 |
Tax digitisation plans for small businesses delayed Self-employed folk are to be slapped with additional National Insurance contributions, Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced today.…
|
The Register
| Link | https://www.theregister.com/ |
| Feed | http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom |
| Copyright | Copyright © 2025, Situation Publishing |
| Updated | 2025-11-12 06:15 |
 |
by Gareth Corfield on (#2F5S1)
A quarter of prime British chip goodness will fall under Middle Eastern ownership Softbank is selling a stake in ARM to a Saudi investment group less than a year after buying the Brit chipmaker, according to reports.…
|
 |
by John Leyden on (#2F5Q7)
Devs patch after researchers Confide in them about encrypted app's issues Security researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Confide, the encrypted messaging app reportedly used by President Donald Trump's aides to speak to each other in secret.…
|
 |
by Gareth Corfield on (#2F5HP)
'On a $349 device this amounts to extortion' rages irate user Video doorbell company Doorbird charges its customers $80 for a remote admin password reset, an outraged customer has said.…
|
 |
by John Leyden on (#2F5G4)
Android adware poses as YouTube clip utility A malicious app that bombards Androids with ads is using all sorts of trickery to boost its ratings.…
|
 |
by Chris Mellor on (#2F5CN)
Claims to be two times faster than Chipzilla's latest data centre processor In a raid on Intel's x86 server heartland, AMD has unveiled its next shot at server market glory with Naples, a 32-core, 64-thread CPU based on its Zen microarchitecture.…
|
 |
by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F5B8)
Murder accused consents to device being examined We'll have to wait a little longer for a test case on the use of data collected by Amazon's eavesdropper Echo in criminal investigations.…
|
 |
by Team Register on (#2F5A3)
Direct your outage outrage where it's deserved
|
 |
by Thomas Claburn on (#2F56K)
The architects of Michigan's maligned MiDAS system called to court Last week, a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed against the companies responsible for developing and installing MiDAS, the Michigan Integrated Data Automated System.…
|
 |
by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F559)
And nobody noticed One of the perils of launching a clever new feature at the zoo called Mobile World Congress is that clever new things get lost in the noise.…
|
 |
by Team Register on (#2F52E)
Save big now on conference and workshops You have just a few days to save £100s on Continuous Lifecycle London, our three-day conference on all things DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Containers.…
|
 |
by Trevor Pott on (#2F502)
Backup software - your best friend Sysadmin blog Hardly a day passes without some kind of major security breach. The type of attack that was once considered staggering in scale has now become the norm.…
|
 |
by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F4YB)
You don't need fluent English when you speak digital disruption Comment Perhaps it's time to retire the term "sharing economy" once and for all. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) this week swallowed up the "gig economy" trade group Sharing Economy UK.…
|
 |
by John Leyden on (#2F4WG)
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla say they won't trust anyone who hasn't migrated One in five websites (21 per cent) are still using certificates signed with the vulnerable SHA-1 hash algorithm, according to a new survey.…
|
 |
by Simon Sharwood on (#2F4SJ)
Blade-centric Borg surprised by hunger for pizza boxes, also ponders multi-hypervisor NFV Cisco's underwhelming performance in hyperconverged appliances is attributable to the company's heritage as a blade server vendor, the company's executive veep for worldwide sales and operations Chris Dedicoat told The Register at Cisco Live in Melbourne, Australia, today.…
|
 |
by Iain Thomson on (#2F4SM)
We went through 8,000 documents so you don't have to We're still going through the 8,761 CIA documents published on Tuesday by WikiLeaks for political mischief, although here are some of the highlights.…
|
 |
by Tim Anderson on (#2F4NR)
New cross-platform tools and streamlined setup options First Look Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017, marking 20 years of the software development tool's, er, development.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F4ME)
Prenda Law's John Steele done for fraud after courts ordered repayments of extorted funds One of the architects of the notorious Prenda Law copyright-porn scam, John Steele, has admitted that he and Paul Hansmeier made US$6 million out of the operation.…
|
 |
by Iain Thomson on (#2F4GD)
Five years? What's the matter? Can't afford Prime? Video Blue Origin, the orbital delivery service funded by Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos, has taken its first satellite launch booking. We're told the sat will be put into orbit in 2021 or 2022 – basically, once Bezos has finished building the rocket to do the job.…
|
 |
by Simon Sharwood on (#2F4AY)
New browser also crumbs cookies and finds new ways to speed web apps The Mozilla Foundation has has given the world the fifty-second version of the Firefox browser, complete with some significant changes.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F46X)
Unless you want your backups to be in 'Someone Else's Cloud' Western Digital is preparing patches for its My Cloud storage devices because they can be easily hijacked from across the internet or network.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F422)
Bad code or backdoor? Whichever it was, patch it now Chinese security camera/DVR company Dahua is pushing firmware patches after accusations by a security researcher that a swathe of its products carried a back door.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F3ZF)
'Will we do this the easy way, or will we do it the hard way?' Spiral Toys, makers of the insecure Bluetooth-connected stuffed animals dubbed CloudPets, is being grilled for information by a US Senator.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F3XA)
Bad requirements make bad systems, episode 1,001 When Australia's Department of Human services decided to create its now-notorious “robo-debt†system, it did so without consulting one of its major data sources, the Australian Tax Office.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#2F3VC)
Convicted fraudster says he was given personal details in records requests Prison authorities in Ohio, US, mistakenly provided the social security numbers of thousands of inmates to a man convicted of identity theft.…
|
|
by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F3SC)
Saving the furniture to burn later Bankruptcy-beset Avaya is cashing out of its networking business for just $100m, with Extreme Networks the buyer.…
|
 |
by Kieren McCarthy on (#2F3MJ)
Nest adds two-factor auth – where's the rest of 'em? Smart home poster child Nest has stolen a march on the rest of the smart-home industry by adding two-factor authentication to its systems.…
|
 |
by Kieren McCarthy on (#2F3KK)
Wall Street greed meets Silicon Valley delusion – and they all get rich First, we'll look at some quick facts at Snap – the Los Angeles-based developer of Snapchat that debuted on the stock market on Thursday, March 2.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#2F3FQ)
Kalanick vows to bring in a grownup to knock sense into toxic, sexist upstart Following a string of damaging revelations about its atrocious corporate culture, Uber is seeking fresh help to clean up its act.…
|
 |
by Gavin Clarke on (#2F3E5)
Cloudy software giant marries Einstein to tech behemoth's Watson Analysis A partnership between IBM and Salesforce involving the namesakes of two of the most influential people in the worlds of business and science. It must have sounded like genius in the PR brainstorming session.…
|
 |
by Chris Mellor on (#2F38D)
Upstart got tired of grinding out sales against deepening yearly losses Analysis In buying Nimble Storage for $1.2bn, HPE has signaled that it needs a complementary all‑flash array architecture to its 3PAR StoreServ arrays.…
|
 |
by Simon Sharwood on (#2F33N)
You could also have uncertain costs and lose handy powered, fibred FTTN cabinets nbn™, the organisation that builds and operates Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), appear to be escalating its efforts to rebut those who call for it to abandon its fibre to the network build.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#2F2X4)
وای نه. ما واقعا به دنبال به جلو به که روتر Chinese giant ZTE has been fined $900m by the US government for skirting trade blocks by selling comms hardware to Iran.…
|
 |
by John Leyden on (#2F2S2)
Nothing to fear, citizens. Keep consuming. Keep smiling WikiLeaks has dumped online what appears to be a trove of CIA documents outlining the American murder-snoops' ability to spy on people.…
|
 |
by Alexander J Martin on (#2F2AC)
MongoDB Atlas to lift interest, maybe? MongoDB has announced a free tier for its DBaaS offering Atlas, as it continues to sound out the incumbents' customers who might be looking to save a bit of money.…
|
 |
by Chris Mellor on (#2F26D)
HyperFlex 2x virtual advantage hyped Cisco's HyperFlex hyperconverged products can support more than twice the number of VMs than other HCI systems while maintaining high performance, according to tests by ESG [PDF].…
|
 |
by John Leyden on (#2F21T)
Nice chunk of change FireEye is close to paying $10.3m to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the security firm misled investors about the effectiveness of its security technology.…
|
 |
by Gareth Corfield on (#2F21W)
Probably won't be built in Blighty, sadly Jaguar Land Rover is to resurrect the venerable old Defender – and it may be built abroad, according to media reports.…
|
 |
Web hosting services supplier vanishes Web hosting services at Fast.co.uk are out of action in what would appear to be the final nail in the supplier's coffin.…
|
 |
by Chris Mellor on (#2F1VZ)
Flash array maker to give infrastructure biz a shot in the arm Not content with buying SimpliVity, HPE has signed a "definitive" agreement to gobble Nimble Storage for $1.2bn.…
|
|
by Alexander J Martin on (#2F1HZ)
We don't know what's caused it, but it's probably a cyberwar with aliens living among us Some unknowable terror has struck at the heart of the 21st century's communications infrastructure, as complaints mount regarding the global unavailability of Microsoft services, including email and authentication.…
|
 |
by John Leyden on (#2F1GA)
If you've got 40 Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket... Cybercriminals are attempting to flog a supposedly undetectable Mac malware strain on the dark web for 40BTC ($50,000) a pop.…
|
 |
Want that promotion? Better improve your performance in the sack A healthy sex life at home is apparently linked to better performance at work, according to a study by Oregon State University.…
|
 |
by Thomas Claburn on (#2F19C)
Einstein hopes to make artificial alleged intelligence accessible Salesforce's Spring 17 release has arrived with Einstein inside, software that its creators hope will live up to its rather clever namesake.…
|
 |
by Gareth Corfield on (#2F184)
PR 101: How not to head off an embarrassing investigation + Comment Facebook reported BBC journalists to the police after the reporters accidentally emailed them images of child sexual abuse, the social network's PR has alleged.…
|
 |
BBC probe reveals scale of the scam Hundreds of staff were hired by scammers in Indian call centres to defraud TalkTalk customers, according to a BBC report revealing the extent of the scam.…
|
 |
by Chris Mellor on (#2F148)
Flash supply shortages drove up prices and profits Samsung was top of the charts as NAND prices rose in the fourth 2016 quarter due to supply shortages, with suppliers’ profits peaking according to TrendForce.…
|
 |
by SA Mathieson on (#2F120)
Not EVIL, not FIRST, but yes... it's your data and they're using it According to a story doing the rounds, psychometric big data pushed Britain into Brexit and Trump on to America. The winning sides adopted a method developed at the University of Cambridge to psychometrically profile people by using publicly available data including Facebook "likes". They used these to create devastatingly effective digital advertising and targeted millions of voters' psychological traits.…
|
 |
by Chris Mellor on (#2F0XC)
Investors not happy, nominate seven independent directors Quantum's board has caved in to activist investor VIEX and agreed to reconstitute itself with new independent directors.…
|
 |
by Gavin Clarke on (#2F0VD)
'Income will be an important part to us surviving' Two northern councils have teamed up to sell technology and services commercially.…
|