Apprentice developer defied orders – then got a job supporting her weird code

The Register's Monday column that celebrates mistakes readers make at work and reveals their escape routes. This week, meet a ...

Secure Unix ancestor KSOS did type safety before Rust made it cool

For the first time, the source code of KSOS, backed by the US Department of Defense in the late 1970s and 1980s, is available ...

Zombie ‘who owns Unix?’ lawsuit comes alive again

SCO and its successors struggled to survive, but interested parties kept the lawsuit alive because the chance to emerge as ...

Brit supermarket giant triples down on facial recog to nab shoplifters

The UK's second largest supermarket is tripling the number of stores that use facial recognition to try to clamp down on ...

EY sacks staff for allegedly accessing Australian Prime Minister’s bank account

ASIA IN BRIEF The Down Under outpost of consultancy EY has fired two staff after they allegedly accessed details about bank ...

Moody Bible Institute breach leaves 2.3M accounts needing salvation, says cyber expert

MBI is one of many victims of ShinyHunters' pay-or-leak attacks in 2026, and while the organization has not explicitly commented on whether it negotiated with the criminals, the leak suggests that the ...