14th February 2010 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

Angry man on laptop. Illustration via Shutterstock

Single single-sign-on SNAFU threatens three Cisco products

Secure smartphone

Brains behind iOS' secure microkernel start moving it to RISC-V

Paisley skull

Chinese web giant finds Windows zero-day, stays shtum on specifics

panic

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

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

Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!

Bell switchboard

Ericsson's losses narrow, but its pulse is still weak

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

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

14th > February > 2010 Archive

Aussie net censorship turning Chinese

Recent DDoS chaos on the Australian internet may have been great fun for all involved – but behind the good-humoured anarchy lies a growing concern that the government really does have a dark and Big Brotherly vision for the future of politics in the country.

Jane Fae , 14 Feb 2010

A decade of techno-sex: Look how far we've come

(Some of the links in this story may be NSFW.)

Jane Fae , 14 Feb 2010

Computer Engineer Barbie coming soon to a toy store near you

The people have spoken: Barbie will become a computer engineer. And a news reporter.

Dan Olds, 14 Feb 2010

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