Networks Sea-Me-We 3 cable down, again, Oz-Asia traffic slows down Packets will route around the damage until January 20 Dec 00:55 | 2
Science Special delivery: Pizza, parcel-slinging drones inch closer to reality America's airspace watchdog sets out rules to green-light skies filled with Amazon bots 20 Dec 01:00 | 12
On-Prem Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich Procedural snafu delays vote until Wednesday – but here's basically what's in it 20 Dec 01:41 | 111
Security WordPress captcha plugin on 300,000 sites had a sneaky backdoor WordFence says a fix has landed 20 Dec 01:53 | 11
Security Windows 10 Hello face recognition can be fooled with photos After you update, set it up again from scratch 20 Dec 03:54 | 33
Security Ghostery, uBlock lead the anti-track pack Privacy Badger grazes on cookies, but DoNotTrack? Nobody cares 20 Dec 04:58 | 35
AI + ML You too can fool AI facial recognition systems by wearing glasses All you need is to, erm, give the computers some nasty training data 20 Dec 05:54 | 17
Science Cloud-building alien space rays altered Earth's climate – boffins High-energy particles bombard atmosphere to meddle with global temperature 20 Dec 07:03 | 61
Edge + IoT GoAhead ... and pwn us: Remote hijacking flaw in Internet of Things gear Web server misconfiguration lets anyone inject nasties... under certain conditions 20 Dec 08:02 | 4
Legal Oh good, half of Defra's Brexit projects involve IT Don't worry, many of those are now in 'discovery' phase... 20 Dec 09:02 | 66
On-Call Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful 38oC+. Blame the beanies and a $15m bit barn spec screw-up 20 Dec 09:30 | 137
Legal European court: Let's not kid ourselves, Uber. You're a transport firm, not a 'digital service' Trying year for 'taxi' company 20 Dec 10:04 | 95
Review HTC U11 Life: Google tries to tame the midmarket Life. Oh life. Oh lii-yi-yi-iife... oh life. Doo, doot doot doo 20 Dec 10:41 | 39
Legal UK.gov pushes ahead with legal right to 10Mbps Soz BT, your offer is not wanted... 20 Dec 10:56 | 105
Legal Ofcom sees off legal threat over 5G auction terms Three says it is 'disappointed' and plans to appeal 20 Dec 11:28 | 11
Legal What's taking so long? UK.gov pressed over continued delays to biometrics strategy While you're at it, let's have some specifics on what you tell police about facial recog tech 20 Dec 11:42 | 12
OSes Windows Store nixed Google Chrome 'app' hours after it went live Installer merely redirected to the official source 20 Dec 12:12 | 120
On-Prem One more beancounter given a spanking over Tech Data chicanery Fined £11k and banished from Chartered Accountants facilities 20 Dec 12:31 | 8
Storage Peak NAND? Not yet. Not if you're ogling Micron's moneybags Biz is DRAM happy for now – though 3D XPoint not as perky 20 Dec 13:16 |
Legal Comms-slurping public bodies in UK need crash course in copy 'n' paste When IP address resolution cock-ups = cuffing wrong people 20 Dec 14:27 | 25
On-Prem Google Chrome ad-blocking to begin in February – but what is it going to block? Don't expect the adpocalypse 20 Dec 14:53 | 77
Security UK teen dodges jail time for role in DDoSes on Natwest, Amazon and more Member of vDos booter 'taken advantage of' by vDos crew 20 Dec 15:49 | 29
Updated CSS and Javascript on GOV.UK page take early Christmas holiday El Reg asks why; they magically reappear. Fancy that! 20 Dec 16:27 | 15
Bootnotes Danger! High voltage: German customs bods burn half-tonne of weed in power station Marijuana of unknown origin sent up in smoke 20 Dec 17:19 | 70
Comment Magic Leap blows our mind with its incredible technology... that still doesn't f**king exist Here's what $6bn of vaporware looks like 20 Dec 21:35 | 85
Legal Totally shock claim: Comcast accused of gouging TV rivals Wow, who'd have thought it? 20 Dec 22:36 | 11
Analysis Yes, your old iPhone is slowing down: iOS hits brakes on CPUs as batteries wear out You're not going crazy – Apple really does this (and wants you to upgrade) 20 Dec 23:53 | 175