Analysis Facebook cuts off independent political ad reviewers, claims security concerns Not so much crying wolf as taking wolf out for all-expenses paid dinner 30 Jan 00:16 | 21
Security You think election meddling is bad now? Buckle up for 2020, US intel chief tells Congress Expect trolls, cyber attacks, and even deep fakes in next White House run 30 Jan 01:44 | 45
Personal Tech Apple: Good news, everyone – sales are less bad than we thought. Not amazing but not bad. $84bn is $84bn, tho Cook and co get a boost after topping their own low bar 30 Jan 01:58 | 23
Servers AyyyMD had an Epyc quarter: Server chip shipments 'more than doubled' Q3 to Q4 CEO: 7nm will give bright future despite graphics downturn 30 Jan 02:57 | 6
Science Japanese astronomers find tiniest Kuiper Belt object yet – using cheap 'scopes and off-the-shelf CMOS cameras Boffinry on a shoestring finds icy chunk that's just 1.3km across 30 Jan 05:33 | 36
Legal Europe taps Facebook, Google, Twitter on the shoulder. So about those promises to stamp out lies, bots, dodgy ads? Internet giants hand in their homework – here's a summary 30 Jan 06:46 | 22
Networks While US fires criminal charges at Huawei, UK tells legislators not to worry, everything's fine We have 'unparalleled arrangements' don't you know 30 Jan 09:10 | 52
Legal Swiss Public Prosecutor will probe WIPO's misconduct allegations against CIO, says his legal counsel 'Suspend all action' against IT man's suspension as fresh inquiry starts, UN patent body urged 30 Jan 09:57 | 14
Personal Tech Even Windows 10 can't save the PC market as chip shortages, Brexit uncertainties bite Consumers pinch pennies while Brit biz tries to get the budget spent before you-know-what 30 Jan 10:28 | 31
AI + ML Say what?! An AI system can decode brain signals into speech So far, it's just sounds you hear – it can't read your mind or anything... yet 30 Jan 10:58 | 31
On-Prem Hands up who isn't fighting Oracle in court? HPE, for now, as Solaris support sueball tossed Judge dismisses Big Red's 2016 copyright claim 30 Jan 11:29 | 10
Software Are you a Windows 1 in 10 (1809)? Or a mighty 80 percenter (1803)? April still on top as Microsoft's difficult October update slowly trickles onto PCs 30 Jan 12:05 | 51
Networks Iceland starts planning for new undersea internet cable to Europe Route to Ireland via UK will be surveyed, says local ministry 30 Jan 12:55 | 29
Personal Tech iPhone price cuts are coming, teases Apple CEO. *Bring-bring* Hello, Apple UK? It's El Reg. You free to chat? Snow joke, we really want to know if they'll land in the UK 30 Jan 13:29 | 105
On-Prem The Six Billion Dollar LAN: Intel hopes to gobble network kit biz Mellanox 'for $6bn' Ethernet and InfiniBand kit would be tempting for Chipzilla 30 Jan 13:59 | 9
Software Stop, collaborate, and listen: Microsoft Teams gets an Atlassian glisten Forget Skype for Business, we have Jira and Confluence integration 30 Jan 14:42 | 21
Science How big is the UK space industry? It hauled in £14.8bn for 2016/2017 – report 40% of exports to France won't be a problem, right? 30 Jan 15:42 | 60
OSes Want a bit of privacy? Got a USB stick? Welcome to TAILS 3.12 Linux distro image seeks USB drive for private liaison. Discretion assured 30 Jan 16:42 | 34
Applications Furious Apple revokes Facebook's enty app cert after Zuck's crew abused it to slurp private data Internal FB apps in chaos, lawmaker on warpath 30 Jan 20:09 | 134
Exclusive Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deletes customer DBs Five-minute gap in which transactions for some punters are toast 30 Jan 20:20 | 53
Devops Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others Hard evidence that some coding lingo encourage flaws remains elusive 30 Jan 21:45 | 154
Analysis US watchdog legal fight against Qualcomm and pushy chip deals closes with argument over how awful lawyers are FTC calls for end of smartphone modem 'monopoly', Qualy quietly confident of victory 30 Jan 23:52 | 11