Data worries keeping you awake at night? Tune in next month – we've got just the thing to calm your nerves
(2020/12/15)
The cloud can make life easier. Here’s how...
Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron pegs damage from iPhone factory riot at $7m
(2020/12/15)
Down from original estimate of $60m, and Apple is investigating if supplier guidelines were breached
The first point release for Linux 5.10 came out barely a day later because storage bugs broke RAID5* partitions
(2020/12/15)
We're not taking cues from Windows now, are we?
Up yours, Europe! Our 100% prime British broadband is cheaper than yours... but also slower and a bit of a rip-off
(2020/12/15)
Stop us if you've heard this one before
Not just Microsoft: Auth turns out to be a point of failure for Google's cloud, too
(2020/12/15)
Google has a better track record but the same issue: when authentication breaks, everything breaks
45 million medical scans from hospitals all over the world left exposed online for anyone to view – some servers were laced with malware
(2020/12/15)
23,000 Britons' data was among unsecured info, finds research
We got it! Japanese space agency confirms its probe has Ryugu asteroid samples
(2020/12/15)
Andromeda Strain anyone?
A flurry of data warehouse activity surrounds Snowflake's staggering $120bn valuation
(2020/12/15)
Firebolt says it can do it better while the cloud giants talk up services tweaks
Leaked draft EU law reveals tech giants could face huge 6% turnover fines if they don't play by Europe's rules
(2020/12/15)
As UK govt mulls eye-watering 10% penalties for goliaths that don't scrub away illegal content
Huawei announces European winners of AppsUp developer contest
(2020/12/15)
Judges looked for innovative concepts, clear positioning and a feasible business plan
SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks
(2020/12/15)
Orion networking monitoring users need to take action as we summarize what the hell is going on
Right-to-repair warriors seek broader DMCA exemptions to bypass digital locks on the stuff we own
(2020/12/15)
Every three years, people try to patch a poorly crafted copyright law
China Telecom answers US internet routing hijack claims by joining internet routing security team: How do you like them apples?
(2020/12/14)
Mind your MANRS as politics meets network security
Tim Cook 'killed' TV project about the one website Apple hates more than The Register
(2020/12/14)
Only joking – we're surely still below Gawker in his estimations
Ransomware masterminds claim to have nabbed 53GB of data from Intel's Habana Labs
(2020/12/14)
Miscreants threaten to make files, source code public within 72 hours
Googlers will be working from home until September 2021, says Sundar Pichai, followed by 'flexible' work weeks
(2020/12/14)
Chocolate Factory hopes it will 'lead to greater productivity, collaboration and well-being' for staffers
Backdoored SolarWinds software, linked to US govt hacks, in wide use throughout the British public sector
(2020/12/14)
And what's the impact of months-long compromise? UK.gov won't say – as CISA orders shutdown of machines
Redis Labs challenges new cloud territory in latest independent research
(2020/12/14)
Key strengths include multi-platform and active:active operation
Not one, not two, but a trio of hinges to potentially break in OPPO's bendy concept phone
(2020/12/14)
Tired: Pholdables. Wired: Pholdables you can fold eleventeen times
What's the price of failure? For Capita, it's a £140m extension to its MoD recruiting contract
(2020/12/14)
Yes, the one that cost the British Army 25,000 new soldiers when IT went live
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the
future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation
of coding bums.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5