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You're excited about Meta offering iOS apps via Facebook ads? Really? Opinion By March 6, 2024 Apple is expected to allow third-party app stores to distribute iOS apps, in Europe at least, because the company has been designated a "gatekeeper" under the European Digital Markets Act....

Also on board, cubesat that dodges space debris with plasma braking technology Arianespace delivered 12 satellites into low earth orbit via a Vega rocket launch from Spaceport in French Guiana on Sunday night....

Republican senators claim move will never survive judges' scrutiny The Biden administration's proposals to restore net neutrality rules for US internet services are facing opposition from Republican senators who claim it is a politicized move that would not survive judicial review....

Hey - gotta start somewhere The first two satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper constellation have finally left Earth, riding a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V to orbit....

FBI agent claims sergeant with top clearance offered access to DoD tech systems A former US Army Sergeant with Top Secret US military clearance created a Word document entitled "Important Information to Share with Chinese Government," according to an FBI agent's sworn declaration....

Staff get Zoom meeting to hear how they might be hit after phase of rapid hiring ends Qualtrics, which creates web software that allows users to create surveys and generate reports based on employees or customer sentiments, has axed 780 roles across the business....

Suit alleges female staff were forced to start as technical writers despite doing largely same work SpaceX is facing another employment lawsuit, this time by a female former worker who claims the company pays women and minority employees less than their white male counterparts, in violation of California's Equal Pay Act....

Groups range from known collectives to new outfits eager to raise their profile Hacktivism efforts have proliferated rapidly in the Middle East following the official announcement of a war between Palestine and Israel....

Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk Still using Python 3.7? Even Microsoft thinks it is time to move on after the Windows behemoth finally deprecated support for the language in the October 2023 release of its extension for Visual Studio Code....

All sites operational, no 'material' financial impact expected but stock markets still worried Volex, the British integrated maker of critical power and data transmission cables, confirmed this morning that intruders accessed data after breaking into its tech infrastructure....

Plus: 4channers are making troll memes with Bing AI, and more AI in brief Snap is in hot water with the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) over privacy risks in My AI, its chatbot aimed at teenagers....

Google and Amazon are both in antitrust trouble as the US gets tough Kettle Amazon and Google are under the fierce glare of the US Federal Trade Commission, which under the leadership of chair Lina Khan has pursued them over allegations of monopolistic practices....

Hackintoshing reaches a wider audience - owners of older Macs FOSS Fest As Apple distances itself from older kit, the OpenCore Legacy Patcher tool should win new fans....

All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please Opinion It had to happen. Amazon and Microsoft are under investigation for distorting the UK's public infrastructure cloud market following complaints to internet regulator Ofcom that have now been passed on to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)....

Tech remembers why those safeguards were there there to start with Who, Me? Come inside from the swimming pool, dear reader, and put away that sunscreen, for yet again it is Monday and time to return to the grind of the office and/or remote workspace. Thankfully The Register is here to cushion the blow, with another instalment of Who, Me? - the weekly column in which readers recall the times they would have been better off staying poolside....

'Investo-bot, make me rich' is his vision - powered by Arm chips, natch Anyone still hungry for outrageous rhetoric and outsized praise for AI should tune in to last week's keynote from SoftBank World, where the Japanese tech conglomerate's CEO Masayoshi Son declared the world is on the precipice of the singularity and compared those who eschew the power of AI to unempowered goldfish....

Beijing wants latency down, more sharing of compute capacity China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued a revised "Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Computing Infrastructure" that emphasizes increased deployment of edge computing and the low-latency networks that make it possible....

X, YouTube, and Telegram told to make it happen, or feel the wrath of 'zero tolerance' regime India's Ministry for Electronics and IT has issued notices to X, YouTube and Telegram, warning them to remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from their platforms on the Indian internet....

PLUS: Sony admits to MoveITbreach; Blackbaud fined again, Qakbot's sorta back from the dead; and more Infosec in brief Bot defense software vendor Human Security last week detailed an attack that "sold off-brand mobile and Connected TV (CTV) devices on popular online retailers and resale sites ... preloaded with a known malware called Triada."...

PLUS: South Korea to fine Apple, Google; Digital fraud booms in Hong Kong; Singtel slings TrustWave ASIA IN BRIEF Three members of the US Congress have expressed concerns that the nation's export controls regime are ineffective because they allow free sharing of open source technology with China....

Please, no crypto boom, thank you Colocation outfit Standard Power hopes to power two new datacenters in Ohio and Pennsylvania entirely by miniaturized nuclear reactors from NuScale....

Internet considered harmful Social media posts hyping products and investment opportunities that sound too good to be true ... probably are, the FTC would like you to know....

Music sets hearts beating in lockstep, researchers find Researchers in Germany have found that classical music audience members synchronize their heart rate and breathing during the performance....

21-year-old jailed for nine years after he was egged on by Replika bot A man jailed after attempting to kill the Queen of England had been encouraged by an AI chatbot, according to messages revealed in court....

Fly light-years to our planet and get the real Earth experience: Privacy invaded by doorbell cam Amazon is back with a cheeky way to normalize the privacy conundrum that are Ring doorbell cameras - a $1 million prize for anyone able snap "scientific evidence" of extraterrestrials using one of its porch cams....

About four minutes of quarterly profit, and it's settled Apple has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by salespeople who claimed the iPhone giant underpaid them for overtime work and failed to cover expenses when traveling on business....

No you don't need to see Mr Beast as much as that local utility needs to power hospitals Google has run a pilot to cut datacenter power consumption during periods of peak demand....

What do you mean they aren't optional for billionaires? The US Securities and Exchange Commission is taking Elon Musk back to court to compel his testimony in its ongoing investigation of the billionaire's purchase of Twitter stock and related SEC filings last year....

Calls for wider adoption of security-by-design principles continue to ring loudly from Uncle Sam The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) are blaming unchanged default credentials as the prime security misconfiguration that leads to cyberattacks....

Monster rocket yet to trouble orbit, let alone the Red Planet Comment Elon Musk took part in an interview at the International Astronautical Congress this week and demonstrated a reality distortion field that would make even the most ardent Steve Jobs fanatic take a step back....

Last season's assistant shuffles off from the Canary build of Windows 11 Microsoft has hammered yet another stake through the heart of its doomed assistant, Cortana, with a Windows Insider release that removes the service once and for all....

Racecars and cyber insurance will balance its books in no time, though MGM Resorts has admitted that the cyberattack it suffered in September will likely cost the company at least $100 million....

Lets off more than 100 staff in US and UK, shutters offices in three countries AI chip startup Graphcore must raise new funds from investors within the next few months in order to offset mounting losses incurred over the prior financial year, and remain a "going concern."...

Ransomware spokesperson scoffs at IT reseller's offer of payment CDW, one of the largest resellers on the planet, will have its data leaked by LockBit after negotiations over the ransom fee broke down, a spokesperson for the cybercrime gang says....

Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn't making quite enough money... Internet of Stings Welcome to the Internet of Stings, an occasional series in which we report on connected devices that are abruptly bricked or rendered considerably more costly due to the actions of their vendors....

Regulation complements EU's Digital Markets Act to cover more services Google has committed to being a little less creepy with user data in response to proceedings from the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt)....

That is not dead which can eternal lie. Ia! Ia! IA16! Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out - if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as can be....

The pending death of third-party cookies won't do much for other privacy intrusions Analysis Link decoration, the practice of appending data to the end of web links, has become more of a privacy problem that most people realize. The data exfiltration practice is now widely used to send info associated with web users - including email addresses - to ad tracking firms....

Big Red says it wants to give customers time to upgrade to 23c, which only exists in the cloud for now Oracle watchers are scratching their heads trying to figure out what seems like an uncharacteristic act of generosity from the enterprise tech behemoth....

Prof warns El Reg solar storms may cause cascading collisions that make some orbits unusable The European Space Agency has funded a mission to launch a fleet of satellites that will help scientists study space weather and how it can increase debris orbiting our home world....

Hello, hello, what have we here, then? A dead Dell, if I'm not mistaken. Whodunnit? On Call With Friday upon us once again, The Register finds itself glancing at weather forecasts as we prepare another instalment of On Call, the weekly tale of tech support in which we share readers' stories of being asked to fease the infeasible....

InRange will eliminate reliance on line of sight for the H3 launcher The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have teamed to build an in-orbit telemetry relay service named InRange to assist Japan's latest launch rocket, the H3....

Cloud and e-commerce giant mussels up, says allegations are waffle Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba's logistics hub at a Belgian airport poses a "possible espionage" concern, according to the European nation's state security service, the Veiligheid van de Staat (VSSE)....

Not even AI offers a lot of upside right now Juniper Networks will let go of 440 staff, as part of a restructuring plan....

Another route to the year of Linux on the desktop. Or the edge Lenovo has entered the Android PC business....

More malware scum using acessibility features to steal personal info Singapore-based infosec outfit Group-IB on Thursday released details of a new Android trojan that exploits the operating system's accessibility features to steal info that enables theft of personal information....

64-qubit system paired with 40-qubit simulator to get some sort of accuracy Development of Japan's first superconducting quantum computer is complete, Fujitsu and the country's scientific research institute RIKEN announced this week....

Actors would get sued for violating their IP, why is the opposite not true? TV and film studios should obtain explicit consent from, give credit to, and compensate actors fairly for using their likeness to train generative AI systems, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union argued this week to the US federal government....

Dating app kept sensitive info even after peeps deleted accounts, complaint claims Grindr isn't doing a very good job protecting its users' private information, including their NSFW photos, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), which wants the FTC to investigate potentially unlawful practices by the LGBTQ+ dating app....

Bezos rocket biz not involved this time - now that's a blue origin It's been a long time coming, but Amazon is finally launching its first two Project Kuiper internet-relay satellites into orbit tomorrow, October 6, but don't expect Bezos' Starlink competitor to be ready for customers anytime soon....