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Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos

Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud

Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

Server-side Swift's slow support story sours some: Apple lang tailored for mobile CPUs, lacking in Linux world

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message

No backdoors needed: Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups after heavy pressure from FBI – claim

WTF, EFS? Experts warn Windows encryption could spawn nasty new ransomware

Leave your admin interface's TLS cert and private key in your router firmware in 2020? Just Netgear things

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

Dixons Carphone to London Stock Exchange: Yay, we grew 2% in the festive quarter. Oh, hang on, no we didn't

New SAP co-CEO 'runs simple' to Davos in Mercedes hydrogen car

EU've been naughty: GDPR has netted bloc €114m in fines since 2018

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

Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartner

Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year

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

Geek's Guide

SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats

Fly me to the M(O₂)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis

World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave

Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job

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

Verity Stob

US court rules: Just because you can extract teeth while riding a hoverboard doesn't mean you should

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)

Data Centre > Networks

Networks

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

Deal will crank telco's reach up to 8 million premises in UK

21 Jan 18:41 | 1

Networks

South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos

Nastygram to DNS overseer follows long, flawed and drawn-out process

21 Jan 16:07 | 29

Networks

Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud

UK internet costs shamed by European colleagues, but at least it's not Eritrea

21 Jan 10:20 | 32

Analysis Networks

Let’s check in on the .org sale fiasco: Senators say No, internet grandees say Yes – and ICANN pretends there's absolutely nothing to see here

'Ethos Capital, ISOC, and PIR have failed to provide clear and transparent information'

21 Jan 01:13 | 36

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 | 14

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

Special reportSouth 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 | 84

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

Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos

Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud

Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

Server-side Swift's slow support story sours some: Apple lang tailored for mobile CPUs, lacking in Linux world

Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message

No backdoors needed: Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups after heavy pressure from FBI – claim

WTF, EFS? Experts warn Windows encryption could spawn nasty new ransomware

Leave your admin interface's TLS cert and private key in your router firmware in 2020? Just Netgear things

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

Dixons Carphone to London Stock Exchange: Yay, we grew 2% in the festive quarter. Oh, hang on, no we didn't

New SAP co-CEO 'runs simple' to Davos in Mercedes hydrogen car

EU've been naughty: GDPR has netted bloc €114m in fines since 2018

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

Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartner

Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year

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

SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats

Fly me to the M(O2)n: Euro scientists extract oxygen from 'lunar dust' by cooking it with molten salt electrolysis

World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave

Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code – and was fired from dream SV job

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

US court rules: Just because you can extract teeth while riding a hoverboard doesn't mean you should

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)

Data Centre > Networks

CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow

South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos

Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud

Let’s check in on the .org sale fiasco: Senators say No, internet grandees say Yes – and ICANN pretends there's absolutely nothing to see here

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

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LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them

Hospital hacker spared prison after plod find almost 9,000 cardiac images at his home

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

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