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Conspiracy loons claim victory in Brighton and Hove as council rejects plans to build 5G masts

UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer

Her Majesty opens UK Parliament with fantastic tales of gigabit-capable broadband for everyone

'Technical error' threatens Vodafone customers with four-figure roaming fees

Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week

Google unplugs AMP, hooks it into OpenJS Foundation after critics turn up the volume

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

Apple insists it's totally not doing that thing it wasn't accused of: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent – just people's IP addresses

Pitney Bowes: Can we be frank? Ransomware has borked our dead-tree post systems

Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Getronics CEO on HMRC winding-up petition: An 'embarrassing' blip with cash in the wrong places

John Lennon says hello. Hello, hello... as Cancom buys Novosco for £70m

Swiss wheeze: Microsoft reseller titan SoftwareONE plots IPO on Zurich exchange

Private equity to gobble up Brit virus blocker Sophos for £3bn

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

Geek's Guide

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

YouTube thinkfluencer Siraj Raval admits he plagiarized boffins' neural qubit papers – as ESA axes his workshop

Verity Stob

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

Emergent Tech

Internet of Things

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Behold the Samsung Family Hu- oh, bugger

15 Oct 08:06 | 68

Emergent Tech

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

PromoJoin us at a Nuance-powered morning briefing to discuss modern workflows

15 Oct 06:00 |

Artificial Intelligence

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

Let us put it this way: One of your parental units is somewhat obese and has been rather amorous towards me

15 Oct 00:53 | 23

Emergent Tech

YouTube thinkfluencer Siraj Raval admits he plagiarized boffins' neural qubit papers – as ESA axes his workshop

Oops I did it again. And by it, we mean, ripped people off

14 Oct 22:37 | 17

Artificial Intelligence

Robocop needs reboot, $200m for AI research, UK govt knowingly deployed racist passport system – plus more

RoundupRead the latest in the amusing world of AI

14 Oct 06:04 | 38

Emergent Tech

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

UpdatedZuck-bucks dead in the water as payment giants snub currency tech

11 Oct 21:38 | 138

Artificial Intelligence

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Tweets written in African-American English slang more likely to be considered offensive

11 Oct 11:00 | 155

Internet of Things

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

Geoblocking, weaponisation and more in Parliamentary committee's sights

11 Oct 08:10 | 142

Artificial Intelligence

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do

10 Oct 10:30 | 41

Internet of Things

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

Delicate thing doesn't like turbulence, apparently

09 Oct 14:12 | 37

Artificial Intelligence

Uncle Sam punishes China for abusing Uyghur Muslims – by blacklisting top AI surveillance companies

It will also restrict visas to Communist Party officials, too

09 Oct 07:02 | 29

Emergent Tech

Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance

TechConRISC-V, accelerator pressure leads to customizable Armv8-M instructions

08 Oct 17:00 | 40

Artificial Intelligence

Online deepfakes double in just nine months, scaring politicians – and fooling the rest of us

Surprise, surprise, a whopping 96 per cent of them are X-rated

08 Oct 09:15 | 48

Artificial Intelligence

Google causes more facial-recog pain, machine learning goes quantum – and how to lose a job if an AI doesn't like your face

RoundupAlso, TensorFlow 2.0 is finally out, and more

06 Oct 12:17 | 42

Emergent Tech

Tetraplegic patient can now move his four limbs with the help of a badass neuroprosthetic suit

Also Brown University and Intel also want to develop an AI brain-machine interface too

04 Oct 23:06 | 34

Emergent Tech

How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough

UpdatedPixel 4 facial recognition tests go beyond the pale

03 Oct 20:51 | 20

Emergent Tech

The Reg strokes a talon across the HoloLens 2 and Surface Hub 2S

Future DecodedWe had a tinkle on the virtual ivories

02 Oct 13:24 | 2

Artificial Intelligence

Astronaut Tim Peake reminds everyone about the time Excel mangled his contact list on stage at Microsoft AI event

Future DecodedTeamwork, collaboration and not a lot of Windows

02 Oct 11:28 | 70

Artificial Intelligence

This won't end well. Microsoft's AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles

UpdatedPlease no, we don't need a machine-learning troll farm

02 Oct 06:08 | 114

Emergent Tech

Spin doctors: UPS gets permission to expand drone delivery fleet in the US

Close the window and put back the fishing net, it's only for hospitals right now

01 Oct 23:52 | 20

Emergent Tech

Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry

Vitis toolkit for the rest of us, coming soon, allegedly

01 Oct 16:00 | 20

Conspiracy loons claim victory in Brighton and Hove as council rejects plans to build 5G masts

UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer

Her Majesty opens UK Parliament with fantastic tales of gigabit-capable broadband for everyone

'Technical error' threatens Vodafone customers with four-figure roaming fees

Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week

Google unplugs AMP, hooks it into OpenJS Foundation after critics turn up the volume

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

Apple insists it's totally not doing that thing it wasn't accused of: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent – just people's IP addresses

Pitney Bowes: Can we be frank? Ransomware has borked our dead-tree post systems

Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Getronics CEO on HMRC winding-up petition: An 'embarrassing' blip with cash in the wrong places

John Lennon says hello. Hello, hello... as Cancom buys Novosco for £70m

Swiss wheeze: Microsoft reseller titan SoftwareONE plots IPO on Zurich exchange

Private equity to gobble up Brit virus blocker Sophos for £3bn

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

RIP: First space-walk badass Alexei Leonov, who made it to 85 despite best efforts of Soviet machine

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

YouTube thinkfluencer Siraj Raval admits he plagiarized boffins' neural qubit papers – as ESA axes his workshop

How do we stop filling the oceans with Lego? By being a BaaS-tard, toy maker suggests

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

Emergent Tech

Welcome to the World Of Tomorrow, where fridges suffer certificate errors. Just like everything else

Does voice-controlled tech have a place in business? Talk it over with El Reg and fellow IT pros at breakfast

What the &*%* did you just $#*&!*# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

YouTube thinkfluencer Siraj Raval admits he plagiarized boffins' neural qubit papers – as ESA axes his workshop

Robocop needs reboot, $200m for AI research, UK govt knowingly deployed racist passport system – plus more

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

Second MoD Airbus Zephyr spy drone crashes on Aussie test flight

Uncle Sam punishes China for abusing Uyghur Muslims – by blacklisting top AI surveillance companies

Talk about a calculated RISC: If you think you can do a better job than Arm at designing CPUs, now's your chance

Online deepfakes double in just nine months, scaring politicians – and fooling the rest of us

Google causes more facial-recog pain, machine learning goes quantum ­– and how to lose a job if an AI doesn't like your face

Tetraplegic patient can now move his four limbs with the help of a badass neuroprosthetic suit

How much is your face worth? Google thinks a $5 Starbucks gift card should be good enough

The Reg strokes a talon across the HoloLens 2 and Surface Hub 2S

Astronaut Tim Peake reminds everyone about the time Excel mangled his contact list on stage at Microsoft AI event

This won't end well. Microsoft's AI boffins unleash a bot that can generate fake comments for news articles

Spin doctors: UPS gets permission to expand drone delivery fleet in the US

Hate Verilog? Detest VHDL? You're not the only one. Xilinx rolls out easier-to-use free FPGA programming tools after developer outcry

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Apple insists it's totally not doing that thing it wasn't accused of: We're not handing over Safari URLs to Tencent – just people's IP addresses

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame

Tearoff of Nottingham: University to lose chunk of IT dept to outsourcing

Imperva cloud firewall pwned, D-Link bug uncovered – plus more

Sudo? More like Su-doh: There's a fun bug that gives restricted sudoers root access (if your config is non-standard)

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

'Technical error' threatens Vodafone customers with four-figure roaming fees

Chemists bitten by Python scripts: How different OSes produced different results during test number-crunching

Chinese sleazeball's 17-year game of hide-and-seek ends after drone finds him on mountain

In 21st-century tech dystopia, smart TV watches you, warns Princeton privacy prof

Why build your own cancer-sniffing neural network when this 1.3 exaflop supercomputer can do if for you?

Computer says no: An expression-analysing AI has been picking out job candidates for Unilever

Facial recognition at festivals, stupid shoplifting algorithms, Google shares data to kill off deepfakes

Take your machine-learning workloads to the edge? Yes, says Intel

Amazon, maker of racist and sexist facial recog, to suggest regulations for facial recog systems

Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

YouTuber charged loads of fans $199 for shoddy machine-learning course that copy-pasted other people's GitHub code

Reach out and touch fake: Hand tracking in VR? How about your own, personal, haptics?

Oh cool, Alibaba's first home-grown AI chip. Oh wait, it's only for its own cloud servers... for now

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

What the &% did you just $#&!# say about me, you little &%$#*? 'AI' to filter Xbox Live chat

Google causes more facial-recog pain, machine learning goes quantum – and how to lose a job if an AI doesn't like your face