Security RAT king thrown in the slammer for peddling NanoCore PC nasty Fella sent down for 33 months after touting spyware, anti-piracy tool to scumbags 27 Feb 00:06 | 5
Legal Is this why Facebook is such a toxic dump? HP, HPE sued for 'leaking chems' into office site Stanford uni fumes at Palo Alto soil contamination cleanup bill 27 Feb 01:04 | 17
Networks IPv6 and 5G will make life hell for spooks and cops say Australia's spooks and cops Both make it harder to connect you to your connections 27 Feb 01:58 | 80
On-Prem On-premises hardware sales about to boom says Morgan Stanley You put off buying any while figuring out the cloud, but now you're ready to spend 27 Feb 04:02 | 15
Networks Ohhhh-klahoma! Where Verizon's sweeping legacy down the drain Trials virty radio with Nokia, Chipzilla 27 Feb 05:02 | 6
Science Drones replace models on Dolce & Gabbana catwalk If you think that's silly, try these $550 Chanel 'data centre sunglasses' 27 Feb 06:01 | 33
Security Opt-in cryptomining script Coinhive 'barely used' say researchers We wouldn't say 'barely', says Coinhive 27 Feb 06:31 | 6
Bootnotes Neil Young slams Google, after you log in to read his rant with Google or Facebook Heart Of Gold meets Piece Of Crap 27 Feb 07:01 | 67
Networks Take SNAT, says Microsoft, to improve Azure load balancing When too many cloudy ports are barely enough 27 Feb 07:29 | 5
Updated Fender's 'smart' guitar amp has no Bluetooth pairing controls Bum note: you could Rickroll an artist live on stage 27 Feb 08:02 | 101
Software Want cheaper analytics? Snub SaaS: Ye olde ELAs might do the job And don't forget to negotiate when vendors are most desperate for cash 27 Feb 08:29 | 4
Legal Oi, drag this creaking, 217-year-old UK census into the data-driven age Challenge accepted, ONS bod Becky Tinsley tells El Reg 27 Feb 09:04 | 62
MWC18 Work continues on 5G, shame no one's sure what it's for yet But the new standard has at last found a home among verticals 27 Feb 09:33 | 16
Updated EE: Data goes TITSUP* for Brit mobile customers Are we supposed to, like, read a book or something? 27 Feb 09:56 | 38
On-Prem Comcast offers £22bn to snatch Sky from Rupert Murdoch Battle of the tycoons 27 Feb 10:30 | 30
#F_AI_L Huawei's Not Hot Dog is possibly the Worst Tech Promo Ever Not an avoidable road accident waiting to happen 27 Feb 10:42 | 27
On-Prem Full disclosh: Facebook to pay shareholders $35m over IPO non-disclosure claims Settlement in long-running case now pocket change for the Zuckerborg 27 Feb 11:14 | 6
Networks US national security agency sniffs around Broadcom bid for Qualcomm – reports No one expects the CFIUS! *Bless you* 27 Feb 11:46 | 2
Updated BBC Telly Tax heavies got pat on the head from snoopers' overseers Corporation belatedly says it hasn't asked for fewer independent inspections 27 Feb 12:14 | 93
Software TigerGraph emerges from undergrowth with 2.0 release in its jaws Move over, doggy. 2018 is 'the year of the graph' apparently 27 Feb 12:42 | 5
Science Sheer luck helped prevent mid-air drone glider prang in Blighty Errant UAV missed aircraft on final approach by 15ft 27 Feb 13:06 | 54
Networks Ofcom gives six operators green light to bid for spectrum Includes Hull-based Connexin and US subsidiary Airspan 27 Feb 13:34 | 9
Security Use of HTTPS among top sites is growing, but weirdly so is deprecated HTTP public key pinning Better than nothing! 27 Feb 15:03 | 47
Bootnotes Chilly willies: Swedish nudie nightclub opens in -11°C to disgust of locals Branded 'a breeding ground for depression and broken souls' 27 Feb 16:51 | 99
On-Prem Did somebody say Brexit? Cambridge Analytica grilled: Brit MPs' Fake News probe We weren't involved in Leave, says data co boss 27 Feb 17:29 | 28
Legal Google asked to take down 2.4 MEEELLION URLs under EU law But only delists about half 27 Feb 18:02 | 16
AI + ML Super Cali's futuristic robo-cars in focus. Even though a watchdog says tech is quite atrocious If we have to remote control it, we hope you'll never notice 27 Feb 20:09 | 29
Personal Tech Maker of addictive tech (Google) criticized by chairman of addictive tech maker (Alphabet) Google – plus Facebook and Twitter – also gets a shoeing from Obama, newspapers 27 Feb 20:59 | 11
Networks Virgin Media's Brit biz broadband goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Support Upset People Service knackered for several hours today 27 Feb 21:25 | 24
Personal Tech Time to pay, Paypal pal Venmo! Oh no, haha, put away that wallet – just promise to be nice Payment app pinky-swears to not trample people's privacy 27 Feb 22:26 | 9
Edge + IoT You can Ring my bell: Amazon pays ONE BEEEEELLION+ dollars for smart home upstart Ring-a-ding ker-ching! A lot of bling for an Internet-of-Thing...s 27 Feb 22:59 | 24
Security NSA boss: Trump won't pull trigger for Russia election hack retaliation And Uncle Sam's limp-cock response means Putin will keep on meddling with our affairs 27 Feb 23:40 | 67