Chef dev pulls Ruby gems over US ICE deal

Software house hits nuclear option after popular Ruby code yanked for moral reasons | Continue reading


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Scotiabank Source Code, Credentials Found on GitHub

Blueprints for mobile apps, databases exposed in public GitHub repos | Continue reading


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Belgian F-16 pilot rescued from power line after emergency ejection

Two-seat jet crashed in France | Continue reading


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Sony PS2 exports restricted because graphics powerful enough to control missiles

Sony makes more of a fuss this time - there's a better marketing angle | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

HP printer privacy policy says kit phones home data on whatever you print

Security engineer actually reads privacy policy to his horror | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

US government sues Edward Snowden for breaking his NDA in his book

Uncle Sam tries to plug leaker's pay, ends up plugging leaker's book | Continue reading


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Oracle cloud gets 'always' free tier (2x 20gb database and 2 compute instances)

El Reg decodes Big Red's big announcements from today | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Infosec duo cuffed after physically breaking into courthouse during pentest

Blokes left in legal limbo amid electronic records audit | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Stallman's final interview as FSF president

GNU founder resigns after Minsky defense 'the final straw' for dev world | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Cobol: Letters that if put on CV would ensure stable income for greybeard coder

EVALUATE COBOL-AGE WHEN 60 CONTINUE | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

123-Reg and NamesCo registered millions of .uk domains without asking customers

... And they’re not happy | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Bypass iOS 13 lock screen to eyeball your address book. Apple hasn't fix it yet

Bug-hunter says Cupertino won't even pay $1 reward for security hole | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

As cybercrooks add more AI to their arsenal, the goodies will have to too

The future is automated, says Trend Micro bod | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Lenovo crams crapware into Windows laptops by hiding it in the BIOS (2015)

How Microsoft made it possible, and how to truly purge it | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Before you try Firefox's latest – How much do I trust Mozilla with my data?

How much do I trust Mozilla with my data? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

CEOs want America-wide privacy law

Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, privacy is sharing | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network

Chipzilla downplays cunning data-snooping side-channel technique | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123 456

It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton talks thermals, stores and who's buying the kit

The Register goes to Cambridge | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Free Software Guru Richard Stallman Speaks at Microsoft HQ

Firebrand in town to give Redmond a GNU lease of life | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

"Our cunning AI can defeat Google's anti-bot tech", say uni boffins

Machine-learning code solves image puzzles just like us netizens – claim | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Was mystery explosion over New York caused by a meteor?

US Space Command launches probe – wait, is that the sound of a black helicopt | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Blindly accepting network update texts could have pwned your mobe

Flaws now (mostly) patched | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

GitHub goes off the Rails as Microsoft closes in

Ruby shop turns to Go, Java, and Kubernetes for platform makeover | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

SpaceX didn't move sat out of impending smash because it 'didn't see ESA's msgs'

It was a bug, I tell you! A bug! | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

Redmond suggests nuking 'profanity, geopolitical, diversity' terms from browser source | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Facebook Basics app key compromised

Walled-garden Android platform security easily copied | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

ESA satellite dodges 'mega constellation'

Spoiler: Yes, it was SpaceX's Starlink | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Teletext Holidays a) exists and b) left 200k customer call recordings exposed

Get your grandparents to book with someone else | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Juniper Networks gives SEC $12m for bribery charges but says everything's fine

Channel partners flying customers for holidays in Russia and China, that's fine! | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Whistleblowing saboteur costs us $167m bellows Tesla’s accountant

And another $262,000 to figure out who he was | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Our three-month effort to attend Apple's iPhone 7 launch party

Alan Hely, why don't you just admit it and relieve the pressure in your skull? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

So your Google Play a/c has been terminated – of course you'd want to know why

Is the platform's abuse policy unfair to genuine developers? | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Bloke claiming he invented Bitcoin must hand over $5bn of e-dosh in court case

Of course it's Craig Wright | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Gimp open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Release the GIMP: Glimpse project founded to avoid branding that some find offensive | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Microsoft's only gone and published the exFAT spec

exFAT heading towards Open Invention Network's Linux System Definition | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Female-free speaker list causes PHP show to collapse

Presenters withdraw from the PHP Central Europe conference, show organizers call it quits | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

“Not Productive for Our Business” –Michael Dell

CEO says pressure is being applied on government officials behind the scenes | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

30 years after Voyager 2 visited gas giant Neptune

As Apollo 11 turns 50, don't forget about only time we checked out ice giant's lovely old geysers | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Biz forked out $115k to tout 'Time AI' crypto at Black Hat

Lawsuit argues event bosses breached deal by failing to prevent audience hostility | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Chromebooks Have an “Auto Update Expiration”

Google's little-known Auto Update Expiration D-Day leaves users bereft of auto software refreshes and more – here's how to check yours | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Bug-hunter drops Steam 0day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty

EoP bug now free for the world to see after bounty was rejected | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying, decides it will make Power CPU ISA free

Big Blue says it will open OpenPower, power next-gen chips in China, er, anywhere | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network

FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Breathing Supernova

Back to the drawing board thanks to SN2016iet | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Dropbox would rather write code twice than make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Write once, run anywhere? You must be joking | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Ups is investing in TuSimple, a self-driving startup

A human driver is still needed, for the moment at least | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago

Browser plugins and web scripts silently rewrite URLs

Clickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 4 years ago