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Now that's what we're Tolkien about: You need one storage system to rule them all and in the darkness bind them

Avaya considering tie-up with RingCentral to save it from fire sale – report

£1bn UK justice system digitisation scheme in massive delay shocker

Cloud Foundry has got its Red Hat on, hip, hip, hip, hooray: IBM demos CF running on OpenShift

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

Hold up, ace. Before you strap into Firefox's latest Test Pilot, ask yourself...

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Whoa, bot wars: As cybercrooks add more AI to their arsenal, the goodies will have to too

Consumer ransomware insurance? You could be painting a target on us all for avaricious crims

Charmin'. Garmin admits customers' full credit card data nicked from South African web store

From PowerShell to auditing: Expand your cybersecurity know-how at SANS London 2019

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

OK, peons, we'll obey the law and let you talk about politics and pay packets, says Google

Malwarebytes back to square one as appeals court rules blocking rival antivirus maker isn't on

Service call centres to become wasteland and tumbleweed by 2024

Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

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Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

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Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion

A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it

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Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Supplies no longer HP Ink's licence to, er, print money

13 Sep 15:36 | 21

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Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

Manufacturing rises by double digits ahead of December D-Day

11 Sep 17:00 | 30

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UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules

Ahoy me maties, now we must find another mast to climb

11 Sep 13:00 | 89

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Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

Take note, mobe makers

11 Sep 11:52 | 103

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CEOs beg for America-wide privacy law... to protect their businesses from state privacy laws

Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, privacy is sharing

10 Sep 23:17 | 41

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Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker

Flagship smartmobe aimed squarely at the selfie generation

10 Sep 21:53 | 127

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Facebook: Remember how we promised we weren’t tracking your location? Psych! Can't believe you fell for that

AnalysisSuper-harvester of private info forced to confront new iOS, Android safeguards

10 Sep 19:33 | 136

Personal Tech

New lows at Bose as firmware update woes infuriate soundbar bros

The Lexus of speakers does it again. This time, no audio at all

10 Sep 09:00 | 74

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Apple will wring out $18bn by upselling NAND to fanbois – analyst

Did someone say idiot tax? 26% of operating profit in FY'19 estimated to come from richer storage configs

09 Sep 09:00 | 49

Personal Tech

There's no getting Huawei from 5G – Chinese giant joins Qualcomm, Samsung in bunging high-speed comms in mobe brains

IFA 2019Integration may lead to more smartphones with faster cellular broadband (networks permitting)

06 Sep 19:22 | 13

Personal Tech

HP Inc waves bye to EMEA president with 'immediate effect'

ExclusiveSenior exec carries can for screwup in supplies, missing rev targets for 3 quarters

06 Sep 08:12 | 25

Personal Tech

OK, let's try that again: Vulture rakes a talon on Samsung's fresh attempt at the Galaxy Fold 5G

IFA 2019Gently, mind – it's rather expensive

05 Sep 15:30 | 89

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Acer and Asus unveil some of the world's heaviest laptops ... and some of its lightest

IFA 2019Gaming chairs, gaming phones, gaming laptops – and some delightful feather-light ones

05 Sep 11:45 | 11

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Google, YouTube cough up $170m to make that trifling little thing about slurping kids' info without consent go away

Ad giant gets slap on the wrist, promises not to do it again

04 Sep 23:31 | 10

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Business PC sales up as suits flee looming end of support for Windows 7

As for those flakey ol' consumers...

04 Sep 08:08 | 49

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Raspberry Pi head honcho Eben Upton talks thermals, stores and who's buying the kit

InterviewThe Register goes to Cambridge

03 Sep 13:02 | 51

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Apple cracks, straps on free repair service for defective Watches

Got a Series 2 or 3 in aluminium with a borked screen? Things might be looking up for you

02 Sep 12:15 | 10

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Ah, this should totally reassure Euro workers: They'll get Brexit EU settled status app on iPhones from October

Apple unlocks NFC chip just in time for Brexit

02 Sep 08:15 | 86

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Huawei new smartphone won't be Mate-y with Google apps as trade sanctions kick in

Chinese mobe maker says screw you, we'll build our own

29 Aug 22:51 | 75

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Apple blinks on iPhone repairs, touts parts program for independent tech mechanics... sort of

Planned obsolescence and big profits be damned, we're going to let you fix your kit

29 Aug 20:29 | 51

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Back to school with El Reg - how about a chunky Lenovo for the student in your life?

Hands OnThe second generation 300e for when your little darling simply must have Windows 10

28 Aug 09:45 | 38

Now that's what we're Tolkien about: You need one storage system to rule them all and in the darkness bind them

Avaya considering tie-up with RingCentral to save it from fire sale – report

£1bn UK justice system digitisation scheme in massive delay shocker

Cloud Foundry has got its Red Hat on, hip, hip, hip, hooray: IBM demos CF running on OpenShift

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

Hold up, ace. Before you strap into Firefox's latest Test Pilot, ask yourself...

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Whoa, bot wars: As cybercrooks add more AI to their arsenal, the goodies will have to too

Consumer ransomware insurance? You could be painting a target on us all for avaricious crims

Charmin'. Garmin admits customers' full credit card data nicked from South African web store

From PowerShell to auditing: Expand your cybersecurity know-how at SANS London 2019

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff

Think you’ve blown your chance to save with serverless? Not so FaaSt...

OK, peons, we'll obey the law and let you talk about politics and pay packets, says Google

Malwarebytes back to square one as appeals court rules blocking rival antivirus maker isn't on

Service call centres to become wasteland and tumbleweed by 2024

Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

Tut – you wait a lifetime for an interstellar object then two come at once

Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

And the teeny-tiny bottle of AI whisky goes to...

France says 'non merci' to Facebook-backed Libra cryptocurrency

Do you want fr-AI-s with that appy-meal? McDonald's gobbles machine-learning biz for human-free Drive Thrus

Time for another cuppa then? Tea-drinkers have better brains, say boffins with even better brains

Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour

Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion

A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it

Personal Tech

Wall Street analyst slashes HP Inc's share rating amid mounting worries over printer supplies declines

Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs

UK ISPs must block access to Nintendo Switch piracy sites, High Court rules

Fairphone 3 stripped to the modular essentials: Glue? What glue?

CEOs beg for America-wide privacy law... to protect their businesses from state privacy laws

Lights, camera, camera, camera, action: iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip biz in new iPhone, iPad, Watch, chip shocker

Facebook: Remember how we promised we weren’t tracking your location? Psych! Can't believe you fell for that

New lows at Bose as firmware update woes infuriate soundbar bros

Apple will wring out $18bn by upselling NAND to fanbois – analyst

There's no getting Huawei from 5G – Chinese giant joins Qualcomm, Samsung in bunging high-speed comms in mobe brains

HP Inc waves bye to EMEA president with 'immediate effect'

OK, let's try that again: Vulture rakes a talon on Samsung's fresh attempt at the Galaxy Fold 5G

Acer and Asus unveil some of the world's heaviest laptops ... and some of its lightest

Google, YouTube cough up $170m to make that trifling little thing about slurping kids' info without consent go away

Business PC sales up as suits flee looming end of support for Windows 7

Raspberry Pi head honcho Eben Upton talks thermals, stores and who's buying the kit

Apple cracks, straps on free repair service for defective Watches

Ah, this should totally reassure Euro workers: They'll get Brexit EU settled status app on iPhones from October

Huawei new smartphone won't be Mate-y with Google apps as trade sanctions kick in

Apple blinks on iPhone repairs, touts parts program for independent tech mechanics... sort of

Back to school with El Reg - how about a chunky Lenovo for the student in your life?

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Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then

Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion

MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

700km on a single charge: Mercedes says it's in it for the long run

Hold up, ace. Before you strap into Firefox's latest Test Pilot, ask yourself...

Malwarebytes back to square one as appeals court rules blocking rival antivirus maker isn't on

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