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Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

Symbolic IO CEO cuffed by cops, vanishes from his storage startup

Alphabet takes Euro antitrust fine in stride, spooks investors with rising Google ad costs

UK ministers' Broadband '2.0' report confuses superfast with 10Mbps

Python autocomplete-in-the-cloud tool Kite pushes into projects, gets stabbed with a fork

Find your happy place: Fedora 26 has landed

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

`systemd`'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix

Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested

Ubiquiti firmware patch stomps nasty redirect bug from login screen

G Suite admins have just one button to secure their sites, but don't

Pathetic patching leaves over 70,000 Memcached servers still up for grabs

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

HPE PointNext globo boss grilled by El Reg

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

I want to break free! Kubernetes has a life beyond containers

Contain(er) your enthusiasm, nerds: Docker-backed OCI runtime spec hits 1.0

Redis releases respectable revision, tiptoes through tricky political terminology

U Vlad bro? Docker accidentally cuts off Ukraine

Snopes.com asks for bailout amid dispute over who runs the site and collects ad dollars

TechnologyOne says City of Brisbane ignored its own reviews

Democrats (still a thing, apparently) are super unhappy about AT&T's Time-Warner merger

You don't call, you don't text: SIM-flinger Gemalto warns of 9% sales drop

The Reg chats to Ordnance Survey's chief data wrangler

Expect the Note 8 to break the bank (and your wallet)

Virgin Mobile has in-continent data roaming problems – peeved customers

Repairable-by-design Fairphone runs out of spare parts

Geek's Guide

Cassini captures pieces of Saturn’s rings

Apollo center fundraiser: That's one small check from man, one giant leap for our peace of mind

FUKE NEWS: Robot snaps inside drowned Fukushima nuke plant

Reg reader turns Geek's Guides to Britain into Geek's Map of Britain

In the Pearl River Delta's electronics souks, AI lets the haggling happen

Alexa, why aren't you working? No – I didn't say twerking. I, oh God...

HoloLens: Microsoft brags about AI chip in next-gen techno-goggles

Brits must now register virtually all new drones and undergo safety tests

Verity Stob

US vending machine firm plans employee chip implant scheme

Fan of FBI cosplay? Enjoy freaking out your neighbors? Have we got the eBay auction for you

Volterman 'super wallet': The worst crowdsource video pitch of all time?

Burglary, robbery, kidnapping and a shoot-out over… a domain name?!

Personal Tech

The Reg chats to Ordnance Survey's chief data wrangler

InterviewThe UK’s mapping agency has brought in Vodafone’s director of business intelligence Caroline Bellamy to help define and drive its data offering.

Rebecca Hill, 25 Jul 2017

Expect the Note 8 to break the bank (and your wallet)

Samsung’s Note 8, due to be unveiled in a month, will burst through the $1,000 (c. £920) price point, and may well become the first mass market phone in that price bracket in the UK. It’s also likely to be a monster, with a 6.3 inch diagonal display.

Andrew Orlowski, 24 Jul 2017

man rolls his eyes on mobile phone

Virgin Mobile has in-continent data roaming problems – peeved customers

Users forced to sightsee, look up from their phones

Fairphone 1

Repairable-by-design Fairphone runs out of spare parts

Components just aren't made any more and Fairphone can't afford more batteries

The hit augmented reality smartphone app "Pokemon GO" shows a Pokemon encounter overlain on a real world trail in the forest in Santa Cruz, California. Photo by Matthew Corley for Shutterstock. EDITORIAL USE ONLY!.

Judge uses 1st Amendment on Pokemon Go park ban. It's super effective!

County had hoped to protect land from gamer stampede

The Italian Jobs: Bloke thrown in the cooler for touting Apple knockoffs

Feds made Naples man an offer he can't refuse

Intel is upset that Qualcomm is treating it like Intel treated AMD for years and years

Chipzilla takes number, joins queue to kick Snapdragon biz in the ball arrays

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

AnalysisThat's the bad news. The good news is they've banned Bieber, too

Andy Rubin's overhyped and underdelivered Essential phone out 'in a few weeks'

At this point does anyone still care?

I've got a verbal govt contract for Hyperloop, claims His Muskiness

World+dog: Oh no you haven't!

Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on

Promises firmware fix for superhub 3/Intel's Puma 6 'shortly'

This is why old Windows Phones won't run PC apps

The Tale of the Left Behind

'We hold the high ground' says Qualcomm boss as profits crater

Apple's royalties and licensing boycott taking a heavy toll

Factories counter-punch Qualcomm in the gut as Apple eggs them on

UpdatediGiant bankrolls manufacturers' legal battle royale over patent license fees

Reborn Nokia phones biz loses its head

More time to play Snake

Guess who's here to tell us we're all totally wrong about net neutrality? Of course, it's Comcast

AnalysisCable giant shares its thoughts on costs, freedom

Stop this crazy crusade! Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon scold FCC over net neutrality

Lengthy filing by Internet Association highlights value of today's rules

angry phone user

Ew! HTC jams pop-up adverts into people's smartphone keyboards

Is there nowhere corps won't try and sell you stuff?

The Atari retro games box is real… sort of

Here are some pictures. And, er, that's all we've got for you

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release

Unclear if code was first mistaken for avant garde instrumental

Opinion

News

Funnily enough, charging ££££s for trashy bling-phones wasn't a great idea

Et tu, Vertu? Then fall, geezers

All hail AT&T! Champion of the open internet and users' privacy!

Also a bald-faced liar

All your bass are belong to us: Soundcloud fans raid site for music amid fears of total collapse

You have no chance to survive make your time

Sleuths unearth 'Panic Mode' in Android, set off by mashing back button

Great... if you could use it

€100 'typewriter' turns out to be €45,000 Enigma machine

1941 German army crypto machine found in Romanian flea market

Broadcasters, advocacy groups and nonprofits weigh in on Microsoft's magical broadband

AnalysisThe good, the bad and the ugly parts of Redmond's white space internet

Brickbat unwraps in lap of crap Snapchat yap app technocrat brats after stock splat mishap

Have we just reached Peak Register?

BlackBerry taking action to fix 'pop-out' screen – namely more glue

KEYone flagship crumbles under pressure

The life and times of Surface, Microsoft's odds-defying fondleslab

A hard-won hit at five

Nokia inks wide-ranging deal with Xiaomi: Not just IP and handsets

Dell gives world its first wireless-charging laptop if you buy $580 extra kit

Or you could buy two of the cheaper battery-pack keyboards for less than the wireless kit

Got a Windows Phone 8 mobe? It's now officially obsolete. Here's why...

Microsoft pulls the plug on support for dedicated smartphone OS

The great phone squeeze wheeze: Getting squidgy with HTC's U11

ReviewGlassy, glossy, sassy... but smudgy

Elon Musk

His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3

'Cut-price' car could be yours, in a year or more, for 'just' $35k

shutterstock_dad_computer

OMG, dad, you're so embarrassing! Are you P2P file sharing again?

Ripping teens leave the file sharing to Sad Old Dads

Jaw-boned: Wearables biz Jawbone shuts down

Fitness band maker jogs off into the sunset for good

Fingers crossed

Sniffing the scent of free publicity, Google and Facebook steamroll into net neutrality protest

Didn't talk to organizers, don't have any plans yet

Well, that escalated quickly: Qualcomm demands iPhone, iPad sales ban in America

Licensing dispute explodes into all-out patent war with Apple

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Spotlight

Dead serious: How to haunt people after you've gone... using your smartphone

Thanks, I suppose. Woman contemplates unwanted gift. Photo by Shutterstock

My unpopular career in writing computer reviews? It's a gift

When can real-world laws invade augmented reality fantasies? A trial in Milwaukee will decide

Nerd in shower photo via Shutterstock

Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all

Hanging on photo via Shutterstock

Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

A Chinese laundry on the back streets of Shanghai

In the Pearl River Delta's electronics souks, AI lets the haggling happen

Ten new tech terms I learnt this summer: Do you know them all?

You can't DevOps everything, kids. Off the shelf kit especially

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