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Amazon triples profit to $11.2bn, pays ZERO DOLLARS in corp tax – instead we pay it $129m

Oracle throws toys out pram again, tells US claims court: Competing for Pentagon cloud contract isn't fair!

Crypto crash leads to inventory pile-up at Nvidia, sales slaughtered

Return of the audio format wars and other money-making scams

After outrage over Chrome ad-block block plan, Google backs away from crippling web advert, content filters

Missed Valentine's Day? Take your beloved to a Visual Studio 2019 launch event instead

Billionaire Buffet's Berkshire liquidates $2.1bn stake in Oracle – months after buying the shares

Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app

Well Holby damned! We've caught a virus: Brit medical soap operas team up for 'cyber' episode

'This collaboration is absolutely critical going forward'... One positive thing about Meltdown CPU hole? At least it put aside tech rivalries...

Use an 8-char Windows NTLM password? Don't. Every single one can be cracked in under 2.5hrs

Bad news for WannaCry slayer Marcus Hutchins: Judge rules being young, hungover, and in a strange land doesn't obviate evidence

Want to learn how to accelerate your software ops AND save big?

Squarespace's Tanya Reilly to deliver keynote at Continuous Lifecycle London

Looking to give wings to your software development and deployment?

You like JavaScript! You really like it! Scripting lingo tops dev survey of programming languages

The algorithms! They're manipulating all of us! reckon human rights bods Council of Europe

Facebook political data probe: £2.5m. Powers for the ICO: Priceless

OK, Google? Probably not! EU settles on wording for copyright reform legislation

UK Home Office dumps huge sack of complex data sets on biometrics ethics board's desk, goes for beer (probably)

Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property

Banking in 2019: Sure, we'd recommend TSB's online, mobe banking say cowed customers

Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight

Roses are red, Facebook will pay, to make Uncle Sam go away: Zuck, FTC in $bn settlement rumor

Geek's Guide

How's this for sci-fi: A cosmic river of 4,000 stars dazzles lifeforms as it flows through a galaxy. And that galaxy is the Milky Way

NASA's Dawn Mission receives nod in memory of Apollo 13 'naut for asteroid belt derring-do

Help us sniff out 50 neutron star collisions so we can calculate universe expansion, cosmoboffins plead

How's this for sci-fi: Orbiting probes face fiery death dive from planet's radiation belts. And that planet is Earth

Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban

Blockchain is bullsh!t, prove me wrong meets 'chain gang fans at tech confab

Boss of venerable sect with millions of devoted followers meets boss of venerable sect with... yeah, you get the idea

Roses are red, this is sublime: We fed OpenAI's latest chat bot a classic Reg headline

Verity Stob

Sussex rap fan wants statue of Easy-E from NWA in his hometown because he's a 'legend'

Airbus will shutter its A380 production line from 2021

Pandas so useless they just look at delicious kid who fell into enclosure

US kids apparently talking like Peppa Pig... How about US lawmakers watching Doctor Who?

Data Centre > Networks

Shirtless man under rain shower in garden

Roses are red, so is ketchup, 'naked' Huawei tells its critics to belt up

Comms giant bared all to Brit security services, says chief

14 Feb 16:19 | 15

Slow and steady for Cisco: Yep, people still need network gear, and together they'll pay billions of bucks for it

Switchzilla shakes off economic worries, turns tidy profit

14 Feb 02:32 | 3

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Sigfox cracks open IoT radio protocol specs for world+dog (+badgers?)

Low-power ultra-narrowband network for your street, ma'am?

13 Feb 16:45 | 11

Go big (with our bandwidth) or go home, Verizon: Texas mulls outlawing 911 throttling after Cali wildfire fiasco

Public safety versus profit

13 Feb 01:03 | 42

Cisco sues lawyers on its own side – for bigger slice of capacitor price-fixing settlement pie

Class action lawsuit over component sparks legal fight

12 Feb 22:56 | 21

Ivan to be left alone: Russia preps to turn its internet into an intranet if West opens cyber-fire

In Putin's Russia, internet logs off from you

12 Feb 17:05 | 54

Uncle Sam to its friends around the world: You can buy technology the easy way, or the Huawei

US govt State Dept boss Mike Pompeo: We'll shut you out if you're using kit from Chinese maker

12 Feb 00:58 | 62

Never mind that naked selfie scandal... Brazil lights the, er, kindling, dot-Amazon saga roars back into life

UpdatedSeven-year battle could be finally coming to an end

11 Feb 20:56 | 28

Not heard owt bad about Huawei, says EU Commish infosec bod

InterviewBut you'll love our sticker scheme... right?

11 Feb 10:45 | 48

It's OK, everyone – Congress's smart-cookie Republicans have the answer to America's net neutrality quandary

AnalysisIt's something to do with the Mexican border wall

08 Feb 23:27 | 51

good news

High-speed broadband fiber in America: You want the good news or bad news first?

AnalysisArkansas is looking good, Kentucky not so much

08 Feb 22:21 | 32

Installing cables on London Underground

How I got horizontal with a gimp and untangled his cables

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Not a euphemism. I really did this

08 Feb 10:25 | 121

Abellio Greater Anglia Class 153 306 single unit DMU IN Gainsborough heritage line ( by the linkup at Marks Tey in Essex with the Great Eastern Mainline)

Trolling in the Reg's forums... we mean, er, 'working' on the train still rubbish thanks to patchy data coverage

Rail fails to keep up with 4G

07 Feb 13:49 | 45

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Things that make you go .hm... Has a piece of the internet just sunk into the ocean? It appears so

UpdatedIf anyone's seen Ed Sweeney recently, please let us know

06 Feb 22:30 | 49

Huawei pens open letter to UK Parliament: Spying? Nope, we've done nothing wrong

Malicious acts would 'destroy' us, exec insists

06 Feb 16:30 | 38

Viasat: Huzzah, we're going to the EU courts over airline broadband

Brussels court (no, not that one) comes up trumps for US biz

06 Feb 10:01 | 5

Cheap call? Hardly. GSM gateway judicial review to settle whether UK Home Sec can legally push comms watchdog around

Grey area in comms law needs a tad more black and white

05 Feb 11:26 | 35

Grumble Pai: FCC boss told by House Dems to try the novel concept of putting US folks first, big biz second

Snotagram accuses comms regulator chief of being a Useful Ajit for telcos

04 Feb 23:04 | 50

Upcoming report from UK's Huawei handler will blast firm for unresolved security issues

GCHQ limb tight-lipped but we can read between the lines

04 Feb 14:41 | 33

BT's outgoing CEO: He's officially gone, but he'll score £1m in pay, pension until Oct

Unless he gets off the sofa and finds another job beforehand

04 Feb 09:32 | 20

Our vulture listened to four hours of obtuse net neutrality legal blah-blah so you don't have to: Here's what's happening

AnalysisAppeals court hears arguments over whether watchdog was right to tear up protections

02 Feb 01:03 | 47

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Crypto crash leads to inventory pile-up at Nvidia, sales slaughtered

The hit augmented reality smartphone app "Pokemon GO" shows a Pokemon encounter overlain on a real world trail in the forest in Santa Cruz, California. Photo by Matthew Corley for Shutterstock. EDITORIAL USE ONLY!.

Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property

Surface Studio Hands-On

Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight

Hippie peace, image via Shutterstock

After outrage over Chrome ad-block block plan, Google backs away from crippling web advert, content filters

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Brexit-ready BT sits back, watches profit rise in CEO's swansong quarter

That's what happens when you axe the jobs of your nearest and dearest...

31 Jan 12:01 | 10

Qualcomm has perfect 20-20 vision: Chip sales down 20%, shipments down 20%, licensing down 20%...

This is fine, everything's fine, CEO assures analysts on call. Look, we made $1bn in profit!

31 Jan 04:56 | 1

US watchdog legal fight against Qualcomm and pushy chip deals closes with argument over how awful lawyers are

AnalysisFTC calls for end of smartphone modem 'monopoly', Qualy quietly confident of victory

30 Jan 23:52 | 11

The Geo Resolution submarine cable survey ship

Iceland starts planning for new undersea internet cable to Europe

Route to Ireland via UK will be surveyed, says local ministry

30 Jan 12:55 | 29

Parliament photo by Shutterstock

While US fires criminal charges at Huawei, UK tells legislators not to worry, everything's fine

We have 'unparalleled arrangements' don't you know

30 Jan 09:10 | 52

A man shrugs at a laptop with a background of question marks

Plusnet vows to shove a sword in members area 'White Screen Of Death'

Affected customers will be able to view their bills. Rejoice!

29 Jan 17:00 | 22

Meng Wanzhou of Huawei

Fine, we'll do it the Huawei, says Uncle Sam: CFO charged with fraud, faces extradition to US over Iran trade claims

Chinese telco box maker also accused of stealing trade secrets from T-Mobile USA

29 Jan 00:37 | 75

Openreach to heap faster broadband on UK's media-heavy hubs

Good news if you're in London or Salford (or Glasgow or Manchester)

28 Jan 16:17 | 21

Arrcus looks to 400G future, Tonga stuck on satellite connection, and Linux Foundation's new edge computing effort

RoundupPlus more of the week's networking nuggets

28 Jan 09:18 | 2

FCC accused of colluding with Big Cable to game 5G legal challenge

House Commerce committee says it has inside knowledge of dodgy regulator antics

25 Jan 20:56 | 19

UC Berkeley reacts to 'uni Huawei ban' reports: We unplugged, like, one thing no one cares about

Meanwhile, Canada to sign 5G R&D collab with Nokia

25 Jan 11:16 | 23

Digital illustration of an antenna sending signals to a mobile - Illustration

Golly 4G whizz: Vodafone caught using a cheeky bit of Three UK's spectrum

Three: 'A number of customers' would've seen performance choke due to 'error'

25 Jan 09:48 | 22

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Senior UK.gov ministers asked: So, are we going to ban Huawei or what?

All our Five Eyes mates have shown them the door

23 Jan 16:30 | 23

Unidentified people shop at Woolworths Supermarket in Sydney. Woolworths is Australian major grocery store chain in Oz

Remember Woolworths? Well there's a different* one that still exists in Oz. Telstra wants NBN Co to help shove fibre in it

3,000 sites on list

23 Jan 10:33 | 18

France wants in on the No Huawei Club while Canuck infosec bloke pretty insistent on ban

Founder warns that 'mediocre employees' may have to go

22 Jan 11:38 | 46

Lords of the DNS remind admins about Flag Day, Juniper likes Watson and more

RoundupPING, PING, PING … it's your networking roundup for the week

18 Jan 12:04 | 11

At 900k lines of code, ONOS is getting heavy. Can it go on a diet?

Interview'Net greybeard Douglas Comer talks SDN with El Reg

18 Jan 09:52 | 13

Man drives 6,000 miles to prove Uncle Sam's cellphone coverage maps are wrong – and, boy, did he manage it

Amazing how a big cash payout focuses the mind

17 Jan 23:10 | 98

FCC: Oh no, deary me. What a shame. Too bad, so sad we can't do net neutrality appeal during the US govt shutdown

UpdatedNot so fast, there, Ajit...

17 Jan 22:02 | 36

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