Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6

Containerised Podman and OpenJDK 17 also highlights of minor release | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

International Space Station fires rockets to dodge chunk of destroyed satellite

Meanwhile, next crew of astronauts all set to launch on Thursday | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

USA signs internet freedom and no-hack pact it's ignored since 2018

Joins 79 nations supporting Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace – China and Russia aren't on the list | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Complaints from GNOME team caused System76 maintainer stop work on Linux desktop

Case study in 'how not to collaborate with upstream'? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin'

Flags any effort to create central bank digital currency as major national infrastructure project | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

European server sales sink to 4-year low

Double-digit declines in Germany, UK, France and 15 other countries | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Tough questions at Chrome Dev Summit’s AMA session • The Register

Also: Engineers call for 'a diverse set of browsers across all platforms including iOS' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Wooden Apple 1 hand built by Jobs and Wozniak goes to auction

Expect to shell out around $500k to take it home | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Calendars have gone backwards since the Bronze Age. It's time to evolve

Are you syncing what I'm syncing? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

The PC turbo button is back (12Gen Intel CPUs)

Finally – a purpose for the least-used key on your keyboard | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

AI mitigates, but can't erase, astronomy's internet satellite scourge

'We are absolutely losing some science' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret

Chocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

NEC's claim that Oracle salespeople tricked it into using wrong software license

Big Red, for now, has the upper hand in battle over agreements | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

NASA advised to study up on what open source, free software, and permissive

Turns out making code public with the right fine-print is harder than rocket science | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Expired cert breaks Windows 11 snipping tool, emoji panel other stuff

And we're talking about shipped code, not some Insider beta, here | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson

Why are some of Moz's axed projects bigger than its flagship? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Red Hat forced to hire cheaper, less senior engineers after IBM freezes budget

Email tells bosses to down-level open positions to control costs | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

UK data spillers fined, but enforcement slows

Nuisance call companies... and others... are quite the nuisance | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Cost of vintage workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support

Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Bitbucket on migration to AWS while everyone working from home

And you need to do it during a pandemic while working from home | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Cisco requires Covid-19 shots for all US staff – even remote workers

Unvaxxed can vaxx off for unpaid leave during which Switchzilla can fire them or erase their jobs | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Clearview AI facial recognition breached privacy laws, says UK-Oz probe

Brit watchdog considering next steps, Australia's orders deletion of scraped image trove | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Sky+ set-top boxes fail to switch back to GMT

We say GMT, you say BST, let's call the whole thing off | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Upcoming Intel GPU to be compatible with ARM

The data must flow | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

China antitrust watchdog proposes rules for 'super-large' platforms

Creates category to control what we call a superapp for antitrust behavior and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Get FOSS-happy, China tells its financial institutions

Use it, contribute to it, respect its licences – and plan for security emergencies it creates | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Google's 'Be Evil' transformation is complete: Time for the end game

I've read this stuff, says one dev. 'Either Google is screwed, or society is screwed' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

SoftIron servers with artisanal firmware and an auditable bill of materials

Still loves Ceph. Now also loved by government buyers, which are funding its factories so they can access more secure servers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

AWS has started upgrading the software behind S3 storage cloud

Sharding system coded in 40,000+ lines of Rust is changing the way cloud colossus ensures data durability | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

US Copyright Office eases rules on computer security research

Game console fixes are limited – and there's no allowance for exploit tools | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Real-time crowdsourced fact checking not that effective, study says

NYU boffins find the crowd is not all that wise when it comes to spotting misinformation | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

When AI and automation come to work you stress less – but hate your job more

It's better to work for the Man than the Machine | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Chinese server builder Inspur trains monster text-generating neural network

Yuan 1.0 said to pass Turing test, and require many fewer GPUs than the GPT-3 Microsoft licensed from OpenAI | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

NPM packages disguised as Roblox API code caught carrying ransomware

Subverted libraries likely intended as a prank but should be taken seriously, say security researchers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Feds cuff Russian said to be developer of 'Trickbot' ransomware

Indictment reveals org behind banking trojan even had nifty jobs titles like 'Malware Manager' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Get ready for full holograms and 6G while living in the metaverse, says Samsung

Even though 5G Advanced isn't even here yet | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Teen bought Google ad and made 48 Bitcoins duping UK online shoppers

'If he was an adult he would be going inside' – judge | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Chinese server-maker Inspur builds monster natural language processor

Yuan 1.0 said to pass Turing test, and require many fewer GPUs than the GPT-3 Microsoft licensed from OpenAI | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Facebook hareholder lawsuit lands on Zuckerberg's desk

We dubbed it the Antisocial Network – and it appears we were right | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft's UWP = Unwanted Windows Platform?

IT giant recommends migration for those unhappy with current functionality | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

GCHQ plan to 'go after' links between ransomware crims and state actors

Sir Jeremy Fleming paints picture of a cultural battle over the internet, AI and the soul of future technology | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Google deliberately throttled ad load times to promote AMP, claims new court doc

'Nice comparative boost' for AMP claimed to be achieved by actively slowing other formats | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Why Is the Register Serving Early Hints for DoubleClick

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@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action

It worked on Jolly Roger, it can work on ProudWhiteGuy66373 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Twitter's ML algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians vs. the left

Enginners and researchers don't know why | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Facebook sues scraper who sold 178M phone numbers and user IDs

Apparently The Social NetworkTM is the only one allowed to do nasty things with users' data | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation ousts co-founder John Gilmore from its board

He's free of governance duties now, but still an emeritus member | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Safari browser runs the risk of becoming the new Internet Explorer

WebKit engine is well behind the competition | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago