Video
iPhone X Face ID fooled again by 'evil twin' mask
Apple's facial-recog tech 'not secure enough for business' claim researchers
28 Nov 00:01 | 46
28th > November > 2017 Archive
Applications
Uber, quit shoveling money into the fire for one second and explain that hack – US senators
Lawmakers wonder if biz known for regulatory contempt flouted rules
28 Nov 00:39 | 12
Video
Watch how Google's AI catches shoulder surfers spying on your phone
Web giant's R&D boffins to tease privacy-protecting tech in NIPS show-and-tell
28 Nov 01:21 | 19
Security
Chinese IT security bods accused of siphoning US GPS, biz blueprints
Tech consultants waged six-year hacking campaign, American prosecutors claim
28 Nov 02:28 | 6
Analysis
Net neutrality nonsense: Can we, please, just not all lose our minds?
Fake pizza, fake comments, fake arguments aren't helping either side
28 Nov 03:06 | 59
Virtualization
Microsoft postpones VMware-on-Azure details release by two weeks
What's Redmond got to hide? Or clear with lawyers?
28 Nov 04:02 | 2
Personal Tech
Apple embraces El Reg! iOS 11 is now biting the hand that types IT
Ahem ahem, have you... have you tried turning off and on again?
28 Nov 05:03 | 42
Science
Give 1,000 monkeys typewriters, they'll write Shakespeare. Give them robot arms, and wait – they actually did that?
Animal-piloted cyborgs is just what 2017 needs right now
28 Nov 05:37 | 37
Legal
Facebook bends to pressure, opens German center to löschen abuse, gets yelled at by spies
We promise not to make any sour kraut gags
28 Nov 06:04 | 25
Security
Open source nameserver used by millions needs patching
PowerDNS admins, feel free to fix these DNSSEC bugs before something nasty happens
28 Nov 06:31 | 3
Science
Surveillance Capitalism thinks it won, but there's still time to unplug it
We gave up privacy for convenience, and 2018's the time to win both of them back
28 Nov 07:02 | 79
Security
Surprise: Android apps are riddled with trackers
Hundreds of apps put snoops to work, and then there's 'supersonic tone tracking'
28 Nov 07:33 | 57
Security
Boffins craft perfect 'head generator' to beat facial recognition
Think Face/Off, in software, plus some digital touchup
28 Nov 08:02 | 26
Science
You live in the right galaxy: Milky Way to eat Small Magellanic Cloud even sooner
You've only got a few billion years, little buddy
28 Nov 08:32 | 17
Hello, wrong number
ML fails: Loyalty prediction? Not really. And bonus prediction? Oh dear
Unexpected consequences - or drawing the line at non-linear relationships
28 Nov 09:07 | 42
Storage
You've feasted for days but the courses keep on coming: Let's talk storage turkey
And finally sir, a wafer-thin mint... it is but wafer-thin
28 Nov 09:31 |
Exclusive
IBM does what IBM does best: Raises the chopper again
No we aren't talking about helicopters. UK heads, offshoring....
28 Nov 09:56 | 55
Legal
Three useless UK.gov 'catapults' put in Last Chance Saloon
Ernst & Young: Mmm... maybe if you had some 'objectives'
28 Nov 10:28 | 38
Devops
2001: A Stob Odyssey
Open the chuffing pod bay doors yourself, Dave
28 Nov 10:57 | 22
Interview
Right, HPE. You've eaten your hyperconverged Simplivity breakfast. Will it blend?
C'mon... there has to be some aggregation aggravation
28 Nov 11:33 | 8
Databases
Couchbase CEO: 'No current financing plans' but no IPO date either
NoSQL biz touts 'engagement database' to firms with cash to burn on 'digital transformation'
28 Nov 12:02 |
On-Prem
'Break up Google and Facebook if you ever want innovation again'
Jonathan Taplin against the tech giants
28 Nov 12:17 | 97
Storage
Storage uber alles: SoftBank chucks $20 mill into Nexenta's hat
Which pie *doesn't* Japanese corp have a finger in?
28 Nov 12:41 |
Virtualization
VMware-on-AWS bulks up, fails in (good) new ways and even lets you reserve a table
Virtzilla's new cloudy release cadence gets an airing
28 Nov 13:01 |
Bootnotes
Lock them up and throw away the (don)key
Mischievous herd serves 4-day sentence
28 Nov 13:25 | 29
Science
Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Siemens tease electric flight engine project
E-Fan X slated to generate lift and 'leccy by 2020
28 Nov 13:56 | 99
Personal Tech
You mean Google updated its smartwatch OS and nobody noticed?
Handy wristjob
28 Nov 14:19 | 25
Updated
Researcher: DJI RCE-holes offered me $500 after I found Heartbleed etc on its servers
Keep your money, says chap (tho Chinese drone firm did patch 'em right quick)
28 Nov 14:43 | 11
OSes
What's that fresh, zesty fragrance? Oh, Linux Mint 18.3 has landed
System reports, snapshots, improved app store, backups
28 Nov 14:51 | 68
Analysis
One love, OneSphere: Let's give thanks to the cloud and HPE, all right?
From multi-cloud pain in the ass to a single pane of glass
28 Nov 15:01 | 1
Edge + IoT
HPE and ABB, sitting in a tree, doing lucrative industrial IoT
What first attracted you to the industrial Internet of revenue-generating things?
28 Nov 15:09 |
On-Prem
SpaceX 'raises' an extra 100 million bucks to get His Muskiness to Mars
Harebrained space schemes are expensive, yo
28 Nov 15:21 | 51
Storage
Someone has fixed the ESX 'VM stun' problem
Virtual machines won't press pause in Nutanix deployments
28 Nov 15:58 | 17
HPC
Stephen Hawking's boffin buds buy HPE HPC to ogle universe
But can COSMOS find a way to improve HPE profits? Hmmm
28 Nov 16:31 | 4
Storage
Soon enough, Toshiba drives will stash vid footage of all of us
10TB is a lot of embarrassing, explicit acts
28 Nov 16:58 | 2
Legal
GCSE compsci kids' work may not count after solutions leaked online
Brit watchdog considers changing how course will be graded
28 Nov 17:31 | 30
Updated
Pro tip: You can log into macOS High Sierra as root with no password
Apple, this is Windows 95 bad – but there is a workaround to kill the bug
28 Nov 20:15 | 149
Updated
US intelligence blabs classified Linux VM to world via leaky S3 silo
Gigabytes of Army, NSA files found out in the open online
28 Nov 21:25 | 28
Updated
Russian rocket snafu may have just violently dismantled 19 satellites
Launch blunder not the best start for Putin's new spaceport
28 Nov 22:09 | 65
On-Prem
Judge stalls Uber trade-secret theft trial after learning upstart 'ran a trade-secret stealing op'
Cab-hailing app maker in Wayyyyyymo trouble
28 Nov 22:34 | 45
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