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Taskforce and two forums to consider Central Bank Digital Currency The Bank of England and HM Treasury have formed a Taskforce to "coordinate the exploration of a potential UK Central Bank Digital Currency" (CBDC).…

Speculation of shift to EVs swirls as governor who once said $3bn subsidy plan was a con now thinks it 'works for taxpayers' Wisconsin governor Tony Evers and Foxconn board member Dr Jay Lee have announced a new agreement to revive and remodel the notorious high-tech plant that attracted billions in incentives but appears not to have delivered promised economic benefits.…

It's always BGP (when it’s not DNS). Absent route filtering didn't help either Vodafone Idea, the Indian limb of the mega-carrier, has been fingered as the source of what's been described as a "major BGP hijack" by Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), an organisation that "provides crucial fixes to reduce the most common routing threats."…

Complete with availability zones, coming real soon now after it turns local kids onto the cloud Microsoft has announced a new Azure region in Malaysia.…

Social network for web outcasts can be downloaded again from next week for iThings, we're told Parler is set to return to Apple's App Store next week after the social network agreed to moderate hate speech on its platform.…

Trendy exercise gear 'poses serious risks to children', says CPSC America's Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has urged owners of the hi-tech Peloton Tread+ treadmill to use caution after a child was killed by one of the machines last month.…

Lessons learned and mission accomplished, apparently The US government's response groups for dealing with recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities have reached the end of the road.…

Model S took corner at high speed, left road, and smashed into a tree Updated Authorities are investigating a Tesla crash in Texas in which two men were killed this weekend. The authorities are probing whether the vehicle was operating in its Autopilot mode with neither occupant in control.…

Let's opt every WordPress site out of FLoC. Nice idea, but security update? Really? A proposal by a WordPress core contributor to treat Google's FLoC ad tech as a security vulnerability, and therefore backport an automatic opt-out to previous WordPress versions, shows the depth of community opposition to the technology.…

Ex-BT boss is familiar with the football lifestyle – being paid millions for doing very little Gavin Patterson, former boss of BT, is in the frame to lead a proposed European football league at the centre of a storm of criticism.…

Change the record, nobody's fooled by this now UK Home Secretary Priti Patel will badmouth Facebook's use of end-to-end encryption on Monday evening as she links the security technology with paedophilia, terrorism, organised crime, and so on.…

Looking for the way ahead? Follow the Yellowbrick Summit Promo The cloud is changing, and how you think about data needs to change too.…

Share price immediately dips for GPU-maker The proposed sale of Arm to Nvidia looks a bit more tenuous today after UK digital secretary Oliver Dowden issued a Public Interest Intervention Notice (PIIN) indicating he may intervene in the sale on national security grounds.…

When 4GB is just not quite enough Microsoft is to drag veteran code wrangler Visual Studio kicking and screaming into the modern world with a 64-bit version.…

Environment variables full of secrets uploaded to attacker server Codecov, makers of a code coverage tool used by over 29,000 customers, has warned that a compromised script may have stolen credentials over a period of two months, before it was discovered a few weeks ago.…

Rounded corners are nice, but what you really want is Linux 5.10, right? Windows Insiders have been given a bit of Linux love with the arrival of a freshly updated kernel and an all-important clock fix.…

Plus Pwn2Own faces fire and update Chrome immediately In Brief The former systems administrator for the FIN7 card-slurping gang has been sentenced to 10 years in a US prison.…

Glimmer of hope on the semiconductor front – for the car industry anyway Japanese chipmaker Renesas has said it will restore full production capacity at its N3 Naka plant by the middle of next month following a blaze in March that destroyed equipment and contaminated the clean room.…

Nobody caught – er, held us responsible, says Chinese firm Huawei was able to snoop on the Dutch prime minister's phone calls and track down Chinese dissidents because it was included in the core of the Netherlands' mobile networks, an explosive news report has claimed.…

NASA’s JPL lab speaks to The Reg The first human-made helicopter to take flight on another planet, Ingenuity, has hovered in Martian skies after NASA at last launched the device into the air.…

'Eskom should pay the pending dues for the Oracle software that they use' Oracle has pulled the plug on support for software described as "quite essential" to "crucial operations" at South African energy firm Eskom as part of an ongoing licensing dispute.…

Modified Keemi disinfects, takes temperatures, tells you off for not socially distancing South Korea Telecom (SKT) has linked up with Yongin Severance Hospital to commercialise and deploy facility-roaming robots that minimise the need for face-to-face contact, thus supporting reduced COVID transmission.…

Procurement raises questions over supplier creating its own sales pipeline within govt The UK's Home Office is tendering to recruit a supplier to help manage the selection of its IT projects, leading to concerns over conflict of interest.…

Would move for The Greater Good™ actually be good, though? Comment UK authorities could lawfully copy the FBI and forcibly remove web shells from compromised Microsoft Exchange server deployments – but some members of the British infosec industry are remarkably quiet about whether this would be a good thing.…

Regulations On A European Approach For Artificial Intelligence One of the Brexit bonuses we’ve been enjoying since January 1st is that we have abandoned our influence within the world’s regulatory superpower.…

Two-week vote dismissed options to back or sack controversial FOSS figure The Debian developer community has decided to say nothing about the new controversy surrounding Richard Stallman relection to the board at the Free Software Foundation.…

Two windows, one tetchy techie – what could possibly go wrong? Who, me? Today's tale from The Register's Who, Me? files is a reminder that a momentary loss of focus is all that is required to trigger a potentially catastrophic error.…

Mathematician and massive figure in digital publishing lives on in every PDF Charles Geschke, co-founder of Adobe and co-creator of PostScript - and a reason this story is visually appealing - died Friday, April 16, at the age of 81.…

To stop protests by far-right party that wants France’s ambassador expelled Pakistan shut down several social networks within its borders on Friday but lifted the ban after around four hours.…

Three-pronged adoption drive includes cut-price courseware India has launched a national IPv6 drive.…

We gotta do this again? Really? Oh, alright then. But this eight release candidates thing is not great Linux kernel development boss Linus Torvalds has reluctantly issued an eighth release candidate for version 5.12 of the FOSS OS.…

Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more In brief Bystanders in New York City were stunned this week when cops left a public housing complex with a handcuffed man and a robot law enforcement dog trotting after them.…

Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult Analysis With Google testing its FLoC ad technology in preparation for the planned elimination of third-party cookies next year, uncertainty about potential problems and growing legal support for privacy is shaking up the digital ad industry.…

And the 13th guy NASA today announced the next US lunar mission will use SpaceX's HLS Starship to put American astronauts on the Moon's surface.…

Unless by aliens you mean Russians Photos and videos taken by US Navy officers of strange-shaped aircraft streaming across our skies a couple of years ago have been officially labelled as unidentified flying objects by Uncle Sam.…

Big Blue, insisting it doesn't condone retaliation or discrimination, may appeal On Thursday, a federal jury in Seattle, Washington, found that former IBM sales manager Scott Kingston had been unlawfully fired by the company and denied sales commission after challenging the treatment of subordinates as racially biased. And it awarded him $11.1m.…

Prepare yourself for an onslaught of 'you're holding the container wrong' Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon has been released, although it's not quite the seamless conversion some may expect.…

Old people were let go while the CEO was talking about hiring a bunch of young people, says complaint Former HP workers who allege they were dismissed in order to clear a path for younger employees have been granted certification [PDF] for their proposed collective action by a California district court.…

Company insists it's a legit operator that's here to help Positive Technologies has hit back at the US government's "groundless accusations" that it helped the Russian state carry out cyber attacks against the West – by highlighting how "government agencies of different countries" use its products.…

It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727 Boffins are set to get a ride on the Zero Gravity Corporation's "weightless research lab" to test a refrigerator designed for jaunts to orbit, the Moon or even Mars.…

It's time to move on from 2016 From the department of "I'm not dead yet" comes news of a Slackware 15 beta release, nearly five years after the distribution last saw a major update.…

25% were rejected, and it's less than 2013's figure... but be wary of what Redmond does with your information Microsoft has had a busy six months if its latest biannual digital trust report is anything to go by as law enforcement agencies crept closer to making 25,000 legal requests.…

Announcement light on safety details and the world still doesn't look ready Each year nearly 250,000 people flock to the sprawling Messe Berlin for IFA, one of the world's biggest tech consumer trade shows, to peruse the stands and discuss all things laptops, phones, and... fridges.…

If only it had a built-in loo and pillow, then we could work 24/7 A luxury desk designed based on what Brits "want to see" in their home office setup is not sure what it wants to be.…

Kids have missed almost an entire year of education due to coronavirus so parents have sought help online Five people were arrested in Hong Kong this week for selling electronic question banks for primary schools online. Hong Kong Customs detected the operation and seized over 59,000 suspect teaching materials.…

Filing reveals: Google staff called meeting over data privacy issues the 'Oh Shit' meeting Australian federal court sent a message to Big Tech about its willingness to act on privacy violations when it ruled today that Google had "partially" misled consumers about collecting mobile phone personal location data.…

Picking up the slack on AWS, Azure, and GCP Vendors should only be allowed to go "cloud-native" once, no matter how many times they try to pull off the publicity trick. We can decide later how we'll police this house rule – electrical clamps to the nodes, anyone? – but for now let's look a recent suspect: Informatica.…

PanOptis was obliged to provide 4G LTE licences – but no one mentioned it A federal judge in Texas has allowed Apple a limited retrial [PDF] in its battle with PanOptis, which stung the iPhone maker for $506m in damages over claims it infringed the company's 4G LTE patents.…

Watch as I channel my digital Yosser Hughes, violence included Something for the Weekend, Sir? Gizza job*. I can do that. Go on, giz it.…

Sueball sees social network squaring off against app upstart in UK branch of worldwide fight A legal battle between a company which says Facebook Live infringes one of its patents and the anti-social networking biz is currently playing out in the High Court of England and Wales as part of a long-running multinational legal battle.…