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As above, so below: El Reg haunts Scaleway's data centre catacombs 26 metres under Paris

HPE: Since y'all love cloud subs so much, we'll throw all our boxes into GreenLake by 2022

HPE unveils Primera storage tech, vows 100% availability – anyone fancy breaking, er, putting that to the test?

DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5

Microsoft, you should look away now: Google's cloud second only to AWS in dev survey

PowerPoint to start telling you that your presentation is bad and you should feel bad

Azure flock can stop faffing over bastion hosts: Microsoft has made it noob-friendly

Ubuntu says i386 to be 86'd with Eoan 19.10 release: Ageing 32-bit x86 support will be ex-86

NASA's JPL may be able to reprogram a probe at the arse end of the solar system, but its security practices are a bit crap

Spin the wheel and find today's leaky cloud DB... clack clack... clack A huge trove of medical malpractice complaints

Awoogah! Awoogah! Firefox fans urged to update and patch zero-day hole exploited in the wild by miscreants

Delicious irony: Hacked medical debt collector AMCA files for bankruptcy protection from debt collectors

With speakers from iRobot, BBC, Lego, the worlds of Google, AWS and Azure, and more, do not miss Serverless Computing London 2019

Dev darling Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

Fsck it, we've lost Bitbucket: Quay.io webhook integration fails after API tweaked

Microsoft throws lifeline to .NET orphans in the brave new Core world

Open-source chat plat toasts rival after picking up $50m in funding: 'The better Slack does, the better Mattermost does'

UK's GDS head Kevin Cunnington leaves to tell world+dog how (not) to do digital

Brave urges UK's data watchdog to join Ireland in probing claim Google adtech breaches GDPR

Human-rights warriors crack on with legal challenge to UK's lax surveillance laws

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.

Geek's Guide

After years of listening, we've heard not a single peep out of any aliens, say boffins. You think you can do better? OK, here's 1PB of signals

What price the Moon? Tips from the past might save the present

Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g

Bonjour, mon chum! Québécois IT giant CGI snaps up freshly Irish Galileo botherer SCISYS

Spits out coffee £4m for a database of drone fliers, UK.gov? Defra did game shooters for £300k

Deepfake 3.0 (beta), the bad news: This AI can turn ONE photo of you into a talking head. Good news: There is none

Cyber-IOU notes. Voucher hell on wheels. However you want to define Facebook's Libra, the most ridiculous part is its privacy promise

Boffins' neural network can work out from your speech whether you'll develop psychosis

Verity Stob

UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

You gotta be kitten me: Pakistan politicos feline silly after filter farce hits purrrfect conference

We asked readers what DXC should be known for... and of course you came up with the goods

Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP

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It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

ColumnTick, tick, boom?

19 Jun 09:15 | 46

Venmo in your pocket

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Payment biz shrugs, says users are fine with sharing

17 Jun 20:40 | 37

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Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

That's a wrap for the file-sharing skin flick shakedown

14 Jun 23:45 | 69

Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.

You can now pre-order this underpowered, over-priced, untested, over-complicated toy. What are you waiting for?

14 Jun 19:47 | 66

Flight Simulator 2020: Exciting new ride or a doomed tailspin in a crowded market?

CommentArmchair aviation geeks, assemble!

14 Jun 16:56 | 92

Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Click on the toothbrush, toggle the flange and press 'Harp'. It's obvious

14 Jun 10:23 | 167

Facebook won't nuke deepfakes? OK, let's tear up those precious legal protections from user-posted content, then

Lawmakers threaten to rewrite rules that shield sites from netizens' dodgy uploads

13 Jun 20:32 | 45

Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree

12 Jun 22:15 | 49

Enemy of the Matebook: Huawei shuts up laptop shop. When is it back? Depends on America's Entity List

They've got us on the list

12 Jun 11:53 | 26

Nope, we're stuffed, shrieks Apple channel as iPhone shipments enter a double-digit spiral

Think different? In Europe, they definitely are: Huawei, the lads!

12 Jun 09:06 | 117

interested

If your broadband bill is too high consider moving to Idaho, they get the internet for free

Municipal fiber half the price of Comcast, AT&T etc

07 Jun 00:52 | 52

Robocall

The FCC has finally, finally approved a half-decent plan to destroy the robocall scourge... but there's a catch

Customers get to pay for it!

06 Jun 20:19 | 60

stand

Apple strips clips of WWDC devs booing that $999 monitor stand from the web using copyright claims. Fear not, you can listen again here...

UpdatedYouTube happy to spare iGiant embarrassment but won't take down 'slur' vids

05 Jun 20:57 | 210

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Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech

Speaker identification and more listening in: welcome to the future of voice assistants

05 Jun 09:54 | 73

What's in store for Microsoft's US pop-up shops? Not much, they're being closed

Hello London! Buh-bye kiosks

04 Jun 21:46 | 17

Pull up your SoCs: Samsung smartphones to get AMD Radeon graphics

Like a childhood dream come true

04 Jun 12:10 | 8

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

We sat through 150 minutes of WWDC keynote so you didn't have to suffer

03 Jun 23:22 | 251

US-China tariff tiff has got in Huawei of beating Samsung in smartphone stakes, top brass sigh

Analyst clips 2019 shipments, reckons 3.1% market shrinkage

03 Jun 18:19 | 7

Apple iPrunes iTunes: Moldering platform's death expected to be announced at WWDC

Service will split into separate apps for music, TV, podcasts

03 Jun 10:24 | 42

Firmware update borks Bose boxes: Owners report crackles on Lex-i of the soundbar world

Heaven forfend, someone had to use their actual TV speakers

03 Jun 08:45 | 37

Wow, talk about a Maine-wave: US state says ISPs need permission to flog netizens' personal data

What a radical idea

31 May 21:10 | 69

MOST READ

A sad young man from shutterstock

Sad SACK: Linux PCs, servers, gadgets may be crashed by 'Ping of Death' network packets

fail

Parliament IT bods' fail sees server's naked OS exposed to world+dog

British Airways Boeing 777-300ER G-STBD passenger plane departure from London Heathrow Airport

This isn't Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead

Samsung SUHD 5K TVs

Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget

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Cooksie is bam-bam iGlad all over: Folk are actually buying Apple's fondleslabs again

EMEA shipments for calendar Q1 up 16.7% on last year. As for the rest of the market....

30 May 15:03 | 15

In the living room, can Google Home hear you SCREAM? Well, that's what you'll need to do

Folks reported non-functioning volume control in February, still no firmware fix in sight

30 May 08:02 | 50

Apple's privacy schtick is just an act, say folks suing the iGiant: iTunes 'purchase histories sold' to data slurpers

Class-action lawsuit accuses Cupertino of breaking the law by flogging personal info

29 May 23:13 | 45

burning laptop

Intel unveils Project Athena: Chipzilla tells lappy makers how to build their own kit

OEMs toe the line for that sweet, sweet marketing moolah

29 May 19:26 | 18

Teacher despairs at pupil's poor arithmetic

Quick maths refresher: Intel CPU shortages + consumer stock bottleneck = no computer sales growth in EMEA for 2019

Back 2 school and retail spending slows, but there's hope for commercial market as Microsoft turns off Win7 support taps

29 May 13:17 | 12

rotten apple

It's the curious case of the vanishing iPhone sales as Huawei grabs second place off Apple in smartmobe stakes

Price cuts? Tick. More price cuts? Tick. Damn, where to next for Tim Cook and co?

28 May 12:30 | 119

A mobe with obnoxious teen karaoke app TikTok built in?! Wow, thanks ByteDance, sign us up

Chinese app titan switches course, but it's a risky one

28 May 10:15 | 3

It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs

That's enough body language puns

27 May 04:00 | 19

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

iFixit ters dwn ew Macbook Pro wth utterfl eyoard atst fixs

24 May 21:00 | 121

Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

Eight total resolutions seek to make antisocial network more accountable (the US tech giant opposes them all)

24 May 19:37 | 45

HP: Based on our Intel, don't hold your breath waiting for Chipzilla's CPU shortage to end

PC maker's chief bean counter warns Wall Street moneymen of 'constraints' until at least calendar Q3

24 May 09:46 | 7

Image of trash-strewn pond

Facebook removes about as many fake accounts as it has actual monthly users (yes, billions) in effort to clean up online

AnalysisSocial ad biz details effort to cleanse community

23 May 22:18 | 32

baby from nirvana album cover - playmobil/lego minifig

Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined

ColumnWhat on Earth are you playing at, Microsoft?

23 May 08:06 | 49

justice

Koh-MG: Qualcomm guilty of abusing chip patent monopoly, biz promises to appeal

Snapdragon giant 'strangled competition' and forced others to pay unfair fees

22 May 19:26 | 8

Butterfly collection

Apple reckons mystery new material will debug butterfly keyboard woes in latest MacBook Pros

It's so confident, 2019 models are on the free repair scheme

22 May 17:45 | 45

Twist my Arm why don't you: Brit CPU behemoth latest biz to cease work with Huawei – report

UpdatedLeaked staff memo reveals immediate halt to co-operation

22 May 12:41 | 119

Lyft, Uber drivers boost app surge prices by turning off, tuning out – and cashing in

AnalysisCyber-cabbies bag more dosh from fares by gaming demand versus supply

20 May 23:48 | 57

Do Not Track is back in the US Senate. And this time it means business. As in, fining businesses that stalk you online

AnalysisRepublican Senator preps proposed legislation ahead of hearing

20 May 21:16 | 44

FCC boss blesses T-Mobile US-Sprint merger amid sketchy promises, lashings of incoherency

AnalysisAmerican tech regulation reduced to: If the telcos want it, it must be a good thing

20 May 20:27 | 14

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