Legal
Stingray stung: FBI told 'get a warrant'
DoJ bends a little with new cell-site simulator policy
04 Sep 00:56 | 10
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Legal
Oz public service reminds staff: don't use work e-mails on 'affair' sites
Dying to chat to a 'Fembot'? Not on our network, dude
04 Sep 01:30 | 4
Channel
Windows 10 grabbed about five per cent market share in August
Unless this really is the year of the Linux desktop ...
04 Sep 01:56 | 69
Legal
ACCC hopes to SLASH rural backhaul prices
Cities get a trim, rural links to take a haircut
04 Sep 02:30 | 1
Security
NBN vaults Australia into global top-10 … DDoS attack sources
Or not, if you look at the numbers
04 Sep 02:56 | 2
Networks
Equinix edged around Wedge, fell back into proprietary embrace
Ye olde networking giants still deliver for this big bit-shipper
04 Sep 03:56 |
Security
Borg bashes destabilising DoS bug in UCS kit
No workaround, so it's 'patch or chuck it in the bin'
04 Sep 04:56 | 3
Channel
Amazon slurps Elemental
AWS Cloud to spin up video formatting services
04 Sep 05:30 | 2
Legal
Spaniard trousers €60,000 bank error, proceeds directly to jail
Does not pass go, despite commendable misappropriation attempt
04 Sep 06:05 | 69
Science
Boffins build magnetic field cloak 'wormhole', could help MRI scanners
Cool cloak no sci-fi joke
04 Sep 06:30 | 28
OSes
Red Hat unleashes EL 7.2 beta on a waiting world
Better containers, storage, security and admin, apparently
04 Sep 06:56 | 9
Science
Pioneer slaps 80s LASERS on cars for driverless push
Price drop needed for expensive kit
04 Sep 07:30 | 41
Channel
Is SanDisk becoming an acquisition target as the market consolidates?
‘We don't comment on rumour or speculation’. But we do
04 Sep 08:02 | 1
Science
Soyuz docks with ISS, delivers trio of fresh 'nauts
Orbiting outpost packed with parked capsules
04 Sep 08:42 | 13
Feature
Wangling my way into the 4K gaming club with a water-cooled whopper
Catching a glimpse of uncanny valley
04 Sep 09:05 | 56
Databases
Larry Ellison's yacht isn't threatened by NoSQL – yet
But he might have to buy a NoSQL dinghy to tie to the back of it
04 Sep 09:30 | 25
Storage
Drifting phases and noise in phase-change memory
Big Blue research gnomes of Zurich crack a problem
04 Sep 10:06 | 6
Software
Fruity Firefox: Mozilla caves to Apple, unveils iOS-friendly browser
New Zealand will get first crack at browser's fruity capabilities
04 Sep 10:27 | 32
Security
Bored Brazilian skiddie claims DDoS against Essex Police
'I will do 19 years' attacker says in garbled English – perhaps accidentally right
04 Sep 10:58 | 16
Legal
Drones need their own version of Asimov's laws of robotics – MEPs
EU aviation agency seeks public opinion on planned UAV laws
04 Sep 11:22 | 34
IFA 2015
China's TCL strokes Android with its 17.3" fondleslab WHOPPER
And Alcatel's OneTouch Xess goes even further with Google's 'desktop' OS
04 Sep 11:39 | 17
Episode 13
BOFH: Power corrupts, uninterrupted power corrupts absolutely
The best things in life are free, or at least come when there's no charge
04 Sep 11:57 | 82
IFA 2015
They’re FAT. They’re ROUND. They’re worth almost a POUND. Smart waaatch, smart waaatch
Samsung, world+dog unveil more wrist jobs
04 Sep 12:18 | 77
Caption comp
WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg
More amusement from the message menagerie
04 Sep 12:41 | 267
Software
Want your kids to learn coding? Train the darn teachers first
UK gov’s financial pledges yet to filter down
04 Sep 13:03 | 56
Security
Hacker chancer looking for $500,000 after offering Clinton emails for auction
If he even has them. Hard to substantiate anything here
04 Sep 13:27 | 32
On-Prem
Cognitive computing: What can and can’t we do, and should lipreading be banned?
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
04 Sep 14:04 | 44
On-Prem
A Dyson car? Don't rule it out. We're suckers for innovation, says CEO
Also refuses to rule out perpetual motion machine, breakable perfect crypto
04 Sep 14:27 | 46
Channel
Cash-happy BlackBerry slurps one-time rival Good for $425m
Mobe-maker formerly known as RIM finds bundle of notes behind the sofa
04 Sep 14:58 | 11
Hands On
The S, Huawei’s new best Mate: Compact and premium – but not cheap
Primo slab of quality Sino flagship phablet lands
04 Sep 15:26 | 14
Security
Unconfirmed PayPal 0day auth flaw lingers after XSS gets fixed
Brace of bugs unveiled in payment facilitator's security structure
04 Sep 15:55 | 4
Bootnotes
Reg reader shares AshMad blackmail email about which he gives 'zero f***s'
Send Bitcoin or we tell your Facebook mates you were shag-searching
04 Sep 16:43 | 61
Security
Reg readers select infosec A-Team to save Ashley Madison
Good news for the bad boy; bad news for the good girl...
04 Sep 17:02 | 7
Bootnotes
Daredevil Brit lifts off in 54-prop quinquaquadcopter
'Just a bit of fun', says flying Heath Robinson
04 Sep 17:30 | 77
Legal
FTC gives FBI the finger over govt backdoor encryption demands
Commissioner joins CTO in its 'don't be stupid' rationale
04 Sep 18:21 | 13
Security
Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla to discover Firefox security holes – and exploit them
Bugzilla infiltrated, private vulns slurped since at least 2014
04 Sep 19:32 | 31
Legal
Spotify updates hated privacy policy ... with exact same policy
We're sorry, says CEO, that we didn't better explain how we're slurping all your info
04 Sep 19:45 | 25
Legal
Game, set and DEATHMATCH: Drone TERROR ORDEAL at US Open tennis tournament
Robot runs amuck, teacher cuffed
04 Sep 20:24 | 28
Comment
Oracle's bright new Sonoma SPARCs hint at own-tech cloud
There's only one likely customer for Oracle's hyperscale silicon: Oracle
04 Sep 20:46 | 13
PDF
Mind-blowing secrets of NSA's security exploit stockpile revealed at last
Incredible document has to be seen to be believed
04 Sep 21:22 | 58
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