Security It's 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet: Patch me if you can Malicious Bluetooth signals, too, it looks like 07 Feb 00:04 | 59
Security Who are the last people you'd expect to spill thousands of student records? A computer science dept? What a fantastic guess O(1)? More like O(h) n(O)! Proto-boffins' info leaks out 07 Feb 00:33 | 26
Vid At least Sony offered a t-shirt, says macOS flaw finder: Bug bounties now for Macs if you want this 0-day, Apple Cupertino's tight-wads called out by fella who found password, private key leak 07 Feb 01:41 | 41
Software Website programming? Pffft, so 2011. Python's main squeeze is now data science, apparently Popular glue coding language sticks to everything 07 Feb 06:04 | 51
Science What a smashing time, cheer astroboffins: Epic exoplanet space prang evidence eyeballed Kepler 107c is way too beefy for its own good 07 Feb 07:17 | 16
Science Yay, we got a B for maths. Literally, a bee: Little nosy nectar nerds smart enough to add, abstract numbers What's next? Arithme-ticks? 07 Feb 08:03 | 54
Software Chrome devs attempt to slip muzzle on resource-guzzling browser beast with 'Never-Slow Mode' You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain 07 Feb 09:15 | 29
Bootnotes WeWork restructuring bites El Reg hacks where it hurts as afternoon brew delayed Mug hoarder identified at Vulture Central 07 Feb 10:07 | 80
Security Trakt app users' personal data exposed: We were hit by a 'PHP exploit'... back in 2014 No payment info, but users' names, locations, email addies etc all 'lost' 07 Feb 10:46 | 7
Legal German competition watchdog tells Facebook to stop combining user data without consent Social Network will appeal – for the people of Germany 07 Feb 11:31 | 34
Software Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign Get with the times, Grandad! 07 Feb 11:58 | 260
Bootnotes Pants-purveyor in plea for popularity: It's not just any pork push... it's an M&S 'love sausage' Marks & Sparks marketeers decide straight-up innuendo's what you want for Valentine's 07 Feb 12:28 | 58
Personal Tech Almost £5k for a deskslab: Microsoft's Surface Studio 2 hits UK Eye-pleasing graphics to match eye-watering pricing 07 Feb 13:10 | 30
Networks Trolling in the Reg's forums... we mean, er, 'working' on the train still rubbish thanks to patchy data coverage Rail fails to keep up with 4G 07 Feb 13:49 | 45
On-Prem Treaty of Roam: No-deal Brexit mobile bill shock As for the Big 4 UK mobile firms, there's a first mover disadvantage 07 Feb 14:34 | 151
AI + ML What a re-leaf: IBM's AI smarts to tell 'leccy companies when their bushes need trimming Holster the chainsaw, Big Blue kit designed to know if tree's a crowd for overhead cables 07 Feb 15:15 | 19
On-Prem Freedom! Diodes Inc saves Scottish fab from closure in £50m buyout There's life in the old Silicon Glen yet 07 Feb 15:49 | 13
Security Mumsnet data leak: Moaning parents could see other users' privates after cloud migration Change reversed while forum probes how many affected 07 Feb 17:21 | 26
Legal Oracle accuses US of underhand tactics because discrimination case 'doomed to fail' Big Red claims Labor Dept has 'secret pact' with private plaintiff's lawyers 07 Feb 18:20 | 16
Software Born-again open-source enthusiast Microsoft rucks up at OpenChain How do you solve a problem like compliance? 07 Feb 19:20 | 13
Security Apple puts bullet through 'Do Not Track', FaceTime snooping bug and iOS vulnerabilities Patch your iThings – there are at least two holes being exploited right now in the wild 07 Feb 21:13 | 27
On-Prem Wells Fargo? Well fscked at the moment: Data center up in smoke, bank website, app down Something something dark, billowing cloud computing: Massive multi-hour outage across US, and it's still down 07 Feb 21:57 | 69