Interview
El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances
Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice'
Security
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?
Interview
Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop
Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in
Column
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today
Latest News
OSes
Apple settles lawsuit against Corellium as iOS platform dictatorship looks more precarious
Challenge to VMs abandoned amid legal and regulatory threats
11 Aug 20:46 |
Systems Approach
It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc
The idea was to remove central points of failure, not introduce them
11 Aug 19:40 | 6
PaaS + IaaS
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 | 5
Servers
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 | 9
Off-Prem
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 | 37
Personal Tech
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 | 5
Software
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 | 62
Personal Tech
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 | 23
Security
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 | 19
Legal
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 | 9
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Come fly with me. But first we need to find a boot device
An unexpected bork in the boarding area
11 Aug 10:04 | 16
CORONAVIRUS
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
Amazon delays return to office work until 2022 at the earliest
Other Big Tech companies, however, still want workers in this autumn
Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work
Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal
Microsoft to require proof of vaccination from on-site staff, pushes back full reopening
Unless your doctor or god says you can't have the jab
Interview
El Reg talks to Azure Data veep as Microsoft flicks the switch on Azure Arc for SQL Managed Instances
Longevity, PostgreSQL, and 'the default relational database of choice'
11 Aug 09:11 | 2
Column
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today
11 Aug 08:01 | 91
Security
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 | 12
Software
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
Poll
Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk
Stout with a dash of chocolate powder – and very similar packaging – sent back to the drawing board
11 Aug 06:29 | 103
Legal
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 | 3
Security
Avast, ye takeover lawyers! Norton LifeLock to acquire security rival
$8B deal will create smallbiz and consumer security monster
11 Aug 05:15 | 9
Legal
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
Popular
Legal
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
Science
Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount
Is that the sound of hammering we can hear?
Virtualization
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?
Software
GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink
When it comes to ownership then details count
Interview
Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop
Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in
Personal Tech
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
Security
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
Security
$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network
'Any country will regard this as a major economic crime and you will be pursued'
Security
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?
Software
US senators reach last-minute compromise on cryptocurrency regulations as infrastructure bill vote looms
Coin miners and digicash researchers could be in the clear
STORIES
Personal Tech
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
Updated
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
Security
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 | 22
Security
$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network
'Any country will regard this as a major economic crime and you will be pursued'
10 Aug 20:51 | 44
Security
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
Science
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 | 41
Interview
Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop
Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in
10 Aug 16:38 | 25
Science
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
ALL THE NEWS FIT FOR PRINT
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
Microsoft responds to PrintNightmare by making life that little bit harder for admins
Have they forgotten SysAdmin Appreciation Day so soon?
For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5
Litre of the office essential costs as much as £2,410 – up from £1,700 in 2003, finds Which?
Printers used to be a pricey luxury in Asian homes, then along came ... you know what
Best not to go long on printer shares, IDC predicts copy shops will rise again
Personal Tech
Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement
Anyone fancy applying?
10 Aug 15:03 | 56
Applications
Microsoft's axeman cometh for OneDrive sync app on older versions of macOS
Bye Sierra
10 Aug 13:34 | 11
Science
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 | 120
Virtualization
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
Legal
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 | 84
Security
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
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Never Knowingly Underborked: Double trouble at Southampton's John Lewis
Unless that's an ad for American Megatrends?
10 Aug 08:29 | 8
Analysis
Don't believe the hype that AI-generated 'master faces' can break into face recognition systems any time soon
The machine learning model was trained and tested on limited data
10 Aug 07:44 | 19
Don't Miss
New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it
Update better aligned with GTK widgets but UI is controversial
Security
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
Personal Tech
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 | 43
Science
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
Legal
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
Software
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
Software
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
Security
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, experts warn
09 Aug 21:37 | 133
