Turns a $100 bottle of wine into a $4 soft drink to avoid tax, earns ire of international tax group Tax authorities from Australia, Canada, France, the UK and the USA have conducted a joint probe into "electronic sales suppression software" – applic…
Lees meerKernel boss won't consider code that's late, or hasn't already appeared in Linux-next, for version 6.2 Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has released version 6.1 of the project, and warned that "the merge window from Hell" has now opened.…
Lees meerTurns out it's a bit more complex than throwing more GPUs at the math The US Department of Energy this week laid out how it intends to put its supercomputing might to work simulating the fundamental building blocks of the universe.…
Lees meerWe're about to find out if those parachutes and heat shield work NASA's crewless Orion capsule is all set to return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, December 11 after spending nearly a month orbiting the Moon.…
Lees meerIn a weaker economy, investor scrutiny is increasing for these capital-intensive upstarts As the economic downturn brings the astronomical level of investor hype over semiconductor startups back to Earth, some venture-backed companies think now is t…
Lees meerTIOBE or not TIOBE, that is the question Java is no longer among the top three most popular programming languages in the TIOBE Index, one of several not particularly definitive yardsticks by which such things are measured.…
Lees meerAh, the enterprise way GitHub has launched a business version of its assistive programming service Copilot that provides administrators with a way to prevent suggestions using public source code.…
Lees meerSure, go ahead and load APKs instead of using an app store. You won't enjoy the results Threat researchers have discovered an obfuscation platform that attaches malware to legitimate Android applications to lure users to install the malicious payloa…
Lees meerNothing like your medical files being taken hostage for millions of dollars Newish ransomware gang Royal has been spotted targeting the healthcare sector, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has said.…
Lees meerIn a $3,000/month for a bedsit city, how many seconds do you think it took locals to call building inspector? Elon Musk's plans to allow some Twitter HQ employees to sleep on-site is running afoul of San Francisco building inspectors. Given Musk's r…
Lees meerApache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade More than a year after its 4.0 major upgrade, Apache Cassandra is set to release its 4.1 iteration next week, promising pluggable schema management and new guardrails to help ops p…
Lees meerWarplane project may include AI in the cockpit, and comes as tensions rise with China and Russia The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy will pool resources to build a sixth-generation warplane scheduled to be ready for deployment by 2035, with capabili…
Lees meerThe 'Infinite Mac' is an astonishing demonstration of emulation and integration between some of the best tech of the '90s and the '20s Friday FOSS Fest Emulators make it easy to run vintage software in a window on a modern machine, but without spec…
Lees meerSpoiler alert: just about all of them, all across the planet More than 70,000 websites belonging to Fortune 500 brands, government agencies, and universities share consumers' data with Twitter using data tracking code hosted on these other organizat…
Lees meerThe latest idea in the long gestation of the online harms legislation The UK government is putting forward changes to the law which would require social media platforms to give users the option to avoid seeing and engaging with harmful — but legal —…
Lees meerDon't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly Opinion Linus Torvalds is happy to tell you that Linux release numbers aren't a big deal.…
Lees meerAnyone who's ever been in the system will be very familiar with British medical professionals' complaints As the UK's National Health Service strains under the burden of the winter crisis, a new study has revealed that more than 13.5 million working…
Lees meerNo backdated pay, no allowances, no substantial rises for all grades, 'we feel it falls falls way short of your expectations' The Greater London Combined Branch of the CWU, the communications union, is urging BT workers to vote against the pay deal …
Lees meerMask apparently addresses urban pollution and noise, but doesn't even seal to the face If you've ever thought "I wish my incredibly expensive Bluetooth headphones were double the price and included a detachable mask that shot purified air at my face…
Lees meerIf he offers you a piece of the Chocolate Pi, be suspicious A former technical surveillance officer at the UK's Eastern Region Special Operations Unit (ERSOU) – a team charged with tackling serious organized crime and terrorism across seven local po…
Lees meerComrade offered 'monitoring' tool to keep an eye on the workers On-Call Welcome once again, comrades, to On-Call, The Register's celebration of the tech proletariat's struggles with oppression by bourgeois bosses – and the eventual triumph of the w…
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