Why did Johnny and Jenny's exam grades yo-yo over the summer? Here's some of the code behind UK results chaos
(2020/12/14)
Ofqual publishes for the sake of 'transparency' but it's clear as mud
Double trouble for Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit as aborted test flight and COVID-19 keep both grounded
(2020/12/14)
Also: ESA signs contracts for the Space Rider and Boeing's Calamity Capsule aims for March 2021
Microsoft adds Breakout functionality to Teams that Zoom has had for ages – and people still don't like it
(2020/12/14)
Also: PowerShell Crescendo, Visual Studio Code C++ on Pi, and a milestone for SharePoint
Capita finally finds buyer for education software biz, private equity Montagu to pay £400m
(2020/12/14)
Price believed to be £100m lower than initial estimates
World+dog share in collective panic attack as Google slides off the face of the internet
(2020/12/14)
Gmail and co go TITSUP*
Top tip from the original Task Manager taskmaster: Don't put your phone number on that debug message box
(2020/12/14)
The Reg takes sneak peek at source tour, hosted by engineer who wrote it
Raven geniuses: Four-month-old corvids have similar cognitive abilities to great apes at same age, study finds
(2020/12/14)
Animal cognition may be better fit for AI devs than human, adds prof
Asus ROG Phone 3: An ugly but refreshing choice – for gaming fans only
(2020/12/14)
Cool off: It ain't Candy Crush on an iPhone, pal
Ad blocking made Google throw its toys out of the pram – and now even more control is being taken from us
(2020/12/14)
We need regulations on web advertising
Cruise, Kidman and an unfortunate misunderstanding at the local chemist
(2020/12/14)
I'm ready for my close-up, Mr Kubrick
iPhone factory workers riot over unpaid wages in India
(2020/12/14)
This is not the way to win more work from China, say some politicians as Samsung signs up to enlarge OLED plant
Breaking up big tech can make smartphones interesting again
(2020/12/14)
We’re not upgrading to gorgeous new hardware because cloud services have stagnated
New t-shirt slogan: 'My job was outsourced to an Indian company that moved it to Vietnam'
(2020/12/14)
HCL heads to Hanoi in search for 3,000 new workers, which is just two percent of headcount and one quarter's usual hiring rate, but a vote of confidence
US Treasury, Dept of Commerce hacks linked to SolarWinds IT monitoring software supply-chain attack
(2020/12/14)
Russia's Cozy Bear fingered, FireEye details injected backdoor and says it's worldwide
Linus Torvalds launches Linux kernel 5.10, warns devs not to send 5.11 code too close to Christmas
(2020/12/14)
New long-term support edition of Linux knocks off year 2038 bug, ends support for Power PC 601, and much more
Rogue ex-Cisco employee who crippled WebEx conferences and cost Cisco millions gets two years in US prison
(2020/12/12)
And the week's other security news
Huawei and top Chinese AI startup accused of building 'Uyghur alarm' facial recognition scanner for govt
(2020/12/12)
Plus: Graphcore pits its latest AI chips against Nvidia's A100, and Google CEO apologises for ousting a top AI ethics researcher
Adios California, Oracle the latest tech firm to leave California for the wide open (low tax) Lone Star State
(2020/12/12)
Big Red says it's down to 'our employees’ quality of life'
FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateur math and software codebreakers
(2020/12/12)
Mysterious message, unread for 51 years, turns out to be a bit dull
Buggy behavior bites .NET SqlClient for unlucky Linux users
(2020/12/11)
.NET devs have been struggling to deal with errors affecting non-Windows SqlClients under heavy load
Some bachelors want a meaningful overnight relationship.