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Debate exhibits chronic distrust of policy makers, Big Pharma, and insurance companies

Register debate This week's Register Debate tussled over the motion Assumed consent is the right approach for sharing healthcare patients' data, beyond their direct care. The results are in, and as you can see, we have a clear winner.…

Send me an SMS and I’ll tell you everything

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Below the note is scrawled an ominous threat: "We know where you live."…

The computer is a chauvinist, you say?

On Call Round off your week with an electrifying tale from the land of chunky-knit sweaters and addictive television mystery drama serials. Welcome to a Scandinavian On Call.…

Learn how at our Ransomware Remediation Masterclass

Sponsored You wouldn’t want to learn to box just as Tyson Fury steps out of the opposing corner. Likewise, the time to learn how to recover from ransomware is long before your systems come under attack.…

Landing with liquid fuel aboard made slosh-avoidance essential. Plus: China names first woman to visit Tiangong space station

Chinese space boffins have revealed details of how the guidance navigation and control (GNC) system in the Chang'e 5 got the probe onto the surface of the Moon despite its propellant sloshing about inside.…

Deployment of 120,000 headsets hoped to 'increase lethality' pushed into 2022

The US Army has delayed a massive rollout of Microsoft's HoloLens virtual reality headsets.…

Inconsistent regulation means crooks can sneak cryptos through cracks – pretty much everyone wants them filled

The 30-nation gabfest convened under the auspices of the US National Security Council’s Counter-Ransomware Initiative has ended with agreement that increased regulation of virtual assets is required to curb the digital coins' allure to criminals.…

Chrome, Edge, and Opera can rest easy – this one's designed just to run virtual apps Citrix already manages

Citrix has created a web browser and lost its CEO.…

Three bootloaders offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities

The team of self-described "veteran Unix admins" who opposed Debian's adoption of systemd instead of sysvinit init, have released a fourth version of their alternative Linux distro, "Devuan".…

Hopefully we're still listening to experts

Fourteen of the world's leading computer security and cryptography experts have released a paper arguing against the use of client-side scanning because it creates security and privacy risks.…

Want one? Too late

It seems computers without an ARM or x86 chip are in serious demand in the RISC-V community.…

It's not all bad news for some

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has a clear vision of its post-pandemic reality: more demand for chips, and even more profits from it.…

Try InJobs instead! All the fun of a résumé and no comments allowed

LinkedIn is shuttering its social networking service in China as it faces mounting pressure to comply with the country’s strict censorship rules, it announced on Thursday.…

Global messaging giant extends security and privacy to Google Drive and Apple iCloud

Facebook's WhatsApp on Thursday began a global rollout of end-to-end (E2E) encryption for message backups, which offers Android and iOS users with the ability to protect WhatsApp messages stored in Google Drive and Apple iCloud.…

Criminals follow the money, code flaws

Google's VirusTotal service showing that 95 per cent of ransomware malware identified by its systems targets Windows.…

Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters

Ubuntu 21.10 comes out today, an interim release with nine months of support, and the first to use GNOME 40 for the desktop.…

So says Have I Been Pwned's maintainer

Thingiverse, a site that hosts free-to-use 3D printer designs, has suffered a data breach – and at least 228,000 unlucky users' email addresses have been circulating on black-hat crime forums.…

Here's an even cheerier thought – it requires a Power BI Pro subscription

Microsoft has made its Emissions Impact Dashboard - formerly known as Sustainability Calculator and designed to measure the carbon impact of cloud workloads - generally available.…

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US companies ranging from Amazon to Applebee's, Google to Gap, IBM to IHOP, and Microsoft to McDonald's have received warnings from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about fake reviews and misleading endorsements.…

A new patch next week might

Windows 11 received its first bundle of fixes this week, but AMD users hoping for respite from performance issues that have dogged their PCs were to be disappointed. In fact, for some, performance might have actually got a bit worse.…