Security Sony to media: stop publishing our stolen stuff or we'll get nasty Is this the moment celebrity rags get busted for making stuff up? 15 Dec 02:18 | 57
Update Uber surge pricing kicks in during Sydney siege Big bucks go to drivers, passengers go free 15 Dec 02:59 | 38
Legal Pirate Bay towed to oldpiratebay.org Isohunt claims to have tossed copy of Pirate DB into a lifeboat 15 Dec 05:03 | 51
Bootnotes Swiss McDonalds serves up no-holes-barred cheesy action to punters Hot muffins on the menu as staff 'concentrate on serving customers' 15 Dec 07:01 | 25
Virtualization Parallels to adopt Docker as native app format in Cloud Server Early container enthusiast forced aboard the bandwagon 15 Dec 08:02 | 3
Science MARSQUAKES shook up range of hills in ancient lake bed Xenogeologists release new map of 'Candor Colles' down low in the Valles Marineris 15 Dec 08:26 | 8
Science Is there ANOTHER UNIVERSE headed BACKWARDS IN TIME? sdaehbus fo esrevinu egnarts eht si ti ylbaviecnoC 15 Dec 09:02 | 121
Channel Win Server 2003 custom support: That's NOT going to be fun Forrester: Forget profits, Microsoft just won't want to do this 15 Dec 09:27 | 27
Review Four tuner frenzy: The all-you-can-EEat TV Freeview PVR Enough functionality to fight YouView et al? 15 Dec 10:01 | 46
Exclusive Plusnet could face DATA BREACH probe over SPAM HELL gripes ICO tells El Reg it's gathering evidence 15 Dec 10:27 | 41
Science LOHAN's Plucky Playmonaut touches down at Spaceport America El Reg recce team scouts New Mexico facility 15 Dec 12:22 | 39
Channel UK banks ill-prepared for return of the rabid POODLE Only 4,096 requests needed to uncover a 16-character cookie 15 Dec 12:27 | 22
Storage Samsung brings out new longer-lived 1TB Flash podule for PCs, notebooks Write cycles to write home about 15 Dec 12:32 | 15
Servers Independent inquiry into British air-traffic-control IT nightmare Vince Cable accuses NATS of 'skimping' and running 'ancient' systems 15 Dec 12:47 | 54
On-Prem Secretive Chinese smartmobe colossus Xiaomi is on wafer thin margins Rare filing shows cheap handsets mean teeny profits 15 Dec 12:52 | 5
Storage Imation rolls out the Barrall Does the storage big-shot have a big storage shot in the arm in store ... age? 15 Dec 12:56 |
Channel 'Shadow IT' gradually sapping power and budget from CIOs Clouds and - gasp! - users buying their own kit mean 'Darwinian moment' for techies 15 Dec 12:59 | 36
Channel Failed would-be COMET saviour now FAILS to save his own biz 'Harder to make money in electronics than he thought' 15 Dec 13:14 | 1
Legal Heyyy, you seem to be trying to post a drunk picture You know your boss looks at this? Facebook mulls assistant for the tired and confused 15 Dec 13:38 | 10
Networks Vodafone poised to ink chumship pact with T-Mobile and get back into US enterprise Just 900 customers need apply – NOT consumers 15 Dec 13:58 | 6
Security Next gen ransomware: Elliptic cryptic, talks on Tor, demands Bitcoin All the gear and will cost you dear 15 Dec 14:28 | 8
Channel Drive-making kingpin WD gobbles Skyera... to give to HGST Flash array packing density king bought 15 Dec 15:03 | 8
+Comment Private equity downs WAN furtler Riverbed in $3.6bn gulp Thoma Bravo gives Elliott its payout 15 Dec 15:33 |
Networks We are never getting back to... Samsung's baking Apple's 14nm 'A9' chips? Promise of 14nm has Cupertino back in Sammy's arms - reports 15 Dec 15:59 | 45
Networks TalkTalk customers demand opt-out fix for telco's DNS ad-jacking tactics Error Replacement Service is a neat moneyspinner for ISP 15 Dec 16:27 | 26
Legal Google must free us from 'invisible web of our personal data' – DPA And NOT using the fine print, say Dutch watchdogs 15 Dec 17:01 | 31
+Comment BT to gobble EE for £12.5bn – BTEE phone home Soz Telefonica, BT's gone for the other one for home, mobe, TV, web 4-way 15 Dec 17:20 | 86
Virtualization Tintri adds Hyper-V to its virtualised server support Oh Hyper-V, oh Hyper-V, now you are but one of three 15 Dec 18:04 | 1
Science Cool Large Hadron Collider to fire into doubly powerful ring Dark matter probing scientists fire up system by cooling it down 15 Dec 19:56 | 20
Security Senator: Backdoor for the Feds is a backdoor for hackers Wyden pushes for law banning special access in software, hardware for cops and spies 15 Dec 21:07 | 42
Legal Pirate Bay admins 'couldn't care less' about police raid Claim sweep that sunk site is just 'part of this game' – but will the Bay be back? 15 Dec 21:26 | 24
SaaS Microsoft, rivals together fight US govt's cloud data snatch When Irish eyes aren't smiling 15 Dec 22:53 | 32
Channel Roll up, come see the BOOMING HACKER BAZAAR! Fake credential, premier credit cards, and 100% satisfaction, guaranteed 15 Dec 23:02 | 7
Software Microsoft whips out real-time translator for Skype calls Babel Fish in your ear not required 15 Dec 23:56 | 42