Can't decide how to vote? Publicwhip.org will tell you
Machines show you how to vote - you know how this ends
As New Labour prepares itself for electoral meltdown in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, here's a site that might, as Peter Snow would have put it, be "just a bit of fun".… 
'Secure' PayPal page is... you guessed it
Extended SSL no match for the power of XSS
A serious scripting error has been discovered on PayPal that could enable attackers to create convincing spoof pages that steal users' authentication credentials..…
US Congress questions legality of Phorm and the Phormettes
'Talk to us first'
After telling the world it will soon pimp customer data to NebuAd - a behavioral ad targeting firm along the lines of Phorm and Front Porch - Charter Communications has received a letter from Congress questioning the legality of such pimping.…
W3C 'clarifies' HTML 5 v XHTML
Vendors moving too fast on RIA
Potential conflicts and overlap between the first update to HTML in a decade by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and XHTML has been addressed by the standards body.…
SANS sounds alarm on Debian OpenSSL flaw
Lockpicking script prompts alarm
The SANS Institute yesterday took the highly unusual step of issuing a yellow alert over a vulnerability in the cryptographic functions of Debian, the Linux distro that underpins Ubuntu.…
AMD cries foul over Intel's 'river of cash' flowing to Dell
Shows Intel Chairman begging for forgiveness
AMD vs Intel It's document season in the ongoing anti-trust lawsuit between AMD and Intel. Last week, the companies fought over witness testimony and earlier this week a judge told Intel to fork over some documents related to interviews done as the company tried to deal with its deletion of e-mails possibly related to the case at hand. Now, we've received AMD's response to Intel's filing around the witness testimony, and a couple of tidbits fell out of the heavily censored document.…
World economy group gives IPv6 big push
Warns about depletion of IPv4 addresses
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sounded an alarm bell yesterday over the rapid depletion of IPv4 internet addresses and gave the IPv6 protocol another push.…
Jihadis: We turned hacked killbots against US troops
ROTM fever spreads to mujahideen press office
In a strange twist of fate it has emerged that gutter hacks, writing for a well known publication offering tasty mechanically recovered news-like media product, have handed a stunning propaganda coup to jihadi terrorism. We're obviously very sorry*.…
P2P soars, licensed music flatlines
Today is a good day to die download
Freeloading music is more habit-forming than paying for legal downloads, according to polling in the UK.…
DNS gaffe leaves spy agency totally under cover
Big website knickers round ankles
The unavailability of the US National Security Agency website on Thursday has been linked to misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) servers.…
OLPC and Microsoft punt Windows-only XO laptop
Odd couple shack up
Microsoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation have confirmed that the XO laptop will soon be available as Windows-loaded machines.… 
OLPC's a con - former insider
Departing software chief stings Negroponte
The former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit has blasted the project for losing sight of its goals, accusing chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public. It's all about shipping kit, says Ivan Krstić in an incendiary essay.…
Qualcomm splurges on UK spectrum
Just bag up the whole lot for me, please
US technology company Qualcomm has scooped all 17 chunks of UK-L-Band spectrum, auctioned over the last week, for a total of £8,334,000 - so you can expect MediaFLO announcements from UK operators any day now.…
Xbox 360 'eaten' by alligator
Beast of a box
People have covered themselves and their possessions in animal skins since the dawn of time, but one gamer has taken things to another level by crafting an alligator-themed Xbox 360.…
High Court orders MPs to 'fess up on expenses
Show us how you've spent our money
The Information Commissioner has welcomed the High Court's decision to force MPs to publish their full expenses.…
Orange signs multi-nation iPhone distribution deal
Jesus Phone coverage spreads
France Telecom's Orange offshoot has formally joined the roster of cellcos that will offer Apple's iPhone in multiple territories.…
Thus spake the Moderatrix
Your problems solved, the world set to rights
Yesterday my esteemed colleague kindly offered the Reg readership a place to pour out your hearts, and so you copiously did, proving once and for all what a deeply sad distressed bunch you are.… 
Pentax Optio V20 compact camera
Sweet and simple?
Review Chances are that many pics in your photo album are of family and friends. Little wonder then, that camera manufacturers are devoting a lot of time and energy in providing features designed to help us take even better people shots.…
Outback hack suspect denied bail
Strewth he's deleted the system
A former contractor allegedly knocked out government systems and deleted thousands of records in Australia's Northern Territories earlier this month.…
The Moderatrix: Exclusive boudoir snap
You've been a naughty, naughty commenter...
The commenters among you who've been foolish enough to cross swords with the Moderatrix know that she doesn't suffer fools gladly - and quite right too.…
Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise
Faking it for data pimps
Updated Coding activists have developed an application designed to confound Phorm's controversial behaviour-tracking software by simulating random web-browsing.…
HP begs AMD PC owners to put XP SP3 on ice
Wait for sticky plaster patch
Hewlett-Packard has told customers not to install Windows XP service pack three (SP3) on AMD-based desktops until Microsoft and HP cough fixes to the endless reboot snafu that has wreaked havoc on PCs.…
Is Vista ready for Business?
Reboot, then tell us what you think
Reg Tech Panel Now that Windows Vista SP1 is here, you’ve got no more excuses to put off that upgrade, right? And if you have strayed in the past onto one of those ‘alternative’ (shiver) platforms such as Linux or OS X, you’ll of course be coming home to grab yourself a slice of that Wow!… 
Wii controller lawsuit costs Nintendo $21m
Texas firms sues Nintendo, and wins!
Nintendo has vowed to fight a court order demanding it pay $21m (£10.7m/€13.5m) to a US gaming company for patent infringements associated with controllers for the Wii and GameCube.…
Number crunching knife crime and online ID verification
Legislating in a data-light zone
This afternoon (Friday 16 May}, Margaret Moran, MP for Luton South, will introduce the second reading of a Bill to make age and identity verification compulsory for all online retailers.…
Yahoo! strikes back at Icahn
Thanks but no thanks
Roy Bostock, chairman of Yahoo!, has wasted no time in responding to Carl Icahn's attempt to seize control of the company's board.…
Sharp claims record mobile fuel cell power density
Shrink it a bit, and it'll replace laptop batteries
Sharp has claimed the crown for the highest power density mobile fuel cell. It delivers enough power per cubic centimetre, it's said, to one day replace standard lithium-ion packs. This time it really will...…
'Crazy rasberry ants' target Texan tech
Electronics on the menu for rampaging nutter insects
Texans in the Houston area are battling rampaging hordes of "voracious swarming ants" which have inexplicably developed a taste for electronic equipment, Chicago Tribune reports.…
Government orders data retention by ISPs
Keep it for 12 months for the plods
Phone and internet companies will soon be forced to keep logs of internet usage to be made available to the police under a new law announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown this week.…
Verizon lands 10-year deal to unify DHS networks
One net to rule them all - and in the darkness find them
US telco Verizon yesterday announced it had won a $678.5m, ten-year deal to tie together the many disparate networks within the vast US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).…
Google Translate speaks in (more) tongues
Adds 10 new languages
Google has announced the addition of ten new languages to its Google Translate feature, bringing the total of available tongues to 23.…
Captain Cyborg creates human bat with Reg baseball cap
Ahem...
It's come to our attention that the media's favourite cybernetically-enhanced human - Kev "Captain Cyborg" Warwick of Reading Uni - earlier this week demonstrated an echolocation hat for blind people on the Beeb's The One Show.…
NHS IT four years late and over budget
Outlook uncertain but expensive
The NHS IT project, one of the world's largest public sector IT programmes, is already four years late.…
PS3 update fails to fix Grand Theft Auto IV woes
But Sony has a solution, apparently
The thumbs of most GTA IV-owning PS3 gamers are probably red-raw by now, their only respite being the game’s inexplicable freezes. So you’d expect the latest firmware update for the console to fix the problem..?…
Virtual Earth puts human face on data
Lightweight programming, minus Google
Project Watch: Microsoft 2008 Those who have been following Project Watch will know that I have been leading the development in a large database project using SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008 and Visual Studio 2008.…
New game site designed to make computers smarter
Or at least taggier
Scientists have launched a new game site designed to make computers smarter by harnessing the cognition of the humans playing the games. Gwap.com, short for games with a purpose, takes a Tom Sawyer approach to solving age-old computer problems by repackaging normally mundane tasks as online fun.…
Apple will please missile makers by backing PA Semi's chip
Unleashing the iBomb
Exclusive Apple will indeed support PA Semi's line of PowerPC-based processors, The Register has learned.…
Netezza buys analytics mystery house
Byzantine buy
Data warehouse appliance maker Netezza is buying an enigmatic analytics firm based in North Carolina, NuTech Solutions.…
MySpace fraudster indicted in teen's suicide
Cyber-bully 2.0
A 49-year-old Missouri mother has been indicted for fraudulently using MySpace to "cyber-bully" a teenage girl who committed suicide after she was tricked into believing she was being dumped by her online boyfriend.…
Rootkits on routers threat to be demoed
Networks own3d
Updated Security researchers have devised a rootkit capable of covertly monitoring and controlling Cisco routers.… 
American cable giant joins data pimping club
Charter member
Charter Communications, the eighth largest ISP in the States, has jumped into bed with NebuAd, a behavioral ad targeting firm along the lines of Phorm and Front Porch.…
Overstock's Patrick Byrne battles New York Sith Lord
'I will not pay the Amazon Tax'
Unwilling to collect the Empire State's new "Amazon Tax," Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com have jettisoned their New York-based affiliate marketers.…
RIAA ordered to shell out $100k for P2P witch hunt
Pigopolists pay for 471 hours
How many work hours does it take to fight off a false accusation of copyright infringement from the Recording Ass. of America?…
Adobe lands Sun Java rich-client CTO
Swings for Flex-based RIA
Sun Microsystems' desktop division CTO has defected to Adobe Systems. It's the latest installment of musical chairs between vendors jockeying for developers building rich internet applications, and highlights Sun's weaknesses in this already competitive field.…
Apple okay with Safari 'carpet bombing' vuln for now
'Eh. Don't expect much from us'
Next time you get nagged to install Apple's Safari browser keep this in mind: The company's security team has dismissed research that shows a simple way miscreants can use the browser to litter an end user's machine with malicious files.…
Wake up and smell the Doritos™ - Avril Lavigne's manager
Mmm. Doritos.
Copyright is over, and musicians should make themselves as pretty as they can for big brand advertisers, says top music manager and label boss Terry McBride.…
Koreans tout standard for US mobile TV
LG and Samsung have just what you need
LG and Samsung have teamed up to have their respective technologies accepted as the American standard for mobile TV, just as Dish starts casting around for someone to help them build such a network.…
Yahoo! faces battle for the board
Icahn! launches! proxy! war!
Yahoo! might not have escaped the clutches of Microsoft after all.…
SOCA says: We are hitting serious criminals
UK's FBI goes after crims, and their cash
The UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has said it is making progress in the fight against high-impact crime. The agency published its second annual report on Thursday highlighting increased seizures of Class A drugs and the confiscation of criminals' wealth.…
CBS saves CNet from activist investors
Billion dollar buyout
CBS is buying CNet Networks - the web publisher behind ZDNet, gamespot.com, tv.com, mp3.com, news.com and techrepublic. These sites will now be combined with CBS's websites.…
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