Britain has no idea how close it came to ATMs flooding the streets with money

But a rather purple tester put paid to that inflation-baiting bug | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

India makes contact-tracing app compulsory in viral hot zones

Tech minister says app is 'foolproof'! We imagine Black Hats probably don't agree. And some may have time on their hands at present | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Faster than reflection, Microsoft preview Source Generators for C#

.NET is getting faster but will not be as efficient as C++ or Go. Reason? Legacy code | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Android trojan EventBot abuses accessibility services to clear out bank accounts

Researchers analysing samples submitted to VirusTotal find new strain | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Oracle faces claims of unequal pay from 4k women after judge upgrades gender

IT giant accused of paying women less than men doing exact same roles | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

ICANN halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do'

Questions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond

You thought that yoghurt in the back of fridge was time-expired? Behold X-ray boffinry YEARS past its design-life | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Spotify device pairing persists online, leading to remote pranks

I can't stop people playing music at me, says Reg reader | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

India plans tracing app for 2G phones with no Bluetooth

There's hundreds of millions in India alone | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

UK academics call on NHS for data guarantees over Covid-19 tracing app

Slurp everyone's details and you create a hugely valuable hacker target | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Windows Server Containers Finally Arrive on Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service

Generally available, but will never reach parity with Linux on Kubernetes | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Tata Consultancy Services tells staff to go to their rooms and stay there

COO says plague-time productivity has improved so clients don’t see see WfH as a WtF | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Atlas flubbed: Comet heading our way takes one look at Earth, self-destructs

And who could blame it? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

ProtonMail-run site with GDPR advice left .git repo exposed

Ooo, double irony! | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Number-plate cam site had no password, spills 9M logs of UK road journeys

Democratising mass surveillance, one snafu at a time | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Snapchat domain squatter loses comedy £1m URL sellback attempt

'Take legal action' he told the firm. So it (sort of) did | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

UK snubs Apple-Google coronavirus app API

Why do it at all? Easier to audit and adapt, apparently | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Three UFO videos today officially released by the Pentagon

Rock and roll at 30,000 ft at hypersonic speeds | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

It is 35 years since the Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Somewhere in your phone, something is humming 'Happy Birthday to me' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Analyst worries iPhone is facing '2nd recession' after 2019 annus horribilis

The fruits of labour for world's largest tech firm to be revealed on 30 April | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Australia 'COVIDSafe' lands but without source code and has problems on iOS

'COVIDSafe' lands but without source code and has problems on iOS devices | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

The Adobe Flash Farewell Tour 2020: LibreOffice to axe export support for .SWF I

Another one bites the dust | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Web heads urged by browser devs to embrace modern CSS

Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma coloring ban. You come and go, you come and go... | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

IBM Watson GPU Cloud Cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – Because GDPR

Users have migration work to do in the next month. Good thing nobody's busy right now, eh? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

IBM Watson GPU Cloud Cluster Brexits from London to Frankfurt – Because GDPR

Users have migration work to do in the next month. Good thing nobody's busy right now, eh? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

AWS is now African AF as it opens Cape Town region in South Africa

Named AF-SOUTH-1 and near some handy routes to Europe and West Africa | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Extraordinary surveillance powers set to be injected into govt orgs

Extraordinary surveillance powers set to be injected into govt orgs | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

'Many customer workloads perform better on Amazon Linux 2' firm claims, but wher

'Many customer workloads perform better on Amazon Linux 2' firm claims, but where is the source? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Google productises its own not-a-VPN secure remote access tool

Zero-trust access to web applications with very fine-grained access controls | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

US judge puts Amazon's challenge to Pentagon Jedi deal on hold

Giving military time to look at aspects of decision | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

20 years deep into a '2-year' mission: How ESA keeps Cluster flying

Growing extra instruments, reducing fuel spend and those clever, clever hacks | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

UK government to take equity in struggling startups with £250m 'Future fund'

Borrowers can score between £500k and £5m if they have a track record, co-investors, and can afford eight percent interest | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Iran military announces widget that 'can detect coronavirus from 100m away'

Nothing says serious engineering like a collapsible radio aerial | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

.com price rises are on their way after ICANN approves Verisign contract

You thought thousands of complaints would make a difference? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Chips that pass in the night: How risky is RISC-V to Arm, Intel and others?

A decade on, expanding open ecosystem highlights limits of monolithic approach to CPU design | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

ICANN delays .org sell off after California’s attorney general intervenes

DNS overseer accused of ignoring the very people it is supposed to represent | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Modern BOFH Archive

Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables

Single point of failure, imprecise instructions and not enough labels are a bad, bad, mix | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Founding ICANN chiefs accuse it of ditching principles in .org sale

Daming letter sent to California attorney general asks for six-month delay | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

GitHub slashes prices, makes core features free. Why? Oh right, Gitlab

No coincidence that new offer closely matches that from smaller rival | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

AWS revamps Fargate serverless containers, but wait – where's Docker Engine? Ah

Bezos cloud crew chops 'bells and whistles' in favour of native support, adds shared storage | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone

Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Suspicious senate stock sale spurt spurs scrutiny scheme

Just in case any one else decides to do a Burr or Feinstein | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Guess what's heading to trial? IBM and its tactic of yoinking promised commissio

Paradoxical contract that isn't a contract fails to satisfy judge | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

French pensioner ejected from fighter jet after accidentally grabbing handle

That's a retirement day present he won't forget | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 unless the clock app is just so

Only when the big hand reaches the little hand will the Amiga copy those files | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

US can demand data stored on any US based company's servers located outside US

If you can access them in California, so can the Feds | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Upstart Americans brandish alligators at the almighty Reg Standards Soviet

Thou shalt respect the Osman and keep your distance, rebels | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago