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Just delete the internet – pr0n-blocking legislation receives Royal Assent
Oh, and voting is the only say you get in how the government handles your information
28 Apr 2017 11:02 | 134
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On-Prem
It's paydaygeddon! NatWest account transfers 'disappearing' (not really)
Thousands left terrified worrying about limiting their beer intake this month
28 Apr 2017 10:47 | 35
Security
FTC urged to probe easily penetrated telly-enabled teledildonic toy
Woes whack Wi-Fi webcam willy with weak websec walls
27 Apr 2017 10:28 | 23
Storage
Netgear says sorry four weeks after losing customer backups
Critical design bug caused havoc on 30 March
26 Apr 2017 12:36 | 32
Legal
UK drops in World Press Freedom Index following surveillance and anti-espionage threats
And Trump's 'fake news' bleating harms US tradition of defending free press
26 Apr 2017 11:02 | 33
Bootnotes
Reg reader offered £999,998 train ticket from Cambridge to Horley
More like National Fail amirite?
26 Apr 2017 09:32 | 52
Legal
High Court hands Lauri Love permission to appeal extradition to US
Meanwhile, US continues to bury its head in the sand over letter from 114 MPs
25 Apr 2017 14:00 | 31
Security
Ex-NSA techies launch data governance tool for future algorithm-slavery
Immuta debuts Projects for machine learning governance, 'interpretability is key' – CEO
25 Apr 2017 11:00 | 6
Bootnotes
IT error at Great Western Railway charging £10k for 63-mile journey ticket
If you didn't want to travel from Taunton-to-Trowbridge before, you probably won't now either
25 Apr 2017 09:33 | 99
Legal
Forensic accountants appointed to pore over Post Office IT scandal
Criminal Cases Review Commission confirms investigators in 27 cases
24 Apr 2017 14:28 | 18
Software
Apache Foundation hails Metron as new top level project for cybersecurity
♪ Straight outta Cisco, crazy app framework called Metron, open-sourced so data's not crept on ♪
24 Apr 2017 11:27 | 3
Edge + IoT
Microsoft offers preview to eye AI IoT analytics for edgelords of new net
Azure Stream Analytics to connect your fridge to the cloud for chilled machinations
21 Apr 2017 14:43 | 1
Legal
US surveillance court declined less than 2 per cent of applications
2016 figures show only 35 of 1,752 applications were turned down in part or full
21 Apr 2017 13:33 | 31
On-Prem
A quiet market? Nah, Oracle's to pay $850m for ad-tracking Moat
Do you know where your advertisements are going? Big Red does
21 Apr 2017 12:00 | 5
Security
Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor
Sweet MFA... but there's no documentation available for users
20 Apr 2017 13:35 | 106
Legal
Trump's lips sealed on surveillance, complains EU privacy chief
Concern as to whether new administration will abide by Obama's promises
20 Apr 2017 11:04 | 30
Software
Microsoft touts SQL Server 2017 as 'first RDBMS with built-in AI'
Python slithers in next to R
19 Apr 2017 15:00 | 22
Bootnotes
Ex-West Ham winger charged twice over cybershenanigans
22-year-old to appear before magistrates at month's end
19 Apr 2017 09:32 | 6
Software
Guess who's back at Microsoft? Excel, Word creator Charles Simonyi
Windows giant devours Office mastermind and his biz, Intentional Software
18 Apr 2017 18:45 | 25
HPC
Microsoft and Rambus will get schwifty in quantum-cum-cryogenic computation collab
Turn off the heating, it's gonna get −180C in here
18 Apr 2017 16:01 | 14
Legal
H-1B applications down after Trump's 'American techies first' rhetoric
Silicon Valley wants foreigners, POTUS preparing to say no
18 Apr 2017 14:09 | 12
Opinion
Regulate This! Time to subject algorithms to our laws
A Minority Report future awaits
17 Apr 2017 08:00 | 110
Security
Irish! data! police! are! preparing! to! whack! Yahoo! over! that! hack!
Er, wait, which hack? We've lost track...
13 Apr 2017 12:00 | 6
Legal
Three indicted over sex trafficking operation run on Backpage.com
Scandal returns to the site's adult classifieds section
13 Apr 2017 10:02 | 17
Exclusive
Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners
Shuttleworth returns as CEO
12 Apr 2017 16:00 | 29
Security
Prisoners built two PCs from parts, hid them in ceiling, connected to the state's network and did cybershenanigans
And they would have got away with it too, but for... Websense
12 Apr 2017 11:35 | 167
On-Prem
Consumers go off PCs as global shipments continue their decline
'Modest' growth in business segment suggests way ahead
12 Apr 2017 11:05 | 34
Interview
Nerd Klaxon: Barbican to host Science Fiction exhibition this summer
Curator Patrick Gyger tells El Reg what you can expect
12 Apr 2017 08:30 | 23
Security
Homes raided in North West over data thefts from car body repair shops
ICO and cops storm homes in Macclesfield and Droylsden
11 Apr 2017 15:01 | 29
SaaS
AWS squares up to Microsoft in chase for MongoDB cloud budgets
Whatever DB will be, devs can choose from 3
11 Apr 2017 13:11 |
On-Prem
Capgemini set for stalking horse splash of $50m on bankrupt Ciber
Consultancy expects to take on 3,000 of 6,500 employees
10 Apr 2017 12:06 | 2
On-Prem
Subpostmasters prepare to fight Post Office over wrongful theft and false accounting accusations
Collective legal action rears its head in Horizon IT scandal
10 Apr 2017 10:29 | 54
SaaS
Open source Elastic analytics snaps into Google's Cloud Platform
"Openness a driving force" says Google
07 Apr 2017 14:45 | 1
Interview
Hortonworks CTO's ACID Merge: The impossible dream, realised
Hive-minded project injection
07 Apr 2017 12:30 | 1
On-Prem
Teradata pays ex-prez €4.2m to close 'invalid termination' settlement
German court finds against the chopping of German man
07 Apr 2017 10:34 | 5
Legal
ICO fines 11 big charities over dirty data donor-squeezing deeds
Not looking so fluffy-wuffy now
05 Apr 2017 14:02 | 51
DWS17
Hortonworks: Yeah, we'll stay in London... as long as everyone else does
Hadoop-flinger's new president talks Brexit and getting rid of the sales chaff
05 Apr 2017 08:55 | 1
Databases
Couchbase swaps CEO for ex-Veritas prez
NoSQL IPO prep?
04 Apr 2017 16:05 | 1
SaaS
Rackspace launches cloud consultancy service while firing staff
Services, services, services!
03 Apr 2017 16:02 | 6
On-Prem
Oracle breaks silence to deny 'even considering' buying Accenture
In other news: Bear claims to have always used indoor facilities for ablutions
03 Apr 2017 11:38 | 3
Science
Mediaeval Yorkshirefolk mutilated, burned t'dead to prevent reanimation
Likely not cannibalism issue, as knifemarks not near the meat. Er, OK
03 Apr 2017 11:19 | 55
On-Prem
Thank Souq for that! Jeff Bezos now world's second richest
Close, but no BIll Gates
30 Mar 2017 11:02 | 7
Analysis
Is Jassy just jazzing on AWS database migration numbers? Smells fishy...
We're not saying Larry Ellison has a point, but...
30 Mar 2017 09:35 | 3
Legal
Home Office accused of blocking UK public's scrutiny of Snoopers' Charter
Open letter to Amber Rudd: more time needed to read '413 pp of dense legal text'
29 Mar 2017 10:35 | 65
Legal
ICO fines Flybe, Honda for breaking data rules. They were, um, trying to comply with GDPR
Well, that's awkward
28 Mar 2017 12:34 | 19
Science
Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future
We live in 'cloud time' too, says jet-lagged author in speech
27 Mar 2017 09:43 | 93
Security
Bloke, 48, accused of whaling two US tech leviathans out of $100m
Lithuanian cuffed and charged
22 Mar 2017 16:13 | 21
Security
Coppers 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech
Staff association warns that systems 'increasingly' being used for personal reasons
22 Mar 2017 12:57 | 72
Legal
ICO scolds UK councils: GDPR is coming. Are you ready? Pop quiz says you're not
Privacy impact assessments? Anyone? Bueller?
21 Mar 2017 12:44 | 7
Legal
Home Office admits it's preparing to accept EU ruling on surveillance
Doesn't say it's going to, just that it is preparing to do so...
21 Mar 2017 10:58 | 20
Software
Like a BaaS: IBM offers Blockchain as a Service
Maybe you could pay with Bitcoin. Like at Microsoft. Oh wait*
20 Mar 2017 16:01 | 6
Interview
Dr Hannah Fry: We need to be wary of algorithms behind closed doors
UCL researcher on the tragedy of the age of data
20 Mar 2017 15:08 | 31
Updated
Norfolk County Council sent filing cabinet filled with kids' info to a second-hand shop
And all it got in return was a £60k fine
20 Mar 2017 11:25 | 60
Legal
MI5 man to steer GCHQ as Trump wiretapping saga continues
Jeremy 'easy to work with' Fleming is incoming
20 Mar 2017 10:56 | 31
Interview
The world's leading privacy pros talk GDPR with El Reg
US law, EU law and post-Brexit what'll UK do law
20 Mar 2017 09:28 | 13
Interview
An under-appreciated threat to your privacy: Security software
Also, yes, we can handle the CIA, says F-Secure lead researcher Jarno Niemelä
17 Mar 2017 16:02 | 23
Security
Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet
When cloud backups go wrong
16 Mar 2017 15:02 | 86
Software
Microsoft really wants those MongoDB devs to move to DocumentDB
Mongo's wire protocol gets support, and there's a new connector for Spark too
16 Mar 2017 13:28 | 3
Software
Cloudera blows sawdust off new data science workbench
Still keeping schtum on IPO, though
14 Mar 2017 17:01 | 3
Science
Oxford Uni boffins say internet filters probably won't protect teens
Probably better to, erm, talk to them and do some parenting
14 Mar 2017 16:11 | 65
