Sprint CEO straight out accuses Verizon counterpart of LYING

BOFH: We're only here because they said there would be biscuits

Video nasty lets VMware guests run code on hosts

AWS users felt a great disturbance in the cloud, as S3 cried out in terror

Google to kill Chrome autoplay madness

HP users moaning over 10-minute login lag during 'Win 10 update'

Python explosion blamed on pandas

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

Equifax UK admits: 400,000 Brits caught up in mega-breach

Equifax mega-breach: Security bod flags header config conflict

NCC hires three Bank of England cyber experts to beef up assurance business

Chrome to label FTP sites insecure

HMRC scoops up Microsoft veep for CIO role

So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth

A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you

So much data, so little time: How to not flip your wig processing it

Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

Red Hat beer and burger box brouhaha: Would a pint help you wash down the containers?

Trello boards the desktop with Mac and Windows apps

'Don't Google Google, Googling Google is wrong', says Google

Portland posts full report on Uber's dirty dealings with Greyball

Senators call for '9/11-style' commission on computer voting security

China orders immediate shuttering of Bitcoin exchanges

EU's tech giant tax plan moves forward

Google sued by Gab over Play Store booting

Essential's Rubin coy on mysterious Plan to Take Over the Universe

Why the Apple Watch with LTE means a very Apple-y sort of freedom

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

Geek's Guide

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

Rise Of the Tiny Machines: Boffins cook up autonomous DNA sorting robot

Farewell Cassini! NASA's Saturnian spacecraft waves goodbye for its Grand Finale

Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid

The architecture for sharing tokens across blockchains promises traction

Show your intelligence – snap up an MCubed ticket now

IoT gateways get a benchmark from the TPC

SpaceX releases Pythonesque video of rocket failures

Verity Stob

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Pennsylvania cops deploy electronics sniffer dog to catch child abusers

Sci-Fi titan Jerry Pournelle passes,
aged 84

Vid game's easiest level makes players white, hardest level makes them black

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Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

Typosquatting attack hits the PyPI registry

Senators call for '9/11-style' commission on computer voting security

Horse, meet stable door

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

Electrophorus electricus is not something to be messed with

BOFH: We're only here because they said there would be biscuits

Tea with biscuits.

The architecture for sharing tokens across blockchains promises traction

After lightning fundraising round, Cosmos puts Ethereum high on dev roadmap

Portland posts full report on Uber's dirty dealings with Greyball

No further penalties for ride-sharing giant, however

Senators call for '9/11-style' commission on computer voting security

Horse, meet stable door

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Geeks' Guide to BritainA hidden British engineering gem: The Hovercraft Museum

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

Electrophorus electricus is not something to be messed with

Google sued by Gab over Play Store booting

'Free speech' Twitter alternative alleges antitrust foul

Don't miss Rise Of the Tiny Machines: Boffins cook up autonomous DNA sorting robot

China orders immediate shuttering of Bitcoin exchanges

And *clunk* – cyrptocurrency value drops 20 per cent

Google to kill Chrome autoplay madness

Sorta, kinda, well not really

EU's tech giant tax plan moves forward

All options on the table, and Apple, Facebook, Google ain't gonna like any of 'em

Equifax UK admits: 400,000 Brits caught up in mega-breach

UK dedicated systems not affected

Sprint CEO straight out accuses Verizon counterpart of LYING

IN ALL CAPS, no less

Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

Typosquatting attack hits the PyPI registry

Coffee, photo via shutterstock

HP users moaning over 10-minute login lag during 'Win 10 update'

Like watching a black screen dry (literally)

Equifax mega-breach: Security bod flags header config conflict

Help wanted at Equifax. Badly

Essential's Rubin coy on mysterious Plan to Take Over the Universe

One home at a time

Just how are HMRC’s IT systems going to cope with Brexit?

Answers on a postcard, please

Dell EMC president David Goulden quits

Two months after the biz told El Reg, 'no, no, David Goulden is going nowhere'.

Red Hat beer and burger box brouhaha: Would a pint help you wash down the containers?

UpdateLures thirsty reporters to watch webinar

DoJ: Look! Google is giving up overseas data for warrants outside Second Circuit

UpdatedGo on, Supremes, have another look at that Microsoft ruling, wouldya?

Why the Apple Watch with LTE means a very Apple-y sort of freedom

Caveat emptor: It's not what you think

Artificial Intelligence

Show your intelligence – snap up an MCubed ticket now

Doors open in three weeks for AI and ML extravaganza

ICO whacks Welsh biz with £350k fine for 150 MEEELLION nuisance calls

Not that data watchdog expects to get that money paid

UK attorney general plans crackdown on 'trial by social media'

Oi: Less contempt of court on Facebook and Twitter, says gov law bloke

BOFH

Tea with biscuits.

BOFH: We're only here because they said there would be biscuits

Episode 11BOFH helps promote his company's 'Story' (if promote = bag of quicklime)

HPE slices and dices globo org chart

Waves off another exec in the name of progress

NCC hires three Bank of England cyber experts to beef up assurance business

Intros CENTA - that new money smell

Rise Of the Tiny Machines: Boffins cook up autonomous DNA sorting robot

ROTMIt's coming for your jobs, very, very slowly

Farewell Cassini! NASA's Saturnian spacecraft waves goodbye for its Grand Finale

But the mission is far from over, say scientists

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Sounds like a good idea but looks can be deceptive

Video nasty lets VMware guests run code on hosts

It's 2017 and SVGA device can p0wn enterprise software. Sigh

Tech biz must be more export-focused, says defence kit minister

DSEI 2017We like your startups – now help post-Brexit UK and start selling abroad

Facebook let advertisers target 'Jew-haters'

You are our product, says The Social Network™, and we productised your racism

User worked with wrong app for two weeks, then complained to IT that data had gone missing

ON-CALLLock down your UIs, developers – customisation can confuse cretins

Boffin wins (Ig) Nobel prize asking if cats can be liquid

Why people hate cheese and speaker worn in the vagina also score 'make you laugh, then make you think' awards

Cloud

AWS users felt a great disturbance in the cloud, as S3 cried out in terror

S3izure made things tricky for an hour, but was no apocalypS3 to match March mess

Veritas shrinks Sydney office, slashes 60-something support staff

Jobs look to be on their way to India

Internet of Things

IoT gateways get a benchmark from the TPC

You're going to run a pair of servers to tend 'things' and pre-analyse their data, OK?

FTP

Chrome to label FTP sites insecure

It's only 0.0026 per cent of traffic, but it's all in plaintext so deserves a red flag

malware

Another month, another malware outbreak in Google's Play Store

50 apps get pulled as ExpensiveWall malware runs riot in the store

Google faces antitrust charges in the European Union

Google sued for paying women less than men

Women get the lowly frontend jobs, while the men bask in backend glory

Oracle's Q1: Cloud, great. Hardware, meh. Mergers, unlikely

Larry previews 'self-driving' database plans

Cloud

AWS: Don't be a SAP, get one of our massive HANA boxes

Cloud-slinger trots out 4TB instances for in-memory databases

Hubble catches a glimpse WASP-12b, an almost pitch-black exoplanet

Black planet, black world

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