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May the excessive force be with you: Chap cuffed after Star Trek v Star Wars row turns bloody

PollSettle this like the illogical humans you are – vote on which is best

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

Old-skool addresses worth about $400,000 at auction

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

Largest advertising company in the world still wincing after NotPetya punch

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Security

Talk about a hit and run: AA finally comes clean on security breakdown

We're so sorry, says Brit biz's supremo after website leaked people's personal info
08 Jul 06:56
Bootnotes

May the excessive force be with you: Chap cuffed after Star Trek v Star Wars row turns bloody

PollSettle this like the illogical humans you are – vote on which is best
39 Comments
07 Jul 23:30
Security

Google Chrome's HTTPS ban-hammer drops on WoSign, StartCom in two months

Substandard certs, already in partial exile, soon to be shunned completely
07 Jul 22:27
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
24 Comments
07 Jul 20:47
Networks

Crashed RadioShack flogs off its IPv4 stash

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

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
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
Data Centre
Man talks on ohone next to outdoor pipeline, Photo by Shutterstock

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...
18 Comments
07 Jul 14:22
Business
Ice cream, photo via Shutterstock

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

Virgin Media biz service goes TITSUP* across London

Borough councils hit due to a 'fibre break'
40 Comments
07 Jul 11:31
Networks

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

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
54 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
54 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
108 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?
31 Comments
07 Jul 07:58
Business
icicle

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
115 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
phishing

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

Stuxnet, this ain't
25 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

UberPOP is Finnished in Helsinki until 2018

Paused awaiting new taxi laws
07 Jul 04:05
Security

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
56 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
101 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
73 Comments
06 Jul 21:20
Security

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

* And everyone else, too, of course
73 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
Money cloud

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
Rothschild's slipper orchid, "King of the Paphs" (Paphiopedilum rothschildianum)

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
Mellanox_SN3000_switches

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

200GbitE and 400GbitE ASIC-powered switches
12 Comments
06 Jul 14:01
Security

Nothing could protect Durex peddler from NotPetya ransomware

Reckitt Benckiser revenues wrecked by comp-wiping nasty
23 Comments
06 Jul 13:17
Storage

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

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

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