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I've got a broken combine harvester – but the manufacturer won't give me the software key

Right-to-repair activists welcome policy wins with caution

 
 

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Microsoft made $167m a day in profit, every day, over the past 12 months

Robust cloud, business not enough to overcome concerns about decline in Windows hardware maker revenue

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'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls

Accoutancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills

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Google promises its days as a cold-eyed API-killer are behind it

Customers are afraid of commitment, so new rules for enterprise APIs promise to stick around until you ride off into the sunset

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Intel announces AWS has become a client, Qualcomm likes its future tech, advances that as proof it's back in business

Reveals tech roadmap that contains some real change, some renaming

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Facebook tries to save face by recalling itch-inducing Oculus Quest 2 VR headset foam

Reports of skin problems and a recall in Australia move social ad biz to action

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UK regulator Ofcom seeks more powers to deal with mega constellations

Operator shall talk unto operator or the big stick will be wielded

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SK Hynix hits 3-year revenue high as extreme ultraviolet production kicks off in earnest

Commercial EUV LPDDR4 modules in the works now, but the 1anm node is still being treated as a test-bed

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Samsung confirms no new Note this year, but does have a pen for foldables up its sleeve

Hints at new Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip models too

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North Wales Police seek IT services partners in deals worth up to £41.6m

Force still stinging after CGI fiasco ended up costing more than hoped for

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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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Okta Brings Zero Trust Identity and Access to Defense Department Networks

Zero Trust and Identity Management: A Game Changer for DoD Network Security

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eBay ex-security boss sent down for 18 months for cyber-stalking, witness tampering

Four others at online tat bazaar admit trying to silence newsletter couple, two senior execs fight charges

Misconfigured Azure Blob at Raven Hengelsport exposed records of 246,000 anglers – and took months to tackle, claim infosec researchers

18GB of Dutch fishing supplier's data left in unsecured server

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Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam

'It was pretty convincing until the very end,' says host Jim Browning

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Tech biz must tell us about more security breaches, says UK.gov as it ponders lowering report thresholds

Breach reporting law might have effect on overseas operators too

Compsci student walks off with $50,000 after bug bounty report blows gaping hole in Shopify software repos

First-timer wins maximum payout through HackerOne programme

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It takes intuition and skill to find hidden evidence and hunt for elusive threats

Try the SANS DFIR-ence in Berlin this October

SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen from back of a truck, then turned up on YouTube

Has since been recovered, and Scaleway now ships disks with GPS trackers

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GitHub stuffs $1m in Stanford Law School's pocket to provide free legal advice to DMCA-hit developers

Fellowship funding comes in the wake of Youtube-DL fiasco

Cassandra 4.0 finally out of the gates after being delayed for last-minute bug swat

Speed and stability top list of NoSQL database's features, Netflix dev says

A bunch of apps will be able to bypass Microsoft's new store and use own update methods

Risky and annoying?

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Early Skype developer Jaan Tallinn splashes cash in latest funding for Matrix-based instant messenger Element

Decentralised comms is where it's at

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Remember when Microsoft devs got so excited about Windows 8 features, Twitter thought it was under attack?

Microblogging site turned off its website for Build 2011 attendees

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UK's National Museum of Computing asks tunesmiths to recreate bleeps, bloops, and parps of retro game music

Competition in celebration of the BBC Micro's 40th anniversary

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Steam-powered computers: Retro cool or old and busted?

The silicon is weak, but the iron is strong

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I've got a broken combine harvester – but the manufacturer won't give me the software key

Right-to-repair activists welcome policy wins with caution

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Hubble in another first: Water vapor spotted in atmosphere of Jupiter’s Ganymede

We speak to the scientists involved

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Japan plans remote-controlled robotic space tourism to the ISS and beyond

'Avatars' that roam around space station, or do work with high performance hands, to be controllable from the ground

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Private cryptocurrencies make lousy national currencies: International Monetary Fund

But the idea of blockchain-powered money is worth government consideration

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