First personalised jab for skin cancer in UK trial
Image source, PA Media Image caption, Steve Young, 52, is one of the UK patients enrolled on the trial By Michelle Roberts Digital health editor An important trial of the world’s first “personalised” mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer – melanoma – is now under way inContinue Reading
“The Supreme Court Is a Product of Minority Rule”: Author Ari Berman on America’s Undemocratic System
We speak with journalist and author Ari Berman about his new book, Minority Rule, which details how the United States has since its founding privileged the rights and interests of a small elite over the needs of the majority. He outlines how, for the first time in U.S. history, fiveContinue Reading
Software file converters: How they work and why you need them
In today’s digital world, we deal with a vast array of file formats daily, from documents and images to videos and audio files. However, not all software or devices can open every document type, leading to compatibility issues. This is where file converter software comes into play, making our digitalContinue Reading
Test your Drupal website with Cypress
If you don’t include tests in your Drupal development, chances are it’s because you think it adds complexity and expense without benefit. Cypress is an open source tool with many benefits: Reliably tests anything that runs in a web browser Works on any web platform (it’s great for testing projectsContinue Reading
What’s new in GNOME 44?
I use GNOME as my primary desktop environment on my Linux PC at home. GNOME gives me an easy-to-use graphical desktop that provides the flexibility I need yet doesn’t get in my way when I focus on my work. GNOME recently released GNOME 44 with a bunch of new features.Continue Reading
California Primary— Next Tuesday
California votes a week from today. The candidates have made their cases as best they could through communication, forums, social media and by grassroots voter contact. Now the Get-Out-The-Vote crunch is on. Can you consider making a contribution to all or any of our California candidates to help with theirContinue Reading
The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!
Yes, they are harder to solder, but there’s way more potential Feature The Z80 has a long series of successor models – some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer builders.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg
Doing business in Beijing? ‘You need to do a what-if scenario’ interview It didn’t seem America’s divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House chief information officer Theresa Payton – but law it now is. …, Read MoreContinue Reading
Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn’t work right
Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways On Call As another week drains down the plughole of history, it’s time for The Register to once again deliver a fresh instalment of On Call – our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torments and triumphs.…, ReadContinue Reading
Flaws in Chinese keyboard apps leave 750 million users open to snooping, researchers claim
Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn’t living its name Many Chinese keyboard apps, some from major handset manufacturers, can leak keystrokes to determined snoopers, leaving perhaps three quarters of a billion people at risk according to research from the University of Toronto’sContinue Reading
The Wrong Question to Ask About Climate Change
Remember when people weren’t even sure climate change was real? According to a new CBS News poll, 70 percent of Americans support the “U.S. taking steps to reduce climate change.” That’s a big number—so big, in fact, that you’d think political action would be guaranteed, and that we’d be wellContinue Reading
Takeaways from AP’s investigation into fatal police encounters involving injections of sedatives
An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts, Read MoreContinue Reading
South Korean police raid office of doctors’ group head over protracted strikes
South Korean police have searched the office of the hard-line incoming leader of a doctors association and confiscated his mobile phone, Read MoreContinue Reading