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IBM killing off its first go at cloud object storage – 20 months after launch

The drinks are on Juniper: Revenue and profits up in Q2 2017

Cloud-ready storage needs super speeds and super integration

Luczo's so-so luck: Seagate switches CEOs, sales fall, 600 jobs cut

Qualcomm's neural network SDK made free for all comers

Devs shun smartwatch work, gaze longingly at web-only apps again

Microsoft ctrl-Zs 'killing' Paint, by which we mean offering naff app through Windows Store

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

Las Vegas locks down ahead of DEF CON hacking conference

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

ALIS in Blunderland: Lockheed says F-35 Block 3F software to be done by year's end

Crappy hacker crew fingered for Bundestag snooping operation

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

Google goes home to Cali to overturn Canada's worldwide search result ban

Retailers would love an NBN backhaul tariff restructure

HP Inc, HPE both slapped with racism, ageism lawsuit

Want to visit your loved one in jail? How about Skype instead?

AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m

For one night only: Net neutrality punch-up between Big Cable, Big Web this September

The Reg chats to Ordnance Survey's chief data wrangler

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

Geek's Guide

Amazing new algorithm makes fusion power slightly less incredibly inefficient

Science sugar daddy extends data-sharing policy to software

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

Intel loves the maker community so much it just axed its Arduino, Curie hardware. Ouch

Creepy tech tycoons Zuck and Musk clash over AI doomsday

Bone-up on machine learning and AI and enjoy your hols

IBM's X-Force to slip digits into IoT networks and connected cars

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

AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m

AMD wasn't able to turn a profit this quarter, but analysts are bullish on the chipmaker's solid Ryzen CPU sales.

Shaun Nichols, 25 Jul 2017

People fight in cartoon cloud. photo by Shutterstock

For one night only: Net neutrality punch-up between Big Cable, Big Web this September

The American spectator sport that is net neutrality has just got its own Rumble in the Jungle.

Kieren McCarthy, 25 Jul 2017

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

40 Comments

21 Jul 21:55

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

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

54 Comments

21 Jul 20:29

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

At this point does anyone still care?

26 Comments

21 Jul 19:38

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

World+dog: Oh no you haven't!

70 Comments

21 Jul 12:04

Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on

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

45 Comments

21 Jul 09:58

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

The Tale of the Left Behind

29 Comments

20 Jul 12:53

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

Apple's royalties and licensing boycott taking a heavy toll

20 Jul 00:32

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

UpdatediGiant bankrolls manufacturers' legal battle royale over patent license fees

19 Jul 18:12

Reborn Nokia phones biz loses its head

More time to play Snake

31 Comments

19 Jul 15:04

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

15 Comments

18 Jul 22:37

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

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

19 Comments

17 Jul 21:21

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

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

18 Comments

17 Jul 20:25

Opinion

News

The Atari retro games box is real… sort of

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

27 Comments

17 Jul 18:59

Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release

Unclear if code was first mistaken for avant garde instrumental

91 Comments

17 Jul 07:27

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

Et tu, Vertu? Then fall, geezers

69 Comments

14 Jul 22:34

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

Also a bald-faced liar

31 Comments

14 Jul 20:05

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

36 Comments

13 Jul 22:26

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

Great... if you could use it

49 Comments

13 Jul 13:42

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

1941 German army crypto machine found in Romanian flea market

79 Comments

13 Jul 07:21

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

13 Jul 00:58

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

Have we just reached Peak Register?

14 Comments

12 Jul 20:07

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

KEYone flagship crumbles under pressure

14 Comments

12 Jul 11:37

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

A hard-won hit at five

73 Comments

12 Jul 09:19

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

Oh Mi goodness

12 Jul 08:01

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

31 Comments

12 Jul 04:58

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

Microsoft pulls the plug on support for dedicated smartphone OS

66 Comments

11 Jul 22:06

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

ReviewGlassy, glossy, sassy... but smudgy

18 Comments

11 Jul 15:00

His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3

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

84 Comments

10 Jul 13:44

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

Ripping teens leave the file sharing to Sad Old Dads

118 Comments

10 Jul 10:30

Jaw-boned: Wearables biz Jawbone shuts down

Fitness band maker jogs off into the sunset for good

16 Comments

07 Jul 18:58

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

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

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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IBM killing off its first go at cloud object storage – 20 months after launch

The drinks are on Juniper: Revenue and profits up in Q2 2017

Cloud-ready storage needs super speeds and super integration

Luczo's so-so luck: Seagate switches CEOs, sales fall, 600 jobs cut

Qualcomm's neural network SDK made free for all comers

Devs shun smartwatch work, gaze longingly at web-only apps again

Microsoft ctrl-Zs 'killing' Paint, by which we mean offering naff app through Windows Store

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

Las Vegas locks down ahead of DEF CON hacking conference

Adobe will kill Flash by 2020: No more updates, support, tears, pain...

ALIS in Blunderland: Lockheed says F-35 Block 3F software to be done by year's end

Crappy hacker crew fingered for Bundestag snooping operation

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

Google goes home to Cali to overturn Canada's worldwide search result ban

Retailers would love an NBN backhaul tariff restructure

HP Inc, HPE both slapped with racism, ageism lawsuit

Want to visit your loved one in jail? How about Skype instead?

AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m

For one night only: Net neutrality punch-up between Big Cable, Big Web this September

The Reg chats to Ordnance Survey's chief data wrangler

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

Amazing new algorithm makes fusion power slightly less incredibly inefficient

Science sugar daddy extends data-sharing policy to software

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

Intel loves the maker community so much it just axed its Arduino, Curie hardware. Ouch

Creepy tech tycoons Zuck and Musk clash over AI doomsday

Bone-up on machine learning and AI and enjoy your hols

IBM's X-Force to slip digits into IoT networks and connected cars

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

Repairable-by-design Fairphone runs out of spare parts

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

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

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

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

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

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

Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on

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

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

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

Reborn Nokia phones biz loses its head

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

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

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

Opinion

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

Despite high-profile hires, Apple's TV plans are doomed

Google may follow Apple, design mobile chips in-house

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

News

The Atari retro games box is real… sort of

Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

His Muskiness wheels out the Tesla Model 3

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

Jaw-boned: Wearables biz Jawbone shuts down