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Woman kicks off shoes, gets bottle of wine, collapses onto couch

Effortful, tiresome, laborious: Couchbase says latest data platform release can sack off ETL

Scared looking office consultant hides under desk

IT bods, beware! AWS claims Storage Gateway appliance doesn't need you to manage it

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Microsoft Azure gains Availability Zones and Immutable Blobs

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When should I run backup, robot overlord? Autonomous Hadoop and NoSQL backup is now a thing

A spot of Python in your Azure automation? Step right this way, sir

Microsoft tries a thinking cap on its cloud – voila, Dynamics 365 gets AI!

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Early bird access to .NET Framework 4.8? Microsoft, you spoil us

Flatpak on WSL

App-y, app-y, joy, joy: Pain-free software installer Flatpak (kinda) works on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Insider Threat

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Heads up: Get ready to tune in live and watch us probe insider threats menacing today's IT

National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

Why waste away in a cubicle when you could be a goddamn infosec neuromancer on £50k*?

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Who ate all the PII? Not the blockchain, thankfully

Money cloud

Kick-Kaas: NetApp gobbles cloudy Kubernetes upstart StackPointCloud

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NPM not tied in knots over Yarn rival project

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Microsoft adds Windows module support to PowerShell Core while Amazon unleashes it on Lambda

How have the BBC, Rovio and more put serverless to work?

Michael Dell

Mickey D serves up stump speech to settle sceptical investors

disgusted man in suit refuses money

Apple hands €14.3bn in back taxes to reluctant Ireland

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'Men only' job ad posts land Facebook in boiling hot water with ACLU

Backdoor key

Oz government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament

Young "creatives" whip out their mobile phones. Photo by Shutterstock

Brits pay £490m extra for mobes they already own – Citizens Advice

Amazon Fire

GG n00b lol! Amazon frags support for its own games controllers

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

Probably for the best: Apple makes sure eSIMs won't nuke the operators

Geek's Guide

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The Reg chats with Voyager Imaging Team member Dr Garry E Hunt

Yusaku Maezawa

Revealed: The billionaire baron who’ll ride Elon’s thrusting erection to the Moon and back

Crazy guy with power tools

Russia: The hole in the ISS Soyuz lifeboat – was it the crew wot dunnit?

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UK.gov finally adds Galileo and Copernicus to the Brexit divorce bill

Microsoft's Surface Hub

Microsoft's collaboration software Teams works on its collaboration hardware Surface Hub

Mobile, on wheels, or in the cloud... how do you want to do AI?

spy

Put your tin-foil hats on! Wi-Fi can be used to guesstimate number of people hidden in a room

SAP claims to be first Euro biz to get seriously ethical about AI code

Verity Stob

Huawei P8

Man cuffed for testing fruit with bum cheek pre-purchase

Boeing 777-267 B-HNL, ex-N7771, the first production 777 airliner

First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum

Leeds hospital launches campaign to 'axe the fax'

Trump

Trump shouldn't criticise the news media, says Amazon's Jeff Bezos

Personal Tech

Young "creatives" whip out their mobile phones. Photo by Shutterstock

Brits pay £490m extra for mobes they already own – Citizens Advice

Brits forked out £490m extra on their last mobile phone contract because of bundled handset charges that continued long after the device was paid for, Citizens Advice has said.

Rebecca Hill, 19 Sep 2018

Amazon Fire

GG n00b lol! Amazon frags support for its own games controllers

In a bold move, Amazon has ended support for its own games controllers on its own streaming box.

Kieren McCarthy, 18 Sep 2018

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

On CallDid our hero get the accolades he deserved? Did he @£$%

Probably for the best: Apple makes sure eSIMs won't nuke the operators

AnalysisExpect things to stay much as they are

Apple iPhone XR

The grand-plus iPhone is the new normal – this is no place for paupers

AnalysisApple kills SE, sends top tier to £1,500

Lenovo Thinkpad X280: Choosing a light luggable isn't so easy

Hands-onI/O, I/O, it's off to to work we go

So Brave: Browser biz sics Brit watchdogs on Google's info slurpage

Software maker and allies demand regulatory strike on behavioral advertising

Apple in XS new sensation: Latest iPhone carries XS-sive price tag

iPhone XS, XS Max and XR coming soon, and Apple Watch gets a major update

You know all those movies you bought from Apple? Um, well, think different: You didn't

As the licensing terms change, your 'purchase' can vanish

Raspberry Pi supremo Eben Upton talks to The Reg about Pi PoE woes

The Pi has got its HAT on. Hip hip hip... oh dear

It's here! Qualcomm's new watch chip is finally here! Oh, uh, never mind

Ancient tech – but it isn't so bad

Pull your chair closer: It's the Reg autumn lecture series

Join us in the tavern for a pint and a chinwag

Nokia reinstates 'hide the Notch' a day after 'Google required' feature kill

Phone maker keen to settle 'Notch-gate'

It's been 5 years already, let's gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's bloodbath

Special ReportRewind and replay in slowmo

Activists raise alarm over insidious creep of surveillance in the UK

Report calls for government data 'firewall', spy-free schools, up-to-date laws

Google's 'other' phone platform turns up in post-apocalyptic mobe

Before you buy that banana, look at this

Canny Brits are nuking the phone bundle

Refurb growing and almost half say 'no way' to Apple

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No, no, you're all wrong. That's not a Kremlin agent. It's someone with 'inauthentic behavior'

CommentTables did not turn but rotated a little for Facebook, Twitter at senate hearing

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Facebook flogs dead horse. By flog, we mean sues. And by horse, we mean BlackBerry

Online ad giant returns fire in bid to use IP freely

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Benchmark smartphone drama: We wouldn't call it cheating, says Huawei, but look, everyone's at it

UpdatedSo is that a yes or a no?

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Skype can now record your 'special moments' in front of the computer

Except that one. Nobody wants that kept for posterity

Enterprise smartphone buyers still pretty dopey about updates

Ungrateful! We've already given staffers mobiles, now they want patches too!

Apple cops to iPhone 8 production oops, offers to fix borked phones

But if you got yours in Europe, no worries

Qualcomm's tardy chip upgrade leaves the Great Wearables Reveal to jokers and clowns

IFAThe Android comeback must wait a little longer

Huawei Mate 20 Lite: A business mobe aimed at millennials? Er, OK then

Hands OnNumber-two phone maker's sub-£400 bracket is getting a little messy

If you weren't rich enough to buy a Surface before, you may as well let that dream die

US-only financing deal lasted all of a year

Lyon for speed, San Francisco for money, Amsterdam for fun: the best cities to be a techie

Global index for folks like you

BlackBerry KEY2 LE: Cheaper QWERTY, but not for what's inside

Hands OnIf this was full-touch, price tag would be eye-watering

BlackBerry, Sony, Honor and LG flash their new phones for all to see

IFAHands-on with the latest mobe kit from Berlin show

Hello 'WOS': Windows on Arm now has a price

IFAFull Windows on new Qualcomm silicon at last

‘Very fine people’ rename New York as ‘Jewtropolis’ on Snapchat, Zillow

UpdateMapbox acts quickly to wipe hate speech attack from site

HTC U12 Life: Notchless, reasonably priced and proper buttons? Oh joy

Hands OnGoogle's ex makes another play at the midrange

3D printed gun

Defense Distributed starts selling gun CAD files amid court drama

We're obeying the injunction, insists founder Cody Wilson

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ZX Spectrum reboot scandal: Directors quit, new sack effort started

And those legal costs just aren't going away

Person eating an apple

Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot

Meanwhile, UK mobe market is still crashing

Adam Sandler

Cobbler feels the shoe-leather: An IP address is still not a human

Are Adam Sandler fans human? Court didn't rule on that ...

GlobalFoundries scuttles 7nm chip plans claiming no demand

AMD promptly dumps it and hires TSMC for next-gen chips

Windows 10 July update. Surface Pro 4. Working fondleslab. Pick two

Avoid OS build 17134.191 on tablets, it wrecked our gear, complain owners

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