Personal Tech US watchdog sues Qualcomm for 'bribing' Apple to swallow chips Snapdragon biz broke monopoly laws, FTC claims in bombshell lawsuit 18 Jan 2017 | 23
On-Prem HPE gobbles SimpliVity for US$650m – well below recent valuations Hyperconverged unicorn loses its horn 18 Jan 2017 | 21
Legal Australia's Department of Social Services pushing ahead with data-matching plans Midyear data release hopes to crowd source academic data-matching brainpower 18 Jan 2017 | 13
Science Did Oculus swipe blueprints from rival? Zuck takes the stand Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg grilled over the now-$3bn VR acquisition 18 Jan 2017 | 21
Security Kill it with fire: US-CERT urges admins to firewall off Windows SMB Shadow Brokers may have loosed a zero-day so you're better safe than sorry 18 Jan 2017 | 23
On-Prem Toshiba may sell silicon biz to contain fallout of nuke plant problems Japanese company's foray into fission has been a fiscal flop that a RAM plant sale could fix 18 Jan 2017 | 3
Security SOHOpeless routers offer hard-coded credentials and command injection bugs Researcher says Zyxel and Billion kit in Thailand, and probably beyond, are rotten 18 Jan 2017 | 2
Software What's big and red and needs 270 security patches? Oracle software, that's what 18 Jan 2017 | 9
Security Hacker cracks Facebook with remote code execution bug ImageMagick exploit earns chap US$40k bug bounty 18 Jan 2017 | 13
Networks IPv6 vulnerable to fragmentation attacks that threaten core internet routers Net boffins float RFC to fix the protocol before things turn nasty 18 Jan 2017 | 16
Networks 100 Gbps link to Europe lights up to delight researchers AEConnect cable expands university research networking 18 Jan 2017 | 5
Video Well, that sucks: China's Tencent so sorry after vid emerges of faux blowjob office game Cloud giant's staff party leaves little to imagination 18 Jan 2017 | 43
On-Prem Solaris 12 disappears from Oracle's roadmap Instead we're getting version '11.next', 'SPARC.next' and a Big Red SPARC IaaS 18 Jan 2017 | 51
Edge + IoT You know how online shops love to keep tabs on you? Now it's coming to the offline world Intel taps IoT tech to gather stats on shoppers 18 Jan 2017 | 42
Science Boffins link ALIEN STRUCTURE ON VENUS to Solar System's biggest ever grav wave Akatsuki probe finds huge thing lurking in planet's clouds 18 Jan 2017 | 75
AI + ML Doctor AI: Good news, I'm better at predicting when you'll die of a heart attack. Bad news is... You're still gonna die, probably 18 Jan 2017 | 7
Science Smart bombs, smart bullets – now guided smart artillery shells, thanks to DARPA dosh US Navy ordnance contract goes Raytheon 18 Jan 2017 | 55
Analysis El Reg drills into chatbot hype: The AIs that want to be your web butlers So many things to solve, eg: how can there be conversation without memory? 18 Jan 2017 | 51
On-Prem EE slapped with £2.7m fine by Ofcom Some 40,000 customers were overcharged £250,000 18 Jan 2017 | 18
Interview Jersey Telecom wheels out LoRa IoT network, says it's 'not ruling out' other techs Small island's big telco talks to El Reg 18 Jan 2017 | 8
Analysis LTE-Broadcast has broad deployment models. What it doesn't have is the iPhone Key to unlocking mega smartphone market 18 Jan 2017 | 10
Comment Did somebody say object storage? 9 ways to tell if there's a point Tick 'em off, impress the boardroom 18 Jan 2017 | 4
On-Prem Digital transformation?! Your boss's PowerPoint New Year resolution, deconstructed Dear Leader flips eye-popping Uber and Tesla figures 18 Jan 2017 |
Bootnotes Japan's terrifying techno-toilets will be made foreigner friendly, vow makers Hallelujah for the planned ISO symbol standard! 18 Jan 2017 | 58
Logowatch Blockchain: A digital 'golden section' that's the 'gestalt of its pieces' More adventures in fintech 18 Jan 2017 | 8
Analysis Hyperconvergered-ception: HPE swallows SimpliVity Hyperconverges hyperconverger, thereby converging market 18 Jan 2017 | 14
Updated Ooooh, that's NASty. Security-watchers warn over man-in-the-middle risk Small flaws, but they add up 18 Jan 2017 | 6
Science Euro space agency's Galileo satellites stricken by mystery clock failures One in eight have stopped, admits org's director general 18 Jan 2017 | 124
Devops Red Hat's OpenShift Container Platform openly shifts storage into the hands of devs Dynamically allocate without an admin over your shoulder 18 Jan 2017 | 4
On-Prem Exclusive billionaires' investment club leads Collibra's $50m Series C Belgian data governance business only loses a single board position too, sweet 18 Jan 2017 | 3
Security 'Ancient' Mac backdoor discovered that targets medical research firms More secure than PC? Ha! 18 Jan 2017 | 26
HPC UK, you Cray. Boffins flex ARM in 'first-of-its-kind' bonkers HPC rig £3m granted for 'emerging architectures' supercomputing mashup 18 Jan 2017 | 18
On-Prem UK.gov departments are each clinging on to 100 terabytes of legacy data Recreating old work to the tune of £500m per year 18 Jan 2017 | 16
Security College fires IT admin, loses access to Google email, successfully sues IT admin for $250,000 Sacked techie claims school retaliated over race complaint 18 Jan 2017 | 111
Applications Google harvests school kids' web histories for ads, claims its Mississippi nemesis M-I-S-S-I-sue-your-ass-you-creepy-spy 18 Jan 2017 | 39
NSFW pics 'Exploding e-cig cost me 7 teeth, burned my face – and broke my sink!' 'Healthy' smoking puts American bloke in hospital 18 Jan 2017 | 102
Legal Uncle Sam sues Oracle for 'screwing over Asian, black and women staff' Big Red threatened with government IT contract armageddon over pay gap 18 Jan 2017 | 33
On-Prem Square Kilometre Array precursor shrinks 5TB of data to 22MB – every second! Australia's Murchison radio telescope tells Reg how big astronomy 'destroys' big data 18 Jan 2017 | 16
Applications Silence is golden: How Google hunts Android malware in the wild When mobes and gadgets stop verifying app installations, you're gonna have a bad time 18 Jan 2017 | 20
Analysis Is Qualcomm price gouging phone makers? Not everyone thinks so Dissenting FTC voice sees an Obamaesque assault on tech licensing 18 Jan 2017 | 10