Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams Something for the Weekend, Sir?JR Hartley is my bitch
Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app Reg AppealDo you have a funky makeover horror story? We'd like to know
Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight Hands OnLovely screen, shame about the price
Crash, bang, wallop: What a power-down. But what hit the kill switch? On CallIt was an easy solve, says techie, once we put our heads together
Software After outrage over Chrome ad-block block plan, Google backs away from crippling web advert, content filters Revised proposals attempt to address worries over Manifest v3 API changes 16 Feb 01:48 | 1
Science How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way And said lifeforms include us humans on Earth 16 Feb 01:04 | 1
Personal Tech Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property Lawyers clean up after games biz settles with homeowners sick of zombie players 15 Feb 22:15 | 7
Emergent Tech Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban 'I didn’t buy a gun, I built the gun'... Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+P lands Texas man in the slammer 15 Feb 21:36 | 12
Cloud Amazon triples profit to $11.2bn, pays ZERO DOLLARS in corp tax – instead we pay it $129m Yet it's still whining that New York City didn't offer enough for HQ2 15 Feb 20:25 | 22
Bad news for WannaCry slayer Marcus Hutchins: Judge rules being young, hungover, and in a strange land doesn't obviate evidence
Cloud Oracle throws toys out pram again, tells US claims court: Competing for Pentagon cloud contract isn't fair! Address gate criteria, conflicts of interest – then we can play 15 Feb 19:15 | 9
Software Missed Valentine's Day? Take your beloved to a Visual Studio 2019 launch event instead Romantic Redmondians pick 14 February to announce April go date for the code wrangler 15 Feb 18:04 | 2
Science NASA's Dawn Mission receives nod in memory of Apollo 13 'naut for asteroid belt derring-do Dead probe swinging around Ceres wins Swigert Award 15 Feb 16:55 | 1
Security Well Holby damned! We've caught a virus: Brit medical soap operas team up for 'cyber' episode WannaCry? You will do 15 Feb 16:16 | 26
Software Billionaire Buffet's Berkshire liquidates $2.1bn stake in Oracle – months after buying the shares Bill Gates' bridge chum's firm buys Red Hat stock 15 Feb 15:51 | 5
Personal Tech Banking in 2019: Sure, we'd recommend TSB's online, mobe banking say cowed customers TITSUP* bank gets thumbs up from personal banking users 15 Feb 15:05 | 21
Bootnotes Sussex rap fan wants statue of Easy-E from NWA in his hometown because he's a 'legend' Not because he has anything to do with Newhaven 15 Feb 14:05 | 26
Software Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app Reg AppealDo you have a funky makeover horror story? We'd like to know 15 Feb 13:27 | 36
Policy The algorithms! They're manipulating all of us! reckon human rights bods Council of Europe Countries urged to consider regulating subliminal tech evil 15 Feb 13:04 | 17
Cloud Crypto crash leads to inventory pile-up at Nvidia, sales slaughtered Revs down 25% y-o-y, op profit sinks 79%. Miners? Gamers? Hyperscalers? Anyone? Guys? Bueller? 15 Feb 12:36 | 31
Personal Tech Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight Hands OnLovely screen, shame about the price 15 Feb 12:01 | 23
Emergent Tech Blockchain is bullsh!t, prove me wrong meets 'chain gang fans at tech confab Stop making 'sexy noises' and 'get real', conference told 15 Feb 11:00 | 60
Software Want to know what 2020 holds? Microsoft has a little something for you Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now 15 Feb 10:05 | 14
Storage Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams Something for the Weekend, Sir?JR Hartley is my bitch 15 Feb 09:09 | 129
Data Centre Crash, bang, wallop: What a power-down. But what hit the kill switch? On CallIt was an easy solve, says techie, once we put our heads together 15 Feb 08:11 | 101
Security 'This collaboration is absolutely critical going forward'... One positive thing about Meltdown CPU hole? At least it put aside tech rivalries... Execs, experts hope this cooperation continues to hold for the next big bug 15 Feb 07:12 | 22
Software Why does that website take forever to load? Clues: Three syllables, starts with a J, rhymes with crock of sh... Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds 15 Feb 05:57 | 73
Science Help us sniff out 50 neutron star collisions so we can calculate universe expansion, cosmoboffins plead There's only been one so far, so 49 more to go 15 Feb 05:08 | 13
Science How's this for sci-fi: Orbiting probes face fiery death dive from planet's radiation belts. And that planet is Earth They're dropping like flies: First Opportunity, now NASA's Van Allen craft 15 Feb 04:04 | 16
Personal Tech Roses are red, Facebook will pay, to make Uncle Sam go away: Zuck, FTC in $bn settlement rumor Antisocial network may shell out billions to end watchdog's privacy probe, it is reported 15 Feb 00:38 | 11
Personal Tech White House and FCC announce big, broken solutions to America's pitiful broadband Why fight an oligopoly when you can subsidize it? 14 Feb 23:50 | 20
Security Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs CorrectHorseBatteryStaple once again more secure and memorable than ff3sd21n 14 Feb 22:56 | 131
Cloud Amazon throws toys out of pram, ditches plans for New York HQ2 after big trouble in Big Apple Online retailer just wants to be loved. And by loved, it means given lots of subsidies no questions asked 14 Feb 22:14 | 26
Storage Funnily enough, says NetApp, when the global economy slows down, people don't buy quite as many storage arrays Enterprise punters shut wallets amid 'deteriorating outlooks' and trade tariff blitz 14 Feb 21:53 | 3
Policy Facebook political data probe: £2.5m. Powers for the ICO: Priceless UK watchdog denies project distracted from day-to-day enforcement 14 Feb 20:33 | 4
Security Bad news for WannaCry slayer Marcus Hutchins: Judge rules being young, hungover, and in a strange land doesn't obviate evidence When in America, STFU and get a lawyer. Even if you're innocent 14 Feb 20:22 | 77
Emergent Tech Boss of venerable sect with millions of devoted followers meets boss of venerable sect with... yeah, you get the idea Microsoft prez Brad Smith talks AI and ethics with the Pope 14 Feb 19:13 | 18
Artificial Intelligence Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline Analysis'Not safe on database server!' it screamed back as its makers fear it could be abused for dodgy purposes 14 Feb 17:27 | 38
Policy OK, Google? Probably not! EU settles on wording for copyright reform legislation Commission fumes at 'fake' campaign 14 Feb 16:54 | 72
Networks Roses are red, so is ketchup, 'naked' Huawei tells its critics to belt up Comms giant bared all to Brit security services, says chief 14 Feb 16:19 | 14
Bootnotes Airbus will shutter its A380 production line from 2021 No new superjumbos after that date, confirms CEO 14 Feb 15:44 | 50
Personal Tech How do you like them Apples? Tim Cook's iPhones sitting in the tree, feeling unloved by the Chinese Sales of Jesus mobe slump by double digits in Middle Kingdom 14 Feb 15:15 | 33
Science Opportunity's mission is over, but InSight almost ready for a driller thriller below Martian surface Self-hammering spike to see what weather's like 5m down 14 Feb 14:38 | 19
Internet of Things The Lance Arm-strong of performance-enhanced CPUs: Armv8.1-M arch jams vector math into super-microcontrollers Neon-style tech pumps Helium balloon in future gadgets 14 Feb 14:00 | 6
Security US man and Brit teen convict indicted over school bomb threat spree Roses are reddish, don't cry into your beer... but Hoonigan.com is better than Top Gear 14 Feb 13:50 | 22
Cloud Santander hands over $700m to IBM in hopes of becoming incredible banking machine Bank CIO Chaos explains 14 Feb 13:15 | 24
Personal Tech Is Oppo short for Opportunistic? BBK opens UK doors A dubious slider and a bargain midranger. Forgotten the chocolates? We'll warn you now: Danger! 14 Feb 12:38 | 10
Software Oracle's claims of secret deal is a bid to 'distract' from pay bias case, says US Department of Labor Big Red is red, underpaid staffers are blue. No angry counter-claims can stop that being true 14 Feb 11:57 | 3
Personal Tech Roses are red, we've received about fifty. Google's next trick? Pixels for the thrifty Cheap Google mobes this year, at least according to Nikkei 14 Feb 11:28 | 15
Policy UK Home Office dumps huge sack of complex data sets on biometrics ethics board's desk, goes for beer (probably) Roses are red, gave Violet pick 'n' mix. She didn't like the milk bottles. Now back to ethics 14 Feb 10:57 | 5
DevOps Want to learn how to accelerate your software ops AND save big? CLL 19 early bird tickets disappear in two weeks 14 Feb 10:30 |
Bootnotes Pandas so useless they just look at delicious kid who fell into enclosure Urgh, you're infuriating! 14 Feb 10:02 | 124
Security Cover your NASes: QNAP acknowledges mystery malware but there's no patch yet Anti-antivirus root-rooting weirdness just gets deeper 14 Feb 09:30 | 23
Personal Tech Lenovo ThinkPad P1: Sumptuous pro PC that gets a tad warm Long Term TestBattery could be improved, we charge 14 Feb 09:05 | 24
Security Oh Snapd! Gimme-root-now security bug lets miscreants sock it to your Ubuntu boxes Get an update, or risk giving a dodgy user or malware an upgrade 14 Feb 07:33 | 50