Feed the-register The Register

The Register

Link https://www.theregister.com/
Feed http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
Copyright Copyright © 2025, Situation Publishing
Updated 2025-07-10 04:30
A 5G day may come when the courage of cable and DSL fails ... but it is not this day
Tech issues and rivalries can slow this down Analysis 5G has the potential to make cable and DSL as antiquated and pointless as using a horse and a cart to drive to the supermarket. And it's already here.…
Busy week for ISS as Russia resumes flights and vies for parking spaces with NASA
Don't worry, it was just cargo, not 'nauts Roundup Russia, China and India all flung rockets into space this week and SpaceX managed to get a secondhand Falcon 9 off the historic pad 39A at Cape Canaveral.…
UK's national Airwave terminal procurement framework awarded to Motorola and Sepura
Emergency services need Tetra devices for at least three more years thanks to 4G delays Motorola Solutions and Sepura are to build a centrally managed procurement framework for the UK's radio network, Airwave.…
Windows 10 goes into the Light and Cortana MIA as Microsoft buys chatbot bods XOXCO
Plus: Battery-powered Azure Sphere, Razor support in Visual Studio Core Roundup This week Microsoft saw the light in Windows 10 and returned to the realm of chatbots, among plenty of other things notwithstanding the flashing of a surprise ad in an Insider build.…
Pure Storage: You thought we were just good for hot flash? Feel our cooling hybrid cloud
Disk to disk to tape? Nah, it should be flash to flash to cloud +Comment Pure Storage is going to make hybrid public-private cloud data services available to customers, allowing them to, among other things, restore snapshots to either on-prem kit or AWS silos.…
TalkTalk hackhack duoduo thrownthrown in the coolercooler: 'Talented' pair sentenced for ransacking ISP
Matthew Hanley, Connor Allsopp get 12 and 8 months in the clink, respectively Two miscreants were sent down by the Old Bailey yesterday for their role in the 2015 hacking of UK ISP TalkTalk.…
From directory traversal to direct travesty: Crash, hijack, siphon off this TP-Link VPN box via classic exploitable bugs
TL-R600VPN owners, grab and install firmware fixes now Bug-hunters have this week disclosed details of four security vulnerabilities in a family of TP-Link 1GbE VPN routers.…
As losses narrow, nbn™ says business will drive growth in ARPU (that'll be how much it extracts from each punter)
Oz broadband network-builder quarterly revenue bests half-billion mark The outfit building Australia's National Broadband Network has outlined how it plans to achieve the per-user revenue mix that underpins its eventual profitability.…
Linux kernel Spectre V2 defense fingered for massively slowing down unlucky apps on Intel Hyper-Thread CPUs
This is on by default? 'Yikes' says Chipzilla techie Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has voiced support for a kernel patch that limits a previously deployed defense against Spectre Variant 2, a data-leaking vulnerability in modern processors.…
Microsoft confirms: We fixed Azure by turning it off and on again. PS: Office 362 is still borked
Redmond battles TITSUP multi-factor auth logins (yes, that's Total Inability To Support Users' Passcodes) Microsoft is recovering somewhat from a bad case of the Mondays that left some of its subscribers unable to use multi-factor authentication to log into their cloud services.…
Behold, the world's most popular programming language – and it is...wait, er, YAML?!?
We don't think so either, but config file format is getting harder to avoid The world's most popular programming language, according to devops biz Datree.io at least, it not Java, JavaScript, nor Python. Rather, it's YAML, a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language."…
Symantec execs cooked the books to protect their fat bonuses, investor lawsuit alleges
Security biz hit with class-action fraud sueball after probe smashes stock price A Symantec shareholder is suing the infosec biz, alleging its top brass fraudulently massaged the company's financial figures.…
Using a free VPN? Why not skip the middleman and just send your data to President Xi?
Majority of sketchy apps can be traced to China, study finds Many popular free VPN apps are sketchy Chinese operations with dubious privacy policies, according to research.…
Health secretary Matt Hancock assembles brains trust: OK, guys. Let's cure NHS IT
Expert panel hopes to make dreams of improvement reality Health secretary Matt Hancock's tech brains trust met for the first time today as the UK government revealed the people it hopes will come up with workable ideas to fix the NHS's creaking IT systems.…
China examines antitrust probe thrust into Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron: Claims to see 'massive evidence'
We'll thrust it even deeper into chipmakers, vow investigators China has claimed to have gathered "massive evidence" in its ongoing investigation into Korean chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix and the US's Micron for alleged violations of its antitrust laws.…
Britain may not be able to fend off a determined cyber-attack, MPs warn
And those utility price controls? Er, not helpful Britain's critical national infrastructure is vulnerable to hackers and neither UK.gov nor privatised operators are doing enough to tighten things up, a Parliamentary committee has warned.…
Hortonworks faces sueball over Cloudera merger
Disgruntled investor says shareholders are being 'misled' on finances Hortonworks is facing a sueball over its uneven merger with competitor Cloudera, as a proposed class action takes aim at the company's claims to shareholders.…
Wombats literally sh!t bricks – and now boffins reckon they know how
All you need to do this at home is a party balloon and roadkill The year is 2018 and planet Earth is on the edge. Tensions between the great powers are at boiling point, fires ravage the western United States, and the European Union is in disarray. But yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia, the world's finest minds gathered to answer the question on everyone's lips.…
Vision Direct 'fesses up to hack that exposed customer names, payment cards
Data including CVV numbers slurped up as customers submitted it to website Vision Direct has admitted customers' personal and financial data was leaked earlier this month after hackers compromised the company's website.…
Influential Valley gadfly and Intel 8051 architect John Wharton has died
He was there when Bill Gates tried to carve up tech Obit We're sorry to bring news that John Wharton, a popular and influential figure in Silicon Valley, died last week.…
Scumbags cram Make-A-Wish website with coin-mining malware
Do they accept Monero in Hell? One or more completely feckless scumbags have loaded the Make-A-Wish foundation's international website with crypto-mining malware scripts.…
Finally a platform for train puns: IBM Halt station derailed
Halt – who goes there? No one, from now on As if its financial woes weren't bad enough, IBM is suffering the further indignity of having a Scottish rail operator halting services to a station named after everyone's favourite mainframe maker.…
Congrats to Debbie Crosbie: New CEO at IT meltdown bank TSB has unenviable task ahead
I've heard so much about the team, she burbles. Yes, us too TSB has named Debbie Crosbie as the chief exec to clear up its tech mess and persuade customers they can still trust the meltdown bank.…
Azure goes super-secure: Multi-factor authentication is borked in Europe and Asia
Microsoft's cloudy service finds Mondays just as hard as the rest of us Update Happy Monday, everyone! Azure Multi-Factor Authentication is struggling, meaning that some users with the functionality enabled are now super secure. And, er, locked out.…
Prepare for the battle against cybercrime at SANS London 2019
Discover the latest attacks, learn the best defence tactics Promo No matter how sophisticated your security precautions are, you can never assume your computer systems are impenetrable. Only the most alert and highly skilled defenders can fight off determined cybercriminals who know how to circumvent today’s advanced security and monitoring tools.…
Washington Post offers invalid cookie consent under EU rules – ICO
UK watchdog waves fist in paper’s general direction, asks it to stop forcing people to accept tracking The Washington Post newspaper's online subscription options don't comply with European Union data protection rules – but the UK's privacy watchdog can only issue it with a firm telling off.…
OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets
Like Ubuntu, hate upgrading? Canonical founder has good news. And a mighty, mighty beard Interview Mark Shuttleworth delivered an unashamed plug for Ubuntu while cheerfully throwing a little shade on the competition at the OpenStack Berlin 2018 summit last week.…
Microsoft sysadmin hired for fake NetWare skills keeps job despite twitchy trigger finger
Embellished CV almost spells disaster Who, Me? Roll up, roll up, for another instalment of Who, Me?, the weekly column in which El Reg tries to cure the very worst cases of Monday blues with fist-biting tales from readers of tech jobs gone wrong.…
A little phishing knowledge may be a dangerous thing
Boffins find those who know about phishing more likely to be duped than the less informed Phishing works more frequently on those who understand what social engineering is than on those who live in blissful ignorance, or so a study of students at University of Maryland, Baltimore County suggests.…
RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers
Silicon Valley legend dies in firestorm that has killed scores while more than 1,000 are missing Obituary Bill Godbout, a maverick techie who played a pivotal role in getting computers into the hands of the masses, was killed this week in California's wildfires. He was aged 79.…
SMS 2FA database leak drama, MageCart mishaps, Black Friday badware, and more
Plus, why is Kaspersky Lab getting into chess? Roundup What a week it has been: we had the creation of a new government agency, a meltdown flashback, and of course, Patch Tuesday.…
Holy moley! The amp, kelvin and kilogram will never be the same again
Measurement nerds enter the 21st century As incredible as it may seem, until this week the definitive measurement of a kilogram was a cylinder made of an alloy comprising 90 per cent platinum and 10 per cent iridium sat under a glass dome in a room in Paris.…
Microsoft slips ads into Windows 10 Mail client – then U-turns so hard, it warps fabric of reality
We never meant to make that widely public which is why we made a public FAQ for it Microsoft was, and maybe still is, considering injecting targeted adverts into the Windows 10 Mail app.…
We asked the US military for its 'do not buy' list of Russian, Chinese gear. Surprise: It doesn't exist
El Reg drills into banned technology with Freedom-of-Info request The US Department of Defense's "do not buy" list of foreign software and equipment turns out to be about as long as the list of bug-free Windows releases or privacy-focused Facebook apps.…
Amazon tries to ruin infosec world's fastest-growing cottage industry (finding data-spaffing S3 storage buckets)
AWS comes up with blanket policies to smother public-facing cloud silos Amazon Web Services is taking steps to halt the epidemic of data leaks caused by the S3 cloud buckets it hosts from being accidentally left wide open to the internet by customers.…
Pick three people you think will replace Google Cloud CEO Greene, then forget them – because it's Thomas Kurian
Ex-Oracle man gets top job as another experienced woman exec quits web ads titan Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene has quit the online ads giant, and will be replaced by ex-Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.…
Microsoft menaced with GDPR mega-fines in Europe for 'large scale and covert' gathering of people's info via Office
Telemetry data slurp broke the law, Dutch govt eggheads say Microsoft broke Euro privacy rules by carrying out the "large scale and covert" gathering of private data through its Office apps.…
Visual Studio 2017 15.9 is here! Fire up your Windows on Arm laptops. All four of you
Final update of beloved development adding ARM64 Microsoft devs rejoice! A new version of Visual Studio 2017 has arrived replete with fixes, tweaks and ARM64 support.…
The week in networking? It's SD-WAN all the way down
Also: Huawei cloud lands in Africa, Nokia OpenStack, Cisco Nexus BIOS bugs Riverbed made two announcements covering its SteelHead SD-WAN solution this week – a bunch of enhancements, and subscription pricing options.…
The Quantum of car lists: Storage firm drives into autonomous vehicle data logging
Sells 'intelligent' chassis, removable drive magazine, StorNext base station Quantum has stepped sideways into the autonomous vehicle testing market with a data logging system integrated with its StorNext multi-tiered workflow file management product.…
Microsoft Surface kicks dust in face of Apple iPad Pro in Q3
Hold on Redmond, don't light those fireworks yet, the dominance will be shortlived Microsoft's Surface line leapfrogged Apple's iPad Pro as the detachable tablet of choice for tech distributors in Western Europe but that top spot definitely won't be sustained, or so IDC says.…
Oracle snaffles up a chunk of SD-WAN market with Talari Networks buyout
As shareholders sign off on Big Red's big pay packet for first time in seven years Oracle is to slurp up software-defined WAN provider Talari Networks for an undisclosed sum.…
Alphabet gives bipedal robots the Schaft 'cos no one wants to buy its creepy machine maker
Even Softbank balked at these tethered terrors Google's parent company Alphabet has closed down its biped robot maker Schaft after failing to find a buyer.…
Court doc typo 'reveals' Julian Assange may have been charged in US
Routine file about accused crim suddenly mentions WikiLeaker's name An apparent cut-and-paste error has revealed that American prosecutors may have already filed criminal charges against cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange.…
BlackBerry absorbs Operation Cleaver beaver Cylance into threat detection unit
$1.4bn match made in heaven BlackBerry has made its biggest acquisition ever, spending over half of its cash pile to bolster its threat detection unit.…
'Unjustifiably excessive': Not even London cops can follow law with their rubbish gang database
Gangs Matrix led to 'multiple and serious' breaches of data protection rules, says watchdog London cops have broken data protection rules by using a controversial database that ranks people's likelihood of gang-related violence but fails to distinguish between victims and perps, and low and high-risk people.…
Dell melts in face of investor dissent, ups offer for Class V stock
Guess what happens? Stockholders thaw to idea of cashing in Dell Technologies has upped the buy price for Class V stock to win support from shareholders that threatened to block the proposed transaction and hinder the company’s return to the US stock market.…
Bloke fined £460 after his drone screwed up police chopper search for missing woman
First UK conviction for reckless UAV flying A Russian-speaking man from Cambridgeshire has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of illegally flying a drone beneath a police helicopter during a search operation.…
EE, Virgin Media hit with £13.3m fine: Squeezing users for fees for early contract termination not OK
EE: We're sorry, Ofcom. Virgin: Why, that's... unjustified and disproportionate! The UK's comms watchdog claims to have slapped a £13.3m penalty on EE and Virgin Media for fleecing customers who wanted to exit their broadband or mobile phone contracts before they were due to expire.…
OnePlus 6T: Tasteful, powerful – and much cheaper than a flagship
Not the best at anything, but a solid, great value performer Review What if Huawei used OnePlus's Oxygen UI, I found myself musing recently. Wouldn't it be the perfect package? Huawei's amazing RF performance, and bleeding-edge tech, with a UI that didn't actually suck?…
...743744745746747748749750751752...