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UK to Chinese firm: From 5G in Tiree to the Isles of Ebony, carry me on the waves… Sail Huawei, sail Huawei, sail Huawei

'No BS' web host Gandi emits outage postmortem, has 'only theories' on what went wrong

Finally, a technology angle on the coronavirus outbreak: Semiconductor biz stocks slip amid China supply chain fears

Low code? Low usage, more like: Add G Suite's App Maker to the Google graveyard, it's switching off next year

Among waves, blisters and sleep deprivation, rowing duo add Microsoft's Teams to list of transatlantic ordeals

Like its Windows-noob-stabilisers OS, Zorin's cloudy Grid tool is Linux desktop management for idiots

'Trust no one' is good enough for the X Files but not for software devs: How do you use third-party libs and stay secure, experts mull on stage

Microsoft: 14 January patch was the last for Windows 7. Also Microsoft: Actually...

IoT security? We've heard of it, says UK.gov waving new regs

The duke of URL: Zoom meetups' info leaked out through eavesdrop hole

NetWars! Let the SANS Tournaments commence: Compete and learn all about forensics, incident response, red teaming – and much more

Remember the Clipper chip? NSA's botched backdoor-for-Feds from 1993 still influences today's encryption debates

Atlassian anticipates $1.6bn total revenue for fiscal 2020 as subscriptions make it rain

Jenkins creator steps back from CloudBees and flings himself at startup Launchable

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?

Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales

InLinkUK collapse: Ad market, planning woes, £20m debt and drug dealers using booths to blame, say admins

It's good to talk: Union says IBM failed to consult system support techies as Scottish Power contract nears end

Clunk, whirr, buzz, whine. Shared office space can be a riot and sounds like one too

Ever wondered what Microsoft really thought about the iPad? Ex-Windows boss spills beans

I/O, I/O, new Android soon on show: What's coming up at Google's dev conference

Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

Geek's Guide

Over the Moon? Not quite: NASA boss has a good whinge about 'counterproductive' Authorization Bill

Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints

Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power

Virtual reality is a bonkers fad that no one takes seriously but anyway, here's someone to tell us to worry about hackers

Little grouse on the prairie: IBM's AI facial-recognition training dataset gets it in trouble... in Illinois

Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

Verity Stob

Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please

AI 'more profound than fire', Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai tells rich folks' talking shop

It's a jungle out there when it comes to conservation tech – but there's a cloud for that

Beer necessities: US chap registers bevvy as emotional support animal so he can booze on public transport

Emergent Tech

Enigma Emergent Tech

Virtual reality is a bonkers fad that no one takes seriously but anyway, here's someone to tell us to worry about hackers

If printers and nuclear reactors on the internet are fair game, so's the gizmo on your face, we'll concede

28 Jan 06:09 | 25

Artificial Intelligence

Little grouse on the prairie: IBM's AI facial-recognition training dataset gets it in trouble... in Illinois

Photo subjects fling class-action sueball

27 Jan 13:19 | 14

Roundup Artificial Intelligence

Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics

Also, the most detailed brain map yet took 12 years, $40m to build

26 Jan 18:02 | 21

Internet of Things

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

Punters can still run old and new gear on same network, for now

24 Jan 16:18 | 57

Emergent Tech

This episode of Black Mirror sucks: London cops boast that facial-recog creepycams will be on the streets this year

In depthHere's what Met top brass told the press this morning

24 Jan 14:56 | 85

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+

'These models should not go into clinical practice at all,' academic tells El Reg

24 Jan 06:03 | 18

Artificial Intelligence

If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline

Open-source distributed system teaches bots to find their way without a map, just cam, GPS, compass

23 Jan 11:16 | 16

Artificial Intelligence

Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

Well, AWS hopes you will because they're doing AI/ML/etc for it

23 Jan 09:15 | 33

Emergent Tech

SAP co-CEO: I'm leavin' on a jet plane... Davos knows that I'll be back again...Oh babe, I hate to go (back to work)

High flying exec joins 'leccy car-driver co-boss in Switzerland

22 Jan 19:27 | 13

Artificial Intelligence

A-high: Prototype drug squad bot to patrol Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc for dodgy ads for opiods

Not for surveillance, honest

22 Jan 10:00 | 19

Internet of Things

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

UpdatedPlanned obsolescence strikes again

21 Jan 20:53 | 274

Artificial Intelligence

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

Special reportPet adoption ML coder apologizes and says desire to be ranked #1 'compromised my judgement'

21 Jan 09:24 | 101

Artificial Intelligence

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

RoundupPlus other 'fun' news from the world of AI

20 Jan 07:08 | 50

Artificial Intelligence

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

Euro Commission also wants to loosen purse strings for AI investment while tightening reins

17 Jan 21:29 | 42

Artificial Intelligence

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

Guess we can't escape our future Terminator overlords

17 Jan 06:01 | 23

Emergent Tech

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

UpdatedGerman Constitutional Court is much more dangerous than people think

16 Jan 10:57 | 51

Artificial Intelligence

Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech

VidMost-accurate algorithms showed 'little to no bias', so nothing to fear, eh?

16 Jan 03:14 | 10

Internet of Things

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

Surely only a matter of time before the Matrix has you?

15 Jan 11:30 | 30

Emergent Tech

UC Berkeley told to cough up $5m in compensation to comp-sci, engineering students recruited to teach classes

UpdatedUndergrads hired to tutor juniors due to 'rapidly increasing enrollment' – for too little in return

15 Jan 03:49 | 23

Artificial Intelligence

AI of the needle: Here's how neural networks could detect nighttime low blood-sugar levels using your heart beat

Any one thought about actually testing this on diabetics? Er, no?

14 Jan 08:06 | 44

UK to Chinese firm: From 5G in Tiree to the Isles of Ebony, carry me on the waves… Sail Huawei, sail Huawei, sail Huawei

'No BS' web host Gandi emits outage postmortem, has 'only theories' on what went wrong

Finally, a technology angle on the coronavirus outbreak: Semiconductor biz stocks slip amid China supply chain fears

Low code? Low usage, more like: Add G Suite's App Maker to the Google graveyard, it's switching off next year

Among waves, blisters and sleep deprivation, rowing duo add Microsoft's Teams to list of transatlantic ordeals

Like its Windows-noob-stabilisers OS, Zorin's cloudy Grid tool is Linux desktop management for idiots

'Trust no one' is good enough for the X Files but not for software devs: How do you use third-party libs and stay secure, experts mull on stage

Microsoft: 14 January patch was the last for Windows 7. Also Microsoft: Actually...

IoT security? We've heard of it, says UK.gov waving new regs

The duke of URL: Zoom meetups' info leaked out through eavesdrop hole

NetWars! Let the SANS Tournaments commence: Compete and learn all about forensics, incident response, red teaming – and much more

Remember the Clipper chip? NSA's botched backdoor-for-Feds from 1993 still influences today's encryption debates

Atlassian anticipates $1.6bn total revenue for fiscal 2020 as subscriptions make it rain

Jenkins creator steps back from CloudBees and flings himself at startup Launchable

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?

Accounting expert told judge Autonomy was wrong not to disclose hardware sales

InLinkUK collapse: Ad market, planning woes, £20m debt and drug dealers using booths to blame, say admins

It's good to talk: Union says IBM failed to consult system support techies as Scottish Power contract nears end

Clunk, whirr, buzz, whine. Shared office space can be a riot and sounds like one too

Ever wondered what Microsoft really thought about the iPad? Ex-Windows boss spills beans

I/O, I/O, new Android soon on show: What's coming up at Google's dev conference

Everyone loves our new desktop web search design so much – the one with ads that look like links – that we're tweaking it, says Google

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

Over the Moon? Not quite: NASA boss has a good whinge about 'counterproductive' Authorization Bill

Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints

Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power

Virtual reality is a bonkers fad that no one takes seriously but anyway, here's someone to tell us to worry about hackers

Little grouse on the prairie: IBM's AI facial-recognition training dataset gets it in trouble... in Illinois

Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

Verity Stob is 'Disgusted of HG Wells': Time, gentlemen, please

AI 'more profound than fire', Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai tells rich folks' talking shop

It's a jungle out there when it comes to conservation tech – but there's a cloud for that

Beer necessities: US chap registers bevvy as emotional support animal so he can booze on public transport

Emergent Tech

Virtual reality is a bonkers fad that no one takes seriously but anyway, here's someone to tell us to worry about hackers

Little grouse on the prairie: IBM's AI facial-recognition training dataset gets it in trouble... in Illinois

Mysterious face-recog AI startup Clearview sued, capabilities questioned after scraping billions of web pics

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

This episode of Black Mirror sucks: London cops boast that facial-recog creepycams will be on the streets this year

Amazing peer-reviewed AI bots that predict premature births were too good to be true: Flawed testing bumped accuracy from 50% to 90%+

If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline

Rugby legend Will Carling tells El Reg: Techie stats bods will love this year's Six Nations

SAP co-CEO: I'm leavin' on a jet plane... Davos knows that I'll be back again...Oh babe, I hate to go (back to work)

A-high: Prototype drug squad bot to patrol Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc for dodgy ads for opiods

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

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

Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

UC Berkeley told to cough up $5m in compensation to comp-sci, engineering students recruited to teach classes

AI of the needle: Here's how neural networks could detect nighttime low blood-sugar levels using your heart beat

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In deepest darkest Surrey, an on-prem SAP system running 17-year-old software is about to die....

Take DOS, stir in some Netware, add a bit of Windows and... it's ALIIIIVE!

What is WebAssembly? And can you really compile C/C++ to it? And it'll run in browsers? Allow us to explain in this gentle introduction

Microsoft: 14 January patch was the last for Windows 7. Also Microsoft: Actually...

Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power

Windows takes a tumble in the land of the Big Mac and Bacon Double Cheeseburger

Maryland: Make malware possession a crime! Yes, yes, researchers get a free pass

German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry

Remember that 2024 Moon thing? How about Mars in 2033? Authorization bill moots 2028 for more lunar footprints

Google halts paid-for Chrome extension updates amid fraud surge: Web Store in lockdown 'due to the scale of abuse'

Microsoft wields ML to catch child predators, city drops 7-year facial-recognition experiment after no arrests...

Flying taxis? That'll be AFTER you've launched light sabres and anti-gravity skateboards

OpenAI's GPT-2 secret life as a pawn star: Boffins discover talkative machine-learning model can play chess

Google and IBM square off in Schrodinger’s catfight over quantum supremacy

Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage

Eggheads have crunched the numbers and the results are in: It's not just your dignity you lose with e-scooters, life and limb are in peril, too

RISC-V business: SiFive and CEVA join forces to enable the development AI-amenable, edge-oriented processors

Facebook to ban deepfake videos in posts and ads, sort of: Vids must be believable, made by AI, and not be parody

Finally, a good use for AI: Machine-learning tool guesstimates how well your code will run on a CPU core

Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out 'privacy dashboard' for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat

I spy, with my little satellite AI, something beginning with 'North American image-analysis code embargo'

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