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How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections

TV ads banned, but targeted Facebook videos have free rein

Much-hyped Ara Blackphone LeEco Essential handset introduced

Andy Rubin's new project gets specs

Android apps punched out by Judy malware

More than 36 million users feared infected

Stingy DXC Tech tells staff to breathe in and tighten those belts

Pennies in a jar. Photo via Shutterstock
Business

Cisco cuts 250 jobs in San Jose, has 850 more pink slips to hand out

Empty cubicles galore to be had in Silicon Valley
31 May 04:02
Science

India sets June 5 as the day it will joint the heavy-lift rocket club

GSLV Mk III to test itself on a 3,136kg sat, plans for 8,000kg payloads real soon now
31 May 02:58
Bootnotes

German robo-pastor preaches the GNU Testament

Bless me father for I have SYNTAX ERROR
31 May 02:40
Personal Tech

Intel gives the world a Core i9 desktop CPU to play with

Chipzilla's Compute Card also comes into focus in four models
31 May 02:15
Science

Pentagon trumpets successful mock-ICBM interception test

If they know where it comes from and how fast it's going: America defends against itself
31 May 01:44
Software

MySQL devs take cache behind shed, shot heard

Scalability sucked when multi-core machines got busy, so DB's devs will find another way
31 May 01:06

Don't miss Uber fires robo car exec for insubordination

Science

NASA boffins find an explanation for Saturn's wonky moon

Enceladus might have been knocked over by an asteroid
31 May 00:23
Business

Ad watchdog bites Plusnet over 'unintelligible' radio ads

ISP claims voiceover bloke read without being digitally sped up
31 May 00:01
Security

Android apps punched out by Judy malware

More than 36 million users feared infected
30 May 23:44
Business

Uber fires robo car exec for insubordination

Self-driving star Anthony Levandowski told to show himself out
30 May 23:26
Personal Tech
The Essential Phone

Much-hyped Ara Blackphone LeEco Essential handset introduced

Andy Rubin's new project gets specs
30 May 23:20
Science

Event horizons around black holes do exist, say astroboffins

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity lasts another day
30 May 22:36
Business

Lexmark patent racket busted by Supremes

Printer maker can't stop ink cartridge resales with patent claims
18 Comments
30 May 21:58
Personal Tech

Qualcomm kicks out mesh network, Wi-Fi and RubinPhone win

Comms chip designer rolls out latest hardware lines in Taipei
30 May 20:04
Security

NORK spy agency blamed for Bangladesh cyberheist, Sony Pictures hack

Group-IB IDs Lazarus Group
10 Comments
30 May 19:18
Artificial Intelligence

Real brains discuss artificial brains in real-world London

First tranche of M3 2017 speakers announced
30 May 17:54
Networks

Millimetre wave.. omigerd it's going nowherrr.. Apple, you say?

CommentGuess who's joined the bandwagon...
17 Comments
30 May 16:05
Storage

WDC may form carrion consortium to snap up Toshiba's flash memory biz

Vultures continue circling not-quite-corpse
30 May 15:07
HPC

NVIDIA: Pssst... farmers. Need to get some weeds whacked?

HPC blogJetson-powered sprayer turns GPU-flinger into weed-whacker
22 Comments
30 May 14:01
Transformation

Ransomware realities: In your normal life, strangers don't extort you. But here you are

No crying at the back
24 Comments
30 May 13:26
Software

GitHub CEO Wanstrath: 'Our goal is no outages'

Hardware rolling out, new software promised
30 May 13:01
Security

Shadow Brokers lay out pitch – and name price – for monthly zero-day subscription service

$21k lucky dip for exploits
30 May 12:32
Site News
Kate Devlin Register Lecture

Love bots lecture thrills room full of Reg readers

These are not the sex droids you’re looking for...
30 May 12:04
Policy

UK biz: Oh (yawn) GDPR? Was that *next* May? – survey

Be a love and check if we're a data processor. It should be on the internet somewhere
10 Comments
30 May 11:27
Personal Tech
Nerd in shower photo via Shutterstock

Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all

Options - you have some
54 Comments
30 May 11:07
Policy

How the Facebook money funnel is shaping British elections

TV ads banned, but targeted Facebook videos have free rein
48 Comments
30 May 10:35
Policy

Stingy DXC Tech tells staff to breathe in and tighten those belts

No travel or catering for internal meetings, as for external meetings... get the memo?
19 Comments
30 May 10:05
Bootnotes

IBM marketeers rub out chopper after visit from CEO Ginni

Not a good fit. Apparently
46 Comments
30 May 09:37
Servers

Dell flexing PC production muscle for server biz

AnalysisNo more standing on sidelines as ODMs hoover up service provider punters
30 May 09:07
Business

DXC Technology warns staff of multiple office closures

Well, they need to find that $1.6bn cost saving somewhere, can't be all job cuts
30 May 08:36
Bootnotes

I'll take the sandtrooper in white: Meet the rebel scum making Star Wars armour sets for a living

Star Wars New Hope @ 40Short of £180,000? These guys will sort you out
35 Comments
30 May 08:02
Storage

Apps will need to be re-coded to go faster with storage-class RAM

Oracle Labs plays with an Optane simulator and finds cacheing gets rather tricky
30 May 07:32
Software

Seminal game 'Colossal Cave Adventure' released onto GitLab

Eric Raymond says it's time 'hallowed artifacts of hacker folklore' were hackable again
45 Comments
30 May 07:02
Data Centre

BA CEO blames messaging and networks for grounding

Says broken bits were never outsourced offshore, offers SFA explanation for lack of backup
216 Comments
30 May 05:49
Policy

Russian search engine Yandex's Ukraine offices raided for 'treason'

Sending data home to Putin, puffs president Poroshenko
33 Comments
30 May 04:58
Business

Plutus Payroll clients given hope pension payments will land

Taxation Office reveals investigation timeline, defends itself for causing pay delays
30 May 02:45
Storage

Twice-crashed HPE SANs at Oz Tax Office built for speed, not strength, and turned off error reporting

HPE settles after findings of badly fitted cables, bugs on disks and backup tools on SAN
21 Comments
30 May 01:00
Cloud
No foxes allowed

Azure Portal rejects Firefox after certificate revocation SNAFU

C*ck-up not conspiracy – Redmond says 'OCSP stapling' has come undone
18 Comments
29 May 23:40
Security

Popular RADIUS server exploitable with TLS session caching

'Inner authentication' has bad karma, allows strangers to log in without credentials
29 May 23:34
Security
I for one welcome our new insect overlords

Microsoft patched more Malware Protection Engine bugs last week

Redmond's out-of-band advisory landed after the bugs were fixed
13 Comments
29 May 23:03
Security

Internet of snitches: anyone who can sniff 'Thing' traffic knows what you're doing

'Smart' home IoT devices reveal dumb amounts of what they're up to every time they go online
27 Comments
29 May 22:38
Business

Google can't spare 113 seconds of revenue to compile data on its gender pay gap

Has $150 million diversity program, server farms galore, needs 500 hours to sift data
67 Comments
29 May 12:02
Policy

EU axes geo-blocking: Upsets studios, delights consumers

AnalysisTaking a look at a new common set of AV rules
79 Comments
29 May 10:05

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