'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1

Should 'run like a dream' when everything's done, says dev | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Happy Birthday, Linux: Greg Kroah-Hartman Talks to the Register

Greg Kroah-Hartman talks to El Reg about world domination, what was, and what may be for the kernel | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Smoking smartphone sparks emergency evacuation of jet, two taken to hospital

In battery containment bags we trust | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Percy Liang on the tech and social impact of AI's emerging 'foundation models'

From single points of failure to training and policies, Percy Liang covers a wide range of topics in this Q&A | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Chinese auto-maker accused of altering data after fatal autonomous car accident

Driver assistance feature was engaged in level-2 autonomous car at time of incident | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Intel, Qualcomm win deal to design 7nm silicon for US defense agencies

Chipzilla gets to make 'em and crow that it has a really prestigious foundry customer | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

AWS MemoryDB – 'Worst' AWS service ever?

'The absolute best sales pitch for Redis that I have ever seen' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

38M records leaked by misconfigured Microsoft Power Apps. Redmond's advice? RTFM

Low-code platform comes with high expectations that folks understand security | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Facebook's Horizon Workrooms promises a virtual future of teal despair

Only one company can make VR so bad it makes MS Teams look good – Facebook | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Samsung sprints past Intel to become world's semiconductor sales leader

Q2 saw Sammy lean into the booming memory market while Intel’s chip sales remain stagnant | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence

Plus: Intel winds down RealSense, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Windows NT grandaddy OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard (2013)

HP signals end to legendary big iron beast | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis

Letter to Cook & Co warns image-probing tech could also harm kids | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft raises cloud office suite prices for businesses

Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Chinese web giant Tencent predicts Beijing has more internet regulations coming

China is ahead of US and Europe on regulation, says company prez | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Git 2.33 released with new optional merge process likely to become the default

Also: Guidelines for gender-neutral documentation | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Dallas police lose 8TB of data, impacting criminal cases

Murder trial affected last week | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

UK's Newport Wafer Fab now under Chinese ownership

Government's promised review hasn't emerged, but Wingtech and Companies House say the deal is done | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Remote Code Execution

Devices from 60+ manufacturers affected, says infosec outfit | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

GNU Grep 3.7 released with fix for 'extreme performance degradation'

Most searches were fine, but certain test cases now take 'seconds, not days' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Facebook and Google funding Apricot – a 12K km sub cable across South-East-Asia

Nations from Indonesia to Japan to score 190 terabits per second of capacity some time in 2024 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Google Groups kills RSS support without notice

Chocolate Factory mum as remaining feed fans search for alternatives | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Internet Explorer 3.0 is 25 years old

Revisit the browser wars we shall | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Wireless powersats promise clean, permanent, abundant energy. Sound familiar?

Watts coming down may not go up | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

£3m for 8 weeks of consultancy work: McKinsey given contract to advise UK.gov

One of issues with public sector IT? Technical debt. £2.3bn to keep lights on in 2019, and £22bn more over next 5 years | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Location-tracking service based on four words – all of them rude

A tour of UK tech HQs courtesy of some saucy Anglo-Saxonisms | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Starliner takes off back to the factory and not space

This isn't Boeing very well, is it? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

The Perl Foundation faces more departures

People just won't quit quitting | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

UN calls for moratorium on sale of surveillance tech like NSO Group's Pegasus

Suggests the world to sort out a ban to preserve human rights, issues sternly worded 'Please Explain' to Israel | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

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 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Elasticsearch official Python client changed to not work with forks

'We have labelled this as an enhancement' says engineer | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Workday makes Google preferred partner for public cloud

SaaSy HR firm gets around a bit | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Book Review: Your Computer Is on Fire

Detailed diagnosis of tech industry delusion falls short of prescribing a cure | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

India's return to space fails after 'anomaly' in locally built cryogenic engine

Upper stage didn't ignite, Earth observation satellite likely lost | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today

It's wonderful that code written for Windows 3.1 still works well today | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount

Is that the sound of hammering we can hear? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Twitter's AI image algorithm biased towards younger skinnier and whiter people

Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Activist raided by police after downloading 'confidential' meeting from Google

Someone must have broken in and taken docs, said Leathermarket Community Benefit Society | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and some people hate it

Update better aligned with GTK widgets but UI is controversial | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans

Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

South Korea to test grenade-launching drones

Back on terra firma, ransomware rampage sees elevated security threat levels and giveaways to SMBs | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Teams recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint from 16 August

'All meeting recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint' from 16 August | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content

For now it's child abuse material but the tech has mission creep written in | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Paperless office? 2.8T pages printed in 2020, down by 450B sheets

Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO

Where there's a will, there's Huawei | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

SolarWinds urges US judge to toss out crap infosec sueball

Company says it didn't skimp on security before everything went wrong | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made is ending

Are we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago

Moores 'Law' has run itself into a cul-de-sac

Are we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 2 years ago