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So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

InterviewHMD chiefs explain their cunning comeback plan

What code is running on Apple's Secure Enclave security chip? Now we have a decryption key...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your ARM disassemblers

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

ON-CALLAnd had suits savage an utterly innocent sysadmin for his own ignorance Friday m

What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit

Leigh-Anne Galloway B Sides manchester talk on ATM. screen grab from video
Personal Tech

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

Gaming star strikes
18 Aug 12:55
Storage

Last FalconStor CEO survived just six weeks before being replaced

+CommentNew CFO too as data protection firm refuses to give in
18 Aug 12:27
Security

What weighs 800kg and runs Windows XP? How to buy an ATM for fun and profit

B-sidesSecurity researchers pick up angle grinder, drop £2k-plus in B-sides chat
18 Aug 11:57
Personal Tech

So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

InterviewHMD chiefs explain their cunning comeback plan
18 Aug 11:23
Bootnotes

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

Man pulls out replica rifle after frosty treat disappointment
13 Comments
18 Aug 11:01
Networks

Why does the market care so much about Cisco's security biz?

AnalysisIn the land of decline, sustainable growth is king
18 Aug 10:32

Don't miss Tomorrow, DreamHost will square up to US DoJ to avoid handing over 1.3m IP addresses of anti-Trump site visitors

Bootnotes

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

Wang wag's Croatian beach art highlighted... again
15 Comments
18 Aug 09:58
Software

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

And Server 2003. Yep, this is the year 2017 and we're not making this up
53 Comments
18 Aug 08:38
Virtualization

Software definer wants you to befriend the 'BFC', do a bit of 'reverse virtualization'

AnalysisWhat's that, TidalScale? The Big Friendly what?
18 Aug 08:02
Business

Infosys CEO quits, citing 'untenable atmosphere' created by critics

Former SAP man Vishal Sikka bails but will be interim CEO's boss
18 Aug 07:25
Business
Email rejected

Linux-loving lecturer 'lost' email, was actually confused by Outlook

ON-CALLAnd had suits savage an utterly innocent sysadmin for his own ignorance Friday m
95 Comments
18 Aug 06:58
Virtualization

Who wants multiple virtual workstations on a GPU in a blade server?

NVIDIA reckons engineering types do, so it's cut a new GPU and software to carve it up
18 Aug 06:20
Business
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Lenovo expects data centre profits in two years, if it can fix China

For now the company is just happy with growth for the first time since buying IBM's servers
18 Aug 03:57
Personal Tech

Where there's smoke there's a Galaxy Note: refurbished Model 4 batteries recalled

Phablets sent to AT&T customers with batteries from FedEx are at risk
18 Aug 02:55
Security

New NIST draft embeds privacy into US govt security for the first time

Federal agency addresses the new world of Alexa, smart cameras and IoT
18 Aug 01:57
Policy

Australian money cops gain powers to regulate cryptocurrency

Money laundering and terror finance laws will stretch to cover digi-dollars
12 Comments
18 Aug 01:06
Security

US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that's touched that mast

Verizon says basestation dumps increasingly popular
40 Comments
17 Aug 23:52
Security

What code is running on Apple's Secure Enclave security chip? Now we have a decryption key...

Ladies and gentlemen, start your ARM disassemblers
40 Comments
17 Aug 22:48
Policy

Tomorrow, DreamHost will square up to US DoJ to avoid handing over 1.3m IP addresses of anti-Trump site visitors

Data demand 'breaks First and Fourth Amendments'
22 Comments
17 Aug 22:32
Security

Don't panic, Chicago, but an AWS S3 config blunder exposed 1.8 million voter records

Personal info spills from another poorly secured Amazon service
12 Comments
17 Aug 20:47
Business

FYI: Web ad fraud looks really bad. Like, really, really bad. Bigly bad

Except at quality titles like El Reg, of course, cough
69 Comments
17 Aug 19:47
Personal Tech

Judge yanks plug out of AT&T's latest attack on Google Fiber

Judge throws out lawsuit seeking to prevent rollout of broadband cables
12 Comments
17 Aug 19:19
Bootnotes

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

SFWJohnson, get a load of this
65 Comments
17 Aug 16:59
Policy

London cops urged to scrap use of 'biased' facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

Year-on-year deployment isn’t really a trial, say privacy groups
16 Comments
17 Aug 16:01
Software

Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway

Say what now, Gartner?
31 Comments
17 Aug 15:09
Bootnotes

Russia's answer to Buckminster Fuller has a buttload of CGI and he's not afraid to use it

Gyroscopic trams, bunkerbeds! Enter the 'dope' world of Dahir Semenov
42 Comments
17 Aug 14:36
Storage

Making money is so DRAM easy for some memory-flingers

Another record revenue quarter ... even as drought eases
17 Aug 14:07
Security

London council 'failed to test' parking ticket app, exposed personal info

Authority fined £70k after missing URL manipulation
25 Comments
17 Aug 12:55
Personal Tech

Apple bag-search class action sueball moves to Cali supreme court

Anti-shrinkage policy could add millions to firm's wage bill
59 Comments
17 Aug 12:26
Personal Tech

Celeb-backed music gambit rebrands as 'Roxi', prays for IPO

Electric Jukebox has a dildo and wants £100m
11 Comments
17 Aug 12:00
Business

HPE sales chief Peter Ryan abandons ship amid downsizing ploy

CSO said to have quit to spend more time with family in UK
17 Aug 11:28
Business

Singapore court awards $2.9m over bad job reference

Damages calculated on potential earnings
21 Comments
17 Aug 11:05
Policy

Nine months and a lot more b*llocks to go before new EU data protection rules kick in

Info commish hits back at fake GDPR news
14 Comments
17 Aug 10:42
Storage

NetApp, you went all-flash, never go all-fla... Hey, wait. It's working

Slight biz uptick, steady results should keep CEO smiling
17 Aug 09:38
Policy

Defra recruiting 1,400 policy wonks to pick up the pieces after Brexit

ExclusivePrising IT systems from decades of EU lawmaking
120 Comments
17 Aug 09:03
Storage

What'll we do tonight, Kieran? Same thing we do every night, Tintri....

... try to take over your public cloudy worlds (one array at a time)
17 Aug 08:34
Policy

Ads regulator raps PC repair biz for massaging malware infection rates

Stop running that or we'll say stop again, so help me god
14 Comments
17 Aug 08:00
Science
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Ten spacecraft – from Venus Express to Voyager 2 – all tracked same solar flare

We hardly noticed at first, but records revealed plenty about how star-stuff sails solar winds
12 Comments
17 Aug 07:26
Policy

Scrutiny? We've heard of it. Dot-UK supremo Nominet goes dark

Even limited board reports now scrapped in favor of worthless 'updates'
15 Comments
17 Aug 07:01
Artificial Intelligence
brain

Smyte might brighten fraud plight: How machine-learning can be used to thwart crooks

AnalysisSecurity works better when you write your own rules
17 Aug 06:31
Security

UK govt steams ahead with £5m facial recog system amid furore over innocents' mugshots

Contract ignores lack of strategy, growing criticism
44 Comments
17 Aug 06:03
Business

Cisco security sales disappoint, DRAM drought dents results

It's okay, though, we've got an iPhone app coming soon says CEO Chuck
17 Aug 05:31
Security

Bank IT fella accused of masterminding multimillion-dollar insider-trading scam

Consultant was all too app-y to break law, claim investigators
15 Comments
17 Aug 05:03

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