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A businessman has been arrested in the US and charged with unlawfully exporting sensitive technology including semiconductors to a sanctioned business with ties to Russia's military and intelligence agencies. Court documents filed with the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York identify the man as Il...

Google has decided to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world. The Interface (UPI) was created by India’s government and allows individuals to use a single app to make peer-to-peer payments to or from multiple bank accounts. Third parties can include UPI in their own payment systems or apps, with payme...

WINE 9.0 brings the benefits of better WoW64 support to 64-bit x86 – and Arm – kit, plus native Wayland support on Linux. WINE releases have become pleasantly regular in the last half-a-dozen years. WINE 9.0 was released on Tuesday, almost a year after we reported on WINE 8.0 and two years after we reported on WINE ...

Exclusive IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses. By cancelling the scheme, a source told The Register, IBM has eliminated a financial liability by voiding the accrued, unredeemed credits issued to ...

comment If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging just that may do the trick. Produced by a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee after spending two years studying the capabilities and...

No, it's not just you - search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO farms and affiliate link sites, a group of German researchers has concluded. Der boffinß made their determination after spending a year reviewing results for 7,392 product review queries...

China's imports of semiconductors and integrated circuits were hit by their largest ever drop last year, although chips are said to remain the country's biggest import item. Semiconductor imports by China reached a total value of $349.4 billion, according to customs data reported by Beijing. These figures are down b...

Retro Tech Week Two weeks before Apple launched the Macintosh, Sir Clive Sinclair launched his unprecedentedly powerful yet affordable Motorola-powered SOHO computer – starting a line of hardware and software that, remarkably, is still going. The QL remains a much-misunderstood computer. For its time, it was just as...

GitLab admins should apply the latest batch of security patches pronto given the new critical account-bypass vulnerability just disclosed. Tracked as CVE-2023-7028, the maximum-severity bug exploits a change introduced in version 16.1.0 back in May 2023 that allowed users to issue password resets through a secondary...

When the World Economic Forum meets in Davos next week, global leaders are set to discuss how to prevent a future unknown "Disease X" the World Health Organization predicts could kill 20 times more people than the recent coronavirus outbreak. The name might sound like something conjured up by Elon Musk, but the pros...

Opinion Following an unlikely series of events involving British Telecom, Prince Philip and a VTX-5000 modem, your teenage protagonist found himself at a drunken dinner party in 1984's West London. Across the table, excitingly, sat my boyhood hero Sir Clive Sinclair, and he seemed genuinely interested in what I had ...

Analysis Since the broadcast of a television drama telling the story of the Post Office Horizon scandal — one of the most serious miscarriages of justice in British legal history — calls have mounted for those responsible to be held to account. Leaping into focus is Fujitsu, the supplier of a controversial £2.3 bill...

Microsoft sent yet another problematic patch into the wild this week in the form of KB5034441. However, rather than deal with a BitLocker vulnerability, the patch is failing to install for some users. The patch, released on January 9, was meant to address a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass BitLocker en...

Asia in Brief Papua New Guinea (PNG) has implemented a two-week state of emergency after failure to reconfigure the nation’s payroll system for government employees sparked riots that resulted in multiple deaths. The pacific nation recently extended COVID-era tax reductions into 2024, but the payroll system used for...

A US federal tax change that took effect in 2022 thanks to a time-triggered portion of the Trump-era Tax Cuts and Jobs Act may leave entrepreneurs with massive tax bills. Section 174 of the US tax code - prior to the passage of the 2017 TCJA - allowed companies to handle the tax bill of their specified research or e...

US hospitals will be required to meet basic cybersecurity standards before receiving federal funding, according to rules the White House is expected to propose in the next few weeks. This comes as hospitals and health clinics nationwide continue to be menaced by ransomware, and cybercrims resort to diabolical tactic...

Opinion Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) Executive Director Karen Sandler was last year awarded an honorary doctorate by Belgium's Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for her work for open source and software freedom. There was only one problem. Her heart was beating strangely, and she couldn't get the data out of he...

On Call Welcome once more, dear reader, to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column detailing the delights and dangers of working in tech support. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Alvin" who regaled us with the tale of the time one of his clients told him their chief network engineer was s...

A US Naval sailor will face more than two years behind bars after pleading guilty to taking bribes from Chinese spies in exchange for sensitive military information. Wenheng Zhao, 26, also known as Thomas Zhao, was sentenced on January 8 to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for one count of conspi...

Allegations that Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were developed using stolen designs are being put to the test as a jury trial brought against the search giant by Singular Computing kicks off this week. Google is accused of infringing patents held by Singular and developed by computer scientist Joseph Bates,...

A Chinese startup has launched its first rocket from a sea-based platform, sending three satellites into orbit. The Gravity-1 rocket was launched at 0530 UTC on January 11 from the waters off the coast of Haiyang in China's Shandong Province. The mission was the first launch of the YL-1 commercial carrier rocket by ...

The latest stable Linux kernel, 6.7, is out and finally includes the new next-gen copy-on-write (COW) bcachefs file system. Linus Torvalds announced the release on Sunday, noting that it is "one of the largest kernel releases we've ever had." Among the bigger and more visible changes are a whole new file system, alo...

The latest experimental DARPA aircraft, which is designed to maneuver without the need for moving parts, is headed to the manufacturing stage and could be flying as soon as next year. The X-65 is being built by Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, who scored a contract with the Defense Department last year as p...

The average store-bought bottle of water contains somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 to 100 times more minute plastic particles than previously believed, judging from a study published this week. We've long known about the presence of microplastic particles in bottled water and proliferating through nature, while n...