Come on, Amazon: If you're going to copy open-source code for a new product, at least credit the creator
Developer wishes cloud giant gave more thought to not stepping on toes
16 Oct 23:32 | 1
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Top doctors slam Google for not backing up incredible claims of super-human cancer-spotting AI
And the Chocolate Factory isn't the only one bragging about ML with little evidence of its success
16 Oct 22:19 | 4
Software billionaire accused of hiding $2bn in income from IRS – potentially the largest tax scam in US history
CEO charged with tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, etc
16 Oct 20:57 | 9
If you want to practice writing exploits and worms, there's a big hijacking hole in SonicWall firewall VPNs
And some 800,000 installations facing the internet, patches are available
16 Oct 20:01 |
Samsung aims boot at Apple's decision not to bundle a charger in with the iPhone 12, foot ends up in mouth
Come on Sammy, you've got form here so don't make the same mistakes again
16 Oct 19:15 | 7
Hey Reg readers, Happy Spreadsheet day! Because there ain't no party like an Excel party
From VisiCalc to Google Sheets, none of them are a database
16 Oct 18:32 | 18
Oracle aims high-end cloudy database release at existing customers in 'defensive' move
Large existing install base that's pondering move to cloud will be reluctant to ditch 'existing investments' opines analyst
16 Oct 17:59 | 2
Work life balance? We've heard of it. Pandemic means 9-5 shifts are a thing of the past for many
Will the hardest workers want to go back to the offce for a break?
16 Oct 17:04 | 15
Need a new computer for homeschooling? You can do worse than a sub-￡30 2007 MacBook off eBay
The look on their wickle faces as they scream: 'Mum, what the heck is Linux?'
16 Oct 16:01 | 27
To stop web giants abusing privacy, they must be prevented from respawning. Ever
ColumnHistory tells us tech companies just get bigger, even after being broken up or battered
16 Oct 15:00 | 23
RPA firms: We have our own process mining tools. Process miner Celonis: We're all about automation now
German biz: You won't need an RPA tool, or not as often. FIGHT, FIGHT!!!
16 Oct 13:59 | 4
UK's National Audit Office warns full-fibre rollout strategy is leaving rural Britain behind. Again
Tough luck, bumpkins! Broadband speed gap misery to widen, says report
16 Oct 13:00 | 24
British Airways fined ￡20m for Magecart hack that exposed 400k folks' credit card details to crooks
Airline was saving domain admin creds and card details alike in plaintext
16 Oct 12:15 | 32
When you gaze long enough into the bork, the bork will gaze back into you
Bork!Bork!Bork!Bork, bork, bork on the Autobahn
16 Oct 11:27 | 17
UK tech supply chain in dark over Brexit preparations months ahead of final heave-ho
Canalys Forum 2020 - updatedHow can it be OK when nobody knows what to prepare for, ask IT players
16 Oct 10:45 | 89
Calling devs of all stripes: Here are some cool roles in software, electric vehicles, Reg wrangling, and more
Job AlertAnd if you're hiring, send us your ads for free promotion
16 Oct 10:00 | 2
The vid-confs drinking game: Down a shot of brandy every time someone titters 'Sorry, I was on mute'
Something for the Weekend, Sir?Take your brain to another dimension- sion- sion... Pay close attention
16 Oct 09:15 | 66
Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online
Where the data flies, and the travellers cry.....
16 Oct 08:30 | 27
TikTok says Trump administration ban is based on fake news about the app and its back end
Claims code and infrastructure aren't shared with China or very scary. Also reveals Oracle will win biz from AWS, Azure, Alibaba and Google!
16 Oct 08:02 | 12
When you're On Call, only you can hear the silence of the clicks
On CallAutomated alerting? Escalating robo-calling? All ok, but beware the inebriated meatbag in the system
16 Oct 07:15 | 67
OpenStack's 10th birthday is next week, but you get the present of a new release today!
Meet Victoria, who’s fond of K8s, security and complex networking
16 Oct 05:45 | 2
So many Unis run eSports teams that Lenovo’s built a business unit for ‘em
To flog workstations and 'maintain and optimize the experience for esports student athletes'
16 Oct 04:28 | 8
Alibaba-aligned e-commerce outfit Taobao quits Taiwan
Was given deadline to declare its Chinese ties or leave, chose the latter
16 Oct 02:30 |
AI cleans up sat radar images so scientists can better spot warning signs before volcanoes go all Mount Doom
Goodbye, Dave
16 Oct 01:15 | 5
After Trump, Congress, Supreme Court Justice hit out at tech giants' legal immunity, now FCC boss wants to stick his oar in, too
Pai says he wants to 'clarify' Section 230's 26 words
16 Oct 00:08 | 32
If you can see this headline, you're certainly not reading it on Twitter: All tweets, notifications vanish
UpdatedAnd the world breathed a sigh of relief?
15 Oct 22:00 | 45
Your web browser running remotely in Cloudflare's cloud. That's it. That's the story
Social distancing isn't just for surviving the pandemic – now this internet giant can add it to your browser
15 Oct 21:44 | 19
Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux's world's widely used open-source printing system? Seems so
After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino
15 Oct 20:30 | 104
One alleged Dridex money-launderer set for US extradition, beams UK's National Crime Agency
They nicked six alleged perps last year but only one was charged
15 Oct 19:28 | 3
COVID-19 security tips: Ensure you sack your staff without leaving their IT access enabled, says Secureworks
Infosec biz issues mildly off-the-wall guidance for incident responders
15 Oct 17:30 | 24
Vivaldi heads back to '80s with a pixel-pushing release of its Chromium-based browser
Fiddling with configuration and getting nostalgic in version 3.4
15 Oct 16:45 | 4
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off!
15 Oct 16:00 | 10
Dutch telco KPN goes its own Huawei, picks Ericsson for its 5G core network
'Yet another nail in the coffin' says analyst as former fan NL's biggest operator looks to Sweden
15 Oct 15:01 | 3
Security much? Twitter should have had a CISO to prevent Bitcoin hack, says US state financial body
Plus: Platform 'censors' US newspaper and triggers ordure tsunami
15 Oct 14:15 | 6
NHS looks to the market for advice on one system to replace two separate, giant Oracle ERP and HR systems
A hornet's nest within a can of worms running systems worth billions of pounds..
15 Oct 13:47 | 34
Microsoft will adopt Google Chrome's controversial Manifest V3 in Edge
Thought Microsoft would resist Google's ad-friendly tweaks to the browser extension API? Think again
15 Oct 12:36 | 22
Even 2020 cannot bring forth the Year of Linux on the Desktop
Windows Subsystem for Linux or Linux Subsystem for Windows? Who cares, 'open source has won', says Microsoft MVP and Canonical engineer lead
15 Oct 11:34 | 44
LibreOffice rains on OpenOffice's 20th anniversary parade, tells rival project to 'do the right thing' and die
And point everyone at LibreOffice, ta
15 Oct 10:12 | 120
We bought a knockoff Lego launchpad kit from China for our Saturn V rocket so you don't have to
Master builder or vastly inferior?
15 Oct 09:01 | 102
Microsoft would love to hear about 'critical bugs' in .NET 5.0 ahead of the 'unified' platform's November launch
Dare ye use RC2 in production?
15 Oct 08:04 |
Remember when Zoom was rumbled for lousy crypto? Six months later it says end-to-end is ready
But it’s a tech preview and requires opt-in for every meeting
15 Oct 07:33 | 13
Your digital transformation strategy works for everyone ... except your employees. Does that sound familiar?
PromoHere’s how to make sure truly everyone benefits
15 Oct 07:00 |
Oracle starts to lose patience with Solaris holdouts
Users who won’t upgrade to 11.4 given three-year warning of unpleasantness to come
15 Oct 06:02 | 76
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
VideoLead scientist explains all to El Reg: 'Pressure is the most versatile parameter to create such conditions'
15 Oct 05:35 | 56
China watches 170,000 years’ worth of short videos every day
Which goes a long way towards explaining why Tencent just engineered a mega-merger of streaming services
15 Oct 04:05 | 9
Infosys declares local service delivery is great – for customers and avoiding regulatory hassles
No H-1Bs? No worries! Especially with 99 percent of staff working from home to help costs fall and Q2 results soar
15 Oct 01:58 |
Confirmed: Barnes & Noble hacked, systems taken offline for days, miscreants may have swiped personal info
UpdatedNook, line and sinker: Servers restored from backups, punters unable to download purchased e-books
15 Oct 00:41 | 26
US Supreme Court Justice flames lower courts for giving 'sweeping immunity' to Facebook, YouTube, etc when it comes to harmful content
AnalysisClarence Thomas reckons web giants need to do more to curb abuse
14 Oct 22:29 | 40
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines
What she in lacks in ethics, she more than makes up for in persistence
14 Oct 21:33 | 132
HashiCorp kicks off its annual Digital shindig with managed service versions of Vault, Consul config kit
And an open-source Boundary with zero trust to try out
14 Oct 20:27 |
Intel celebrates security of Ice Lake Xeon processors, so far impervious to any threat due to their unavailability
But when they ship, Chipzilla promises its server silicon will 'double down' on defense mechanisms
14 Oct 19:26 | 22
The rise of fearware and how to fight back
SponsoredA new kind of email filtering protects against fraud
14 Oct 18:30 |
Nokia snuggles up with Google Cloud as it aims to switch off on-prem servers within next two years
Yep, there it is. 'Digital transformation'
14 Oct 17:30 | 4
Atlassian sprays more machine learning over its cloudy BitBucket, Jira, Confluence wares
Ouch, that 'smarts'
14 Oct 16:44 | 8
McAfee rattles tin for $600m+ in fresh IPO filing valuing firm at $3.6bn
That's if shares sell at the high end
14 Oct 15:52 | 7
A point of Honor: Huawei in talks to sell its youth-focused smartphone business – report
Digital China Group, TCL and Xiaomi said to be among suitors in deal potentially worth ￡2.8bn
14 Oct 15:36 | 7
Microsoft teases Azure Data Explorer connector for picking its Synapse analytics service's brains
What do you mean you're not on board the Big Data bus?
14 Oct 15:05 |
Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison
Swindon man walks away with two-year suspended sentence
14 Oct 13:57 | 13
Sailfish floats v3.4 'Pallas-Yll?stunturi', its latest Jolla good reason for itchy-fingered Android and Apple swervers
Tops Ubuntu for catchy release names
14 Oct 13:05 | 20
Don't forget to brush your teeth, WFH staff told as Dropbox drops the office, declares itself 'virtual first'
But is remote working less productive?
14 Oct 11:48 | 19
'Facebook simply would not exist today if not for Bletchley Park,' says social network – but don't hold that against it
Zuckerberg and UK government throw code-breaking site funding lifeline
14 Oct 10:29 | 33
'20,000-plus staff' could face the chop in spin-off of IBM's IT outsourcing biz, says Wall Street analyst
AnalysisGood news for Big Blue's market cap, not so much for its workers
14 Oct 10:01 | 33
Cloudflare floats cloud grand unification theory based on zero-trust access and security
The internet was supposed to get rid of intermediaries. How'd that work out?
14 Oct 09:16 | 10
UK's Cheshire Police tenders for whole new ERP system after Oracle Fusion went live with 'significant deficiency'
UpdatedDid we say ￡11m? Contract value now ranges from ￡19m to, er, ￡190m!
14 Oct 08:30 | 42
Softly-as-a-service: IBM whispers plan for security SaaS based on a Cloud Pak
Appears to cook a new way to shift containerised wares and get you onto OpenShift
14 Oct 08:03 |
Juggling Ansible, OpenShift and K8s? This is for you: Red Hat couples automation to cluster management
'We’ve got the initial plumbing working' Linux distro bod tells our vulture
14 Oct 07:29 |
Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why
'Discovering a new type of celestial source is very exciting' lead astroboffin tells us
14 Oct 06:54 | 38
Big Tech’s Asian lobby says nations shouldn’t go it alone on tech taxes
Asks if somebody will think of the startups in the wake of new digital services taxes in Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines
14 Oct 06:30 | 4
The persistent importance of traditional storage
SponsoredRAID is first and foremost – and will be for years to come
14 Oct 06:00 |
India racks up seven hundred millionth broadband user, with only 20 million tied to wires
955 million mobile phones used on single day in July
14 Oct 04:28 | 8
When disruption comes along, you must Wipro it. Wipro it good, says outsourcing giant as it posts strong Q2
Outsourcing giant hires 13,000 and says it's doing well because customers are hustling to cut tech costs
14 Oct 03:01 | 5
Comcast’s president of tech falls offline while boasting about how great cable is for connectivity
Exec blames mobile LTE, which he was definitely using as Comcast’s president of technology while being interviewed by cable body at a cableco event
14 Oct 01:26 | 16
Virginia voter registration website falls over hours before deadline. The Russians? No, a broken fiber line
Cable damaged during sewer installation? Now that's a sh** storm
13 Oct 23:53 | 22
It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead
Small and large models with 5nm system-on-chip touted
13 Oct 23:15 | 115
Cross-border digital payment system, championed by Saudi Arabia, gets green light... and yellow card from G7
AnalysisBasically nobody trusts Facebook
13 Oct 21:42 | 12
It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine
Patch TuesdayRedmond urges folks to apply update ASAP – plus more fixes for Outlook and software from Adobe, Intel, SAP, Red Hat
13 Oct 20:09 | 75
Pump up the volume: Online sales help Samsung's phone division weather a brutal year
Chaebol's e-commerce efforts surged compared to 2019
13 Oct 18:15 | 1
For Foxit's sake: Windows and Mac users alike urged to patch PhantomPDF over use-after-free vulns
CISA points spotlight at PDF reader 'n' creator suite
13 Oct 17:30 | 14
Shots fired! WordPress's Matt claims Jamstack's marketing is 'not intellectually honest' in debate with Netlify's Matt
End of the WordPress era? No, we're aiming for 50% of web, says founder
13 Oct 16:46 | 14
You can ditch the printer and go entirely paperless, but does that really make your work comms any more secure?
WebcastTune in and learn how to reinvigorate your digital transformation
13 Oct 16:00 |
Open Invention Network adds Microsoft's exFAT to Linux System Definition, Satan spotted throwing snowballs
AOSP 10 also popped into patent non-aggression pact
13 Oct 15:27 | 28
Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data
Banking giant rapped over management of two US bit barns
13 Oct 14:44 | 27
Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much
HP is top dog stateside
13 Oct 14:00 | 1
Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual'
In briefPlus: Waymo risks driverless car trial, ML papers now include code, and AI will write your dev CV for you
13 Oct 13:15 | 40
Hackers hack Hackney: Local government cries 'cyberattack' while UK infosec officials rush to figure out what happened
Check bank accounts, don't open council emails, you know how this goes
13 Oct 12:32 | 11
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE goes from 'nearly dead' to full in an hour, but you might not be a 'Fan' of some of the shortcuts
Less-hardy touchscreen, less-impressive snapper
13 Oct 12:00 | 9
German-speaking SAP user survey sees S4/HANA upgrade projects either sink or swim as coronavirus cuts into revenue
'Train has left the station' for more than half, while 43% delayed indefinitely
13 Oct 11:17 | 1
We won't leave you hanging any longer: Tool strips freeze-inducing bugs from Java bytecode while in production
Nothing like servicing an engine mid-flight, huh?
13 Oct 10:43 | 14
UK taxman waves through ￡168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure
What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty?
13 Oct 10:00 | 24
Visual Studio Code 1.50 goes hard on extensions support, but tackling add-on bloat is becoming more onerous
Also new: WebView sidebars, rich JavaScript debugging, accessible settings
13 Oct 09:15 | 26
BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month
16KB RAM becomes 128KB as the Beeb gets down with the kids again
13 Oct 08:30 | 54
Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT
If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The B-Team
13 Oct 08:00 | 1
UK govt advert encouraging re-skilling for cyber jobs implodes spectacularly
Minister disowns 'crass' spot that shows American woman as Brit ballerina and seemingly belittles beleaguered arts sector
13 Oct 07:31 | 148
Does the cloud provide all the infrastructure you want yet never enough time to secure it? Let's help fix that
PromoAWS shows you how to fit a week of cloud security learning into just four hours
13 Oct 07:01 |
IBM Cloud catches up to AWS and Azure – at least for refunds after major availability FAILs
Adds 100 percent cashback tier if availability dips below 95 percent, removes reference to POWER8 servers
13 Oct 06:28 | 6
Contract to run .eu domain-name registry is up for grabs as Brussels tries to avoid a .co-style debacle
Five-year deal to oversee 3.6 million web addresses ... but does anyone actually want it?
13 Oct 06:03 | 22
Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets
Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity
13 Oct 05:31 | 32
Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti
Pasta la vista, baby
13 Oct 05:05 | 27
Google won’t let Australia have shiny new toys unless it picks apart pay-for-news plan
Pauses News Showcase rollout while it awaits government capitulation
13 Oct 03:33 | 17
India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up
Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more?
13 Oct 01:57 | 11
Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn!
After nearly 20 years, it's time to say goodbye to venerable messageboard
13 Oct 00:59 | 26
California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data
Sorry not sorry, Facebook
13 Oct 00:17 | 21
The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open
'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised'
12 Oct 23:26 | 7
Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts
It was just code left over from a prototype, says hardware maker
12 Oct 21:21 | 7
Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing
And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide
12 Oct 20:35 | 122
Eight release candidates later and it's out: New hardware and more AMD in Linux 5.9
Time to get cracking on 5.10
12 Oct 19:20 | 19
Microsoft and chums use US trademark law to trash Trickbot malware network
Multinational operation is part of election protection effort
12 Oct 18:30 | 8
Amazon-like megacorps dominating various online sectors could become norm for pandemic-stricken planet
Certain business models work better than others when most people avoid human contact
12 Oct 17:55 | 9
So, what exactly are you planning to do with this new PC? Windows Insiders face new questions during OOBE
In BriefAlso: Getting Edgy in the holidays, AtHoc and Teams, and Azure updates
12 Oct 17:10 | 20
'You've got the old cheeky Corona': Ireland's pandemic advice SMS service can be spoofed, warns researcher
Get cell broadcast tech in, urges onetime Lulzsec white hat
12 Oct 16:21 | 3
Need next-gen connectivity but don't want to break the bank? Samsung's Galaxy A42 5G is a bin-raking ￡349
Now, just to wait for some signal...
12 Oct 15:35 | 8
Comms API merchant Twilio spanks $3.2bn in stock to gobble data slurper Segment
Spending spree continues in the 'customer engagement' space as online sales segment grows and grows
12 Oct 15:06 |
Arm has 11 months to hire 490 UK techies. Good thing there isn't a pandemic on. Or, say, Brexit
But chip biz is 'confident it will hit that target' in time
12 Oct 14:09 | 37
AWS cooks up Extensions API for Lambda serverless platform: Useful for monitoring, alerting
Cloud Functions rival flings out preview that enables custom code to handle lifecycle events
12 Oct 12:58 | 5
BBK mixed-grill realness: Realme's pair of 7s are two more reasons not to spend over ￡300 on a smartphone
ReviewNot a steak, but if you're going midrange there's enough to chew on
12 Oct 12:12 | 14
Laptops are on fire! In a good way (if you're selling). PC sales race to highest growth rate since 2011
Canalys Forum 2020 - UpdatedResponse to pandemic elevates simple laptop to centre of universe... Dell only vendor to shrink, says Canalys
12 Oct 11:35 | 16
Beware, drone fliers, of Scotland's black-headed gulls. For they will tear your craft from Mother Nature's skies
Innocent survey UAS brutally smashed into roof by Stranraer seabird
12 Oct 11:00 | 37
One year after server hackers left NordVPN red-faced, firm's first colocated setup is online
In briefPlus: Bunch of Cisco fixes for Patch Tuesday week, Fitbit kit hit, RAT malware written in Golang, and more
12 Oct 10:18 | 6
Remember the days when signs were signs and operating systems didn't need constant patching?
Bork!Bork!Bork!The signage may be borked, but the Swedish meatballs are steaming
12 Oct 09:33 | 35
Britannia should rule the (cyber) waves, minister tells Singapore event in bid to drum up Commonwealth support
CommentRhetoric for the post-Brexit era but will actions follow words?
12 Oct 08:30 | 46
Microsoft tells staff work-from-home is now ‘standard’ – with caveats galore
Boss has to agree, home time not to exceed 50 percent and let’s talk about salary if you leave town
12 Oct 07:55 | 51
Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access
Who, Me?Beware the wrong tool in the wrong hands
12 Oct 07:15 | 142
AWS makes its own Arm CPUs the default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service
Bills home-brewed silicon as the upgrade path to better Redis or memcached
12 Oct 06:38 | 4
Interested in the practical side of machine learning? Tune into our smashing AI conference MCubed this week
EventTop advice and info from an extraordinary lineup of speakers
12 Oct 06:00 |
As China trials its Digital Yuan with a giveaway, seven big central banks outline response
Bank of England and US Reserve among those pondering own digital dollars
12 Oct 03:58 | 17
Pakistan bans TikTok because of its users not its owners
Warnings to clean up its act went unheeded, but door remains open for a return
12 Oct 01:03 | 11
Five Eyes nations plus Japan, India call for Big Tech to bake backdoors into everything
Or as they put it: ‘Embed the safety of the public in system designs … facilitating the investigation and prosecution of offences’
11 Oct 23:51 | 141
