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Connect with experts of all stripes at the Graph+AI Summit PROMO You can have all the data in the world, but without teasing out the connections hidden within, it’s still just a pile of random information.…

Plenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules The first crewed mission to China's space station has ended successfully.…

And celebrates Linux's 'true anniversary' – 30 years since upload of version .001 Linus Torvalds has revealed that winding back the decision to default to -Werror – and therefore make all warnings into errors – has made for another messy week of work on the Linux kernel.…

And added a bug bounty program to detect any holes in its 'youth mode' Douyin, the Chinese app known as TikTok outside the Middle Kingdom, has imposed limits on usage time for kids.…

Former staff, kids who got their first taste of tech, a Reg hack, and even Linus Torvalds share what the electronics pioneer meant to them Sir Clive Sinclair's contributions to computing and business are well known, and we've done our best to celebrate his life in our obituary of the electronics pioneer, who passed last week aged 81.…

Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip The space tourist crew who spent three days orbiting Earth in a SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned to our planet in one piece.…

Oh, sorry, we thought you wanted us to obey the law?! – Silicon Valley A tactical-voting app built by allies of Vladimir Putin’s jailed political opponent Alexei Navalny is now unavailable in Russian Apple and Google app stores following threats from the Kremlin.…

Software unused after a few months will lose access to sensitive features unless exempted In December, Google plans to have app runtime permissions expire on older versions of Android for apps that haven't been opened for several months, extending the availability of a privacy protection feature introduced in Android 11.…

Once dismissed proof-of-concept attack on Microsoft OS through WSL detected in the wild Linux binaries have been found trying to take over Windows systems in what appears to be the first publicly identified malware to utilize Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to install unwelcome payloads.…

Either way, it's bad news for VirtualBox – it's stopped working Microsoft emitted a fresh build of Windows 11 last night, and piled on the woe for some customers hoping that virtual machines might be their way out of the hardware compatibility hole.…

Redmond doesn't do things by half – unless it's Long Term Support Microsoft has grudgingly admitted that not everyone will want to ascend to its cloud with the Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) version of its Office cash cow.…

Lifelong cost focus was his namesake company's corporate downfall Obituary Sir Clive Sinclair, the visionary pioneer of computing for the British masses and creator of the legendary ZX Spectrum, has died at the age of 81. His legacy is the British tech scene as we know it today.…

'If you don't get your timing right you get whacked round the back of the head' admits scrappy octogenarian An 80-year-old Lancashire grandfather has gone viral on TikTok and Instagram in a video featuring him squaring off with a sparring aid for boxers.…

Tells clients it is tackling the issue An IT recruitment agency says a "phishing scam" is behind a fake email sent to its customers with details on how to apply for a "Coronavirus Digital Passport."…

Phonebox upgrade dishes out internet and more in Kensington and Chelsea BT was joined by local dignitaries including the Mayor of Kensington to cut the silk sash on its 21st-century phone box that gives people access to free Gigabit Wi-Fi, rapid mobile phone charging, and free calls if needed.…

On-prem systems hold advantages in terms of known costs, say insiders Cloud-based data warehouse darling Snowflake has launched its latest venture into financial services, while Teradata, something of a stalwart in data warehousing for banks and insurers, is attempting to broaden its appeal with machine learning implementations.…

Phrase is catnip for software market UK government has tempted the ravenous software and consultancy supply market with £4bn in the name of "large-scale digital transformation programmes."…

Not always, but Swiss team says you can manage the risks There's a fine line between getting hold of data that may be in the public interest and downright stealing data just because you can. And simply because the data is out there – having been stolen by online intruders and then leaked – does not mean it is right to use it.…

Jeff Bezos founded biz at the 'apex of the Big Tech tax avoiders' Amazon says turnover from business "activities" in Britain went up by more than 50 per cent year-on-year during 2020, but the profit the organisation generated locally is again typically unclear.…

Forget productivity, find a way to unplug and recover Software developers and IT workers can improve their sense of well-being and their perception of themselves if they partake in mindful breathing, a trio of boffins have found.…

Can we close the education divide? Maybe, but not by stuffing it with computers and smart boards Register Debate This week's Register Debate tussled over the motion Technology widens the education divide. The results are in, and as you can see, we have a clear winner.…

So many stuck trains, so many cancellations. Giant blue screen of Nope, we salute you. Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows sums up the spirit of many readers today, in a railway-infused bork from Manchester.…

J’appuie sur le starter et voici que je quitte la terre Something for the Weekend, Sir? Mute the mic. Hide the webcam. Freeze the shared screen. Enable Delivery Mode!…

Remember when a games developer could be one guy with a ZX Spectrum? We like a bit of digital archaeology at Vulture Central so we were delighted to learn that retro-computing enthusiasts at Swindon's Museum of Computing have found games by Dymond Software that were once thought lost.…

Shake, rattle and roll is incompatible with your PABX On Call There are some things they don't teach you in college, as a Register reader explains in this week's instalment of tales from the On Call coalface.…

Alibaba is number two in much of the region, but is a bit on the nose right now Korean web giant NAVER has outlined its ambition to bring its cloud to the world, and to become the third-largest cloud provider in the Asia-Pacific region.…

No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral DSEI 2021 The British armed forces will be using robots as part of future warfare – but mostly for the "dull, dangerous and dirty" parts of military life, senior officers have said.…

Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself Microsoft Azure users running Linux VMs in the IT giant's Azure cloud need to take action to protect themselves against the four "OMIGOD" bugs in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) framework, because Microsoft hasn't raced to do it for them.…

The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs Researchers have found that business adoption of robots and other forms of automation is largely driven by labor shortages.…

Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released its first new virtualisation benchmark in eight years.…

42.4 per cent increase in chip sales, and smartphone shipments did even better Exports of South Korean ICT products reached an all-time high in August, thanks to global demand for silicon chips, reported the country's Ministry of Science and ICT on Tuesday.…

Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment Engineers at Google’s technology moonshot lab X say they used lasers to beam 700TB of internet traffic between two cities separated by the Congo River.…

Latest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain Aggrieved MacBook owners in two separate lawsuits claim Apple's latest laptops with its M1 chips have defective screens that break easily and malfunction.…

General availability of Azure AD-joined VMs Microsoft has declared general availability for Azure Virtual Desktop with the VMs joined to Azure AD rather than Active Directory, but the initial release has many limitations.…

But that's what UN group has done The protection of human rights should be front and centre of any decision to implement AI-based systems regardless of whether they're used as corporate tools such as recruitment or in areas such as law enforcement.…

Not all promises of international flight itineraries are real, warns Cisco Talos A phishing campaign that mostly targeted the global aviation industry may be connected to Nigeria, according to Cisco Talos.…

From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond Sir Clive Sinclair died on Thursday at home in London after a long illness, his family said today. He was 81.…

It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server It's the end of an era. Microsoft has finally released its very last SQL Server service pack.…

Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors Full-fibre network operator CityFibre has grabbed £1.125bn in financing to help support its plan to wire up to eight million homes in the UK.…

Unwitting star of #Slipgate viral images awarded reduced damages, tempts Streisand effect A French farmer who was filmed setting about bird conservationists with a shovel while in his underpants has won damages from a TV company that filmed the incident for violating his privacy.…

Open-source project migrates deprecated apps to WebAssembly Microsoft Silverlight, now only supported in the legacy Internet Explorer, goes completely end of life on 12 October – but an open-source project called OpenSilver has appeared to convert Silverlight projects to WebAssembly.…

You tell 'em, 4 New Square chambers The London law firm which secured a court injunction forbidding ransomware criminals from publishing data stolen from them has now gone a step further – by securing a default judgment from the High Court.…

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... for Dorries Comment Nadine Dorries is the latest government minister charged with steering the data protection law through the choppy straits between the UK's desire to unleash "data's power across the economy and society for the benefit of British citizens and British businesses", and the boring need to comply with EU data protection law.…

Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start Makeup carefully applied to the forehead, cheeks, and nose may help you evade facial recognition systems, judging from these computer scientists' experimental work.…

Adds Teams integration for new ‘Employee Centre’, automated automation for service desk ServiceNow has loosed the new "Rome" release of its SaaS workflow platform on a waiting world.…

Translation: Skills shortage here! DSEI 2021 Military computer scientists ought to be treated with the same regard as pilots and warship captains, the head of the Army's cyber command has said.…

Green machine will also suck up microplastics between Glasgow and Belfast A hydrogen-powered cargo-carrying submarine has received taxpayer funding as part of the UK government's goal to slash maritime emissions by 2050.…

And no, we don’t want a generation of early-years coders Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular. It's up to our writers to convince you to vote for their side.…

'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told The UK's Cabinet Office has cancelled a procurement to move a group of central government departments off Oracle's wares to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ERP systems.…

Error handling and encapsulation remain the name of the game Interview It has been 13 years since Barbara Liskov won a Turing Award for her contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, and these days the creator of the CLU programming language continues to work on some interesting problems.…