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- Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died (www.theregister.com)
- Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit (www.theregister.com)
- Brave buys a search engine, promises no tracking, no profiling (www.theregister.com)
- Google 'colluded' with Facebook to bypass Apple privacy (www.theregister.com)
- Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit (www.theregister.com)
- Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies (www.theregister.com)
- Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech (www.theregister.com)
- ProtonMail deletes 'we don't log your IP' from website after activist arrested (www.theregister.com)
- FBI misused surveillance powers more than 280k times in a year (www.theregister.com)
- Google admits Kubernetes container tech is too complex (www.theregister.com)
- Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems (www.theregister.com)
- UK is spending £500k on a PR campaign demonising end-to-end encryption (www.theregister.com)
- Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data (www.theregister.com)
- NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 (www.theregister.com)
- US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant (www.theregister.com)
- Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu (www.theregister.com)
- Google sets burial date for legacy Chrome Extensions, fears for ad-blockers grow (www.theregister.com)
- Signal says it'll shut down in UK if Online Safety Bill approved (www.theregister.com)
- Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum (www.theregister.com)
- Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization (www.theregister.com)
- With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise (www.theregister.com)
- A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence (www.theregister.com)
- Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits (www.theregister.com)
- Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API (www.theregister.com)
- UK intelligence recycles “think of the children” argument for borking encryption (www.theregister.com)
- Theranos destroyed subpoenaed SQL blood test database, prosecutors say (www.theregister.com)
- No new boss at NSA until it answers questions on buying location, browsing data (www.theregister.com)
- Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters (www.theregister.com)
- Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck (www.theregister.com)
- JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission (www.theregister.com)
- Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit (www.theregister.com)
- The wild world of non-C operating systems (www.theregister.com)
- Google and Facebook execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves (www.theregister.com)
- Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules (www.theregister.com)
- What is Google doing with its open source teams? (www.theregister.com)
- France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school (www.theregister.com)
- Google Groups kills RSS support without notice (www.theregister.com)
- JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry (www.theregister.com)
- Seagate hit with $300M penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei (www.theregister.com)
- USENET rises again? (www.theregister.com)
- NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harvesting, again (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft open-sources ThreadX (www.theregister.com)
- Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard (www.theregister.com)
- IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers (www.theregister.com)
- Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor (www.theregister.com)
- NASA engineers make progress toward understanding Voyager 1 issue (www.theregister.com)
- Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors at launch (www.theregister.com)
- 10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned? (www.theregister.com)
- Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation (www.theregister.com)
- Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, something else (www.theregister.com)
- The end of Optane is bad news (www.theregister.com)
- Secret Service, ICE,and fake cell tower spying (www.theregister.com)
- Data trading for ad revenue must be regulated (www.theregister.com)
- Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting (www.theregister.com)
- Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in (www.theregister.com)
- Voice assistants are not doing it for big tech (www.theregister.com)
- Debian is at the heart of the most successful Linux distros (www.theregister.com)
- AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds' (www.theregister.com)
- Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe (www.theregister.com)
- Arm to drop up to 15 percent of staff, about 1k people (www.theregister.com)
- In praise of MIDI (www.theregister.com)
- FTC wants Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI under the microscope (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed (www.theregister.com)
- FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge (www.theregister.com)
- Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start persecution on a global basis (www.theregister.com)
- Arm IPO to kick off today (www.theregister.com)
- UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible' (www.theregister.com)
- It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs (www.theregister.com)
- IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license (www.theregister.com)
- The FBI as advanced persistent threat (www.theregister.com)
- The FCC wants to criminalize AI robocall spam (www.theregister.com)
- EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board (www.theregister.com)
- ARM wrestles assembly language guru's domains away, citing trademark issues (www.theregister.com)
- FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans (www.theregister.com)
- Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world (www.theregister.com)
- British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower (www.theregister.com)
- 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers (www.theregister.com)
- I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key (www.theregister.com)
- You can hook your MIDI keyboard up to a website with Firefox 108 (www.theregister.com)
- Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects (www.theregister.com)
- NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows library code in memory-safe Rust (www.theregister.com)
- Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial (www.theregister.com)
- Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death (www.theregister.com)
- Gitlab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash (www.theregister.com)
- Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old (www.theregister.com)
- Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director (www.theregister.com)
- Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free (www.theregister.com)
- Ubuntu Unity desktop back from the dead after several years' hiatus (www.theregister.com)
- W3C slaps down Google's proposal to treat multiple domains as same origin (www.theregister.com)
- Capital One axes 1k tech roles (www.theregister.com)
- Intel updates mysterious ‘software-defined silicon’ code in the Linux kernel (www.theregister.com)
- UK's Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition (www.theregister.com)
- FCC: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen (www.theregister.com)
- Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B (www.theregister.com)
- Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites (www.theregister.com)
- Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 (www.theregister.com)