The PS4 will support external hard drives in upcoming update

A Belgian hacker redirected the links in Trump’s old tweets

AIVD: vooral Rusland zorgt voor toename hackpogingen

In de afgelopen zes maanden zijn er honderden internetaanvallen vanuit landen als Rusland, China en Iran geweest, beweert de AIVD. De aanvallen zouden vooral uit Rusland komen, luidt de claim, maar het zou lastig zijn voor de inlichtingendienst om d…

David Hockney creates new Sun masthead. Now for The Reg...

Over to you, dear readers. Start your MS Paint engines! Logowatch  Artist David Hockney has redesigned the masthead of The Sun newspaper – and in the spirit of free expression and artistic endeavour we want you, dear Reg readers, to join us in honou…

Here’s how easy it is to hack Donald Trump’s phone

Aantal 'skills' van Amazon Alexa verdubbelt in paar maanden

Het aantal 'skills' van Amazon Alexa is binnen een paar maanden meer dan verdubbeld. Ontwikkelaars brachten volgens de webwinkel sinds oktober vierduizend nieuwe integraties uit voor de digitale assistent. Dat waren er in de vijftien maanden daarvoo…

For $deity's sake, smile! It's Friday! Sad coders write bad code – official

Boffins urge bosses to keep their developers cheerful Miserable software developers produce miserable software, to the further detriment of organizational productivity and personal health.…

Humanity needs you... to build an AI bot that can finger rotten headlines

Identifying fake news is too hard at the moment, say developers, but we can spot lies in headings Two AI researchers are behind a daring open challenge to fight the spread of outrageous headlines that are completely detached from reality. (As if any…

Super-cool sysadmin fixes PCs with gravity, or his fists

Happy days as reader impersonates The Fonz ON-CALL  Welcome to another Friday and therefore to another edition of On-Call, The Register's regular recycling of readers' recollections!…

GCHQ cyber-chief slams security outfits peddling 'medieval witchcraft'

It's not Advanced Persistent Threats, it's Adequate Pernicious Toerags Usenix Enigma 2017  The chief technical director of GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre has rebuked infosec companies for spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about hackers to…

Every tech CEO wants to change the world, now’s their chance

Open GApps krijgt optie voor installatie Google Assistant op Android-telefoons

Open GApps, een dienst om via het recovery-menu Google-apps en -diensten op Android-telefoons te zetten, krijgt een optie om Google Assistant te installeren. Dat kon tot nu toe niet. Assistant werkt op de Pixel-smartphones en in de speaker Google Ho…

Moederbedrijf Snapchat wil Spectables-bril op meer plekken gaan verkopen

Het moederbedrijf achter Snapchat wil de camerabril Spectacles op meer plekken gaan verkopen. Dat blijkt uit stukken die het bedrijf heeft geopenbaard voorafgaand aan de beursgang. Spectacles gingen vorig jaar in de verkoop op slechts een paar plekk…

AI vuln-hunter bots have seen things you people wouldn't believe

New classes of bugs found by machine-learning-powered tools Usenix Enigma 2017  Machine-learning systems are unearthing new classes of bugs in operating systems and apps, according to Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency bods.…

Tablets become feebleslabs as sales spiral down

Even detachables like the Surface are making buyers snooze The tablet computer market has slumped into “spiraling decline”, according to box-counter IDC.…

ServiceNow pals up with Palo Alto and ties up with Tanium

Security ops service adds more sources telling you when to panic, and how much ServiceNow has made some new friends in the information security industry and will use its new friends to tell you how fast to panic about intrusions.…

Fused box: Look who's containerizing storage, security and apps

We take a look at a couple of startups and their hype Comment  Containerized apps will gravitate to using containerized system services such as storage and security.…

LG is fixing its 5K monitor so routers won't break it

Rocket League is getting its own range of toy cars

Popular hacker warkit Metasploit now hacks hardware and cars

Coming soon: Cracking IoT kit and industrial control systems Popular offensive hacking toolkit Metasploit now works on hardware, including cars, after a major update to the 13-year old platform.…

Particle accelerator hacked: Boffins' hashed passwords beamed up

The Australian Synchrotron warns it's been wormholed The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is investigating a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists' usernames and passwo…