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Tesla books over $8bn in overnight sales claims Elon Musk

But expect long waiting lists

Microsoft lures top Linux exec from Oracle to Redmond

Wim Coekaerts' hire another sign of open source push

Apple Fools: Times the House of Jobs went horribly awry

Apple at 40Plenty of bumps in the 40-year road for Mac makers

How do you build a cheap iPhone? Use a lot of old parts

iPhone SE torn down
Media

Google-funded study concludes: Make DMCA even more Google-friendly

Comment You need fewer digital rights. We need more
02 Apr 00:35
Business

Tesla books over $8bn in overnight sales claims Elon Musk

But expect long waiting lists
70 Comments
01 Apr 23:40
Hardware

How do you build a cheap iPhone? Use a lot of old parts

Teardown finds SE borrows plenty from its ancestors
25 Comments
01 Apr 23:32
Security

US government updates secure email guide for first time in a decade

NIST provides 81 pages of practical advice
11 Comments
01 Apr 22:56
Cloud

Microsoft lures top Linux exec from Oracle to Redmond

Wim Coekaerts' hire another sign of open source push
43 Comments
01 Apr 21:58
Networks

Egypt unfriended Facebook for Free Basics snoop snub

Zuck told to Giza the heck out of here
01 Apr 21:31

Don't miss Space archeologist discovers new evidence of Vikings invading America

Government

China enacts 'real name policy' for internet addresses

It's like Facebook's only, you know, could land you in jail
12 Comments
01 Apr 21:11
Science

Microsoft smells Musk, splashes on 'Mune' space program

Data centres under water? Try the icy cold of spaaaace...
16 Comments
01 Apr 21:09
Bootnotes

Tay talks back: What made you think you beat me?

How Microsoft taught fools to train their future enemy
22 Comments
01 Apr 20:40
Business

Apple Fools: Times the House of Jobs went horribly awry

Apple at 40 Plenty of bumps in the 40-year road for Mac makers
38 Comments
01 Apr 20:34
Science

Space archeologist discovers new evidence of Vikings invading America

Second settlement spotted by satellite
31 Comments
01 Apr 19:23
Networks

Frontier rings in Verizon takeover by borking its network

Handover doesn't appear to be going particularly well in three US states
01 Apr 18:27
Business

SEC chair blasts Silicon Valley for its hokey valuations

That unicorn look suspiciously like a horse with a rubber horn, says Mary Jo White
16 Comments
01 Apr 18:17
Developer
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie announces new Azure features at Build 2016

Microsoft announces Azure Functions, encrypted cloud storage

BUILD 2016 Incremental improvements more than big headlines, but Azure stays on track
01 Apr 18:08
Security
PayPal inStore app in action

PayPal plugs phishing-enabling vulnerability, stumps up $500

To the bug-splatter who found it. Not to you, don't get excited
01 Apr 16:27
Financial News

BlackBerry's still losing millions – but hit its revenue target, finally

Android isn't exactly pulling up any trees, though
01 Apr 15:56
Data Centre

NetApp ain't all that: Flashy figures show HPE left 'em for dust

A truer picture emerges thanks to Gartner numbers
01 Apr 15:32
Cloud

Bring on the goats! Apple's cloud failure demands further sacrifice

Apple at 40 Devices are Apple's thing. Distributed systems are Google's
12 Comments
01 Apr 15:01
Infrastructure

Call the Cable Guy: Wireless just won't cut it

Corporate types need to rethink
33 Comments
01 Apr 14:36
Developer

Jenkins 'fesses up after inadvertently slurping users' usage stats

Would Sir prefer the brogues or the Oxfords for giving me a kick in the...
01 Apr 14:07
Financial News

Huawei on bumper results: We owe growth to ginormous ICT market

Worldwide roll-out of 4G didn't hurt, either
01 Apr 13:27
Applications

Microsoft's DocumentDB lets its MongoDB freak flag fly

Get your NoSQL ting on, rascals
01 Apr 13:05
Applications

Is Microsoft's chatty bot platform just Clippy Mark 2?

Analysis Hello, it looks like you're trying to develop a Strategic Vision. Do you need some help with that?
20 Comments
01 Apr 12:33
Financial News

IBM snaps up small Bluewolf for reported $200m

CRM-as-service-acquisition strategy plays out
01 Apr 12:01
PLAYMOBIL - Full Coverage

Canadian rotter abducts giant Playmobil fireman

Ottawa toy store seeks return of popular plastic mascot
15 Comments
01 Apr 11:44
DevOps

Continuous Lifecycle: The final countdown

No foolin', we're running low on tickets
01 Apr 11:25
Financial News

Sphere 3D keeps business ship afloat atop sea of red ink

+Comment Let's have a look at those buoyancy aids
01 Apr 11:16
Applications

Google tried to be funny, cocked it up, everyone thought it was a bug

April Fool! Gmail joke feature pulled after causing mass FUD
72 Comments
01 Apr 11:01
Storage
Micron_P300_SSD_detail

Micron turns $900m profits into a $97m loss. Only took 12 months

Fifth straight quarterly revenue decline reverses 11 profitable quarters' trend
01 Apr 10:36
Government

Blighty starts pumping out 12-sided quids

New retro-styled nugget coming soon to a pocket near you
92 Comments
01 Apr 09:56
Hardware
Charis Tsevis's icon montage of Steve Jobs

Done making the big stuff better? The path to Apple's mid-life crisis

Apple at 40 IoT, VR, AI... cars? Let the other guy take the hit first
24 Comments
01 Apr 09:39
Applications

Which keys should I press to enable the CockUp feature?

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Sit in front of this and rotate
94 Comments
01 Apr 09:07
Business

Holding out for a Jobs: Tim Cook still auditioning for position of Apple god

Apple at 40 The future is Watch, the future is data, the future is taking on Uncle Sam
24 Comments
01 Apr 08:33
Hardware

When Steve Jobs was away, Apple's designers snuck out a penis-shaped remote control

Apple at 40 The PowerCD's remote did not need a domed, bulbous tip
39 Comments
01 Apr 08:00
Jobs

You can't dust-proof a PC with kitchen-grade plastic food wrap

ON-CALL There's a reason the lowest quote for a job isn't always the best quote for a job
69 Comments
01 Apr 07:29
Hardware

Elon Musk takes wraps off planet-saving Model 3 vapourmobile

It's fast! It's shiny! It's smart! And it's not going on sale until late 2017
103 Comments
01 Apr 07:02
Site News

The Register to publish Mindful Sysadmin adult colouring book

The power of 'routed thought' will packetise and harmonise your personal neural network
73 Comments
01 Apr 06:01
Security

Hacker reveals $40 attack that steals police drones from 2km away

Black Hat Asia No encryption in pro-grade drones: just sniff Wi-Fi and copy signals
17 Comments
01 Apr 05:04
Servers

Dell joins Java jumpers with updated server admin tool

HTML5 FTW in iDRAC 2.30.30.30
01 Apr 03:58
Hardware

India orders 770 million LED light bulbs, prices drop 83 per cent

Subsidised bulbs sold for US$1.28, cuts peak load by 2,346 MW
80 Comments
01 Apr 03:03
Security

Flaw found in Lhasa makes for compression confession depression

Don't be a .LZA-boy – patch and consider where you decompress
01 Apr 01:54
Science

Astronomers find first neutron star in Andromeda galaxy

Lighthouse in space spotted in years of records
01 Apr 00:29
Security

Brazilian and Russian cybercrooks collaborating to create more potent threats

Borrowed technologies, code obfuscation, and a lot more in their bag of tricks
01 Apr 00:12
Government

Divided FCC passes ISP privacy rules, overhauls LifeLine

Poor to get break on broadband prices
31 Mar 23:57
Developer
Pilot, image via Shutterstock

Save it, devs. Red Hat doesn't want your $99 for RHEL

Free pilot's license for immutable infrastructure nuts
31 Mar 23:30
Networks

Critics hit out at 'black box' UN internet body

Who exactly decides who sits on the Internet Governance Forum's main body?
31 Mar 23:08
Media

Reddit's warrant canary shuffles off this mortal coil

US law enforcement must be after more cat videos
40 Comments
31 Mar 23:06
Infrastructure

Intel invokes the ghost of Andy Grove to standardize cloud market

OpenStack and Kubernetes all the way, says Chipzilla
31 Mar 22:07
Science

China wants a 'Go' at Google's DeepMind

Challenger emerges for AI's board-game crown
12 Comments
31 Mar 21:05

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