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Guy who wrote women are 'soft, weak, cosseted, naive' lasted about a month at Apple until internal revolt

Updated Ad tech engineer out after autobiography sparks protest – and what does this say about iGiant's hiring process?

Personal Tech13 May 2021 | 160

Not only were half of an AI text adventure generator's sessions NSFW but some involved depictions of sex with children

And it was poorly secured, allowing someone to analyze players' private fantasies

AI + ML30 Apr 2021 | 36

Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'

Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it

SaaS26 Mar 2021 | 19

Australian police suggests app to record consent to sexual activity

‘You swipe left and right and there’s another option if you want to have intimacy’ says commissioner

Software18 Mar 2021 | 80

Court witness describes how Autonomy founder Lynch would wash his rear-end in US prison showers and dorms

When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind

Bootnotes12 Feb 2021 | 20

Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong

Science12 Feb 2021 | 72

Soon, no more blood tests or probing for prostate cancer? AI claims 99% success rate using more relaxing methods

Small-scale test involving biosensor and trained algorithms shows early promise

AI + ML27 Jan 2021 | 33

ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex

In brief Plus: SonicWall hacked, Qualcomm security wobble, warrantless cellphone monitoring by US snoops revealed

Security23 Jan 2021 | 64

Reg reader's XXXbox oddity: The BBC4 topless thumbnail trauma whodunnit

NSFW-ish 'Not us, guv' from all involved – except TiVo, which fixed it while blaming nameless third party

Bootnotes22 Jan 2021 | 29

Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking

Something for the Weekend, Sir? You might want to wash the rolling pin first

Edge + IoT22 Jan 2021 | 164

What’s that in CES heaven, is it a star? Or is it that damned elusive flying car?

CES For 20 years now, El Reg has been looking for proof – is this finally it?

Bootnotes13 Jan 2021 | 49

Hacker given three years for stealing secret Nintendo Switch blueprints, collecting child sex abuse vids

Ryan Hernandez continued to raid gaming giant's systems even after FBI gave him a warning

Security02 Dec 2020 | 7

CERT/CC: 'Sensational' bug names spark fear, hype – so we'll give flaws our own labels... like Suggestive Bunny

Officials go with randomly selected words with unintentionally hilarious results. Filthy Python, anyone?

Security03 Nov 2020 | 30

Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison

Swindon man walks away with two-year suspended sentence

Security14 Oct 2020 | 13

Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search

Don't worry, says the internet giant, this doesn't happen too often

Security09 Oct 2020 | 71

From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Did we mention where it goes? Plus: LinkedIn trolling and other lockdown fun

Bootnotes09 Oct 2020 | 83

Family wrongly accused of uploading pedo material to Facebook – after US-EU date confusion in IP address log

Site accessed on 10/11/2016... is that November 10 or October 11?

Personal Tech15 Sep 2020 | 207

Snortical warfare: Wild boar launches amphibious assault against German beachgoers

Video Stealing nudists' laptops? An appetite for cocaine? They're evolving!

Bootnotes13 Aug 2020 | 49

The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest

What a shame

Bootnotes15 Jul 2020 | 57

Oh what a cute little animation... OH MY GOD. (Not acceptable, even in the '80s)

Who, Me? Confessions of a student

Personal Tech13 Jul 2020 | 90

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

Updated Exec admits launching racist tirade at family in restaurant

Bootnotes07 Jul 2020 | 125

MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

Special report Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics

AI + ML01 Jul 2020 | 98

845GB of racy dating app records exposed to entire internet via leaky AWS buckets

We've kept this story safe for work... which is perhaps a little odd because you're all working from home anyway

Security16 Jun 2020 | 25

Staff in a huff, personal call with Trump, picking fights with Twitter, upsetting civil-rights groups – a week in the life of Facebook's Zuckerberg

Analysis Social network's engineers are so cheesed off they're going to just keep on showing up for work

Personal Tech03 Jun 2020 | 39

As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence

Comment The confusion of physical and online protests merge

Personal Tech02 Jun 2020 | 61

Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest

Cisco cancels Live web conference, Google delays Android Beta, SAP boss voices support for Black Lives Matter

Legal02 Jun 2020 | 26

As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA

And, oh look, Anonymous returns. Completely forgot all about them

Personal Tech01 Jun 2020 | 121

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

Opinion Trump's throwing everything at the social wall to see what will stick

Personal Tech28 May 2020 | 194

Now we know what the P really stands for in PwC: X-rated ads plastered over derelict corner of accountants' website

Naughty posters on hijacked subdomain show up in search results

Security06 May 2020 | 39

Singapore's corona-crushing superhero squad grounded by football fans

Liverpool followers were Kryptonite for Must Always Walk Alone Man, Dr Disinfector and the rest of the Virus Vanguard

Bootnotes22 Apr 2020 | 19

Google Cloud's AI recog code 'biased' against black people – and more from ML land

Roundup Including: Yes, that nightmare smart toilet that photographs you mid... er, process

AI + ML13 Apr 2020 | 24

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

Updated For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet

Security01 Apr 2020 | 95

How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out

Web calculator should give you an idea of bog roll, pasta, booze stocks

Bootnotes01 Apr 2020 | 82

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Just use a wee bit of your imagination

Science31 Mar 2020 | 47

Crack police squad seeks help to flush out Australian toilet paper thieves

What a pair of asswipes – they even pulled a knife at a supermarket

Bootnotes24 Mar 2020 | 35

Vimeo freezes accounts after malware hunts for logins, coronavirus map app infected with evil code, and more

Roundup Including: COVID-19-hit cruise giant admits it was hacked

Security17 Mar 2020 | 3

Don't be fooled, experts warn, America's anti-child-abuse EARN IT Act could burn encryption to the ground

Wait, a proposed law tackling the sexual abuse of kids and they name it... the EARN IT Act? Seriously?

Security06 Mar 2020 | 100

FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked 'limited contact info', it meant p0rno filter requests, IP addresses, IMEIs as well as names, addresses and more

Infosec biz that found the database spill raises eyebrow at UK ISP's advisory to subscribers

Security06 Mar 2020 | 69

Wi-Fi kit spilling data with bad crypto – Huawei, eh? No, it's Cisco. US giant patches Krook spy-hole bug in network gear

Roundup Meanwhile, Sophos finds nasty rootkit, OnlyFans says massive archive not a hack

Security02 Mar 2020 | 3

US Homeland Security mistakenly seizes British ad agency's website in prostitution probe gone wrong

They got it back – after reneging any claim against Uncle Sam for damages

Bootnotes28 Feb 2020 | 170

Blow me down with a feather, well, storage server software update gone awry: Nest vid streams go dark for 16 hours

Google so sorry after devices fly the coop in multi-hour outage

Storage25 Feb 2020 | 17

Talk about making a rod for your own back: Pot dealer's seized €54m Bitcoins up in smoke after keys thrown out with fishing gear

Cops hope for high-tech solution

Science25 Feb 2020 | 66

Microsoft and Oracle, sitting in a cloud... in-ter-ope-ra-bi-li-ty: Friends-with-benefits deal is working out nicely for both

I'll show you my customers if you show me yours

SaaS12 Feb 2020 | 4

Sorry to be blunt about this... Open AWS S3 storage bucket just made 30,000 potheads' privacy go up in smoke

Talk about high tech: Software maker exposes cloud silo of personal info in tale of security gone bong

SaaS23 Jan 2020 | 24

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message

Updated Mid-East nation slams 'absurd' claim, UN report to emerge

Security22 Jan 2020 | 43

What do Brit biz consultants and X-rated cam stars have in common? Wide open... AWS S3 buckets on public internet

Exposed: Intimate... personal details belonging to thousands of folks

Security15 Jan 2020 | 17

Greetings from the future where it's all pole-dancing robots and Pokemon passports

NSFW: Something for the New Year, Sir? If you must know, 2020 was a blast

Personal Tech01 Jan 2020 | 82

The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes

Who, Me? Look before you leap, and by leap, we mean run del *.*

Storage23 Dec 2019 | 110

Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more

Roundup Various bits and bytes ahead of the Christmas break

AI + ML20 Dec 2019 | 7

FCC proudly wastes $90m getting data-capped, pricey satellite internet to tiny percentage of US population

On the plus side, this saves cable companies the hassle of laying down fiber

Networks18 Dec 2019 | 41

Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired

Updated Board 'upset', eh, amid claims PFYs sacked after discovery

Networks16 Dec 2019 | 101

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Updated We knew it was too good to be true

Science12 Dec 2019 | 52

Join us on our new journey, says Wunderlist – as it vanishes down the Microsoft plughole

Popular to-do app dies in May. And here’s a worse version...

Software10 Dec 2019 | 49

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

Lawyer attempted to argue theft of domain name at gunpoint was too stupid to be true

Bootnotes10 Dec 2019 | 65

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

And thus the age of the Glasshole passes into history

Personal Tech09 Dec 2019 | 14

We know this sounds weird but in future we could ask fiber optic cables: Did the earth move for you... literally?

Distributed acoustic sensing turns old glass cabling into seismic sensors

Science05 Dec 2019 | 25