Security Valid logins to your workplace are on the net, right now Mega-breaches and spiking smartphones malware mean crims can crack you, yesterday 23 Sep 02:11 | 9
SaaS Digital Realty gets into the cloud interconnect caper Collaborates with Australia's Megaport on software-defined links between big bit barns 23 Sep 02:38 |
Science Pretending to be a badger wins Oxford Don 10 TRILLION DOLLARS Volkswagen also scored one of last night's Ig Nobel Prizes, for software-defined chemistry 23 Sep 03:31 | 17
Security Malware figures out it's running on VMs and refuses to execute If a PC has just a couple of Word files, crooks figure it's a White-Hat's attack machine 23 Sep 05:07 | 21
Bootnotes Moron is late for flight, calls in bomb threat He'll get a year on ice to think about why that was such a bad idea to delay takeoff 23 Sep 05:27 | 51
Security Safe browsing checks fail as 16,000 WordPress sites hacked this year Google's red screen of death marks half of malcious sites, McAfee only 11 per cent 23 Sep 05:54 | 17
Security Cops blasted for relying on IP addresses to hunt down suspects Numerical addresses too vague to be relied on, say activists 23 Sep 06:02 | 18
Channel Korean cargo line bailout saves Christmas for tech companies HP and Samsung had goods stranded at sea by container line's bankruptcy 23 Sep 06:21 | 6
Channel Sad reality: It's cheaper to get hacked than build strong IT defenses PHBs are applying the Ford Pinto formula to your data 23 Sep 06:34 | 73
On-Call If we can't fix this printer tonight, the bank's core app will stop working Reader jolted from the matrimonial bed in the dark tells of happy ending 23 Sep 06:44 | 94
Exclusive 'Faceless' Liberty Global has 'sucked the very soul' out of Virgin Media 'This is not the ISP of Richard Branson' insiders complain to El Reg 23 Sep 07:03 | 68
Software It's Friday – and that means one thing: Yup, Microsoft's TypeScript 2.0 is out JavaScript superset adds new features including non-nullable types and read-only properties 23 Sep 07:19 | 16
Security Report: NSA hushed up zero-day spyware tool losses for three years Investigation shows staffer screw-up over leak 23 Sep 07:38 | 23
Opinion Oi, Apple fanbois. Your beloved Jesus Phones are pisspoor for disabled users An Apple user with muscular dystrophy writes 23 Sep 08:03 | 66
Security OpenSSL swats a dozen bugs, one notable nasty Denial of service dross dead. 23 Sep 08:15 | 4
Security Woo hoo, UK.gov has unveiled yet another tech creche – for infosec This one's in Cheltenham. Makes a change from hipsterville East London 23 Sep 08:34 | 14
Something for the Weekend, Sir? Pull the plug! PowerPoint may kill my conference audience If you could all just gather round my laptop... 23 Sep 09:03 | 104
Legal Judge makes minor tweaks to sex ban IT man's order Must notify cops in advance of nookie 'as soon as practicable' 23 Sep 09:35 | 47
Science British unis mull offshore EU campuses in post-Brexit vote panic Also told: ‘Don’t look at France... it’s a nightmare’ 23 Sep 09:57 | 94
Science Cosmology is safe and the Universe is one giant version of the Barbican Whichever way you look it's all exactly the same, boffins confirm 23 Sep 10:29 | 61
Legal Forgive me, father, for I have used an ad-blocker on news websites... 77 per cent feel guilty about ad blocking. Do you? 23 Sep 10:58 | 207
Bootnotes Jeremy Clarkson and Co. rise to top for Great British Bake Off replacements Reg poll fills C4's empty tent issue 23 Sep 11:20 | 48
Bootnotes Shopkeeper installs forecourt khazi to counter mystery Dublin dung dumper ‘You’d swear a horse did it,’ says appalled retailer 23 Sep 11:43 | 38
Legal Sysadmin gets 5 years for slurping contractor payments to employer And he would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for a simple scheduled audit 23 Sep 12:04 | 40
On-Prem Think you’re a Tech Trailblazer but still warming up? Deadline for awards entries extended 23 Sep 12:15 | 1
Channel Cisco preps the P45s for 500 unlucky UK staffers Latest wave of software-inspired bloodletting 23 Sep 12:30 | 11
Channel Microsoft: We're hugging trees to save the 'world' Wouldn't be about cutting energy costs for your 100+ bit barns, then? 23 Sep 12:46 | 25
Channel Plusnet outage leaves customers unable to stream Netflix. Horrors! Repeatedly outage-hit firm mumbles usual apologies 23 Sep 13:11 | 33
Legal Naughty Zuck: Facebook fudged its video ad numbers Overstated average viewing times by up to 80 per cent 23 Sep 13:36 | 21
Virtualization Double-dating VMware lover Tintri brings Hyper-V closer to its bed Tintri looking for sales ignition from Hyper-V support 23 Sep 13:56 | 1
Channel Winners and losers: Here's who made the cut for mega TP2 framework Atos will not get trout in £4bn trough, neither will bunch of big PC brands 23 Sep 14:46 | 3
Storage The wise Hedvig owl heads aloft with a Universal Data Plane Also plugs into Microsoft's Scale-Out File Server 23 Sep 15:03 | 1
Legal London-based Yahoo! hacker gets 11 years for SQLi mischief He'll only serve two years, though 23 Sep 15:27 | 22
Devops Red Hat relabels OpenShift Enterprise to Container Platform Also tacks on update to version 3.3, you lucky people 23 Sep 15:55 |
Analysis Video service Binge On 'broke the internet' but 99pc of users love it So shouldn't we Break The Internet more often? 23 Sep 17:01 | 36
AI + ML Do AI chat bots need a personality bypass – or will we only trust gabber 'droids with character? Machine-learning boffins debate making software human 23 Sep 18:56 | 28
Security Uni student cuffed for 'hacking professor's PC to change his grades' Someone has been watching Wargames too much 23 Sep 19:12 | 39
Personal Tech Double KO! Capcom's Street Fighter V installs hidden rootkit on PCs Fatality – wait, no, what? That's the other game 23 Sep 20:09 | 63
Updated UK copyright troll weeps, starts 20-week stretch in the cooler for beating up Uber driver Raffles technology ensures a stay in the Big House 23 Sep 20:29 | 133
Security IBM botched geo-block designed to save Australia's census Bureau of Stats says spooks signed off IBM's plan, but Big Blue mucked something up 23 Sep 22:29 | 38