Security Office Depot halts PC Health Checks amid bogus infection claims US chain accused of flagging malware false positives to flog expensive disinfection tool 22 Nov 01:46 | 43
Personal Tech Google declares victory for its Wifi router before it's even shipped We won because we built it from the ground up, Google insists 22 Nov 02:14 | 43
Personal Tech Apple unplugs its home LAN biz, allegedly AirPort taken behind shed, shot heard 22 Nov 02:27 | 32
Legal Donald Trump confirms TPP to be dumped, visa program probed Doubles down on new cyber-defence plan, too, even though USA already has one 22 Nov 02:58 | 95
Legal Australian government never asked nbn™ to apply for private loans AU$19.5bn loan made on cost grounds, not due to concerns about the business model 22 Nov 03:25 | 6
Kiwicon Free 'cyber hugs' for all is the plan at New Zealand's first CERT Kiwis plan a CERT with heart, not just a shield for business 22 Nov 04:02 | 2
Security Boffins bake Crysis ransomware's keys into handy decryptor Developers may have dropped keys to drop cops 22 Nov 04:36 | 3
On-Prem Brocade's sales growth outpaced by costs, ahead of Broadcom buyout Wi-Fi, routing up; SANs down 22 Nov 05:02 |
Security IETF plants privacy test inside DNS 'Stubby' aims to protect your metadata from snoopers 22 Nov 05:59 | 20
Edge + IoT MP Kees Verhoeven wants EU to regulate the Internet of S**t Vendors don't care, so government should step in 22 Nov 06:28 | 40
Science New state of matter discovered by superconductivity gurus The 'pseudogap' state could be key to high-temperature superconductors 22 Nov 07:03 | 46
SaaS Glacier melt race increases vastly … for AWS cold storage Sorry, no climate change. Just faster Glacier retrieval and new cloud hijinks with desktops-as-a-service-in-a-browser 22 Nov 07:22 | 3
Security Irish eyes are crying: Tens of thousands of broadband modems wide open to hijacking D1000 can be directed to drop its firewall, allowing access to panel over the internet 22 Nov 07:42 | 32
AI + ML AI is all trendy and fun – but it's still a long way from true intelligence, Facebook boffins admit To be fair, the same goes for many humans, too 22 Nov 08:02 | 28
Legal Fallout from Euro Patent Office meltdown reaches Dutch parliament King Battistelli, of course, remains unrepentant 22 Nov 08:29 | 30
Legal UK.gov flings £400m at gold standard, ‘full-fibre' b*&%*%£$%. Yep. Broadband Stop drooling, BT. It's not for you 22 Nov 09:15 | 86
Legal FTC report highlights challenge of how to best regulate 'sharing economy' platforms Watchdog should look to the users for help 22 Nov 09:44 | 2
Personal Tech Happy days for second-hand smartphone sales Hold it, hold it, hold it – now sell it! 22 Nov 10:46 | 41
Legal More than half of punters reckon they can't get superfast broadband 'That there London gets all the speeds' 22 Nov 11:02 | 68
Security Merkel calls for balanced approach to data protection EU should not be 'too restrictive' with data protection law 22 Nov 11:27 | 8
Interview Talend CEO: Profit? We're a few years off... But we're cash-flow positive Tuchen tells El Reg what's wrong with the per-core software pricing model 22 Nov 12:08 |
Legal Microsoft promises 'equal access' to LinkedIn to get EC green light for acquisition Tales from the antitrust crypt 22 Nov 12:19 | 16
OSes Emulating x86: Microsoft builds granny flat into Windows 10 Park your legacy apps here, they'll feel right at home 22 Nov 12:37 | 111
Security 178 arrested in pan-European money mule crackdown Law enforcement dents cybercrime networks 22 Nov 12:59 | 8
Bootnotes Trial date set for Brit police 'copter coppers over spying-on-doggers claims The five deny all wrongdoing 22 Nov 13:29 | 49
SaaS Four IBM data centres planned for Big Blue UK cloud Sorry, data, the holiday's cancelled 22 Nov 13:59 | 2
Storage ExaGrid, Pure, and Veeam want IT to march to their drumbeat Flash array backup jungle receives a new message from Mr Tambourine Man 22 Nov 14:29 | 5
Security Hack the Army: US military begs white hats to sweep it for bugs Uncle Sam goes crackers for hackers 22 Nov 14:55 | 16
On-Prem Hyperconvergence 101: More than a neatly packaged box of tricks Simplicity is good, but what else can you do? 22 Nov 15:28 | 6
Backgrounder Rumble in the off-the-shelf server jungle: HPE comes out swinging 5 processor types, 4 basic form factors in server gallimaufry 22 Nov 15:44 | 4
Software Google DeepMind inks 5-year agreement with NHS for 'Streams' app Patient data access concerns prompts ICO probe 22 Nov 16:18 | 17
On-Prem Veeam kicks Symantec's ass over unpatentable patents Eight claims dismissed with prejudice 22 Nov 17:30 | 20
Security Hospital info thief malware puts itself into a coma to avoid IT bods Software nasty also uses steganography to inject poison payload 22 Nov 19:07 | 10
Legal Trump may stump Australian techies heading for the US Preferential E-3 visa deal likely to come under scrutiny for labor and free trade reasons 22 Nov 20:14 | 9
Personal Tech Allow us to sum this up: UK ISP Plusnet minus net for nine-plus hours Packet loss equals knackered broadband service for some 22 Nov 20:25 | 58
Networks NetComm kicked to the curb by nbn™ for fibre-not-quite-to-the-home Venerable vendor will provide ready-to-bury VDSL boxen 22 Nov 21:26 | 3
Legal Pre-Trump FCC – get a grip on mobe data caps, racist Stingray spying, urge Dem senators Warren, Bernie, Wyden push for changes before January 22 Nov 21:36 | 21
Legal Who's in Peter's file? Moneybags Thiel hits up Silicon Valley brains to join his Trump think tank And all he hears is crickets, apparently 22 Nov 22:51 | 38
Science LAKE OF frozen WATER THE SIZE OF NEW MEXICO FOUND ON MARS – NASA Boffins spot wealth of H2-oh-yeah just waiting to be tapped 22 Nov 23:11 | 67