Did Disney push for EA’s Battlefront microtransaction decision?
Off-the-record "concerns" and official "support."
View ArticleNebraska approves controversial Keystone XL pipeline with conditions
Opponents have vowed to fight the decision in courts and protest.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Be on the lookout for broken airline IT systems this...
I attended some meetings and the NESMA seminar in Germany last week, and as I was looking at flight options from New York City, I saw one on Singapore Airlines. Of course, I jumped on it.Singapore...
View ArticleUS Navy sends underwater robots to assist in search for Argentine sub
The sub may have attempted emergency satellite communications, and the search expands.
View ArticleThe dream of the ’90s is alive in this Windows 95 screensaver indie game
The short indie game on itch.io makes you a hacker in a low-fi cyberspace.
View ArticleIt was El Reg wot won it: Bing banishes bogus Brit bank banner ad
Link to fake TSB site canned after we help raise alarm Microsoft has axed a Bing search result advert that masqueraded as a legit online banking website – but was in fact a sophisticated phishing...
View ArticleFirst-known interstellar visitor is a bizarre, cigar-shaped asteroid
Meet 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua), but make it fast, because it’s already leaving.
View Article“You feel really stupid and you hope the CGI team makes you look good”
12 actors and 1 director told us how VFX changes how they do their jobs.
View ArticleNow you can port code from .Net Framework to .Net Core
Microsoft is looking to help developers move code from the Windows-oriented .Net Framework to cross-platform .Net Core via extended API access.But whether developers should actually make the move...
View ArticleCops jam a warrant into Apple to make it cough up Texas mass killer’s iPhone,...
Here we go again… Texas Rangers have obtained a search warrant for the contents of a blood-splattered iPhone SE belonging to gunman Devin Kelley who killed 26 people in a murder-suicide at a church.…
View ArticleIntel fixes critical holes in secret hidden Management Engine in desktop,...
Bugs can be exploited to extract info, insert rootkits Intel today admitted its Management Engine (ME), Server Platform Services (SPS), and Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) are vulnerable to multiple...
View ArticleWindows 8 broke Microsoft’s memory randomisation
The problem's still there in Windows 10, so prepare for code re-use attacks A Carnegie-Mellon CERT researcher has discovered the Microsoft broke some use-cases for its Address Space Layout...
View ArticleBrandPost: Two Industry Analysts Discuss Managing Multi-Cloud Complexity...
By Chris Purcell, Analyst Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise As multi-cloud adoption expands across the world, international companies need to consider how globalization affects business...
View Article[Updated]: HPE CEO Meg Whitman to step down in 2018
Whitman: “I’m incredibly proud of all we’ve accomplished since I joined HP in 2011.”
View ArticleUber: Hackers stole 57m passengers, drivers’ info. We also bribed the thieves...
And it happened a year ago, hoped you wouldn't find out Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi today revealed hackers broke into the ride-hailing app's databases and stole personal information on 57 million...
View ArticleWhat’s new in NativeScript
NativeScript, a framework for native mobile application development leveraging JavaScript technologies, is being outfitted with starter templates to streamline the development process.The templates...
View ArticleWhat’s new in NativeScript
NativeScript, a framework for native mobile application development leveraging JavaScript technologies, is being outfitted with starter templates to streamline the development process.The templates...
View ArticleWait, did Oracle tip off world to Google’s creepy always-on location tracking...
War over Java spills into mobile privacy world Analysis Having evidently forgotten about that Street View Wi-Fi-harvesting debacle, Google has admitted constantly collecting the whereabouts of Android...
View ArticleBefore Peter Thiel invested, research on herpes vaccine began in US hotel rooms
Latest revelation plunges dubious vaccine research further into scandal.
View ArticleEE4J: Eclipse’s replacement for Java EE unveiled
The Eclipse Foundation, the new keeper of enterprise Java, has moved forward with nine project proposals for Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J), which the organization describes as the first step...
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