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Good news: It's still legal for Apple to keep its MacBook, iPhone batteries from melting

Cupertino beats Uniloc after judge disses 'sweeping, abstract' trollish patent claim

Tesla inches toward GPL compliance in low gear: Source code forcibly ejected into public

Some software blueprints doled out after years of complaints

IPv6 growth is slowing and no one knows why. Let's see if El Reg can address what's going on

AnalysisGet it? Address? As in, oh never mind

Astronaut took camera on spacewalk, but forgot SD card

Typhoon Soudelor photographed from the International Space Station
Storage

The great Dell EMC storage slimdown: Giant to trim off product bloat

Watch as the overlapping product lines ... slowly melt away
22 May 09:05
Personal Tech

The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB

It's neither the best technology, nor the most adaptable
13 Comments
22 May 08:39
Storage

Primary Data says stop, Hammerspace, Innodisk cooks some SSDs, and Fujitsu goes blockchain

Enough storage news to keep you going till beer o'clock
22 May 08:06
Cloud

OVH prepares not-discounts to not-match AWS, Azure, et al

As bit barn builds subside, increased quotas and capacity will land at the same price
22 May 07:24
Personal Tech

'Facebook takes data from my phone – but I don't have an account!'

Reg reader finds mobile apps can't be cut or quieted
51 Comments
22 May 07:01
Science

Astronaut took camera on spacewalk, but forgot SD card

Houston? What does ‘No SD’ mean? Is this thing even on?
31 Comments
22 May 06:41

Don't miss On 20th anniversary of Microsoft antitrust, US Treasury Sec calls for Google monopoly probe

Networks

Router admin? Bored? Let's play Battleships using BGP!

Protocol how-to turns into
EPIC AS-vs-AS SLUGOUT
22 May 06:03
Policy

EU considers baking new norms of cyber-war into security policies

Plan to paint US, China and Russia as rogues gather steam
22 May 04:58
Security

Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare

DDoS launchers increasingly target application processes instead of flooding networks
22 May 03:57
DevOps

OpenStack makes Zuul continuous delivery tool its second indie project

Now you can develop just like a massive sprawling open-source infrastructure project
22 May 02:59
Business
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Adobe acquires Magento to go B2B2C and beyond

Experience Cloud to add commerce and content management facilities
22 May 02:15
Networks
Facebook-style hands shake

Qualcomm readies 60GHz goodies for Facebook's Terragraph

Also unveils silicon for 5G NR small cells, because big rigs will drown on traffic any year now
22 May 01:29
Science

Undocumented alien caught stealing orbits in our Solar System

Bee-Zed immigrant asteroid has been here for billions of years – too late to build a wall
19 Comments
22 May 00:41
Personal Tech

Good news: It's still legal for Apple to keep its MacBook, iPhone batteries from melting

Cupertino beats Uniloc after judge disses 'sweeping, abstract' trollish patent claim
13 Comments
21 May 23:41
Software

Apple tells app makers to strip VoIP toolkit from iOS software in China

CallKit code no longer welcome in Middle Kingdom
21 May 23:08
Science

Boffins detect antimatter thundering down from Hurricane Patricia

First time scientists have detected positrons whizzing in storms
16 Comments
21 May 21:53
Networks

IPv6 growth is slowing and no one knows why. Let's see if El Reg can address what's going on

AnalysisGet it? Address? As in, oh never mind
93 Comments
21 May 21:23
Security

Microsoft, Google: We've found a fourth data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre CPU hole

Design blunder exists in Intel, AMD, Arm, Power processors
38 Comments
21 May 21:00
Personal Tech

Fella gets 2.5 years in the clink for coughing up cell numbers in $50m junk text message scam

And has to cough up $350,000 in ill-gotten gains
12 Comments
21 May 20:44
Storage

NAND I... will always love you, says Micron as it emits 7.68TB QLC SSD

64-layer read-centric drive is industry first, we're told
21 May 20:30
Software

Tesla inches toward GPL compliance in low gear: Source code forcibly ejected into public

Some software blueprints doled out after years of complaints
21 May 19:52
Policy

On 20th anniversary of Microsoft antitrust, US Treasury Sec calls for Google monopoly probe

Europe, America getting twitchy about web search dominance
18 Comments
21 May 19:05
Security
vulnerability

Penetration tester pokes six holes in Dell EMC's RecoverPoint products

Three fixed, including critical remote code execution bug
21 May 16:07
The Channel

Brit reseller Aria PC mounts appeal against £750k taxman VAT fiddle ruling

Full details of case now available after Reg legal victory
20 Comments
21 May 15:24
Security
Illustration of someone's privacy being invaded

High-end router flinger DrayTek admits to zero day in bunch of Vigor kit

'It may be possible for an attacker to intercept your router'
22 Comments
21 May 14:49
Policy

Slurp up patient data for algos that will detect cancer early, says UK PM

Hitches NHS cart to data, AI bandwagon, as medical groups urge patient choice
33 Comments
21 May 14:21
Science

RAF Air Command to take on UK military space ops

Dan Dare has a think about Galileo in least interesting comic strip ever
53 Comments
21 May 13:31
Security

Greenwich uni fined £120k: Hole in computing school site leaked 20k people's data

Insecure 12-year old microsite handed attackers key
13 Comments
21 May 12:36
Storage

Reduxio gets head transplant as co-founder and other execs hit highway

They've gone array
21 May 12:04
Science

Orbital ATK launches another Cygnus without anything blowing up

Revamped Antares booster lobs cargo freighter at ISS
19 Comments
21 May 10:53
Policy

You know me, I don't know you: Hospital reportedly raps staff for peeking at Ed Sheeran data

Unclear if employees wanted to figure out shape of him
48 Comments
21 May 10:08
Personal Tech

Xiaomi the way: Hyped Chinese giant begins its battle for Britain

AnalysisWe're no pushover
30 Comments
21 May 09:44
Verity Stob

The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass

StobBug behaviour in the wild
32 Comments
21 May 08:51
Personal Tech

Now that's old-school cool: Microsoft techies slap Azure Sphere IoT chip in an Altair 8800

Cloudy tech seen in oversized suit holding temperature probe
23 Comments
21 May 08:10
Artificial Intelligence

Your parents love you, Cortana. That's why we bought you an upgrade

Microsoft slurps conversational-AI startup Semantic Machines
27 Comments
21 May 07:30
Storage

Sysadmin hailed as hero for deleting data from the wrong disk drive

Who, me?An incident that started with a lazy slave ended with a rousing recovery
115 Comments
21 May 06:54
Policy

10 social networks ignored UK government consultations

So ministers hit the airwaves to reveal looming ‘obligation’ for rapid abuse takedown and colossal fines for not doing it
97 Comments
21 May 05:58
Personal Tech
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Das blinkenlights are back thanks to RPi revival of the PDP-11

Retro computing fans wrap classic DEC fascia round world's fave hobby machine
62 Comments
21 May 05:25
Science
Test image from image from one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

NASA’s new exoplanet-spotter survives sling past the Moon

Store-and-forward probe TESS warms up its cameras with a snap of 200,000 stars
29 Comments
21 May 02:00
Business
LG logo on box

LG chairman Koo Bon-moo dies, aged 73

He turned LG into the global electronics brand we know today
21 Comments
21 May 00:31
Security

Signal bugs, car hack antics, the Adobe flaw you may have missed, and much more

RoundupEFF wins another privacy battle, ICE chips off AI spy plan
17 Comments
19 May 08:29
Artificial Intelligence

How Google's Smart Compose for Gmail works – and did it fake its robo-caller demo?

RoundupPlus: Classifying frogs can be hopping mad
15 Comments
19 May 00:08
Policy

US Congress mulls expanding copyright yet again – by 144 years

Literally the 12th time corporate revenue put ahead of society and culture
176 Comments
18 May 19:58

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