Sysadmin figures out dating agency worker lied in his profile

I'm tall, handsome, ready to commit and don't know how to operate the ENTER key On-Call  Thank the Galactic Spirit it's Friday: your correspondent is beat! But not so beat I can't dip into the On-Call mailbag to dredge up another story in which your…

Windows 10 market share growth just barely has a pulse

Thanksgiving turkey: Free turns out to be what you were willing to pay November lies behind us in all Reg-reading jurisdictions, so it's time to again consider the state of the desktop by gazing at the three services we use to assess desktop operati…

First Click: Will the ultimate Android phone be a Nokia?

WSUS Offline Update 10.8.1

Versie 10.8.1 van WSUS Offline Update is uitgekomen. Dit programma maakt het mogelijk om Windows-computers die geen of een trage internetverbinding hebben, toch van de laatste updates van Microsoft te voorzien. Door simpelweg een of meer besturingss…

App AirDroid fixt zeven maanden geleden erkend beveiligingsprobleem niet

De Android-applicatie AirDroid heeft zeven maanden geleden het bestaan van een lek in zijn applicatie erkend, maar heeft ondanks dat er sindsdien updates zijn uitgekomen, nog geen fix uitgebracht. Dat claimt beveiligingsbedrijf Zimperium.

France moves to ban misleading anti-abortion websites

Server market slumps as everyone stops buying

Clouds, boffins, businesses all keep hands in pockets. And ARMs are nowhere Abacus-shuffler IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the year's third quarter makes for ugly reading: the firm says just about all categories of server sales have st…

Server market slumps as everyone stops buying

Clouds, boffins, businesses all keep hands in pockets. And ARMs are nowhere Abacus-shuffler IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for the year's third quarter makes for ugly reading: the firm says just about all categories of server sales have st…

Hackers waste Xbox One, PS4, MacBook, Pixel, with USB zapper

What would happen if someone sticks this USBBQ into an airplane seat socket? VIDS  Hackers are destroying everything from the latest gaming systems, phones, and even cars with a dangerous circuit-frying USB device that could put critical systems at …

Google turns on free public NTP servers that SMEAR TIME

With a leap second coming up, smearing's quite a good idea Google's turned on a set of public network time protocol (NTP) servers.…

Google turns on free public NTP servers that SMEAR TIME

With a leap second coming up, smearing's quite a good idea Google's turned on a set of public network time protocol (NTP) servers.…

Shamoon malware returns to again wipe Saudi-owned computers

Iran suspected as likely source of re-vamped nastyware Thousands of computers in Saudi Arabia's civil aviation agency and other Gulf State organisations have been wiped by the Shamoon malware after it resurfaced some four years after wiping thousand…

Online criminals chilled as cops shutter Avalanche dark network

Four-year op by US and EU culminates in arrests, server seizures On November 30, simultaneous raids in five countries by the FBI, Europol, and the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) finally shuttered the Avalanche criminal network that has been spewin…

Trump's FCC will soak net neutrality in gas and toss in a lit match

Narcissist in Chief recruits another anti-net-neut bod for US comms regulator Supporters of net neutrality are preparing to defend FCC regulations passed two years ago in the face of what is increasingly looking like a determined effort by the Trump…

The Fujifilm X-A10 is the cheapest X-series mirrorless camera yet

Brilliant NES-style action game Shovel Knight is getting a prequel

New Mass Effect: Andromeda trailer is the best look yet at gameplay

Get your first good look at The Walking Dead game’s third season in this new trailer

AWS CTO: 'I truly hated the relationship with software tool vendors'

Vogels channels his inner Balmer with pitch to code monkeys AWS re:Invent  Amazon Web Services turned its focus to developers in day two of its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, kicking out a handful of new features designed to make life easier for…

Bethesda unveils new Prey gameplay footage at The Game Awards

American supremacy, space, liability, funding, openness – AI gurus lay it all out to US senators

The race is on to be the best in the world Analysis  At a US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing this week chaired by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), artificial intelligence experts were grilled on how to keep the US ahead of …