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We're all ears The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed that its Mars Express orbiter has heard from China's Zhurong rover.…

Keeping one's privates private "I don't think we have any business with collecting information about what people are doing," Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner told The Register as its eponymous browser pushed out a major version update today.…

Services ops for mortgages to go back in-house, says High Street lender, can't say how many to TUPE across Co-Operative Bank is terminating its outsourcing contract with Capita years ahead of schedule and is planning to TUPE across staff to provision services in-house again, ending what at times was a fractious relationship.…

New IT systems set up incorrectly, published CSV files which included names, addresses The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined the Cabinet Office because it failed to put appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to prevent the unauthorised disclosure of recipients of New Year's honours.…

Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family SiFive's latest flagship RISC-V CPU will be revealed today – and we're told it will sport proper virtualization support in hardware.…

Police still trying to piece everything together Christmas was (probably not) ruined for several German children yesterday after thieves bust through a toyshop wall in Lippstadt and escaped with dozens of Lego sets said to be worth a total of €35,000.…

'You're on the go, you take it with you, it's always contextually relevant, you don't have to take it out of your pocket' Snapdragon Tech Summit What's the next hot thing after mobile? Qualcomm and Meta execs believe it's the metaverse, and some type of headgear providing context so you don't have to pull a device out of your pocket.…

And that's bad for your customers – who else is gonna ultimately pay for it? 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 the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage Interview It is a fine balancing act when a small business very publicly criticises a much larger one upon whose products it relies – yet that is the David-versus-Goliath standoff happening in a corner of the cloud industry.…

El Reg asks about phoenixing – but will answer convince world+dog? Britain's plans to force internet-connected device vendors to declare legally binding product lifespans won't be easily evaded by shell companies, the government has told The Register.…

Poised to reveal similar haul to 2020's €40M loss prevention total The European Cybercrime Centre has again acted against credit card fraud and is poised to reveal success on a similar scale to its 2020 campaign that prevented €40 million of losses.…

Communist China (belatedly) recognises that drivers are people who need food, sleep, bathrooms, and unions China's Ministry of Transport, along with eight other agencies, has issued an edict that demands working conditions ride share operators provide for drivers must improve.…

Running the latest version of Android? Appstore apps no longer work Shortly after Android 12 launched in October, users updating to the latest version of Google's mobile operating system found that the Amazon Appstore – and apps downloaded from it – no longer worked.…

Underground industry grows in complexity and sophistication, says Santander Group researcher October 18, 2021, was a tricky day for the ransomware industry. First, the gang that ran the REvil ransomware had its servers compromised, and then three individuals with key roles changed jobs.…

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch Mark Zuckerberg's recently rebadged Meta and Amazon Web Services have announced they're going to be cloud BFFs, with the emphasis on the second F.…

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds Nutanix and VMware have ended a legal fight sparked when the hyperconverged upstart lured Rajiv Ramaswami away from Virtzilla and into its CEO seat.…

Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data RE:INVENT AWS has introduced a flurry of new database and ML services at its Re:invent conference, including a migration service targeting every database in an organization,…

iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway Apple has appealed a judge's decision forcing the company to allow developers to add external third-party payment systems in their iOS apps by December 9.…

'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.' It's claimed Amazon reported only 27 COVID-19 cases among fulfillment center workers to federal government health officials, despite the company's admission that nearly 20,000 employees had been infected last year.…

G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer Snapdragon Tech Summit Qualcomm needs just one word to take on the mighty in the gaming and PC markets: 5G.…

Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting Around 2001, Google adopted the motto "Don't be evil" to summarize its avowed values and to spell out the ethical behavior expected from employees.…

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas Because not everyone is a Microsoft 365 customer, Microsoft has launched a Teams Essentials standalone product to try to nab those remaining holdouts.…

Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module Russian news agency TASS has reported that a chunk of a US Pegasus carrier rocket is due to whizz past the International Space Station (ISS) at a minimum distance of 5.4km this week.…

Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns Users wondering if Microsoft is going to do anything about the holes in its flagship operating system will be relieved to note it has found time to fiddle with Paint dialogs and unleash another Christmas jumper.…

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years What a difference two years makes. Knative has applied to become a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project.…

Can we just postpone these changes to next year? The mixture of performance and efficiency CPUs in Intel's 12th-gen Core processors, code-named Alder Lake, hasn't just caused problems for some Windows gamers – it's led to complications for Linux.…

Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage Singapore and the UK signed three memorandums of understanding (MoUs) this week, hoping to strengthen digital connectivity between the two island nations.…

EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls EB Associates, a London-based financial advisory business, is facing a £140,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after it instigated 107,000 illegal cold calls to people about their pensions.…

Median pay gap reporting found less favour Microsoft shareholders have voted for a report into the effectiveness of the company's sexual harassment policies while rejecting another on median pay gaps across race and gender.…

Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems The Linux Foundation has launched a group called the QIR Alliance to make quantum computing applications more portable across hardware architectures and simulators.…

Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange The board of Brit robotic process automation specialist Blue Prism is recommending a £1.243bn cash bid by Bolt Bidco, the subsidiary of tech holdings SS&C that trumped a £1.1bn offer from Vista Equity Partners (VEP).…

Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants 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.…

See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over ESA's Solar Orbiter has completed its flyby of Earth, collecting science data as it did so, and appears to be headed back into deep space without any close encounters with orbiting debris.…

2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch It's that time of year again, when all good little developers count down to the festive season with the Advent of Code.…

December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out Event On December 9, at 0900 GMT, Register regular Mark Whitehorn and the people behind our machine-learning conference MCubed will bring an online workshop about the foundations of AI straight to your desk.…

Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM Samsung has wheeled out three new slabs of silicon for automotive applications.…

Is this what they call light-touch regulation? Blackbaud was given a private slap on the wrist by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after paying off criminals who stole users' financial data from the cloud CRM biz's servers.…

Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years China's software industry is underperforming internationally and needs to lean into open source technology to improve, the nation's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Tuesday.…

Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun Not only is comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein the largest of its kind known, it’s also one of the most active, distant comets, likely spewing plumes of gas further out from the Sun than expected.…

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning SaaS sultan Salesforce has announced a new CEO: Bret Taylor, previously the company's president and chief operating officer.…

Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6 Qualcomm has distanced itself from Apple, and took a veiled shot at its rival as it tried to clear the air on its relationship with Google.…

China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help The head of the UK's secretive Military Intelligence Section 6 agency – popularly known as MI6 – has delivered a rare speech in which he has warned that China, Iran, and Russia use information technology to destabilise rivals, and that the agency he leads can no longer rely on in-house innovation to develop the technologies the UK needs to defend itself.…

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in Cisco has warned owners of its UCS servers that they may have a screw loose. In the UCS X9508 chassis that houses their servers, that is.…

CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers Re:Invent Adam Selipsky gave his first Re:Invent keynote as AWS CEO on Tuesday, introducing a range of services, and hinting that the cloud giant may move toward more packaged solutions rather than primarily offering infrastructure-as-a-service.…

Do you want a smartphone to know you that well? Qualcomm today will unveil its latest flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a greatest-hits compilation of the US giant's fastest CPU, GPU, camera, and modem technology.…

US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed America's labor watchdog has given workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, another crack at voting for unionization after their first attempt failed earlier this year.…

And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified FluBot, a family of Android malware, is circulating again via SMS messaging, according to authorities in Finland.…

Assemblers unite Ruby developer and internet japester Aaron Patterson has published a REPL for 64-bit x86 assembly language, enabling interactive coding in the lowest-level language of all.…

There's always Use Another Browser As the festive season approaches, Microsoft has decided to add "Buy Now, Pay Later" financing options to its Edge browser in the US.…

Patches available for 150 affected products Tricking users into visiting a malicious webpage could allow malicious people to compromise 150 models of HP multi-function printers, according to F-Secure researchers.…