Azure Pipelines Outage

We'll have to wait until the US wakes up before we can answer that one | Continue reading


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Android users hit with 'unkillable malware'

Picked up xHelper 'matryoshka' trojan? Best to just nuke the site from orbit | Continue reading


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Money credit providers customer service phone recordings hacked

Don't worry, though. Any 'systematic' data extraction would be 'time-consuming' | Continue reading


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Atlassian IT service desk security advice during WFH

Alarm sounded after orgs open up internal platforms for work-from-home staff | Continue reading


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If you use Twitter with Firefox in a shared computer account

HTTP header ends in own goal | Continue reading


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Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware

But reverses its policy on downgrades anyway, to quiet noisome critics | Continue reading


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16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of probe

MEX I can: A tale of ingenuity and innovation | Continue reading


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NASA shows wheel design for Perseverance rover

The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch | Continue reading


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UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos

Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case | Continue reading


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COBOL coders sought as mainframes slow New Jersey's coronavirus response

Huge surge in applications for financial assistance show Governor Phil Murphy the ugly side of technical debt | Continue reading


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Australian railways Huawei project derailed by US sanctions against Chinese tech

Uncle Sam's crackdown sparks 'force majeure event that cannot be overcome' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Zoom's strong end-to-end encryption isn't even that strong

Video calls also routed through China, probe discovers | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges

A glimpse of life at Whaddon Hall | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to stop 'misleading data' for pilots

US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Oracle makes some certifications and cloudy content free

Mum? Dad? What was lockdown like? It went by in a flash, junior, because we studied for a database certification | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service

Flying a 50-year-old rocket to mark the anniversary of Apollo 13? What could go wrong? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Opera to support sites using the .crypto top-level domain

Is this the end of the DNS? No, but it is curious to see where this is going | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Grsecurity finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens bill

Failed defamation claim proves pricey | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, strong team

Well-known software development principles count for more than technology choices | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Gresecurity coughs up $300k to foot legal bill in row over GPL

Failed defamation claim proves pricey | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

When the maintainer of a JavaScript popular library goes to prison

What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52000 person ReplyAll email storm

Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

AMD GPU hardware blueprints leaked on GitHub

'We believe the stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security of our graphics products' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Azure Appears to Be Full

Bad time to request new resources, and existing ones have problems too | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Taiwan collars Covid-19 quarantine scofflaws with smartphone geo-fences

Just don't let your battery die or you'll have to explain it to the police | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue

Customers on-premises with perpetual licences 'don't have a good story' for remote working | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

How to manage family and free time while working from home

Tips from El Reg hack with two decades of WFH experience | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Wikimedia developers dismiss React for Vue

Facebook's popular frontend framework can't escape its heritage | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about egress costs

Audit finds that error could actually mean less data flows to boffins because space agency may not be able to afford downloads | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Broadcom sues Netflix: You’re stopping us making a fortune from set-top boxes

Where there's a hit, there's a writ | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Owner of Theranos's patents sues maker of actual Covid-19-testing kit

And 3D-printed valve for breathing machine sparks legal threat | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Google reveals the wheels almost literally fell off one of its server racks

Crushed rollers sent rack into the red until techies solved wheely obscure problem | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Vulnerabilities up almost 50 per cent thanks to people looking for them

Can't fix flaws if you don't look for them | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Minor planets were spotted at the outer reaches of our Solar System

Too bad they are likely uninhabitable | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Broken lab equipment led to solving a 58-year-old physics problem by mistake

The mystery of manipulating nuclear spins with electric fields could make it easier to build quantum computers in the future | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Old-style monolithic but modular software is 'highly underrated'

Old-style monolithic but modular software is 'highly underrated' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

A UK court IT system is still running Windows XP

Plus thousands of laptops on unloved Windows OS used by Ministry of Justice, it admits | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

AI-predicted protein structures could unlock vaccine for Wuhan coronavirus

It's not quite DeepMind's 'Come with me if you want to live' moment, but it's close, maybe | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Kubernetes is 'still hard', VMware all-in on container tech with Tanzu, vSphere

The K8s on-ramp you didn't realise you need, or so Virtzilla hopes | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

LVI side-channel vulnerability in Intel SGX brings potential slowdowns

Chipzilla's silicon will surrender secrets if properly probed | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning?

Well-known software development principles count for more than technology choices | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

A vuln in NordVPN's payments platform allowed anyone to view users’ info

Fiddle with some numbers and voila | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

1.2M Azure Active Directory accounts compromised every month

'Really high number' could be fixed by using multi-factor authentication | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

'Unfixable' security flaw in Intel boot ROM

Although exploitation is like shooting a lone fish in a tiny barrel 1,000 miles away | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Alleged Vault 7 leaker trial finale

Tales of terrible security, poor compartmentalization, and more, emerge from the Schulte hearings | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Microsoft Account Takeover

Lax DNS leaves door wide open for miscreants to impersonate Windows giant on its own websites | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Microservices guru warns devs they should be a 'last resort'

Old-style monolithic but modular software is 'highly underrated' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Maersk prepares to lay off the Maidenhead staffers who rescued it from NotPetya

Staff found out after seeing their own jobs advertised in India | Continue reading


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