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The time that Sales braved the white hot heat of the data centre to save the day

Google Cloud rolls out of bed, slips on suit, draws up premium support, vows to take it SLO to lure enterprises

Remember when Netscout got so upset at 'challenger' label in Gartner Magic Quadrant, it sued? Well, top court just ended all those shenanigans

Load of Big Green for Microsoft: Lloyds Banking Group inks company-wide Managed Desktop deal

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild

'Friendly' hackers are seemingly fixing the Citrix server hole – and leaving a nasty present behind

Stolen creds site WeLeakInfo busted by multinational cop op for data reselling

Get hands on with Kubernetes, service meshes – and more – at our fantastic Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Software engineering performance monitoring: Do your metrics measure up in the modern DevOps age?

Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: First speakers revealed for our tip-top conference on DevOps, CI/CD – and more

Just an FYI: That cool funky CI/CD tool you're installing now could be next year's legacy tech

Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030

Azure consultant's Google image search results hotlinking sueball booted off the pitch by High Court

The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment

This is also a system for GPs, right? UK doctors seek clarity over Health dept's £40m single sign-on funding

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Leaks point to Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with mammoth 108MP camera and ... what? 16GB of RAM

APEX predator? Chinese phone-flinger Vivo teases upcoming concept phone

Geek's Guide

The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9

Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed

Image-rec startup for cops, Feds can probably identify you from 3 billion pics it's scraped from Facebook, YouTube etc

Europe mulls five year ban on facial recognition in public... with loopholes for security and research

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, muaha... Boffins build laser-eyed intelligent cam that sorta sees around corners

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Verity Stob

Who says HMRC hasn't got a sense of humour? Er, 65 million Brits

Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?

World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)

Pomp and ceremony: When the US Secretary of State meets Oracle overlord Larry

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Networks

Remember when Netscout got so upset at 'challenger' label in Gartner Magic Quadrant, it sued? Well, top court just ended all those shenanigans

Connecticut Supremes affirm trial judge's decision to toss 'pay to play' claim

16 Jan 20:23 | 13

Special report Networks

One company on the planet, US-based Afilias, meets the criteria to run Colombia's trendy .co registry – and the DNS world fears a stitch-up

South American nation's government accused of fixing TLD contract amid bitter business war

15 Jan 10:45 | 8

Networks

Problems at Oracle's DynDNS: Domain registration customers transferred at short notice, nameserver records changed

Must have missed Oracle's December memo: 'It is now time that we part ways with this business'

15 Jan 10:00 | 43

Networks

Go on, eat your fibre, new build contractors. It's free! OpenReach lowers limit for free FTTP connections

You may not have plumbing to the premises, but by god you'll have fibre

14 Jan 14:57 | 26

Networks

ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s ███████ and ██████ – you don't need to know any more

AnalysisPurchase funded by debt, includes another ex-ICANNer, will be done through four different companies. All perfectly normal

14 Jan 00:26 | 81

Networks

MI5 gros fromage: Nah, US won't go Huawei from dear old Blighty over 5G, no matter what we do

UK.gov decision to use Chinese biz or not due in a week or two, maybe, perhaps... sort of

13 Jan 16:23 | 52

Networks

As internet pioneers fight to preserve .org’s non-profit status, those in charge are hiding behind dollar signs

CommentICANN, ISOC, PIR and Ethos still refusing to provide details

09 Jan 08:03 | 28

Networks

Cogent cut off from ARIN Whois after scraping net engineers' contact details and sliding them to sales staff

And the techies are almost universally very happy about it

09 Jan 00:40 | 12

Networks

We won't CU later: New Ofcom broadband proposals mull killing off old copper network

Yearly review promises FTTP for rural bods, price check on network wholesaler Openreach

08 Jan 15:45 | 91

Networks

5G signals won't make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster

'Unsubstantiated' ad must never be seen again, growls adland watchdog

08 Jan 13:31 | 124

Networks

Thought 5G marketing was bad? Cable industry sticks with ridiculous 10G branding as another year rolls around

CESWhat started as a joke slowly blends into potential fiber reality

07 Jan 10:59 | 12

Networks

ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases – and guess who's going to pay for it?

CommentSorry, meant to say Verisign contributes to 'security threat' education

07 Jan 10:01 | 23

Networks

A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

Who, Me?When curiosity killed the print job. All the print jobs

06 Jan 08:10 | 159

Networks

It's always DNS, especially when you're on holiday with nothing but a phone on GPRS

On CallThe time a reader found himself in an awful BIND

03 Jan 08:01 | 135

Networks

UK's Virgin Media celebrates the end of 2019 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP*

Connectivity Cluedo: It was the hi-vis, in the building site, with the digger

23 Dec 15:30 | 78

Networks

London's Westminster Council wins appeal against phonebooth-cum-massive-digital-advert

Two less lovely phone booths in the world, and it's going to be fine

19 Dec 12:23 | 56

Networks

FCC proudly wastes $90m getting data-capped, pricey satellite internet to tiny percentage of US population

On the plus side, this saves cable companies the hassle of laying down fiber

18 Dec 22:55 | 40

Networks

IT isn't supposed to stand for Insider Trading... Palo Alto Networks sysadmin and pals accused of $7m shares caper

Techie allegedly fed secret financial info to buddies ahead of public release

18 Dec 02:22 | 11

Networks

Hey, ICANN, if you need good reasons to halt the .org super-sell-off, here are two: Higher fees, more website downtime

You need stability concerns? Here’s some stability concerns, say DNS gurus at Packet Clearing House

17 Dec 23:57 | 28

Networks

Poor, poor mobile networks. UK's comms watchdog plans to stop 'em selling locked-down handsets

First OTT apps nick their SMS revenue, now this...

17 Dec 17:01 | 54

The time that Sales braved the white hot heat of the data centre to save the day

Google Cloud rolls out of bed, slips on suit, draws up premium support, vows to take it SLO to lure enterprises

Remember when Netscout got so upset at 'challenger' label in Gartner Magic Quadrant, it sued? Well, top court just ended all those shenanigans

Load of Big Green for Microsoft: Lloyds Banking Group inks company-wide Managed Desktop deal

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Time to burst out graphing: Get the Windows Insider experience... by taping a calculator to your monitor

Autonomous Logistics Information System gets shoved off the F-35 gravy train in favour of ODIN

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild

'Friendly' hackers are seemingly fixing the Citrix server hole – and leaving a nasty present behind

Stolen creds site WeLeakInfo busted by multinational cop op for data reselling

Get hands on with Kubernetes, service meshes – and more – at our fantastic Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Software engineering performance monitoring: Do your metrics measure up in the modern DevOps age?

Continuous Lifecycle London 2020: First speakers revealed for our tip-top conference on DevOps, CI/CD – and more

Just an FYI: That cool funky CI/CD tool you're installing now could be next year's legacy tech

Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030

Azure consultant's Google image search results hotlinking sueball booted off the pitch by High Court

The $4.3bn trial of the century is over! Now we wait for judgment

This is also a system for GPs, right? UK doctors seek clarity over Health dept's £40m single sign-on funding

EU declares it'll Make USB-C Great Again™. You hear that, Apple?

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Leaks point to Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with mammoth 108MP camera and ... what? 16GB of RAM

APEX predator? Chinese phone-flinger Vivo teases upcoming concept phone

The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

15 years on, Euroboffins finally work out what it took to send the Huygens Titan probe into such a spin

NASA is Boeing to get to the bottom of that Starliner snafu... plus SpaceX preps to blow up a Falcon 9

Geoboffins find the oldest matter on Earth: Ancient stardust created before the Solar System formed

Image-rec startup for cops, Feds can probably identify you from 3 billion pics it's scraped from Facebook, YouTube etc

Europe mulls five year ban on facial recognition in public... with loopholes for security and research

Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide, muaha... Boffins build laser-eyed intelligent cam that sorta sees around corners

The dream of a single European patent may die next month – and everyone is in denial about it

Who says HMRC hasn't got a sense of humour? Er, 65 million Brits

Help! I'm trapped on Schrodinger's runaway train! Or am I..?

World's richest bloke battles Oz catastro-fire with incredible AU$1m donation (aka load of cheap greenwashing)

Pomp and ceremony: When the US Secretary of State meets Oracle overlord Larry

Data Centre > Networks

Remember when Netscout got so upset at 'challenger' label in Gartner Magic Quadrant, it sued? Well, top court just ended all those shenanigans

One company on the planet, US-based Afilias, meets the criteria to run Colombia's trendy .co registry – and the DNS world fears a stitch-up

Problems at Oracle's DynDNS: Domain registration customers transferred at short notice, nameserver records changed

Go on, eat your fibre, new build contractors. It's free! OpenReach lowers limit for free FTTP connections

ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s ███████ and ██████ – you don't need to know any more

MI5 gros fromage: Nah, US won't go Huawei from dear old Blighty over 5G, no matter what we do

As internet pioneers fight to preserve .org’s non-profit status, those in charge are hiding behind dollar signs

Cogent cut off from ARIN Whois after scraping net engineers' contact details and sliding them to sales staff

We won't CU later: New Ofcom broadband proposals mull killing off old copper network

5G signals won't make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster

Thought 5G marketing was bad? Cable industry sticks with ridiculous 10G branding as another year rolls around

ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases – and guess who's going to pay for it?

A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

It's always DNS, especially when you're on holiday with nothing but a phone on GPRS

UK's Virgin Media celebrates the end of 2019 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP*

London's Westminster Council wins appeal against phonebooth-cum-massive-digital-advert

FCC proudly wastes $90m getting data-capped, pricey satellite internet to tiny percentage of US population

IT isn't supposed to stand for Insider Trading... Palo Alto Networks sysadmin and pals accused of $7m shares caper

Hey, ICANN, if you need good reasons to halt the .org super-sell-off, here are two: Higher fees, more website downtime

Poor, poor mobile networks. UK's comms watchdog plans to stop 'em selling locked-down handsets

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ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s ███████ and ██████ – you don't need to know any more

It's a no to ZFS in the Linux kernel from me, says Torvalds, points finger of blame at Oracle licensing

If you haven't shored up that Citrix hole, you were probably hacked over the weekend: Exploit code now available

A fine host for a Raspberry Pi: The Register rakes a talon over the NexDock 2

Google reveals new schedule for 'phasing out support for Chrome Apps across all operating systems'

Are you getting it? Yes, armageddon it: Mass hysteria takes hold as the Windows 7 axe falls

Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

Totally Subcontracted Business: TSB to outsource entire IT estate to IBM for a cool $1bn after 2019 meltdown

Welcome to the 2020s: Booby-trapped Office files, NSA tipping off Windows cert-spoofing bugs, RDP flaws...

Stop us if you've heard it before but... Africa's internet management body mired again by corruption allegations

Canada's .ca supremo in hot water after cyber-smut stash allegedly found on his work Mac ‒ and three IT bods fired

Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

It’s been two years since net neutrality was killed in the US. Let’s celebrate by having another fight over it

With IPv4 space running dry, why are so many organisations still not ready for IPv6?

Ericsson throws $1bn at US authorities to make bribery probe go away

Huawei with your rural subsidies ban: Chinese comms bogeyman fires sueball at US regulator

Just in case you were expecting 10Gbps, Wi-Fi 6 hits 700Mbps in real-world download tests

123-Reg is at it again: Registrar charges chap for domains he didn’t order – and didn't want

Bandwidth weirdness at TalkTalk has customers fuming at being denied on-demand I'm A Celeb