64-core AMD Epycs win again as upgrade delivers performance boost without slurping more 'leccy Internet-grooming company Cloudflare has...

Someone didn't secure an Elasticsearch database, researchers allege Indonesia's Ministry of Communications and Informatics is inves...

HackerOne gets the gig Singapore's governmental digital services arm, GovTech, has launched a "rewards programme" to further ...

Big Tech warns favoring SK players won't go down well – yet South Korea loves its software South Korea's parliament has passed a la...

Judge asks prospective jurors whether they have experience with intimate partner violence The long anticipated fraud trial of Elizabeth Hol...

Head of Russia's segment says it's time for Roscosmos to build its own orbiting lab Cracks characterized as superficial by Russia h...

When it a contact not a contract? When it's an incentive plan letter IBM has been sued by sales manager Mark Briggs for allegedly cappi...

The COVID-19 vaccines have become somewhat notorious for their side effects: fatigue, sore arm, maybe a fever. In a few rare cases, there a...

Google Chrome version 93 has just launched for both desktop and Android. These monthly updates can bring a mixed bag of new features, tweak...

Chocolate Factory says never-ending pandemic threw spanner in October plan Google has delayed recalling its staff to their office desks unt...

Ever wondered why your AirPods Pro’s battery level almost always hovers around 80 percent? This is because Apple automatically enables a f...

The FDA cracked down on disposable, flavorful vapes last year, and although you can still find Puff Bars and their counterparts all over, ...

Plus: T-Mobile US apologizes, security holes found in medical pumps, and more In brief   The massive attack on Microsoft Exchange servers i...

Last week, the Supreme Court struck down the CDC’s latest extension of the eviction moratorium, which was supposed to last through Oct. 3....

September is when we start winding down our garden for the year, but there is still time to plant vegetables now to enjoy later in the fal...

There isn’t always a handy pullup bar around, especially if you have a home gym without a good place to put one. I happened upon a solution...

Wrestling isn’t just for grandmas anymore. (My grandma was really, really into pro-wrestling when I was a kid. I assume that is the norm.)...

When we get into arguments with people, such as your on-the-other-side-of-the-political-spectrum uncle, the disrespectful neighbor, or even...

'Unprecedented public demand' as dear leaders heave services for world+dog online Gartner is forecasting that governments the world...

Is it a good idea to pay off high-interest credit card debt with money from your 401(k)? Financial experts will almost always say no, but t...

While privacy as we used to know it might be dead and gone, there are still plenty of ways to protect yourself against the default tech sta...

Bach to basics: The well-funded IPO-er Enterprise application minnow Freshworks has filed for IPO in the hopes that its SaaSy software can ...

Critics, meanwhile, voice incredulity over how little data has been shared The National Data Guardian declined to endorse NHS England's...

Use third-party tools 'at your own risk' – but what of the risk of Exchange itself? Comment   Microsoft customers who use Exchange ...

He's not just a Big Cheese. He's a very naughty boy Who, Me?   "Be careful what you wish for." Words that might strike a ...

Lean in for a tale of shell companies, fake CEOs, bribes, prison time and $3.6m in fines A former Cisco executive was this month sentenced ...

Orbiter nearly built ahead of ride with SpaceX in August '22. But first, a home-grown rocket launch in a month or so South Korea's ...

Partial credit card numbers appear and, worse still, passengers' meal preferences Bangkok Airways has revealed it was the victim of a c...

Yet again, Microsoft tries to make your world more Azure-centric +Analysis   Microsoft won't ship a new version of Hyper-V Server – the...

Meanwhile, Amazon gripes about SpaceX's constellation plans Rumor has it Apple’s upcoming iPhone 13 can directly use satellites in low ...

Beijing limits kids to three hours a week, suggests they use it to play Chess, Go or coding China has introduced regulations that restrict ...

Reentrancy attack siphoned off millions CREAM Finance, a decentralized loan platform, lost at least $18m in cryptocurrency on Monday to an ...

More human guides recruited, trained to keep eyes on machines, athletes Toyota’s autonomous shuttle service at the Paralympic games in Japa...

Chip biz's fix involves performance-inhibiting LFENCE, if warranted Computer scientists at TU Dresden in Germany have found that AMD...

Like eyebrows , the trend in lips right now is big . Everywhere you turn—but mostly on Instagram—big lips are dominating. There has been mu...

It’s notoriously difficult to find out how much you’ll pay for a surgery or procedure before it happens. For one thing, hospitals don’t cha...

Last week, the New York Times published an article by Grace Cook that got half of Twitter talking about “the cotton tote crisis.” At the c...

When everyone seems to be making more money than you, the inevitable question is “okay, what exactly do all these people do ?” Fortunately,...

A global pandemic might have delayed the onslaught of comic book films, but that’s a tide that could only be held back for so long. Between...

If you’re looking to supercharge your WhatsApp experience with some unofficial features, you might be tempted to try a mod. These versions ...

Just like people, our pets can develop arthritis, which can have a significant impact on their quality of life if it’s not managed properly...

Love it or hate it, the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar is a unique piece of tech. While Apple is rumored to be phasing out the Touch Bar later thi...

I’ve never been able to find anything easily in macOS’ System Preferences. Even the most basic things, such as changing wallpaper-related s...

Even as glossy mags and wellness influencers have adopted weed (primarily CBD) as their new superfood snake oil, the taboo that still surro...

You don’t always want to take a snap of your Mac’s screen immediately after you hit the screenshot shortcut key—sometimes you might want t...

Admittedly, we’ve gotten a little jaded. Digital effects are so omnipresent in our blockbusters that we’ve come to expect the impossible fr...

Most people buy and hold cryptocurrency in the hopes that it will one day replace fiat currencies and therefore become more valuable. How...

With the notable exception of my fish spatula, nearly all of my favorite spoons and turners are made of wood. Wooden cooking implements ar...

'996' culture and its assumption of six twelve hour days - without overtime - labelled abusive and illegal China's Supreme Peop...

You've gotta have standards Opinion   We are teetering on the brink of a golden age of AI. It must be true, we keep being told so. This...

297M are rural, 983M use instant messaging, 469M order food online, and they average 26.9 hours online every week More than a billion Chine...

Ancient 'Who owns Unix?' case puts a $14.25M price tag on making some claims go away One strand of the ancient and convoluted SCO v...

One engine failed a second into flight, but it still managed to reach 50km altitude Video   Ever wondered what happens when one of an orbit...

Says regulatory changes requiring local ownership made it impossible to continue, but fancies a comeback Yahoo!'s Indian outpost has st...

'We have another 30 years to look forward to,' says Emperor Penguin – and less to worry about as Spectre-proofing code arrives Linu...

Fresh flowers—whether picked directly from your yard or garden, or coming via a professional bouquet or arrangement—have a relatively short...

There’s a difference between something being dirty and discolored—and plastic vent covers can be both. While many homes feature vent covers...

One of the perks of friendship is having someone to confide in, share your news with (both good and bad), and turn to for support. But some...

Plus: Mortgage algorithm bias, and an AI-guided play comes to London In brief   Clearview AI’s controversial facial-recognition system has ...

So, you had to cancel your summer vacation for the second year in a row because of the pandemic. For a while, this year was really looking ...

People tend to have strong opinions about snakes—usually either finding them fascinating (in some cases, enough so to keep one as a pet), o...

In the two weeks since the Taliban took hold of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, roughly 105,000 people have been evacuated, in one of t...

2014 stealth-em-up hasn't aged a day The RPG   Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games , our monthly gaming...

Squirrely semiconductor swaps make performance difficult to predict Samsung has altered the parts used to make its 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD car...

Some tactics never change much Microsoft has warned that it has been tracking a widespread credential-phishing campaign that relies on open...

There are plenty of ways to take beautiful screenshots on your Mac, but there’s a catch—the mouse cursor is missing in all of your screens...

Though I’ve been an Apple TV+ subscriber for going on a year—mostly because a free year came with my iPhone 12 Mini—I still don’t quite und...

Hopefully this'll be the sample that eventually gets sent back to Earth NASA’s Perseverance rover will make a second attempt at collect...

Like the Nintendo Switch and Sony’s PlayStation 4 and 5 consoles, the Xbox Series X|S and its older sibling the Xbox One are region-free de...

When you’re trying to wash, dry, and sort through pile after pile of your family’s laundry, an organized and functional workspace can make ...

Hardware requirements loophole left in Microsoft doesn't want to say it publicly but it will not stop you manually installing Windows 1...

Dell's results were upbeat, HP's flat, but investors still worried over supply chain HP Inc and Dell both raised concerns over ongo...

Wednesday morning, I got in a rental car and drove from Montreal (where I live) to New York City, having recently decided to dip my toe in ...

Your Mac makes it pretty easy to take screenshots, but soon enough you’ll end up with a desktop that’s overflowing with them. That’s becaus...

When the season changes and your summer plants are gone, your soil begs for some sort of protection from the cold weather to come. Harsh wi...

Even before the pandemic kept us locked in our homes for weeks at a time, the delivery and takeout business was booming thanks to apps that...

A sprinkling of Rust and presto! A new multi-language web site appears The GNOME project has created Apps for GNOME, a website to "fea...

Announcing the return of El Reg 's Boatnotes series with the RN Boatnotes   Ahead of the upcoming second edition of The Register 's...

This week the kids are debating whether COVID is a thing and falling off milk crates. I know Whitney Houston said, “the children are our fu...

I am going elk hunting next week. This will be my first time doing any sort of hunting—and my first time camping since I was a child—and I ...

Could help boost deployment times, says analyst Real-time analytical database slinger Rockset has introduced SQL transforms to livestreamin...

Fixing laptops and solving UX conundra – all in a night’s work Something for the Weekend, Sir?   Having a screw on the kitchen table is an ...

Building the missing spacecraft in Lego's NASA collection Feature   The Register's Lego Space odyssey continues with the addition ...

Buys in to 'AtmaNirbhar Bharat' self-sufficiency drive and ups capacity for servers while it's at it The PC market is on the ri...

When you have eliminated the impossible... On Call   Welcome to another in The Register's series of confessions from readers who were ...

Also offers free mice, power bricks, lap pillows and fast WiFi in cars rated to allow 300km/h video chat The Central Japan Railway Company ...

Still, that'll be 100 quid, please Scientists in Japan have 3D printed an approximation of one of the nation's delicacies, Wagyu be...

Malaysian fake news laws didn't work well, so Big Tech should have to do better at spotting and stopping bad actors Society should trea...

Allows direct contact between devs and users, promises transparency and better search – but only in the USA Apple has announced the settlem...

Stealthy flash, firmware transplant in WD Blue SN550 attracts attention Western Digital says it will alert customers when it reformulates i...

Microsoft warns customers of ChaosDB hole that lay dormant for months Infosec outfit Wiz has revealed that Microsoft’s flagship Azure datab...

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud The US Department of Justice and the SEC on Wednesday charged the ...

If you want all these new fabs, you're gonna pay for 'em, pal TSMC is reportedly increasing its chip manufacturing prices by as muc...

There are endless hacks about how to keep your white clothes clean without hard chemicals. Some suggestions include baking soda, vinegar, ...

Tech Transparency Project accuses iGiant of lip service to child safety Apple, having recently invoked the "think of the children...

Listen, we’re not here to judge or ask questions. You need to clear your recent browsing history—and fast. Lucky for you, we can help. Whe...

The last time I left my apartment with a wallet in my pocket was March 11, 2020 (guess why). I don’t carry one anymore, because wallets are...

If you’ve ever called 911, you know that one of the first things they ask you—often before you’ve even said why you’re calling—is your loca...

There is always some new trend cropping up on Instagram or TikTok that, upon further investigation, isn’t very new at all. Angel numbers ar...

Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul payment and apps provider, though, says expert South Korea is potentially on its way to tweaking it...

New Information Commissioner to be given licence to promote 'innovation and growth' The UK has named a new Information Commissioner...

Those of us fully entrenched in the Apple ecosystem have a lot of batteries to think about; you might have a MacBook, iPhone, iPad, Apple W...

Rejoice, at least partially vaccinated doughnut lovers, for Krispy Kreme is doubling down on their free doughnut program , giving away two ...

Using that CSP 2.0 feature? You may have received a worrying missive The director of a tiny UK company has apologised after sending letters...

Two-day hackathon to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe, and where to put them The UK's venerable Ordnance Survey is to...

Excession chief exec testifies in High Court of England and Wales A company is suing the Police Digital Service (PDS) over a framework wort...

The usual suspects The commercial wing of the UK government has named the winners on a £3.5bn framework to provide public-sector contact ce...

After White House summit, AWS promises MFA tokens, Google and Microsoft spray money, IBM 'announces' snapshots against ransomware U...

And it's a sequel to the Tinder stalking flaw Up until this year, dating app Bumble inadvertently provided a way to find the exact loca...

9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication Atlassian has warned users of its Confluence Server that th...

Hands Zuck its second-largest fine ever, also makes Netflix pay up and warns Google to be more obvious about privacy Facebook, Netflix and ...

This one has it all: a leaky VPN, creepy proxy networks, 8Chan, clouds hosting wonky workloads, and Swedish digital rights org Qurium Looks...

Can't keep up with software licence payments but says it's been on top of VMware payments for at least a whole year now Pakistan...

44-PFLOPS Polaris 'testbed' ordered ahead of Chipzilla-powered Aurora Uncle Sam's Argonne National Laboratory has ordered Polar...

It may hurt community policing, too Police responding to ShotSpotter's AI-generated alerts of gunfire find evidence of actual gun-relat...

Sure, maybe you wish you had thousands of dollars to pour into updating your living room so that it sports a new—massive—TV (plus surround ...

There are so many games available for digital download on the Nintendo Switch, but the library varies depending on where you live. Tons of...