SaaS Code crash? Russian hackers? Nope. Good ol' broken fiber cables borked Google Cloud's networking today Connectivity to us-east1 knackered for hours, still no fix 03 Jul 00:14 | 18
Security $30/month email upstart Superhuman brought low with a blast of privacy Kryptonite Tech exec challenges startup over default tracking 03 Jul 06:04 | 49
Security Here's a great idea: Why don't we hardcode the same private key into all our smart home hubs? Another day, another appalling Internet of S**t security flaw 03 Jul 07:07 | 92
Software Google's Fuchsia OS Flutters into view: We're just trying out some new concepts, claims exec Really? Looks like a strategic project to us 03 Jul 08:15 | 175
AI + ML Was this quake AI a little too artificial? Nature-published research accused of boosting accuracy by mixing training, testing data Academics, journal deny making a boo boo 03 Jul 09:01 | 21
On-Prem RIP Netezza, IBM’s FPGA-powered data warehousing dream Once mighty business killed by cloud computing 03 Jul 10:05 | 14
On-Prem Serious Fraud Office fines Serco £22.9m over electronic tagging scandal Follows £70m settlement over allegations it charged for monitoring phantom crims 03 Jul 10:39 | 28
Security Russian 'Silence' hacking crew turns up the volume – with $3m-plus cyber-raid on bank's cash machines Dutch Bangla falls victim to coordinated ATM scam 03 Jul 11:10 | 6
OSes ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer Opines that there's 'absolutely no way on Earth this was written from a clean sheet' 03 Jul 11:47 | 199
Interview Cloudflare gave everyone a 30-minute break from a chunk of the internet yesterday: Here's how they did it DevOps-tating automation cockup... or machines trying to take over the web? El Reg talks to the CTO 03 Jul 12:17 | 43
Networks UK's North Midlands hospitals IT outage, day 2: All surgery and appointments cancelled Not WannaCry... this time it's Cisco 03 Jul 12:50 | 56
Software Microsoft has Windows 1.0 retrogasm: Remember when Windows ran in kilobytes, not gigabytes? Redmond fires up the Delorean and heads back to simpler times 03 Jul 13:20 | 116
Software What will $15.5bn buy you? For Broadcom, it could nab itself a whole Symantec Chip designer to make another foray into enterprise software... troubled security outfit in its sights 03 Jul 14:34 | 6
Networks Openreach needs to snap that BT umbilical cord, warns Ofcom Oh and surprise, surprise... full fibre roll-out remains 'low' 03 Jul 15:30 | 47
Security D-Link must suffer indignity of security audits to settle with the Federal Trade Commission No admission of guilt, but plenty of new rules to follow 03 Jul 16:30 | 20
Legal Engineer found guilty of smuggling military-grade chips from the US to China Shih Yi-chi denies he stole 03 Jul 17:15 | 26
On-Prem Facebook celebrates Independence Day by lighting up American outage maps Like your cousin at the end of the BBQ, social network has pretty much blacked out 03 Jul 19:35 | 35
Updated YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled Recent policy remains unclear about what's disallowed 03 Jul 20:27 | 72
Personal Tech Apple fakes intimacy in our dead-eyed digital world with software fix You looking at me, FaceTime? 03 Jul 20:47 | 32
Security How do we stop facial recognition from becoming the next Facebook: ubiquitous and useful yet dangerous, impervious and misunderstood? We talk to one CEO about why bans aren't the answer but federal regulation is 03 Jul 21:32 | 36
Legal Trump: Huawei ban will be lifted! US Commerce Dept.: Yeah, about that… It's not a two Huawei street just yet, says top brass 03 Jul 22:48 | 67
Security US Cyber Command warns that the Outlook is not so good - Iranians hitting email flaw Government-backed campaign going after bug that was patched in 2017 03 Jul 23:51 | 17