Security Radio wave gun zaps drones out of the sky – and it's perfectly legal* * If you're a Fed 16 Oct 00:55 | 76
Security Ad networks promise to do something about the awful adverts you're all blocking, like, real soon Group promises more secure, less pushy banners 16 Oct 01:36 | 88
Security Google, Facebook, Microsoft and buddies stick a bomb under hated CISA cyber-law Proposed data-sharing rules risk to revenue, er, privacy 16 Oct 01:59 | 17
SaaS Après le Dell-uge, VMware is still partnership material IBM's SoftLayer signs up as NSX-powered vSphere hybrid helper 16 Oct 02:58 |
SaaS All in the name of Liberty: OpenStack 12 set free! It scales! It virtualises! It helps you containerise yourself! Is it also still too weird? 16 Oct 03:58 | 6
Personal Tech Apple 1 goes on sale, expected to fetch £300,000 to £500,000 Or perhaps you fancy an Enigma machine or vintage astrolabe? 16 Oct 04:29 | 26
Science China, for one, welcomes our ROBOT SPACE ANT overlords Senior official says six-legged bots offer a greater leap for mankind than rolling rovers 16 Oct 04:55 | 11
Security Slacker vendors' one-fix-a-year effort leaves 88% of Androids vulnerable Nexus runs rings around rivals. 16 Oct 05:30 | 29
Networks Cheer up: UK mobile networks are perkier than Germany's Better latency than never 16 Oct 06:04 | 10
Security Bloke cuffed, accused of polishing off £700k Polish bank cyber-heist Someone apparently forgot to apply their security patches 16 Oct 06:31 | 4
Review Amazon Echo: We put Jeff Bezos' always-on microphone-speaker in a Reg family home You may be surprised by the results 16 Oct 07:02 | 140
Channel $65m write-down, ARM chips ship: A 90-second guide to Planet AMD The latest from Mini Chipzilla in its third quarter of the year 16 Oct 07:27 | 12
Sysadmin Blog: Dell buying EMC: Is this the end times, or the road to salvation? In any case, the enemy is now Amazon 16 Oct 08:37 | 16
The eXpat Files Kidnapped IT bod Peter Moore: My journey to Iraq began in Guyana How former hostage brought home all the tea in China 16 Oct 09:09 | 12
Bootnotes Nippy, palaver and cockwomble: Greatest words in English? Indubitably coruscating lingo, but what are your comely faves? 16 Oct 09:26 | 138
Analysis So, GDS saved Brits £1.7bn through 'digital transformation'. Sure about that? NAO says no, for one 16 Oct 09:58 | 15
Applications Minicab-hailing app Uber is lawful – UK High Court A smartphone can’t be considered a taximeter 16 Oct 10:37 | 74
Networks Virgin Media filters are still eating our email – Ntlworlders Emails, more like ‘ewails’, amirite? 16 Oct 11:01 | 39
Security Navy engineer gets 11 years for attempted espionage Nuclear carrier plans passed to undercover FBI agent after internal hack 16 Oct 11:29 | 32
Bootnotes Wheels come off parents' plan to dub sprog 'Mini Cooper' Prince William's mum and dad also dragged into French court 16 Oct 11:44 | 140
Channel EMC customers show distinct lack of Dell delight – research We don't need no PC-shifter owning our storage supplier 16 Oct 12:33 | 8
Channel Microsoft hires Aussie cloudy Transformer Man to run Brit channels Christmas dinner on the beach? Nope, now it’s sprouts in Reading 16 Oct 12:54 |
Comment Down and out? Rimini's Oracle slap spells trouble – for Oracle 'Not a war on independents,' but independents should beware 16 Oct 12:56 | 17
Channel Slurp-happy reseller SCC: We want to buy a mobile services biz More data centre services plays for Midlands tech dynasty 16 Oct 13:11 |
Security Think your mobile calls and texts are private? It ain't necessarily so SS7 vulns expose us all - even location can be tracked 16 Oct 13:37 | 8
Security CompSci student arrested in Malaysia on doxing-for-ISIS charges US claims Kosovan hacked thousands of military folk's personal details 16 Oct 14:08 | 5
Personal Tech No 4King way: Dolby snuggles its high-def TV tech into MStar SoCs Will 4K TVs become obsolete as soon as next year? 16 Oct 14:55 | 20
Devops Red Hat buys Ansible for DevOps loveliness Another open source community in Red Hat's maw 16 Oct 14:57 | 6
Storage Spectra's BlackPearl: Sailing through oceans of data just got easier Arctic Blue nearline disk array adds extra archival capabilities 16 Oct 15:32 |
Bootnotes WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg Go on, you know you want to, you funny people 16 Oct 16:31 | 329
Security Euro privacy warriors: You've got until January to fix safe harbor mess – or we unleash hell Lawyers to menace Silicon Valley unless peace brokered 16 Oct 18:11 | 57
Security Good news: Adobe bangs out Flash patch fast. Bad news: Google's defenses were useless Security-as-an-afterthought biz sprints to fix exploited bug early 16 Oct 19:04 | 33
Legal Google wins book scan battle. Again. Can post pages online. Again Appeals court brushes off Authors Guild, says snippet searches are just fine 16 Oct 19:37 | 48
Networks How to get 10Gbit/s home broadband in the US: Step 1. Move to Chattanooga, TN Step 2. Laugh at Comcast 16 Oct 20:17 | 28
Security Dow Jones rubbishes claims Russian hackers plundered its servers for insider-trading tips FBI probe? That's news to us, says Wall Street Journal owner 16 Oct 21:18 | 5
On-Prem Will stock market swipe right on Tinder? Match Group files bid to IPO Money can't buy me love, but it can buy a slice of Match.com 16 Oct 23:26 | 1
On-Prem Job alert: Is this the toughest sysadmin role on Earth? And are you badass enough to do it? (Aside from sendmail admin) 16 Oct 23:37 | 73
Legal Apple ordered to write a $234m check to uni in A7 chip patent spat Cook counts out pocket change to cover out-of-order suit 16 Oct 23:57 | 20