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Larry Ellison tiers Amazon a new one: Oracle cloud gets 'always' free offer, plus something about Linux

IBM looks to boost sales the same way it has for 65 years – yes, it's a new mainframe: The z15

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

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...

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

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

How much pass could LastPass pass if LastPass passed last pass? Login-leaking security hole fixed

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

Australia didn't blame China for parliament hack in case it upset trade relations – report

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

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

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Pushing Verify in Brexit plans more about saving troubled project

Fitbit fitness fans furious following flummoxing flawed firmware float, fleeting feedback, failed fixes

The results are in… and California’s GDPR-ish digital privacy law has survived onslaught by Google and friends

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

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

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

Verity Stob

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

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

Data Centre > Networks

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 | 97

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 | 106

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

Networks

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

Small percentage of workforce but sign of the times

15 Aug 18:56 | 30

Larry Ellison tiers Amazon a new one: Oracle cloud gets 'always' free offer, plus something about Linux

IBM looks to boost sales the same way it has for 65 years – yes, it's a new mainframe: The z15

Justice served: There is no escape from the long server log of the law

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...

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

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

How much pass could LastPass pass if LastPass passed last pass? Login-leaking security hole fixed

Just as Ecuador thought it had seen the back of leaks, over 20m citizen records are exposed

Australia didn't blame China for parliament hack in case it upset trade relations – report

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…

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

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

Pushing Verify in Brexit plans more about saving troubled project

Fitbit fitness fans furious following flummoxing flawed firmware float, fleeting feedback, failed fixes

The results are in… and California’s GDPR-ish digital privacy law has survived onslaught by Google and friends

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

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

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

Face-recognizing cop body cams hit another hurdle, genderless voice assistants, and more

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

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

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

Data Centre > 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...

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

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

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Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google told: If you could cough up a decade of your internal emails, that'd be great

Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda

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