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
Legal28 Apr 2017 | 134
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It's paydaygeddon! NatWest account transfers 'disappearing' (not really)
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On-Prem28 Apr 2017 | 35
FTC urged to probe easily penetrated telly-enabled teledildonic toy
Woes whack Wi-Fi webcam willy with weak websec walls
Security27 Apr 2017 | 23
Netgear says sorry four weeks after losing customer backups
Critical design bug caused havoc on 30 March
Storage26 Apr 2017 | 32
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
Legal26 Apr 2017 | 33
Reg reader offered £999,998 train ticket from Cambridge to Horley
More like National Fail amirite?
Bootnotes26 Apr 2017 | 52
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
Legal25 Apr 2017 | 31
Ex-NSA techies launch data governance tool for future algorithm-slavery
Immuta debuts Projects for machine learning governance, 'interpretability is key' – CEO
Security25 Apr 2017 | 6
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
Bootnotes25 Apr 2017 | 99
Forensic accountants appointed to pore over Post Office IT scandal
Criminal Cases Review Commission confirms investigators in 27 cases
Legal24 Apr 2017 | 18
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 ♪
Software24 Apr 2017 | 3
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
Edge + IoT21 Apr 2017 | 1
US surveillance court declined less than 2 per cent of applications
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Legal21 Apr 2017 | 31
A quiet market? Nah, Oracle's to pay $850m for ad-tracking Moat
Do you know where your advertisements are going? Big Red does
On-Prem21 Apr 2017 | 5
Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor
Sweet MFA... but there's no documentation available for users
Security20 Apr 2017 | 106
Trump's lips sealed on surveillance, complains EU privacy chief
Concern as to whether new administration will abide by Obama's promises
Legal20 Apr 2017 | 30
Microsoft touts SQL Server 2017 as 'first RDBMS with built-in AI'
Python slithers in next to R
Software19 Apr 2017 | 22
Ex-West Ham winger charged twice over cybershenanigans
22-year-old to appear before magistrates at month's end
Bootnotes19 Apr 2017 | 6
Guess who's back at Microsoft? Excel, Word creator Charles Simonyi
Windows giant devours Office mastermind and his biz, Intentional Software
Software18 Apr 2017 | 25
Microsoft and Rambus will get schwifty in quantum-cum-cryogenic computation collab
Turn off the heating, it's gonna get −180C in here
HPC18 Apr 2017 | 14
H-1B applications down after Trump's 'American techies first' rhetoric
Silicon Valley wants foreigners, POTUS preparing to say no
Legal18 Apr 2017 | 12
Regulate This! Time to subject algorithms to our laws
Opinion A Minority Report future awaits
Legal17 Apr 2017 | 110
Irish! data! police! are! preparing! to! whack! Yahoo! over! that! hack!
Er, wait, which hack? We've lost track...
Security13 Apr 2017 | 6
Three indicted over sex trafficking operation run on Backpage.com
Scandal returns to the site's adult classifieds section
Legal13 Apr 2017 | 17
Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners
Exclusive Shuttleworth returns as CEO
Software12 Apr 2017 | 29
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
Security12 Apr 2017 | 167
Consumers go off PCs as global shipments continue their decline
'Modest' growth in business segment suggests way ahead
On-Prem12 Apr 2017 | 34
Nerd Klaxon: Barbican to host Science Fiction exhibition this summer
Interview Curator Patrick Gyger tells El Reg what you can expect
Bootnotes12 Apr 2017 | 23
Homes raided in North West over data thefts from car body repair shops
ICO and cops storm homes in Macclesfield and Droylsden
Security11 Apr 2017 | 29
AWS squares up to Microsoft in chase for MongoDB cloud budgets
Whatever DB will be, devs can choose from 3
SaaS11 Apr 2017 |
Capgemini set for stalking horse splash of $50m on bankrupt Ciber
Consultancy expects to take on 3,000 of 6,500 employees
On-Prem10 Apr 2017 | 2
Subpostmasters prepare to fight Post Office over wrongful theft and false accounting accusations
Collective legal action rears its head in Horizon IT scandal
On-Prem10 Apr 2017 | 54
Open source Elastic analytics snaps into Google's Cloud Platform
"Openness a driving force" says Google
SaaS07 Apr 2017 | 1
Hortonworks CTO's ACID Merge: The impossible dream, realised
Interview Hive-minded project injection
Software07 Apr 2017 | 1
Teradata pays ex-prez €4.2m to close 'invalid termination' settlement
German court finds against the chopping of German man
On-Prem07 Apr 2017 | 5
ICO fines 11 big charities over dirty data donor-squeezing deeds
Not looking so fluffy-wuffy now
Legal05 Apr 2017 | 51
Hortonworks: Yeah, we'll stay in London... as long as everyone else does
DWS17 Hadoop-flinger's new president talks Brexit and getting rid of the sales chaff
Databases05 Apr 2017 | 1
Couchbase swaps CEO for ex-Veritas prez
NoSQL IPO prep?
Databases04 Apr 2017 | 1
Rackspace launches cloud consultancy service while firing staff
Services, services, services!
SaaS03 Apr 2017 | 6
Oracle breaks silence to deny 'even considering' buying Accenture
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On-Prem03 Apr 2017 | 3
Mediaeval Yorkshirefolk mutilated, burned t'dead to prevent reanimation
Likely not cannibalism issue, as knifemarks not near the meat. Er, OK
Science03 Apr 2017 | 55
Thank Souq for that! Jeff Bezos now world's second richest
Close, but no BIll Gates
On-Prem30 Mar 2017 | 7
Is Jassy just jazzing on AWS database migration numbers? Smells fishy...
Analysis We're not saying Larry Ellison has a point, but...
Databases30 Mar 2017 | 3
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'
Legal29 Mar 2017 | 65
ICO fines Flybe, Honda for breaking data rules. They were, um, trying to comply with GDPR
Well, that's awkward
Legal28 Mar 2017 | 19
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
Science27 Mar 2017 | 93
Bloke, 48, accused of whaling two US tech leviathans out of $100m
Lithuanian cuffed and charged
Security22 Mar 2017 | 21
Coppers 'persistently' breach data protection laws with police tech
Staff association warns that systems 'increasingly' being used for personal reasons
Security22 Mar 2017 | 72
ICO scolds UK councils: GDPR is coming. Are you ready? Pop quiz says you're not
Privacy impact assessments? Anyone? Bueller?
Legal21 Mar 2017 | 7
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...
Legal21 Mar 2017 | 20
Like a BaaS: IBM offers Blockchain as a Service
Maybe you could pay with Bitcoin. Like at Microsoft. Oh wait*
Software20 Mar 2017 | 6
Dr Hannah Fry: We need to be wary of algorithms behind closed doors
Interview UCL researcher on the tragedy of the age of data
Security20 Mar 2017 | 31
Norfolk County Council sent filing cabinet filled with kids' info to a second-hand shop
Updated And all it got in return was a £60k fine
Security20 Mar 2017 | 60
MI5 man to steer GCHQ as Trump wiretapping saga continues
Jeremy 'easy to work with' Fleming is incoming
Legal20 Mar 2017 | 31
The world's leading privacy pros talk GDPR with El Reg
Interview US law, EU law and post-Brexit what'll UK do law
Legal20 Mar 2017 | 13
An under-appreciated threat to your privacy: Security software
Interview Also, yes, we can handle the CIA, says F-Secure lead researcher Jarno Niemelä
Security17 Mar 2017 | 23
Barrister fined after idiot husband slings unencrypted client data onto the internet
When cloud backups go wrong
Security16 Mar 2017 | 86
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
Software16 Mar 2017 | 3
Cloudera blows sawdust off new data science workbench
Still keeping schtum on IPO, though
Software14 Mar 2017 | 3
Oxford Uni boffins say internet filters probably won't protect teens
Probably better to, erm, talk to them and do some parenting
Science14 Mar 2017 | 65
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