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But Danish boffins tapped cans on the side, not the top – we demand a retrial
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And now for this evening's space weather report. We've got a hotspot of satellite-wrecking 'killer electrons' in the outer Van Allen belt...
...So consider rerouting your journey through that
13 Dec 22:51 | 17
Security
Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, unencrypted hard drives of staff data stolen
Car smash-and-grab ends with loss of payroll details for 20,000 employees
13 Dec 20:39 | 46
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Business
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war
Pending tariffs on notebooks, phones, monitors shelved as super powers strike 'prelimary' deal
13 Dec 19:00 | 36
Science
Rocket Lab ends year by cutting ribbon on first launchpad in the US
Launch opportunities per year now over 130. Actually launched in 2019: 6
13 Dec 18:00 | 2
Emergent Tech
These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots
Probably a better investment than WeWork
13 Dec 17:15 | 15
Business
Lynch was 'willing to lie' to High Court over Autonomy whistleblower, claims HPE
Autonomy TrialPlus: Meg Whitman and Co had 'buyer's remorse' over $11bn purchase
13 Dec 16:45 | 5
Software
Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play!
The 'experience' will be available from mid-January, 2020
13 Dec 15:52 | 27
Cloud
Creative cloudy types still making it rain cash for Adobe
Maker of cloudy PDF and services software ... yes, that's Perpetually Dosh Forming
13 Dec 14:33 | 13
Emergent Tech
Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC
Redmond tears wrapping on new retro-look gaming console
13 Dec 13:24 | 45
Policy
GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home
Flexible workforce look to pre-election promises
13 Dec 12:20 | 82
Bootnotes
Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager
Like Trump’s Twitter feed, except not
13 Dec 11:35 | 23
Security
Ever wonder how hackers could possibly pwn power plants? Here are 54 Siemens bugs that could explain things
Arbitrary code execution in a controller, what could go wrong?
13 Dec 10:51 | 44
Bootnotes
Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing
But Danish boffins tapped cans on the side, not the top – we demand a retrial
13 Dec 10:00 | 109
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Mmmm... fresh, delicious tenders: Forget G-Cloud, this £6.5bn Technology Products and Associated Services framework is where it's at
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100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good
Science
It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it
Yes, it's the debris tail of asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the source of the annual Geminids meteor shower
Science
We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory
We've read enough sci-fi to know how this turns out
Servers
Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia
CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court
Emergent Tech
Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data
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When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games
Professional licensing rules collide with common parlance, again
Cloud
Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws
InterviewOS director on staying safe and advantages of Amazon's Nitro hypervisor
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Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent
Who, Me?It only took colleagues an hour to notice our hero was missing
Security
LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app
VideoTalk about gone in a flash
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13 Dec 08:04 | 226
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13 Dec 07:06 |
Science
100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
Either way, we'll take a one-way ticket, please. Now. Thanks. Good
13 Dec 05:56 | 41
Security
NPM swats path traversal bug that lets evil packages modify, steal files. That's bad for JavaScript crypto-wallets
Trio of vulnerabilities made registry full of uncertain code even more of a risk
13 Dec 02:05 | 12
Cloud
Larry Ellison sets the Catz among the pigeons: Safra officially sole Oracle CEO
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13 Dec 00:38 | 2
Science
OK. We're off. Water ice found just below the surface of Mars. Good enough for us. Let's go. Impulse power, Mr Sulu
Let's grab a nice cold drink on the Red Planet. Don't forget to pack a shovel
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Software
Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5
Rambler claims code creator was working for them at the time and so they own tech worth $700m
12 Dec 21:14 | 46
Security
Iran says it staved off cyber attack but doesn't blame US
Here's a rundown of some of the Middle East's cyber argy-bargy
12 Dec 18:12 | 6
Policy
Londoner admits illegally accessing National Lottery accounts
Sentencing due in January for Sentry MBA shenanigans
12 Dec 17:17 | 7
Bootnotes
Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart
OpenWorld moving to Vegas, baby: SF now too expensive not to mention the filthy streets, open drug use...
12 Dec 16:43 | 41
Business
HPE to Mike Lynch: You told either El Reg or High Court the right version of why former Autonomy execs won't testify
Autonomy trialYou know it's solid reporting when trial lawyers start quoting it
12 Dec 16:05 | 41
Science
No box shifting, no Buck Rogers. Bezos-backed Blue Origin blasts off once again
Postcards from the edge... of space?
12 Dec 15:15 | 20
Software
Microsoft enables phone calls from your Windows PC (as long as it's paired with an Android)
Plus: Insiders yanked from their rings
12 Dec 14:30 | 21
Security
Disgrace of Base: Scammy hordes force Keybase to end cryptocoin giveaway
It's Lumen awful: Space Drop halted due to excessive douchebaggery
12 Dec 13:50 | 2
Business
Hey Dixons, you know what's mobile? Your rapidly shrinking sales
Loss-making unit still putting hurt on 'puters 'n' phones biz
12 Dec 13:15 | 23
Policy
Post Office coughs £57.75m to settle wonky Horizon IT system case
Split between 550 subpostmasters accused of theft, that's not much
12 Dec 12:38 | 38
Science
It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it
Yes, it's the debris tail of asteroid 3200 Phaethon, the source of the annual Geminids meteor shower
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Security
It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins
Uni brains pitch smart math for speeding up establishment of circuits in anonymizing onion network
12 Dec 11:16 | 14
Software
ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade
Billions wasted, lawsuits launched
12 Dec 10:45 | 42
Security
Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details
'Sir, they're about to disclose the vulns!' 'Damn it. Accelerate the rollout!'
12 Dec 10:00 | 10
Business
Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored
Problem: We have to do work. Solution: Delete all the work!
12 Dec 09:15 | 31
Security
LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app
VideoTalk about gone in a flash
12 Dec 08:02 | 73
Science
You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched
UpdatedWe knew it was too good to be true
12 Dec 06:55 | 44
Emergent Tech
Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data
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Security
You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection
Gap in browser privacy tech embarrassingly detected by Google
12 Dec 05:35 | 10
Science
Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States
House of Representatives OKs Trump plan because it wants federal parents to take time off
12 Dec 02:03 | 122
Personal Tech
How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble
Justice Department wins chance to track fitness-tracking purchase
12 Dec 00:32 | 10
Networks
Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...
And in the darkness bind them – to next year's IT budgets
11 Dec 22:02 | 11
Emergent Tech
Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke
Dude, pass the indictment
11 Dec 21:21 | 13
Emergent Tech
Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads
Early adopters left out of pocket as winter and Facebook costs kill biz
11 Dec 20:29 | 55
Personal Tech
How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled
El Reg checks all the boxes. Dell: 'Hold my beer'
11 Dec 19:30 | 74
Emergent Tech
$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters
Not cool, Coolest Cooler backers say
11 Dec 18:30 | 37
Bootnotes
Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation
You are the weakest Lynx
11 Dec 17:30 | 47
