment Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie
22 Sep 22:02 | 7
Britain publishes 10-year National Artificial Intelligence Strategy
Aw, look. It wants to be a 'global science superpower'
22 Sep 21:18 | 16
Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin
Updated Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset
22 Sep 20:36 | 63
More than three years after last release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 appears
Back from the brink with new features
22 Sep 19:47 | 48
Your apps are heading to the cloud. So why leave your files on that creaking NAS system?
PROMO Break free from the silos at Nasuni CloudBound21
22 Sep 19:00 |
Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack
What in the blazes?
22 Sep 18:01 | 65
Nvidia cosies up to Open Robotics for hardware-accelerated ROS
Hopes to tempt roboticists over to its Jetson platform with new simulation features, drop-in acceleration code
22 Sep 17:13 | 2
Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones
25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day
22 Sep 16:32 | 14
Ofcom swears at the general public for five days during obscenity survey
NSFW 'Warning: this report contains highly offensive language and discussion of content which may cause offence'
22 Sep 16:03 | 78
Ubuntu-on-a-phone folks UBports emit OTA-19, warn some devices face the chop in future
This could very well be the last release based on 16.04
22 Sep 15:17 | 2
First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative
EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico
22 Sep 14:28 | 22
Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions
Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors
22 Sep 13:37 | 39
Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials
Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources
22 Sep 13:00 | 56
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition
Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back
22 Sep 12:14 | 37
'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov
Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance
22 Sep 11:20 | 13
Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box
Analysis Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'
22 Sep 10:43 | 41
UK civil courts award £10m contract to Version 1 Solutions for end-to-end online processing
Digitisation of the justice system still delivering value for money
22 Sep 10:00 | 2
Navigating without GPS is one thing – so let's jam it and see what happens to our warship
Boatnotes II Meaconing, loss of position, and the Royal Navy's response
22 Sep 09:12 | 87
An easier way to Flutter? Custom functions improve visual code builder but devs may still be frustrated
Interview FlutterFlow is a visual application builder for the popular framework
22 Sep 08:31 | 6
UK's Civil Aviation Authority hashing out rules for crash-proof cargo pods on drones
Project wins £50k from government
22 Sep 07:45 | 23
Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?
Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps
22 Sep 07:26 |
Would you like to clone your best programmer?
PROMO Now you can. By using OutSystems on AWS, as this webinar shows
22 Sep 07:01 |
Court of Appeal says AI software cannot be listed as patent inventor
'A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person'
22 Sep 06:35 | 45
Swift 5.5 unleashed with async keyword to fix 'pyramid of doom', plus other changes in 'massive release'
Full concurrency model at last
22 Sep 05:32 | 19
Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS
Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
22 Sep 03:58 | 5
Japan, Singapore, perhaps the whole world.... Get ready for robot waiters from Softbank and Keenon
Automation is the answer to labor shortages, social distancing, apparently
22 Sep 02:50 | 25
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
Update File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server - and is being exploited in the wild
22 Sep 00:45 | 8
Database containing personal info on 106m people who traveled to Thailand found open to the internet – report
Misconfigured Elasticsearch server blamed
21 Sep 23:36 | 5
Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard
Plus: Chief Legal Officer exits as court battles loom
21 Sep 21:23 | 3
Suex to be you: Feds sanction cryptocurrency exchange for handling payments from 8+ ransomware variants
Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam's crack down on cyber-extortion
21 Sep 19:59 | 8
SEC takes legal action after crowdfunded marijuana investment scheme appears to go up in smoke
Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind
21 Sep 18:32 | 17
Canonical gives administrators the chance to drag their feet a bit more on Ubuntu upgrades
Two more years! Two more years!
21 Sep 17:42 | 12
US Congress ponders setting up permanent UFO investigation office
Nothing to do with little green men, mind, unless they can be defined as state or non-state actors
21 Sep 16:48 | 31
Open Source Jobs Report: Explosive cloud growth knocks Linux off top spot for desired skillsets
455% hike in demand for Kubernetes qualifications causes a stir
21 Sep 16:03 | 2
JEDI contract might be no more, but case should live on, says Oracle: DoD only wants Amazon, Microsoft for new cloud deal
Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the courtroom
21 Sep 15:13 | 14
Fivetran snags $565m funding round as Snowflake attempts to eat its lunch with in-house data integration tools
Also buys data replication company HVR for $700m
21 Sep 14:27 |
UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns
How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?
21 Sep 13:45 | 12
Fix network printing or keep Windows secure? Admins would rather disable PrintNightmare patch
'Our >3,000 customers had to print again'
21 Sep 13:00 | 50
Raspberry Pi's trading arm snags £33m investment as flotation rumours sink
Updated Cash courtesy of Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust, focused on 'the poorest of the poor'
21 Sep 12:15 | 10
UK Ministry of Defence apologises after Afghan interpreters' personal data exposed in email blunder
We joke about lethal consequences of failure but this isn't funny
21 Sep 11:30 | 58
Over 9 months late, England's highways agency launches contract to buy £1bn in IT
Rebranded org now calling itself National Highways
21 Sep 10:49 | 15
Hybrid learning is a good thing – let’s make it a good thing for everyone
Sponsored The pandemic has accelerated innovation and investment
21 Sep 10:00 |
Edge computing has a bright future, even if nobody's sure quite what that looks like
Making sense of blurry lines
21 Sep 09:15 | 10
We're all at sea: Navigation Royal Navy style – with plenty of IT but no GPS
Boatnotes II El Reg follows the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
21 Sep 08:29 | 120
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant
21 Sep 07:55 | 25
China discloses new space tech: Coloured cargo labels to replace beige ones taikonauts found fiddly
Slaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and successfully sends it to Tianhe
21 Sep 07:32 | 13
Macmillan best-biscuit list unexpectedly promotes breakfast cereal to treat status
Inclusion of Weetabix in charity coffee accompaniment tweet creates predictable brewhaha
21 Sep 06:55 | 151
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
21 Sep 06:35 | 12
NASA hopes VIPER rover will search for water in Moon's Nobile crater in 2023
Video Machine could help unlock natural resources for future lunar base dwellers
21 Sep 06:03 | 8
Mafia works remotely, too, it seems: 100+ people suspected of phishing, SIM swapping, email fraud cuffed
Dare we say, these Euro cops ran mobprobe
21 Sep 05:16 | 10
You’ve trained at the cutting edge, here’s how to keep your DFIR skills razor sharp
Sponsored Sometimes the most important tool is a bookmark
21 Sep 04:00 |
Chips'n'China on the agenda as the Quad – Japan, India, Oz, US – prepares to meet
Not that the Middle Kingdom is singled out directly
21 Sep 02:58 | 2
Amazon Web Services set to support more Asia-Pacific currencies for customer bills
Australian users told first of plans to create 'Seller of Record' subject to regulatory approval
21 Sep 01:38 | 1
Twitter offers to cough up 80 days of annual sales to settle 'false' user count lawsuit
Web biz proposes $800m to disappear accusations of over-promising audience size to investors
20 Sep 22:34 | 4
Apache OpenOffice can be hijacked by malicious documents, fix still in beta
If you need another reason to try an alternative software suite
20 Sep 20:52 | 34
Eco-friendly warning from UK tech trade group: Some of you have dirty green credentials
IT sector at risk of public humiliation if CMA finds they're not up to code
20 Sep 19:01 | 3
A Burger King where the only Whopper is the BSOD font
Bork!Bork!Bork! Come for the bork, stay for the burger
20 Sep 18:15 | 13
Ransomware recovery: Start getting back up before you’re even hit
Sponsored Here’s how to put your plan together
20 Sep 17:30 |
Like a phoenix rising from the smouldering ruins of its data centre, OVH sets sights on IPO
Tells market not to worry – insurers will pay $58m to 'cover the consequences of the fire'
20 Sep 16:25 | 6
GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise
IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic
20 Sep 15:14 | 10
Kali Linux 2021.3 released with new tools
Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing
20 Sep 14:31 | 6
Don't forget to leave a rating: Amazon chairman meeting with UK prime minister to talk taxes
4 stars - did not warn us about 'digitalisation of the economy'*
20 Sep 13:46 | 49
Clegg on its face: Facebook turns to former UK deputy PM to fend off damaging headlines
Plus: US lawmakers get 'in touch with Facebook whistleblower'
20 Sep 12:59 | 98
Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push
Updated Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey
20 Sep 12:15 | 3
US Federal Aviation Administration issues draft assessment of SpaceX Super Heavy impact
The environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact
20 Sep 11:43 | 21
Crank up the volume on that Pixies album: Time to exercise your Raspberry Pi with an... alternative browser
The Register dips another toe in the Flow
20 Sep 10:47 | 22
Three UK says its 5G plans are under threat if tower merger with Euro giant Cellnex is blocked
According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog
20 Sep 10:02 | 14
It's the end of the world as we know it, and we should feel fine
Column Honour thine ancestors, and move on
20 Sep 09:15 | 85
A low-key good experience for Thor-oughly new penguins: Elementary OS 6, aka Odin
Review Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers
20 Sep 08:30 | 14
I would drive 100 miles and I would drive 100 more just to be the man that drove 200 miles to... hit the enter key
Who, Me? When a server crash became a motorway dash
20 Sep 07:30 | 78
Chip glut might start in 2023, says IDC, and auto-chip traffic jam could clear this year
Shortages in today's supply chains persist and capacity is all but booked. But the future looks bright
20 Sep 07:05 | 22
If you’re plotting AI success, you need graph algorithms
PROMO Connect with experts of all stripes at the Graph+AI Summit
20 Sep 06:30 |
China's taikonauts return from heavenly palace after 92-day mission
Plenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules
20 Sep 04:57 | 17
-Werror pain persists as Linus Torvalds issues Linux 5.15rc2
And celebrates Linux's 'true anniversary' – 30 years since upload of version 0.01
20 Sep 02:58 | 14
Tick, tick, tick … TikTok China just limited kids to 40 minutes' use each day
And added a bug bounty program to detect any holes in its 'youth mode'
20 Sep 01:14 | 25
Thanks, Sir Clive Sinclair, from Reg readers whose careers you created and lives you shaped
Former staff, kids who got their first taste of tech, a Reg hack, and even Linus Torvalds share what the electronics pioneer meant to them
19 Sep 11:01 | 49
Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit
Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip
19 Sep 05:30 | 67
