Looks like NSA now stands for Not Selecting Azure: US spy agency picks AWS over Microsoft
Déjà vu time as $10bn contract award attracts the inevitable bid protest
11 Aug 17:07 | 2
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Tick-tock, Facebook: Not a reference to that short vid horsepuckey but a literal open-source timekeeper
Social media giant unveils specs for Open Compute Time Appliance
11 Aug 16:09 | 2
Google staff who work from home might see pay cut under corporate policy – reports
That spells trouble for up to one in five workers expected to be WFH
11 Aug 15:01 | 31
Samsung's foldables fall to more realistic prices and harden up
Plus: How the S Pen will work outside the Note – by slipping into a case
11 Aug 14:15 | 4
Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on... so where are all the users?
Extended support release brings a handful of new features, but browser is still struggling for market share
11 Aug 13:33 | 51
GOP lawmakers ask for former Huawei handset biz Honor to be placed the Entity List
Potentially putting the squeeze on already constrained supply chains
11 Aug 12:49 | 16
Microsoft responds to PrintNightmare by making life that little bit harder for admins
Have they forgotten SysAdmin Appreciation Day so soon?
11 Aug 11:54 | 18
PR director at Chinese Twitter analogue Weibo detained on bribery and fraud charges
'Facing the temptation of interests, he lost his principles'
11 Aug 11:02 | 8
Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device
Bork!Bork!Bork! An unexpected bork in the boarding area
11 Aug 10:04 | 14
El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances
Interview Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice'
11 Aug 09:11 | 2
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
Column It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today
11 Aug 08:01 | 73
Chinese espionage group targets Israel while suggesting the source could be Iran
FireEye says Israeli defense agencies were alert to compromises as China works to protect Belt and Road investments
11 Aug 07:32 | 10
Dutch education IT crisis averted as Google agrees to 'major privacy improvements'
'Google has agreed to become more transparent' - over optimistic?
11 Aug 07:01 | 10
Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk
Poll Stout with a dash of chocolate powder – and very similar packaging – sent back to the drawing board
11 Aug 06:29 | 97
In Pakistan, a car company will soon be making Samsung mobile phones
Approval has been granted by Pakistani regulatory body, meanwhile auto material costs rise putting car makers in flux
11 Aug 06:07 | 2
Avast, ye takeover lawyers! Norton LifeLock to acquire security rival
$8B deal will create smallbiz and consumer security monster
11 Aug 05:15 | 9
Amazon ends Indian e-tail enablement joint venture
Helped over 300,000 sellers to get online – on Amazon – which was a bit too cosy in the current political climate
11 Aug 02:58 | 1
Xiaomi builds a robot dog out of smartphone cameras and an Nvidia edge AI board
Who's an open-source boy? The $1500 CyberDog, that's who
11 Aug 01:36 | 9
Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture
11 Aug 00:51 | 16
Boffins propose Pretty Good Phone Privacy to end pretty invasive location data harvesting by telcos
Ready to go for telcos, but what's their incentive to lose all that lovely money?
11 Aug 00:06 | 17
$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network servers after security snafu
Here's the addresses you need to block
10 Aug 20:51 | 40
Microsoft Patch Tuesday bug drought: No, it's not climate change or unexpected code quality improvements
It's just temporary relief from the typical monthly repair routine
10 Aug 19:53 | 4
Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount
Is that the sound of hammering we can hear?
10 Aug 17:45 | 39
Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop
Interview Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in
10 Aug 16:38 | 25
Boots on Moon in 2024? NASA OIG says you better moonwalk away from that date, because suits ain't ready
Don't rocket the boat, says agency - you'll hear from us soon
10 Aug 15:26 | 33
Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement
Anyone fancy applying?
10 Aug 15:03 | 55
Microsoft's axeman cometh for OneDrive sync app on older versions of macOS
Bye Sierra
10 Aug 13:34 | 11
Scientists reckon eliminating COVID-19 will be easier than polio, harder than smallpox – just buckle in for a wait
You looked like you needed some good news
10 Aug 12:39 | 116
Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon
Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?
10 Aug 11:35 | 19
Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search
Someone must have broken in and taken docs, said Leathermarket Community Benefit Society
10 Aug 10:30 | 80
We'll drop SBOMs on UK.gov to solve Telecoms Security Bill's technical demands, beams Cisco
Doc reveals more of what's causing industry to tear its hair out
10 Aug 09:26 | 10
Never Knowingly Underborked: Double trouble at Southampton's John Lewis
Bork!Bork!Bork! Unless that's an ad for American Megatrends?
10 Aug 08:29 | 8
Don't believe the hype that AI-generated 'master faces' can break into face recognition systems any time soon
Analysis The machine learning model was trained and tested on limited data
10 Aug 07:44 | 19
Splunk spots malware targeting Windows Server on AWS to mine Monero
RDP-enabled instances attacked, perhaps via Iran and China, then use Telegram desktop client for command and control
10 Aug 07:04 | 8
Russian Arm SoC now shipping in Russian PCs running Russian Linux
How much work can you do with eight Arm Cortex-A57 cores? Russia's government and military may be about to find out
10 Aug 06:00 | 39
Vietnamese province that hosts Big Tech's factories now fashionably COVID-free
Industrial parks in Bac Giang, home to Apple and Samsung suppliers, battled shutdowns and skyrocketing COVID infections among workers since May
10 Aug 05:06 | 8
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong awarded Get Out Of Jail Free card
South Korea needs Samsung monopolising effectively as it pursues industry development plans
10 Aug 01:58 | 11
GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink
When it comes to ownership then details count
10 Aug 00:43 | 16
US senators reach last-minute compromise on cryptocurrency regulations as infrastructure bill vote looms
Coin miners and digicash researchers could be in the clear
09 Aug 23:46 | 6
Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs - says it'd block governments subverting its system
Offer may not apply in China, or anywhere else warn experts
09 Aug 21:37 | 131
Chair of Perl's Community Affairs Team quits as language overlords force org into hiatus
Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized'
09 Aug 18:03 | 66
You can now live life like Paul Allen on Microsoft cofounder's luxury yacht for '£1m a week'
Anyone want to start a Kickstarter page for a Reg reader getaway?
09 Aug 17:03 | 40
Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments
'We have labelled this as an enhancement' says engineer
09 Aug 16:09 | 38
The sideloader weeps tonight: Unsealed court docs claim Google said 'install friction' would ‘drastically limit' Epic's reach
Plus: Google 'contemplated buying some or all of Epic'
09 Aug 14:47 | 12
New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it
Update better aligned with GTK widgets but UI is controversial
09 Aug 13:35 | 96
HPE UK sales crash after infrastructure projects delayed, but PC-flinging HP Inc watches Brit biz rise
The pandemic and a tale of two HPs
09 Aug 12:22 | 8
Woman sues McDonald's for $14 after cheeseburger ad did exactly what it's designed to
Orthodox Christian said mouth-watering banner made her break Lent fast
09 Aug 11:22 | 135
UK's Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency signs £15m in cloud contracts
AWS and Azure cruise into government agency
09 Aug 10:29 | 7
Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?
Column Watts coming down may not go up
09 Aug 09:30 | 173
Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!
Who, Me? Going out with a bang
09 Aug 08:30 | 132
Alibaba fires manager accused of sexually assaulting colleague
Chinese netizens and State media unleash as it emerges web giant lacks formal sexual harassment policy
09 Aug 08:11 | 29
Open Compute Project to design open silicon and optics in Strategy 2.0
Wants less 'vanity hardware', more modular and scalable kit
09 Aug 06:45 | 1
NASA comes up empty on Perseverance rover's first Mars sample drilling attempt
Suspects rocks are the problem, not probe
09 Aug 05:29 | 25
Black Hat security conference returns to Las Vegas – complete with hacks to quiet the hotel guest from hell
In Brief And a very scary story of a job that went from white hat to murky shades of gray in the United Arab Emirates
09 Aug 04:02 | 8
Huawei reports severe revenue drop as US sanctions bite consumer business
Chinese chipmaker SMIC also reports trouble getting the American kit it needs to expand
09 Aug 02:31 | 15
AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn
In brief Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools
08 Aug 11:01 | 46
SpaceX Starship struts its stack to show it has the right stuff
Combined with its Super Heavy booster, Starship stood briefly as the tallest rocket yet
07 Aug 10:26 | 87
Amazon delays return to office work until 2022 at the earliest
Other Big Tech companies, however, still want workers in this autumn
06 Aug 21:04 | 41
All your DNS were belong to us: AWS and Google Cloud shut down spying vulnerability
Security researchers found they could snoop on dynamic DNS traffic
06 Aug 19:34 | 33
Foxconn buys chip factory off Macronix in bid to break into the electric vehicle market
Electronics giant must conquer its supply chain as US eyes domestic production
06 Aug 15:37 | 7
THX Onyx: A do-it-all DAC for the travelling audiophile
Review Hi-res, MQA, DSD, supports Apple Music's highest quality – but is it worth the hassle?
06 Aug 14:27 | 79
Does the world need another cross-platform framework? Tough, here's JetBrains with Compose Multiplatform
'A different way of thinking about applications' says project lead
06 Aug 13:32 | 15
Your Computer Is On Fire, but it will take much more than this book to put it out
Book review Detailed diagnosis of tech industry delusion falls short of prescribing a cure
06 Aug 12:32 | 15
Flushing roulette: Southern Water installing digital sewer monitors to prevent blockages
Plan to deal with fatbergs NOT related to that £90m fine for dumping effluent into sea on England's south coast
06 Aug 11:34 | 72
Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?
Analysis Here's how to switch around account numbers, slip past moderation, and mix up names in production-level models
06 Aug 10:31 | 36
Q: Post-lockdown, where would I like to go? A: As far away from my own head as possible
Something for the Weekend, Sir? About 238,855 miles would do the trick
06 Aug 09:27 | 70
Breaking Bad or just a bad breakpoint? That feeling when your predecessor is BASIC
On Call Here I am to save the day!
06 Aug 08:30 | 85
AI to be bigger than IaaS and PaaS combined by 2025
$500bn a year to be spent on electro-brain and supporting tech vs $400bn on cloud infrastructure
06 Aug 07:28 | 10
South Korea to test grenade-launching drones
Back on terra firma, ransomware rampage sees elevated security threat levels and giveaways to SMBs
06 Aug 06:30 | 31
Microsoft wonders if disabling just-in-time compilation of JavaScript improves browser security
Edge is getting a 'Super Duper Security Mode' to test the idea. Yes, that is the actual name
06 Aug 05:30 | 41
America enlists Big Tech to help it develop and execute cyber security plans
Players in ‘Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative’ include Microsoft, AWS, and Google
06 Aug 03:15 | 14
US proposes tracking digital cash and taxing it to pay for, you know, roads and stuff
Uncle Sam wants digital asset brokers to log customer info but didn't clarify who counts as a broker or not
06 Aug 00:50 | 15
US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO
Where there's a will, there's Huawei
06 Aug 00:13 | 30
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, warns professor
Updated For now it's child abuse material but the tech has mission creep written in
05 Aug 22:00 | 362
Mozilla slams post-cookie ad tech proposals SWAN and UID2 - needs much more work
Replacements for cookie-based tracking still pose privacy problems
05 Aug 20:19 | 15
Fastly CEO opens up on that June outage that crippled so many websites
Admits some customers, including one in top ten yet to return its network
05 Aug 18:36 |
Do you have what it takes to turn adversity into software innovation?
Promo Prepare to take the NextStep at this free virtual event in November
05 Aug 17:00 |
Full Stream ahead: Microsoft will end 'classic' method of recording Teams meetings despite transcription concerns
'All meeting recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint' from 16 August
05 Aug 16:16 | 45
A little Dataiku haiku for you: Hungry investors / throw data management firm / even more money
$400m Series E values outfit at $4.6bn
05 Aug 15:27 |
SK hynix to create US-HQ'd NewCo for Intel's outgoing $9bn NAND biz
Chipzilla exec and vineyard owner Robert Crooke to run operation … in between picking grapes
05 Aug 14:34 |
Got a cheap Cisco router in your home office? If it's one of these, there's an exposed RCE hole you need to plug
Patches issued for two CVE-rated vulns
05 Aug 13:28 | 10
Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets
Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute
05 Aug 12:32 | 57
8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth
Caltech received $100m for the project and is only just telling us now
05 Aug 11:33 | 85
Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws
Party denies naming activist to police but apologises anyway
05 Aug 10:31 | 33
Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe
Knock-on effect for NAS and SSD devices too
05 Aug 09:32 | 63
Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac
Feature Are we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives?
05 Aug 08:30 | 159
Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps
'This is peak Chrome; a reasonably good idea hampered because it was pushed out thoughtlessly'
05 Aug 07:20 | 42
Not all authentication is created equal – and that’s a good thing
Sponsored Identity management and access management problems are different and distinct
05 Aug 06:30 |
AWS taps up Singapore scientists to overcome hurdles facing quantum computing
'Some forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which drives a search for alternatives'
05 Aug 05:33 | 9
Remember Google Plus? Remember its privacy blunder? Remember applying for a slice of a settlement?
Congrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs
05 Aug 02:16 | 15
