Machine-learning tool guesstimates how well your code will run on a CPU core

MIT eggheads devise a better way to predict application performance | Continue reading


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South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon

Nastygram to DNS overseer follows long, flawed and drawn-out process | Continue reading


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Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot

Some engineers are just better than others... at being noticed | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Free Software Foundation Asks Microsoft to Open Source Windows 7

'Its life doesn't have to end!' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true

'These models should not go into clinical practice at all,' academic tells El Reg | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Rogers source code and internal keys found on open web

'Closed source' blueprints available for all to gawp at – and potentially exploit | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code

Pet adoption ML coder apologizes and says desire to be ranked #1 'compromised my judgement' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Judge snubs IT outsourcers' plea to Alt-F4 tougher H-1B visa rules

Homeland Security memo not an abuse of power, court decides | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30k potheads' privacy go up in smoke

Talk about high tech: Software maker exposes cloud silo of personal info in tale of security gone bong | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Alan Turing’s missing items found in super-fan’s home by agents, says US govt

Shock discovery after Brit super-boffin's stuff disappears decades earlier | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in AI contest with hidden code – and was fired

Coder apologizes and says desire to be ranked #1 'compromised my judgment' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them

Login management service sulks in days-long TITSUP* for some | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Copy-Left Behind

Share all our code modifications with others? Think again, hippie | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant

Investigators ask Chocolate Factory to help them connect the geographic dots | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

The Register Speaks to WebAssembly Co-Designer Andreas Rossberg

State of Wasm: 'Better support for high-level languages', plus interesting cross-platform news | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Subcontracted Business: TSB Outsources IT to IBM for $1bn After Meltdown

Big Blue to build and run private cloud | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

No Continuum this time, now it's all about the Android | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

If you haven't shored up that Citrix hole, you were probably hacked

Plus: TikTok clocked, Honey in a sticky situation, Arm's PAN mechanisms sidestepped | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s and

Purchase funded by debt, includes another ex-ICANNer, will be done through four different companies. All perfectly normal | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Windows 7 and Server 2008 end of support: What will change on 14 January?

Businesses have many options, but with 25% of Windows users still on 7, security is a worry | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Dixons fined £500k by ICO for crap security that exposed 5.6M customers'

Malware loaded onto more than 5k cash tills but pre-GDPR screw-up means retailer dodged bigger financial bullet | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Boeing Emails show staff wouldn't put their famil on a 737 Max over safety fears

Described FAA regulators being briefed as 'like dogs watching TV' | Continue reading


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11-nines data durability? Sounds good. Except it's virtually meaningless (2018)

No one can agree on how it's calculated | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Those monitors going blank when people stand up? Static electricity from chairs

El Reg speaks to ex-AT&T boffin who previously probed weird effect | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

A 22GB database containing 56M US folks' details on the open internet

If CheckPeople could take a look at this, that would be great | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

GPT-2, OpenAI’s giant text-generating language model, can play chess

And even better, you've got a good chance of winning against it | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

TikTok on the clock, and the hacking won't stop

Uploads, deletions, private-to-public switcharoos, all bad stuff | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Google Project Zero revise 90-day disclosure rules

The Chocolate Factory's bug hunters revise 90-day disclosure rules | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Reusing software 'interfaces' is fine, Google tells Supreme Court

You wouldn't want to 'upend the computer software industry', eh? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Linux in 2020: 27.8M lines of code in the kernel, 1.3M in systemd

Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases

Sorry, meant to say Verisign contributes to 'security threat' education | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Cloudflare buys browser isolation biz S2 Systems

Infrastructure protector looks to defend people and devices | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Linux in 2020: 27.8M lines of code in the kernel, 1.3M in whole system

Systemd? It's the proper technical solution, says kernel maintainer | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Brit banking sector hasn't gone a single day of 2020 without something breaking

Yorkshire and Clydesdale latest to join ongoing game of TITSUP*manship | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

IT exec set up fake biz, bills employer for $6m, gets caught by MS Word metadata

And now he faces up to 20 years in the slammer | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new data-sharing license

Distributed app platform's proposed agreement 'isn't freedom respecting,' he says | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Self-taught bloke cracks crypto conundrum supposed uncrackable until 2034 (2019)

'It was easy, for some definition of easy,' solver tells El Reg | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Stack Overflow makes peace with ousted moderator, wants to start New Year with

Q&A biz admits mistakes, promises more discreet public communication | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Megadelay on railway after lightning strike due to software design error

Official reports reveal 'as designed but not intended' snafu | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

IBM to Google: Istio, Knative, TensorFlow should be under 'open governance'

And by the way, sorry about Swift and Kitura | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

HPE goes on the warpath, attacks AWS over vendor lock-in

El Reg pulls up a chair next to the fire and chats to box giant's CEO Antonio Neri | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

LibreOffice 6.4 nearly done as open-source office soft project 4 10th anniv

A decade later, has LibreOffice succeeded? With business still hooked on Microsoft Office, not really | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Flickr owner sends mass-email begging for subscriptions

Nothing on you? Ask a friend | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Google engineer: I was fired for reminding Googlers they have labor rights

Web giant claims she broke rules with pro-union popup code – fellow techies reckon that's rubbish | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

UK Politicos Brexit from Whatsapp to Signal

Take a break from calling for the end of e2e, so they can switch encrypted chat apps | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Das Reboot: Uni forces 38,000 students show their papers for password reset

School in Germany rolls out credential refresh with printed ID requirement | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

The Register Checks in with Canonical's WSL Alternative – Multipass

Lightweight Linux VMs for all. So long as Ubuntu is your thing | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Alphabet,Apple,Tesla, Microsoft exploit child labor to mine cobalt for batteries

Woke tech giants sued for 'knowingly benefiting from ... the cruel and brutal use of young children' | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago