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Stop us if you've heard this one: Russian hacker thrown in US slammer for $59m bank fraud

More punishment on the menu for Roman Seleznev

01 Dec 00:25 | 16

VMware crushes another quarter, with help from $100m DXC deal

Lift and shift to the cloud is harder than you think, and that makes vSphere sticky

01 Dec 01:58 | 1

The sun rose, you woke up, and Qualcomm sued Apple three times

iPhones and Apple Watch have pinched plenty, even stuff from webOS, apparently

01 Dec 03:26 | 10

Will you be on Cloud9? AWS emits cloudy code editor it nabbed last year

Software dev tool relaunched with Amazon branding – plus other stuff

01 Dec 05:03 | 5

WD to move all its stuff to RISC-V processors, build some kind of super data-wrangling stack

Details are thin, but it looks like disks could help crunch data out on the edge

01 Dec 05:20 | 12

Oracle rival chides UK councils for pricey database indulgence

Widely used biz tech risks bill bomb, says maker of less popular stuff

01 Dec 06:04 | 42

Citrix cracks Windows Store's monopoly on Windows 10 S apps

Receiver comes to the Store, to pipe apps and desktops into Windows-lite for Schools

01 Dec 06:28 | 20

User dialled his PC into a permanent state of 'Brown Alert'

At same office, chap asked for help fixing keyboard. Spoiler: he had two of 'em

01 Dec 07:01 | 162

Russia threatens to set up its 'own internet' with China, India and pals – let's take a closer look

El Reg dives into global DNS split threat

01 Dec 07:31 | 107

AI taught to beat Sudoku puzzles. Now how about a time machine to 2005?

Y'know, back when this would have been useful. Naw, just kidding. This is neat

01 Dec 08:03 | 32

Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds

Chap kept his work PDA in one, slacked off, played golf, lost job, appealed, failed to get job back

01 Dec 08:36 | 71

Total recog: British AI makes universal speech breakthrough

SpeechMatics bests world+dog at adding new language. How did it do it?

01 Dec 09:16 | 24

Datrium tries to tempt Amazon cloud backup folk: Psst, buddy... you want HCI?

Aviva dumps DXC, shoves data centre support at Atos

UK insurance bods find new bit barn bouncer

01 Dec 10:13 | 26

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the failest mobe of all?

Android v iPhone rated for crashes and crapitude

01 Dec 10:39 | 39

Toshiba soups up XG5-P NVMe SSD with 2TB and chunky read/write boost

Premium model doubles capacity, ups IOPS 55 per cent

BT lab domain grab – 17 years after cheeky chap swiped 'em

Adastral Park bundle on sale for a cool 10 Bitcoin

01 Dec 11:47 | 29

Ex-Autonomy exec agrees to be a witness for HP fraud case

Christopher Egan takes US prosecutors' deal

01 Dec 12:19 | 15

Linux laptop-flinger says bye-bye to buggy Intel Management Engine

Says 'disabling' the ME will reduce future vulnerabilities

01 Dec 12:49 | 52

Badass alert: 1 in 5 Brits don't give a damn about webpage crypto-miners

More sensible users would like regulation or permission first

01 Dec 13:14 | 40

Ofcom proposes ways to stop BT undercutting broadband rivals

Tackles former state monopoly's 'significant market power'

01 Dec 13:46 | 52

Royal Bank of Scotland culls 1 in 4 branches, blames the interwebz

Oh good, because nothing ever goes wrong with online banking

01 Dec 14:25 | 65

Delphix sends database virtualization sailing up the Amazon

AWS RDS instances get virty to cut cloudy storage costs

01 Dec 14:59 | 2

Loose-change payment network Microraiden launches on Ethereum

Might speed up the blockchain, but aren't they about cutting out the middle man?

01 Dec 15:28 | 8

Brit cyber-spies: Fancy meeting outside court to talk about evidence?

Regulator: Excuse me, I'm an independent body

01 Dec 15:58 | 11

High Court judge finds Morrisons supermarket liable for 2014 data leak

100,000 staff entitled to comp for 'upset and distress' caused

01 Dec 16:28 | 22

Ex-cop who 'kept private copies of data' fingers Cabinet Office minister in pr0nz at work claims

Decade-old Damien Green MP row reheated by BBC

01 Dec 17:01 | 154

Report: Women make up just 17% of IT workforce, paid 15% less than men

UK industry body calls for top-down change on diversity

01 Dec 17:32 | 142

Germany says NEIN to purchase incentive for Tesla Model S

Turns out you can't have all the subsidies after all, Musk

01 Dec 18:04 | 51

Oh, Nutanix, if you carry on like this you might actually creep into profit

Revenue up, losses down – that's how you do business

Battle-weary Tosh, WDC mull peace treaty to end war over flash chip fab

Settlement reportedly on the cards

01 Dec 19:58 | 1

Expert gives Congress solution to vote machine cyber-security fears: Keep a paper backup

Hot take from crypto-guru Prof Matt Blaze

01 Dec 21:30 | 66

Apple iOS 11 security 'downgrade' decried as 'horror show'

Ability to reset iTunes Backup passwords unravels layered protection, claims researcher

01 Dec 22:33 | 39

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