Amazon fined €1.13bn by Italy's antitrust authorities for abusing its power (2021/12/10) 'Use our logistics service or don't. It'll cost you either way.'
Ransomwared payroll provider leaks data on 38,000 Australian government workers (2021/12/10) Frontier Software admitted attack three weeks ago, said data was safe … now it's on the dark web
Pentagon wants to drive digital and AI onto the battlefield (2021/12/10) Re-orgs bureaucracy to deliver 'stronger alignment and synchronization'
WTF is a 'software-defined community cloud'? (2021/12/10) Basically a slice of public cloud with better isolation and governance – just like our cloud, says Google
China: Bars app that often hosted dissenting conversations (2021/12/10) Also China: This one guy sent feedback to the government online, it was adopted, that shows we’re a democracy
Google advises Android users to be careful of Microsoft Teams if they want to call 911 (2021/12/09) Woman tells El Reg she discovered the bug during a granny emergency
China's road to homegrown chip glory looks to be going for a RISC-V future (2021/12/09) The RISC-V Summit is over - here's what you need to know
A third of you slackers out there still aren't using HTTPS by default (2021/12/09) And it's really bad news for EV cert vendors in Top 1 Million report
Gas giant 11 times the mass of Jupiter discovered in b Centauri binary system (2021/12/09) Orbit roughly 100 times wider than that of similar planets in our solar system
We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE (2021/12/09) Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense
Academics horrified that administration of Turing student exchange scheme outsourced to Capita (2021/12/09) Company ousts British Council in running Erasmus replacement
OK, boomer? Gen-X-ers, elder millennials most likely to name their cars, says DVLA (2021/12/09) Most bizarre names chosen by UK drivers included ZZ Top and The Beast
Resistance is ... cheap? Cloudflare, Mandiant, and pals form incident response 'n' cyber insurance borg (2021/12/09) Trust us with everything, croons septuple-strong partnership
Road to nowhere: UK plans for an 'AI assurance industry' but destination is unclear (2021/12/09) Govt hopes for 'mature, world-class' sector, but doubts linger over regulation
The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed (2021/12/09) Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more
Actual metal being welded in support of the UK's first orbital 'launch platform' (2021/12/09) Orbex is still testing, but aiming for the real thing in 2022
A single HPC-AI software environment is less desirable than you might think (2021/12/09) Every possible thing that can be tuned must be tuned – and tuned well
Don't panic about cyber insurers pulling up the drawbridge, says Lloyd's (2021/12/09) New clauses are menu to pick from, not commandments of stone
More than half of UK workers would consider jumping ship if a hybrid work option were withdrawn by their company (2021/12/09) How to dodge The Great Resignation