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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

Tune in and watch online today: How to build a content management platform fit for the future

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

Windows 10 Insiders: Begone, foul Store version of Notepad!

Microsoft emits long-term support .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 16.4

Customers in 'standoff' with SAP over 2025 end of support for Business Suite: Who'll blink first?

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

Scammy and spammy harassers are chasing veteran pros off crypto-collab platform Keybase

Feds slap $5m bounty on 'Evil Corp' Russian duo accused of running ZeuS, Dridex banking trojans

How to fool infosec wonks into pinning a cyber attack on China, Russia, Iran, whomever

Oil be damned: Iran-based crooks flinging malware at Middle Eastern energy plants again – research

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Anthos: Google's bid for Kubernetes differentiation ... and market share

Who's got my back(up)? Rival schools Trilio and Portworx battle it out for those Kubernetes bucks

Onestream slammed for 'slamming' vulnerable and elderly folk: That's £35k to Ofcom, please

Staffer representation on our board? LMAO! Good one, cackles Microsoft

Icahn and I will force a Xerox and HP wedding: Corporate raider urges HP shareholders to tell board to act 'NOW'

Take Sajid Javid's comments on IR35 UK contractor rules with a bucket of salt, warns tax guru

Your duckface better be flawless: Huawei's Nova 6 mobe has a needlessly powerful selfie camera

Motorola's mid-range One Hyper packs 64MP cam, huge screen and – ooo – 'Quad Pixel' tech

Escobar Fold 1 snort all it's cracked up to be: Readers finger similarity to slated Chinese mobe

Battery-guzzling 4K hardware clad in an alloy battle jacket: Lenovo's 4th-gen ThinkPad Yoga X1 is its most metal yet

Geek's Guide

We know this sounds weird but in future we could ask fiber optic cables: Did the earth move for you... literally?

We're not trying to be rude here but... there's an ice giant stripping down, emitting gas as it orbits a hot white dwarf

Astronauts brave razor sharp edges and fiddly pipes to bring joy to boffins

Boffins believe it was volcanoes, not just life, that made Earth what it is today – oxygen rich

In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones

Amazon sticks AI inference chip up for rent in the cloud for machine-learning geeks

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

Closing Windows, opening ML and AI-powered coding: Orgy of announcements in marathon AWS keynote

Verity Stob

Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

Emergent Tech

In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones

While supremo predicts mmWave deployments by 2021, everyone moving to the cloud

04 Dec 19:00 | 15

re:Invent Artificial Intelligence

Amazon sticks AI inference chip up for rent in the cloud for machine-learning geeks

AWS subscribers, you can forget GPUs (unless you need to train your models)

04 Dec 09:01 | 1

Artificial Intelligence

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

Garbage in, garbage out

04 Dec 02:45 | 41

re:Invent Emergent Tech

Closing Windows, opening ML and AI-powered coding: Orgy of announcements in marathon AWS keynote

We sat through a three-hour AWS lecture so that you didn't have to

04 Dec 00:19 |

Emergent Tech

We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch...

...nd its nt evevn lunchteim yt

03 Dec 21:56 | 18

Emergent Tech

Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens

Homeland Security also clamping down on H1-B visas

03 Dec 21:26 | 51

Internet of Things

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

ExclusiveFrom 'boy genius' to 'oh boy'

03 Dec 14:37 | 166

Emergent Tech

A little product renaming here, a little RISC-V magic there, some extra performance, and voila – Imagination's 10th-gen PowerVR is born

Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years

03 Dec 01:09 | 12

Artificial Intelligence

Buy Amazon's tiny $99 keyboard so you can make terrible AI music for all your friends

re:InventDeepComposer is certainly no maestro

02 Dec 23:28 | 34

Artificial Intelligence

Explain yourself, mister: Fresh efforts at Google to understand why an AI system says yes or no

Chief scientist reveals why company hasn't released an API for facial recognition

29 Nov 13:25 | 38

Emergent Tech

Why can't passport biometrics see through my cunning disguise?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?You can't leave your hat on

29 Nov 09:15 | 139

Artificial Intelligence

Go champion retires after losing to AI, Richard Nixon deepfake gives a different kind of Moon-landing speech...

RoundupPlus: Chilling details of the AI police state in Xinjiang

28 Nov 08:01 | 67

Emergent Tech

You're drinking morning coffee in 2019. These eggheads are in 2119 landing drones on their arms like robo-falconers

With the help of what looks like vibrating dinner plates

27 Nov 08:03 | 26

Internet of Things

Amazon straightens up its IoT house, complete with virtual Alexa, ahead of Las Vegas shindig

Coffee machines will listen to you if vendors implement it

26 Nov 14:46 | 13

Artificial Intelligence

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: A quirky investigation into why AI does not always work

Book reviewFlaws are 'far beyond merely inconvenient', writes Janelle Shane

26 Nov 09:15 | 62

Emergent Tech

Dead or alive, you're camming with me, says RoboPup: Bomb squad hires Boston Dynamics Spot to snoop on suspects, packages

VidWho's a good cyber-boy? Now, please don't kill anyone

25 Nov 23:54 | 17

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind gets good at games (and choosing them) – plus more bits and bytes from the world of machine learning

RoundupIncluding: AI exercises in Safety Gym

25 Nov 07:05 | 5

Emergent Tech

Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues

'It didn't go through, that's the plus side'

22 Nov 17:10 | 170

Emergent Tech

We(don't)Work: Rent-a-desk outfit cuts 2,400 staff in bid to be a functioning business

About 20% of employees worldwide look for new jobs

21 Nov 20:36 | 50

Artificial Intelligence

We know what you want to write: Google injects more AI into G Suite

Beyond the spill chucker in G Suite docs - and Google Assistant too

21 Nov 16:25 | 8

Artificial Intelligence

You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots

Bettåma than nöthurihag

21 Nov 07:56 | 48

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

Tune in and watch online today: How to build a content management platform fit for the future

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

Windows 10 Insiders: Begone, foul Store version of Notepad!

Microsoft emits long-term support .NET Core 3.1, Visual Studio 16.4

Customers in 'standoff' with SAP over 2025 end of support for Business Suite: Who'll blink first?

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

Scammy and spammy harassers are chasing veteran pros off crypto-collab platform Keybase

Feds slap $5m bounty on 'Evil Corp' Russian duo accused of running ZeuS, Dridex banking trojans

How to fool infosec wonks into pinning a cyber attack on China, Russia, Iran, whomever

Oil be damned: Iran-based crooks flinging malware at Middle Eastern energy plants again – research

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Anthos: Google's bid for Kubernetes differentiation ... and market share

Who's got my back(up)? Rival schools Trilio and Portworx battle it out for those Kubernetes bucks

Onestream slammed for 'slamming' vulnerable and elderly folk: That's £35k to Ofcom, please

Staffer representation on our board? LMAO! Good one, cackles Microsoft

Icahn and I will force a Xerox and HP wedding: Corporate raider urges HP shareholders to tell board to act 'NOW'

Take Sajid Javid's comments on IR35 UK contractor rules with a bucket of salt, warns tax guru

Your duckface better be flawless: Huawei's Nova 6 mobe has a needlessly powerful selfie camera

Motorola's mid-range One Hyper packs 64MP cam, huge screen and – ooo – 'Quad Pixel' tech

Escobar Fold 1 snort all it's cracked up to be: Readers finger similarity to slated Chinese mobe

Battery-guzzling 4K hardware clad in an alloy battle jacket: Lenovo's 4th-gen ThinkPad Yoga X1 is its most metal yet

We know this sounds weird but in future we could ask fiber optic cables: Did the earth move for you... literally?

We're not trying to be rude here but... there's an ice giant stripping down, emitting gas as it orbits a hot white dwarf

Astronauts brave razor sharp edges and fiddly pipes to bring joy to boffins

Boffins believe it was volcanoes, not just life, that made Earth what it is today – oxygen rich

In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones

Amazon sticks AI inference chip up for rent in the cloud for machine-learning geeks

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

Closing Windows, opening ML and AI-powered coding: Orgy of announcements in marathon AWS keynote

Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

Christmas in tatters for Nottinghamshire tots after mayor tells them Santa's too busy

In Rust We Trust: Stob gets behind the latest language craze

Irish eyes aren't smiling after govt blows €1m on mega-printer too big for parliament's doors

Emergent Tech

In a touching tribute to its $800m-ish antitrust fine, Qualcomm tears wraps off Snapdragon 865 chip for 5G phones

Amazon sticks AI inference chip up for rent in the cloud for machine-learning geeks

Is your computer doctor secretly a racist? Two US senators want to find out the truth

Closing Windows, opening ML and AI-powered coding: Orgy of announcements in marathon AWS keynote

We took a shot every time Qualcomm said 5G, AI or mobile gaming in its Snapdragon 865, 765 system-on-chip launch...

Trump Administration fast-tracks compulsory border facial recognition scans for all US citizens

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

A little product renaming here, a little RISC-V magic there, some extra performance, and voila – Imagination's 10th-gen PowerVR is born

Buy Amazon's tiny $99 keyboard so you can make terrible AI music for all your friends

Explain yourself, mister: Fresh efforts at Google to understand why an AI system says yes or no

Why can't passport biometrics see through my cunning disguise?

Go champion retires after losing to AI, Richard Nixon deepfake gives a different kind of Moon-landing speech...

You're drinking morning coffee in 2019. These eggheads are in 2119 landing drones on their arms like robo-falconers

Amazon straightens up its IoT house, complete with virtual Alexa, ahead of Las Vegas shindig

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: A quirky investigation into why AI does not always work

Dead or alive, you're camming with me, says RoboPup: Bomb squad hires Boston Dynamics Spot to snoop on suspects, packages

DeepMind gets good at games (and choosing them) – plus more bits and bytes from the world of machine learning

Absolutely smashing: Musk shows off Tesla's 'bulletproof' low-poly pickup, hilarity ensues

We(don't)Work: Rent-a-desk outfit cuts 2,400 staff in bid to be a functioning business

We know what you want to write: Google injects more AI into G Suite

You wanted flying cars and colony worlds. Instead, IKEA furniture-building-ish AI robots

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Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter

Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks

Since the FCC won't act, Congress finally moves on robocalls by passing half-decent TRACED Act

Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy

Former Oracle product manager says he was forced out for refusing to deceive customers. Now he's suing the biz

Larry leaves, Sergey splits: Google lads hand over Alphabet reins to Sundar Pichai

Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs

Customers in 'standoff' with SAP over 2025 end of support for Business Suite: Who'll blink first?

Escobar Fold 1 snort all it's cracked up to be: Readers finger similarity to slated Chinese mobe

Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot

The Bloodhound Gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record

Rapid-fire Windows 10 builds, Azure on Arm not for the eyes of mortals, and Teams at 10,000ft

Twitter wants help with deepfakes, and Microsoft Azure will rent out new AI chips for its cloud users, and more

Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker

Boffins harnessed the brain power of mice to build AI models that can't be fooled

NASA spanks $34bn on a disposable rocket – likely to top $50bn by 2024 moon landing