Facebook Oversight Board upholds decision to ban Trump, asks FB to look at own 'potential contribution' to 'narrative of electoral fraud'
(2021/05/05)
Looks like you can safely ignore that friend request... forever
East London council blurts thousands of residents' email addresses in To field blunder
(2021/05/05)
'Was a Mailchimp sub too hard?!' asks Reg reader
As pandemic buying continues, Chromebook shipments soared 275% in Q1, says analyst
(2021/05/05)
Crossing the chasm into mainstream computing
Twilio's private GitHub repositories cloned by Codecov attacker, cloud comms platform confirms
(2021/05/05)
Used the GitHub Codecov Action? Credentials may have been pilfered
Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest
(2021/05/05)
The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"
How to hide a backdoor in AI software – such as a bank app depositing checks or a security cam checking faces
(2021/05/05)
Neural networks can be aimed to misbehave when squeezed
The Wight stuff: Marconi and the island, when working remotely on wireless comms meant something very different
(2021/05/05)
Planning a post-lockdown trip to the isle off England's south coast? Don't miss the interesting bits
Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500
(2021/05/05)
Which is a lot of money for this crap
UK's Department for Work and Pensions continues to move off Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse in pursuit of a single version of the truth
(2021/05/05)
Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red's system refuses to die
What not to expect when you're expecting: Fertility apps may be selling intimate health secrets
(2021/05/05)
Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices
Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways
(2021/05/05)
Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic
Dell, Foxconn sign up for Indian servers-and-PCs manufacturing subsidies
(2021/05/05)
India wanted five global players. And it got only five applications from qualifying companies
Wipro rolls out 'COVID-19 vaccination camps' in India to keep staff alive during virus super-surge
(2021/05/05)
We speak to IT outsourcing giants as human malware grips nation
India approves 5G trials – if they don't use Chinese 5G kit
(2021/05/05)
Government department wants carriers to facilitate testing of homegrown tech for India-specific use cases
Norwegian telco Telenor writes off its Myanmar operation
(2021/05/05)
Military coup creates such a nasty environment it’s hung up on $780 million of assets
Belgian parliament halts China Uyghur 'genocide' debate after DDoS smashes ISP offline
(2021/05/05)
Plus: Register.com, Network Solutions DNS down and Cloudflare has a wobble
Chipmaker TSMC to build 'up to five' more factories in Arizona
(2021/05/05)
Copper State turns silicon?
American schools' phone apps send children's info to ad networks, analytics firms
(2021/05/04)
Get used to it, kid
'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely
(2021/05/04)
Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code
Red Hat open-sources StackRox Kubernetes security product
(2021/05/04)
More goodies for OpenShift, plus Konveyor to Kubernetes in association with IBM
The decision doesn't have to be logical; it was unanimous.