The reasons why scanning devices for unlawful files is not going to fly

Antivirus-but-for-pictures would trample rights, not even work as expected, say academics | Continue reading


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Datacenter boom going bust over labor, materials shortages

Two years on and there's still not enough stuff to go around--or people | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Tweaks to IPv4 could free up millions of addresses

And 'tweaks' is doing some heavy lifting, there | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US ran offensive cyber ops to support Ukraine, says general

Public acknowledgement 'unusual', one cybersec exec tells us | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US and Europe make moves to secure access to Taiwanese tech

The chips must flow. But don't mention the Great Wall | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Researchers claim quantum device performs 9k-year calculation in microseconds

In Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremecy is here | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Metaverse privacy maturity lags enthusiasm for new virtual worlds

Let's dive in and do it anyway, because that worked so well for social media | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

IBM's self-sailing Mayflower suffers another fault in Atlantic crossing bid

If the idea was to see if a ship could make it without any humans, we think we may have the answer by now | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share

Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

HP turns back on $1b in annual sales by quitting Russia and Belarus

Revenue hit for HP far larger than many tech providers post-pullout but PC, print giant stays course | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Quantum startup faces securities fraud suit amidst wild claims

From alleging wild falsehoods to questioning the man behind the quantum curtain, Scorpion Capital stings hell out of IonQ | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Distrobox 1.3.0: Run (pretty much) any Linux distro under almost any other

Latest version of simplified container tool for penguins is out | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively

As Google guru who ported it points out, the operating system did not exist when 1-2-3 came out in 1983 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Scribble to app: Microsoft's Power Apps VP talks us through 'Express design'

Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UK opens up 'high-potential individual route' for tech worker immigration

Graduates from top 50 global universities get a pass as critics say it fails to make up for Brexit impact | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Algorithm spots 104 asteroids in piles of data

Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

VMware users are nervous about Broadcom acquisition

It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

US Supreme Court puts Texas social media law on hold

Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

California Right-to-Repair bill quietly killed in committee

Despite public support for more repairable gear, tech lobbying may have kept that from happening | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Los Alamos to power up supercomputer using all-Nvidia CPU, GPU Superchips

HPE-built system to be used by Uncle Sam for material science, renewables, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Zero-day in Microsoft Office: 'Follina' will work even when macros are disabled

Researchers comb through code execution flaw found in malicious document | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Sick of Windows but can't afford a Mac? The cynic's guide to desktop Linux

For your consideration: A reasonable list of the least bad distros | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Australian digital driving licenses can be defaced in minutes

Brute force attack leaves the license wide open for undetectable alteration, but back end data remains unchanged | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China’s top court calls for blockchain adoption

Leases, IP rights, ownership of goods … it’s almost easier to list things the Supreme People’s Court doesn’t want on a blockchain | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Global tech industry objects to India’s new infosec regime

Eleven industry associations, representing every tech vendor that matters, warns of economic harm | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Home-grown Euro chipmaker SiPearl signs deal with HPE, Nvidia

Claims partnerships will drive development and adoption of exascale computing in Europe | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Ransomware attack sends US county back to 1977

Also: Uni details its malware-catching AI, signs of China poking the Russian cyber-bear, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Big Tech loves talking up privacy – while trying to kill privacy legislation

Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China

Zhuhai Cloud will carry 50 flying and diving machines it can control with minimal human assistance | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Experts: AI should be recognized as inventors in patent law

Plus: Police release deepfake of murdered teen in cold case, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs

CEO acknowledges impact of war, pandemic but says fundamentals ‘are really good’ | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Declassified and released: More secret files US govts emergency doomsday powers

Nuke incoming? Quick break out the plans for rationing, censorship, property seizures, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

How to reprogram Apple AirTags, play custom sounds

Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google won't release photorealistic DALL-E 2 rival because it's too prejudiced

It has this weird habit of drawing stereotyped White people, team admit | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data

Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns

Forget dark-web souks, thousands of these are already being traded on public bazaars | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Talos names eight deadly sins in widely used industrial software

Entire swaths of gear relies on vulnerability-laden Open Automation Software (OAS) | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Windows malware uses PowerShell to inject malicious extension into Chrome

And that's a bit odd, says Red Canary | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer

It says 'Do Not Touch,' not 'Rip Out My Guts' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China offering ten nations help to run their cyber-defenses and networks

Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training

Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay

Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Slack-for-engineers Mattermost on open source and data sovereignty

Control and access are becoming a hot button for orgs | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UK opens national security probe into sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company

Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating

Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack

Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears workers step up organizing

This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago