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Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

07 May 23:41 | 11

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

But beware lock-in-as-a-service, analyst warns

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope

07 May 18:06 | 5

British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight

Totally Sucks, Buddy: Debit payments held up since April, online and app still wobbly, say readers

07 May 16:44 | 8

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

07 May 13:49 | 46

Bug of the week

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

Now that's a Buffett overflow error

07 May 11:24 | 51

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin

We're nicer in person, we swear

07 May 10:26 | 28

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated'

07 May 08:30 | 57

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

Algos guiding self-driving cars don’t expect to see a STOP sign next to food. So if someone put a pic showing apples at a busy intersection ...

07 May 08:01 | 49

NHS Digital booking website had unexpected side effect: It leaked people's jab status

Wanna find out if your employee has had a shot? Just lob her postcode and DoB into this website

06 May 18:37 | 37

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance

06 May 17:36 | 19

Microsoft has gone to great lengths to push its tech, but survey suggests many devs slipped through the .NET

Among the findings, WPF remains most-used desktop framework despite years of promotion for UWP

06 May 12:45 | 29

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain

06 May 12:15 | 92

A web-era pandemic. Loving K8s without ruining Earth. Chaos engineering – and more at Continuous Lifecycle Online

There are so many reasons to join us next week at our tip-top DevOps conference, get your ticket now

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg

06 May 08:30 | 24

VMware amends bug report claiming ‘Unauthorized API’ behind critical flaw - now says it's an 'unauthorised end point'

Whatever the source, remote code execution possible on vRealize Business for Cloud – which knows a lot about your private and public platforms

Robo-taxis hit the streets of Beijing – albeit a small fleet in a geo-fenced suburb

Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too

06 May 00:50 | 9

Can your AI code be fooled by vandalized images or clever wording? Microsoft open sources a tool to test for that

Counterfit automatically creates adversarial inputs to find weaknesses

05 May 23:27 | 4

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

30% of employees reportedly walked out following sudden rule change

05 May 20:00 | 115

Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly

New Spark 3.0 connector will appeal to users too, analyst says

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Crane horror Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone

On the other hand he was fine

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

Visual Basic 6 returns: You've been a good developer all year. You have social distanced, you have helped your mom. Here's your reward

(Almost) Why? Kickstarter and nostalgia of those who have forgotten the pain

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years

The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?

Official CPython is slow, but there are many ways to get better performance

Google will make you use two-step verification to login

World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords suck

Chrome on Windows turns on Intel, AMD chip-level defenses against malicious websites

Terms and conditions apply

The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs

There was just a little fire. But not enough to worry anybody

Bug of the week

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

Now that's a Buffett overflow error

Which? warns that more than 2 million Brits are on old and insecure routers – wagging a finger at Huawei-made kit

Default passwords, no updates, and your data's flowing through these

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Microsoft's Edge browser for Linux hits the Beta Channel ... if you're into that kind of thing

Add yet another Chromium browser to your collection

05 May 15:30 | 37

How to hide a backdoor in AI software – such as a bank app depositing checks or a security cam checking faces

Neural networks can be aimed to misbehave when squeezed

05 May 10:57 | 8

UK's Department for Work and Pensions continues to move off Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse in pursuit of a single version of the truth

Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red's system refuses to die

05 May 08:06 | 6

American schools' phone apps send children's info to ad networks, analytics firms

Get used to it, kid

04 May 21:09 | 39

Pega set to launch 'context-aware' APIs that let users tweak back-end processes without breaking front end

Updates designed to ease 'expensive and challenging' software, analyst says

04 May 17:30 | 2

RHEL, RHEL, RHEL, fancy that: Rocky Linux would-be CentOS replacement hits RC1 milestone

For testing only - but new distro compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux getting close to release

04 May 13:44 | 13

Audacity 'scared and excited' to be bought and brought under Muse Group's roof, promises to stay free and open source

Which is good because that's why the audio editing software is so popular

04 May 11:37 | 35

WTH are NFTs? Here is the token, there is the Beeple....

76.23kWh per-transaction footprint... WTF, people?

04 May 10:02 | 64

House of pain: If YAML makes you swear, shout louder – the agony is there for a reason

Non-quoted string vest? Don't mind if we do

04 May 09:15 | 44

Stuck in R/3verse: East Sussex County Council struggles to move forward with £25m SAP replacement

Hardware supporting ageing system is mired in performance issues

04 May 08:30 | 14

How are you supposed to secure your workers when they could be anywhere?

Find out at the Anywhere Workspace Event

Googler demolishes one of Apple's monopoly defenses – that web apps are just as good as native iOS software

Safari savaged for falling behind in web APIs

04 May 00:02 | 59

It’s the year of the Virtual Desktop again … but this time really is different

Join us and Nutanix online this week and find out why

Boomi busts out of Dell with $4bn sale to pair of private equiteers

It’s a cloudy world and Dell has now offloaded almost all its software assets

03 May 05:58 | 6

More than 1,000 humans fail to beat AI contender in top crossword battle

Plus: Deepfake satellite images and Google fails to cite relevant research in its own large language model paper

01 May 14:51 | 27

Lambda School, a coding bootcamp that takes a cut of your next tech salary, now takes a 30% cut in staff

Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp

30 Apr 23:29 | 22

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