Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp The Lambda School, an online coding bootcamp based in San Fra...

Plus: Anti-Chocolate Factory campaign says it'll collect all the class-action damages, thank you A barrister for the Information Commis...

AI infosec start-up avoids same opening day peril as Deliveroo British AI-powered security startup Darktrace has enjoyed a bumper IPO Frida...

If found guilty, Cupertino could have to cough over $27bn The European Commission today said it believes Apple has abused its absolute cont...

Little kids have this way of being brutally honest in all facets of their life (that is, when they’re not telling an obvious lie about eati...

I got a grab bag of kid-internet for you this week, including a president who isn’t completely embarrassing, a podcaster who is, the most h...

After a year without vacations, some people are a little rusty at booking travel, and scammers are taking full advantage. The Better Busine...

Every Windows PC would benefit from a spring cleaning. Hell, it doesn’t even have to be spring. If you can’t remember the last time you sav...

Send jobs in - based anywhere in the world - and we'll publish them for free Job Alert   The Register is publishing free job ads to he...

Confirmation happened at pace. Shame the same can't be said for Artemis Former US Senator Bill Nelson has been confirmed as NASA admin...

'We accept full responsibility for past conduct,' says German software giant SAP has agreed to pay penalties of $8m for providing I...

Violet, you're turning ... to our digital workflows! Trust enterprise software CEO Bill McDermott to pick the right man to lead his mar...

And it was poorly secured, allowing someone to analyze players' private fantasies AI Dungeon, which uses OpenAI’s GPT-3 to create onlin...

Think we already made a Stockholm syndrome joke the other day so... Bork!Bork!Bork!   Scandi noir may have been all the rage in recent year...

The Zoom meeting I’m missing is already miles away Something for the Weekend, Sir?   "Do you know who I am?"… from The Registe...

NASA chose not to re-install OS and live with a 15 percent failure rate Software issues prevented the fourth scheduled flight of NASA's...

Goodbye, Mr Chips On Call   There are few things worse than when someone nicks your chips, be they of the potato or silicon variety as our ...

Big Blue also slurps Turbonomic to give hybrid clouds an injection of AI automation IBM has made some interesting container-and-hybrid-clou...

Vows to make safe C++-alike 'a mainstream language of choice' as hundreds of devs wield it Video   Facebook is joining the Rust Fou...

Cloud revenues growing by over 30 per cent, bring in 13 per cent of all Bezos bucks Amazon.com recorded $108.5bn in sales for the first qua...

Chaebol's Q1 revenue reaches new all-time high of US$59B Samsung has vowed to maximize its silicon production by starting mass producti...

Virtzilla also admits to essentially merging Apple silicon efforts with ESXi on Arm VMware has revealed that surging second wave of COVID-1...

By eight they should be telling you not to upload geo-tagged photos of them in school uniform Australia has decided that six-year-old child...

Tencent, ByteDance, pals invited to meeting without coffee over ‘disorderly expansion of capital’ China has again moved to ensure its web g...

Remapping a video game’s buttons is an important feature that can make gaming sessions more comfortable, make you a better gamer, and open...

Garlic powder gets no respect. Sure, the aroma and taste of fresh garlic is hard to beat, but in some situations, the dried stuff doesn’t j...

Before they have kids, everyone has a different image in their head of the type of parent they think they’ll be. Maybe you’ll be a free-ran...

Not a good look for company 'at the epicentre of the workflow revolution' ServiceNow has spooked investors by adding fewer high-val...

A recent LendingTree report suggests that it’s an opportune time to ask your credit card lender to lower your interest rate, cancel a late...

A few evenings ago I scrolled upon a video of a woman yelling about a potato . I still don’t know who that woman was, but the points she ma...

Cupertino brought in more for Q2 than HPE did for all of 2020 so go figure Apple is having one helluva pandemic. The world's most valua...

Makes good on its promise to inflict News and Interests on older versions Buckle up, it's that time again. Microsoft is set to unleash ...

Plus: Browser sends Google's FLoC straight to the blacklist The latest release of Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has extended ad block...

Biggest data protection case for years teeters on brink Google has urged the UK's Supreme Court to throw out a £3bn lawsuit brought by ...

Many owe thanks to Huawei ducking out under what IDC calls 'increased weight of US sanctions’ People are buying smartphones again, acco...

No, not the US government's task force ... the other one The Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force (RTF) on...

Who knows whether algorithms really harm society? Analysis   Big tech's approach to avoiding AI regulation looks a lot like Big Tobacco...

None of them are Comic Sans, or likely to provoke similar passion Microsoft has decided that Calibri’s days as its default font are numbere...

New starter or mid-career switcher? Here’s where to start Promo   Cyber attackers are a diverse lot. They can strike from anywhere in the w...

Expected to host three astronauts for a decade, starting in 2022 China has placed the first module of a crewed space station in orbit.… ...

Panto season comes early in Redmond as TLS tweaks revive software Is the OneDrive desktop sync client supported under Windows 7? Despite ev...

Ah look, it's the galaxy's Florida Evidence of what was once possibly water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere in a distant ...

Users weren't warned conversations on chat apps were being used to build a bot. And parents weren't told their young kids had signed...

First that IPO and now this Digital Ocean on Wednesday said someone was able to snoop on some of its cloud subscribers' billing informa...

$600m in patent royalty payments pour in to help margins pop Huawei has posted its Q1 2021 results – and the headline figure is a 16.5 per ...

But for now, have some thin, light x86 Galaxy Pro laptops Samsung is touting some more Wintel laptops – the Galaxy Book Pro and Galaxy Book...

#ResignModi posts hidden amid heartbreaking COVID-19 crisis Facebook temporarily blocked netizens from viewing posts calling for the resign...

Electronics retailer 'confident' workers can be offered opportunities elsewhere in the business Dixons Carphone is to permanently g...

If last summer was the season of all the camps shutting down, this summer is the season for figuring out how to keep them open. As we wind ...

The pause on federal student loan payments and interest ends in October , but are you prepared? Considering that 55% of borrowers aren’t c...

Transport minister confirms use of the NHS app for just that when citizens travel abroad With Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Gove ...

It never fails. Right when you’ve got your hands full, or you’re doing dishes and they’re covered in soap, or you’re working outside and al...

Now that most of my buds are on their way to being fully vaccinated, I am getting cautiously excited about feeding them. And though there m...

Highly anticipated details of stock division still unavailable Heirs of Samsung patriarch billionaire Lee Kun-hee issued a statement today ...

Maybe we can make software modular, secure, speedy all at the same time The Bytecode Alliance, formed by Fastly, Intel, Mozilla, and Red Ha...

Cloud migration and winner-takes-all integration drive more coins into Redmond's pocket Microsoft has reported a 19 per cent year-on-ye...

Regulator inviting comments on implications for local goods and services Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investiga...

What's £23m compared to £1.35bn? The three most important words in any estate agent's lexicon are: "Location, location, locati...

Can open innovation work in the automobile industry? IBM tentacle Red Hat has waded into the world of automobiles with the intent of attach...

Finland, Finland, Finland, the country where I want to bork Bork!Bork!Bork!   Bork knows no borders, be they geographical or technological,...

Traffic + Demand * Bandwidth = $$$ (maybe) If you had 5G and cryptomining on your buzzword bingo cards, crack open the bubbly – FreedomFi g...

$30m, 100,000-core beast will use third-gen AMD EPYCs and 352 – count 'em – Nvidia A100 GPUs Singapore has picked Hewlett Packard Enter...

Must see: Dr Holly Cummins and Liz Fong-Jones to deliver keynotes Event   We’re really thrilled to announce the first two keynotes for Cont...

Calls for market for jabs to be abandoned, and local vaccine IP to be freed India’s Software Freedom Law Centre, an organisation that aims ...

Micro-dosing among Cali techies ... suddenly it's all starting to make sense The co-founder and CEO of Iterable, a San Francisco market...

Quantum experiment may clear the way for viable silicon photonics – chips with electronic and photonic interconnects Researchers in a team...

Turns out people, orgs are still buying truck loads of kit a year into the pandemic AMD beat Wall Street's expectations for the first q...

Down Under watchdog doesn't call for commission cuts nor suggest major interventions Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (A...

Big list of requirements to get the financial boost – and no mention of 'cut and paste from the West' China’s Ministry of Industry ...

Profit, sales soar as giant seemingly scales beyond our perception of reality and scrutiny of society Google-parent Alphabet generated $55....

According to numerous reports, Windows 10 updates KB5000842 and KB5001330 cause annoying performance bugs for games running in windowed mod...

If you’ve assembled IKEA furniture , you’ve used an Allen wrench. These slim, L-shaped contraptions are often the only tool included in the...

Good news for users with disabilities, though there's room for improvement Point releases typically come and go without much fanfare. B...

When our kids are babies, we cater to their every need and want. We’re their whole world, so it doesn’t matter how exhausted or busy we mig...

Even if your social media threats are more a whimper or an annoyance than a full-scale war from internet strangers, you can still keep imag...

Is it yield to the left or just ram my way through any which way? From Swindon's insane five circles in a circle to the insurance-claus...

Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint Arm today publicly added two more CPU cores to its Neoverse family of data-center and server-grade p...

Even as sales at retail chains  improve , a low labor participation rate has caused a shortage of workers, leading some companies to offer...

In terms of flavor and price point, it is hard to beat bacon grease as a cooking fat. It’s smoky and salty and—if you’re already eating bac...

Newish criminal gang 'trying to make a name for themselves' Ransomware criminals have posted trophy pictures on their Tor blog afte...

Another month, another Teams TITSUP* When the sun is out, thoughts can turn to taking an impromptu day's vacation. Microsoft Teams appe...

So clever that more than half are using their own gear for work, says Gartner In what sounds like an introduction to an episode of Who, Me?...

Existing supplier was first contracted back in the 1990s Transport Scotland is on the hunt for an IT vendor to support and update traffic m...

Cheese, pepperoni, and a generous topping of bork Bork!Bork!Bork!   Today's bork comes from the fine Croatian town of Opatija, located ...

The dead can't see – until you reanimate them The legal remains of one-time PC maker Tiny Computers can sue RAM manufacturers Micron an...

A cloud called Azure, which appears to be previewing a Chipzilla special Microsoft has started a preview of Intel’s third-generation Xeon S...

Office 365 shop? You may be exposed too. Here’s why – according to Sophos Promo   If you’re running Microsoft Exchange anywhere in your org...

Machine-learning algorithms to spot telltale particles in human breath NASA is trying to adapt an air-quality monitor normally found on the...

Oh what a dealing Toyota has announced that its brand-new Woven Planet Group will buy ride-share company Lyft’s self-driving technology uni...

Test code is apparently blazingly fast, but for now Parallels has VMs on Apple silicon to itself VMware is “a few months away” from releasi...

The standard is nascent and won’t land for almost a decade. But the jockeying for position is already fierce China’s State Intellectual Pro...

Creator suspects his app's ad identifier was copied but Google keeping quiet On the last day of March, DroidScript, a popular Android a...

Empire State plant pledges to alleviate semiconductor shortage US chip maker GlobalFoundries will move its headquarters from Santa Clara, C...

Chrome desktop users have long been able to outfit the browser with third-party extensions that track prices and help you find the best dea...

Raising a child is full of surprises. No matter how many books, parenting forums, and articles you read, the truth is that nothing can comp...

Filing says most users' devices 'may experience limited water contact' Apple is facing a prospective class-action lawsuit in Ne...

Mother’s Day is a pretty straightforward holiday in many homes. Mom sleeps in, the kids bring her breakfast in bed, and she receives some h...

Consumer watchdog blasts platforms for onerous reporting mechanisms UK consumer watchdog Which? has found that ad giants Google and Facebo...

The purpose of small claims court is to allow for people to resolve their disputes quickly and inexpensively, for claims that are usually l...

We love our readers, don’t we, folks? I know I do. For the most part, the people who read and comment on Skillet (and Lifehacker in general...

Myriad major regions affected in latest wobble A fresh week and a new crop of cloud woes confronted IBM clients this morning in a bunch of ...

Pandemic making permanent changes to developer remote working The world has more developers than ever, a new SlashData survey has reported ...

Yes that was a Betteridge headline (badoom, tish) Long-running US skit show Saturday Night Live has once again courted controversy by invi...

You win some, then you lose some A Veritas salesman had £275,000 in "windfall" commission withheld after helping land "the l...

Never want to return to daily 9-5 regime? Use psychology to baffle higher-ups With some company bosses hellbent on forcing staff to return ...

We are all human beings, we live in a community, and everything we do affects others Column   The trouble with good ideas is that, taken to...

'Everything in this industry always goes to schedule and to plan,' he says Interview   Rocket Lab is on a roll, notching up multipl...

Ingenuity's third flight goes further, faster, as Perseverance snaps pics 'n' vid of 'copter zipping past VIDEO   NASA'...

You don't get me, I'm part of the union Who, Me?   Bid farewell to the weekend with a tale of surfing snoopage and automation rejec...

Brit spymaster calls for renewed attention to UK tech capabilities – and expanded role for his agency The director of the UK’s signals inte...

Here’s a flight plan to map your journey Promo   Whatever unit of measurement you use, it’s clear that more and more enterprise computing i...

Many banned posts were made by opposition politicians and appear to be criticism of the government As India battles a surging second wave o...

Uninstall code, distributed from backend servers seized in January, fired on Sunday Notorious Windows malware Emotet was automatically wipe...

Plus: America creates task force to tackle ransomware crims In Brief   The Homebrew package manager for macOS and Linux has fixed an issue ...

Proper customer protections now required, local authorities urged to make new rules stick China has issued a new code governing “livestream...

Dot-org has been offline for a month, says ‘people who have ill intentions’ behind crack A “scanlation” website for Manga has admitted that...

New version adds Hyper-V fun, more support for ACRN IoT hypervisor, support for PlayStation controllers and ‘novelty port’ to ancient Ninten...

Guidelines, privacy, security all a smokescreen for monopoly abuse, lawmakers told Special report   Apple and Google were blasted by app de...

When you actually stop to think about it, sharing a bed with another person—for the purpose of sleeping—is kind of a terrible idea. Sure, y...

It happens to the best of us: one minute you’re innocently scrolling through Zillow listings, and the next you’re planning your life in a a...

Pretty much everything about moving is hard and annoying and makes you swear that you’ll never move again. But moving with a large collecti...

DEF CON hails 'an icon in all the positive ways' Obit   Celebrated information security researcher Dan Kaminsky, known not just for...

Sure, there are all those feel-good local news stories about how the pandemic has “brought out the best in people,” and while that may be t...

Fear of failure makes sense. We’ve all experienced failure at some stage, realized it’s not great, and are worried about feeling like that ...

Once you’ve decided to paint the interior of your house—or even just a room—the next decision is much harder: picking a color scheme. Maybe...

Plus: Enormo AI chip gets an upgrade, and more In brief   Banks in America are reportedly rolling out cameras with machine-learning softwar...

The fact that we have running water in our homes is pretty miraculous, if you think about it. Unlike other points in history—and other part...

Come for the 'ohana', stay for the massive piles of cash Salesforce has topped a survey of UK executive salaries with median earnin...

A wise man once said, “I love it when a plan comes together.” And we do too—especially when we’re watching a movie. Read more... from ...

This week, fake stuff is bubbling to the surface of the internet, whether it’s fraudulent super-fans, a poseur punk band, or a despicable “...

Google recently unveiled several new Google Meet features , including a reorganized web interface with new pin controls, a new data- and ba...

Japanese firm has a reckoning to face Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted by the company as a direct result of it covering up sof...

Children have been playing video games since Pong came out in the early ‘70s. According to Common Sense Media , before schools shut down, ...

What if someone told you that all it took to unleash your inner creative spark was five minutes of daily, deliberate practice? Or that a “b...

Also, Dell and HP miss out on expanded board positions Indian IT trade association and advocacy group National Association of Software and ...

Stop what you’re doing, install Steam on your desktop or laptop PC (if you haven’t already), and go hit up the store page for Quiplash . T...

Second jaunt to the International Space Station for Endeavour SpaceX has launched the second operational Crew Dragon mission, sending anoth...

A treat for returning workers as meeting cancelled due to roomful of bork Bork!Bork!Bork!   Microsoft is famed for eating its own dogfood a...

Microsoft's own distro lurks under the covers and applications magically appear in the Start menu Hands on   Microsoft has released the...

Get with the disruptive app design, granddad: meaningless errors are cool Something for the Weekend, Sir?   An error has occurred… Of cour...

As long as the technical nous is there If you've ever worked in a commercial kitchen, you probably know what a "bump bar" is....

Practical jokes: just don't On Call   Welcome to another entry in The Register 's On Call files, where we learn that the hilarious...

Early users get speed, so policy-makers may stop building, but more users means slower speeds ... Elon Musk's Starlink project has copp...

First, COVID vaccinations, now atmosphere generators for an alien world? We're really cooking on gas now Earthlings have succeeded in c...

Sad news: Cupertino seems to think you won’t be comfortable going out until at least the end of the year COVID-19 vaccinations have been ad...

Expects breakthroughs in design, materials and more. No pressure: Xi Jinping dropped in ahead of launch China’s highest-ranked university h...

#FOSS4GOV challenge will fund and mentor devs and start-ups to create Govtech code India has challenged local developers to create open-sou...

Rivals auto-autos snap photos to ensure an actual human is behind the wheel Tesla vehicles can be easily tricked into driving in Autopilot ...

Server chip business doldrums blamed on 'digestion' Intel on Thursday reported first-quarter 2021 revenue of $19.7bn, which was bet...

Instagram is adding two new anti-harassment tools aimed at cutting down abusive messages you might receive on the platform. Here’s a quick...

Noble aim to curb energy-hungry apps, but needs willing souls to trade performance for efficiency Microsoft is previewing a new Windows dev...

You’re likely never going to encounter anyone whose grandiosity rivals that of The Talented Mr. Ripley, but narcissists of all stripes wal...

I can still remember the embarrassment I felt the time a young co-worker walked past my cubicle early one morning and paused to say, “Do I ...

Plus: UiPath and Teradata give investors reason for cheer. Yes, plenty of the wrong people happy on a Thursday in lockdown Former SAP biz Q...

A loose door hinge is annoying enough, but it’s even worse when you’ve tried to screw it back in before realizing the holes are stripped an...

Space-saving structures could work well in 'space missions' An applied maths professor and her team have dreamed up inflatable orig...

Petroleum jelly is a product found in most every medicine cabinet, but it has a lot of uses outside of the usuals providing minor burn reli...

Lockdown's getting to everyone – even the social media monkeys British domestic spy agency MI5 wants to dispel the idea it is staffed b...

Stressing the ex in x86 Canadian AI chip startup Tenstorrent, which is headed by former top AMD engineers, has picked one of SiFive's l...

I’m a bit of a gadget hoarder. I often tend to assume that I can repurpose some old thing—an ancient phone, tablet, or webcam—into somethin...

When it comes to simple, straightforward cooking advice that really ups your kitchen game, Chef Lucas Sin is one of the best Instagram acc...

Are you really going to replace that battery, though, kids? Whether it's a chilling situation or a welcome one is up for debate, but wh...

Fragmented, inflexible estate? Reach for French outsourcers Capgemini has won a £150m contract with the Student Loan Company (SLC) as the n...

Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings Astronomers detected the most energetic solar flare ever seen fro...

One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia Bork!Bork!Bork!   Windows for Billboards appears to be a thing and, judging by this example of t...

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved from Motorola to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better Review   I was three-quarters of the...

Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait Apple's AirDrop has a couple of potentially annoying privacy weaknesses that Cupe...

Improves integration and maturity, not quite the new-buzzword-worthy step-change Virtzilla wants Throughout 2020, VMware told anyone who wo...

Come inside, penguinistas, install that WSL GUI preview, yes, open source is totally winning here Video   Microsoft this week released a pr...

China already growing even faster than 13 percent regional acceleration Asian businesses are set for a security spending spree, says analys...

Court finds linked 'U' used on Smart Home app can't be confused with linked "C" used on overpriced tat Logowatch   Hu...

Come 2025, we're Putin this collaboration to bed Russia's space agency hopes to launch its own orbiting science lab by 2030 after e...

I’ve always appreciated my son’s teachers, all of whom have been wonderful and have taught him a ton—but this year? Well, we all know this ...

$10bn investment now $672m, jobs promised now 1,454 instead of 13,000 Details of the agreement reached between Foxconn and Wisconsin Econom...

Summer is approaching, which might mean you’re itching to commute great distances on your bike, perhaps ferrying many of your personal belo...

Security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia took to Twitter the other day to warn about a new scam making the rounds—the goofily named “WhatsA...

Despite the pandemic, Americans are paying down their debt , and the delinquency rate on loans is down, too—two factors contributing to the...

Moving always requires a certain amount of downsizing and, sadly, my packet drawer was one of the things I let go during my last move. Thi...

Brit infosec outfit points to nefarious deeds within Discord, Google systems After years of warnings about security, surveillance, and unwa...

AWS dodges the finger of blame as another open-sourcer tightens things up Data visualisation biz Grafana is switching its licence model fro...

Curl up and dye, anyone? Though Smaug-like CEO Jeff Bezos is famously a hairless wonder, Amazon is striking out into yet more new territory...

Finding Huawei out of this mess Ofcom should take a more active role in ensuring the UK's telecommunications providers do not become ov...

Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021 Microsoft has signed a fresh Memorandum of Understanding with the UK govern...

It's time to crack open the public sector pork barrel.... like it was ever closes It's pork barrel cracking time again, like it was...

The Reg once again shoves its talons into bags of spiky bricks for latest website-breaking set Despite scratched silver blocks and a woeful...

Threatens to release designs and data if not paid. But dangles 2005-vintage ThinkPad as proof it's serious An entity claiming to repres...

Make your move before the cyber-crims make theirs, says Sysdig Promo   The cloud has transformed how you manage your infrastructure and sof...

Tells CVC and other would-be buyers to get serious and read Japanese regulations, or go home Japanese mega-corp Toshiba says it has rebuffe...

CompSci trio describe theoretical Denial-of-Wallet attack If you want to stick it to a startup that relies on serverless infrastructure, yo...

Send more money to help us protect our space toys, military tells Congress US military leaders have claimed China has a satellite with a gr...

Program members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference Microsoft has revoked the Most Valuable Professional statu...

200 other companies also targeted, but no data lost Japan has accused a member of the Chinese Communist Party of conducting cyber-attacks o...

Great Leap Forward sees broadband speeds surge, 99 per cent of villages hooked up, all for $6/month China's Ministry of Industry and In...

Judge, JUDI, and executioner? The US Army is experimenting with machine-learning software that could be used to give tanks, trucks, and rob...

Is there a back button for reality? Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a bunch of colorful iThings on Tuesday, including iMac desktop computers i...

If you’re high right now, here’s a question that might cause your brain to short-circuit: Why exactly do we associate pot with 4/20? Is it...