Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders
Some engineers are just better than others... at being noticed
BOFH
BOFH: When was the last time someone said these exact words to you: You are the sunshine of my life?
Episode 2It's survey time in BOFH-land... and the dastardly duo are getting creative
Policy
Clunk, whirr, buzz, whine. Shared office space can be a riot and sounds like one too
Something for the Weekend, Sir?And what about my buttocks, eh?
Personal Tech
Beware the Friday afternoon 'Could you just..?' from the muppet who wants to come between you and your beer
On CallPolishing balls for mates is no way to make a living
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Artificial Intelligence
Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics
Also, the most detailed brain map yet took 12 years, $40m to build
26 Jan 18:02 | 5
Roundup
Security
Teenagers today. Can't take them anywhere, eh? 18-year-old kid accused of $50m SIM-swap cryptocurrency heist
Also, Cisco, Citrix emit patches, US army advises using Signal
25 Jan 11:34 | 13
Networks
Protestors in Los Angeles force ICANN board out of hiding over .org sale – for a brief moment, at least
DNS overseer accepts 35,000-signature petition... and then runs away
25 Jan 00:00 | 34
Virtualization
Why so glum, VMware? It's Friday. Oh, is it this $235m patent infringement invoice from Densify? Too bad, so sad
Virtualization giant hit with massive tech blueprint verdict
24 Jan 23:36 | 8
Networks
Curse of Boeing continues: Now a telly satellite it built may explode, will be pushed up to 500km from geo orbit
DirecTV's Spaceway-1 to head off into the void before its batteries detonate
24 Jan 23:16 | 53
Personal Tech
Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google
UpdatedUnpopular opinion: Adverts are a bit more distinct with this new style, but OK, internet, you win
24 Jan 20:54 | 28
Software
Microsoft puts away the Catnip: Windows Insiders community app axed due to 'technical limitations'
Pretty much the most exciting thing to come out of Fast Ring Build 19551
24 Jan 20:01 | 8
DevOps
Atlassian anticipates $1.6bn total revenue for fiscal 2020 as subscriptions make it rain
Can you hear the cloudy cash registers ringing?
24 Jan 19:00 | 3
Software
Microsoft previews Visual Studio update with added Linux love, many new features
Develop on Windows, deploy to Linux: an increasingly common pattern
24 Jan 18:00 | 27
Security
2015-member database floats off through breach in Royal Yachting Association's hull
Change your passwords, ye scurvy-free non-landlubbers
24 Jan 17:12 | 11
Internet of Things
Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all
Punters can still run old and new gear on same network, for now
24 Jan 16:18 | 46
Emergent Tech
This episode of Black Mirror sucks: London cops boast that facial-recog creepycams will be on the streets this year
In depthHere's what Met top brass told the press this morning
24 Jan 14:56 | 69
Software
Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft 'upcycles' Windows 7... as open source
'Its life doesn't have to end!'
24 Jan 13:59 | 119
Personal Tech
Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard
From Screw you, Brits... to Up yours, Delors...
24 Jan 13:25 | 120
Bootnotes
It's a jungle out there when it comes to conservation tech – but there's a cloud for that
Courtesy of Species360 (not a move by Microsoft into the zoology space)
24 Jan 12:37 | 2
Business
It's good to talk: Union says IBM failed to consult system support techies as Scottish Power contract nears end
TUPE or not TUPE? That is the question. Unison calls on lawyers ahead of 30 June D-Day
24 Jan 11:57 | 32
BOFH
BOFH: When was the last time someone said these exact words to you: You are the sunshine of my life?
Episode 2It's survey time in BOFH-land... and the dastardly duo are getting creative
24 Jan 11:12 | 77
Policy
Clunk, whirr, buzz, whine. Shared office space can be a riot and sounds like one too
Something for the Weekend, Sir?And what about my buttocks, eh?
24 Jan 10:30 | 114
Cloud
Don't drown in that Office 365 migration you've been putting off: There's help at hand – in the form of automation magic
SponsoredShifting an installation is complex yet not impossible, says Quadrotech
24 Jan 10:00 |
Cloud
When world+dog has a data platform too, Cloudera has to stand out before next new shiny distracts investors
Hadoop slinger's big bet joins list of rivals doing the same thing
24 Jan 09:15 |
Personal Tech
Beware the Friday afternoon 'Could you just..?' from the muppet who wants to come between you and your beer
On CallPolishing balls for mates is no way to make a living
24 Jan 08:15 | 186
Software
Rockstar dev debate reopens: Hero programmers do exist, do all the work, do chat a lot – and do need love and attention from project leaders
Some engineers are just better than others... at being noticed
24 Jan 06:58 | 74
Artificial Intelligence
Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+
'These models should not go into clinical practice at all,' academic tells El Reg
24 Jan 06:03 | 17
Security
Russian super-crook behind $20m internet fraud den Cardplanet and malware-exchange forum pleads guilty
Now 29-year-old faces years in the clink after long battle to bring him to justice
24 Jan 04:40 | 8
Networks
Protesters backing Huawei's CFO Meng Wanzhou during her US extradition hearings were 'duped paid actors'
What do we want?! $100. When do we want it? As soon as we finish this shift
24 Jan 02:26 | 31
Software
No big deal, Rogers, your internal source code and keys are only on the open web. Don't hurry to take it down
Updated'Closed source' blueprints available for all to gawp at – and potentially exploit
24 Jan 01:12 | 14
Data Centre
10nm woes, CPU supply shortages, competition from AMD... What? Sorry? Intel can't hear you over the cash register going bonkers
Just don't mention the FPGAs
24 Jan 00:21 | 18
Networks
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush
This is Windstream, going dark...
23 Jan 20:21 | 13
Bootnotes
Beer necessities: US chap registers bevvy as emotional support animal so he can booze on public transport
Both the hero we need and the hero we deserve
23 Jan 18:45 | 88
Business
Xerox names the 11 directors it hopes will oust most of HP's board and put $33bn hostile takeover to shareholders
UpdatedThe dirty dozen... well, almost
23 Jan 18:00 | 19
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Internet of Things
Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons
UpdatedPlanned obsolescence strikes again
Artificial Intelligence
How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job
Special reportPet adoption ML coder apologizes and says desire to be ranked #1 'compromised my judgement'
Security
LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them
UpdatedLogin management service sulks in days-long TITSUP* for some
Software
Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans
Suitable attire, seeing that it's dead
Software
Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11
Old? Windows-only? Community struggles with '40-year-old male' problem
Networks
South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos
Nastygram to DNS overseer follows long, flawed and drawn-out process
Cloud
Hapless AWS engineer spilled passwords, keys, confidential internal training info, customer messages on public GitHub
UpdatedOnly up for five hours, but that's plenty of time for the wrong person to spot it
Software
Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft 'upcycles' Windows 7... as open source
'Its life doesn't have to end!'
Security
Hospital hacker spared prison after plod find almost 9,000 cardiac images at his home
NHS working with cops and ICO to determine if patients must be told
Software
No big deal, Rogers, your internal source code and keys are only on the open web. Don't hurry to take it down
Updated'Closed source' blueprints available for all to gawp at – and potentially exploit
Policy
One-time Brexit Secretary David Davis demands Mike Lynch's extradition to US be halted
MP claims HPE vs Autonomy High Court trial has cost £40m to date
23 Jan 16:44 | 71
Cloud
Hapless AWS engineer spilled passwords, keys, confidential internal training info, customer messages on public GitHub
UpdatedOnly up for five hours, but that's plenty of time for the wrong person to spot it
23 Jan 16:33 | 34
Security
We need to make it even easier for UK terror cops to rummage about in folks' phones, says govt lawyer
Don't want to incriminate yourself? Tough luck, you terrorist
23 Jan 15:31 | 57
Personal Tech
Don't mention the seam! Microsoft releases Surface Duo Android SDK, more on Windows 10X
New SDK shows both potential and challenge of the new Surface devices
23 Jan 14:46 | 34
DON'T MISS
Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11
Old? Windows-only? Community struggles with '40-year-old male' problem
DevOps
Jenkins creator steps back from CloudBees and flings himself at startup Launchable
Bye-bye Kohsuke Kawaguchi
23 Jan 14:00 |
Security
Ooh, watch out Google. You've got competition. Verizon has a new 'privacy-focused' search engine
Yep, the Verizon that sold subscribers' location data
23 Jan 13:30 | 28
Science
SLS goes vertical at Stennis while NASA practises SRB stacking
Shades of Saturn V as Artemis I inches closer to launch
23 Jan 12:49 | 35
Software
Keg-xistential issues: Fullers pours away £10m Infor ERP system after selling brewing business
Weren't you going to use it for 'continuous improvement'?
23 Jan 12:06 | 12
Artificial Intelligence
If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline
Open-source distributed system teaches bots to find their way without a map, just cam, GPS, compass
23 Jan 11:16 | 16
Bootnotes
Good folk of Forfar: Alan Hattel would like you all to know he's not dead despite what it says on his tombstone
So give him a call FFS
23 Jan 10:45 | 49
Software
In the red corner, Big Red, and in the blue corner... the rest of the tech industry
ColumnInnovation freedom may not be so free if US Supreme Court rules Google ripped off Oracle's Java APIs
23 Jan 10:00 | 85
