Personal Tech Menu mischief and interface deceit targeted by US lawmakers A bipartisan bill offers rules against dark patterns 10 Apr 01:26 | 17
Security Shock revelation as massive American presidential election hack confirmed The student election at Berkeley High School. What did you think we were talking about? 10 Apr 01:30 | 20
Science Are brown dwarfs stars or planets? Boffins find evidence for proto-suns in a solar system Finding a twin brown dwarfs around a giant star just adds to the confusion 10 Apr 07:01 | 33
Legal Turn me up some: Smart speaker outfit Sonos blasted in complaint to UK privacy watchdog Tech lawyer argues that 'give us all your data or your kit gets it' doesn't count as valid consent 10 Apr 08:15 | 54
On-Prem Who had 'one week in' for a Making Tax Digital c0ckup? Well done, you win... absolutely nothing Software vendors report UK VAT API returning spurious data, confusing users 10 Apr 09:00 | 36
Exclusive King's College London internal memo cops to account 'compromise' as uni resets passwords At least it's not a two-week long outage this time 10 Apr 10:02 | 39
Virtualization An offer you Kata refuse: OSF accepts virty container wizards as 'part of the family' Making it the first new top-level project since 2012 10 Apr 11:01 | 8
Software Windows Subsystem for Linux distro gets a preening, updated version waddles into Microsoft's app store If you're feeling a little bit Linux, p-p-p-pick up a p-p-p-Pengwin...1.2 10 Apr 11:31 | 71
Bootnotes Woman calls cops on shadowy baddie barricaded in bathroom... to discover: Roomba gone rogue Still, at least it didn't smear sh!t all over the floor this time 10 Apr 12:05 | 36
OSes RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009 Welcome to Day One of the post NT 5.1 era 10 Apr 12:41 | 150
Channel No Court of Appeal for you! Judges uphold Aria PC firm VAT fraud ruling Plus: A year ago today El Reg changed the law 10 Apr 13:15 | 12
Legal Facebook acknowledges asking you to invite your dead pals to parties is 'painful', plans to fix it Also promises to tell users that they are the product... like many of you didn't already know 10 Apr 14:04 | 20
Science Humanity gazes into the abyss to get its first glimpse of a black hole Sadly, USS Cygnus still missing 10 Apr 14:30 | 61
Storage Let our powers combine! Intel smushes Optane speed and QLC flash capacity into one drive Gumstick card for notebooks 10 Apr 15:01 | 5
Legal Telly production biz films maternity clinic, doesn't tell patients, gets fined £120,000 Opt-out? We can just tie a carrier bag over the cam – it doesn't have a stop button 10 Apr 15:41 | 33
On-Prem Not biased against you and not going anywhere, judge tells Post Office in Horizon IT system case I'm sure I'll manage, rules Mr Justice Fraser 10 Apr 16:20 | 23
On-Prem Raise a Stein for OpenStack: Latest release brings faster containers, cloud resource management But adds just one new module, and even that is more of a transplant 10 Apr 17:00 | 2
Software Do you want salt with that? Salesforce phallus 'shopped out' of Oracle Park calendar cover Nah, it's just an old photo, claims spokesborg 10 Apr 18:01 | 16
Personal Tech Xiaomi 'rewards' CEO and founder with £736m worth of B-class shares Almost as much as 4th biggest mobe maker made in 2018 10 Apr 19:00 | 4
Bootnotes Make America Infringe Again: Trump campaign video pulled over Batman copyright Presidential 2020 ad nicks Dark Knight Rises soundtrack 10 Apr 19:41 | 51
Networks US firm wins Oz-backed bid to block Huawei from subsea Pacific cables Funny, that 10 Apr 20:00 | 22
Security Taj Mahal and SneakyPastes: Kaspersky reveals pair of attacks menacing Asia, Middle East Fresh round of targeted operations unearthed 10 Apr 20:06 | 1
On-Prem China responsible for just, oh, 20% of global semiconductor revenue in 2018, no biggie That's almost a hundred BEEEELLION dollarydoos 10 Apr 21:00 | 13
SaaS When is a phone not a phone? When it's an Android security key Google Cloud product deluge spans security, analytics and AI 10 Apr 21:05 | 28
Networks They did it! US House reps pulled their finger out, voted to restore net neutrality in America! News only spoiled by fact it was a complete waste of time 10 Apr 21:31 | 59
Security Lazarus Group rises again from the digital grave with Hoplight malware for all Norks trigger Uncle Sam's alarm with attack variant 10 Apr 23:36 | 13
AI + ML Uncle Sam wants to tackle bias in algorithms by ordering tech corps to explain how their machines really work New bill grants the FTC powers to investigate companies 10 Apr 23:38 | 36