To Wales now, where crypto bro sues to be allowed to excavate landfill site Last time we met 39-year-old James Howells from Newport, Wales, he was petitioning his local council to let him excavate a garbage dump in pursuit of a lost hard drive he be…
Lees meerBots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced on Wednesday they're partnering to combine the former's multi-jointed athletic humanoid, Atlas, with TRI's large beh…
Lees meerUpdate for Skyline phone brings selective distraction blocking A couple of months after launch, an OS update has delivered one of the Nokia HMD Skyline's headline features.…
Lees meerAs 'heat' built from campaigners, tech boss kept telling MPs everything was fine The former CTO of the Post Office had "nagging doubts" about the Horizon system at the center of one of the most far-reaching miscarriages of justice in UK history, yet…
Lees meerBiggest semi contract manufacturer – and Nvidia supplier – building out capacity in US and Europe Taiwan's semiconductor giant TSMC has reported a good third quarter with revenue up 36 percent over a year ago, due to strong demand from chip companie…
Lees meerWhen you look behind the headlines, you'll find unfulfilled commitments Opinion I live in Asheville, North Carolina. You may have seen my hometown in the news over the last few weeks after Hurricane Helene wrecked the place.…
Lees meerThe Uptime Institute rates availability. The 'Uptime Council' … apparently doesn't exist Updated It's one thing to stretch the truth in your marketing material, but allegedly lying about your datacenter's qualities to lure the US Securities and Exc…
Lees meerCLEAR group calls for VAT to be dropped on spare parts, repairs, labor A newly formed group of UK electronics companies is advocating for the removal of VAT on electronic spare parts, repairs, and labor in the government's upcoming autumn budget, cl…
Lees meerNo attacks possible, but enough issues to cause concern Messaging giant WeChat uses a network protocol that the app's developers modified – and by doing so introduced security weaknesses, researchers claim.…
Lees meerResolves allegations it improperly stored screenshots containing PII that were later snaffled A US government contractor will settle claims it violated cyber security rules prior to a breach that compromised Medicare beneficiaries' personal data.…
Lees meerGang said to have developed its evilware on GitHub – then DDoSed GitHub Hacktivist gang Anonymous Sudan appears to have lost its anonymity after the US Attorney's Office on Wednesday unsealed an indictment identifying two of its alleged operators.…
Lees meerDMA gatekeeper status denied, meaning X can carry on without extra compliance chores The EU has said it won't classify Elon Musk’s X as “gatekeeper” – the bloc’s designation for the most significant digital platforms- because it doesn’t think the so…
Lees meerVendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren’t valid obligations Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform.…
Lees meerAs badly as the later development of the player itself, really The owners of WinAmp have just deleted their entire repo one month after uploading the source code to GitHub. Lots of source code, and quite possibly, not all of it theirs.…
Lees meerBots that learn to peel potatoes is a lot less scary than Black Mirror Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced on Wednesday they're partnering to combine the former's multi-jointed athletic humanoid, Atlas, with TRI's large beh…
Lees meerVendor told El Reg the biz's law firm claims merchant debts aren’t valid obligations Digital River has not paid numerous merchants since midsummer for software and digital products they sold through its MyCommerce platform.…
Lees meerResolves allegations it improperly stored screenshots containing PII that were later snaffled A US government contractor will settle claims it violated cyber security rules prior to a breach that compromised Medicare beneficiaries' personal data.…
Lees meerLong-term research program includes building Moon bases, finding habitable exoplanets, and probing 'space-time ripples' China yesterday revealed its space exploration plans between now and the year 2050, and one of the nation's goals is finding habi…
Lees meerIndia's services giants think their consultants can serve you from wherever Indian IT outsourcer Wipro bucked recent trends this week, when it announced it would allow its employees remote work.…
Lees meerThe Uptime Institute rates datacenters. The 'Uptime Council' … apparently doesn't exist It's one thing to stretch the truth in your marketing material, but allegedly lying about your datacenter's qualities to lure the Securities and Exchange Commiss…
Lees meerIt's called leaving the door wide open – especially in Proxmox A critical bug in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow unauthorized SSH access to virtual machines (VMs) thanks to default credentials being enabled during the image build process.…
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