OSes It's 2018 and your Macs, iPhones can be pwned by playing evil music Meanwhile, HomePod inches closer to actually shipping, allegedly 24 Jan 00:02 | 32
Security It's 2018 and… wow, you're still using Firefox? All right then, patch these horrid bugs OG open-source darling gets security check-up 24 Jan 00:48 | 78
OSes Samba 4.8 to squish scaling bug that Tridge himself coded in 2009 French government is going large with open source file server, new tweaks will help 24 Jan 02:00 | 46
Networks Just in the NIC of time, Dell and Netronome enter NFV pact More functions, fewer servers - and Dell is good with this! 24 Jan 03:01 |
Updated Skype, Slack, other apps inherit Electron vuln Devs, check your protocol handling, patch if necessary 24 Jan 04:01 | 7
Security Fresh botnet recruiting routers with weak credentials With a special HNAP exploit just for D-Link kit 24 Jan 04:29 | 2
Science Mass limit proposed so boffins can tell when they've fingered a brown dwarf or a fat planet Not a particularly left field suggestion... 24 Jan 05:01 | 24
Science 2018's first spacewalk bugged by software Replacement robot hand didn't work, so they turned it off, and yes, turned it back on again 24 Jan 05:28 | 14
Science Electric cars to create new peak hour when they all need a charge Grids were not built to handle big EVs populations all plugging in at once 24 Jan 06:03 | 209
Science NASA rethinking InSight probe mission after dust storm predicted for Mars Could be the end of the road for Opportunity, too 24 Jan 06:39 | 16
On-Prem Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 Done in by the weaponisation of optimisation, and now 2017 may be as good as it ever got 24 Jan 07:03 | 218
On-Prem Elon Musk offered no salary, $55bn bonus to run Tesla for a decade All he has to do is make Tesla the third-most valuable company and vastly increase revenue 24 Jan 07:31 | 47
Software Maverick internet cop Chrome 64 breaks rules to thwart malvert scum Google bans forced redirects used by Zirconium to infect Macs, PCs with nasties 24 Jan 08:01 | 43
Networks Linux Foundation puts all its networking eggs in one basket ‘LF Networking Fund' is like the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, but for SDN 24 Jan 08:16 |
Science PACK YOUR BAGS! Two Trappist-1 planets have watery oceans, most likely to be inhabitable Inhabitable with alien lifeforms, mind you. Grab a phaser 24 Jan 08:34 | 57
On-Prem Thorn leaves CGI UK's side: Prez exit 'to pursue other interests' Brit boss off after two years behind the controls 24 Jan 09:05 | 2
Roundup Facebook AI guru alt-tabs out, Nvidia EULA audits, Baidu changes, chip tricks, and more Machine-learning news and code to pore over 24 Jan 09:27 | 4
Legal £60m, five years late... Tag criminal tagging as a 'catastrophic waste' of taxpayers' cash UK government beancounters aren't happy with the MoJ 24 Jan 10:05 | 52
Networks TalkTalk starts offering punters choice to shift-shift to O2 A 'great' deal - as long as you stay with their crummy broadband 24 Jan 10:46 | 30
Updated Europe slaps €997m antitrust fine on Qualcomm Found to have paid billions to Apple to prevent it buying from rivals 24 Jan 11:03 | 36
Storage Pro Evo-lution shocker: Samsung SSDs focus on endurance over capacity Can't cram crazy TBs in so new 860s bring speed and longevity 24 Jan 11:33 | 13
Legal Cold calling director struck off for ‘flagrant’ breach of duties Halifax man didn’t pay HMRC but forked out on 2 houses and a wedding 24 Jan 12:04 | 37
Science Google yanks cash firehose from Lunar X Moonshot comp. The actual Moon shot one $30m prize will go unclaimed after repeated extensions 24 Jan 12:52 | 17
Bootnotes Camels disqualified from Saudi beauty contest for Botox-enhanced pouts My humps, my humps, my humps, my lovely camel humps 24 Jan 13:22 | 44
Events The Register, Heise launch Serverless Computing London Conference Call for Papers Open Now 24 Jan 13:40 | 4
Legal H-1B visa hopefuls, green card holders are feeling the wrath of 'America first' Trump Immigrants, and those who employ them, had better be legit 24 Jan 14:03 | 105
SaaS White box, anyone? Big Switch pumps Big Cloud Fabric updates as pretty Big Deal Polishes off hyperconverged and software-defined support 24 Jan 14:35 | 3
Legal What's GDPR? Survey suggests smaller firms living under rocks as EU privacy regs loom While Facebook boasts tools to help users 'manage their data' 24 Jan 14:53 | 53
Legal France gives les citoyens the right to cock up official paperwork Forgot your tax return, mon ami? Pas de problem! 24 Jan 15:27 | 29
Personal Tech Hawaii governor: I wanted to tell everyone nuke alert was fake – I just forgot my password Dem to be granted access to Twitter profile ‘in an emergency’ 24 Jan 16:10 | 47
Updated NHS deploys Microsoft threat detection service on just 30,000 devices That's only 2% of Blighty's health service PCs 24 Jan 16:34 | 25
Storage Commvault's record revenues walloped by US tax law tweaks Yay! Oh, wait. Aww... 24 Jan 17:23 | 1
On-Prem NHS outages KO Welsh GP services and Manchester A&E No connection... between the blackouts 24 Jan 17:59 | 26
Vid You want wires with that? Burger King backs, er, net neutrality Yes, you read that right 24 Jan 19:13 | 36
AI + ML Biker nerfed by robo Chevy in San Francisco now lobs sueball at GM Bye bye Mister Biker Guy, drove my Chevy to the lefty but the Chevy was awry (allegedly) 24 Jan 20:52 | 110
Bootnotes Pope wants journalism like the Catholic church wants child sex abuse probes: Slow, aimless... Easy with those exclusives and unfortunate facts, hacks 24 Jan 21:33 | 67
Legal Biggest Washington DC lobbyist is now a tech giant (yes, it's Google) Big Internet dominates US political pressure splurging 24 Jan 22:06 | 10
Personal Tech Look on the bright side, Pebble fans. At least your gizmo will work long enough for you to get beach body ready Support plug will now be pulled in June 24 Jan 22:56 | 45
Security Bell Canada Canucks it up again: Second hack in just eight months Subscriber database plundered by miscreants once again 24 Jan 23:22 | 15