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A BOFH's paradise: Tell users raising support tickets they can literally go service themselves

Backup biz Acronis ascends to unicorndom after $147m splurge led by Goldman Sachs

Congratulations! You finally have the 10Mbps you're legally entitled to. Too bad that's obsolete

Not to over-hype this storage chip tech, but if I could get away with calling my first-born '3D NAND', I totally would

Adobe results show it is still creaming those subscriptions but its share price fell – why?

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

Microsoft to improve Azure networking with private links to multi-tenant services

IT now stands for Intermediate Targets: Tech providers pwned by snoops eyeing up customers – report

Remember that security probe that ended with a sheriff cuffing the pen testers? The contract is now public so you can decide who screwed up

Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet

GitHub gobbles biz used by NASA, Google, etc to search code for bugs and security holes in Mars rovers, apps...

What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud

Created to mimic Heroku: Cloud Foundry explained by its chief technology officer

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

Apple tells European Commission it's nutty for slapping €13bn tax bill on Irish subsidiary

Google age discrimination case: Supervisor called me 'grandpa', engineer claims

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise

Woman sues Lyft, says driver gang-raped her at gunpoint – and calls for app safety measures we can't believe aren't already in place

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The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MPs call for 'immediate' stop to facial recog in UK as report underlines bias risks in 'pre-crime' algos used by coppers

Robot Rin Tin Tin can rescue you from that collapsed mine shaft

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur

Verity Stob

Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Data Centre > Networks

Networks

Congratulations! You finally have the 10Mbps you're legally entitled to. Too bad that's obsolete

UK.gov policy slammed for not keeping pace with technology

18 Sep 14:00 | 33

Networks

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

Updated... And these punters are not happy

16 Sep 06:03 | 152

Networks

Avaya considering tie-up with RingCentral to save it from fire sale – report

Comms kit vendor in talks with videoconferencing outfit about possible joint venture

13 Sep 12:32 | 5

Networks

Not so G.fast: Hybrid fibre 'under review' as Openreach remembers it's all about FTTP now

BT clears throat, gestures wildly at its new full-fibre targets

12 Sep 13:00 | 46

Networks

Huawei thanks Uncle Sam for returning its seized comms kit ... two years later, ya jerks

Guess we'll drop that lawsuit now then

10 Sep 12:45 | 22

Networks

Microsoft takes ExpressRoute to orbit to sling Azure services at backwaters via satellite

UpdatedYour planet is one of those scheduled for demolition, er, we mean Redmond pals up with SES, Intelsat and Viasat

09 Sep 16:00 | 8

Networks

Cu in Hell: Thousands internetless after copper thieves pinch 500m of cable in Cambridgeshire

Openreach network targeted for second time in 2 weeks

06 Sep 12:00 | 118

Networks

New York City sues T-Mobile US over 'abusive sales tactics'

Dodgy dealing in a mobile phone shop? What kind of a world?

05 Sep 18:30 | 9

Networks

Uncle Sam is Huawei out of line with these hacking attacks, patent probes, Chinese mobe maker sighs

Comms giant says camera patent claims are a front for government intrusion

03 Sep 20:38 | 11

Networks

The purple SIM of fail: Virgin Mobile punters left in the dark with batch of borked cards

S'OK though, network promises to fix 'as quickly as possible'

02 Sep 14:15 | 27

Networks

We're great, boasts Huawei in founder's Little Red Book – but isn't that a video game screenshot?

As resilient as a bullet-riddled piece of, er, CGI

30 Aug 09:15 | 31

Networks

American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum

FCC also moves, albeit glacially, on robocalls

24 Aug 14:30 | 63

Networks

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs want folk to bargain over broadband

11?!! This cost me 12! Do you want to ruin me?!

23 Aug 12:02 | 108

Networks

Gartner awakens from trance, tells huddled villagers: 5G revenue will almost double to $4.2bn next year!

It has been foretold!

22 Aug 09:06 | 10

Networks

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links

20 Aug 20:12 | 53

Networks

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

He also developed one of the first ever flight simulators

20 Aug 12:15 | 42

Networks

Trump blinks again in trade war bluff-fest with China: Huawei gets another 90-day stay of US import execution

I want to get Huawei, I want to fry Huawei, yeah, yeah, yeah

19 Aug 19:07 | 37

Networks

Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it

Extending DNS security protocol to multiple platforms takes root

15 Aug 23:31 | 3

A BOFH's paradise: Tell users raising support tickets they can literally go service themselves

Backup biz Acronis ascends to unicorndom after $147m splurge led by Goldman Sachs

Congratulations! You finally have the 10Mbps you're legally entitled to. Too bad that's obsolete

Not to over-hype this storage chip tech, but if I could get away with calling my first-born '3D NAND', I totally would

Adobe results show it is still creaming those subscriptions but its share price fell – why?

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

Microsoft to improve Azure networking with private links to multi-tenant services

IT now stands for Intermediate Targets: Tech providers pwned by snoops eyeing up customers – report

Remember that security probe that ended with a sheriff cuffing the pen testers? The contract is now public so you can decide who screwed up

Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet

GitHub gobbles biz used by NASA, Google, etc to search code for bugs and security holes in Mars rovers, apps...

What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud

Created to mimic Heroku: Cloud Foundry explained by its chief technology officer

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

Apple tells European Commission it's nutty for slapping €13bn tax bill on Irish subsidiary

Google age discrimination case: Supervisor called me 'grandpa', engineer claims

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise

Woman sues Lyft, says driver gang-raped her at gunpoint – and calls for app safety measures we can't believe aren't already in place

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MPs call for 'immediate' stop to facial recog in UK as report underlines bias risks in 'pre-crime' algos used by coppers

Robot Rin Tin Tin can rescue you from that collapsed mine shaft

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur

Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Wake me up before you Gogo ... so I can jump out: Kenyan MP takes on aeroplane flatulence

Data Centre > Networks

Congratulations! You finally have the 10Mbps you're legally entitled to. Too bad that's obsolete

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

Avaya considering tie-up with RingCentral to save it from fire sale – report

Not so G.fast: Hybrid fibre 'under review' as Openreach remembers it's all about FTTP now

Huawei thanks Uncle Sam for returning its seized comms kit ... two years later, ya jerks

Microsoft takes ExpressRoute to orbit to sling Azure services at backwaters via satellite

Cu in Hell: Thousands internetless after copper thieves pinch 500m of cable in Cambridgeshire

New York City sues T-Mobile US over 'abusive sales tactics'

Uncle Sam is Huawei out of line with these hacking attacks, patent probes, Chinese mobe maker sighs

The purple SIM of fail: Virgin Mobile punters left in the dark with batch of borked cards

We're great, boasts Huawei in founder's Little Red Book – but isn't that a video game screenshot?

Vodafone hurls sueball at Ofcom over plans to relax BT leases

Hong Kong ISPs beg Chinese govt not to impose Great Firewall on them

UK.gov: Huge mobile masts coming to a grassy hill near you soon

American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs want folk to bargain over broadband

Gartner awakens from trance, tells huddled villagers: 5G revenue will almost double to $4.2bn next year!

How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband

RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

Trump blinks again in trade war bluff-fest with China: Huawei gets another 90-day stay of US import execution

Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it

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Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some

.NET Core 3.0 thought it was all ready for release. And it would have been too, if it weren't for those pesky Visual Studio kids

US government sues ex-IT guy for breaking his NDA (Yes, we mean Edward Snowden)

We asked for your Fitbit horror stories and, oh wow, did you deliver: Readers sync their teeth into 'junk' gizmos

Google age discrimination case: Supervisor called me 'grandpa', engineer claims

Seriously, this sh!t again? 24m medical records, 700m+ scan pics casually left online

First they came for 'face' and I did not speak out because I... have no face? Then they came for 'book'

UK.gov's smart meter cost-benefit analysis for 2019 goes big on cost, easy on the benefits

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning

Virtually all polled enterprises say they'll use SD-WAN in next two years. Do you know what it is? Let us fill you in

We're not going Huawei even if you ban our 5G kit, Chinese firm tells UK

Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors

Mind your MANRS: Internet Society names and shames network operators that bungle their routing security

All roads in US cable biz GTT's Brit network seem to lead to Menwith Hill

Just one in five UK constituencies receive 4G from all four mobile operators – research

Ransomware attackers have gone from 'spray and pray' to 'slayin' prey'

Virgin Media's Project Lightning now at 1.8m connections. Just 2.2m to go before year's end, right?

1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?

Off somewhere nice on holibobs? Not if you're flying British Airways: IT 'systems issue' smacks UK airports once again