On-Prem Super Micro says audit found no trace of Chinese spy chips on its boards Vendor opens new investigation to refute bugging claims 12 Dec 00:31 | 49
AI + ML Waymo presents ChauffeurNet, a neural net designed to copy human driving TL;DR: The engineers realize that human data isn't enough to teach robots how to drive 12 Dec 00:54 | 79
Security It's December of 2018 and, to hell with it, just patch your stuff Windows, Office, Acrobat, SAP... you know the deal 12 Dec 01:15 | 25
Science Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks Bees harvest data, but would be more fun if they had lasers 12 Dec 06:01 | 23
Science Supernovae may explain mass extinctions of marine animals 2.6 million years ago Deadly radiation bouncing around could have killed off animals in the Pliocene era 12 Dec 07:01 | 66
Networks Qualcomm all ye faithful: 5G's soon triumphant... like 2020 soon. Really We just modem down with that headline (OK maybe not) 12 Dec 09:15 | 8
Security Ticketmaster tells customer it's not at fault for site's Magecart malware pwnage Uh, hello? Didn't you put third-party Javascript on a payment page? 12 Dec 10:15 | 79
On-Prem DXC Technology turns to BT Security to nab its infosec bossman Waves bye to yet ANOTHER HPE exec, internal memo confirms 12 Dec 11:15 | 7
Channel Dixons Carphone smarting from £440m loss as it writes down goodwill on mobile biz No one's buying new friggin' handsets, says retailer 12 Dec 12:17 | 54
Devops Need continuous Kubernetes satisfaction? CloudBees has just the thing DevOps outfit also unleashes commercial support for Jenkins X 12 Dec 13:15 | 2
On-Prem Having swallowed its pride and started again with 10nm chips, Intel teases features in these 2019-ish processors 3D stacks of Arm-like core clusters, APIs, and more coming some time soon 12 Dec 14:00 | 35
Updated JFrog to open freebie central repository for Go fans in the new year Your code is immutable, and always believed in... 'cause you use Go(Center) 12 Dec 15:00 | 5
Security Britain approved £2.5m of snooping kit exports to thoroughly snuggly regime in Saudi Arabia Who was Jamal Khashoggi, anyway? 12 Dec 15:30 | 26
Legal Thanks to UK peers, coming to a laptop near you in 2019: Age checks for online smut Pr0n to be gated despite misgivings, says UK.gov minister 12 Dec 16:00 | 95
Security Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights orgs appealing against top Euro court Liberty and pals seek to prove intrusive spy powers can never be justified 12 Dec 16:30 | 21
Storage Thwack... boing: Amazon EFS rival Elastifile flings out multi-cloud file store through Google Ain't no marketplace like a third-party marketplace 12 Dec 17:00 | 1
Servers Doubles all round for the server-makers: Market inhales $23.36bn for the quarter Dell EMC, HPE and ODMs frolic as cloud rains cash 12 Dec 17:30 | 2
Science Hole-y ship: ISS 'nauts take a wander to crack Soyuz driller whodunnit In Soviet Russia, comrade find small hole by making much bigger hole 12 Dec 18:00 | 48
Video Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit State TV can't decide whether it was duped or not 12 Dec 20:34 | 90
Security It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you hackers are targeting 'nuclear, defense, energy, financial' biz Sharpshooter takes aim at critical infrastructure 12 Dec 21:37 | 24
Legal Small American town rejects Comcast – while ISP reps take issue with your El Reg vultures And the FCC and AT&T claim everything is hunky dory 12 Dec 22:47 | 56
Devops Kubernetes has become 'boring' and that's good, Google tells devs Thrill-seeking infrastructure devs accept end of caffeine-fueled ops frenzy with murmur 12 Dec 23:18 |