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Ransomware shuts US oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day
One of the USA’s largest oil pipelines has been shut by ransomware .…
You can listen right here to the sound of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world
Video One of the microphones on Perseverance, NASA’s latest and greatest Mars rover, has recorded the sounds of its autonomous helicopter Ingenuity flying on the Red Planet, providing scientists with the first ever audio samples of an aircraft operating on another planet.…
Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's public statements about the state of his automaker's Autopilot assistive driving technology overestimate the system's capabilities, according to documents released by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).…
Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it
The number of Facebook and Instagram users on iOS agreeing to be tracked by the social networking behemoth for targeted ads has fallen drastically in the week since Apple's iOS 14.5 debuted – and Zuck & Co have hit back.…
Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS
MariaDB has added proprietary bells and whistles, in the form of distributed SQL, for its DBaaS and supposedly developer-friendly front end.…
Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes
Russian spies from APT29 responded to Western agencies outing their tactics by adopting a red-teaming tool to blend into targets' networks as a legitimate pentesting exercise.…
GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies
GitLab says a surge in demand and a technical shortcoming resulted in the DevOps outfit yanking a free certification offer barely two days after turning on the tap.…
British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight
TSB admitted today it still hadn't fixed a transaction processing issue that has for days held up customers' payments, with users continuing to have issues at the time of publication.…
Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away
Microsoft has announced plans to ensure data processing of EU cloud services within the borders of the political bloc in a move that expert observers claim reveals problems with the firm's existing setup.…
We were 'blindsided' by Epic's cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling
An Apple exec has spoken of his shock after Fortnite creator Epic Games installed a hotfix that allowed it to deploy its own payment methods, thus skirting the 30 per cent App Store tax.…
'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture
Open source audio software outfit Audacity, now under new management, is adding some "basic telemetry", much to the alarm of many of its community.…
Broadband plumber Openreach yanks legacy copper phone lines in Suffolk town of Mildenhall en route to getting the UK on VoIP
The tiny Suffolk town of Mildenhall is the second place where Openreach has stopped selling copper products as the company develops its strategy for withdrawing legacy telephone lines.…
Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?
Bork!Bork!Bork! There are certain things that do not belong in pizza. One is pineapple. Another is the Windows Start Menu.…
How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price
Bug of the week Here's a programming gremlin that caught our eye this week: a share price exceeded the 32-bit unsigned integer limit of a stock exchange's code.…
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: <i>El Reg</i> takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin
In an attempt to make Twitter feel less like a small-town Wetherspoons at closing time, the company will start asking users to reconsider sending tweets its algorithms perceive to be mean.…
Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Argh, where did I put that old comic? Someone told me it's a collector's item! It has value!…
Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response
A permaban from Perl events over "unacceptable" behaviour has been reduced to a year for the developer concerned, named by several separate Perl sources as Matt Trout.…
Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias
Black Hat Asia Computer vision systems display “correlation bias” that makes it possible to create adversarial images, that could have real-world consequences such as messing with self-driving cars’ ability to accurately interpret road signs.…
The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)
On Call Corporal Cockup meets Major Outage in this week's episode of On Call as a reader's helpful walkthrough takes down the telephony server.…
China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing
Tired of space junk and weapons, US military commanders presented to Congress on Wednesday an argument to create a framework for rules-based order in space.…