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Apple's making some announcements! Quick, lay off 435 Uber workers
A number of Uber employees found their rating a little lower than they thought as the company laid off 435 staffers this week.…
Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!
CF Summit "The Kubernetes community is reaching out and asking for our help on the developer experience," claimed Cloud Foundry exec director Abby Kearns at the outfit's Netherlands-based Euro Summit.…
UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules
The UK's largest internet service providers must block access to websites that enable people to pirate Nintendo Switch games, the High Court has ruled.…
WD you like to purchase an NVMe-oF startup? Kazan! Western Dig just did
Western Digital has swallowed Kazan Networks to get a taste of its sweet NVMe over Fabrics Ethernet connectivity kit.…
Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?
Amsterdam-based Fairphone describes its devices as sustainable. iFixit took its selection of tools to one and found that, hey, you can make phones that are at once not rubbish and also repairable.…
A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it
In the UK, there are a number of things you can do about potholes: a) report it to the council; b) call the local newspaper, which will photograph you squatting angrily by the hole while you squawk "it's an accident waiting to happen!"; or c) nothing.…
Care for a Flutter? Google emits fresh version of all-things-app-platform, plus a tart-up for Dart
Flutter, Google's crack at a platform for mobile, desktop and web apps, has hit version 1.9 as the company targets Apple's upcoming iOS 13 and macOS Catalina. Its Dart language also got a tickle.…
Deloitte man kept quiet at Autonomy's internal audit committees, says scrutiny chairman
Autonomy Trial A top Deloitte auditor "never said anything" at meetings of Autonomy's internal audit committee, its chairman – a one-time CEO of the Prudential insurance group – has testified to London's High Court.…
D-Link, Comba network gear leave passwords open for potentially whole world to see
DSL modems and Wi-Fi routers from D-Link and Comba have been found to be leaving owners' passwords out in the open.…
<i>The Reg</i> chats to HPE's HPC man about NASA's supercomputers, lunar ambitions and Columbia
Interview Not content with stashing an Apollo-based supercomputer aboard the ISS, HPE will also be slinging the petaFLOPS for NASA's Ames Research Center.…
#MeToo chatbot, built by AI academics, could lend a non-judgmental ear to sex harassment and assault victims
Academics in the Netherlands have built a prototype machine-learning-powered Telegram chatbot that attempts to listen to victims of sexual harassment and assault, and offer them advice and help.…
We've embiggened our line-up of MCubed conference speakers. Join us for a hands-on, no-hype dive into AI
Event We’ll be opening the doors at MCubed, our three-day dive into machine learning and analytics in just a couple of weeks, and if you haven’t snapped up your place yet, our latest speaker additions may just tip the balance.…
Oops: Rockets lighting their tails is a good thing – but not three-plus hours before lift-off
The launch of a cargo spacecraft packed with supplies for the International Space Station was cancelled after a fire erupted on or near the launch pad at Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Tuesday.…
Required: Massive email fraud bust. Tired: Cops who did the paperwork. Expired: 281 suspected con men's freedom
US prosecutors say 281 suspected criminal hackers around the world have been arrested as part of a massive takedown operation against so-called business email compromise operations. That's the type of caper in which crooks hijack executives' email accounts, or impersonate the staffers, to trick colleagues into wiring funds to fraudsters' accounts.…
CEOs beg for America-wide privacy law... to protect their businesses from state privacy laws
On Tuesday, fifty-one CEOs of major data-using companies urged US lawmakers to pass a national data privacy law, insisting that they're committed to protecting consumer privacy.…
Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker
As is traditional at this time of year Apple has been showing off the shiny iThings it wants you to buy over the coming year, so here's The Register's complete rundown of what's new from Cook & Co.…
It's 2019, and Windows PCs can be pwned via a shortcut file, a webpage, an evil RDP server...
Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP today delivered a load of security updates for this month's Patch Tuesday.…
Rolling in DoH: Chrome 78 to experiment with DNS-over-HTTPS – hot on the heels of Firefox
Only days after Mozilla said it plans to make DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) available by default gradually for Firefox users in the US, Google announced its intention to test DoH in Chrome 78, due for beta release in the next two weeks.…
Facebook: Remember how we promised we weren’t tracking your location? Psych! Can't believe you fell for that
Analysis Facebook has been caught bending the truth again – only this time it has been forced to out itself.…
NHS Shared Business Services asks: Might we interest sir in a bespoke, artisanal G-Cloud?
NHS Shared Business Services - the UK health service's back-office IT provider - has launched a list of pre-approved cloud services suppliers for public sector orgs.…