UK data watchdog fines 'pandemic partner' biz £8k: It sent 84,000 marketing emails to people who'd given info for track and trace
Tested.me Ltd broke the PECR, says Information Commissioner's Office
19 May 2021 | 36
Applications
More power to web apps, cries Google, and more privacy, too
Google IO Without harming the ad business, natch
19 May 2021 | 20
Parler returns to Apple's iOS App Store with Hive mind to moderate hate
All the vitriol still accessible from Android app, website
17 May 2021 | 20
Facebook Giphy merger stays on ice after failed challenge to UK competition regulator
Problem was of social network's own making, says unimpressed judge
14 May 2021 | 15
Italian monopoly watchdog asks Google to cough up a few euros for illegally blocking an Android Auto app
Web giant tells us it's considering its response to €100m fine demand
13 May 2021 | 7
Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date
'My Number' identifier to become central to myriad government services if the plan works
13 May 2021 | 53
Water's wet, the Pope's Catholic, and iOS is designed to stop folk switching to Android, Epic trial judge told
Fortnite maker wheels out economist to explain how Apple works
12 May 2021 | 74
'Big updates' to Mac design app Sketch add real-time collaboration – but you'll need to fork out for a subscription
Perpetual licence still offered, but with downgraded features
12 May 2021 | 5
Microsoft says Outlook hit by 'email visibility issues' – as in, they're blank
Here's an unofficial fix for those who need their messages now
12 May 2021 | 17
Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price
Bug of the week Now that's what we call a Buffett overflow error
07 May 2021 | 106
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 2021 | 48
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 2021 | 41
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 2021 | 37
American schools' phone apps send children's info to ad networks, analytics firms
Get used to it, kid
04 May 2021 | 39
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 2021 | 37
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 2021 | 59
Google to ban emoji, deceptive marketing, and ALL CAPS from Play Store metadata later this year
The spotty 13-year old app shack finally growing up? Better late than never
30 Apr 2021 | 32
Microsoft joins Bytecode Alliance to advance WebAssembly – aka the thing that lets you run compiled C/C++/Rust code in browsers
Maybe we can make software modular, secure, speedy all at the same time
28 Apr 2021 | 69
Australia probes app stores, politely suggests Apple and Google could try being nicer and more careful
Down Under watchdog doesn't call for commission cuts nor suggest major interventions
28 Apr 2021 | 6
JavaScript developers left in the dark after DroidScript software shut down by Google over ad fraud allegations
Updated Creator suspects his ID was copied, web giant keeps quiet
27 Apr 2021 | 42
Spotlight on Apple, Google app stores: What happened to Tile, Spotify, Match – and that proposed law in Arizona
Special report Guidelines, privacy, security all a smokescreen for monopoly abuse, lawmakers told
25 Apr 2021 | 44
Exam-monitoring biz Proctorio tried to silence a critic using copyright law. Now EFF sues to put an end to this tactic
Tweets linking to source code were fair use, say digital-rights warriors
22 Apr 2021 | 17
Anyone for Palantir? UK.gov names gaggle of vendors to fight for contracts in £1.2bn back office application framework
It's time to crack open the public sector pork barrel.... like it was ever closed
21 Apr 2021 | 7
Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late
Where's the PowerShell command to ban all meetings forever?
20 Apr 2021 | 48
Microsoft calls time on Timeline: Don't worry, more features that nobody asked for coming your way
Activity history tracker over mobile devices set to become history
15 Apr 2021 | 29
NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears
New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules
13 Apr 2021 | 32
Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing
Column Anyone wanting to bring a similar case in the future will have to be very, very bold and very, very rich
12 Apr 2021 | 53
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog
08 Apr 2021 | 314
Gitpod ditches Eclipse Theia for Visual Studio Code under redesign, sponsors new dev experience event
'Allowing everyone to use their favourite IDE just makes a lot of sense'
08 Apr 2021 | 4
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay, is it? JetBrains Code With Me collaborative programming tool released
Swarm programming with audio, video, and everyone editing at once – what could go wrong?
07 Apr 2021 | 4
Post Office awards Fujitsu a £42.5m contract extension for the IT system behind wrongful subpostmaster prosecutions
Yes, that Horizon branch office management IT system
07 Apr 2021 | 29
Another SAP in the face for Oracle: Alphabet soups up financial software by moving off Big Red systems
Nothing to do with THAT court case or lack of Oracle certification on GCP. Nope. Definitely not
06 Apr 2021 | 17
Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users
Google comes in late too
02 Apr 2021 | 44
In a devastating blow to all eight of you, Microsoft pulls the plug on Cortana's Android, iOS apps
Chatty digital assistant can still be found on Outlook, Teams, Windows
01 Apr 2021 | 32
X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine
The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in
01 Apr 2021 | 16
Amazon eyes up space startups for an AWS Accelerator, dangles $1m of cloud credits for a chosen ten
Planting that Bezos flag in the newest cloud sector: spaaaaaace
31 Mar 2021 | 4
