CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms

Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password' | Continue reading


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Biden cuts off China's Yangtze, 30 others from US chipmaking gear

So is this why YMTC's CEO stepped down? | Continue reading


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People are coming out of retirement due to cost-of-living crisis

The Great Unresignation as inflation forces hordes of retirees back into work | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Utility security is so bad, US DOE offers rate cuts to improve it

New hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Binance robbed of $600M in crypto-tokens

How's your day going? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes

When the tracking hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a priori | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

More chipmakers report falling revenue as market braces for tough year

Made in Taiwan: Only TSMC seems to be dodging the downturn | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

If you need a TCP replacement, you won't find a QUIC one

But we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be sad, says Boston Dynam

Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Musk's trial hasn't stopped, no matter what he told Twitter, says judge

Get ready for that deposition tomorrow, Elon | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Europe lagging behind South Korea, Japan, US in 5G rollout

UK and Germany among adoption leaders in the region | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory

Neat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone teaching | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

AI can predict a patient's heart attack risk from eye scan

If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Splunk alleges source code theft by former employee who started rival company

Cribl accused of terrible behaviour, horrible IP practices, implausible deniability | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat censor-beating TLS tools

Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Micron promises $100B for 'largest chip fab in US history'

Memory maker says plant will help to boost memory production in America | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Micro molten salt reactor can fit on a truck, power 1k homes. When it's built

Small, safer vessels could be 'silicon chip' that ushers in new nuclear age | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

IceWM reaches version 3 after a mere 25 years

And it's not the only venerable window manager still in development | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

IBM battles to settle yet more age discrimination claims

While accused of already breaking terms of an earlier deal | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Some of Debian 12 won't be FOSS

Vote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

USB-C iPhone, anyone? EU finalizes charging standard rule

It's officially official: Mobile devices will be required to use USB-C from 2024, with laptops following in 2026 | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Uncle Sam orders federal agencies to step up scans for govt IT security holes

Good time to be selling automation tools | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Amazon sues Washington state over warehouse safety order

Somebody missed the memo – this internet giant always gets its own way | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google burns few hours of profit to disappear location privacy lawsuit

Phrasing, Arizona... AG claims deal is 'historic' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop

Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

Isn't code something worth paying for? Well, frankly, no | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Samsung gears up for 2nm chips in 2025, 1.4nm by 2027

Mass production, too – but if it happens, timing will be crucial as semiconductor market recovers | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Don't mind Facebook, just putting its own browser in its Android app

Totally not for data collection | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UK hits Russia with British IT services ban

Annexed Donetsk? No more consultants for you then | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Foldable smartphones crawl to one percent of global market share

They’re on track for a whopping three percent in 2026 – well out of the mainstream, but growing faster | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations

MERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids

Wait, wait, hear us out | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Google Cloud is super keen to keep certain customers on pricey Intel VMs

Unless your app really needs AVX 512, AMD and Ampere's cores may be a cheaper, better bet | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

$22T of global rated debt has 'high' or 'high' cyber-risk exposure

$22 trillion of global rated debt has 'high' or 'very high' cyber-risk exposure | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Exchange Server zero-days being exploited in the wild

Remember this next time Microsoft talks about how seriously it takes security | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Peter Mattis on reasons for leaving Google

Peter Mattis on starting a multibillion-dollar company as serverless database hits GA | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Delivery drone crashes into power lines, causes outage

Google-owned Wing said it was a 'precautionary controlled landing' – right into 11,000 volts | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Bitcoin worse for the climate than beef, say economists

You even have until the end of the 2030s to get it done | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Chipmakers cut output, investment – but government bucks never go out of style

Wafer starts cut back as slump in demand hurts bottom lines... especially Micron's | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Sage denies misleading customers over perpetual licensing

Vendor and resellers offer conflicting advice about subs and upgrades, though vendor says it's been 'clear' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

The web's cruising at 13M new and nefarious domain names a month

Or so Akamai is dying to tell us | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Scientists present fresh evidence of liquid water on Mars

Pack your bags, we're off to huddle on some alien ice caps. It beats Earth | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Matrix chat encryption sunk by five now-patched holes

You take the green pill, you'll spend six hours in a 'don't roll your own crypto' debate | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

Pentagon is far too tight with its security bug bounties

But overpriced, useless fighter jets? That's something we can get behind | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

One Ukrainian software maker planned for survival as invaders approached

Set priorities, expect confusion, keep emergency instructions simple – that's just for starters | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

IBM's 'bare metal' LinuxONE push

Plus RHEL has fresh release goodies out too | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

AMD's Ryzen V3000 targets Intel's embedded chips

House of Zen just needs to convince machine makers to use them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago

UN's ITU election may spell the end to our open internet

Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 1 year ago