GitLab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect
Bugs from Lodash and JQuery among the more commonly seen security problems
Analysis
UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court
Five-year legal battle pays off. Now countries have to figure out what to do
Emergent Tech
President Trump to slap fresh restrictions on H-1B work visas, refuses to hear public comment on changes
Tech industry may limber up for war
Bork!Bork!Bork!
It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes
Honey, I Misconfigured the Firewall
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Infosec researchers pwned Comcast's voice-activated remote control so it could snoop on household chit-chat
Own one of those Xfinity XR11 TV zappers? You better get patching
07 Oct 13:02 | 1
Cloud
DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers
If you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch
07 Oct 12:22 |
Data Centre
Ricoh's data centre services shopping spree continues with £30m slurp of Brit outfit MTI
Because who would want to be a standalone print or copier biz in 2020?
07 Oct 11:44 |
Security
Disgraced cop, 55, spared prison term after admitting he abused police systems to snoop on his girlfriend's ex
120 hours' community service and suspended sentence for computer misuse and data protection crimes
07 Oct 11:15 | 5
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RAID storage is here to stay – and why that matters to you
The traditional RAID system remains the centrepiece of most enterprise storage, says Fujitsu
07 Oct 10:00 |
Who, Me?
A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong
A Register reader's sense of déjà vu triggers a bonus column
07 Oct 09:15 | 37
Arm DevSummit
Nvidia promises once again to let Arm keep its Switzerland-of-chips biz model – and even license some Nv GPU tech
We'll be nice post-merger, bosses pledge at confab
07 Oct 08:33 | 4
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Bork!Bork!Bork!
It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes
Honey, I Misconfigured the Firewall
07 Oct 08:03 | 17
Science
Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs
Congratulations to Sir Roger Penrose, Andrea Gehz, Reinhard Genzel
07 Oct 07:26 | 10
Analysis
UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court
Five-year legal battle pays off. Now countries have to figure out what to do
07 Oct 06:54 | 32
Virtualization
Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit
Totally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc
07 Oct 06:31 | 4
Emergent Tech
Microsoft: After we said we'll try to promote more Black people, the US govt accused us of discrimination
Dept of Labor demands proof Windows giant isn't making 'illegal race-based decisions' in diversity push
07 Oct 01:15 | 35
Cloud
Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google
'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons'
06 Oct 23:40 | 22
Personal Tech
Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner
Cops charge suspect with theft as audit claims this gear definitely wasn't on loan
06 Oct 22:37 | 27
Emergent Tech
President Trump to slap fresh restrictions on H-1B work visas, refuses to hear public comment on changes
Tech industry may limber up for war
06 Oct 21:37 | 17
Networks
The WAN of opportunity: Funnily enough, home Wi-Fi sales see 'sudden spike' amid pandemic, not so much for biz
Analyst predicts five good years as homeworking and refresh cycles meld
06 Oct 19:43 | 2
DevOps
GitLab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect
Bugs from Lodash and JQuery among the more commonly seen security problems
06 Oct 18:40 | 28
Security
Verizon: Just 25% of global businesses comply fully with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
Gives you confidence in an era where nobody accepts cash any more
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Cloud
New Workspace for your WFH office? Nah, it's just Google shooting G Suite with the rebrandogun
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06 Oct 16:29 | 16
Emergent Tech
Wind and quite a bit of fog shroud Boris Johnson's energy vision for the UK
Offshore electricity production target doable, says expert, but we need to decarbonise transport and heating too
06 Oct 15:41 | 71
Data Centre
We couldn't deliver prisoner rehab plans because Sopra Steria ballsed up our IT, Interserve tells High Court
Meanwhile, Euro outsourcer claims Interserve failed to pay £3.5m invoices
06 Oct 14:32 | 15
Bootnotes
All at sea: SAP was barely out of the port when it sank its 'social responsibility' voyage
Push to buy from 'purposeful suppliers' coincides with launch of yachting app
06 Oct 13:50 | 18
Open sauce: Rancher 2.5 puts new UI forward, gets to continuously delivering
Python 3.9 lands with union operators and type hinting generics
Is it that time again already? GitLab pushes out security release remediating XSS and MitM attacks
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Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets
Some things simply don't belong in regulatory environments
06 Oct 13:05 | 210
Software
FFS FSF, you're 35 already? Hands up if you just sprouted a grey hair or felt a craving for a Werthers Original on reading that. Happy birthday, folks
Pour a bowl of granola and celebrate free and open software
06 Oct 12:18 | 31
Servers
SK Hynix slips past rivals Samsung and Micron to launch world's first DDR5 DRAM sticks
Up to 5,600 megatransfers per second at just 1.1V, company claims
06 Oct 11:27 | 5
Security
Meet the new aviation insecurity, same as the old aviation insecurity: Next-gen ACAS X just as vulnerable to spoofing as its predecessor
Faking an emergency collision alarm - just what you don't need over Heathrow
06 Oct 10:46 | 9
Security
Insurance firm Ardonagh Group disabled 200 admin accounts as ransomware infection took hold
Firm says 'cyber incident' is being fought with third-party help
06 Oct 09:15 | 17
Science
Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life
Just a short 100 or more light years away
06 Oct 07:33 | 70
Networks
Nominet refuses to consider complaint about its own behaviour, claims CEO didn’t mean what he said on camera
Dot-UK overlord descends into farce
06 Oct 06:34 | 51
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Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents
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What a Hancock-up: Excel spreadsheet blunder blamed after England under-reports 16,000 COVID-19 cases
All amid a second wave of the bio-nasty
Column
Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets
Some things simply don't belong in regulatory environments
Security
Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations
He paid more or less than $750, though?
In brief
Windows 10 to let you know that your SSD is dying rather than throwing out a BSOD when it's already too late
Also: Users split across 3 versions of OS, PowerToys update, MRTK support for Oculus Quest 2
Security
UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China
It's like Hacking Team all over again
Personal Tech
Suffering silicon: Benchmarks for Apple's A14 chip are in, but post-Intel Macs, when they arrive, will tell the real story
It's crunch time
Personal Tech
Apple seeks damages from recycling firm that didn't damage its devices: 100,000 iThings 'resold' rather than broken up as expected
iGiant 'would rather shred stuff than let it hit the used market'
Networks
Nominet refuses to consider complaint about its own behaviour, claims CEO didn’t mean what he said on camera
Dot-UK overlord descends into farce
Security
Insurance firm Ardonagh Group disabled 200 admin accounts as ransomware infection took hold
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GTC 2020
Nvidia unveils $59 Nvidia Jetson Nano 2GB mini AI board, machine learning that slashes vid-chat data by 90%, and new super for Britain
We sat through the full day so you didn't have to
06 Oct 05:45 | 8
Security
Former antivirus baron John McAfee collared, faces extradition to America on tax evasion, securities allegations
He paid more or less than $750, though?
06 Oct 02:42 | 87
Networks
Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents
Centripetal Networks uses lawsuit against Switchzilla. It's super effective
05 Oct 23:56 | 27
Personal Tech
China takes TikTok-WeChat ding-dong to World Trade Organization, accuses US, India of breaking global rules
One person still believes forced sale is a good idea. Hint: He’s in hospital
05 Oct 23:03 | 20
Personal Tech
Apple seeks damages from recycling firm that didn't damage its devices: 100,000 iThings 'resold' rather than broken up as expected
iGiant 'would rather shred stuff than let it hit the used market'
05 Oct 21:56 | 76
Bootnotes
Spooked by the specter of out-of-control, virus-spreading parties, Airbnb slams coffin lid on Halloween rentals
Don't be monster-mashing that reservation button in the US and Canada, you ghouls and ghosts
05 Oct 21:04 |
Security
UEFI malware rears ugly head again: Kaspersky uncovers campaign with whiff of China
It's like Hacking Team all over again
05 Oct 19:55 | 11
Software
Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back?
IRC-for-the-2020s up and down as it catches a bad case of the Mondays
05 Oct 19:12 | 6
