Penguin

SUSE and Microsoft give enterprise Linux an Azure tune-up

Caïn, a sculpture by Henry Vidal, epic facepalm

Face-PALM: US Patent and Trademark Office database down for 5 days and counting

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London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

Amaze your colleagues, confound customers and perturb partners with your encyclopaedic storage news knowledge

Please ignore this sticky note

Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows

The Bash shell running on Windows 10

Windows 10 Linux Distribution Overload? We have just the thing

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I wish I could quit you, but cookies find a way: How to sidestep browser tracking protections

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GitHub goes off the Rails as Microsoft closes in

Insider Threat

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SuperProf gets schooled after assigning weak passwords to tutors

So phar, so FUD: PHP flaw puts WordPress sites at risk of hacks

DNS interception

How's that encryption coming, buddy? DNS requests routinely spied on, boffins claim

Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, USA

Et tu, Brute? Then fail, Caesars: When it's hotel staff, not the hackers, invading folks' privacy

Broken chain graphic

Your Twitter app stopped working? Here's why

Serverless? It doesn’t have to be all or nothing

Crypto algorithm selection dial

Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up

Thinking of saying goodbye to your servers? We'll show you how

Your ad here, on a movie screen

Facebook flat-out 'lies' about how many people can see its ads – lawsuit

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UK.gov told data-sharing plans need vendor buy-in

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DXC Technology asks field-based techies if they'd like to leave

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Home Office seeks Brexit tech boss – but doesn't splash the cash

Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme

Portion of US Patent 6368268

Now you can tell someone to literally go f--k themselves over the internet: Remote-control mock-cock patent dies

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Google responds to location-stalking outcry by… tweaking words on its BS support page

London's Royal Courts of Justice

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal biz gets £35k legal costs delayed

Geek's Guide

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Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

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Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

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Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

wacky_scientist

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

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Gartner's Great Vanishing: Some of 2017's emerging techs just disappeared

Jensen Huang of Nvidia

Nvidia shrugs off crypto-mining crash, touts live ray-tracing GPUs, etc

cool

DeepMind AI bots tell Google to literally chill out: Software takes control of server cooling

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Self-driving cars will be safe, we're testing them in a massive AI Sim

Verity Stob

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

Finger pushes power button

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

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The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever

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Want to raise cash for Action for Children’s Byte Night? The clock is ticking

Top stories

Et tu, Brute? Then fail, Caesars: When it's hotel staff, not the hackers, invading folks' privacy

CommentEl Reg vulture's take on the upset at this year's Black Hat and DEF CON

The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever

When augmented reality becomes hospital visiting

So phar, so FUD: PHP flaw puts WordPress sites at risk of hacks

Bsides ManchesterBut claims of 'complete system compromise' are a little extreme

Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows

Please ignore this sticky note

Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme

Smut-slinging copyright troll cops to fraud and money laundering charges

Cloud

SUSE and Microsoft give enterprise Linux an Azure tune-up

Veteran penguin botherer feels the need. For speed

Face-PALM: US Patent and Trademark Office database down for 5 days and counting

No end in sight yet to mystery maintenance 'issue'

Gartner's Great Vanishing: Some of 2017's emerging techs just disappeared

They fell off the Peak... They perished on the Plateau... They fell in the Trough...

SuperProf gets schooled after assigning weak passwords to tutors

Updated'Super' + 'user's first name' login is crackers, see me after – clients

So phar, so FUD: PHP flaw puts WordPress sites at risk of hacks

Bsides ManchesterBut claims of 'complete system compromise' are a little extreme

Don't miss Now you can tell someone to literally go f--k themselves over the internet: Remote-control mock-cock patent dies

Cloud

London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

UpdatedStaff forced to whiteboard in terminals as cloud connection goes TITSUP*

Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows

Three SMS platforms? Oh Redmond, you spoil us

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

Concerns that voters will see right through him ignored

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The knowledge you need lies beneath

Techie's test lab lands him in hot water with top tech news site

Who, Me?But who are we to hold a grudge...

Finger pushes power button

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

Book ReviewNew book details snatch for humanity's joystick

DNS interception

How's that encryption coming, buddy? DNS requests routinely spied on, boffins claim

Uninvited middlemen may be messing with message

Et tu, Brute? Then fail, Caesars: When it's hotel staff, not the hackers, invading folks' privacy

CommentEl Reg vulture's take on the upset at this year's Black Hat and DEF CON

The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever

When augmented reality becomes hospital visiting

Facebook Messenger backdoor demand, bail in Bitcoin, and lots more

RoundupIf you're not already suffering from Black Hat/DEF CON overload

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia shrugs off crypto-mining crash, touts live ray-tracing GPUs, etc

RoundupAlso, how Apple's Siri uses your location to improve its speech recognition

SentinelOne makes YouTube delete Bsides vid 'cuz it didn't like the way bugs were reported

UpdatedResearch silenced amid copyright, trademark claim

'Oh sh..' – the moment an infosec bod realized he was tracking a cop car's movements by its leaky cellular gateway

Black HatInternet boxes blab coordinates on login pages

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind AI bots tell Google to literally chill out: Software takes control of server cooling

Oh good, we're out of the board games phase, then

Now you can tell someone to literally go f--k themselves over the internet: Remote-control mock-cock patent dies

Talk about getting off on a technicality...

Google responds to location-stalking outcry by… tweaking words on its BS support page

Hi, is that the FTC? Yep, they're at it again

Your ad here, on a movie screen

Facebook flat-out 'lies' about how many people can see its ads – lawsuit

'Made-up PR numbers' used by social giant to exaggerate online advertising audience

Web cache poisoning just got real: How to fling evil code at victims

BSides ManchesterCache me outside, how 'bout dah?

London's Royal Courts of Justice

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal biz gets £35k legal costs delayed

But just for a month - and what a month September will be for its directors

UK.gov told data-sharing plans need vendor buy-in

Think tank calls for open standards, interoperability

Shiver me timbers: Symantec spots activist investor Starboard side

Time for cyber-security firm to pull up the baggywrinkle?

Artificial Intelligence

Self-driving cars will be safe, we're testing them in a massive AI Sim

It's turtles all the way down

Most staffers expect bosses to snoop on them, say unions

You’re not paranoid if they’re really out to get you

Cloud

Home Office opens AWS cash firehose a little wider with police IT deal

Contract notice reveals yet another UK.gov systems migration to Bezos cloud

DXC Technology asks field-based techies if they'd like to leave

Just when you thought it was safe to hang out at the water cooler

What happens to your online accounts when you die?

BSides ManchesterThe digital entropy of death

Boss regrets pointing finger at chilled out techie who finished upgrade early

On-CallAt first they started out real cool...

Windows 10 Linux Distribution Overload? We have just the thing

Processes, Services, Installations: One UI to rule them all. Almost.

Artificial Intelligence

Early bird tickets for our AI and ML Conference end tonight!

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Home Office seeks Brexit tech boss – but doesn't splash the cash

£100k to sort borders, immigration, biometrics systems by 2019. Did we mention it's in Croydon?

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

Maybe its inhabitants are mostly harmless and ordinary too

web cookie illustration

I wish I could quit you, but cookies find a way: How to sidestep browser tracking protections

Chrome, Safari, Opera, Tor Browser at risk to various levels

Lightbulb illustration mono Shutterstock

Blinking internets, Batman! O2 trials 5G over lightbulbs

Let there be light

Go Zuck Yourself: Facebook destroys patent suit over timeline

Chalk one up in court for the Social Network

Net neutrality freaks furious over lack of fury at FCC hearing

Unbelievable that more wasn't made of this non-story

Who was it that hacked Apple? Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, boy boy boy!

Protip: don't label your folder of warez as "hacky hack hack"

GitHub goes off the Rails as Microsoft closes in

AnalysisRuby shop turns to Go, Java, and Kubernetes for platform makeover

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