Column
A proposal to beat below-the-belt selfies: Crowdsourced machine learning using victims' image stashes
Empty your inboxes, people, we can duck this problem together
22 Dec 2021 08:05 | 77
NSFW
Articles tagged with NSFW
Science
Now that's a splash down: Astronauts spend 8-hour trip to Earth in diapers after SpaceX capsule toilet breaks
Puts a whole new spin on 'To boldly go where no one has gone before'
09 Nov 2021 07:04 | 38
In brief
Japanese bloke collared after using AI software to uncensor smut and flogging it
Plus: Explore the limits of language models in bizarre research experiment, and more
23 Oct 2021 03:30 | 47
SaaS
Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager
Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report
08 Sep 2021 03:45 | 6
Updated
Guy who wrote women are 'soft, weak, cosseted, naive' lasted about a month at Apple until internal revolt
Ad tech engineer out after autobiography sparks protest – and what does this say about iGiant's hiring process?
13 May 2021 21:35 | 161
AI + ML
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
30 Apr 2021 10:35 | 36
SaaS
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
26 Mar 2021 21:46 | 19
Software
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
18 Mar 2021 03:59 | 80
Bootnotes
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
12 Feb 2021 12:27 | 20
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Dept of If I'd Known 20 Years Ago: Call centres, roosting chickens, and Bitcoin
Getting it half-right means you got it half-wrong
12 Feb 2021 09:30 | 72
AI + ML
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
27 Jan 2021 06:34 | 33
In brief
ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex
Plus: SonicWall hacked, Qualcomm security wobble, warrantless cellphone monitoring by US snoops revealed
23 Jan 2021 08:36 | 64
NSFW-ish
Reg reader's XXXbox oddity: The BBC4 topless thumbnail trauma whodunnit
'Not us, guv' from all involved – except TiVo, which fixed it while blaming nameless third party
22 Jan 2021 12:00 | 29
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking
You might want to wash the rolling pin first
22 Jan 2021 10:32 | 164
CES
What’s that in CES heaven, is it a star? Or is it that damned elusive flying car?
For 20 years now, El Reg has been looking for proof – is this finally it?
13 Jan 2021 06:36 | 49
Security
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
02 Dec 2020 20:54 | 7
Security
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?
03 Nov 2020 06:02 | 30
Security
Brit webcam criminal snared in FBI LuminosityLink creepware sting spared prison
Swindon man walks away with two-year suspended sentence
14 Oct 2020 13:57 | 13
Security
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
09 Oct 2020 12:04 | 71
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
From the Department of WCGW: An app-controlled polycarbonate lock with no manual override/physical key
Did we mention where it goes? Plus: LinkedIn trolling and other lockdown fun
09 Oct 2020 09:17 | 83
Personal Tech
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?
15 Sep 2020 07:02 | 207
Video
Snortical warfare: Wild boar launches amphibious assault against German beachgoers
Stealing nudists' laptops? An appetite for cocaine? They're evolving!
13 Aug 2020 11:34 | 49
Bootnotes
The Devil's in the details: Church of Satan forced to clarify that no unholy rituals taking place in SoCal forest
What a shame
15 Jul 2020 12:30 | 57
Who, Me?
Oh what a cute little animation... OH MY GOD. (Not acceptable, even in the '80s)
Confessions of a student
13 Jul 2020 07:15 | 90
Updated
Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO
Exec admits launching racist tirade at family in restaurant
07 Jul 2020 22:30 | 125
Special report
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs
Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
01 Jul 2020 10:55 | 98
Security
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
16 Jun 2020 07:56 | 25
Analysis
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
Social network's engineers are so cheesed off they're going to just keep on showing up for work
03 Jun 2020 04:41 | 39
Comment
As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence
The confusion of physical and online protests merge
02 Jun 2020 21:33 | 61
Legal
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
02 Jun 2020 13:30 | 26
Personal Tech
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
01 Jun 2020 22:43 | 121
Opinion
Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?
Trump's throwing everything at the social wall to see what will stick
28 May 2020 03:05 | 194
Security
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
06 May 2020 06:03 | 39
Bootnotes
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
22 Apr 2020 05:52 | 19
Roundup
Google Cloud's AI recog code 'biased' against black people – and more from ML land
Including: Yes, that nightmare smart toilet that photographs you mid... er, process
13 Apr 2020 14:01 | 24
Updated
Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'
For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet
01 Apr 2020 19:31 | 95
Bootnotes
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
01 Apr 2020 14:01 | 82
Science
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
31 Mar 2020 05:03 | 47
Bootnotes
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
24 Mar 2020 05:03 | 35
Roundup
Vimeo freezes accounts after malware hunts for logins, coronavirus map app infected with evil code, and more
Including: COVID-19-hit cruise giant admits it was hacked
17 Mar 2020 01:53 | 3
Security
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?
06 Mar 2020 22:17 | 100
Security
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
06 Mar 2020 21:03 | 69
Roundup
Wi-Fi kit spilling data with bad crypto – Huawei, eh? No, it's Cisco. US giant patches Krook spy-hole bug in network gear
Meanwhile, Sophos finds nasty rootkit, OnlyFans says massive archive not a hack
02 Mar 2020 18:16 | 3
Bootnotes
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
28 Feb 2020 06:01 | 170
Storage
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
25 Feb 2020 22:25 | 17
Science
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
25 Feb 2020 06:02 | 66
SaaS
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
12 Feb 2020 18:45 | 4
SaaS
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
23 Jan 2020 00:19 | 24
Updated
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message
Mid-East nation slams 'absurd' claim, UN report to emerge
22 Jan 2020 00:31 | 43
Security
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
15 Jan 2020 23:54 | 17
NSFW: Something for the New Year, Sir?
Greetings from the future where it's all pole-dancing robots and Pokemon passports
If you must know, 2020 was a blast
01 Jan 2020 10:00 | 82
Who, Me?
The time PC Tools spared an aerospace techie the blushes
Look before you leap, and by leap, we mean run del *.*
23 Dec 2019 08:15 | 110
Roundup
Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more
Various bits and bytes ahead of the Christmas break
20 Dec 2019 22:59 | 7
Networks
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
18 Dec 2019 22:55 | 41
Updated
Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired
Board 'upset', eh, amid claims PFYs sacked after discovery
16 Dec 2019 21:24 | 101
Updated
You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched
We knew it was too good to be true
12 Dec 2019 06:55 | 52
Software
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...
10 Dec 2019 07:51 | 49
Bootnotes
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
10 Dec 2019 01:35 | 65
Personal Tech
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
09 Dec 2019 20:38 | 14
Science
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
05 Dec 2019 08:01 | 25
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