Are you writing code for ambient computing? No? Don't even know? Ch-uh. Google's 'write once, run anywhere' Flutter is all over it Techies lay out modest ambition to provide development framework for everything. Where have we heard that before?
Bootnotes Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing But Danish boffins tapped cans on the side, not the top – we demand a retrial
Artificial Intelligence Are you an AI guru? Can you teach ML skills to Register readers? Great! Our MCubed call-for-papers is open for you EventWe want to hear you share your insights, experiences, and plans
Security NPM swats path traversal bug that lets evil packages modify, steal files. That's bad for JavaScript crypto-wallets Trio of vulnerabilities made registry full of uncertain code even more of a risk
Roundup Artificial Intelligence Warnings over emotional AIs, OpenAI explains how it became video-game king, plus ML climate impact probe Your quick catch-up on neural-net news 16 Dec 10:09 |
Roundup Security VMware warning, OpenBSD gimme-root hole again, telco hit with GDPR fine, Ring camera hijackings, and more Your quick summary of infosec news beyond everything else we've reported 16 Dec 09:11 | 6
Who, Me? Data Centre Wham, bam, thank you scram button: Now we have to go all MacGyver on the server room Gone fishing for power – with a coat hanger 16 Dec 08:00 | 23
Promo Cloud Missed AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas? Worry not: The mega-conference will be recapped in London next month Catch up with public sector developments and more 16 Dec 07:00 |
Bootnotes Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail Scammer and pals blew the cash on cosmetic surgery, jewelry, swanky pads, flash motors 16 Dec 06:09 | 24
Science And now for this evening's space weather report. We've got a hotspot of satellite-wrecking 'killer electrons' in the outer Van Allen belt... ...So consider rerouting your journey through that 13 Dec 22:51 | 21
Security Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen Car smash-and-grab ends with loss of payroll details for 20,000 employees 13 Dec 20:39 | 49
What’s the point: Git patches holes, JetBrains goes cloudy on TeamCity, Puppet Enterprise CD, Spring Boot EOL
Business US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war Pending tariffs on notebooks, phones, monitors shelved as super powers strike 'prelimary' deal 13 Dec 19:00 | 40
Science Rocket Lab ends year by cutting ribbon on first launchpad in the US Launch opportunities per year now over 130. Actually launched in 2019: 6 13 Dec 18:00 | 3
Emergent Tech These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots Probably a better investment than WeWork 13 Dec 17:15 | 16
Business Lynch was 'willing to lie' to High Court over Autonomy whistleblower, claims HPE Autonomy TrialPlus: Meg Whitman and Co had 'buyer's remorse' over $11bn purchase 13 Dec 16:45 | 5
Software Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play! The 'experience' will be available from mid-January, 2020 13 Dec 15:52 | 29
Cloud Creative cloudy types still making it rain cash for Adobe Maker of cloudy PDF and services software ... yes, that's Perpetually Dosh Forming 13 Dec 14:33 | 16
Emergent Tech Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC Redmond tears wrapping on new retro-look gaming console 13 Dec 13:24 | 51
Science 100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good
Science It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it Yes, it's the debris tail of asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the source of the annual Geminids meteor shower
Science We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory We've read enough sci-fi to know how this turns out
Servers Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court
Emergent Tech Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data ExclusiveNine 'commercial models' to access central database mulled at hush-hush meeting
Policy When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games Professional licensing rules collide with common parlance, again
Cloud Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws InterviewOS director on staying safe and advantages of Amazon's Nitro hypervisor
Security LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app VideoTalk about gone in a flash
Science Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station Round UpPlus: Commercial crew news and NASA publishes what ISRO won't
Software The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die I'm not crying, there's just a little bit of dust in my eye
Policy GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home Flexible workforce look to pre-election promises 13 Dec 12:20 | 87
Bootnotes Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager Like Trump’s Twitter feed, except not 13 Dec 11:35 | 26
Security Ever wonder how hackers could possibly pwn power plants? Here are 54 Siemens bugs that could explain things Arbitrary code execution in a controller, what could go wrong? 13 Dec 10:51 | 45
Bootnotes Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing But Danish boffins tapped cans on the side, not the top – we demand a retrial 13 Dec 10:00 | 110
The Channel Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at Will no one think of the SMEs? Oh, actually some have made the grade 13 Dec 09:04 |
Personal Tech Why is the printer spouting nonsense... and who on earth tried to wire this plug? On CallA tale of entry-level electrical skills 13 Dec 08:04 | 234
Artificial Intelligence Are you an AI guru? Can you teach ML skills to Register readers? Great! Our MCubed call-for-papers is open for you EventWe want to hear you share your insights, experiences, and plans 13 Dec 07:06 |
Science 100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good 13 Dec 05:56 | 42
Security NPM swats path traversal bug that lets evil packages modify, steal files. That's bad for JavaScript crypto-wallets Trio of vulnerabilities made registry full of uncertain code even more of a risk 13 Dec 02:05 | 13
Cloud Larry Ellison sets the Catz among the pigeons: Safra officially sole Oracle CEO Think of a number, triple it, add seven, multiply by zero, and that's pretty much this tech giant's Q2 revenue growth 13 Dec 00:38 | 3
Science OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu Let's grab a nice cold drink on the Red Planet. Don't forget to pack a shovel 12 Dec 23:21 | 78
Emergent Tech Are you writing code for ambient computing? No? Don't even know? Ch-uh. Google's 'write once, run anywhere' Flutter is all over it Techies lay out modest ambition to provide development framework for everything. Where have we heard that before? 12 Dec 21:49 | 30
Software Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5 Rambler claims code creator was working for them at the time and so they own tech worth $700m 12 Dec 21:14 | 47
Security Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn't blame US Here's a rundown of some of the Middle East's cyber argy-bargy 12 Dec 18:12 | 6
Policy Londoner admits illegally accessing National Lottery accounts Sentencing due in January for Sentry MBA shenanigans 12 Dec 17:17 | 8
Bootnotes Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart OpenWorld moving to Vegas, baby: SF now too expensive not to mention the filthy streets, open drug use... 12 Dec 16:43 | 42
Business HPE to Mike Lynch: You told either El Reg or High Court the right version of why former Autonomy execs won't testify Autonomy trialYou know it's solid reporting when trial lawyers start quoting it 12 Dec 16:05 | 43
Science No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again Postcards from the edge... of space? 12 Dec 15:15 | 20
Software Microsoft enables phone calls from your Windows PC (as long as it's paired with an Android) Plus: Insiders yanked from their rings 12 Dec 14:30 | 21
Security Disgrace of Base: Scammy hordes force Keybase to end cryptocoin giveaway It's Lumen awful: Space Drop halted due to excessive douchebaggery 12 Dec 13:50 | 2
Business Hey Dixons, you know what's mobile? Your rapidly shrinking sales Loss-making unit still putting hurt on 'puters 'n' phones biz 12 Dec 13:15 | 23
Policy Post Office coughs £57.75m to settle wonky Horizon IT system case Split between 550 subpostmasters accused of theft, that's not much 12 Dec 12:38 | 39
Science It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it Yes, it's the debris tail of asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the source of the annual Geminids meteor shower 12 Dec 12:04 | 42
Security It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins Uni brains pitch smart math for speeding up establishment of circuits in anonymizing onion network 12 Dec 11:16 | 14
Software ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade Billions wasted, lawsuits launched 12 Dec 10:45 | 42
Security Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details 'Sir, they're about to disclose the vulns!' 'Damn it. Accelerate the rollout!' 12 Dec 10:00 | 10
Business Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored Problem: We have to do work. Solution: Delete all the work! 12 Dec 09:15 | 31
Security LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app VideoTalk about gone in a flash 12 Dec 08:02 | 73
Science You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched UpdatedWe knew it was too good to be true 12 Dec 06:55 | 44
Emergent Tech Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data ExclusiveNine 'commercial models' to access central database mulled at hush-hush meeting 12 Dec 06:06 | 187
Security You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection Gap in browser privacy tech embarrassingly detected by Google 12 Dec 05:35 | 10
Science Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States House of Representatives OKs Trump plan because it wants federal parents to take time off 12 Dec 02:03 | 122
Personal Tech How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble Justice Department wins chance to track fitness-tracking purchase 12 Dec 00:32 | 11
Networks Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all... And in the darkness bind them – to next year's IT budgets 11 Dec 22:02 | 11