6th November 2004 Archive • The Register

New York Stock Exchange floor view

It's a Pivotal moment: Dell's cloudy soft limb hits the stock market

A large hand flicks an icon of a little red man. Image via shutterstock (Lasse Kristensen)

And so it begins: Veritas lays off UK workers, R&D bods hit hardest

man dressed as zombie doing accounts/audit

BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried

Boy fixing computer with hammer

Google kills off domain fronting – and so secure comms just got tougher

whoah

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Bill Gates

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

Oracle pledges annual Solaris updates for you to install each summer

Ellison with watch photo by drserg via Shutterstock

Oracle demands dev tear down iOS app that has 'JavaScript' in its name

panic

Cloud-surfing orgs under attack, Microsoft antivirus for Chrome, Windows 10 S bypass, non-RSA gigs, and more

Doctor Nick Riviera

Oh, baby! Newborn-care website leaves database of medics wide open

RSA history wall, photo: RSA

No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure

hands through the jail bars. Photo by shutterstock

British Crackas With Attitude chief gets two years in the cooler for CIA spymaster hack

image of Apple and hard drive

Apple unleashes FoundationDB as an open source project

A conference session at CLL17

Kubernetes? Just automate it….

Woman sits in bed and works on laptop in her home.

Build a serverless framework at home: Go on, bit of open sourcey hijinx won't hurt

PWX_image

Docker enterprise kit gets cozy with Kubernetes

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, speaking at the 2015 F8 conference

Facebook privacy audit by auditors finds everything is awesome!

Kaspersky

Kaspersky Lab loses the privilege of giving Twitter ad money

NHS hosptial photo, by Marbury via Shutterstock

Creaky NHS digital infrastructure risks holding back gene boffinry, say MPs

A bouncer. Pic: Shutterstock

Government demands for people's personal info from Microsoft reach all-time low

Person holding vape box

Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit

man yells in shock

Two's company, Three's unbowed: You Brits will pay more for MMS snaps

LESTER gets ready to trundle: The Register's beer-bot has a name

Motorola Z2 Force teaser

Motorola Z² Force: This one's for the butterfingered Android lovers

Geek's Guide

old_soaker_mars

Here's another headline where NASA is dragged through the mud for cheap Mars wise cracks

fruit_flies_shutterstock

Bloke fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, turn to booze when starved of sexy times

Musk: I want to retrieve rockets with big Falcon party balloons

SpaceX finally Falcon flings NASA's TESS into orbit

How much do AI gurus really get paid? And is NIPS such a great name for a conference?

key throw

Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient

Cell tower, view from below. Image by Shutterstock.com

Samsung-backed gizmo may soon juice up your smartphone over the air

Doctors in a busy hospital

Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error

Verity Stob

A group of Playmobil pirates

Drama brews on high seas as Playmobil ship running out of steam

Suitcase full of money

Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

Statler and Waldorf - copyright - The Walt Disney company - the muppets studio

There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

measuring tape

Size does matter, chaps: Oversized todgers an evolutionary handicap

6th > November > 2004 Archive

Alleged DDoS kingpin joins most wanted list

The fugitive Massachusetts businessman charged in the first criminal case to arise from an alleged DDoS-for-hire scheme has appeared on an FBI most wanted list, while the five men accused of carrying out his will are headed for federal court.

Kevin Poulsen, 06 Nov 2004

Vodafone Ireland admits multi-million overcharge

Vodafone Ireland has overcharged over half a million WAP customers as a result of a billing inaccuracy.

ElectricNews.net, 06 Nov 2004

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