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'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

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You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world

NASA records, shares sound of Ingenuity drone on Mars, like we're in some kind of sci-fi flick

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We were 'blindsided' by Epic's cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling

I thought we were friends

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Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?

A reminder of golden Start Menu days

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Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence

No lessons learned from (literally) decades of media format wars

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China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

Satellite shootdown test still causing operational and diplomatic hassles after 14 years

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Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

Antisocial giant insists 'Help keep FB free of charge' messaging is merely educational

52 Comments

Broadband plumber Openreach yanks legacy copper phone lines in Suffolk town of Mildenhall en route to getting the UK on VoIP

Just four years to go before planned switch-off

66 Comments

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh-

29 Comments

China is upset India excluded Chinese equipment from 5G network trials

Why are you giving yourself a kick in the innovation economy?

3 Comments

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

'There is scant evidence to support manufacturers’ justifications for restrictions'

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Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies The Register takes you through the event’s keynotes

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Security

Ransomware shuts US oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day

Colonial Pipeline says damage contained, some smaller lines already back, but has no timetable for resumption

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Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes

Plus: NCSC warns of how hostile powers may exploit smart city infrastructure

17 Comments

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

Software giant vows data processing of EU cloud services to stay in EU, which means that currently...

17 Comments

Cisco HyperFlex web interface has critical flaw that lets attackers get `root` and execute arbitrary commands

You know the drill: shake your head in disbelief, then figure out if patching will wipe out a weekend or be merely inconvenient

3 Comments

Kids in Hong Kong and other highly surveilled states worry infosec careers are just asking for trouble

Asia is already short millions of trainees; expert warns talent pipeline will dry up in response to government snooping

9 Comments

Google Play to require privacy labels on apps in 2022, almost two years after Apple

Developers want to do this, says Google. Ummm ... guys, you do remember the thousands of malware nightmares you’ve hosted and sold?

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The Data Cloud For Dummies

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Software

Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality' states poorly redacted report

86 Comments

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

But beware lock-in-as-a-service, analyst warns

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope

8 Comments

British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight

Totally Sucks, Buddy: Debit payments held up since April, online and app still wobbly, say readers

13 Comments

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Move comes days after firm acquired by Muse Group

91 Comments

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

Now that's a Buffett overflow error

79 Comments

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin

We're nicer in person, we swear

44 Comments

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

'Discriminatory or harassing conduct will not be tolerated'

63 Comments

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

Algos guiding self-driving cars don’t expect to see a STOP sign next to food. So if someone put a pic showing apples at a busy intersection ...

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Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first production Spectrum Vega+ console for £1,500 [Thu May 6 2021]

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Hi The Register Subscriber | Log in The Register {* Daily Headlines *} 6 May 2021 Top of the Vega+ with buttons and I/O ports Fancy a piece of sordid tech history? Fleabayer is flogging the first

'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely [Wed May 5 2021]

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Bitcoin is ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’ says famed investor Charlie Munger [Tue May 4 2021]

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

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'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture [Mon May 10 2021]

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'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

Offbeat

You can listen right here to the whir of a robot helicopter flying on an alien world

We were 'blindsided' by Epic's cheek, claims Apple exec on 4th day of antitrust wrangling

Stale and past its best. Are you talking about Windows or the pizza you're waiting for?

Gone in 60 electrons: Digital art swaggers down the cul-de-sac of obsolescence

China sprayed space with 3,000 pieces of junk. US military officials want rules to stop that sort of thing

5 Things To Consider When Choosing An APM Tool

Zero disruption cloud data migration

On-Prem

Facebook: Nice iOS app of ours you have there, would be a shame if you had to pay for it

Broadband plumber Openreach yanks legacy copper phone lines in Suffolk town of Mildenhall en route to getting the UK on VoIP

The swift in-person response is part of the service (and nothing to do with the thing I broke while trying to help you)

China is upset India excluded Chinese equipment from 5G network trials

Big right-to-repair win: FTC blasts tech giants for making it so difficult to mend devices

Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies

2021년 Splunk 보안 예측

Security

Ransomware shuts US oil pipeline that pumps 100 million gallons a day

Russian cyber-spies changed tactics after the UK and US outed their techniques – so here's a list of those changes

Privacy activist Max Schrems on Microsoft's EU data move: It won't keep the NSA away

Cisco HyperFlex web interface has critical flaw that lets attackers get root and execute arbitrary commands

Kids in Hong Kong and other highly surveilled states worry infosec careers are just asking for trouble

Google Play to require privacy labels on apps in 2022, almost two years after Apple

The Data Cloud For Dummies

Software

Tesla Autopilot is a lot dumber than CEO Musk claims, says Cali DMV after speaking to the software's boss

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

British bank TSB says it will fix days-long transaction troubles tonight

'A massive middle finger': Open-source audio fans up in arms after Audacity opts to add telemetry capture

How Berkshire Hathaway broke Nasdaq's 32-bit code with its monster share price

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all: El Reg takes Twitter's anti-mean algorithm for a spin

Perl changes dev's permaban for 'unacceptable' behaviour to a year-long lockout after community response

Researchers say objects can hide from computer vision by seeking out unusual company that trips correlation bias

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