Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Google
Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment
17 Sep 00:22 |
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Apple's M1 MacBook screens are stunning – stunningly fragile and defective, that is, lawsuits allege
Latest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain
16 Sep 22:38 | 6
Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop now works without Active Directory – but there are caveats
General availability of Azure AD-joined VMs
16 Sep 22:16 |
It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights
But that's what UN group has done
16 Sep 21:40 |
Aviation-themed phishing campaign pushed off-the-shelf RATs into inboxes for 5 years
Not all promises of international flight itineraries are real, warns Cisco Talos
16 Sep 20:35 | 1
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81
From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond
16 Sep 19:46 | 59
The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come
It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server
16 Sep 19:01 | 3
CityFibre scores extra £1bn+ of funding to plumb in up to eight million British homes by 2025
Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors
16 Sep 18:30 | 3
Hack yourself before someone else does it for you
Sponsored Breach and attack simulation tools help you raise your game, Keysight says
16 Sep 18:00 |
Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV
Unwitting star of #Slipgate viral images awarded reduced damages, tempts Streisand effect
16 Sep 17:10 | 9
OpenSilver throws Microsoft Silverlight devs a lifeline as end of support looms – or you could forget it ever happened
Open-source project migrates deprecated apps to WebAssembly
16 Sep 16:02 | 3
Ransomware-hit law firm secures High Court judgment against unknown criminals
You tell 'em, 4 New Square chambers
16 Sep 15:15 | 17
Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands?
Comment It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... for Dorries
16 Sep 14:33 | 16
If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this
Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start
16 Sep 13:47 | 15
What have the Romans ever done for us? In ServiceNow's new Rome release, replaced intranets, for one
Adds Teams integration for new ‘Employee Centre’, automated automation for service desk
16 Sep 13:01 |
Computer and data scientists should be as highly regarded as 'warriors' says top UK cybergeneral
DSEI 2021 Translation: Skills shortage here!
16 Sep 12:14 | 16
UK funds hydrogen-powered cargo submarine to torpedo maritime emissions by 2050
Green machine will also suck up microplastics between Glasgow and Belfast
16 Sep 11:28 | 38
Technology doesn’t widen the education divide. People do that
Register Debate And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders
16 Sep 10:45 | 15
UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration
'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told
16 Sep 10:00 | 3
Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov on CLU and why programming is still cool
Interview Error handling and encapsulation remain the name of the game
16 Sep 09:15 |
De-identify, re-identify: Anonymised data's dirty little secret
Feature Jeffrey Singh, stamp-collecting bachelor (35) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin – is that you?
16 Sep 08:28 | 57
Myanmar junta demanded telcos activate phone interception tools – and we refused, says Telenor
Norwegian carrier insists it's quitting Asian nation to defend human rights – but the buyer it lined up is accused of shady dealings
16 Sep 07:57 | 12
Virtual reality means the future of education is right before our eyes
Sponsored Keeping the headset clean is as important as keeping the content clean
16 Sep 07:30 |
Oracle sets its own JDK free, sort of, for a while
Analysis Welcome to the No-Fee Terms and Conditions, which makes the Java dev kit a bit more appealing
16 Sep 06:57 | 13
It's time to delete that hunter2 password from your Microsoft account, says IT giant
And go passwordless, use auth app, keys, Windows Hello, or codes to login
16 Sep 05:58 | 56
India changes telco tax laws to help carriers avoid hitting the wall
Moratorium offered to ease burden of $22B debts
16 Sep 05:33 |
This is AUKUS for China – US, UK, Australia reveal defence tech-sharing pact
Will build nuke-powered subs together and share cyber, AI, quantum and mysterious 'undersea capabilities' tech
16 Sep 03:27 | 106
SpaceX successfully sends four amateurs into orbit for three-day tour
Vision from window seats didn't stream, everything else worked
16 Sep 01:40 | 22
Huawei CEO hopes to woo foreign boffins to work on 6G in Shanghai campus that feels just like home
Staff also told to 'seize the patent position' on sixth-gen mobile networks
15 Sep 23:48 | 13
Travis CI quietly fixed a bug that exposed secret keys
For at least a week, cloning a public repo made upstream environmental variables accessible
15 Sep 21:58 |
DARPA plans thousands-strong satellite constellation Space-BACN sandwich
Mmmm... BACN. Is there anything it can't do?
15 Sep 21:27 | 5
Feeling saucy? Wave of Microsoft releases includes go-live licence for .NET 6
On track for November release, but why is ASP.NET more loved than wanted?
15 Sep 20:35 | 3
Microfluidic processor brings us one step closer to a future of squishy DNA computing
'Our hope is that DNA-based CPUs will replace electronic CPUs in the future'
15 Sep 19:23 | 10
SpaceX prepares to launch four civilians and a glass dome into space
Musk to demonstrate his is mightier than Bezos or Branson's
15 Sep 18:31 | 14
Speciality electronics outfit boasts of 64-fold density increase for its latest space-ready MRAM parts
Takes Avalanche's latest STT-MRAM tech and packs it into rad-hard ceramic squares
15 Sep 17:28 | 5
New release of SweRVolf RISC-V SoC project aims for lower barrier to entry
FOSSi Foundation's Olof Kindgren on the origins, future, and success of the RISC-V ISA
15 Sep 16:28 | 1
BT Wholesale wants the channel to give SMBs a nudge before copper sunset in 2025
New products launched to help shift oblivious or straggler firms over ahead of PSTN switch-off
15 Sep 15:43 | 30
Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release
Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says
15 Sep 14:59 |
App Annie fined $10m by the SEC for deceptive practices around how it presented data
Analytics firm will neither admit nor deny the findings
15 Sep 14:15 | 5
Catch of the day... for Google, anyway: Transatlantic Cornwall cable hauled ashore
Grace Hopper landed
15 Sep 13:28 | 60
Linux kernel minimum compiler raised to GCC 5.1, allowing potential C11 use
Change also has handy side effect of fixing some warnings as errors
15 Sep 12:43 | 27
HPE finds second new CTO in 16 months with Fidelma Russo
In-demand exec poached from VMware after Virtzilla poached her from Iron Mountain
15 Sep 12:03 | 6
Ransomware crims saying 'We'll burn your data if you get a negotiator' can't be legally paid off anyway
Grief Corp are already under US sanctions, says Emsisoft
15 Sep 11:33 | 57
Technology does widen the education divide. But not always in the way you expect
Register Debate The pandemic has turned children away from tech, says early-years teacher Maria
15 Sep 10:45 | 20
Ex-DJI veep: There was no drone at Gatwick during 2018's hysterical shutdown
Bold words from Boston Dynamics' new man
15 Sep 10:01 | 66
The Register speaks to one of the designers behind the latest Lego Ideas marvel: A clockwork solar system
Who needs a 3,000-piece orrery? We do, of course
15 Sep 09:13 | 36
Met Police prepare £300m procurement for integrators and resellers
London cops on track to spend £1bn on IT contracting over couple of years
15 Sep 08:42 | 3
China to push RISC-V to global prominence – but maybe into a corner, too, says analyst
Which may not be a good thing for Arm, or anyone
15 Sep 08:12 | 21
Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that
Column Smartphones can keep us informed about everything other than environmental impact. That needs to change
15 Sep 07:15 | 56
Ex-US intel, military trio were cyber-mercenaries for UAE, say prosecutors
Three men charged with breaking export, security laws, agree to deal after infiltrating smartphones with zero-click exploits
15 Sep 06:45 | 21
India, Singapore harmonise their rapid payment schemes
Smartphone-driven instant money transfer across borders to come online in 2022
15 Sep 04:58 | 1
Wikipedia bans seven Chinese users amid concerns of 'infiltration, physical harm'
Removes sysop privileges for another dozen, warns more about doxing, frets about preserving freedom to edit in the face of hostile regimes
15 Sep 03:58 | 26
Imagine a world in which Uber's hot new business is lending money
It's happening already in Singapore, where Uber-analog Grab says lending and deliveries are post-COVID highlights
15 Sep 02:33 | 2
Beijing wants its internet to become 'civilized' by always reflecting Marxist values
Content won't be welcome if it doesn't laud the Party, strays into anything a little tawdry, or diverts from the official line
15 Sep 00:58 | 50
Microsoft's end-of-summer software security cleanse crushes more than 80 bugs
Patch Tuesday Hole in Azure Linux guest agent, MSHTML exploit tackled, and much more – Plus: Adobe and SAP issue updates
15 Sep 00:00 | 3
Cryptocurrency world must protect itself from 'low-quality patents' says Square lawyer as biz joins Open Invention Network
Interview 'I think the legislative framework around patents needs a deep examination, and I don’t think I'm alone in saying that'
14 Sep 23:38 | 8
Activision Blizzard accused of union busting, intimidating staff in complaint to watchdog
CWA, employees file lawsuit on same day HR head ejects
14 Sep 22:17 | 15
UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice
DSEI 2021 First try had a habit of melting its mirrors, apparently
14 Sep 21:36 | 32
Apple debuts iPhone 13 with 1TB option, two iPad models, Series 7 Watch
Come for superlatives and executive enthusiasm, stay for the photographic enhancements
14 Sep 20:35 | 56
Krita art app users targeted by ransomware posing as paid 'collaboration' opportunities
Artists advised to delete emails asking them to download 'media bundle'
14 Sep 19:27 | 2
Future of Jekyll project (engine behind GitHub Pages) in doubt?
Updated Some development continues (or maybe it's just feature complete)
14 Sep 18:15 | 5
Boffins say Martian colonists could pee in buckets, give blood if they want shelter
In terms of building materials, Mars has nothing to offer but blood, soil, sweat and tears. And urine. Lots of urine
14 Sep 17:33 | 50
Security bods boost Apple iPhone hardware attack research with iTimed toolkit
'The first complete infrastructure to enable general-purpose hardware security experiments on the Apple iPhone SoCs,' they claim
14 Sep 16:45 |
US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju
Pulls Mothra, Mecha Rodan, King Ghidorah, Kumonga, and even King Kong along for the $150m ride
14 Sep 16:01 | 15
Brits open doors for tech-enabled fraudsters because they 'don't want to seem rude'
Impersonation scams and smishing rocket, say UK Finance and Which?
14 Sep 15:15 | 24
Java 17 arrives with long-term support: What's new, and is it falling behind Kotlin?
Text blocks, sealed classes, switch expressions, records, and more
14 Sep 14:29 | 22
Cloud is fundamentally more profitable than on-prem, says Oracle's Safra Catz as revenue misses mark for investors
In case you were wondering why vendors are so excited about it
14 Sep 13:45 | 9
G7 countries outgun UK in worldwide broadband speed test
Ofcom: You know, superfast broadband is available if you'd care to take it up
14 Sep 13:01 | 50
Intuit branches out into email marketing by splashing $12bn on Mailchimp acquisition
Part of a planned assault on the 'small business mid-market'
14 Sep 12:14 | 14
Thousands of internet-connected databases contain high or critical CVEs, says report by cloud security biz
Put your data on someone else's computer to keep it safe, urges Imperva
14 Sep 11:30 | 14
Technology has the potential to close the education divide. Key word: Potential
Register Debate Quieter kids can speak up in chat, students can record lessons to watch again, and more, says professor
14 Sep 10:45 | 31
Ignore politics of whitebox radio: Mix and match OpenRAN tech will be 10% of market in 2025, claims analyst
Critics say the post-Huawei world of telco networking increases complexity but it has legs
14 Sep 10:15 |
When ERP migrations go bad: Games Workshop says project issues are delaying refresh of 'dated' online store
Commissar Yarrick's bale eye focuses on company's web retail presence as 'long and complex' saga continues
14 Sep 09:43 | 16
Running on empty, out of battery, power draining... three things the UK government definitely isn't. Oh no
Bork!Bork!Bork! Video connected – check. Plugged into the mains? Er...
14 Sep 09:00 | 14
Facebook building 'on-demand executable file format' that self-inflates using homebrew compression
Already shrinks The Social Network’s™ Android apps by 20 per cent compared to rivals, has uses beyond that
14 Sep 08:15 | 46
ExpressVPN bought for $1bn by Brit biz with an intriguing history in adware
'Kape has moved on from those times'
14 Sep 07:39 | 23
South Korea fines Google ₩207 billion for forking up attempts at creating Android variants
LG and Samsung probably aren't smiling – and not only because that sum translates to a tolerable US$177M
14 Sep 06:14 | 6
Australia gave police power to compel sysadmins into assisting account takeovers – so they plan to use it
Soon, authorities intend to flush out CSAM and the creeps who share it. After that … privacy types are worried
14 Sep 04:57 | 44
ASEAN bloc agrees to work on digital trade pact that might get real by 2025
South Korea wants to play, too, and has just the model it thinks will do the trick
14 Sep 02:58 | 1
Beijing orders Alibaba, Tencent, more Big Tech to stop blocking links to rivals
Play nice or else, Chinese government tells app, web giants in meeting without coffee
14 Sep 01:45 | 10
NASA's Perseverance rover nabs two Martian rock samples for scientists on Earth to study one day
Too early to confirm ancient alien life, but a 'potentially habitable sustained environment,' though...
14 Sep 00:08 | 11
Apple emergency patches fix zero-click iMessage bug used to inject NSO spyware
Updated Separate flaw in WebKit also under attack squashed, too – and two zero-days in Chrome, as well
13 Sep 23:06 | 54
Amazon abuses dominance to keep wholesaler prices high, says DC AG in updated antitrust complaint
Minimum Margin Agreement policy is anticompetitive, it is claimed
13 Sep 22:10 | 6
How a glitch in the Matrix led to apps potentially exposing encrypted chats
Forget Agent Smith, we want to see Neo fighting implementation bugs
13 Sep 20:22 | 7
NYC subway SNAFU probably caused by someone turning it off accidentally, say reports
OK, so you're halfway there. Now have you tried switching the network back on again?
13 Sep 19:30 | 31
EU open source study highlights economic benefits but says Union is 'on the back foot' with industrial policy
Interview 'There is already too much time gone' researcher tells The Reg
13 Sep 18:45 | 7
How AWS created Aurora, a database built for the cloud
Sponsored Rewriting the rules with logs
13 Sep 18:00 |
Astro Pi 2: New Raspberry Pi hardware with updated camera, sensors to head to the ISS this year
This time it's... quite a bit faster
13 Sep 17:03 | 18
BT hails hollow-core fibre trials as 'critical advancement' for secure communications
Telco claims to have run Quantum Key Distribution over 6km of cable
13 Sep 16:01 | 7
Open redirect on UK council website was being used for Royal Mail-themed parcel payments scam
Updated Homes4Wiltshire, aka Homes4Spammers
13 Sep 15:15 | 2
Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system
Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to
13 Sep 14:30 | 11
Fortnite banana can appear in court naked says judge in Epic vs Apple legal footnote
Legal questions still remain over whether this judgment applies to all bananas or just that one
13 Sep 13:47 | 29
Wipro wins $44.5m deal for data centres and managed services at UK's National Grid
Indian outsourcer bags another utility
13 Sep 13:02 | 8
Report: Microsoft and AWS scored $50m in contracts after Google pulled out of Pentagon's AI drone plan
In Brief Plus: Smart software ugrade means Roomba can recognise dog poo
13 Sep 12:17 | 2
The day has a 'y' in it, so Virgin Galactic has announced another delay
A potentially iffy component in the flight actuation system this time
13 Sep 11:30 | 28
Tech widens the educational divide. And I should know – I'm a teacher in a pandemic
Register Debate Teaching online is like talking to a brick wall
13 Sep 10:45 | 71
AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence
Feature (And, also worryingly, its increasing financial cost)
13 Sep 10:03 | 62
You can 'go your own way' over GDPR, says UK's new Information Commissioner
Tells committee: I know I said Facebook was 'morally bankrupt' but...
13 Sep 09:15 | 101
Ghosts in the machine learning pipeline will be impossible to exorcise
Opinion Who wants to live forever? It could be the offer you can't refuse
13 Sep 08:30 | 38
You want us to make a change? We can do it, but it'll cost you...
Who, Me? How does $100k per character sound? And that's just for labour
13 Sep 07:30 | 77
Off yer bike: Apple warns motorcycles could shake iPhone cameras out of focus forever
Claims they're 'designed for durability' but users report kit dies in months – even on mountain bikes
13 Sep 06:58 | 85
IBM's former Chinese Power Systems partner sues for theft of customer data
Alleges IBM China staff had access to confidential info and took it with them to new Inspur operation
13 Sep 06:01 | 3
South Korea to sign up for Digital Economic Partnership Agreement
NZ, Singapore, and Chile are other - and smaller - current signatories to pact that's hoped to set regional agendas, so this is a fillip
13 Sep 03:55 | 1
Linus Torvalds admits to 'self-inflicted damage' with -Werror as Linux 5.15 rc1 debuts
'One of the messier merge windows' means the new stuff might sneak in next week
13 Sep 02:09 | 71
This is not the tech unicorn you are looking for... and other stories
Roundup Another weekly digest of strangeness from around the world that you may have missed
12 Sep 09:46 | 19
WhatsApp to offer end-to-end encrypted backups in iCloud, Google Drive with user-managed keys
Funny how 'privacy-focused' Apple and Google haven't managed that
11 Sep 01:21 | 33
