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Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

Redmond's Family Settings now block browsers-without-filters by default, but which ones?

Bloke accused of Linux kernel.org hack nabbed during traffic stop

Possible 40 years in the Big House for 2011 infiltration of open-source world's servers

Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X

Water coolerEl Reg answers your questions while you wait for make all to finish

Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options

Theresa May photo by Frederic Legrand COMEO via Shutterstock
Security

Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit

We told you Pokémon are evil, but no, you wouldn't listen
06 Sep 05:00
Security

98.1 million CLEARTEXT passwords pasted as Rambler.ru rumbled

'Яussian Yahoo!' may just have become world's biggest breach
06 Sep 04:01
Virtualization

VMware's Virtual SAN to gain data-at-rest encryption

New beta kicks off with three big features plus 'various enhancements'
06 Sep 03:14
News Bytes
Asteroid 'FreddieMercury'
06 Sep 04:57
SoftBank ARM buy is done
06 Sep 01:01
Nougat for x86 lands
06 Sep 00:52
Software

Adobe reverses decision to kill NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux

Resumes updates after four years because even retro-Penguinistas deserve security
06 Sep 02:03
Science

Second 'dimmer switch' star spotted

'Tabby's Star' gets a friend and it's even stranger, but let's not do the 'alien megastructure' thing again okay?
06 Sep 01:05
Phones

Airline safety spiel prohibits finding lost phones

PIC Australia's QANTAS has already had one Lithium-Ion fire after seat crushed a mobe
06 Sep 00:15
Operating Systems

Debian plugs Linux 'TCP snoop' bug

Happy Labor Day, US sysadmins. Everyone else, you know what to do
05 Sep 23:02
Government

ACCC mulls regulating roaming charges

Don't even think about it, thunder Telstra, Optus
05 Sep 22:55

Don't miss Brave idea: Ex Mozilla man punts Bitcoin adblocking browser

Science

International Space Station astros prepare to rejoin us Earthlings

Human guinea pigs to be subjected to more testing after arrival
05 Sep 15:56
Bootnotes

Hollywood offers Daniel Craig $150m to (slash wrists) play James Bond

El Reg offers readers chance to perform positive vetting on 00 section’s next recruit
108 Comments
05 Sep 15:04
Financial News

HSBC: How will we verify business banking customers? Selfies!

Nothing says business like... oh, hang on
52 Comments
05 Sep 14:28
Jobs

These are not just job cuts, these are M&S job cuts

Retailer to ship out 400 IT and logistics jobs from London
16 Comments
05 Sep 13:32
Bootnotes

Chubby Chinese students refused top bunk

Policy to prevent plummeting 'plump' pupils pushed out
26 Comments
05 Sep 13:14
Government
Theresa May photo by Frederic Legrand COMEO via Shutterstock

Nul points: PM May's post-Brexit EU immigration options

Comment What now as the Aussie system dream lies in tatters?
71 Comments
05 Sep 12:40
Data Centre
Pop art-style illustration: Woman holds head in despair. Illustration via Shutetrstock

Tech-for-insurers biz out of action for 10 days now. Hope they had, er...

SSP tells The Register 'We are aware of the issue'
15 Comments
05 Sep 12:05
Financial News

Japan's Brexit warning casts shadow over Softbank ARM promises

Japanese companies are unhappy ... but what about Japanese-owned firms?
61 Comments
05 Sep 11:28
Security

Sophos Windows users face black screens after false positive snafu

Black is the new BSOD
41 Comments
05 Sep 11:06
Financial News

O2: Float or flog. What's it going to be, Telefonica?

Forced to find funds for €50bn deficit
12 Comments
05 Sep 10:34
Government

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
22 Comments
05 Sep 10:03
The Channel

Red-faced VESK scratches '100% uptime' claim after 2-day outage

'We were always going to delete it' blusters company mouthpiece
10 Comments
05 Sep 09:01
Data Centre

Of supermarkets, Volkswagen and the future of Dell-EMC

Analysis Consumer-style product choice or product overlap mercy killings?
05 Sep 08:28
Data Networking

Sysadmins: Poor capacity planning is not our fault

Let us explain why things are so crap
20 Comments
05 Sep 08:07
Science

Next Mars landing scheduled for Monday, November 26th, 2018

Better late than never for Mars InSight and its thermo-hammer plan to drill 5 metres into Mars
13 Comments
05 Sep 07:32
Storage

Wikibon sticking to server SAN takeover idea

Interesting slices in vendor revenue pie chart
05 Sep 07:02
Security
Sunset

Sundown exploit kit authors champions of copy-paste hacking

Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
05 Sep 06:28
Government

Brexit must not break the cloud, Japan tells UK and EU

Japanese companies want to know what they – and their regional HQs – are in for
71 Comments
05 Sep 06:00
Hardware
HDMI and USB cable

HDMI hooks up with USB-C in cables that reverse, one way

One cable to rule them all … and in the darkness stream them
63 Comments
05 Sep 05:24
Operating Systems

'I'm sorry, your lift has had a problem and had to shut down'

More BSODs for your schadenfraude
54 Comments
05 Sep 04:58
Security

Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

Redmond's Family Settings now block browsers-without-filters by default, but which ones?
80 Comments
05 Sep 04:30
Security

Pixellation popped: AI can ID you, even after PhotoShop phuzzing

Like humans, machines can ID obfuscated faces - only faster
11 Comments
05 Sep 03:58
Security

Extra Bacon? Yes please, even though the Cisco bug of this name is bad for you

Probably-NSA-sourced bug isn't being patched, even by UK government users
10 Comments
05 Sep 02:17
Law

McAfee-the-man wants McAfee-the-brand, Chipzilla says no

Sueballs loaded; take ten paces, turn and fire
19 Comments
05 Sep 02:00
Business

'Hey, Elon? You broke it, you bought it' says owner of SpaceX's satellite cinder

Hand over $50m in compo or at least a free flight, says Israel's Spacecom
36 Comments
05 Sep 00:02
Security

Google swats Nexus 5X vulnerable fastboot memory dump flaw

Hacker stole your phone? Time to OEM panic.
04 Sep 23:57
Government

Australia's mobile black spot program was a partisan money hole

Vodafone and Telstra paid to consolidate - not extend - coverage
04 Sep 23:42
Hardware

Appliance-maker Liebherr chillin' with Microsoft, prototyping another Internet fridge

Cortana spying on your cheese
43 Comments
04 Sep 22:57
Hardware

Intel bags FAA pass to fly 100-strong drone armadas over US soil

Chipzilla gets clearance to conduct skycopter light shows
18 Comments
03 Sep 12:15
Bootnotes

It's OK to fine someone for repeating a historical fact, says Russian Supreme Court

Truly bizarre decision over web post about invasion of Poland in 1939
97 Comments
03 Sep 07:33
Science

What the hex is up with Jupiter's North Pole?

No Hexagon like on Saturn, but still the joy of six: half a dozen megabytes of Juno data took 62 hours to download
32 Comments
03 Sep 04:58
Broadband
Photo by Christian Bertrand / Shutterstock

ABBA-solutely crapulous! Swedish router-maker won't patch gaping hole

Inteno says SOHOpeless security problem should be fixed by carriers
28 Comments
02 Sep 22:33
Software

Is it time to unplug frail OpenOffice's life support? Apache Project asked to mull it over

Software hit by dev drought: Patch it or lose it
59 Comments
02 Sep 19:46
Security
Penguin

Bloke accused of Linux kernel.org hack nabbed during traffic stop

Possible 40 years in the Big House for 2011 infiltration of open-source world's servers
38 Comments
02 Sep 19:08
Security

NBA's Golden State Warriors sued for 'mic snooping' mobile app

Fans cry foul over excessive recording powers
16 Comments
02 Sep 18:26
Law

When Irish eyes are filing: Ireland to appeal Europe's $15bn Apple tax claw-back

Get your hand out of the Cooky jar, says Cabinet
70 Comments
02 Sep 17:51
Security

Hacking mobile login tokens tricky but doable, says reverse-engineer

I think I'm a clone now, there's always two of me just a-hangin' around
02 Sep 17:31

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