The United Kingdom, Japan and Italy will pool resources to build a sixth-generation warplane scheduled to be ready for deployment by 2035, with capabilities to

More than 70,000 websites belonging to Fortune 500 brands, government agencies, and universities share consumers’ data with Twitter using data tracking code hosted on these

The UK government is putting forward changes to the law which would require social media platforms to give users the option to avoid seeing and

Happy National App Day! No, we don’t mean apps of the mozzarella stick and potato skin variety, but your mobile apps that let you order

On-Call Welcome once again, comrades, to On-Call, The Register‘s celebration of the tech proletariat’s struggles with oppression by bourgeois bosses – and the eventual triumph

North Korean IT pros are using freelancing platforms to earn money that the nation’s authoritarian government uses to fund the development of missiles and nuclear

Australian health insurance company Medibank will take all of its IT systems offline and close its branches over the weekend as part of its ongoing

Britain’s data watchdog has slapped financial penalties totaling £435,000 (c $529,000) on five companies it says collectively made almost half of million marketing calls to

Scammers have scammed their fellow cybercriminals out of more than $2.5 million on three dark web forums alone over the last 12 months, according to

North Korea has hit a new low, using the death of over 150 people to exploit a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer. Google’s Threat Analysis

Two more US states have launched aggressive action against made-in-China social media app TikTok. Texas on Wednesday banned the app from government devices, with governor

Apple says it will provide end-to-end encryption for most iCloud services, having abandoned its previously announced – and then quietly shelved – plan to check

San Francisco legislators this week changed course on their killer robot policy, banning the police from using remote-control bots fitted with explosives. For now. On

Public sector bans of Chinese platform TikTok on the grounds of national security have arisen in both Taiwan and additional US states following last week’s

Microsoft has warned Europe to be on alert for cyber attacks from Russia this winter, just as a series of attacks hit Russian organizations –

The Canadian branch of Amnesty International was the target of an attack it has pinned on a Chinese state-sponsored actor. The human rights organization said

New Zealand’s Privacy Commission has signalled it may open an investigation into local managed services provider Mercury IT, which serves many government agencies and businesses

Updated Rackspace has admitted a ransomware infection was to blame for the days-long email outage that disrupted services for customers.  The security snafu took down