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Server at web host 1&1 Ionos decides to take unscheduled day off, sinks a bunch of sites

Huawei thanks US for 'raising 5G awareness' by banning firm's wares

Cisco whispers the three little words to really get an ASR 9000 net admin's blood pumping: Remote unauthenticated access

China Mobile, you can kiss good Pai to America: FCC to ban 'spy risk' telco from US

Disco Dingo fever: Ubuntu 19.04 has an infrastructure bent, snappier GNOME and another stupid name

Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

App-y now? UK health secretary spammed with pics of flowers that look like ladies' private parts

Google hits brand slam stamping AMP with more crypto glam

Insane in the domain: Sea Turtle hackers pwn DNS orgs to dash web surfers on the rocks of phishing pages

Enough about me, why do you hate Kaspersky so much? Revealed: Insp Clouseau-esque bid to smear critics as shills

Cyber-sec biz Fortinet coughs up $545,000 after 'flogging' rebadged Chinese kit to Uncle Sam – but why so low? We may be able to explain

We can help you get on top of DevOps, CI/CD and containers, all in one month's time...

What exactly is everyone doing with DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless?

Chaos? We’ll show you how to make it work for your software org

Containers, Kubernetes? Yep, we’ve got that covered

Yes, I may have advised 'some' investors to flog their Autonomy shares, analyst tells High Court

Supreme Court of UK gives Morrisons the go-ahead for mega data leak liability appeal

Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

Loose Women woman's IR35 win deals another high-profile blow to UK taxman's grip on rules

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age

Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie

Google readies Pixel for the masses, but are the masses ready for Pixel?

Geek's Guide

Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans)

Three planets and two stars adds up to one research team made very happy by Kepler's unique discovery

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Last week in space: Giant aircraft, asteroid impacts and exploding satellites

Microsoft president: We said no to Cali cops' face-recog tech – and we won't craft killer robots

We know you all want to shove AI where the sun doesn't shine. And that's exactly where it's going – detecting prostate cancer

A flash of inspiration: How to make artificial intelligence work for you

OpenAI retires its Dota-2 playing bots after crushing e-sport pros one last time

Verity Stob

So how'd this go again... A sea goddess told you in a dream to run for president of Taiwan? OK, Mr Foxconn boss

Ozzy app maker cancels hump day: We've tripled profits! scream slackers

I've had it with these mother-fscking slaps on this mother-fscking plane: Flight fight sparks legal brouhaha over mid-air co-ords

Kent bloke incurs the anchor of local council after fly-tipping boat

Personal Tech

Samsung Galaxy Fold launch PR handout

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Breaking news: Hacks hacked off by Galaxy Fold fail (at least the mobes haven't caught fire)

18 Apr 06:04 | 71

smut identity poster

Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age

You have three months left of unfettered self-love to enjoy

17 Apr 13:55 | 118

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Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie

CommentDeadline for 5G kit was perilously close

17 Apr 13:02 | 47

Google readies Pixel for the masses, but are the masses ready for Pixel?

CommentScaling buggy hardware is easier than scaling software

17 Apr 08:03 | 48

That's the way the Cook, he crumbles: Apple, Qualcomm settle patent nuclear war – as Intel quits 5G phone race

UpdatediThings flogger, chip-licensing biz put differences aside, agree multi-year modem supply deal

16 Apr 21:01 | 26

Hey, remember that California privacy law? Big Tech is trying to ram a massive hole in it

AnalysisAmendment would exempt, um, Google and Facebook

16 Apr 20:30 | 36

iOS 13 leaks suggest Apple is finally about to unleash the iPad as a computer for grownups

Once you've wiped the progeny's paw prints from it

16 Apr 11:06 | 108

Facebook is not going to Like this: Brit watchdog proposes crackdown on hoovering up kids' info

AnalysisIn the UK, it seems, someone is trying to think of the children

15 Apr 22:58 | 43

Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree

Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection

15 Apr 19:11 | 56

Friends look shocked watching TV. photo by Shutterstock

You're not our FRAND any more, Apple tells Qualcomm: iGiant and pals lob $30bn sueball

Juiciest mobile IP case since Apple battled Samsung over ownership of geometric shapes

15 Apr 18:01 | 24

Galaxy A80

Samsung's tricksy midrange teasers want your flagship catch

AnalysisGetting serious at last

11 Apr 15:45 | 23

hole

Intel shortages, weak-ass consumer spending, 'peak' Win10 refresh. No, global PC market didn't grow in Q1

Down in EMEA, US, Latin America, APAC. Aw bless... Top 3 vendors profited from small fry's pain, though

11 Apr 10:25 | 21

Lei Jun

Xiaomi 'rewards' CEO and founder with £736m worth of B-class shares

Almost as much as 4th biggest mobe maker made in 2018

10 Apr 19:00 | 4

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Menu mischief and interface deceit targeted by US lawmakers

A bipartisan bill offers rules against dark patterns

10 Apr 01:26 | 17

Apple disables iPad for 48 years after toddler runs amok

Three-year-old will have own kid disable it in 2067

09 Apr 22:39 | 164

Gartner squints into its crystal ball: A pholdable phuture is very far away

And they won't save the tanking device market in 2019

08 Apr 09:15 | 19

Huawei P30 Pro: Nifty camera tricks haven't made mobe mandatory over last year's model

ReviewIt's a good, nearly great phone. But then so is the Mate 20 Pro

08 Apr 08:10 | 38

Get the smell out of here! Gaming tournament bans players who raise a literal stink

YuGiOh takes brave stance of requesting basic hygiene in competitions

05 Apr 21:50 | 22

Want to hang out with criminals but can't be bothered to download Tor? Try Facebook

Network that can't control ads or content turns out to have trouble with illegal activity

05 Apr 21:01 | 34

All's fair in love and war when tech treats you like an infant

Something for the Weekend, Sir?No way you're never gonna shake me... Ooh darlin' cause you'll always be my baby

05 Apr 09:21 | 175

Facebook ad platform discriminates all on its own, say boffins

Bigots, racists and haters rejoice! You are going to get bias out of the box

04 Apr 21:51 | 49

MOST READ

Dundee Antenna

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Kaye Adams seen at the ITV studios on May 20, 2015

Loose Women woman's IR35 win deals another high-profile blow to UK taxman's grip on rules

Java, photo via Shutterstock

Oracle splats 300 vulns in MySQL, Database, Fusion, etc, pours fresh brew of Java SE terms

White, Gray and Blacklist

The curious case of Spamhaus, a port scanning scandal, and an apparent U-turn

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iFixit surgeons tut at iPad mini 5 X-ray: Looks like a mild case of pain-in-the-arse-to-repair

Screwdriver-botherers put the hurt on Apple's little tablet

03 Apr 10:52 | 15

Bit nippy, is it? Hive smart home users find themselves tweaking thermostat BY HAND

Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate

02 Apr 11:59 | 114

Good news, Man City fans: You can watch your team lose the title in on-demand 3D

Intel CapitalAnd from all different angles you want

02 Apr 05:58 | 19

Huawei P30 Series

Only one Huawei? We pitted the P30 Pro against Samsung and Apple's best – and this is what we found

Special Imaging ReportStunt photo sensation fails everyday people

01 Apr 10:15 | 138

Apple's cancelled AirPower mat

Apple redesigns wireless AirPower charger to be world's smallest, thinnest, lightest, cheapest, invisible... OK, it doesn't exist anymore

Gizmo axed because it wasn't good enough, ran too hot

30 Mar 00:14 | 89

Guy with tape across his mouth

Lip-reading smart speakers: Just what no one always wanted

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Enjoy the silence... while you still can

29 Mar 10:27 | 81

xiaomi three fold

Xiaomi's Mi-too attempt at a pholdable: Not one, but TWO creases of fail

WTF? And the screen is on the outside...

28 Mar 15:10 | 35

Return of the Glassholes? Relax: Huawei's 'smart specs' aren't Google Glass 2.0

Maybe they're just smart enough...

28 Mar 11:30 | 26

Make America buy phones again! Smartphone doom 'n' gloom crosses Atlantic to cast shadow stateside

Analyst revises forecast ... further down

27 Mar 16:07 | 42

P30 pic pyrotechnics in Paris: That's one Huawei to set the smartphone world alight

CommentEvery new phone is a hard sell in 2019. Will photo stunts be enough?

27 Mar 09:21 | 37

The completely rational take you need on Europe approving Article 13: An ill-defined copyright regime to tame US tech

Confusing rules aim to spread the wealth... in two years' time

26 Mar 20:54 | 130

Huawei P30 Series

Huawei's 2019 flagship smartphones: 'Things nobody else can do' but baby I swear it's déjà vu

P30 uncannily similar to 2018's P20 bar imaging overhaul

26 Mar 15:47 | 23

NexDock 2

NexDock 2: Electric Boogaloo. Crowdfunded laptop shell sequel touts less plastic, more pixels

Hoping for an Empire Strikes Back rather than a Big Momma's House 2

25 Mar 10:28 | 45

A man with mad hair turns the page in a book

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher

22 Mar 19:29 | 62

QUIZZICAL LOOK

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Hands-OnRift S adds some technology... but not enough

22 Mar 06:03 | 61

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow

21 Mar 06:54 | 29

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

Aussie media claims Silicon Valley giant used surveillance tool to torpedo competitor

21 Mar 00:40 | 14

Mobes 'n' mattresses flinger Xiaomi growing like the clappers – outside China, at least

The Last Emporium

20 Mar 17:15 | 12

Apple's revamped iPad beams a workhorse in from Planet Ludicrous

AnalysisPro features trickle down to the rest of us

20 Mar 09:16 | 53

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