DoJ, ATF target MCDs, but what about the printers? The US Department of Justice is turning to the 3D printing industry to help combat the scourge of machine gun conversion devices (MCDs) used by criminals to turn semi-automatic firearms into deadly …
Lees meerIt promised vanishing messages, but now 'it's privacy theater' Video A popular privacy feature in WhatsApp is "completely broken and can be trivially bypassed," according to developers at cryptowallet startup Zengo.…
Lees meerCriminals with plenty of time on their hands may now have credit card details Around 1.7 million people will receive a letter from Florida-based Slim CD, if they haven't already, after the company detected an intrusion dating back nearly a year.…
Lees meerSetting the stage for pending AI feature while doubling down on health tech Apple just introduced its iPhone 16 line, Watch Series 10, and assorted AirPods, and also set formal release dates next week for its iOS 18 and watchOS 11 software.…
Lees meerThe kind of thing the big names should be doing instead of working with proprietary vendors OneFileLinux is a very different sort of distro that runs entirely from your UEFI system partition, without a bootable USB key or any other partitions on the…
Lees meerUS alarmed by heightened Kremlin naval activity worldwide Russia's naval activity near undersea cables is reportedly drawing the scrutiny of US officials, further sparking concerns that the Kremlin may be plotting to "sabotage" underwater infrastruc…
Lees meerChallenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security The US Department of Energy has launched a $23 million program aimed at overcoming a litany of supercomputing performance bottlenecks.…
Lees meerBut then again is LiDAR even on the radar in 2024? Mobileye is axing its light detection and ranging (LiDAR) research team, noting the tech has fallen out of favor in the automated driver assist space though to the keen observer it might be looking …
Lees meerNvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet Enterprises are still struggling with the business case for generative AI projects more than a year after the craze started, and we may have to wait until the end of 2025 …
Lees meer'Insider wrongdoing' to blame for the breach Avis Rent A Car System has alerted 299,006 customers across multiple US states that their personal information was stolen in an August data breach.…
Lees meerSalsa's final act: Reminding us it was the humans all along The European Space Agency (ESA) has bid farewell to the Cluster II spacecraft with a final set of commands to show that engineers are indeed human.…
Lees meerJapanese government has also earmarked $6.4B for the project Japanese chip upstart Rapidus has only worked on its 2nm wafer fab in Hokkaido for a year, yet the company is reportedly already seeking ¥100 billion ($699 million) in additional funding f…
Lees meerThe latest of many attempts to stifle perceived threats to Putin's regime A pro-democracy NGO in Russia says it looks like the Kremlin-linked COLDRIVER group was behind last month's hack-and-leak job that saw files and inboxes dumped online.…
Lees meerMars adventure postponed to 2025. Perhaps NASA has decided the two ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft planned to be launched on the maiden flight of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will not be fueled and will …
Lees meer22.04 to 24.04 upgrade temporarily withdrawn, but will be back Ubuntu 24.04.1 is still available, but for now you can't update to it from Jammy Jellyfish until a bug is sorted. To compensate, there are some fun goodies coming in 24.10.…
Lees meer22.04 to 24.04 upgrade temporarily withdrawn, but will be back Ubuntu 24.04.1 is still available, but for now you can't update to it from Jammy Jellyfish until a bug is sorted. To compensate, there are some fun goodies coming in 24.10.…
Lees meerNation's dominant broadband plumber keen to fend off any efforts to restrict it Openreach wants Reg readers to know that the UK's fixed telecoms market is coming along just fine, and is imploring regulators to not spoil it by, for example, listening…
Lees meerCFO says company hasn't been sued by any customers – yet CrowdStrike has yet to face a lawsuit over July's global IT meltdown, according to CFO Burt Podbere.…
Lees meerFrom the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel Opinion The Rusting of Linux proceeds apace. Of course there are problems, some technical, some very human. Last week saw one of the leading Rusties sign off f…
Lees meerCome and see the violence inherent in the system! Who, Me? The Register does not particularly like Mondays, but rather than shoot the whole day down we prefer to brighten it with a fresh instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers share tales of ti…
Lees meerSpook bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the world CIA director Bill Burns and UK Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) chief Richard Moore have for the first time penned a joint opinion piece in whi…
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