Wisepay 'outage' is actually the school meal payments biz trying to stop an intruder from stealing customer card details
(2020/10/07)
We pulled entire website to halt attack, says spokesman
SpaceX breaks run of scrubs with Starlink launch: Darth Musk finds your lack of faith in on-time launches... disturbing
(2020/10/07)
Also: James Webb Space Telescope shaken but not stirred, and Cygnus brings relief to the ISS
Infosec researchers pwned Comcast's voice-activated remote control so it could snoop on household chit-chat
(2020/10/07)
Own one of those Xfinity XR11 TV zappers? You better get patching
DigitalOcean decides to head rivals off at the PaaS, floats App Platform to deploy, run code without juggling servers
(2020/10/07)
If you fear you'll drown in AWS, GCP, Azure, etc, maybe this is a wave you'd like to catch
Ricoh's data centre services shopping spree continues with £30m slurp of Brit outfit MTI
(2020/10/07)
Because who would want to be a standalone print or copier biz in 2020?
Disgraced cop, 55, spared prison term after admitting he abused police systems to snoop on his girlfriend's ex
(2020/10/07)
120 hours' community service and suspended sentence for computer misuse and data protection crimes
Reno4 Pro 5G: At this price point, OPPO's latest phone for the UK market ought to feel better than a mid-ranger
(2020/10/07)
A few things conspicuous by their absence at £700
A decades-old lesson on not inserting Excel where it doesn't belong
(2020/10/07)
A Register reader's sense of déjà vu triggers a bonus column
Nvidia promises once again to let Arm keep its Switzerland-of-chips biz model – and even license some Nv GPU tech
(2020/10/07)
We'll be nice post-merger, bosses pledge at confab
It really is your last chance to see anything at Cineworld for quite some time, and this big-screen bork speaks volumes
(2020/10/07)
Honey, I Misconfigured the Firewall
Massive news, literally: Three super-boffins awarded Nobel Prize in physics for their black-hole breakthroughs
(2020/10/07)
Congratulations to Sir Roger Penrose, Andrea Gehz, Reinhard Genzel
UK, French, Belgian blanket spying systems ruled illegal by Europe’s top court
(2020/10/07)
Five-year legal battle pays off. Now countries have to figure out what to do
Time for a virtual love affair: ESXi-Arm Fling flung onto the web for peeps to test drive with Raspberry Pi 4, other kit
(2020/10/07)
Totally not-safe-for-production 64-bit Arm hypervisor port released for evaluation, sell the SmartNIC idea, etc
Microsoft: After we said we'll try to promote more Black people, the US govt accused us of discrimination
(2020/10/07)
Dept of Labor demands proof Windows giant isn't making 'illegal race-based decisions' in diversity push
Big Tech to face its Ma Bell moment? US House Dems demand break-up of 'monopolists' Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google
(2020/10/07)
'These once scrappy, underdog startups have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons'
Was he sent on a spool's errand or something? Library staffer accused of stealing, reselling $1.3m of printer toner
(2020/10/07)
Cops charge suspect with theft as audit claims this gear definitely wasn't on loan
President Trump to slap fresh restrictions on H-1B work visas, refuses to hear public comment on changes
(2020/10/06)
Tech industry may limber up for war
The WAN of opportunity: Funnily enough, home Wi-Fi sales see 'sudden spike' amid pandemic, not so much for biz
(2020/10/06)
Analyst predicts five good years as homeworking and refresh cycles meld
GitLab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect
(2020/10/06)
Bugs from Lodash and JQuery among the more commonly seen security problems
Verizon: Just 25% of global businesses comply fully with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
(2020/10/06)
Gives you confidence in an era where nobody accepts cash any more
Without going outside, you may know the whole world.
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.
Thus the sage knows without traveling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing.