Bootnotes
Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach
Salus populi suprema lex esto ... or perhaps not
15 Oct 19:31 | 46
Offbeat
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Windows terminates here. Please remember to finish setting it up on arrival
Washington Metro admin has taken an early lunch
15 Oct 17:17 | 19
Legal
Boeing 737 Max chief technical pilot charged with deceiving US aviation regulators over MCAS
He hasn't got $2.5bn to hand to the DoJ, unlike his bosses
15 Oct 16:29 | 58
Science
Space boffins: Exoplanet survived hydrogen-death of its host star
Hope extended to gas giants across the universe... well, it is Friday
15 Oct 14:24 | 17
Register debate
Reg readers: Don't assume anything when sharing health data
Debate exhibits chronic distrust of policy makers, Big Pharma, and insurance companies
15 Oct 10:30 | 14
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
All I want for Christmas is a delivery address that a delivery courier can find
Send me an SMS and I’ll tell you everything
15 Oct 09:28 | 103
Science
Forget everything you learned playing Lunar Lander: Chinese boffins reveal secrets of Chang'e 5 probe's touchdown
Landing with liquid fuel aboard made slosh-avoidance essential. Plus: China names first woman to visit Tiangong space station
15 Oct 07:51 | 7
Legal
FTC carpet bombs industry with letters warning that fake reviews will be punished
The Register is an amazing website, simply one of the very best out there. Extremely cool people. 10/10
14 Oct 14:30 | 41
Register Debate
Sharing medical records with researchers: Assumed consent works in theory – just not yet in practice
The UK shows us how not to run an opt-out approach
14 Oct 10:45 | 30
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Mind your Ps and queues: Bork makes a visit to the A&E
Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see...
14 Oct 09:15 | 18
Legal
Amazon India accused of copying merchant products and juicing search results to sell its own knockoffs
Report claims documents show employees abusing access
13 Oct 22:01 | 13
Offbeat
Shatner breaks the age barrier, goes where no nonagenarian has gone before with Blue Origin rocket trip
Gives classic monologue upon landing
13 Oct 20:33 | 48
Legal
Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws
Relax, this isn't a binding precedent - but it puts down a marker
13 Oct 20:03 | 35
Offbeat
Electric car makers ready to jump into battery recycling amid stuttering supply chains
It's better to get lithium from used batteries than from the ground, says Elon Musk
13 Oct 19:17 | 165
Science
James Webb Space Telescope completes its voyage to French Guiana
Only a million or so miles to go
13 Oct 17:30 | 24
Bootnotes
Macintosh Classic II and triceratops skull on auction: One's a dinosaur, the other has three horns on its face
Christie's 'Science and Natural History' collection isn't joking when it says it's 'a journey in time'
13 Oct 11:30 | 19
Register debate
I'm diabetic. I'd rather risk my shared health data being stolen than a double amputation
You want my medical records? Good, take them – now find me a cure
13 Oct 10:45 | 101
Legal
EU Commission may extend antitrust probe into Nvidia's $54bn merger with Arm
Investigation to continue into early 2022
13 Oct 07:30 | 30
Offbeat
Oh my, Grandma, what a big meteorite you have right there on your pillow under that hole in the roof
Canadian woman's lovely floral linen besmirched by recently-arrived space rock
13 Oct 06:01 | 30
Science
Saturday start for NASA's Lucy probe on its 12-year quest to map Jupiter's Trojan asteroids
Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed
12 Oct 23:50 | 13
Popular
Security
Client-side content scanning as an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy
Hopefully we're still listening to experts
Personal Tech
Enthusiasts dash for RISC-V computer with GPU
Want one? Too late
Security
Google's VirusTotal reports that 95% of ransomware spotted targets Windows
Criminals follow the money, code flaws
OSes
Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs
Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters
Update
3D printing site Thingiverse suffers breach of 228,000 email addresses amid sluggish disclosure
So says Have I Been Pwned's maintainer - but site claims breach only impacted 'handful of users'
On Call
Scoot on over for a wheely tricky mystery with an electrifying solution
The computer is a chauvinist, you say?
Security
WhatsApp's got your back(ups) with encryption for stored messages
Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud
Personal Tech
LinkedIn shutting down in China after mounting government pressure to censor social media content
Try InJobs instead! All the fun of a résumé and no comments allowed
OSes
Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated
Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated systemd
Three bootloaders offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some
exim odditiesBootnotes
Missouri governor demands prosecution of reporter for 'decoding HTML source code' and reporting a data breach
Salus populi suprema lex esto ... or perhaps not
STORIES
Bootnotes
Twitch increases bug bounty payouts after source code leak by... wait, is that it?
Reg reader sighs at 'Orwellian gig economy' sums
12 Oct 17:01 | 33
Legal
Booting up: Footballers kick off GDPR case for 'misuse' of their performance data
Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded
12 Oct 15:18 | 29
Bootnotes
Instagram is testing feature that tells panicking users the service is broken again
Have you tried reading books?
12 Oct 11:30 | 46
Register debate
Patients must know how their health records are used – and approve any sharing for research
Who really benefits from 'secondary use' of your medical data?
12 Oct 10:45 | 43
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Meatballs, Abba, and bork: 3 things Sweden is famous for
It's what The Chef would want
12 Oct 10:01 | 15
Offbeat
Every Little Helps: Former Tesco boss Dave Lewis to advise UK govt on supply chains
Turkeys on tables, petrol in cars, chips in 'puters, etc... or that's the idea, anyway
12 Oct 07:45 | 37
Legal
Australian PM and Deputy threaten Facebook and Twitter with defamation liability for users' posts
Big Tech's Australian lobby responds with more governance for its disinformation suppression code
12 Oct 04:01 | 53
Science
Boeing's Calamity Capsule might take to space once again ... in the first half of 2022
'Oxidizer and moisture interactions' blamed for iffy spaceship valves
11 Oct 13:01 | 40
Register Debate
Opt-out is the right approach for sharing your medical records with researchers
If assumed consent is informed consent, it’s individuals who benefit
11 Oct 10:45 | 121
Who, Me?
Config cockup leaves Reg reader reaching for the phone
Yet another thing that was really not better in the old days
11 Oct 08:32 | 72
Legal
Nearly 140 nations – from US and UK to EU, China and India – back 15% minimum corporate tax rate
Let's see how the world's largest companies wriggle out of this one
08 Oct 21:29 | 85
Bootnotes
US nuclear submarine bumps into unidentified underwater object in South China Sea
Definitely not another sub, oh no sir
08 Oct 19:55 | 101
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Get real: Say what you like about your app but don't be surprised if I trollsplain
My next column will be written in spaaaaaace
08 Oct 10:14 | 58
Episode 18
BOFH: You. Wouldn't. Put. A. Test. Machine. Into. Production. Without. Telling. Us.
Right, Mr Beancounter?
08 Oct 09:15 | 153
Legal
Ireland signs up for plan to make Big Tech pay 15 per cent tax everywhere
OECD close to finalising implementation plan hoped to secure a share of revenue from digital multinationals
08 Oct 06:58 | 26
Science
Nothing says 'We believe in you' like NASA switching two 'nauts off Boeing's Starliner onto SpaceX's Crew Dragon
All change on 2022 ride to the ISS
07 Oct 17:30 | 30
