ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

The Russians are at it again: Zebrocy backdoor malware is evolving, Uncle Sam warns close to eve of presidential election

(2020/10/30)

Yep, it's the artists occasionally known as APT28

Luke Skywalker used to bullseye womp rats in his T-16 on Tatooine. But Star Wars: Squadrons misses the mark

(2020/10/30)

Sadly, the space opera franchise's first proper starfighter game in yonks just isn't that good

You might want to look Huawei now: Smartphone market returns to growth as Chinese giant's shipments plunge

(2020/10/30)

Analyst figures add insult to injury for embattled comms biz

Fancy building to-spec PCs for the Bank of England, and more? A £46m end user support contract is up for grabs

(2020/10/30)

The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street needs help managing thousands of laptops, PCs and tablets

iPhone sales shrink for 2nd year in a row as delay to next-gen mobile launch hits hard

(2020/10/30)

An unsightly stain among otherwise solid Apple results – considering the sh*t show that is 2020

Marriott fined £0.05 for each of the 339 million hotel guests whose data crooks were stealing for four years

(2020/10/30)

UK watchdog's mooted £99m penalty comes in at just £18.4m

Time for a change and a fresh tech role? Have a browse of this week's Reg job listings

(2020/10/30)

Employers seek software engineers, support, new grads, and more

Why, yes, you can register an XSS attack as a UK company name. How do we know that? Someone actually did it

(2020/10/30)

And the 'acceptable company name' charset is hardcoded... in legislation

Unionised BT Technology workers vote for industrial action as more compulsory job cuts hit UK telco's IT crowd

(2020/10/30)

Systems, networks staffers face round 2 as round 1 crew packs their cables

X.Org is now pretty much an ex-org: Maintainer declares the open-source windowing system largely abandoned

(2020/10/30)

'X works extremely well for what it is, but what it is is deeply flawed'

Remember, remember, the 14th of November (if you're an astronaut): NASA names the date for Crew-1 mission to ISS

(2020/10/30)

Also: ESA looks to the Moon, RocketLab launches another 10 sats, and SpaceX probably thinks that's cute

On Friday the US starts Ender's hacking game: All local teens can compete for scholarships in cybersecurity

(2020/10/30)

CyberStart America challenge aims to find talented network defenders

Return of the flying car, just when we all need to escape

(2020/10/30)

From pasta to teleporting robots: something to chew on

Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

(2020/10/30)

IT idiocy by government is as old as IT itself

Cloud revenue equation: One AWS equals Azure + Google + Alibaba

(2020/10/30)

Pandemic makes for huge growth, but one customer remains elusive: Facebook plans $23bn new infrastructure spend

How to plan a password security project

(2020/10/30)

First, you need to prove to the budget holder that you’ve got a problem

Japan testing sandwiches that discount themselves as they age

(2020/10/30)

Snacks will ID themselves using RFID and an app will tell punters when there's cheap chow to be chomped

Microsoft makes cloudy Linux licensing less labyrinthine

(2020/10/30)

Tickles the Azure Hybrid Benefit so that RHEL and SUSE users get the same deal as Windows buyers

Alphabet thanks ads and AI for its $124m-a-day quarterly profit, and comes out swinging against antitrust action

(2020/10/30)

'We are proud people choose Google Search not because they have to, but because it's convenient,' states CEO

China sets itself 2035 goal for technology self-sufficiency and covets title as the world’s top innovator

(2020/10/30)

State of local software industry also revealed: 7 million workers, $36bn of exports

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