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French general accused of nicking fast jet for weekend trips to the Sun

Defence ministry announces full inquiry

How to avoid getting hoodwinked by a DevOps hustler

CommentIf they’re a 'DevOps Expert', they probably aren’t

Robots will enable a sustainable grey economy

Oldies will retain mobility and independence when Teslas can self-drive them to work or be sent out to do the shopping

UK.gov leaves data dashboard users' details on publicly accessible site

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Policy

Useful Ajit Pai's lawyer nominated for top US telco watchdog role

Brendan Carr will be a reliable vote against net neutrality as an FCC commissioner
29 Jun 19:43
Security

Spies do spying, part 97: The CIA has a tool to track targets via Wi-Fi

Thanks, WackyLeaks
29 Jun 19:16
Security

Security bug bounty programs are a nice little earner for hackers

Safe to assume the money will keep getting better
29 Jun 18:22
Storage

Control-C! umount! Ctrl-Alt-Delete! Tintri forcibly ejects from today's IPO

Halt and catch fire!
29 Jun 17:53
Personal Tech

It's the iPhone's 10th b'day or, as El Reg calls it, 'BILL RAY DAY'

More than one BEEEEELLION mobe sales to celebrate? Screw that twisted logic
15 Comments
29 Jun 16:02
Emergent Tech

Inmarsat flings latest Wi-Fi-on-airliners satellite into orbit

European Aviation Network connectivity project continues
29 Jun 15:30

Don't miss America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Artificial Intelligence

One month left to save big on our ML and AI extravaganza

EventsThinking ahead to save on artificial intelligence
29 Jun 12:16
Servers

Rackspace goes TITSUP in global outage outrage

Total Inability To Support Users' Packets
10 Comments
29 Jun 15:24
Security

UK.gov leaves data dashboard users' details on publicly accessible site

You should probably reset your password, says GDS
10 Comments
29 Jun 15:06
Data Centre

How HCI simplifies the data center

Sysadmin blogGetting IT out of everyone's way
29 Jun 15:00
Security

'Janus' resurfaces: I was behind the original Petya. I want to help with NotPetya

Ordinary decent cybercriminal... or?
29 Jun 14:47
Business
Hand pulls on a latex rubber glove (disposable). Photo by shutterstock

UK regulator probes PwC over BT's Italian accountancy scandal

Audit giant failed to spot frauds
29 Jun 13:05
Security
A Dassault-Dornier Alpha Jet of the French Air Force. Pic: Shutterstock

French general accused of nicking fast jet for weekend trips to the Sun

Defence ministry announces full inquiry
48 Comments
29 Jun 12:52
Policy

Murdoch's £11.7bn Sky takeover referred to competition regulator

Blow to Rupe as deal will be subject to further investigation
36 Comments
29 Jun 12:06
Storage

Newly Google-emboldened Nutanix aims for data centre dominance

Data centre control plane platform play by mad hyperconverger
29 Jun 12:02
Networks

London suffers from 'sub-standard' connectivity - report

Worse than York, which is 'frankly embarrassing'
36 Comments
29 Jun 11:45
Data Centre

US army spin-off GPU database bags $50m Series A funding

Kinetica CEO dreams of being the database Apple of the enterprise's eye
29 Jun 11:31
Storage

Western Digital bares fangs in $1bn Toshiba lawsuit

Hey Tosh, you're so frivolous and without merit
29 Jun 11:04
Security

NHS WannaCrypt postmortem: Outbreak blamed on lack of accountability

Plus systemic underspending in IT. Imagine that
53 Comments
29 Jun 10:33
Policy

Nations 'ethically obliged' to ensure public health data is up to scratch

High-income countries told to help those that can’t afford to collect data
29 Jun 09:30
DevOps

How to avoid getting hoodwinked by a DevOps hustler

CommentIf they’re a 'DevOps Expert', they probably aren’t
30 Comments
29 Jun 09:02
Emergent Tech

The bloke behind Star Fox is building a blockchain based casino. No, really

Jez 'Argonaut' San puts on his poker face for El Reg grilling
23 Comments
29 Jun 08:24
Storage
Internet Meme: text says Integrate all the Things

NetApp HCI: More converged than hyperconverged?

AnalysisSeparate compute and storage environments inside
14 Comments
29 Jun 08:03
Emergent Tech
Tesla model S

Robots will enable a sustainable grey economy

Oldies will retain mobility and independence when Teslas can self-drive them to work or be sent out to do the shopping
75 Comments
29 Jun 07:02
Policy
Dr Strangelove bomb

NATO: 'Cyber' is a military domain

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
21 Comments
29 Jun 06:30
Science

Astroboffins dig into the weird backwards orbit of the Bee-Zed asteroid

Tiny body moves similar to Jupiter – but travels in the opposite direction
10 Comments
29 Jun 06:01
Security

Azure blues: Active Directory Connect has password reset vuln

Attackers can dive out of the cloud to pwn admin passwords
29 Jun 04:55
Business

O Rly? O'Reilly exits direct book sales

End of an epoch, but dead trees live on
36 Comments
29 Jun 03:56
Business

Australian regulator will decide if Uber drivers are staff or contractors

Drivers' 'not-a-union' takes on 'not-a-taxi' company
29 Jun 02:54
Policy

Five-eyes nations want comms providers to bust crypto for them

Outsourcing the unicorn hunt
55 Comments
29 Jun 02:30
Security

Don't panic, but Linux's Systemd can be pwned via an evil DNS query

PS, Alpine users, you need to get patching, too – for other reasons
131 Comments
29 Jun 01:44
Policy

Murderous Uber driver 'attacked passenger and the app biz did nothing. Then he raped me'

Toxic upstart accused of inaction on assault report
22 Comments
29 Jun 01:08
Security

America throws down gauntlet: Accept extra security checks or don't carry laptops on flights

Peeps flying into US face 'enhanced screening'
155 Comments
28 Jun 23:40
Emergent Tech

US trade watchdog boss goes all Kendrick Lamar on self-driving cars

Sit down Kitt, be humble
28 Jun 22:19
Storage

Modern Micron maestro Mehrotra marches merrily, maintains megahit masterplan

Senior execs hired and flagging retail business canned
28 Jun 21:44
Security

Kaspersky Lab US staff grilled by Feds in nighttime swoop

Also, update your Kaspersky Anti-Virus File Server – before you get hacked
31 Comments
28 Jun 21:23
Security

Virus (cough, cough, Petya) goes postal at FedEx, shares halted

TNT Express systems blown up by, er, yeah, you get the idea
36 Comments
28 Jun 19:59
Policy

Search results suddenly missing from Google? Well, BLAME CANADA!

It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along
59 Comments
28 Jun 19:37
Storage

Toshiba, Western Digital put away lawyers long enough to play 96-layer 3D NAND game of Jenga

Tosh talks 4-level cell tech, too
28 Jun 19:10
Software

Four Brits cuffed in multimillion-quid Windows tech support call scam probe

Malicious chats mostly came from India, say police
51 Comments
28 Jun 17:59
Software

Rackspace shoves Splunk in its data trunk

Managed cloud biz’s next move? Machine learning, obviously
28 Jun 15:26
Storage

Atlantis Computing in urgent refinancing talks

VDI and HCIA software supplier
28 Jun 15:10
Cloud

What is the enterprise cloud?

Sysadmin blogIntegrated IT infrastructure is a good place to start
28 Jun 15:00

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