Devs claim Apple is banning VPNs in Russia 'more effectively' than Putin
Updated Mozilla shows guts with its extensions – but that's the way the Cook, he crumbles
Security05 Jul 2024 | 33
Public Sector
Your Public Sector Pulse: Where Policy Meets Tech Innovation
There’s so much happening at The Register in our coverage of government tech, we’ve dedicated section for the Public Sector, which offers you a front-row seat to the intersection of governance and technology. From e-governance initiatives and cybersecurity protocols to digital transformation in public services, however fast (or slow) it happens, we bring you analyses, updates, and insights that matter.
Labour wins race to lead UK, but few would envy the load in its tech in-tray
Analysis Looming train wrecks face winning party after it promises investment and innovation
Public Sector05 Jul 2024 | 315
Atos shuffles debt around as curtain call nears for restructuring saga
Investors will be hoping so anyway
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 10
Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software
Union advises members to turn off features government introduced to allow third parties to update records
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 35
ITER delays first plasma for world's biggest fusion power rig by a decade
Who could have guessed that giant magnets capable of constraining mini-suns would be hard to build?
Science04 Jul 2024 | 101
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
Malware Month04 Jul 2024 | 34
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users
Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point
Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
Tech luminaries warn United Nations its Digital Compact risks doing more harm than good
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf and more from orgs like IETF, W3C, IANA worry if techies are ignored the web could end up centralized
Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 25
Uncle Sam relies on manual processes to oversee restrictions on Huawei, other Chinese tech players
Outdated tech at Bureau of Industry and Security leaves licensing open to human error
Public Sector03 Jul 2024 | 6
EFF wants FTC to treat lying chatbots as 'unfair and deceptive' in eyes of the law
And hit AI operators 'with all the fines', says Cory Doctorow
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 13
US Army: We want to absorb private-sector AI 'as fast as y'all are building them'
How about a nice game of chess instead?
AI + ML02 Jul 2024 | 8
Like Uber, but for rainy days: Japan eases its ridesharing restrictions
Nation turns once again to technology to help with declining population
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 12
Brace for new complications in big tech takedowns after Supreme Court upended regulatory rules
Analysis Matters like antitrust cases against AI players, Adobe's subscription mess, and net neutrality could be decided by judges – not experts
Public Sector02 Jul 2024 | 64
France poised to bring 'charges against Nvidia'
Euro nation's monopoly gendarmes cheesed off with GPU giant's dominance
AI + ML01 Jul 2024 | 16
Antitrust cops cry foul over Meta's pay-or-consent ultimatum to Europeans
Facebook, Instagram gobble up same data whether you hand over cash or not
Personal Tech01 Jul 2024 | 40
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option
President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory
Malware Month01 Jul 2024 | 23
China warns citizens to stop posting info about spy satellites on social media
Asia In Brief Plus: Singapore launches global regulatory blockchain; China gets new SciTech boss; India spectrum auction fizzles
Public Sector01 Jul 2024 | 10
Antitrust latest: Europe's Vestager warns Microsoft, OpenAI 'the story is not over'
I'll get you next time, Gadget, next time!
Personal Tech29 Jun 2024 | 4
American interest in electric vehicles short circuits for first time in four years
Funny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though
Personal Tech28 Jun 2024 | 133
CISA looked at C/C++ projects and found a lot of C/C++ code. Wanna redo any of it in Rust?
So, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies
Research28 Jun 2024 | 77
Popular
Microsoft tells yet more customers their emails have been stolen
security in brief Plus: US auto dealers still offline; Conti coders sanction; Rabbit R1 hardcoded API keys; and more
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts roughly 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off
Trouble in space as Boeing's not going, and China's back from the Moon
Kettle Vultures chew over a busy few days in orbit with a transatlantic chat
Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key
Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway
VMware license changes mean bare metal can make a comeback through 'devirtualization', says Gartner
Latest datacenter Hype Cycle also includes augmented reality, new types of memory, nuke power
'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack
Dependency manager used in millions of apps leaves a bitter taste
Indonesian government didn't have backups of ransomwared data, because DR was only an option
President has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory
Police allege 'evil twin' of in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal passenger's credentials
Fasten your seat belts, secure your tray table, and try not to give away your passwords
How tech went from free love to pay-per-day
Devconf.cz FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense
Cloudflare debuts one-click nuke of web-scraping AI
Take that for ignoring robots.txt!
STORIES
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network
Updated Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation?
CSO28 Jun 2024 | 25
Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal
Horizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed
Public Sector28 Jun 2024 | 173
Engineers risk blasting US missile defense to smithereens, say auditors
Now the 2028 deadline is at risk
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 19
Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future
Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 22
Elon Musk to destroy the International Space Station – with NASA's approval, for a fee
SpaceX wins contract for 'deorbit vehicle' at a pleasing price
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 151
Indian govt probes claims Foxconn won't hire married women
Updated Cultural traditions clash with manufacturing ambitions
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 20
WhisperGate suspect indicted as US offers a $10M bounty for his capture
Russian national accused of attacks in lead-up to the Ukraine war
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 6
Supreme Court won't stop Biden leaning on social media giants to tackle disinfo
White House can get back to asking Facebook and co to kindly bin off what the Feds say is misinformation
Public Sector26 Jun 2024 | 25
Julian Assange pleads guilty, leaves courtroom a free man
Now, about that bill for the private jet that's taking him home to Australia …
Security26 Jun 2024 | 201
US mayors urge Congress to ditch red-tape-slaying broadband expansion bill
What's the matter, you want China to win, huh?
Networks25 Jun 2024 | 17
Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US
WikiLeaks boss already out of Blighty and, if all goes to plan, ultimately off to home in Australia
Security25 Jun 2024 | 144
China and the EU agree to consultations over EV anti-subsidy investigation
Tit for tat spat could be avoided
Personal Tech24 Jun 2024 | 15
Britain's Ministry of Defence accused of wasting £174M on 'external advice'
Morpheus comms system online by 2025? You must be dreaming
Public Sector24 Jun 2024 | 51
Uncle Sam sanctions Kaspersky's top bosses – but not Mr K himself
Here's America's list of the supposedly dirty dozen
CSO21 Jun 2024 | 16
Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites
If Putin likes jammin', we hope NATO likes jammin' too
Security21 Jun 2024 | 56
How Europe can force Apple to support competition
Exclusive Open Web Advocacy report calls for these extensive changes to iGiant's rules
Personal Tech21 Jun 2024 | 56
Biden bans Kaspersky: No more sales, updates in US
Blockade begins July 20 on national security grounds as antivirus slinger vows to fight back
CSO20 Jun 2024 | 111
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians
If you call 'client-side scanning' something like 'upload moderation,' it still undermines privacy, security
Security18 Jun 2024 | 75
IMF suggests tax on AI's CO2 emissions, but not AI itself
Be afraid … be very afraid: AI could also revolutionize tax itself, money boffins argue
Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 14
Vietnam's internet again in trouble as three of five submarine cables go down
Outages came a day after nation launched giveaway of .VN domains in pursuit of improved digital sovereignty
Public Sector18 Jun 2024 | 11
Shoddy infosec costs PwC spinoff and NMA $11.3M in settlement with Uncle Sam
Updated Pen-testing tools didn't work – and personal info of folks hit by pandemic started appearing in search engines
CSO17 Jun 2024 | 2
US Surgeon General wants cigarette-style health warning labels on social networks
Something like ... Side effects may include low self esteem, short attention span, and intrusive ads?
Personal Tech17 Jun 2024 | 31
Microsoft answered Congress' questions on security. Now the White House needs to act
Feature Business as usual needs a real change
Public Sector15 Jun 2024 | 45
Stanford Internet Observatory wilts under legal pressure during election year
Because who needs disinformation research at times like these
Research14 Jun 2024 | 85
Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down
Facebook parent calls step forward for privacy a 'step backwards'
AI + ML14 Jun 2024 | 41
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia
Browser maker decided not to follow Putin's orders. Well done
Applications14 Jun 2024 | 53
Pakistan punishes tax dodgers with new measures to ensure telcos cut off their mobile phones
Already doxxed and ordered disconnection for half a million of its own citizens suspected of not paying their share
Public Sector14 Jun 2024 | 8
Microsoft bigwig says the Feds catching Chinese spies in Exchange Online is the cloud working as intended
'It's not our job to find the culprits – That's what we're paying you for' lawmaker scolds Brad Smith
CSO14 Jun 2024 | 57
US Space Force wanted $77M to reinforce GPS – and Congress shot it down
Can't we do this another way, like without these mini-sats costing $1B over 5 years, House reps wonder
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 23
US senators propose guardrails for government AI purchases and operations
Bill proposes appointment of chief AI officers, privacy safeguards, and lots of testing
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 2
Preventing another chip shortage on G7 summit agenda
Group will also look into protecting subsea communications infrastructure
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 1
Japan forces Apple and Google to allow third-party app stores and payments
DMA-like law passes in pursuit of a more innovative and open smartphone market
Public Sector13 Jun 2024 | 9
No, an AI bot isn't running for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming
But candidate Victor Miller tells The Reg he'll use machine learning to help govern
AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 10
Beijing wants more outfits like Temu teeming around the world
Calls for massive cross-border e-commerce expansion at home and abroad
Public Sector12 Jun 2024 | 14
Brazil recruits OpenAI in brave bid to slash court battle costs
Bills from legal fights reach 1% of GDP. Hallucination rate no doubt higher
AI + ML11 Jun 2024 | 5
UK education department awards contract uplift to Horizon scandal-plagued Fujitsu
Japanese supplier gets £4.75M contract extension amid promise not to bid for govt work
Public Sector11 Jun 2024 | 13
EU grants €15M funding for ICARUS inflatable heat shield
Exclusive Just don't let it fly too close to the Sun
Science10 Jun 2024 | 24
China's new sanctions loophole: Use export-controlled chips inside the US
Oracle, Nvidia accused of working with ByteDance, others to provide access to advanced parts within America
Systems06 Jun 2024 | 5
Tokyo takes on Tinder by developing its own dating app it hopes will arrest population decline
We're from the government and we want you to find love and procreate
Public Sector06 Jun 2024 | 17
After contentious Amazon datacenter fight, US county says it has learned a lesson
Interview 'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers
On-Prem05 Jun 2024 | 4
Airbus shows off uncrewed AI-powered Wingman for fighter pilots
Updated I feel the need, the need for ... a Euro-made military drone
AI + ML05 Jun 2024 | 27
India's IT minister defeated in bid for lower house seat
Probably won't cost him his job, meaning India's messy tech to-do list remains his problem
Public Sector05 Jun 2024 | 2
Australia drops legal action that aimed to have X take down stabbing vid
Musky network celebrates free speech win ... after not opposing takedown of similar fare
Public Sector05 Jun 2024 | 41
Command senior chief busted for secretly setting up Wi-Fi on US Navy combat ship
In the Navy, no, you cannot have an unauthorized WLAN. In the Navy, no, that's not a good plan
CSO04 Jun 2024 | 91
Pentagon 'doubling down' on Microsoft despite 'massive hack,' senators complain
Meanwhile Mr Smith goes to Washington to testify before Congress
Public Sector04 Jun 2024 | 5
Intel CEO says sanctions on China squanders opportunity for US chipmakers like Intel
Computex When the Middle Kingdom starts making its own processors, it won’t buy ones made by me!
On-Prem04 Jun 2024 | 32
NIST turns to IT consultants to clear National Vulnerability Database backlog
Aims to get CVE logjam cleared by the end of FY 24
CSO03 Jun 2024 | 5
STMicro bags €2B from Europe for Sicily car chip fab
Eurocrats made them an offer they couldn't refuse
Public Sector03 Jun 2024 | 1
DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus
In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky
Science02 Jun 2024 | 3
Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps?
Kettle And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!
AI + ML01 Jun 2024 | 8
FlyingYeti phishing crew grounded after abominable Ukraine attacks
Kremlin-aligned gang used Cloudflare and GitHub resources, and they didn't like that one bit
Cyber-crime31 May 2024 | 1
Singapore to offer enterprises incentives to buy greener hardware
Tropical nation ends DC build hiatus and calls for energy optimization everywhere – even software
Public Sector31 May 2024 | 1
OpenAI is very smug after thwarting five ineffective AI covert influence ops
That said, use of generative ML to sway public opinion may not always be weak sauce
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 11
California's Governor Newsom is worried AI will be smothered in regulation
OTOH, 'If we chase a shiny object, we could put ourselves in a perilous position'
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 17
Palantir bags $480M from Pentagon to inject battlefield AI into the entire military
Uncle Sam wants Maven Smart System to be in use across DoD by 2029
Public Sector30 May 2024 | 12
Amazon Prime Air delivery drones allowed off line-of-sight leash
Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators – starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you
Personal Tech30 May 2024 | 7
Malaysia stakes claim to become semiconductor superpower by luring $100B investment from … somewhere
Suggests itself as the place to do high-end manufacturing without upsetting anyone
Public Sector30 May 2024 | 3
China shows off machine-gun-toting robot dog and its AI-powered puppy
Training exercises test suitability for both reconnaissance and lethal kinetic action
AI + ML29 May 2024 | 77
Indonesia's president orders government to stop developing new applications
Nation of 17,000 islands operates 27,000 bits of software
Public Sector28 May 2024 | 14
China creates $47B chiptech investment fund
Third 'Big Fund' is close to the level of US and EU subsidy programs
Public Sector28 May 2024 | 8
South Korea targets Moon and Mars landings after launching unified space agency
Meanwhile, North Korea's latest rocket fails
Public Sector28 May 2024 |
How's Uncle Sam getting on with Biden's AI exec order? Pretty good, we're told
Interview Former Pentagon deputy CIO Rob Carey tells us guardrails should steer Feds away from bad ML
Public Sector27 May 2024 | 7
Man behind deepfake Biden robocall indicted on felony charges, faces $6M fine
FCC wants to hit this political genius with first-of-a-kind punishment
Cyber-crime24 May 2024 | 46
Capgemini to keep the legacy lights on at HMRC for £245.5M
That's half a billion from generous taxpayers in 2.5 years
Public Sector24 May 2024 | 20
AWS pledges to spend €15.7B expanding Spanish operations
Much of the money will go to mountainous Aragón – not mainly in the plain
Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 7
Japan's space agency enlists train operator's AI to foresee in-orbit failures
Shinkansen maintenance tricks boost reliability on the ground, so why not?
AI + ML24 May 2024 | 4
Thanks for the memory, South Korea tells nation's chip makers – now build processors
President warns of 'all-out national warfare' around silicon as he announces $19B development package
Systems24 May 2024 | 4
Korea's SKC gets $75M in CHIPS change for US-based glass substrate plant
Set up as a gamble, the Absolics subsidiary has just paid off
On-Prem23 May 2024 |
Uncle Sam's had enough of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, sues to end monopoly
Music to everyone's ears
Personal Tech23 May 2024 | 19
Google guru roasts useless phishing tests, calls for fire drill-style overhaul
Current approaches aren't working and demonize security teams
Security23 May 2024 | 57
US Space Force says it needs more practice at responding to orbital emergencies
But still just once a year because this stuff is expensive. Hopefully that's enough
Public Sector23 May 2024 | 4
UK PM Sunak calls election, leaving Brits cringing over memory of his Musk love-in
Man who promised the Unicorn Kingdom must now face judgement from the real thing
Public Sector23 May 2024 | 328
China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping's philosophies
What next? Kim-Jong-AI? Don't laugh – Nvidia has pondered rebuilding a digital Napoleon
AI + ML23 May 2024 | 14
'China-aligned' spyware slingers operating since 2018 unmasked at last
Unfading Sea Haze adept at staying under the radar
Research23 May 2024 | 1
Lawmakers advance bill to tighten White House grip on AI model exports
Vague ML definitions subject to change – yeah, great
AI + ML23 May 2024 |
FCC boss wants political ads to admit when they were made using AI
How about just flag up the adverts not using machine learning
AI + ML22 May 2024 | 6
Go after UnitedHealth, not us, 100+ medical groups urge Uncle Sam
Why should we get its paperwork?
CSO22 May 2024 | 8
Confused by the SEC's IT security breach reporting rules? Read this
'Clarification' weighs in on material vs voluntary disclosures
CSO22 May 2024 | 2
Top AI players pledge to pull the plug on models that present intolerable risk
Seoul Summit follows up Bletchley Declaration with more non-binding and vague promises
AI + ML22 May 2024 | 15
Uncle Sam to inject $50M into auto-patcher for hospital IT
Boffins, why not simply invent an algorithm that autonomously fixes flaws, thereby ending ransomware forever
Public Sector22 May 2024 | 33
Biting the hand that feeds IT
