Legal The glorious Brexit uncertainty: The only dead cert on data rules for tech biz in 2019 UK's exit from the EU and ePrivacy regs: contingency planning and confusion 02 Jan 09:36 | 55
Boatnotes What happens when a Royal Navy warship sees a NATO task force headed straight for it? A crash course in Morse Plus: Your vulture clocked the Northern Lights from the Arctic Circle 02 Jan 10:37 | 140
Security Open-source devs: Wget off your bloated festive behinds and patch this user cred-blabbing bug New year, new CVE 02 Jan 11:36 | 10
Obit Another greybeard has left us: Packet pioneer Larry Roberts dies at 81 ARPANET handler helped lay foundations of the internet 02 Jan 12:28 | 28
OSes Crystal ball gazers declare that Windows 10 has finally overtaken Windows 7 At last! The pretender to the throne swipes the crown 02 Jan 12:59 | 94
Science New Horizons probe reveals Ultima Thule is huge, spinning... chicken drumstick? We'll have a better idea when fresh 2014 MU69 snaps look less like Minecraft 02 Jan 13:36 | 64
Bootnotes Oz cops investigating screams of 'why don't you die?' find bloke in battle with spider Sprinkle some 'crying toddler' in there for maximum horror 02 Jan 14:29 | 111
Storage Screeech... DRAM! Weak demand hits memory-makers as they slam on CAPEX brakes – analyst Tripartite monopoly cuts bit output production growth as China-US trade war threatens 02 Jan 15:49 | 5
On-Prem DXC hit with sueball over layoff steamroller's share price dip El Reg namechecked as lawyers claim investors 'misled' 02 Jan 16:27 | 17
Science Boffins manage to keep graphene qubits 'quantum coherent' for all of 55... nanoseconds Doesn't sound very long, but it could have big implications for quantum computing 02 Jan 17:14 | 28
Software Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate Licensing red-tape violate First Amendment, says court in battle over timing algorithm 02 Jan 20:33 | 153
Networks US states join watchdog probing CenturyLink's Xmas data center outage that screwed 911 system TITSUP network card fingered for dropped calls (that's a Total Inability To Send Usable Packets) 02 Jan 21:19 | 15
Security Detailed: How Russian government's Fancy Bear UEFI rootkit sneaks onto Windows PCs ESET sheds new light on 'Lojax' firmware infection 02 Jan 23:13 | 155