Security Cryptolocker infects cop PC: Massachusetts plod fork out Bitcoin ransom Police learn about crypto-currency and AES256 crypto the hard way 21 Nov 00:15 | 43
Software US Patent Office disputes crucial scroll-and-bounce Apple tech – Samsung demands patent trial halt Shock twist in long-running courtroom snoozefest 21 Nov 01:39 | 23
Legal Microsoft sues Acacia for suing Microsoft Spat splits patent trolling jerk-circle as Redmond nixes reform 21 Nov 01:59 | 7
On-Prem Cisco's reverse mentoring plan helps middle-aged managers grok Gen Y Just what the world needs now: a One Direction router 21 Nov 03:02 | 8
Personal Tech Qualcomm slips out new Snapdragon hardness to gush 4K vids into palms New 805 system-on-chip is the Google Nexus 5 CPU's big brother 21 Nov 03:29 | 6
Software Microsoft zaps self in foot with WinPho/Office remote control app Devices and services strategy means US-only offering won't work with Surface 21 Nov 04:01 | 17
Networks Boffins ponder wireless 'hetnets' as home backhaul helpers There goes the neighbourhood 21 Nov 04:31 | 3
Personal Tech Who wants a Xeon-powered, 12-core, RAID 10 … LAPTOP? Get out your re-enforced asbestos pants, sysadmins, it weighs in at 5.5 kilograms 21 Nov 04:58 | 32
Science Magnetic slurry could deliver heatsink-as-a-service Nanofluid could be attracted to the heat it exists to dissipate 21 Nov 05:27 | 12
Bootnotes Qatar whips covers off giant footballing vagina World Cup stadium design own-goal 21 Nov 06:01 | 73
Networks Hate Skype now it's part of Microsoft? How about a Chinese clone, then? China mobile's Jego VoIP service offers free calls and rents Honkers phone numbers 21 Nov 06:30 | 11
Legal Google's Schmidt predicts end to global censorship in a DECADE China, North Korea, Syria ... are you listening? 21 Nov 06:58 | 22
Security SCADA flaws put world leaders at risk of TERRIBLE TRAFFIC JAM Host city for 2014's G20 meeting pen tests its traffic lights and finds flaws galore 21 Nov 07:30 | 18
Legal UK defamation law reforms take effect from start of 2014 Anything your commenters say can be held against you, unless... 21 Nov 08:03 | 68
Software From Dept of REALLY? Sueball lobbed at Apple over crap iOS Maps app Landmark stuffups? That's it: I sue in the morn 21 Nov 08:32 | 55
Security Darknet: It's not just for DRUGS. Ninja Banking Trojan uses it too Baddies even offer a 'help desk' with a ticketing system 21 Nov 09:04 | 9
Review Dear-ly beloved: Apple’s costly iPad Mini with Retina Display Exactly like the iPad Air – only smaller. Well, almost... 21 Nov 09:29 | 51
Feature Dry, cold and volatile: How to survive Mars, and your fellow crew 35 million miles and no Starbucks 21 Nov 10:02 | 59
Analysis Meet Stuxnet's stealthier older sister: Super-bug turned Iran's nuke plants into pressure cookers New report documents Mark I cyber-weapon build 21 Nov 10:16 | 28
Personal Tech HURRI-KANO: Raspberry Pi kit for kids STORMS past funding target Double your money with El Reg’s assistance 21 Nov 10:47 | 19
Channel Don't PANIC, but these SMARTWATCH-stuffed boxes are going NOWHERE Unstylish, pricey, no apps - Xmas shoppers to stick with slabs 21 Nov 11:03 | 25
Storage DataDirect Networks beefs up its 1.7 MILLION IOPS monster It's big, it's bad, it's the SFA12KX 21 Nov 11:14 | 2
Feature What does the NHS’s new IT plan really want to extract from us? Uncosted system should’ve gone live two months ago 21 Nov 11:28 | 22
Review Lumia 1520: Our man screams into ENORMO new Nokia phondleslab Quad-core Windows giant packs a top-notch camera 21 Nov 11:42 | 48
Science ROCK FROM MARS FOUND in Africa, reveals Red Planet's SECRETS Meteorite comes from the early days on the Red Planet 21 Nov 11:57 | 22
SC13 Green supercomputer benchmarks make boffins see red, check blueprints Top 10 use GPU brawn, but has anyone any bright ideas on better juicy tests? 21 Nov 12:14 | 2
Legal Star Wars exec: These ARE THE DROIDS I was LOOKING FOR UK crew chosen to build R2-D2 for new film 21 Nov 12:26 | 24
Software Macy's: Now with Apple's Minority Report ads system that TRACKS your iPHONE NYC Department Store set to trial iSpy iBeacons 21 Nov 12:42 | 36
Servers Ultra-green Europeans scorn Facebook's data centre blueprint Efficiency isn't a dirty word! Crevice is a dirty word, but efficiency isn't... 21 Nov 12:57 | 5
Channel Capita: We WILL be more accountable for our services IT Services unit restructures again in pursuit of higher profits 21 Nov 13:14 | 3
Channel Acer kills CEO job before CEO starts: All goes Wong after Wang pull-out Parachutes in former chairman Stan who refuses salary 21 Nov 13:41 | 9
Doctor Who @ 50 BAD ALTITUDE: The highs and lows of Doctor Who Data Visualisation: Significant heights and depths reached in the TV series 21 Nov 14:00 | 12
Bootnotes Microsoft touts SCROOGLE merch: Hopes YOU'LL PAY to dump on rival Anti-Google marketing campaign thinks you're a mug 21 Nov 14:16 | 90
Legal ICO: Private dicks broke data-protection rules when they blagged data Fate of ICU Investigations to be decided next year, says judge 21 Nov 14:29 | 10
Software Bill Gates orders hitman to kill right-hand man Steve Ballmer 'If you want to buy a Playstation 4, that's your choice...' 21 Nov 14:44 | 35
Doctor Who @ 50 Doctor Who Episode One: Through a glass. Darkly A franchise saved by a lack of anything else on TV 21 Nov 15:00 | 53
Networks Google rolls out fibre to 3 million Ugandans: Ni marungi*, nyan cat Forget net neutrality, you fools! Here, have some pussy 21 Nov 15:18 | 8
HPC Intel pulls up SoCs, reveals 'integrated' memory on CPUs In future will stack memory atop the cores 21 Nov 15:41 | 17
On-Prem Rob 'Flipper' Bearden plans to FLOAT his Hadoop heffalump Hortonworks hears an IPO-OOOO 21 Nov 16:02 | 1
Networks FCC: How we'll RIP 'n' REPLACE OLD phone system for new IP tech Commission fails to mention privacy protections in migration 21 Nov 16:19 | 18
Science Native Americans were actually European - BEFORE the Europeans arrived! Columbus et al invaded relatives who went via Siberia 21 Nov 16:37 | 47
Legal US House and Senate push patent troll bills Congress looks into ways to curb abusive IP litigation 21 Nov 16:59 | 17
Storage Kaminario in amazeballs all-flash K2 streaming-storage benchmark brag From now on, you'll need solid state to beat this thing 21 Nov 17:36 | 1
Personal Tech Microsoft: Play hookey on Xbox One day - chug a dose of ZOMBIE FLU Tech giant pens doctor's note for your Friday sickie 21 Nov 17:52 | 9
Science BAFFLING power cockup halts NASA's nuclear Mars tank Curiosity Rover's voltage wobbles, probe launches probe 21 Nov 18:26 | 17
Software Huge horde of droids whacks code box GitHub in password-guess attack That's an awful lot of angry SVN users, in there 21 Nov 18:40 | 16
Personal Tech Forget ANGELINA JOLIE, Xbox One struts red carpet in London's Leicester Square It was deserted when we visited, but don't tell anyone 21 Nov 19:18 | 18
Legal Google slips Chromecast stick into SAUCY new partner: HBO Go Hookup latest in slow march of media acceptance for ads goliath 21 Nov 19:38 | 7
Databases Facebook helps coders get their Rocks off with flash-wringing DB lib Open-source persistent key-value store sits in your NAND, chugging data 21 Nov 20:10 | 2
Pics Super-stealth FLYING CAR prototype seen outside GOOGLE HQ Sci-fi aircraft can fit in your garage 21 Nov 20:31 | 53
Servers Intel on the alert: Thick, acrid smog in China, India is EATING servers Circuit boards ruined by air pollution. Population not doing so great either 21 Nov 20:57 | 47
Science MY EYES! Earth engulfed by BRIGHTEST EVER killer gamma-ray burst Planets closer to newborn black hole's cosmic outpouring not so lucky 21 Nov 21:16 | 48
Science Tiny, invisible EXTRATERRESTRIAL INVADERS appear at South Pole Dozens travelled here almost at warp speed to hit beneath stilt base 21 Nov 21:59 | 70
SC13 – Updated Forget terabit Ethernet, the next step is 400 gig – if we can afford the R&D Don't worry, Asian OEMs will pop for it, as long as they get all the jobs 21 Nov 22:36 | 13
Channel Cisco seeks custody of biz kids amid Phoenix IT Group divorce Networking giant offers free support as negotiations rumble on 21 Nov 22:59 |
Updated Xbox One site belly-up in global Microsoft cloud catastrophe DNS problems render cloud services AND status page inaccessible 21 Nov 23:00 | 84
Legal Jury: Samsung must cough $290m of $379m Apple wanted - NOT in 5 cent pieces 'Always been about more than patents and money' 21 Nov 23:30 | 39