Poll Would you let cops give your phone a textalyzer scan after a road crash? New York state mulls 'Evan's Law' to snare distracted drivers 13 Apr 00:22 | 110
Legal Half of Facebook's Free Basics users ditch the freebie web-lite service for the paid-for real deal Zuck clings to 24 million BBC News, ESPN readers 13 Apr 01:07 | 18
Security Security researcher to IBM: 'Fix that 2013 Java bug' And this time, do it right 13 Apr 01:32 | 4
ACSC 2016 Retirement funds breached as crims target brokers' un-patched Windows machines Why breach a bank when you can target a laptop running torrents and games? 13 Apr 02:03 | 4
Security Samsung's dimmer Galaxies can make calls when locked, cabled Talk AT commands at the phone over USB and see wait for the fun to start 13 Apr 02:31 | 11
PROMO What would you do with 200 extra change windows a year? Infrastructure matters when you prepare to do DevOps 13 Apr 03:13 |
Science 'Cat-flap' pendulum offers 7x improvement for grav-wave detectors It's all about making mirrors less noisy, natch 13 Apr 03:20 | 14
ACSC 2016 Airbus boarded by 12 nation-state, crimeware 'breaches' every year State-sponsored hackers will do 'everything' to get in, says CISO 13 Apr 03:30 | 11
Security USB-C adds authentication protocol When one wire carries data and power, you need to protect against dodgy devices 13 Apr 04:17 | 39
Science Astroboffin discovers exoplanet by accident ... in 1917 No space telescopes required, archive discovery reveals 13 Apr 05:02 | 32
Virtualization VMware and SoftLayer teleport workloads across oceans Why not follow the moon and send VMs to where the electricity and compute is cheap 13 Apr 05:29 | 4
Legal 'Bring back xHamster', North Carolina smut watchers grumble Lawmakers take one in the eye in fap-based fight-back 13 Apr 05:58 | 88
OSes Linux-fight! Dev's plan to bundle kernel patches sparks debate Sasha Levin kicks off 'security tree' side project 13 Apr 06:32 | 24
Channel Universal Credit at high risk of cyber-attack, fraud from the outset So was agile making it up as they went along? 13 Apr 07:04 | 38
Storage Micron, VMware, Supermicro, Nexenta doodle array designs Cosy club comes up with flashy little reference architecture 13 Apr 07:29 |
Channel IT suppliers: Amazon is starting to pay its debts. Some of them, anyway 'I have no idea how many pence in the pound Amazon has offered to others' 13 Apr 08:03 | 12
Channel What exactly is it that infosec miscreants get up to? A quick overview Mostly it's financial crime. Here's what all the cool kids' terms mean in English 13 Apr 08:28 | 5
Science NASA prepares to unpack pump-up space podule Bigelow expandable habitat set for two-year ISS trial 13 Apr 09:11 | 37
Podcast Speaking in Tech: Live from Kennedy Space Center Dragon launch Recorded from launchpad to SPAAAAAAACE 13 Apr 10:03 | 2
Storage NV...Me too, says Micron. Fancy a faster-than-SAS flash drive? Enters the NVMe SSD space 13 Apr 10:30 | 1
On-Prem Breaking down more IT technobabble: 'Unified' comms... say what now? It's far simpler than salesmen would have you believe 13 Apr 11:01 | 8
Channel Confirmed: Cisco did invest in SpringPath Board-level relationships and lots of influence 13 Apr 11:20 | 2
Comment High performance object storage: Not just about reskinning Amazon's S3 Read and it weep, you young'uns 13 Apr 11:38 | 12
Devops French thrash Brits, Germans and Portuguese in IT innovation Do conservative Brit bosses face a DevOps Waterloo? 13 Apr 11:57 | 48
Channel Web wobbles at Misco: Might be back up today, or tomorrow Firm apologises for 20th century service after 'server outage' 13 Apr 12:18 | 3
Databases Symantec.cloud portal limps back online after day-long TITSUP Yup, it's another Total Inability To Support Usual Performance moment 13 Apr 12:36 | 10
Personal Tech Grab your Hammer pants – it's the '90s again: Facebook brings Virtual Reality back But why exactly does it want to be a hardware company? 13 Apr 12:58 | 37
Channel Microsoft: We have a bullet ready for 12 competencies You want the cloud? You are going to get it anyway, like it or not 13 Apr 13:29 | 18
Channel Cyber-security pro? Forget GCHQ, BT wants to hire 900 of you Click your fingers and qualified folk appear from nowhere ... that's how it works, right? 13 Apr 13:57 | 29
Storage Filer upstart Qumulo rubs out mirroring, slots in erasure coding Scale-out NAS-er gets usable capacity gain. Neat 13 Apr 14:21 | 2
Channel Cutting edge security: Expensive kit won't save you Stop wading through alerts and get serious 13 Apr 14:59 | 8
Storage Zadara alters storage destiny: Object storage is written in our STaaS Virtual private array supplier now does Swift access 13 Apr 15:28 |
Channel Fujitsu Tech Products overhauls direct sales team's pay 'We want you to love the channel, and here's the financial encouragement' 13 Apr 15:51 |
Security Lauri Love backdoor forced-decryption case goes to court in UK Why use the 'gimme password or else' law when you can evade even that? 13 Apr 15:56 | 96
Networks Can you hear me now – over the picket line? Verizon workers strike Telco says service will continue as wireline techs walk off job 13 Apr 17:26 | 12
Storage HGST has an entry-level 14PB archive box... is that enough for your, er, home collection? When you need 15 nines 13 Apr 18:15 | 16
Security Euro watchdogs give America's data-sharing Privacy Shield an 'F' Must try harder (to prevent personal info being used by US spies) 13 Apr 19:54 | 23
Bootnotes Bay Area man forced out of his $400 box home San Francisco officials deem micro-apartment a fire hazard 13 Apr 20:07 | 74
Software Apple is rolling WebRTC video-chat into Safari iOS, OS X browsers WebKit could soon get support for open conferencing standard 13 Apr 20:28 | 6
Analysis Line by line, how the US anti-encryption bill will kill our privacy, security El Reg takes latest Burr-Feinstein legislation apart 13 Apr 22:18 | 185
ACSC2016 Bumbling execs leave tenders on hotel business centre PCs And then cabbies hand over in-car recordings of their chatter 13 Apr 23:34 | 1
Security How to make Cisco UCS servers roll over and obey: Send a HTTP poke You will probably want to install this fix 13 Apr 23:37 |
Networks I bless the reins down on .africa ... Dot-word injunction hits ICANN Court orders DNS overseer to halt delegation of new gTLD for a second time 13 Apr 23:52 | 20