| Link | https://www.theregister.com/ |
| Feed | http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom |
| Updated | 2026-05-15 10:01 |
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CFZC)
Here are the pages dropped into Google's 'memory hole' The BBC has decided that Europe's controversial “right to be forgotten†laws won't be allowed to undermine its archives.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CFYD)
Chocolate Factory wants to be your GitHub, eventually With an uncharacteristic lack of fanfare, Google has decided to hang around the kitchen at the code repository party.…
|
 |
by Kieren McCarthy on (#CFWT)
The IANA Lady's not for turning It's been 33 years since the United Kingdom went to war with Argentina and won back the Falkland Islands, but the battle still continues – including online.…
|
 |
by Darren Pauli on (#CFT0)
Bad taste still lingers Botnet slaughterer Brian Wallace has created a module to detect when attackers are using the popular browser-busting BeEF hacking framework.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CFR5)
'Find a friend', what could possibly go wrong? The fruit of Apple's 2013 acquisition of indoor mapper WiFiSlam seems to have fallen from the tree and landed at the patent office, with Cupertino filing for a find-my-friends feature.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CFPJ)
Definition matters The Communications Alliance has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission it wants deployment rules to leave room for G.fast in the future.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CFMY)
It's joined the choir invisible We really, really, really mean it this time: take SSL3 and bury it.…
|
 |
by Joshua Gliddon, Sydney on (#CFKW)
Oz government slings $385 million to connect rural mobes The Australian government has embarked on a mobile blackspot crackdown with funding released for the creation of 499 new mobile base stations to improve coverage in rural and remote areas.…
|
 |
by Darren Pauli on (#CFHJ)
Uber pickup fills Menlo gap. Facebook has poached NSA-clashing Yahoo! security man Alex Stamos to head up its infosec operations.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CFER)
IEEE hums along to IETF anti-surveillance tune The Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF's) decision last year to push back against surveillance is bearing fruit, with the 'net boffins and the IEEE proclaiming successful MAC address privacy tests.…
|
 |
by Danny Bradbury on (#CFCB)
Stay ahead of demand Bringing a more service-based culture to your IT department is a great idea, but who will manage it behind the scenes? Service-based IT is the holy grail for IT departments that want to improve their standing in the business.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#CFCD)
Relax, Mountain View, they'll have drivers… for now Google has begun public road tests for a line of self-driving cars designed to be free of such fripperies as a steering wheel or pedals.…
|
 |
by Neil McAllister on (#CFAC)
Nadella's latest mega-memo has Redmond transforming the WORLD Satya Nadella, the man who succeeded Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO and only the third chief exec in the company's history, believes the software giant is poised to achieve "magical things" in the coming years.…
|
 |
by Iain Thomson on (#CF8N)
To boldly go where no augmented reality has gone before A pair of Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality goggles will be headed to the International Space Station on Sunday as part of the cargo in SpaceX's resupply mission on Sunday.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#CF8Q)
Wireless carriers may not be able to exploit subsidiary loophole Federal Communications Commission (FCC) boss Tom Wheeler is proposing new rules to the upcoming wireless spectrum auction that are designed to limit the ability for large telcos to snap up space meant for small carriers.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#CF63)
Fanbois on T-Mobile US confounded by mystery crashes T-Mobile users with iPhones are being beset by a mysterious issue that causes their handsets to randomly flash a blue screen and then reset itself.…
|
 |
by Richard Chirgwin on (#CF46)
Patch NOW, people A red-faced Cisco has pushed out a patch for a bunch of virtual security appliances that had hard-coded SSH keys.…
|
 |
by Kieren McCarthy on (#CEW7)
The org that will run the internet still acts like a teenager Comment ICANN is 17 years old. It's about to be given the keys to its dad's car. And we are all going to have to take a ride with it every day.…
|
 |
by Shaun Nichols on (#CEQA)
App Store nixes banner amidst controversy over symbolism Apple is removing games that feature the Confederate flag in their titles or gameplay from its App Store.…
|
 |
by Kieren McCarthy on (#CEKC)
Online bazaar provides APIs and SDK for its voice assistant service Amazon is reaching out to developers in an effort to build a rival to voice assistant services like Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana.…
|
 |
by Iain Thomson on (#CEGP)
Desperate tactics from the Purple Palace At the annual Yahoo! shareholder's meeting, CEO Marissa Mayer unveiled her new strategy for making the struggling web portal popular again by buying its way into Oracle's Java upgrade software.…
|
 |
by Tim Anderson on (#CEGQ)
Inaudible or ineffable? Industry bods address 'misperceptions' High resolution (Hi-Res) audio is not as good it should be, causing an industry group to create new production guidelines to address what it says are "misperceptions" concerning what it takes to create the best recordings.…
|
 |
by Jennifer Baker on (#CE34)
How will you stop us, Frenchies! Mmm, with baseball bats In a development many thought an impossibility, Paris has turned decidedly ugly, as traditional taxi drivers clashed with Uber, dragging pop singer and 1990s grunge leftover Courtney Love into the battle.…
|
 |
by Paul Kunert on (#CDWW)
Voluntary redundo for staff managing O2 clients The kind souls at Capita are placing hundreds of workers at risk of redundancy at call centres across the UK that service O2 clients, according to documents seen by The Channel.…
|
 |
by Alexander J Martin on (#CDQQ)
Deregulate! But let us keep all the hardware, of course BT is asking Ofcom to be freed from its obligation to provide ordinary PSTN/POTS voice telephone connections across the UK. The telecoms giant would prefer to provide only internet services, and let customers use them for voice calls.…
|
 |
by Team Register on (#CDP1)
Clarizen sets Euro customers' minds at rest Project management as a service vendor Clarizen will open a European datacentre this summer as it seeks to assure customers here that the US government will not rifle through their Gantt charts whenever they feel like it.…
|
 |
by Gavin Clarke on (#CDMG)
Would you like a sprinkling of finance on that, sir? Dell is doubling down on its policy of selling infrastructure, after retreating from its public cloud service provider plan.…
|
 |
by Alexander J Martin on (#CDCQ)
‘Most devastating cyber attack in US history’ Heads are set to roll at the Office of Personnel Management as director Katherine Archuleta continues to receive a grilling from Senate committees, who are beginning to realise that the country's entire intelligence workforce has been utterly pwned, probably by a hostile nation.…
|
 |
by Lester Haines on (#CDAM)
Reg favourite joins 'meh', 'twerk' and 'yarnstorm' in bulging lexicon Proof, were it needed, that El Reg is down wiv da lingo comes with the inclusion of "backronym" in the Oxford English Dictionary – one of 500 new words just added to the bulging lexicon.…
|
 |
by Drew Cullen on (#CD90)
It's $9m a year - whatever Microsoft canned support for Windows XP and Office and Exchange 2003 in April 2014 - unless you are the U.S. Navy, which is paying $9.1m a year until 2017 to obtain security patches for these obsoleted products. The Navy contract also includes support for Server 2003, which is unplugged from life support on July 2015.…
|
 |
by Andrew Orlowski on (#CD78)
Torygraph skiing correspondent spun by wild Facebook lawsuit claims Teenaged* German MEP Julia Reda, who believes that “your life is illegal†because of copyright laws, has successfully conned a gullible newspaper into reporting that sharing your own photos will soon be illegal too.…
|
 |
by John Oates on (#CD5N)
Worry Gurry, super scurry, call the troops out in a hurry The global domain-name and patents agency WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organisation) is under investigation by the UN's corruption investigation unit – the Office of Internal Oversight – The Register can reveal.…
|
 |
by Tim Anderson on (#CD32)
Company makes play for mobile app devs Red Hat Summit Red Hat has launched its Mobile Application Platform, at the company's Summit under way in Boston.…
|
 |
Keep your hands off the wheel, sir Driverless cars will be taking over our roads in around 12 years time, when comms technology has advanced to deliver the power of the datacentre direct to your preferred motor.…
|
 |
by Gavin Clarke on (#CD06)
Old Lady grumbles about new thingy The Bank of England is loosening up on IT delivery and recruitment, but not its resistance to public cloud.…
|
 |
by Robin Birtstone on (#CCW5)
Automation for the Common (Sysadmin) People Could converged systems change the way that IT admins spend their time? Figures suggest that mundane tasks such as backups and restores and system patches take between two and ten hours a week for around a third of those responsible for administering systems.…
|
|
by Shaun Nichols on (#CCV7)
Convincing people to give money to other people is a lucrative business Online hat-passer GoFundMe has sold off a controlling stake of its business to investors who value it at roughly $600m.…
|