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BOFH: That's right. Turn it off. Turn it on

Episode 9Thronging gangs of idiots besiege tech

Largest advertising company in the world still wincing after NotPetya punch

Lack of patches and enabling local admin rights blamed

Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal

Anti-piracy DRM gets the green light, for now

Someone's phishing US nuke power stations. So far, no kaboom

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Emergent Tech

Waymo now way less: Robo-ride upstart drops patents in Uber battle

Theft of trade secrets allegations will be the focus in self-driving car case
07 Jul 21:29
Security

Web inventor Sir Tim sizes up handcuffs for his creation – and world has 2 weeks to appeal

Anti-piracy DRM gets the green light, for now
07 Jul 20:47
Networks

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

Old-skool addresses worth about $400,000 at auction
07 Jul 20:04
Security

Bah Gawd! WWE left wrasslin' fans' privates on display online

Top US soap-opera joins long list of orgs leaving stuff open on cloud storage
07 Jul 19:42
Personal Tech

Jaw-boned: Wearables biz Jawbone shuts down

Fitness band maker jogs off into the sunset for good
07 Jul 18:58
Personal Tech

Sniffing the scent of free publicity, Google and Facebook steamroll into net neutrality protest

Didn't talk to organizers, don't have any plans yet
07 Jul 18:16

Don't miss Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a month

Artificial Intelligence

Putting the machines to work for you might be easier than you think...

PromoStretch your non-Artificial Intelligence at MCubed
06 Jul 10:32
Data Centre

Boffins start work on data centre to analyse UK infrastructure

£8m facility to help government identify and fix weaknesses
12 Comments
07 Jul 15:05
Security

Fast-spreading CopyCat Android malware nicks pennies via pop-up ads

Miscreants rake in $1.5m, one annoying mobile pop-up ad at a time...
17 Comments
07 Jul 14:22
Business

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd scoops up $17.4m from 350,000 share sales

That sort of lolly could buy you 15 million Soleros
07 Jul 12:00
Networks
Skeptical hipster. photo by shutterstock

Virgin Media biz service goes TITSUP* across London

Borough councils hit due to a 'fibre break'
38 Comments
07 Jul 11:31
Networks
STUDENT ON MOBILE PHONE IN LIBRARY

Brit unis bunged £16m in gov cash for 5G test

Part of £700m investment pot that will also go on 'full fibre'
07 Jul 11:29
Internet of Things
Tesla-Bosch driverless car level 3. Pic: Rebecca Hill

Zero accidents, all of your data – what The Reg learnt at Bosch's autonomous car bash

PicturesRoving reporter returns from test track in deepest Baden-Württemberg
44 Comments
07 Jul 11:00
Security

Largest advertising company in the world still wincing after NotPetya punch

Lack of patches and enabling local admin rights blamed
42 Comments
07 Jul 10:35
Science

Semiconductor-laced bunny eyedrops appear to nuke infections

Quantum dots show promise for fighting bacterial keratitis
18 Comments
07 Jul 10:02
Business

DIY music veteran SoundCloud flounders, lays off 40% of staff

Closes London and NYC offices in pursuit of profits
13 Comments
07 Jul 09:42
BOFH

BOFH: That's right. Turn it off. Turn it on

Episode 9Thronging gangs of idiots besiege tech
94 Comments
07 Jul 09:19
Policy

UK's food, farms and greens dept gives in to IBM, Capgemini addiction

Will extend IT contracts a bit, but winnow 25-supplier plan
07 Jul 08:33
Artificial Intelligence

On the couch with an AI robo-doc asking me personal questions

Something for the Weekend, Sir?How long have you been having these delusions?
27 Comments
07 Jul 07:58
Business

Sysadmin bloodied by icicle that overheated airport data centre

On-CallIt's snowing at 3AM. Servers are dying by the dozen. So our reader went outside and climbed a ladder to fix things up
107 Comments
07 Jul 07:05
Science

Astronomers fire up AI algorithms to hunt Milky Way's hot Jupiters

Sixty rare possible candidates eyed from NASA's Kepler probe
07 Jul 06:02
Security

Someone's phishing US nuke power stations. So far, no kaboom

Stuxnet, this ain't
24 Comments
07 Jul 05:30
Security

Google ships WannaCrypt for Android, disguised as Samba app

Who thought SMBv1 was a good idea? Come on, fess up
32 Comments
07 Jul 05:05
Policy
Uber self-driving car on a transport truck

UberPOP is Finnished in Helsinki until 2018

Paused awaiting new taxi laws
07 Jul 04:05
Security
Dead Cockroach - shutterstock

Google patches pwnable 'droids for Wi-Fi vuln

Broadcom chipsets, who uses those? Oh, practically everyone
11 Comments
07 Jul 03:05
Emergent Tech

Now Uber sued for textual harassment

Plus: Waymo? Way no! Levandowski swerves doc demand in trade secrets trial
06 Jul 23:49
Personal Tech

Well, that escalated quickly: Qualcomm demands iPhone, iPad sales ban in America

Licensing dispute explodes into all-out patent war with Apple
54 Comments
06 Jul 23:33
Science

While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record

Tweet a GIF about that, Donald
95 Comments
06 Jul 21:53
Personal Tech

Trump's CNN tantrum could delay $85bn AT&T-Time Warner merger

White House warns corpos after President's Twitter fight
68 Comments
06 Jul 21:20
Security

FREE wildcard HTTPS certs from Let's Encrypt for every Reg reader*

* And everyone else, too, of course
71 Comments
06 Jul 20:53
Software

Banking app startups go TITSUP as payment slurper keels over. Again

Total Inability To Support Users' Purchases – and the second time in four months
10 Comments
06 Jul 20:29
Artificial Intelligence

Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK with 30,000 'articles' a month

Templated stories sourced from gov databases to push web ads. Welcome to your dystopia
65 Comments
06 Jul 20:14
Business

McAfee settles McAfee lawsuit over McAfee name

And Intel sighs with relief
15 Comments
06 Jul 19:14
Cloud

Microsoft hits Alt-F4 on 3,000 global sales staff

Why employ people to flog software when you can just force feed people's computers with code anyway?
39 Comments
06 Jul 18:12
Emergent Tech

Microsoft offers cloud to Baidu, gets autonomous car in return

Self-driving project could be a smart move by Redmond
11 Comments
06 Jul 16:02
Security

Dark web souk AlphaBay outage: Users fear they've been scammed

It's not like you can go to the police, eh?
13 Comments
06 Jul 14:55
Storage

Back to ASICs: Mellanox pumps up Ethernet speed to 400Gbps

200GbitE and 400GbitE ASIC-powered switches
12 Comments
06 Jul 14:01
Security
Baby looks taken aback/shocked/affronted. Photo by Shutterstock

Nothing could protect Durex peddler from NotPetya ransomware

Reckitt Benckiser revenues wrecked by comp-wiping nasty
21 Comments
06 Jul 13:17
Storage
Tape over mouth, image via Shutterstock

Tape lives! The tape archive bit bucket is becoming bottomless

SpectraLogic's LTO-8 pre-purchase programme and 190TB+ cartridge forecast
34 Comments
06 Jul 12:04
Business
Woman packs up contents of desk. Image via shutterstock

Payroll glitch at DXC leaves former staff in employment limbo

They 'can't make people redundant properly despite having loads of practice'
17 Comments
06 Jul 11:25
Science

'Vicious' neutron star caught collecting dustbunnies

Geminga! Yet another of astronomy's classic pranks...
12 Comments
06 Jul 10:54
Storage

Multi-tier Tegile array mixes NVMe and SAS flash like a big ol' storage wedding cake

AnalysisSaying heck no to rules, man
06 Jul 10:02
Policy

Civil rights warriors file US lawsuit: Let us see Five Eyes agreement

Most recent public document is from 1955
13 Comments
06 Jul 09:03

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