Legal Make Apple, er, America Great Again: iGiant to bring home profits, pay $38bn in repatriation tax Triumphant Trump touts terrific tax tactic 18 Jan 00:37 | 84
AI + ML Free gift for all readers: Google's AutoML launch translated into plain English (where possible) It's an image-recognition thing 18 Jan 01:18 | 6
Science Crypto-cash exchange BitConnect pulls plug amid Bitcoin bloodbath BTC plunge, er, sorry, market correction leaves faithful shaken but not deterred 18 Jan 01:58 | 39
Networks Poison ping pong prompts patch from Cisco Switchzilla has fixes for appliances, voice portal, Nexus switch OS 18 Jan 02:59 |
Legal Broadcom confirms anti-trust probe, professes zero worries Says probe doesn't impact wireless lines, leaving about a gazillion other products in play 18 Jan 03:02 |
Security Industrial systems scrambling to catch up with Meltdown, Spectre Some confessions, but 'watch this space' is the more common reaction - when there is one 18 Jan 05:01 | 5
On-Prem YouTube turns off cash tap for automatic video nasties Beer money channels that made under $100 a year are also out of the Partner Program 18 Jan 06:04 | 54
Security North Korea's finest spent 2017 distributing RATs, wipers, and phish And sent them mostly to South Korea, naturally 18 Jan 06:30 | 5
Science Software that predicts whether crims will break the law again is no better than you or me Court sentencing tool under the microscope 18 Jan 07:06 | 47
Servers Red Hat slams into reverse on CPU fix for Spectre design blunder Microcode mitigations trigger system wobbles, penguinistas warn 18 Jan 07:36 | 32
Security Mozilla edict: 'Web-accessible' features need 'secure contexts' If an API or feature needs the 'net, it needs HTTPS under Mozilla's new plan 18 Jan 07:55 | 23
On-Prem Former Cisco CEO John Chambers says insects are the new lobsters Only a venture capitalist could say something like that – but that’s what Chambers is now 18 Jan 08:26 | 26
Security VTech fondleslabs for kids 'still vulnerable' despite sanctions Researchers claim flaws remain more than two years later 18 Jan 09:02 | 12
Bootnotes How many Routemaster bus seats would it take to fill Wembley Stadium? Potential Reg Standards Soviet entry? Let's take a closer look 18 Jan 09:27 | 54
Science All aboard the Vomit Comet: Not the last train to Essex, but a modded 727 for weightless flight All that stands between you and zero g is skill and a rubber duck 18 Jan 10:02 | 38
Lectures The Register Lecture: What will drive our cars when the combustion engine dies 18 Jan 10:49 | 5
Legal Intellectual Property Office drops, er, patently cool cartoon to teach kids about trademarks Hey, Reg can entertain children. IP freely, anyone, IP freely? 18 Jan 11:26 | 38
OSes NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops Devs quit, suggest Britain's health service bosses used them to bag Microsoft deal 18 Jan 12:01 | 145
AI + ML What do voters want? An IRL Maybot? Sure, give that a whirl Tory council candidate moots an even more robotic PM – for the 'more personable touch' 18 Jan 12:29 | 32
On-Prem M&S extends customer support contract with, er, Capita Web chat? On the phone? Online? That'll be UK IT's Mr Nasty you are talking to 18 Jan 12:58 | 18
Security And Oracle E-biz suite makes 3: Package also vulnerable to exploit used by cryptocurrency miner Hat trick! 18 Jan 13:26 | 1
Personal Tech Apple iPhone X: Two weeks in the life of an anxious user A smartphone that plucks at your heartstrings, not always in a good way 18 Jan 14:04 | 93
Exclusive DXC confirms veep level shake-up in new world order CEO thanks execs for service... more than most get 18 Jan 14:55 | 17
Interview F-35 'incomparable' to Harrier jump jet, top test pilot tells El Reg Naturally we demanded proof – and we got it 18 Jan 15:27 | 173
Security Someone is touting a mobile, PC spyware platform called Dark Caracal to governments Hundreds of gigabytes already slurped, say EFF and Lookout 18 Jan 16:00 | 15
Legal Scumbag who tweeted vulnerable adults' details is hauled into court Kent bloke 'threatened' privacy watchdog that he'd release more 18 Jan 16:34 | 27
Legal Home Office admits it sent asylum seeker’s personal info to the state he was fleeing UK.gov pays £15,500 in damages after failed fact-check 18 Jan 17:03 | 54
Servers DigitalOcean cuts cloud server pricing to stop rivals eating its lunch Faces up to AWS, Google with future per-second billing plan 18 Jan 17:29 | 9
Legal Feds charge Barclays trader with fraud in Hewlett-Packard deal Forex head alleged to have manipulated market in 'front-running' scheme 18 Jan 18:07 | 7
SaaS Sili-spurned Valley! No way, San Jose! Amazon snubs SF Bay Area in search for HQ2 city Bezos narrows down search for new base to 20 cities, mostly on East Coast 18 Jan 19:27 | 27
Security Sad-sack Anon calling himself 'Mr Cunnilingus' online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses Electronics tutor's taunts come back to haunt him 18 Jan 21:23 | 20
On-Prem Plutus Payroll victims asked to explain themselves to receiver Deloitte trying to figure out who to pay first – or maybe who to pay at all 18 Jan 22:36 |
Security You get a lawsuit! And you get a lawsuit! And you! Now Apple sued over CPU security flaws iGiant up next in the Meltdown-Spectre-sueball-a-palooza 18 Jan 23:15 | 51