Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution

Great problem of our time solved: Classic FM won't have to rebrand as Classic DAB | Continue reading


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Firefox 78: Protections Dashboard

New Regular Expression evaluator borrowed from Chromium V8 - a sign of more collaboration to come? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

MIT pulls odataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics | Continue reading


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Expired UK Govt home buyer domain flipped for £40k

About the same as a deposit on a nice house | Continue reading


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Imagination Technologies sued over Russian SoC contract invoice

IMGworks' new owner Sondrel demands £1.4m handed over tout suite | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Section 230 authors despair of [politicians'] aggressive ignorance

Look, we wrote it! You're all wrong! | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Apple promised features to help users with disabilities. It failed them

Sure, you can make calls, for instance, but you can't end them | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android

Redmond knows a thing or two about tackling malware – amirite, Windows fans?! | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' Whois info

Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Good luck using generative adversarial networks in real life

An AI engineer recounts his previous woes to The Register | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Impressive imagery from eROSITA X-ray telescope sky survey

eROSITA telescope shows a busy, energetic universe | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Maze ransomware gang demand payoff from wrong company

Naming mix-up see New York architects hit instead of Canadian standards agency | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Chrome extensions are 'the new rootkit' say researchers

Galcomm retorts: 'The report is at least irresponsible, if not worse' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

If Fairphone can support a 5-year-old handset, the other vendors could too?

Biz model isn't good for consumers or the environment, but Google holds all the cards for Android | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Facebook's AI contest: Winning team disqualified on buried consent technicality

Oh OK, so NOW the social network cares about getting people's permission before using their data to train computer systems | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Uber turns SaaS vendor in deal with US public transport authority

Given the scoundrels in the world of software, could Uber be worse? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Adobe about to halt Creative Cloud freebie 'at-home' access for students

Hey kids, fancy migrating to something a bit more 'paid subscription'? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft Web Live Preview: Hot Reload for Asp.net Web Applications

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ESA's INTEGRAL mission still going strong nearly 20 years on

December 2006 This article is the winner of the general public category of the Plus new writers award 2006. Daniel Gorenstein "In February 1981 the classification of finite simple groups was completed." So wrote Daniel Gorenstein, the overseer of the programme behind this classif … | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

GitHub to replace the term “master” with “main”

Language matters – but when you replace a 'blacklist' with a 'blocklist', what do you call a list of blocks? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Infosys denies former head of diversity recruitment's accusations of racial bias

Rejects allegations it favours Indian workers in the USA | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

ZFS co-author removes references to the word “slave” from the codebase

No breakages, no change in operation, no problem | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

ConnectWise issues security advisory – CVSS of 7.8

Because IT service providers use ConnectWise to run your IT and this is its first-ever bug report | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

An Internet of Trouble lies ahead as root certificates begin to expire en masse

'This is going to be a problem; we are not on top of this' | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

M Cloud goes down planet-wide so hard even the status page didn't work

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@theregister.com | 3 years ago

GnuTLS Patches Security Hole

Maybe it's time to get it gone | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Japan to test self-destructing satellite to shrink space junk

Now that launches and cubesats are cheap, ‘post-mission disposal’ has become more important | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

IBM quits facial recognition tech because Black Lives Matter

CEO Arvind Krishna tells Congress it’s time to debate law enforcement reform, including access to AI | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Hackers target German PPE companies

IBM says phishing operation could be effort to get upper hand in negotiations | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

DB2 migration problems cause IBM to resurrect Netezza

Plenty of competition out there for Big Blue | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

It could be 'five to 10 years' before the world drags itself away from IPv4

Happy 8th (or 9th) 'launch day' birthday, IPv6. Your daddy ain't dead yet | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Signal goes Gaussian to take privacy to the next level

Blur tool brings privacy protection to images, in these troubled times | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Analysis puts UK behind Switzerland and Kuwait in 5G adoption

There's Samsung to be said for having an in-house 5G vendor, right, Korea? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Strong growth for Slack, signs video deal with AWS

All Amazon staff are slackers now as AWS chat backend Chime's in | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Hubble data suggest star formation was even earlier than thought

We need to look further to glimpse Population III fireballs – where's that James Webb Telescope? | Continue reading


@theregister.com | 3 years ago

Sophos puts 100 at risk of redundancy

Firm denies shutdown of marketing organ but heads may well roll | Continue reading


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