Legal
Make Apple, er, America Great Again: iGiant to bring home profits, pay $38bn in repatriation tax
Triumphant Trump touts terrific tax tactic
18 Jan 00:37 | 84
18th > January > 2018 Archive
AI + ML
Free gift for all readers: Google's AutoML launch translated into plain English (where possible)
It's an image-recognition thing
18 Jan 01:18 | 6
Science
Crypto-cash exchange BitConnect pulls plug amid Bitcoin bloodbath
BTC plunge, er, sorry, market correction leaves faithful shaken but not deterred
18 Jan 01:58 | 39
Networks
Poison ping pong prompts patch from Cisco
Switchzilla has fixes for appliances, voice portal, Nexus switch OS
18 Jan 02:59 |
Legal
Broadcom confirms anti-trust probe, professes zero worries
Says probe doesn't impact wireless lines, leaving about a gazillion other products in play
18 Jan 03:02 |
Security
Industrial systems scrambling to catch up with Meltdown, Spectre
Some confessions, but 'watch this space' is the more common reaction - when there is one
18 Jan 05:01 | 5
On-Prem
YouTube turns off cash tap for automatic video nasties
Beer money channels that made under $100 a year are also out of the Partner Program
18 Jan 06:04 | 54
Security
North Korea's finest spent 2017 distributing RATs, wipers, and phish
And sent them mostly to South Korea, naturally
18 Jan 06:30 | 5
Science
Software that predicts whether crims will break the law again is no better than you or me
Court sentencing tool under the microscope
18 Jan 07:06 | 47
Servers
Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder
Microcode mitigations trigger system wobbles, penguinistas warn
18 Jan 07:36 | 32
Security
Mozilla edict: 'Web-accessible' features need 'secure contexts'
If an API or feature needs the 'net, it needs HTTPS under Mozilla's new plan
18 Jan 07:55 | 23
On-Prem
Former Cisco CEO John Chambers says insects are the new lobsters
Only a venture capitalist could say something like that – but that’s what Chambers is now
18 Jan 08:26 | 26
Security
VTech fondleslabs for kids 'still vulnerable' despite sanctions
Researchers claim flaws remain more than two years later
18 Jan 09:02 | 12
Bootnotes
How many Routemaster bus seats would it take to fill Wembley Stadium?
Potential Reg Standards Soviet entry? Let's take a closer look
18 Jan 09:27 | 54
Science
All aboard the Vomit Comet: Not the last train to Essex, but a modded 727 for weightless flight
All that stands between you and zero g is skill and a rubber duck
18 Jan 10:02 | 38
Lectures
The Register Lecture: What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies
18 Jan 10:49 | 5
Lectures
The Register Lecture: Detecting deception
18 Jan 10:50 | 1
Lectures
The Register Lecture: The Secret Spitfires
18 Jan 10:50 | 9
Legal
Intellectual Property Office drops, er, patently cool cartoon to teach kids about trademarks
Hey, Reg can entertain children. IP freely, anyone, IP freely?
18 Jan 11:26 | 38
OSes
NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops
Devs quit, suggest Britain's health service bosses used them to bag Microsoft deal
18 Jan 12:01 | 145
AI + ML
What do voters want? An IRL Maybot? Sure, give that a whirl
Tory council candidate moots an even more robotic PM – for the 'more personable touch'
18 Jan 12:29 | 32
On-Prem
M&S extends customer support contract with, er, Capita
Web chat? On the phone? Online? That'll be UK IT's Mr Nasty you are talking to
18 Jan 12:58 | 18
Security
And Oracle E-biz suite makes 3: Package also vulnerable to exploit used by cryptocurrency miner
Hat trick!
18 Jan 13:26 | 1
Personal Tech
Apple iPhone X: Two weeks in the life of an anxious user
A smartphone that plucks at your heartstrings, not always in a good way
18 Jan 14:04 | 93
Security
Google fuels up Chromecast Wi-Fi flooding fix
It lands today
18 Jan 14:27 | 11
Exclusive
DXC confirms veep level shake-up in new world order
CEO thanks execs for service... more than most get
18 Jan 14:55 | 17
Interview
F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg
Naturally we demanded proof – and we got it
18 Jan 15:27 | 173
Security
Someone is touting a mobile, PC spyware platform called Dark Caracal to governments
Hundreds of gigabytes already slurped, say EFF and Lookout
18 Jan 16:00 | 15
Legal
Scumbag who tweeted vulnerable adults' details is hauled into court
Kent bloke 'threatened' privacy watchdog that he'd release more
18 Jan 16:34 | 27
Legal
Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing
UK.gov pays £15,500 in damages after failed fact-check
18 Jan 17:03 | 54
Servers
DigitalOcean cuts cloud server pricing to stop rivals eating its lunch
Faces up to AWS, Google with future per-second billing plan
18 Jan 17:29 | 9
Legal
Feds charge Barclays trader with fraud in Hewlett-Packard deal
Forex head alleged to have manipulated market in 'front-running' scheme
18 Jan 18:07 | 7
SaaS
Sili-spurned Valley! No way, San Jose! Amazon snubs SF Bay Area in search for HQ2 city
Bezos narrows down search for new base to 20 cities, mostly on East Coast
18 Jan 19:27 | 27
Security
Sad-sack Anon calling himself 'Mr Cunnilingus' online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses
Electronics tutor's taunts come back to haunt him
18 Jan 21:23 | 20
On-Prem
Plutus Payroll victims asked to explain themselves to receiver
Deloitte trying to figure out who to pay first – or maybe who to pay at all
18 Jan 22:36 |
Security
You get a lawsuit! And you get a lawsuit! And you! Now Apple sued over CPU security flaws
iGiant up next in the Meltdown-Spectre-sueball-a-palooza
18 Jan 23:15 | 51
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