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'Exclusive swag' up for grabs as GitLab flings bug bounty scheme open to world+dog
DevOps outfit GitLab has opened its bug bounty scheme to world+dog, having paid out $200,000 last year and fixed "nearly 200 vulnerabilities reported to us".…
Godmother of word processing Evelyn Berezin dies at 93
Obit The remarkable Evelyn Berezin, founder of Redactron, a company that successfully sold word processing systems in the early 1970s, has died aged 93.…
Home users due for a battering with Microsoft 365 subscription stick
Fire up the steam-powered speculation machine! A consumer-focused Microsoft 365 subscription is inbound.…
Taylor's gonna spy, spy, spy, spy, spy... fans can't shake cam off, shake cam off
Spotify's one-time nemesis Taylor Swift has reportedly used controversial facial recognition tech on fans while they've been getting down to her sick beats.…
Windows 10 can carry on slurping even when you're sure you yelled STOP!
A feature introduced in the April 2018 Update of Windows 10 may have set off a privacy landmine within the bowels of Redmond as users have discovered that their data was still flowing into the intestines of the Windows giant, even with the thing apparently turned off.…
CLL '19 to span DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and Serverless
Events We'll be revealing the first tranche of speakers for Continuous Lifecycle 2019 next week, meaning you have just days to save hundreds of pounds with our blind bird ticket offer.…
The eulogising of The Mother Of All Demos at 50 is Silicon Valley going goo-goo for gurus again
Comment There was a time, happy days, when no one wanted to read about the titans of tech. Or so the editors at the newspapers thought.…
Oxford startup magics up metamaterials for next-gen charging
Imagine throwing your phone onto a car dashboard or table, knowing it'll power up. And imagine that tabletop or dashboard powering up several randomly aligned devices at once. Above an unassuming street in Oxford, engineers are ironing out the problems.…
UK white hats blacklisted by Cisco Talos after smart security code stumbles
UK security training company Hacker House briefly had its site blocked after being mistaken for malware by Cisco's security wing Talos' smart "threat intelligence" software.…
When it comes to AI research the West is winning, the East is rising and women are being left behind
The US and Europe might be top dogs in machine learning at the moment, but the East is catching up fast, helped by massive government spending.…
Phew, galactic accident helps boffins explain dark matter riddle
An accidental discovery by a team of astronomers has helped answer one of the burning questions about dark matter and where it came from.…
Huawei exec out of jail, just as US accuses China of Marriott hack
The trade tensions between the US and China continue to build as American officials have accused Beijing of backing the massive Marriott data breach.…
Kubernetes has become 'boring' and that's good, Google tells devs
Kubernetes "is now very, very boring," declared Janet Kuo, software engineer at Google, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle, Washington, on Wednesday.…
Small town rejects Comcast, ISP org takes issue with El Reg
Just how much do you hate Comcast? Enough to spend $1m of your own money to escape its clutches?…
It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you hackers are targeting 'nuclear, defense, energy, financial' biz
Hackers are targetting critical infrastructure providers, including nuclear power and defense agencies, in what may be a state-sponsored attack that's hiding behind North Korean code.…
Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit
Video Every year Russia holds – and broadcasts on state television – a tech showcase of its latest products for an audience of hundreds of school kids.…
Hole-y ship: ISS 'nauts take a wander to crack Soyuz driller whodunnit
Spacewalking cosmonauts clambered outside the ISS yesterday to get an external view of the mystery hole drilled into the Soyuz, which is due to return three crew members to Earth next week.…
Doubles all round for the server-makers: Market inhales $23.36bn for the quarter
The continued data centre refresh cycle and seemingly insatiable demand from the big cloud slingers to bulk out their infrastructure saw server vendors make hay while the sun shone in Q3.…
Thwack... boing: Amazon EFS rival Elastifile flings out multi-cloud file store through Google
Scale-out software filer supplier Elastifile has buddied up with Google to thrust its NAS file system into Mountain View's Cloud Platform.…
Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights orgs appealing against top Euro court
A band of human rights organisations have appealed against a top European court's ruling on bulk surveillance, arguing that any form of mass spying breaches rights to privacy and free expression.…