Richard Speed
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GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals
Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies → Read More
Let's go space truckin': 1970s probe Voyager 1 is now 14 billion miles from home
NASA's long-lived spacecraft reaches another milestone → Read More
HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles
'Keeping all of the best elements from the G1'... and none of the bad, please → Read More
Popular dev tool Visual Studio Code finally arrives on less popular ARM64 Windows
Now you can program like a native with your £899 Surface Pro X – keyboard not included → Read More
This'll make you feel old: Uni compsci favourite Pascal hits the big five-oh this year
Pascal, a descendant of ALGOL 60 and darling of computer science courses for decades, turns 50 this year. For engineers of a certain age, Pascal was hard to avoid in the latter part of the last century. Named for 17th-century French mathematician Blaise Pascal, the language is attributed to Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth and was created in part due to Wirth's frustration with the process… → Read More
So you really didn't touch the settings at all, huh? Well, this print-out from my secret backup says otherwise
Cultures clash when a combustion turbine goes K-pop → Read More
Linux-loving Windows 10 May 2020 Update squeaks in with days to spare before June
Scampering through spring fields, or a cautious dribble seeping under the bathroom door? → Read More
Raspberry Pi Foundation serves up an 8GB slice of mini-computing goodness
Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has confirmed a doubling of the diminutive computer's RAM to 8GB for £74. Rumours of the upgrade have been swirling for some time, not helped by its appearance in the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B compliance leaflet. The update comes on the eve of the Pi 4's first birthday and rounds out a busy year for the computer. Since launch, the 1GB variant has… → Read More
Great success! Finance app was able to inform user that their action was unsuccessful
Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another entry in the pantheon of borkage. This time from an Android app demonstrating that the path to success is to first find failure. Register reader "Tom from TX" sent us this glorious example of mobile application programming. We're wondering if the "Success!" may have been left in by a tired dev wanting to be sure the code had actually reached a certain point but… → Read More
Gone in 9 seconds: Virgin Orbit's maiden rocket flight went perfectly until it didn't
'Something malfunctioned' as timer was about to hit double digits → Read More
Surf's up: Microsoft emits new security baseline for Edge 83 with way to shut off access to built-in browser game
There was good news for enterprises keen to inflict Microsoft's Edge browser on their users with the arrival of a new security baseline and a way to turn off the Surf game that arrived in version 83.0.478.37. The baseline for Edge v83 features a bewildering potential 311 enforceable Computer Configuration policy settings and 286 User Configuration policy settings, although the company's… → Read More
cmd.exe is dead, long live PowerShell: Microsoft leads aged command-line interpreter out into 'maintenance mode'
'It should not be used for interactive shell work' – Windows Terminal chief → Read More
While waiting for the Linux train, Bork pays a visit to Geordieland with Windows 10
Behold, the three error dialogs of the borkpocalypse → Read More
The Last J-Freighter: HTV-9 arrives at the ISS as ESA inks a deal for a third Moon-bound service module
Meanwhile: the UK government is going to clear everything up. Or at least keep an eye on it → Read More
Man responsible for least popular iteration of Windows UI uses iPad Pro as a desktop
Plus: Getting over the Build hangover with new Windows 10 build, new UK Azure services, and more → Read More
Dude, where's my laser?
In the wonderful world of the US military, anything is plausible → Read More
Facebook in a tizzy about 5 million paying users of its suits collab platform Workplace
Zuck has been so good at looking after your data, why not give him more? → Read More
Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC
Take a trip down memory lane back to when every byte mattered → Read More
Virgin Orbit at last ready to live up to its name: Branson's other space adventure set for maiden flight this weekend
If all goes to plan, firm plans to begin commercial operations within months → Read More
The longest card game in the world: Microsoft Solitaire is 30
It's a double anniversary today as we take a moment to ponder 30 years since Windows 3.0 set Microsoft on the road to desktop GUI dominance and celebrate three decades of Microsoft Solitaire. This correspondant was working in a computing store when Windows 3.0 landed, having been announced on 22 May 1990. The Amstrad PC1640 was still doing tolerable business, with MS-DOS 3.2 and Digital's GEM… → Read More