RBS debit card payments have gone utterly TITSUP POETS day is in danger for those without cash On-Prem14 Oct 2016 | 24
Japan's SoftBank teams up with... Saudi Arabia to launch $100bn London tech fund Saudis: You want to do this? SoftBank: Yeah man. Saudis: Don't mention Yemen! Channel14 Oct 2016 | 12
GlobalSign screw-up cancels top websites' HTTPS certificates Final update Revoked certs may linger for days, locking people out of sites SaaS13 Oct 2016 | 35
New GCHQ unit: Psst, breached biz bods. We won't rat you out to the ICO National Cyber Security Centre wants you to come in for a reassuring chat Channel13 Oct 2016 | 17
Tax-swerving IT director disqualified for 8 years Paid himself £40k when biz was insolvent, says UK.gov Channel13 Oct 2016 | 27
Ireland reaps benefits of Apple's tax schemes, even without EU bounty Spending increases in nation's budget for 2017 driven by corporate tax increase Legal12 Oct 2016 | 25
Majority of underage sexting suspects turn out to be underage too Under-16s involving themselves with other under-16s, potentially criminally Legal11 Oct 2016 | 58
Cloudera tells bright Sparks: Go teach yourselves Hadoop Online DIY courses gotta be less tedious than teaching GCHQ's finest, right? Software10 Oct 2016 | 5
Confirmed: UK police forces own IMSI grabbers, but keeping schtum on use CCDC is for 'Covert Communications Data Capture' Legal10 Oct 2016 | 29
Facebook pays, er, nope, gets £11m credit from UK taxman HMRC... We've got an 'efficient tax structure', boast the Zuckerborg On-Prem10 Oct 2016 | 82
GDS shouting matches so severe team takes to talking by hand signals Images Tactic designed to empower the 'less dominant' members of the PaaS team Channel07 Oct 2016 | 27
Samsung's profits may not be as explosive as its products, says firm Chip and display business segments claimed to have covered the burning bottom Channel07 Oct 2016 | 1
Bloke gets six years in slammer after fessing up to £4.75m tax scam Step 1: Set up a PO box in Dubai, Step 2: Send empty boxes, Step 3: Reclaim VAT On-Prem06 Oct 2016 | 36
Boy, 12, gets €100k bill from Google after confusing Adwords with Adsense Kid thought his band would buy mansion after achieving YouTube fame Bootnotes06 Oct 2016 | 93
Moldovan Dridex millionaires to spend 12 years in jail Cheeky pair cuffed after National Crime Agency and Met Police team-up Security05 Oct 2016 | 6
TalkTalk gets record £400k slap-slap from Brit watchdog Details of carelessness disclosed with in-depth investigation of breach Security05 Oct 2016 | 56
Edinburgh University to flog its supercomputer for £0.0369 per core hour That's not including VAT HPC05 Oct 2016 | 26
Sophos to drop Quadsys after Five Avoid Jail Enid Blyton plot twist: Former Platinum Partner kicked to the curb On-Prem03 Oct 2016 | 4
MariaDB: MaxScale 2.0 given the full SSL streaming Monty Generally available now Databases03 Oct 2016 |
Human rights orgs take Five Eyes nations to court UK/USA to sit in dock at ECHR over backbone collection mischief Legal29 Sep 2016 | 22
Complaints against cops down 93% thanks to bodycams – study Quite likely keeping both the cops and public in check Legal29 Sep 2016 | 40
Sendspace shrugs at phishers exploiting free service To: Whomever, From: Whomever, Attached: Whatever Software29 Sep 2016 | 11
Brit loan firm gets comeuppance for 7.7 million spam texts ICO delivers £130k fine to Mancunian credit card broker Legal28 Sep 2016 | 31
TalkTalk hack: Teen in court on hacking and blackmail charges 19-year-old from Wales alleged to have demanded 596 bitcoins Legal27 Sep 2016 | 10
IBM, WanDisco, DataTorrent and pals sign Hadoop interoperability pact ODPi boasts of big enterprise names joining scheme Networks27 Sep 2016 |
BBC to demand logins for iPlayer in early 2017 Not about licence enforcement, but we'll have 'access to the info', it claims Legal27 Sep 2016 | 96
Don't let banks fool you, the blockchain really does have other uses Analysis Gov.UK missing out on the real value? We're shocked, we tell you... Shocked! Security27 Sep 2016 | 26
Earliest ever recording of computer-generated music is restored Audio Remastered Turing-aided synthesiser tunes to make Christmas number 1? Legal26 Sep 2016 | 9
London-based Yahoo! hacker gets 11 years for SQLi mischief He'll only serve two years, though Legal23 Sep 2016 | 22
Sysadmin gets 5 years for slurping contractor payments to employer And he would have got away with it too, if it wasn't for a simple scheduled audit Legal23 Sep 2016 | 40
Woo hoo, UK.gov has unveiled yet another tech creche – for infosec This one's in Cheltenham. Makes a change from hipsterville East London Security23 Sep 2016 | 14
Brit boffins get $800k for Los Angeles Twitter pre-crime tech Department of Justice cash will develop Minority Report-style tool using social media data Legal22 Sep 2016 | 13
MI6 to hire another 1,000 bods 'cos of private surveillance tech Might be easier just to get a bunch of plastic surgeons in On-Prem22 Sep 2016 | 30
Financial Conduct Authority: No need to look any closer at insurers’ use of Big Data We asked them and they said it's all good, so we're happy On-Prem21 Sep 2016 | 3
Lenovo denies claims it plotted with Microsoft to block Linux installs It's a driver cockup, not a feature OSes21 Sep 2016 | 123
Lethal 4-hour-erection-causing spiders spill out of bunch of ASDA bananas Man flees with family Bootnotes21 Sep 2016 | 124
Self-service-as-a-service startup Trifacta releases newest product version No more programming tears, claims firm Software20 Sep 2016 |
Want a Dell printer? Unlucky – they've just stopped selling them Warranties won't continue beyond 2021 Channel19 Sep 2016 | 35
Alleged hacker Lauri Love loses extradition case. Judge: Suicide safeguards in place Defence set to appeal decision Legal16 Sep 2016 | 90
Swedish appeals court upholds arrest warrant for Julian Assange The saga continues Legal16 Sep 2016 | 77
Ransomware scum infect Comic Relief server: Internal systems taken down Nothing funny about stealing from a charity Security16 Sep 2016 | 60
Exploding public cloud just getting bigger, will be worth $200bn in 2016 – Gartner Security questions persist, but world is hungry for more Channel15 Sep 2016 | 9
Sorry Nanny, e-cigs have 'no serious side-effects' – researchers +Comment Evidence that they're functional smoking cessation aids too Legal14 Sep 2016 | 174
US National Security Agency gets CREST smile Britain-based certification body pleased about 'huge growth' Security14 Sep 2016 | 6
So, Gov.UK infosec in 2015. 'Chaotic'. Cost £300m. NINE THOUSAND data breaches... ... and gov wants more of our data? Channel14 Sep 2016 | 30
Straight outta Staines: Attenda has finally been sold... to US biz Ensono We called it On-Prem13 Sep 2016 | 2
UK oversight body tipped to examine phone snooping tech in prisons Mystery fake base stations around London will remain unexplained Security13 Sep 2016 | 46
Microsoft leads group pelting 'heavy duty' robot maker with $10.5m RotM Sarcos swaps cash for 4 board spots... that's going to end well Science13 Sep 2016 | 10
Action Fraud warns of fraudulent anti-fraud warnings posing as Action Fraud Phishing emails promise free money Security13 Sep 2016 | 17
HP Ink buys Samsung's printer business for a BILLION dollars That's the equivalent of seven cartridges of coloured ink Channel12 Sep 2016 | 67
Brit spies and chums slurped 750k+ bits of info on you last year IOCCO annual report also reveals more than 1,000 errors and cockups Legal09 Sep 2016 | 22
UK will be 'cut off' from 'full intelligence picture' after Brexit – Europol strategy man Concerns about cybersecurity info sharing shared in interview Security07 Sep 2016 | 91
It's time for humanity to embrace SEX ROBOTS. For, uh, science, of course Not just mankind: Ladies love 'em too, we're told AI + ML06 Sep 2016 | 133
UK Parliament's back for Snoopers' Charter. Former head of GCHQ talks to El Reg IPBill Terror law review project turned in at the holidays... and now we wait Legal05 Sep 2016 | 28