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Land Rover Defender dies: Production finally halted by EU rules

Blighty's AK-47 laid low by dastardly Continentals

Reg readers battle to claim 'my silicon's older than yours' crown

Tottering 286s, creaking Vaxes, and 'the Wang that wouldn't die'

Sorry slacktivists: The Man is shredding your robo responses

It's sad 'cos u care SO much about issues, you even tweet about them

I love you. I will kill you! I want to make love to you: The evolution of AI in pop culture

2001: A Space Odyssey
Hardware

Brit airline pilots warn of drone menace

'Serious near misses' prompt safety concerns
29 Jan 16:03
Science

I love you. I will kill you! I want to make love to you: The evolution of AI in pop culture

From Asimov to Blade Runner and beyond – for the humans
29 Jan 15:42
Storage

The Quantum of solace: Well, at least the scale-out storage revenues were up

CFO takes a hike while overall revenues fall
29 Jan 14:57
Virtualization

What’s new in Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016?

Nested virtualisation to shielded virtual machines: Lots to chew on here
29 Jan 14:31
DevOps

Continuous Lifecycle: Bursting with DevOps and CD goodness

Thoughtleaders, users, engineers - we’ve got it all on schedule
28 Jan 11:47
Data Centre

Reg readers battle to claim 'my silicon's older than yours' crown

Tottering 286s, creaking Vaxes, and 'the Wang that wouldn't die'
13 Comments
29 Jan 14:08

Don't miss BOFH: In-depth IT training needs a single-malt distillery

DevOps

Chef plugs Ruby vulns with Server release

Always something else you can throw in the pot
29 Jan 13:44
Science

SpaceX breaks capsule 'chute world record

Four canopies to land one vehicle - impressive stuff
12 Comments
29 Jan 13:24
DevOps

Cloudbees banks on Jenkins 2.0 to help double revs this year

Also banks on services, public cloud boost
29 Jan 13:02
Security

Two-thirds of Android users vulnerable to web history sniff ransomware

Crooks want you to pay up on pain of severe embarrassment – and more
23 Comments
29 Jan 12:44
Government

Sorry slacktivists: The Man is shredding your robo responses

It's sad 'cos u care SO much about issues, you even tweet about them
29 Jan 12:31
Media

Land Rover Defender dies: Production finally halted by EU rules

Blighty's AK-47 laid low by dastardly Continentals
69 Comments
29 Jan 12:16
The Channel

Redcentric slurps bit barn biz City Lifeline for £4.8m

Yes, you too can be part of the Tech City scene if you have millions in cash
29 Jan 12:09
BOFH
Kevin Steen hitting Adam Cole with a superkick at the Ring of Honor tapings held at the Ted Reeve Arena in Toronto. Pic by Tabercil, licensed under CC 3.0

BOFH: In-depth IT training needs a single-malt distillery

Episode 2 Onward, Ultrabook solderers! Marching as to war...
18 Comments
29 Jan 12:00
Security
Angry-looking woman croses her arms and glares. Pic by Shutterstock

HSBC online services still offline following 'attack' on bank

Updated Oh no - not again!
15 Comments
29 Jan 11:32
Storage
De Vaartkapoen. Pic: Bianca Bueno

WD notebook drive shipments plummet

Desktop decline and flash substitution adds to disk output gloom
29 Jan 11:21
Security

Home Office lost its workers' completed security vetting forms

Terrible Theresa's department caught making worst security blunder of all
23 Comments
29 Jan 11:01
The Channel

Tech channel veteran De Sousa turns back on Outsourcery

April Fool's Day start now just a bad joke, exec to remain at top of Insight UK
29 Jan 10:49
The Channel

BT scoops £100m network provision deal from the BBC

State broadcaster opts for former state monopoly
10 Comments
29 Jan 10:27
Networks

'Printer Ready'. Er… you actually want to print? What, right now?

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Reg columnist snorts suspicious powder
103 Comments
29 Jan 10:02
Science

Baikonur hosts satellite laser comms node launch

First orbiting 'SpaceDataHighway' component launches tonight
29 Jan 09:32
Mobile

'Blue light services will get 4G on London Tube!' Cool, how? 'Errrrm...'

Emergency Services Network deal mired in confusion as Airwave flings sueball
14 Comments
29 Jan 09:04
Security

VirusTotal bashes bad BIOSes with forensic firmware fossicker

AV outfit finds new ways to banish low level malware to the .bin
11 Comments
29 Jan 08:29
Jobs

The monitor didn't work but the problem was between the user's ears

On-Call Worker was in the dark about this thing called 'electricity' that makes stuff work
85 Comments
29 Jan 07:58
Security

OpenSSL patch quashes rare HTTPS nasty, shores up crypto chops

Feet up for the many, head's down and patch for the rest.
29 Jan 07:30
Bootnotes

Major Hollywood studio eyes Paint Drying sequel

Glossy 23-hour reimagining of minimalist Brit classic
30 Comments
29 Jan 07:02
Cloud

Oracle kicks Amazon after Glacier download bill shock

One thing cloud doesn't improve is readability of fine print
16 Comments
29 Jan 06:26
Law

31 nations sign data-sharing pact to tax multinationals

'Release the audit-hounds' says OECD as it targets legal-but-black-hearted tax tricks
16 Comments
29 Jan 06:02
Security

Cisco drops 11 clock-crashing patches for 46 things, probes 142 more

Borg assimilates NTP January update, nixes critical firewall hijack hole
29 Jan 05:29
Developer
Woman thumbs down, image via Shutterstock

Facebook kills 'Parse' mobile dev platform

POLL Which of the new Like buttons - angry, sad, wow, haha, yay, and love – articulates your reaction?
29 Jan 04:02
Networks
mailing netflix by https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenwilcox/ cc attribution noderivs https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/

Indonesia's dominant telco blocks Netflix

Too sexy, no licence and nobody bothered rating the movies
29 Jan 02:58
Networks

Research: By 2017, a third of home Wi-Fi routers will power passers-by

Telcos pimp out your bandwidth and profit
41 Comments
29 Jan 02:04
Virtualization

New Xen maintenance release ends active version 4.4 development

Users urged to go forth and implement 4.4.4
29 Jan 02:02
Business

Zuck's bucks are now the world's 6th-largest cash pile

Facebook tycoon trails only Gates and Bezos in total worth
10 Comments
29 Jan 01:38
Financial News

Investors furious that Amazon only made $482m last quarter

Mounting AWS bucks provide some solace for Bezos
30 Comments
28 Jan 23:55
Networks

US still lagging on broadband but FCC promises change is coming

Latest vote inches faster speeds and more competition closer
11 Comments
28 Jan 23:30
Software

Open source plugin aims to defeat link rot

The death of URLs greatly exaggerated
17 Comments
28 Jan 22:26
Financial News

Microsoft on Cloud 9 after online biz boosts profits to $6.3bn in second quarter

Shares jump 8% on news
13 Comments
28 Jan 22:24
Science

30 years on from Challenger, NASA remembers the fallen

Winter is the killing season for US astronauts
43 Comments
28 Jan 21:26
Security

Alleged ISIL hacker faces US terror charges for doxing soldiers

Former student could get 35 years
11 Comments
28 Jan 21:01
Government

Senate marks Data Privacy Day with passage of critical bill for Safe Harbor

EU/US data jigsaw pieces fitting together
22 Comments
28 Jan 20:02
CyberSec

Word up: BlackEnergy SCADA hackers change tactics

TV stations the latest targets
28 Jan 19:45
Media

We Googled the ex-Google guy and Google said he was clean, says Wikimedia

Newest trustee steps down amid no confidence vote
13 Comments
28 Jan 19:03
Hardware

Apple yanks international travel plugs over shock worries

Hey Siri, why are you trying to electrocute me?
20 Comments
28 Jan 18:56
Storage
Backblaze_Storage_pod

Backblaze big data restore. Get this: it involves disk drives

Restore Return Refund program means no-charge restore
12 Comments
28 Jan 18:09
Virtualization
A person measuring her waistline

Reg readers speak out on Thin Client technology

Survey Results Good potential, but just one ingredient in the mix
15 Comments
28 Jan 17:17
The Channel

Puppet master investors tug on Citrix as 'wind turns'

Q4 sales rise, so do profits (cos of tax benefits) and the share price
28 Jan 16:51
Hardware

AI no longer needs to fake it. Just don't try talking to your robots

Mankind's creations are almost better than the real thing
63 Comments
28 Jan 16:01
Financial News

Pivot3 pivots, buys NexGen

Analysis Startup struggling for exit buys in AFA/hybrid array and QoS smarts
28 Jan 15:41

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