Usenix Enigma Facebook CSO slams RSA Conf for repping 'the worst parts of the security industry' Stamos tells infosec world to drop the hype 27 Jan 00:34 | 16
Analysis In this Facebook and Google-owned world, it's time to rethink privacy New paper suggests ways to grab control of your data 27 Jan 00:56 | 56
Virtualization VMware says vSphere in decline, new multi-cloud plan will ensure growth Virtzilla beats the street, fires 800, crimps vCloud Air, doubles down on new products 27 Jan 01:22 | 8
Security Lenovo's file-sharing app uses hardwired password '12345678' ... or no password at all Lenov-lol 27 Jan 01:57 | 25
Software AMD emits fresh open-source GPU tools for HPC, game devs Fleshes out GPUOpen strategy 27 Jan 02:56 | 8
Virtualization VMware axes Fusion and Workstation US devs The show will go on, says Virtzilla, probably in China. Or how about open source? 27 Jan 05:02 | 37
Security 500Gbps DDoS attack flattens world record Booter blasters belt businesses. 27 Jan 06:02 | 12
Security 'Here are 400,000 smut sites. Block them' says Pakistani telco regulator Weary sysadmins copy pr0n to /dev/null 27 Jan 06:28 | 36
Bootnotes Islamic fundamentalists force Yorkshire IT shop to chop off brand Jihadi-nough room for one ISIS in hazardous environments 27 Jan 07:06 | 34
Security Medical data experiment goes horribly wrong: 950,000 records lost If you find six disk drives marked 'patients who used lab services', please hand them in 27 Jan 07:30 | 32
Devops 'Unikernels will send us back to the DOS era' – DTrace guru Bryan Cantrill speaks out Reaction to Docker biz gobble 27 Jan 08:01 | 100
Security PayPal patches deadly server remote code execution flaw Java deserialisation flaw was so nasty, PayPal paid bounties to two researchers 27 Jan 08:37 | 7
Podcast Werner Herzog chats about dystopian tech doc Lo and Behold Legendary director's doc ponders dark and light side of the networks that connect us 27 Jan 09:02 |
Channel UK councils continue to run into the arms of Capita Microsoft also makes ground in councils' dash for digital 27 Jan 09:25 | 6
On-Prem Outage outrage: Banks need clear targets for improving IT systems MP: You need 'greater IT expertise' in the boardroom 27 Jan 10:03 | 17
Legal Brit censors endure 10-hour Paint Drying movie epic Two days to classify protest cinematic masterwork 27 Jan 10:29 | 145
Comment NetApp hits back at Wikibon in cluster fluster bunfight 'Storage focus is important and sustainable' says irate firm 27 Jan 10:55 | 38
Bootnotes Berlin takes down ‘for sale’ sign over top Nazi’s love nest For poor old Goebbels, no offers at all… 27 Jan 11:26 | 25
Devops Walmart takes its DevOps platform and piles it high on GitHub Mega grocer throwing rotten tomatoes at Amazon? 27 Jan 12:01 | 5
Channel Stop everything! PC sales did increase in the UK over Christmas Sell-out numbers driven by Black Friday... and Win 10 27 Jan 12:17 | 8
Channel Lincolnshire council shuts down all IT after alleged 0-day breach Medical records, addresses, dates of birth, and bank details all exposed according to insider 27 Jan 12:37 | 50
Bootnotes Pubs good for the soul: Official Digital world 'simply no substitute' for mates and booze 27 Jan 12:58 | 57
Personal Tech Google patents robotic 'mobile delivery receptacle' Grabs package from drone, dumps it in your garage 27 Jan 13:24 | 24
AI + ML Slack snags Foursquare veep to run new AI and machine learning office Noah Weiss enters, begs world to apply for jobs 27 Jan 13:42 | 2
Networks AT&T and Big Telco pals join Facebook OCP club El Reg talks open with Equinix 27 Jan 14:00 | 2
Channel UK police have 43 separate IT systems and it's putting you at risk Coppers beg for info-sharing network at ICT Summit 27 Jan 14:32 | 25
Security Hot-patching method melts security hole in Apple's App Store JSPatch is a time bomb waiting to explode, warns FireEye 27 Jan 14:46 | 4
Personal Tech Safari iOS crashing: Suggestions snafu KOs the Apple masses Fix your settings, or refresh your DNS? Give it a go and let us know 27 Jan 14:55 | 28
Channel Met Police: Yes, outsourcing IT to Steria has 'risks' 'No flag-waving yet', says top cop, won't say 'it'll be easy' 27 Jan 15:01 | 12
Security Website admin cPanel hacked, loses a bunch of folks' contact details Press the big red password reset button anyway 27 Jan 15:35 | 7
Channel UK Home Sec wants Minority Report-style policing – using your slurped data Be a shame to waste the 'vast quantities' of lovely citizen data! 27 Jan 15:54 | 84
Channel 400 jobs to go as Texas Instruments calls time on chip fab in Scotland Production shifts to Germany, US and Japan 27 Jan 16:11 | 23
Updated Techie on the ground disputes BlackEnergy Ukraine power outage story And Russia? That's too convenient 27 Jan 16:32 | 14
Channel Profits sink at Logicalis, UK captain no where to be seen Press-gangs still on prowl for new local boss, vendors chucked overboard 27 Jan 17:23 |
Storage Plexistor rolls out storage-defined memory for the masses Flash as memory: What's not to like? 27 Jan 17:27 | 2
AI + ML Google DeepMind cyber-brain cracks tough AI challenge: Beating a top Go board-game player Robo elbows bio Go pro 27 Jan 18:00 | 58
Devops Ansible says Galaxy app store revamp is really real Beta label picked off and flicked in the bin 27 Jan 18:27 | 1
Comment Whew! How to tell if a DevOps biz is peddling a load of manure Take your SaaSy nonsense and shove it, pal. This is the real deal 27 Jan 18:56 | 26
Security Ban internet anonymity – says US Homeland Security official Justification: Child abuse and terrorism, of course 27 Jan 19:18 | 83
Analysis Apparently we have to give customers the warm fuzzies ... How the heck do we do that? Customer experience done right 27 Jan 19:41 | 31
On-call This gun says you ain’t leaving until my PC is fixed Dell computer repair guy allegedly held hostage 27 Jan 20:05 | 36
Storage Glum Commvault vaults out of the well it's been stuck in for months Revenue rise and return to profits at software biz 27 Jan 20:17 |
Legal Lyft to drivers: Here's $12.25m, now shut up about employee rights Ride sharer coughs up settlement so cyber-cabbies keep 'contractor' status 27 Jan 20:34 | 4
Legal Death to clunky, creaky rip-off cable boxes – here's how it will happen FCC proposes blowing open the market to competition 27 Jan 21:09 | 31
Usenix Enigma Cops hate encryption but the NSA loves it when you use PGP It lights you up like a Vegas casino, says compsci boffin 27 Jan 21:25 | 151
Science How to build a starship - and why we should start thinking about it now Onwards, upwards and outwards 27 Jan 22:01 | 95
Security Would you like fraud with that? Burger chain giant Wendy's 'hacked' Weird payments probed 27 Jan 22:34 | 14
SaaS Microsoft: We think your Office files should see other people Documents can now be stashed in Box, Dropbox, etc 27 Jan 23:19 | 8
On-Prem Billion-dollar blood-test unicorn biz Theranos 'putting lives at risk' US federal agency threatens to shut down Silicon Valley upstart's testing facility 27 Jan 23:44 | 10
Legal Aereo TV boss is back ... pitching gigabit internet and a $350 Wi-Fi router Forgive us if we're skeptical, Chet, but that last venture didn't go so well 27 Jan 23:56 | 15