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American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum

Switching to edge computing needn't be a gamble. We've got some aces up our sleeves to help you make the move

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs secretly want folk to haggle for broadband

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

Oracle OKs Oracle investors to sue Oracle: Put NetSuite suit before a judge – board panel

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

Devs invited to bake 'Run on Google Cloud' button into git repos... By Google, of course

How Lego, Bayer and iRobot use serverless tech to get ahead – find out with us this autumn

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector

Leaked EU doc plots €100bn fund to protect European firms against international tech giants

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

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My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Got a burning desire for a Hololens 2.0? Microsoft insists its math coprocessor won't be too hot for headgear

Join us at MCubed to find out how machine learning can fight fraudsters, cut pager noise, and much more

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

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Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts

Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant

Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations'

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

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Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Wall Street miffed at flat Q3 earnings as printer boss set to take over in November

22 Aug 23:37 | 8

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Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Repairability score tumbles – good luck swapping that battery

22 Aug 15:00 | 65

Personal Tech

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Google's little-known Auto Update Expiration D-Day leaves users bereft of auto software refreshes and more – here's how to check yours

22 Aug 08:08 | 169

Personal Tech

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

Computing giant labeled 'ungenerous' for fighting lawsuit

21 Aug 22:54 | 42

Personal Tech

A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet

Portable Linux with fully open-source hardware in the CutiePi

21 Aug 16:02 | 46

Personal Tech

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

Mountain of digital detritus 'not sustainable' – survey

21 Aug 10:27 | 115

Personal Tech

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

CommentThief swipes Reg vulture's computer from under his fingers in cafe – here's what happened next

21 Aug 07:02 | 371

Personal Tech

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

Hands onTaking the PC maker's road warrior out on the, er, road

20 Aug 08:08 | 66

Personal Tech

Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

400MHz ought to be enough for anyone?

16 Aug 19:00 | 78

Personal Tech

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

The chaebol tightens its vice-like grip on Europe

14 Aug 14:42 | 10

Personal Tech

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Models recalled for faulty batts banned from air over fire risk

14 Aug 13:43 | 32

Personal Tech

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

UpdatedYou've got until Dec 15 to panic buy gear before 10% rise hits

13 Aug 19:57 | 61

Personal Tech

Researchers peer into crystal ball to see future where everyone's ID is tied to their smartphone

Big Brother rang...

13 Aug 09:02 | 83

Personal Tech

Hey dudes, we need to start living together in Harmony: Huawei puffs up new distributed OS

Not quite an Android replacement then?

09 Aug 15:23 | 65

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Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

UpdatedYour wondrous Amazon smart speaker may be tainted with the paw prints of child labour

09 Aug 11:35 | 97

Personal Tech

Ohm my God: If you let anyone other than Apple replace your recent iPhone's battery, expect to be nagged by iOS

Shocking current-affairs news: Cupertino idiot-tax operation hits resistance over harsh repair policy

08 Aug 23:04 | 172

Personal Tech

Chap uncovers privilege escalation vuln in Steam only to be told by Valve that bug 'not applicable'

Exploit allows any app to run with full local admin rights on Windows

08 Aug 16:10 | 37

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Top 5 greatest anime crossovers: Samsung deploys Microsoft at Note 10 hootenanny

No headphone jack, a 5G model and a whole lotta dollars

08 Aug 12:30 | 34

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Brit couch potatoes increasingly switching off telly boxes in favour of YouTube and Netflix

But still care about catching bent cops

07 Aug 12:44 | 99

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Side-splitting bulging batts, borked Wi-Fi... So, how's that Surface slab working out for you?

Reg reader finds a use for the new London store while others struggle with fubar wireless

07 Aug 06:48 | 58

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Lyft pulls its e-bike fleet from San Francisco Bay Area after exploding batteries make them the hottest seat in town

Super Cali 'leccy bikes are proving quite atrocious, even though the biz insists they really quite precocious

01 Aug 19:23 | 84

American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum

Switching to edge computing needn't be a gamble. We've got some aces up our sleeves to help you make the move

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs secretly want folk to haggle for broadband

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

Oracle OKs Oracle investors to sue Oracle: Put NetSuite suit before a judge – board panel

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

Devs invited to bake 'Run on Google Cloud' button into git repos... By Google, of course

How Lego, Bayer and iRobot use serverless tech to get ahead – find out with us this autumn

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector

Leaked EU doc plots €100bn fund to protect European firms against international tech giants

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Got a burning desire for a Hololens 2.0? Microsoft insists its math coprocessor won't be too hot for headgear

Join us at MCubed to find out how machine learning can fight fraudsters, cut pager noise, and much more

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts

Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant

Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations'

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

Personal Tech

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

A challenger appears: Taiwanese devs' answer to Gemini PDA wraps a Raspberry Pi in a tablet

Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled

My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws

Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

Researchers peer into crystal ball to see future where everyone's ID is tied to their smartphone

Hey dudes, we need to start living together in Harmony: Huawei puffs up new distributed OS

Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

Ohm my God: If you let anyone other than Apple replace your recent iPhone's battery, expect to be nagged by iOS

Chap uncovers privilege escalation vuln in Steam only to be told by Valve that bug 'not applicable'

Top 5 greatest anime crossovers: Samsung deploys Microsoft at Note 10 hootenanny

Brit couch potatoes increasingly switching off telly boxes in favour of YouTube and Netflix

Side-splitting bulging batts, borked Wi-Fi... So, how's that Surface slab working out for you?

Lyft pulls its e-bike fleet from San Francisco Bay Area after exploding batteries make them the hottest seat in town

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My MacBook Woe: I got up close and personal with city's snatch'n'dash crooks (aka some bastard stole my laptop)

Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

It will never be safe to turn off your computer: Prankster harnesses the power of Windows 95 to torment fellow students

You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers

And we're back live with the state of the smartphone market in 2019. Any hope? Yeah, nah

US gives Chinese smuggler 37 months in the slammer for selling knock-off Apple kit

Microsoft snubs Hololens loyalists by already ending feature updates – even though version 2 isn't out yet

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

OK, Google. We've got just the gesture for you: Hand-tracking Project Soli coming to Pixel 4

Spri-Mobile? T-Print? Time to think of a nickname: The Sprint/T-Mobile US merger is go

If at first you don't succeed, Fold? Nope. Samsung redesigns bendy screen for fresh launch in September

Privacy? Watchdogs? Fines? Whatever, nerds, more people than ever are using Facebook and filling its deep coffers

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

The pro-privacy Browser Act has re-appeared in US Congress. But why does everyone except right-wing trolls hate it?

Li-ion battery 'price-fixing' case settled with bonus fury over lawyers pocketing eight-figures

2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand

Brit consumers still holding off on buying new PCs until that Brexit thing is over and done with

Google nuked tech support ads to kill off scammers. OK. It also blew away legit repair shops. Not OK at all