Security Java and Python have unpatched firewall-crossing FTP SNAFU This gets interesting when you find your way into a mail server, says dev who found it 21 Feb 01:46 | 25
Legal Australia commences critical infrastructure protection consultation The plan is to build a database of 'stuff we don't want bombed' 21 Feb 03:29 | 2
Software You're doing Hadoop and Spark wrong and they will probably fail Developers want the new shiny, users forget integration and then along come the vendors ... 21 Feb 03:58 | 17
Git, Bad, Ugly Drop the F-bomb, get your coding typos auto-corrected El Reg surveys fun stuff that's popped up on GitHub and beyond 21 Feb 05:58 | 19
Software Uber hires Obama's attorney-general to review its workplaces CEO Travis Kalanick uses alternative diversity facts to prove Uber's goodness 21 Feb 07:03 | 26
Science European Space Agency slaps CC licences on its pics and vids Space. The Final Frontier (for copyright). These are the free images and videos of the ESA 21 Feb 08:02 | 13
On-Prem Apple to Europe: It's our job to design Ireland's tax system, not yours Cupertino says no 21 Feb 08:27 | 97
Software Mulesoft set to be first tech IPO of 2017? We'd forgotten they existed... Just over $180m in revenue, it turns out... and gross profit of $138m!? Oh, net loss though... 21 Feb 08:58 | 6
Science NASA extends trial of steerable robo-stunt kite parachute Why chase balloons for hundreds of miles when you can drop the payload outside? 21 Feb 09:33 | 35
Science Automated, insight cannot be: Jedi master of statistics was good – but beware the daft side Hans Rosling is gone, but dashboards and graphs are dangerous to knowledge 21 Feb 10:02 | 21
Backgrounder Suffering ceepie-geepies! Do we need a new processor architecture? Well... if machines're gonna learn learn learn learn learn... 21 Feb 11:03 | 28
Legal EU privacy gurus peer at Windows 10, still don't like what they see Article 29 has 'concerns' about Microsoft's data slurp 21 Feb 12:11 | 76
Edge + IoT ARM embraces Brit and Swedish upstarts in Softbank NB-IoT push And they've already got an integrated modem to show for it 21 Feb 12:28 | 1
Updated TeamSpy hackers get the crew back together after four-year hiatus Remote-control app hijacked for use as snooping tool – again 21 Feb 12:54 | 6
Networks EE unveils sky domination plans with drones, balloons Plus emergency response vehicles for ESN backup 21 Feb 13:27 | 33
Channel Capita swallows £50m blow after writing down historic contracts A fabulous start to the year! 21 Feb 14:03 | 8
On-Prem Big data should be 'part of UK's core national infrastructure' – Civil Service chief exec There's an app that maps public toilets – how could it not be core infrastructure? 21 Feb 15:01 | 14
On-Prem $350m! shaved! off! sale! price! as! Verizon! swallows! Yahoo! $4.48bn... cheap! (apols to Alfred E Neuman) 21 Feb 15:09 | 26
Security Hacking group RTM able to divert bulk financial transfers with malware Attacks of great concern to Russian financial institutions 21 Feb 15:31 | 9
Storage These snapshots are Purely Cohesity Backup data streams and now snapshots flash between firms 21 Feb 16:06 | 2
On-Prem Tosh in deeper financial doo-doo as banks crank up the pressure Push for majority stake sale in memory business 21 Feb 17:11 | 10
OSes Your next PC is… your 'Droid? Remix unveils Continuum-killer One device for the next billion, Jide hopes 21 Feb 17:44 | 58
Interview Meet the chap open-sourcing US govt code – Paul, an ex-Microsoft anti-piracy engineer Starting with literally piles of crap (no, not the code) 21 Feb 19:16 | 31
Security 'Hey, Homeland Security. Don't you dare demand Twitter, Facebook passwords at the border' Civil liberty groups, security experts, law profs, lawmakers slam looming US policy 21 Feb 20:04 | 163
Science Amid new push to make Pluto a planet again... Get over it, ice-world's assassin tells El Reg Boffins demand rule rewrite to restore glorified moon's dignity 21 Feb 20:48 | 76
AI + ML Google rents out Nvidia Tesla GPUs in its cloud. If you ask nicely, that'll be 70 cents an hour, bud AWS, GCE price war looming? 21 Feb 21:07 | 4
Devops Big Blue's big blunder: IBM accidentally hands over root access to its data science servers Private Docker Swarm keys leak into public containers 21 Feb 22:06 | 7
Security US Homeland Security is so secure even its own staff can't log in Nothing like a post-holiday IT cockup 21 Feb 22:42 | 16