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23 Oct 03:30 | 21
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Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch
Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
23 Oct 00:38 | 33
Antitrust battle latest: Google, Facebook 'colluded' to smash Apple's privacy protections
Amended Texas complaint alleges backroom efforts to maintain ad dominance and more
22 Oct 22:51 | 16
Microsoft under fire again from open-source .NET devs: Hot Reload feature pulled for sake of Visual Studio sales
Updated Windows giant has a funny way of 'loving' Free software
22 Oct 20:58 | 18
It's 'near-impossible to escape persistent surveillance' by American ISPs, says FTC
Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent
22 Oct 19:52 | 14
While the iPhone's repairability is in the toilet, at least the Apple Watch 7 is as fixable as the previous model
Component swaps still a thing – for now
22 Oct 19:15 | 2
AI isn’t just about disruption. Integration is essential, too
Sponsored Learn how to take the broad view by tuning into this webcast early next month
22 Oct 18:30 |
Better late than never: Microsoft rolls out a public preview of E2EE in Teams calls
Only for one-to-one voice and video, mind
22 Oct 17:28 | 4
Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation
Researcher spots RSA tell-tale lurking in plain sight on VirusTotal
22 Oct 16:32 | 4
Microsoft investor urges shareholders to vote for a deep dive into pay gap and harassment policies
Updated More transparency and reporting needed, says Arunja Capital
22 Oct 15:30 |
US drops tariff threat against nations who dished out digital taxes to American tech giants as OECD members hash out new deal
15% tax minimum to hit tech firms
22 Oct 14:37 | 5
Nobody cares about DAB radio – so let's force it onto smart speakers, suggests UK govt review
Britain's anti Amazon and Google war gets a second front
22 Oct 13:49 | 108
IPSE: More than a third of freelancers have quit contracting since IR35 reforms
Exodus, movement of the people... to the Middle East or elsewhere
22 Oct 13:08 | 38
New Relic guzzles down CodeStream to help devs jump straight from app error telemetry to offending code
'I can debug production from the IDE,' said CS boss Peter Pezaris
22 Oct 12:15 | 4
Analogue tones of a ZX Spectrum Load set to ride again via podcast project
Remember the R Tape Loading Error?
22 Oct 11:29 | 27
Unhappy customers and their own tricks used against them, REvil ransomware gang reportedly pulled offline by 'multi-country' operations
The second vanishing of the cybergang... for now
22 Oct 10:43 | 23
Apple's Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer – holding the web back for everyone
Feature WebKit engine is well behind the competition
22 Oct 10:05 | 105
Judging by the way your face lit up, my inbox just got more attractive
Something for the Weekend, Sir? A message for you, (on your) rudie
22 Oct 09:16 | 44
BOFH: So you want to have your computer switched out for something faster? It's time to learn from the master
Episode 19 Corporate will make you jump through hoops – but there's always a window
22 Oct 08:27 | 73
How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem
On Call Look what you found! Aren't you clever!
22 Oct 07:45 | 62
Apple kicked an M1-shaped hole in Intel's quarter
Chipzilla braces for a China-gaming-ban-shaped hole in future results, predicts more product delays
22 Oct 07:26 | 13
How your phone, laptop, or watch can be tracked by their Bluetooth transmissions
Unique fingerprints lurk in radio signals more often than not, it seems
22 Oct 06:50 | 18
YouTubers fell for shady 'sponsors' who seized, then sold, accounts
Vid-slingers had been asking how this happened for years, even while their channels were spruiking dodgy crypto
22 Oct 06:28 | 23
Alibaba Cloud drops all-in-one client device, on-prem cloud-native DB
Claims shared memory speed breakthrough in new server, plans to enter South Korea and Thailand, and more
22 Oct 04:32 | 4
Microsoft emits more Win 11 fixes for AMD speed issues and death by PowerShell bug
Names November as the month for Win 10 H2 update – then reveals major new feature won’t arrive on time
22 Oct 02:05 | 29
US consumer watchdog starts sniffing around tech giants' use of your spending data
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, Square under investigation
21 Oct 23:46 | 10
We're closing the gap with Arm and x86, claims SiFive: New RISC-V CPU core for PCs, servers, mobile incoming
As it appears Intel's attempt to gobble the upstart collapses
21 Oct 22:15 | 15
Unvaccinated and working at Apple? Prepare for COVID-19 testing 'every time' you step in the office
Tell us you've been jabbed or...
21 Oct 21:39 | 211
Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming
But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more
21 Oct 20:33 | 4
Executive exodus from Intel depth and tracking tech arm RealSense continues
Former CTO leaves for car tech biz
21 Oct 17:01 |
'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator
What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo
21 Oct 16:12 | 14
We regret to inform you there's an RCE vuln in old version of WinRAR. Yes, the file decompression utility
Update to v6.02 – or don't, but on your head be it
21 Oct 15:25 | 25
GIMP 2.99.8 is here but what's happened to 3.0? If only stuff would not break all the time
Keeping up with technology changes 'taking a toll on development'
21 Oct 14:35 | 9
After more than a decade of development, South Korea has a near miss with Nuri rocket test
Nation playing catch-up following release from 1979 ban
21 Oct 13:59 | 10
Developers offered browser-based fun in VSCode.dev and Java action in Visual Studio Code
Looking at code here, there and (almost) everywhere
21 Oct 13:05 | 4
No swearing or off-brand comments: AWS touts auto-moderation messaging API
Automate everything – but while human moderation is hard, robot moderation tends not to work
21 Oct 12:23 | 30
UK government puts £5bn on the table in trawl for public sector networks services
I dream of wires, say Whitehall’s big buyers
21 Oct 11:40 |
Informatica UKI veep was rightfully sacked over Highways England $5k golf jolly, says tribunal
Underling took customer on bucket list trip - and VP signed it off without checking
21 Oct 10:56 | 28
Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year
Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions
21 Oct 10:14 | 69
Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks
Considering the slack security of such kit, it's a perfect storm
21 Oct 09:27 | 49
Huawei appears to have quenched its thirst for power in favour of more efficient 5G
MBB Forum 2021 Never mind the performance, man, think of the planet
21 Oct 08:36 | 1
What is self-learning AI and how does it tackle ransomware?
Sponsored Darktrace: Why you need defence that operates at machine speed
21 Oct 07:30 |
IBM Systems sales sag as revenue growth slows to a crawl – but at least tape did OK
Big Blue promises mid-single-digit growth is coming, but CEO struggles to explain how.
21 Oct 06:59 | 17
Arm teases its GPU that will follow next year's graphics processor tech
Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin
21 Oct 06:27 | 7
China to crush secondary market providing forbidden gaming accounts to kids
Beijing's recent crackdowns on internet behaviour have spawned rebellious entrepreneurs, because of course they have.
21 Oct 05:59 | 27
AWS admits cloud ain't always the answer, intros on-prem vid-analysing box
Panorama appliance packs Nvidia Jetson Xavier AGX and will be sold – not rented like other AWS on-prem kit
21 Oct 04:35 | 4
Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out
Analysis Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it
21 Oct 02:45 | 5
Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told
Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged
21 Oct 01:15 | 43
Chip shortage forces temporary Raspberry Pi 4 price rise for the first time
Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton
21 Oct 00:00 | 6
Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls
Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations
20 Oct 22:09 | 18
Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2022, says Gartner
The future's bright, and expensive
20 Oct 21:03 | 3
Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag
AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D
20 Oct 19:55 | 2
China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech
Foreign ownership capped at 50%
20 Oct 19:03 | 6
We don’t want to be critical, but humans alone aren’t enough to protect your ICS
Sponsored If you want to know the solution, join this Regcast
20 Oct 18:00 |
Microsoft unveils Android apps for Windows 11 (for US users only)
Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android
20 Oct 17:01 | 26
Software Freedom Conservancy sues TV maker Vizio for 'GPL infringement'
Companies using free-as-in-freedom software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says
20 Oct 16:05 | 38
DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech
Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest
20 Oct 15:13 | 1
UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead
Updated DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government
20 Oct 14:38 | 17
Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe
Updated That rebrand can't come soon enough
20 Oct 13:49 | 41
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser
A death by a thousand cuts
20 Oct 13:07 | 114
Brave's homegrown search claims to protect your privacy but there's a long way to go if it's to challenge the big G
Ad-free now but not forever
20 Oct 12:14 | 38
NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event
It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day
20 Oct 11:28 | 60
Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government
Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register
20 Oct 10:45 | 88
Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active
* Just a couple of billion years
20 Oct 09:58 | 18
Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach
Updated Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed
20 Oct 09:15 | 12
Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation
Boatnotes II Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
20 Oct 08:30 | 51
Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death
Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue
20 Oct 08:17 | 41
When it comes to ransomware, every second hurts
Sponsored Fortinet seeks to make EDR easy for non-specialists
20 Oct 07:30 |
Facebook may soon reveal new name – we're sure Reg readers will be more creative than Zuck's marketroids
Poll We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas
20 Oct 07:01 | 232
Sir Clive Sinclair inspired me and 'whole load of others' at Arm, says CEO Simon Segars
But of course chief exec's first computer was an Acorn
20 Oct 06:20 | 25
Crims target telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, which don't get enough infosec love
CrowdStrike says 'LightBasin' gang avoids Windows, and knows that telco networks run on badly-secured *nix
20 Oct 05:40 | 23
Acer servers cracked in India and Taiwan – including systems with customer data
Gang says it grabbed internal info, could do the same to Acer elsewhere
20 Oct 04:45 | 2
India's big four services giants wrestle with staff attrition amid COVID-19 pandemic
With high enough vax rates, HCL, Infosys and Wipro say hybrid work environment is the way of the future, while TCS is going to want you to come right on in.
20 Oct 03:04 | 6
You've heard of HTTPS. Now get a load of HTTPA: Web services in verified remote trusted environments?
Intel duo propose fresh use of, yes, SGX but also Arm's TrustZone and similar TEEs
20 Oct 01:25 | 17
Allegations of favoring visa holders over US workers for jobs cost Facebook just 4 hours of annual profit
And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record
19 Oct 23:20 | 16
Google Pixel 6, 6 Pro Android 12 smartphone launch marred by shopping cart crashes
Chocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them
19 Oct 21:31 | 24
BlackMatter ransomware gang will target agriculture for its next harvest – Uncle Sam
What was that about hackable tractors?
19 Oct 20:14 | 3
It's heeere: Node.js 17 is out – but not for production use, says dev team
EcmaScript 6 modules will not stop growing use of Node, claims chair of Technical Steering Committee
19 Oct 19:31 | 15
Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane
It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst
19 Oct 18:45 | 1
Scrambling to counter a ransomware attack could leave you with egg on your face
Sponsored Join this masterclass and learn how to plan a far more efficient response
19 Oct 18:00 |
Email phishing crapcannon operators TA505 are back from the dead, researchers warn
And they're packing a new dirty RAT as well
19 Oct 17:15 | 8
JumpCloud hooks investment from Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund for $225m total funding round
Cloud directory start-up valued at $2.65bn
19 Oct 16:30 |
UK competition watchdog unveils principles to make a kinder antivirus business
Treat customers fairly when it comes to auto-renewal. Or else
19 Oct 15:45 | 13
HPE's Aruba adopts DPUs, but in a switch, not a server
Decides switches need help performing network functions, just like servers need their CPUs free for core workloads
19 Oct 15:01 | 3
Windows 11 Paint: Oh look – rounded corners. And it is prettier... but slightly worse
New iconography, minimalism, less text – and at least it is not Paint 3D
19 Oct 14:24 | 109
Weeks after Red Bee Media's broadcast centre fell over, Channel 4 is still struggling with subtitles
Updated Got a Disaster Recovery plan? Ever tested it? You probably should...
19 Oct 13:39 | 47
WTF? Value of Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven jumps $1.2bn in 7 months
Cloud data market heats up as company lures $60m in Series C funding
19 Oct 12:52 | 7
UK's competition regulator announces market study into music-streaming biz
Watchdog is getting comfortable with its new digital remit
19 Oct 12:07 | 5
Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2
Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system
19 Oct 11:27 | 4
If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'
19 Oct 10:43 | 56
Share your experience: How does your organization introduce new systems?
Reg Reader Survey The answer is rarely obvious. Take part in our short poll and we'll find out together
19 Oct 10:00 | 10
These Rapoo webcams won't blow your mind, but they also won't break the bank
Review And they're almost certainly better than a laptop jowel-cam
19 Oct 09:15 | 20
It's one thing to have the world in your hands – what are you going to do with it?
Column Google won the patent battle against ART+COM, but we were left with little more than a toy
19 Oct 08:30 | 18
Why Cloud First should not have to mean Cloud Everywhere
Sponsored HPE urges 'consciously hybrid' strategy for UK public sector
19 Oct 07:30 |
A Raspberry Pi HAT for the Lego Technic fan
Sneaking in programming under the guise of plastic bricks
19 Oct 07:00 | 28
Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance
Feature Home quarantine week was the price for an overseas trip, ongoing observation is the price of COVID-19
19 Oct 06:41 | 139
Intel teases 'software-defined silicon' with Linux kernel contribution – and won't say why
It might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs … or, you know, not
19 Oct 05:56 | 47
Chip manufacturers are going back to the future for automotive silicon
Analysis Where we're going, we don't need 5nm
19 Oct 05:29 | 12
Alibaba Cloud unveils home-spun 128-core Arm-compatible server processor
Updated Also plans to open-source current XuanTie RISC-V cores and future designs
19 Oct 04:02 | 3
Japanese messaging giant Line admits it mishandled user data, promises to do better
Sent user data to China without once thinking Beijing might decide to snoop, lied about server location
19 Oct 01:27 | 2
Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims
We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this
19 Oct 00:15 | 175
Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors
x86 is an eighty-sixed ex
18 Oct 21:58 | 101
US lawmakers give Amazon until November to prove it didn't lie to Congress
This better be a Prime delivery
18 Oct 21:33 | 19
Engineers investigating iffy solar array latch on NASA's Lucy as probe begins long journey to Trojan asteroids
Spacecraft otherwise stable and working well
18 Oct 18:46 | 8
Learn how to modernize your applications in just a day? No. Five hours should do it.
Sponsored Check in to AWS Application Modernization Day
18 Oct 18:00 |
Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse
Updated Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'
18 Oct 17:30 | 18
Dishing up the goods: Square Kilometre Array moves out of the theoretical and into the contractual
Plus: Australian telescope precursor finds weird waves in the middle of the galaxy
18 Oct 16:44 | 22
Amid drama at .NET Foundation, Microsoft's De Icaza reveals it was meant to be like GNOME Foundation
Which it isn't, as illustrated by exec director of the F# Foundation
18 Oct 15:45 | 11
Arm puts virtual hardware in the cloud so you won't have to wait for the actual chips
Developers, start your engines
18 Oct 15:00 | 1
Facebook posts job ad for 10,000 'high-skilled' roles to 'build the metaverse' – and they'll all be based in the EU
Announcement uses the phrase 'world-leading' without referring to UK once
18 Oct 14:30 | 47
EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency
System 'operating outside of the original design specification' said AAIB
18 Oct 13:45 | 84
Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials
Saving the forests by making printing even harder
18 Oct 13:00 | 45
Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children
Updated Facial recognition for meal payment system works for kids, supplier says
18 Oct 12:15 | 127
There are 875 million good reasons why the paperless office won't happen soon
UK Cabinet Office organises latest print hardware and supplies mega framework
18 Oct 11:29 | 37
Ubuntu 21.10: Plan to do yourself an Indri? Here's what's inside... including a bit of GNOME schooling
Review Plus: Rounded corners make GNOME 40 look like Windows 11
18 Oct 10:45 | 17
Heart FM's borkfast show – a fine way to start your day
Jamie and Amanda have a new co-presenter to contend with
18 Oct 10:01 | 25
Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics
Opinion Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape
18 Oct 09:15 | 112
What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ****ing ****balls
NSFW Who, Me? Say what you mean
18 Oct 08:30 | 85
Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law
Ongoing crackdown saw apps 1.83 million apps tested, 4,200 told to clean up their act, pop-up ads popped
18 Oct 07:56 | 9
Whatever sort of disaster we’re talking about, if your backups are fried, you’re not going to recover
Sponsored Here’s how zero trust and immutability can save you
18 Oct 07:30 |
Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers
Despite modern labour laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common
18 Oct 05:58 | 23
US gov claims ransomware 'earned' $590m in the first half of 2021 alone – mostly in Bitcoin
Names and bars crypto exchange SUEX, warns paying ransoms could spell trouble
18 Oct 04:33 | 12
