China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules
Hands-off driving detectors required, over-the-air updates to be strictly regulated
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Perhaps regretting those Instagram, WhatsApp acquisitions, UK watchdog suggests Facebook offloads GIF haven Giphy
BTW is that pronounced Jiffy or?
13 Aug 06:33 |
FISMA's a fizzer, says Cisco, and calls on Congress to get cyber security policy right – pronto
Organizational structure, piecemeal approach and hiring practices all need to change, says Borg security bigwig
13 Aug 06:16 |
Alibaba to offer self-defense training in response to sexual assault allegation
Pledges to 'strengthen organizational guardrails' with raft of new policy and training initiatives
13 Aug 03:15 |
Huawei stole our tech and created a 'backdoor' to spy on Pakistan, claims IT biz
Allegations of purloined trade secrets, unfair competition, national security threats, and more packed into lawsuit
13 Aug 01:54 | 1
Facebook now says it won't recall staff to its offices until 2022 due to delta variant
It's the Social distancing Network™
13 Aug 00:33 | 2
GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication
In brief Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more
12 Aug 23:20 | 2
NASA blames the wrong kind of Martian rock for Perseverance sample failure
Not a hardware or software bug, for a change
12 Aug 21:33 | 11
US govt scores a point against Assange in run-up to extradition appeal showdown
Analysis Judge wrong to prevent Uncle Sam from challenging psychiatrist's suicide risk report, says High Court
12 Aug 20:31 | 4
Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more
Project said to be well resourced, lots of tweaks in new version, plenty more to do
12 Aug 19:49 | 18
Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40
5150: Not just a medical emergency, also the beginning of the office brick
12 Aug 18:36 | 8
Think your backups will protect you against ransomware? They’re top of the target list
Webcast Zoom in on zero trust by tuning in and finding out
12 Aug 17:30 |
Workday makes Google preferred partner for public cloud weeks after demise of Amazon project revealed
SaaSy HR firm gets around a bit
12 Aug 16:37 |
Lockbit ransomware attack didn't affect ops, claims Accenture amid lurid payoff rumours
No word on whether gang got their mitts on data, though
12 Aug 15:24 | 2
After 15 months in preview, GitHub releases Codespaces – probably the fanciest new shiny since Actions
Teams and Enterprise only for now
12 Aug 14:21 | 8
Where's the nearest exit? ServiceNow continues on acquisition spree with interior mapping startup Mapwize
PostgreSQL acceleration outfit Swarm64 also nabbed
12 Aug 13:04 | 2
Taiwan president pokes the bear by saying the nation needs to lessen its supply chain dependency on China
Tsai Ing-wen also expressed desire to attract external tech talent in rare interview
12 Aug 12:02 | 17
Elementary OS 6 Odin released on a 'pay what you want' basis
Principled Linux distro with curated apps, but spartan install may flummox newbies
12 Aug 11:29 | 28
COVID-19 cases surge as do sales of fake vaccination cards – around $100 for something you could get free
Vaccine deceit is infectious
12 Aug 10:33 | 135
Elevating bork to a new level (if the touchscreen worked)
Bork!Bork!Bork! Who needs pesky buttons when the Internet of Bork is here?
12 Aug 09:27 | 47
Microsoft emits last preview of .NET 6 and C# 10, but is C# becoming as complex as C++?
Plus: Visual Studio rolls out preview 3 of 2022 version
12 Aug 08:29 | 26
Salesforce gets into the vid-streaming with original content caper, promises digital inspriation
Netflix and friends are probably safe as only shows revealed so far are fronted by staff or streamed from its own conference
12 Aug 07:57 | 3
Now that your VMs are in the cloud, the hard stuff starts
Webcast Want to rewrite your tech future? Chapter 2 starts here
12 Aug 07:30 |
China plans laws for 'healthy' development of tech companies
Monopoly review, digital IDs and more on agenda in new plan from Central Committee and State Council
12 Aug 06:56 | 19
Good news: There's a slightly increased chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth. Bad news: It's still really slight
Don't get your hopes up about that Sept 24, 2182 end-of-world party
12 Aug 06:11 | 32
Singaporean telco leaked personal data of over 57,000 customers
StarHub's breach announcement came a month after discovery of customer file on dump site
12 Aug 04:28 | 1
India's return to space fails after first locally built cryogenic engine experiences 'anomaly'
Upper stage didn't ignite, Earth observation satellite likely lost
12 Aug 03:05 | 25
Naughty karaoke is China's next tech crackdown target
Work drinking culture also criticised in wake of Alibaba sex assault scandal
12 Aug 01:27 | 30
Thief hands back at least a third of $600m in crypto-coins stolen from Poly Network
It was just a prank, bro
11 Aug 23:18 | 20
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 |
It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc
Systems Approach The idea was to remove central points of failure, not introduce them
11 Aug 19:40 | 49
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 | 11
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 | 11
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 | 88
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 | 8
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 | 127
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 | 37
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 | 28
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 | 10
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 | 17
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 | 6
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 | 126
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 | 19
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 | 13
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 | 110
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
Avast, ye takeover lawyers! Norton LifeLock to acquire security rival
$8B deal will create smallbiz and consumer security monster
11 Aug 05:15 | 12
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 | 12
Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals
Updated Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture
11 Aug 00:51 | 17
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 | 26
$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 | 48
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 | 5
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 | 48
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 | 31
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 | 35
Without a trace: Baroness Dido Harding to step down as chair of NHS Improvement
Anyone fancy applying?
10 Aug 15:03 | 58
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 | 162
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 | 90
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 | 10
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 | 22
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 | 44
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 | 12
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, experts warn
09 Aug 21:37 | 136
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 | 73
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 | 39
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 | 103
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 | 136
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 | 174
Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!
Who, Me? Going out with a bang
09 Aug 08:30 | 134
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 | 31
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 | 2
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 | 88
