Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Biz sends apps to public cloud, waves 'bye to on-premises server folk. NO! WAIT!

Microsoft rolls its own hyperconverged appliance program

Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear

Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

Facebook won't change React.js license despite Apache developer pain

Oracle caves, promises to crack open Java EE as v8 crawls ever closer

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea

Boffins blast beats to bury secret sonar in your 'smart' home

Open AWS S3 bucket leaked hotel booking service data

Phisherfolk dangle bait at dot-fish domain

Berners-Lee and the open-data bunch: £60k for your best collab dataset register ideas

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

HPE PointNext globo boss grilled by El Reg

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

Continuous integration platforms are broken – here's what needs fixing

How are you improving software development and deployment?

Malware? In my Docker container? It's more common than you think

Twitter's twits turned troll's tech taunt into thought-provoking tonic

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

Security outfit Root9B on the brink after default, may de-list

German court reveals reason for Europe-wide patent system freeze

Groundhog Day! ACCC again calls for truth in broadband advertising

Samsung gains ground on smartphones

Intel stuffs extra cores into latest mobile Series U Core i5 and i7 chips

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

FTC wants AT&T to kick in $4bn to help balance US budget. Why? Some dodgy ads or something

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Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

Ten spacecraft – from Venus Express to Voyager 2 – all tracked same solar flare

Space boffins competing for $20m Moon robot X-Prize are told: Be there by March 31 – or bust

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Science fiction great Brian Aldiss, 92, dies at his Oxford home

Elon Musk among 116 AI types calling on UN to nobble robo-weapons before they go all Skynet

Verity Stob

Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

German court reveals reason for Europe-wide patent system freeze

Was it the EPO? Brexit? Insufficient support? Yes

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Clash of the machine-learning titans

Uh oh, scientists know how those diamonds got in Uranus, and they're telling everyone!

Stanford researchers figure out how icy outer planets make it rain gemstones

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

Networks

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Not looking good for Beardy Branson's customers

22 Aug 10:52

DevOps

Continuous integration platforms are broken – here's what needs fixing

New survey polls developers' 'unmet needs'

22 Aug 10:32

Servers

Biz sends apps to public cloud, waves 'bye to on-premises server folk. NO! WAIT!

Cloud cost rises, growth pushes staff demand up again

22 Aug 09:41

Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Facial and voice recognition – just beware translations

22 Aug 09:01

Business

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

This whole 'Esport' thing looks serious – for games developers looking to boost sales

13 Comments

22 Aug 08:27

Emergent Tech

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Clash of the machine-learning titans

22 Aug 08:02

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Personal Tech

Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found

Crowdfunded submersible story somehow gets weirder

50 Comments

22 Aug 00:10

Software

Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

The Chocolate Factory's mobile operating system comes with saccharine emoji filling

48 Comments

21 Aug 22:34

Networks

Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear

Trio squeezes a bit more life out of current-gen broadband standard

21 Aug 22:14

Science

Uh oh, scientists know how those diamonds got in Uranus, and they're telling everyone!

Stanford researchers figure out how icy outer planets make it rain gemstones

34 Comments

21 Aug 21:47

Emergent Tech

Science fiction great Brian Aldiss, 92, dies at his Oxford home

ObitSuper SF writers don't last all summer long

43 Comments

21 Aug 21:20

Policy

China's cyber court opens for business; a gavel-free zone?

Focus is to be specifically on online cases

21 Aug 19:39

Security

Hackers scam half a million from Enigma digital currency investors

Sucky security leaves MIT cryptoboffins red-faced

10 Comments

21 Aug 18:53

Security

10% of UK's top firms would be screwed in a cyber attack – survey

And just 6% say they're fully prepared for GDPR

10 Comments

21 Aug 17:04

Business

Bizzby balls-up: Handyman app spams customer's details to world+dog

Reuben from Hartlepool, today's your unlucky day

21 Aug 17:02

The Channel

IT reseller Misco UK shutters warehouse and distie centre

Clawing its way out of the red

14 Comments

21 Aug 16:34

Storage

Tegile arrays tire of SAS backplane, cosey up to hunky newcomer NVMe

It's all NVMe-me-me nowadays

21 Aug 16:02

Storage

Get hyped: Cisco makes $320m intentions known to startup Springpath

Will supply the software for Netzilla's HyperFlex HCIA line

21 Aug 15:34

Personal Tech

Intel stuffs extra cores into latest mobile Series U Core i5 and i7 chips

Hello? Yes, I want a fondleslab that does things like a workstation, please

13 Comments

21 Aug 15:01

Security

British snoops at GCHQ knew FBI was going to arrest Marcus Hutchins

WannaCry killer had been working with the spy agency

119 Comments

21 Aug 14:00

The Channel

The sky is blue, water is wet and UK PC shipments are down

Political uncertainty blamed for crap Q2

46 Comments

21 Aug 13:01

Storage

NVMe? You should. Mangstor hauls in $7.1m for array development shop

And Austin-based firm is hiring

21 Aug 12:04

Policy

UK.gov to treat online abuse as seriously as IRL hate crime

Think twice before you fire that foul-mouthed Twitter tirade

91 Comments

21 Aug 11:25

Business

Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls

Telephone Preference Service – check it or feel the ICO's wrath

57 Comments

21 Aug 10:49

DevOps

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Tell us what you’re doing - or not doing - with DevOps, Containers, Agile

21 Aug 10:41

Storage

The rice of cloud, avocado of virtualization and salmon of doubt: Let's eat storage sushi

It's a week's worth of storage nutrition, so let's tuck in

21 Aug 10:23

Bootnotes

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

And he risked being executed by his own side in the process

93 Comments

21 Aug 09:49

Servers

HPE memory options rising by double digits... from today

Meanwhile, DRAM makers toasting record sales hauls

21 Aug 09:13

Personal Tech

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

Why not?

18 Comments

21 Aug 08:43

Storage

NVMe fabrics could shuffle traditional arrays off to the graveyard

OpinionWith the array controller out of the data path, who needs it?

21 Aug 08:10

Data Centre

Fujitsu's Australian cloud suffers storage crash, outage

User tells of significant data loss

17 Comments

21 Aug 07:38

Security

Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find

After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve

21 Aug 07:31

Science

Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

Remote work and automation is about to see Voyager-listeners' work change, but our man says tuning in is still a thrill

55 Comments

21 Aug 06:55

Software

Facebook won't change React.js license despite Apache developer pain

We love open source so much we can't drop sueball shield, says The Social Network™

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21 Aug 05:58

Security

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Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Biz sends apps to public cloud, waves 'bye to on-premises server folk. NO! WAIT!

Microsoft rolls its own hyperconverged appliance program

Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear

Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

Facebook won't change React.js license despite Apache developer pain

Oracle caves, promises to crack open Java EE as v8 crawls ever closer

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea

Boffins blast beats to bury secret sonar in your 'smart' home

Open AWS S3 bucket leaked hotel booking service data

Phisherfolk dangle bait at dot-fish domain

Berners-Lee and the open-data bunch: £60k for your best collab dataset register ideas

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

HPE PointNext globo boss grilled by El Reg

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

Continuous integration platforms are broken – here's what needs fixing

How are you improving software development and deployment?

Malware? In my Docker container? It's more common than you think

Twitter's twits turned troll's tech taunt into thought-provoking tonic

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

Security outfit Root9B on the brink after default, may de-list

German court reveals reason for Europe-wide patent system freeze

Groundhog Day! ACCC again calls for truth in broadband advertising

Samsung gains ground on smartphones

Intel stuffs extra cores into latest mobile Series U Core i5 and i7 chips

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

FTC wants AT&T to kick in $4bn to help balance US budget. Why? Some dodgy ads or something

Uh oh, scientists know how those diamonds got in Uranus, and they're telling everyone!

Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

Ten spacecraft – from Venus Express to Voyager 2 – all tracked same solar flare

Space boffins competing for $20m Moon robot X-Prize are told: Be there by March 31 – or bust

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Science fiction great Brian Aldiss, 92, dies at his Oxford home

Elon Musk among 116 AI types calling on UN to nobble robo-weapons before they go all Skynet

Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

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German court reveals reason for Europe-wide patent system freeze

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Uh oh, scientists know how those diamonds got in Uranus, and they're telling everyone!

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

Virgin Media customers complain of outages across UK

Continuous integration platforms are broken – here's what needs fixing

Biz sends apps to public cloud, waves 'bye to on-premises server folk. NO! WAIT!

Cognitive Services, Clippy? AI's silent infiltration of Microsoft's Office stack

Sofa-jockeys given crack at virtual Formula 1 world championship

Want a medal? Microsoft 7.2% less bad at speech recognition than IBM

Don't miss British snoops at GCHQ knew FBI was going to arrest Marcus Hutchins

Samsung gains ground on smartphones

Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea

Security outfit Root9B on the brink after default, may de-list

German court reveals reason for Europe-wide patent system freeze

Microsoft rolls its own hyperconverged appliance program

Boffins blast beats to bury secret sonar in your 'smart' home

Open AWS S3 bucket leaked hotel booking service data

Phisherfolk dangle bait at dot-fish domain

Private sub captain changes story, now says reporter died, was 'buried at sea' – torso found

Google's Android 8.0 Oreo has been served

Who needs 5G? Qualcomm, Ericsson and Verizon hit 1Gbps with LTE gear

Uh oh, scientists know how those diamonds got in Uranus, and they're telling everyone!

Science fiction great Brian Aldiss, 92, dies at his Oxford home

China's cyber court opens for business; a gavel-free zone?

Hackers scam half a million from Enigma digital currency investors

10% of UK's top firms would be screwed in a cyber attack – survey

Bizzby balls-up: Handyman app spams customer's details to world+dog

IT reseller Misco UK shutters warehouse and distie centre

Tegile arrays tire of SAS backplane, cosey up to hunky newcomer NVMe

Get hyped: Cisco makes $320m intentions known to startup Springpath

Intel stuffs extra cores into latest mobile Series U Core i5 and i7 chips

British snoops at GCHQ knew FBI was going to arrest Marcus Hutchins

The sky is blue, water is wet and UK PC shipments are down

NVMe? You should. Mangstor hauls in $7.1m for array development shop

UK.gov to treat online abuse as seriously as IRL hate crime

Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls

How are you improving software development and deployment?

The rice of cloud, avocado of virtualization and salmon of doubt: Let's eat storage sushi