Security
Boffins predict web scams with domain registration data
Mid-morning bulk buys signal raids on newly expired domains and evil intent
31 Oct 01:35 | 15
31st > October > 2016 Archive
Legal
Australia spending AU$4.8m to do something about revenge porn
Cash for new reporting tool, of which we already have two, plus smuttmeister research
31 Oct 01:44 | 4
Networks
US trade watchdog to probe Cisco's gripes that Arista is still ripping off its router patents
Rival hits back, claims Switchzilla is using courts to crush competition
31 Oct 02:33 | 2
On-Prem
Linux 4.9rc3 is upon us
31 Oct 03:57 | 3
Legal
50 tech jobs to go at AirServices Australia
Cuts aviation safety IT positions to 265
31 Oct 04:02 | 12
Security
Obey Google, web-masters, or it will say you can't be trusted
Certificate Transparency for Chrome will ruin phishing spots by Oct 2017
31 Oct 04:29 | 23
Personal Tech
Smartmobe made 'intermittent bright flashes and a hissing noise' in Biz class seat
Crew threw it in a bucket of water before things got nasty
31 Oct 05:15 | 42
Science
NASA's asteroid orbit calculator spots a hot rock zipping past
'Scout' scope gives us an asteroid-misses-Earth-by-not-much horror story for Halloween
31 Oct 06:02 | 42
Software
WordPress daddy Matt Mullenweg says Wix.com 'explicitly contravenes the GPL'
Wix admits to code sniff, says it groks the GNU vibe
31 Oct 06:28 | 18
On-Prem
G-cloud gets Win Server 2016
31 Oct 06:30 | 2
Legal
MPs want Blighty to enforce domestic roaming to fix 'not spots'
Don't fence us in, sings British Infrastructure Group
31 Oct 07:02 | 55
Software
Royal Horticultural Society's PC is rooted for all to see
Root? Horticulture? Geddit? Okay, on with the BSODs
31 Oct 07:29 | 18
Software
Google man drags Emacs into the 1990s
Adds double-buffered rendering to stop terminal-era flickering
31 Oct 08:02 | 65
Security
Boffin's anti-worm bot could silence epic Mirai DDoS attack army
And break every computer crime law along the way
31 Oct 08:33 | 35
Legal
C'mon, it's the current year! Report finds UK gov could save £2bn by modernising IT
Too much 'tinkering round' the edges means transformation yet to happen
31 Oct 09:07 | 19
Channel
Violin switches stock exchanges fast
OTCQX replaces delisting NYSE as its share trading body
31 Oct 10:08 | 5
Exclusive
KCL out(r)age continues: Two weeks TITSUP, two weeks to go
Now IT bricks it: A 'series of extremely unlikely events'
31 Oct 11:27 | 95
Security
Shadow Brokers leak systems hacked by NSA – mostly mail and uni servers in India, China
With gibberish encouraging disruption of the US election
31 Oct 11:37 | 12
Storage
Pluck-filled platter-stuff: Bold disk drive makers fatten up
And store more data, of course
31 Oct 12:00 | 28
Networks
CenturyLink set to merge with tier-one provider Level 3 for $34bn
CEOs can hardly contain their delight
31 Oct 12:13 | 5
Storage
Enhanced XP7 plumps up flash while slimming dedupe
HPE adds Hitachi gen 2 VSP features to its XP7 array range-topper
31 Oct 12:53 | 2
AI + ML
Bristol AI chip upstart Graphcore scores $30m in VC dosh
Silicon for machine learning that it hopes will 'challenge Nvidia'
31 Oct 13:11 | 1
On-Prem
Trick not treat: 123 Reg down on Halloween, DNS borked by DDoS
In the 21st century, kids can be a real nuisance
31 Oct 13:47 | 25
Storage
LaCie flings out super-glam desktop Bolter drive
With 'I just casually chucked this here' magnetic stand
31 Oct 14:19 | 12
Storage
Seagate has a flash early Xmas present for Xbox gamers
External drive doubles console capacity and loads titles faster
31 Oct 14:41 | 15
On-Prem
Promoted tweet phish fiddle
31 Oct 14:46 |
Software
F-35 'sovereign data gateway' will stop US reading pilots' personal data? Yeah right
If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge for sale...
31 Oct 15:44 | 72
Security
Appointments on hold as (computer) virus wreaks havoc with NHS trust systems
Major medical issues diverted to neighbouring hospitals
31 Oct 16:39 | 49
Edge + IoT
A successor to Mirai? Newly discovered malware aims to create fresh IoT botnet
Dubbed Linux/IRCTelnet, nasty's source code based on Aidra
31 Oct 17:13 | 11
Personal Tech
Apple rushes out iOS 10.1.1 fix after health data flat lines
Now with less-random information wiping
31 Oct 19:06 | 4
AI + ML
BRAAA-AI-NS, BRAAA-AI-NS! Boffins unleash zombie-obsessed nightmare neural net
Computer-generated horrors not just limited to Microsoft Exchange updates
31 Oct 19:09 | 4
Security
Melbourne Cup is 'top op for hacked camera DDoS extortionists'
Bet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai
31 Oct 19:14 | 1
Channel
America has one month to stop the FBI getting its global license to hack
Lawmakers call for action over Rule 41 changes
31 Oct 19:27 | 59
Bootnotes
Three-commas Thiel expresses love for himself, Trump and downtrodden millionaires
Contrarian blood-sucker continues to confuse
31 Oct 20:22 | 44
On-Prem
Broadcom to eat Brocade?
31 Oct 20:29 |
On-Prem
ARM draws new Mali GPUs
31 Oct 21:27 | 3
Security
Google drops a zero-day on Microsoft: Web giant goes public with bug exploited by hackers
Even Adobe pushed its patch faster than Windows giant
31 Oct 22:04 | 34
Software
WebAssembly: Finally something everyone agrees on – websites running C/C++ code
Native code spec gets buy-in from major browser makers
31 Oct 22:29 | 80
Updated
Cloudflare ordered by judge to help unmask two website owners
Guess what it's over? Yep, copyright infringement
31 Oct 23:02 | 15
Legal
Uber, Lyft drivers shamed for 'racial bias' by uni eggheads
Study finds dial-a-car services also tend to overcharge women
31 Oct 23:14 | 41
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