JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup Fined $4m for Who-Me-esque mess, for which it blames unnamed archiving vendor's retention settings CSO26 Jun 2023 | 51
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits They're vetted, almost acculturated, and will be booted from the US if they lose their gig Legal28 Jun 2023 | 84
Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office Survey says most would prefer a gentle request On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 181
Rocky Linux claims to have found 'path forward' from CentOS source purge Ripples rebounding and reflecting from Red Hat's rebuff of RHEL rebuilds OSes28 Jun 2023 | 215
Chinese balloon that US shot down was 'crammed' with American hardware Blasted from the sky in February, device never transmitted photos, videos, or radar data it collected, officials say CSO29 Jun 2023 | 66
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for $3B after allegedly trampling privacy with ChatGPT Where did they get the idea this bot was potentially spitting out personal info? Oh, from The Register AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 22
Way out in deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life James Webb scope finds CH3+ – aka methyl cations – without which you probably wouldn't be reading this Science27 Jun 2023 | 30
Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk Devops28 Jun 2023 | 46
It's 2023 and memory overwrite bugs are not just a thing, they're still number one Cough, cough, use Rust. Plus: Eight more exploited bugs added to CISA's must-patch list Research29 Jun 2023 | 41
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 78
Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris On Call Quelle tragédie – techie had to visit the city of lights twice to sort this one out Security30 Jun 2023 | 278
Google asks websites to kindly not break its shiny new targeted-advertising API Tech tweaked ahead of rollout in July, Mozilla and Apple still not interested Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 62
Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner Clunky, costly, literally sickening data silos just aren't better than the real world Software28 Jun 2023 | 119
Ex-FBI employee jailed for taking classified material home Infosec in brief Also: a PII harvest at Dole's server farm, military members mailed mystery smartwatches, and this week's critical vulns CSO26 Jun 2023 | 55
'Joan Is Awful' Black Mirror episode rebounds on Netflix Streaming biz terms and conditions searches jump 1,524% Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 57
H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online In depth How do you solve a problem like a visa? How do you catch a fraud and bring it down? On-Prem01 Jul 2023 | 18
Supreme Court says Genius' song lyric copying claim against Google wasn't smart Website can't use state contract law to police copyrights it doesn't own Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 47
Now Apple takes a bite out of encryption-bypassing 'spy clause' in UK internet law Not the iPhone maker's first think-of-the-children rodeo Security29 Jun 2023 | 117
AMD says its FPGA is ready to emulate your biggest chips But can it run Crysis? Systems27 Jun 2023 | 16
It's time to mark six decades of computer networking Systems Approach As we yearn for a return to a truly decentralized internet Networks28 Jun 2023 | 72
Attorney sues Microsoft for $1.75M, claiming his email has been useless since May Alleges he's still locked out and at risk of losing his licenses over missing comms Applications26 Jun 2023 | 64
Warning: JavaScript registry npm vulnerable to 'manifest confusion' abuse Failure to match metadata with packaged files is perfect for supply chain attacks Research27 Jun 2023 | 10
Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more $940m agreement with one of world's largest employers is value for money, we are assured Sysadmin Month30 Jun 2023 | 41
Fujitsu admits it fluffed the fix for Japan’s flaky ID card scheme Yet another snafu for digital services push Security30 Jun 2023 | 25
Miscreants leak texts and info siphoned by Android stalkerware app LetMeSpy Just as America's Supremes set a high bar for cyberstalking Cyber-crime27 Jun 2023 | 9
Dialup-era developer writes ChatGPT client for Windows 3.1 Next on the agenda: ClippyGPT, because why not? Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 53
Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view Analysis Web giant also hits back ... right as YouTube steps up war on advert blockers Personal Tech29 Jun 2023 | 68
Us, hacked by LockBit? No, says TSMC, that would be our IT supplier So, uh, who's gonna pay that $70M ransom? Cyber-crime30 Jun 2023 | 2
Network security guy in extradition tug of war between US and Russia Group-IB spinout confirms Kislitsin is wanted by both Washington and Moscow Cyber-crime29 Jun 2023 | 7
You may have heard about AI defeating voice authentication. This research kinda proves it Proof-of-concept study shows it's possible to bypass high levels of security, sometimes, sorta AI + ML28 Jun 2023 | 15
Report reveals US Space Force unprepared to counter orbital threats 20 years of searching for spider holes has given Russia, China lots of time to secure the skies for themselves Science30 Jun 2023 | 24
Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok Psst, some American user data still stored in China, too Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 11
Think of our cafes and dry cleaners, says Ohio as budget slashes WFH for govt workers These expensive office buildings aren't for decoration – and that goes for the rest of ya, too On-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 51
American and Southwest Airlines pilot candidate data exposed Time to start practising identity protection Cyber-crime26 Jun 2023 | 2
Europe's largest city council runs parallel systems to cover Oracle rollout mess Decision to adapt software now subject of an independent management investigation Databases29 Jun 2023 | 43
Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon Desktop Ubuntu, but without the nonsense OSes29 Jun 2023 | 46
The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath Register Kettle We'd sure like to see a bot unpick a failed update or handle users struggling to find the 'any' key Sysadmin Month28 Jun 2023 | 33
Microsoft's Activision fight with FTC turned up a Blizzard of docs: Here's your summary Windows PCs in the cloud, spending Sony out of business, mobile woes, and more – and the files to read Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 29
Want to feel old? Ethernet just celebrated its 50th birthday The original bus network continues to run rings around all its rivals Networks30 Jun 2023 | 27
Huawei claims it’s ready to ship entire 5.5G networks – whatever they are – in 2024 Nobody else is using that nomenclature for planned updates to 5G Networks30 Jun 2023 | 9
VMware, AMD, Samsung and RISC-V push for confidential computing standards Working with industry 'critical' for boosting adoption, say chipmakers PaaS + IaaS30 Jun 2023 | 7
Vodafone offers '5G Ultra' to users of very specific phones in very specific locations 'It will likely be unnoticeable for many consumers' says analyst Networks26 Jun 2023 | 19
California man jailed after manure-to-methane scheme revealed as bull Fraudulent cash cow milked investors for almost $9M Offbeat28 Jun 2023 | 36
First pushback against EU's Digital Services Act and it's not Google Who are you calling a VLOP? asks German web fashionista Networks27 Jun 2023 | 31
What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive devconf.cz The skillful handiwork of merging bits from different kernels into one, and keeping it secure at the same time OSes30 Jun 2023 | 12
Cops told: Er, no, you need a wiretap order if you want real-time Facebook snooping Privacy: It's a Jersey Thing Security30 Jun 2023 | 10
One year after Roe v Wade overturned and 'uterus surveillance' looks grim Analysis Data sales 'can do real harm' Personal Tech27 Jun 2023 | 90
Cops' total pwnage of 'secure' EncroChat nets 6,500+ arrests, €740m in funds – so far Or so the Europlod says Cyber-crime27 Jun 2023 | 11
NASA and miners face off over lithium deposits at satellite calibration site There's smartphone batteries to be mined, but at what cost? Science26 Jun 2023 | 15
SAE says yes to making Tesla EV chargers an American standard Another win for Musk: Ford, GM, Rivian and Volvo have already announced plans to dump CCS Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 27
Crook who stole $23m+ in YouTube song royalties gets five years behind bars Claims he wants to stay in the music biz after time in a Sing Sing Cyber-crime29 Jun 2023 | 26
Cisco buys SamKnows to give ThousandEyes a look at millions of endpoints Packets you make at home or on mobile devices are in Switchzilla's sights, to make hybrid workers happy Networks27 Jun 2023 | 10
IBM bets $4.6 billion that cloud bills and IT sprawl will be enduring problems Acquires Apptio and plans 'virtual command center' for multicloud Off-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 10
Microsoft and GitHub are still trying to derail Copilot code copyright legal fight And so far, they might succeed: Where's the smoking gun? AI + ML01 Jul 2023 | 40
Mummy and Daddy Musk think Elon's cage fight against Zuck is a terrible idea Bizarrely, there's been no suggestion that the bout won't happen Offbeat29 Jun 2023 | 47
Forget these apps and AI, where's my flying car? Ah, here's one with an FAA license Also: No comment on that choice of name for a wee leccy chopper Bootnotes29 Jun 2023 | 62
UK's dream of fusion power by 2040s will need GPUs Boffins plan 'digital twin' to help hit deadline, recruit heavy-hitting partners Science29 Jun 2023 | 19
Comms watchdog to probe errors that left Brits unable to make emergency calls Police reported backlog of 999 calls after unspecified technical error Networks28 Jun 2023 | 47
Microsoft puts profanity filter on %@!#ing Teams transcripts Just in case you blurt out that L***x is better than Windows? (That was a joke, PR friends) Offbeat30 Jun 2023 | 35
After decades contributing to science, John Goodenough powers down Obit The American lithium-ion battery inventor has died aged 100 Personal Tech26 Jun 2023 | 18
Europe's Euclid telescope launches to figure out dark energy, the universe, and everything Interview We speak to project scientist on effort to build 3D map of space going back ten billion years Science01 Jul 2023 | 12
Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players Analysis Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts Databases29 Jun 2023 | 2
Uncle Sam cracks down on faked reviews and bad influencers Big $50,000 fines for misleading posts... unless it's political, natch Personal Tech30 Jun 2023 | 15
Virgin Galactic finally gets its first paying customers to edge of space Video It only took nearly 20 years and one death to get there Science29 Jun 2023 | 67
Mystery Intel bug halts shipments of some Sapphire Rapids Xeons Chipzilla's not saying much other than 'commercial software' not affected Systems30 Jun 2023 | 14
This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools Malwarebytes and Trellix upgrades to the rescue Sysadmin Month29 Jun 2023 | 8
Microsoft postpones death date for personally licensed Teams Rooms hardware The 'upgrade' is free, yet an amnesty is needed despite months of warning Software28 Jun 2023 | 16
Samsung to start mass producing 2nm silicon in 2025, first for mobile devices Forms a packaging posse to do the chiplet thing On-Prem29 Jun 2023 | 8
Ripoff Vuitton handbag smaller than a grain of salt fetches $63,750 at auction The art world is up to shenanigans again Offbeat30 Jun 2023 | 30
NIST boffins shrink atomic beam clock to the size of a postage stamp It's not the most accurate atomic clock in the world, but the NIST team behind it believes they can fix that Science27 Jun 2023 | 14
Google uses India to test ‘deliver to the house near the post office’ feature Ads and search giant also open sources offensive stereotype database, and gives Amazon a poke Software29 Jun 2023 | 15
Memory chipmaker Micron's sales down 57% as market bottoms out Company eyes return to memory growth, but warns life on the China ban-list could be hard Systems29 Jun 2023 |
TCS bags £234M Teachers' Pensions deal as Capita set to end 29-year run Indian firm nabs 10-year contract, taking pensions wins to £1.73B PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 12
Japan kind-of nationalizes key chipmaking material-maker JSR If the US or Europe dare criticize this deal, it would be rank hypocrisy On-Prem27 Jun 2023 | 9
Alphabet, Bharti Airtel to bridge India's digital divide with frickin' laser beams Dr Evil would be proud Networks27 Jun 2023 | 9
A mix-and-match chiplet marketplace for processor makers is still a long way off Analysis Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express is on the rails On-Prem01 Jul 2023 | 5
Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models Analysis Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market AI + ML27 Jun 2023 | 2
Oracle certifies its database for Arm architecture on-prem and in cloud Only for Ampere – but with a licencing twist that means Intel and AMD can't relax Databases29 Jun 2023 | 5
Experts scoff at UK Lords' suggestion that AI could one day make battlefield decisions Conservative peer admits he can't tell between dogs and cats either AI + ML30 Jun 2023 | 45
US mulls tightening ban on AI chips to China To protect against weapons or economic interests – either way, it's bad news for some vendors Systems28 Jun 2023 | 5