Coronavirus masks are thwarting facial recognition systems. So, of course, people are building training sets from your lockdown-wear selfies Reddit · 3 months ago
Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC Reddit · 3 months ago
Hey Siri, are you still recording people’s conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago? Reddit · 3 months ago
You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through Americans’ browsing history without a warrant? Reddit · 3 months ago
Equifax finally coughs up the money for its 2017 monster hack… to the banks for having to cancel your cards. Reddit · 3 months ago
Huge if true… Trump explodes as he learns open source could erode China tech ban | The Register presents White House transcript obtained by Stealth Anti-Tracing Intelligence Remote Exfiltration Reddit · 3 months ago
Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War Hacker News · 3 months ago
Microsoft admits being 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source Hacker News · 3 months ago
Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID Reddit · 3 months ago
UK centralised contact-tracing app probably won't work well, may be illegal Hacker News · 3 months ago
ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, claims it’s ‘the right thing to do’ after months of controversy Reddit · 3 months ago
Three years ago, IBM ordered staff to work in central hubs. Now its new CEO ponders mid-pandemic: Is there a better way of doing things? Reddit · 4 months ago
ICANN’s founding CEO and chair accuse them of abandoning principles in push for billion-dollar .org sale Reddit · 4 months ago
Sources: ICANN delays review period for selling .org registry to Ethos Capital until May 4, after California's AG raised concerns it would hurt non-profits Techmeme · 4 months ago
Ransomware scumbags leak Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX documents after contractor refuses to pay Reddit · 4 months ago
Guess what's heading to trial? IBM and its tactic of yoinking promised commissio Hacker News · 4 months ago
OK brainiacs, we’ve got an IT cold case for you: Fatal disk errors on an Amiga 4000 with 600MB external SCSI unless the clock app is… just so Reddit · 4 months ago
UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High Court evidence Reddit · 4 months ago
Boeing 787s must be rebooted every 51 days to stop 'misleading data' for pilots Hacker News · 4 months ago
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Akamai, and Netflix join MANRS, an Internet Society-supported initiative aimed at bolstering internet's routing security Techmeme · 4 months ago
NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS, but forgot about egress costs Hacker News · 5 months ago
Firefox 74 slams Facebook in solitary confinement: Browser add-on stops social network stalking users across the web Reddit · 5 months ago
Google: You know we said that Chrome tracker contained no personally identifiable info? Forget we ever said that Reddit · 5 months ago
When Virgin Media said it leaked ‘limited contact info’, it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses and more Reddit · 5 months ago
Chips that pass in the night: How risky is RISC-V to Arm, Intel and the others? Very Reddit · 5 months ago
Former US Homeland Security Inspector General accused of stealing govt code and trying to resell it to… the US govt | That’s one way to pad your pension pot, allegedly Reddit · 5 months ago
‘Unfixable’ boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell ‘utter chaos’ for DRM, file encryption, etc Reddit · 5 months ago
More than a billion hopelessly vulnerable Android gizmos in the wild that no longer receive security updates – research Reddit · 5 months ago
Details from trial of alleged Vault 7 leaker show the password for CIA's Confluence VM was "123ABCdef", and shared passwords were posted on the group's intranet Techmeme · 5 months ago
It has been 15 years, and we’re still reporting homograph attacks – web domains that stealthily use non-Latin characters to appear legit Reddit · 5 months ago
Trashing privacy? That’s our job! Facebook accuses analytics biz of harvesting people’s info from software dev kit sold to app makers Reddit · 5 months ago
Would-be .org gobbler Ethos Capital promises to keep prices down in last-ditch effort to keep $1.1bn deal alive – Private equity outfit makes concessions, key questions still remain Reddit · 6 months ago
How many times do we have to tell you? A Tesla isn’t a self-driving car, say investigators after Apple man’s fatal crash Reddit · 6 months ago
Good news, everyone: The US military says it will be ethically minded about how it develops AI Reddit · 6 months ago
Samsung says a breach let some users see strangers' data and that an unsolicited notification to users globally from pre-loaded app Find my Mobile was a glitch Techmeme · 6 months ago
Get in the C: Raspberry Pi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival Reddit · 6 months ago
FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) for feedback on net neutrality Hacker News · 6 months ago
Google product boss cuffed on suspicion of murder after his Microsoft manager wife goes missing, woman’s body found, during Hawaii trip Reddit · 6 months ago
All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was… other people’s details Reddit · 6 months ago
Forcing us to get consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech, US ISPs claim Reddit · 6 months ago