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It’s been two years since net neutrality was killed in the US. Let’s celebrate by having another fight over it

Microsoft plays 'Spot the Azure VM that can disappear any time'

Oh noes! Half the NHS runs on Windows 7! Thankfully, here's Citrix with a virty vaccine

Co-op Bank online and mobile banking goes TITSUP*

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

Join us on our new journey, says Wunderlist – as it vanishes down the Microsoft plughole

Kiwi tax probe squeezed $25m out of Microsoft – now it's Oracle's turn

Alleged Nigerian social engineer wins free flight to the US for business email fraud and love scams

It's the end of the 20-teens, and your Windows PC can still be pwned by nothing more than a simple bad font

Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption ...that the Feds and cops can break, say senators

Intel might want to reconsider the G part of SGX – because it's been plunderstruck

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74

In tribute to Galaxy Note 7, BBC iPlayer support for loadsa Samsung TVs goes up in flames

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger

Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack

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ESA trumpets 'world's first space debris removal' with 4-armed junk botherer

We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory

Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station

Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap

RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...

I'll take your frame to another dimension, pay close attention: This AI auto-generates 3D objects from 2D snaps

Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA

Homeland Security backs off on scanning US citizens, Amazon ups AI ante, and more

Verity Stob

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

Behuld – zee-a internet ouff tuilet tissuoe at Meecrusufft Sveden. Bork bork bork!

Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

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In tribute to Galaxy Note 7, BBC iPlayer support for loadsa Samsung TVs goes up in flames

Got a Sammy telly older than a few years? No iAuntie for you this Christmas, we fear

10 Dec 06:03 | 71

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Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

And thus the age of the Glasshole passes into history

09 Dec 20:38 | 12

Personal Tech

Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger

Let's strap these bricks together and maybe we'll make a boat

09 Dec 20:07 | 23

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Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack

They can live in my new world or they can die in their old one

09 Dec 18:30 | 73

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Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

CEO's tweeted taunt totally fine, twelve jurors decide

07 Dec 00:15 | 232

Personal Tech

Samsung Galaxy S11 tipped to escalate the phone cam arms race with 108MP sensor

Squaring up to the iPhone 11

06 Dec 19:00 | 41

Personal Tech

Nokia 2.3: HMD flings out €109 budget 'droid with a 2-day battery

But get ready to flip your cables cos it's microUSB

06 Dec 16:01 | 31

Personal Tech

Apple: Mysterious iPhone 11 location pings were because of 'ultra-wideband compliance'

NVM, we'll give you a toggle to deactivate UWB... in the future-ture-ture

06 Dec 13:50 | 33

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Doogee Wowser: The S40's a terrible smartphone, but a passable projectile

CommentHow the worst mobe I ever used maimed an American teen

06 Dec 09:02 | 66

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Uncle Sam challenged in court for slurping social media info on 'millions' of visa applicants

Documentary filmmakers lob sue ball to halt practice

05 Dec 21:22 | 47

Personal Tech

Following the wild, roaring success of its Snapdragon 8cx Arm laptop chip, Qualcomm's back with the 8c, 7c

Looking forward to seeing these in, well, anything would be nice

05 Dec 20:30 | 7

Personal Tech

Your duckface better be flawless: Huawei's Nova 6 mobe has a needlessly powerful selfie camera

Highest-ranked front shooter yet for the poser in your life

05 Dec 19:10 | 19

Personal Tech

Motorola's mid-range One Hyper packs 64MP cam, huge screen and – ooo – 'Quad Pixel' tech

What's that when it's at home? Oh, they mean pixel binning

05 Dec 11:36 | 22

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Escobar Fold 1 snort all it's cracked up to be: Readers finger similarity to slated Chinese mobe

But how is it $1,000 cheaper?

04 Dec 21:12 | 35

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Battery-guzzling 4K hardware clad in an alloy battle jacket: Lenovo's 4th-gen ThinkPad Yoga X1 is its most metal yet

High-rez screen or going all day without a charge: Pick one

04 Dec 15:58 | 10

Personal Tech

Amazon drops battery-powered Echo speaker so you can play Despacito on the go

Only in India for the time being

04 Dec 13:38 | 24

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Google ex-employees demand retribution for Thanksgiving massacre

Fired four threaten to file complaint with National Labor Relations Board

04 Dec 02:06 | 44

Personal Tech

Pablo Escobar's brother is Medellín in the foldable phone biz, sniffing out new markets

Got a phone for The Reg to stroke a claw across, Roberto?

03 Dec 19:56 | 19

Personal Tech

EFF warns of 'one-way mirror' of web surveillance by tech giants – led by Google

Online tracking report explores persistent privacy problems

03 Dec 02:15 | 46

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Apple completes $1bn amputation of Intel's 5G modem biz, Chipzilla out of mobiles for good

Cellular comms wing sale was made 'at a multi-billion dollar loss,' complains x86 giant

02 Dec 19:25 | 28

It’s been two years since net neutrality was killed in the US. Let’s celebrate by having another fight over it

Microsoft plays 'Spot the Azure VM that can disappear any time'

Oh noes! Half the NHS runs on Windows 7! Thankfully, here's Citrix with a virty vaccine

Co-op Bank online and mobile banking goes TITSUP*

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

Join us on our new journey, says Wunderlist – as it vanishes down the Microsoft plughole

Kiwi tax probe squeezed $25m out of Microsoft – now it's Oracle's turn

Alleged Nigerian social engineer wins free flight to the US for business email fraud and love scams

It's the end of the 20-teens, and your Windows PC can still be pwned by nothing more than a simple bad font

Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption ...that the Feds and cops can break, say senators

Intel might want to reconsider the G part of SGX – because it's been plunderstruck

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74

In tribute to Galaxy Note 7, BBC iPlayer support for loadsa Samsung TVs goes up in flames

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger

Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack

ESA trumpets 'world's first space debris removal' with 4-armed junk botherer

We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory

Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station

Forget sharks with lasers, NASA kits out an elephant seal with a sensor-studded skullcap

RISC-V Xmas gifts: SiFive emits vector-enabled cores, Western Digital teases new SweRVs, VxWorks hugs ISA, Samsung rolls it into 5G...

I'll take your frame to another dimension, pay close attention: This AI auto-generates 3D objects from 2D snaps

Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA

Homeland Security backs off on scanning US citizens, Amazon ups AI ante, and more

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

Behuld – zee-a internet ouff tuilet tissuoe at Meecrusufft Sveden. Bork bork bork!

Brian Eno's latest composition: A giant Christmas card with Julian Assange on it

Personal Tech

In tribute to Galaxy Note 7, BBC iPlayer support for loadsa Samsung TVs goes up in flames

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger

Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack

Elon Musk gets thumbs up from jury for use of 'pedo guy' in cave diver defamation lawsuit

Samsung Galaxy S11 tipped to escalate the phone cam arms race with 108MP sensor

Nokia 2.3: HMD flings out €109 budget 'droid with a 2-day battery

Apple: Mysterious iPhone 11 location pings were because of 'ultra-wideband compliance'

Doogee Wowser: The S40's a terrible smartphone, but a passable projectile

Uncle Sam challenged in court for slurping social media info on 'millions' of visa applicants

Following the wild, roaring success of its Snapdragon 8cx Arm laptop chip, Qualcomm's back with the 8c, 7c

Your duckface better be flawless: Huawei's Nova 6 mobe has a needlessly powerful selfie camera

Motorola's mid-range One Hyper packs 64MP cam, huge screen and – ooo – 'Quad Pixel' tech

Escobar Fold 1 snort all it's cracked up to be: Readers finger similarity to slated Chinese mobe

Battery-guzzling 4K hardware clad in an alloy battle jacket: Lenovo's 4th-gen ThinkPad Yoga X1 is its most metal yet

Amazon drops battery-powered Echo speaker so you can play Despacito on the go

Google ex-employees demand retribution for Thanksgiving massacre

Pablo Escobar's brother is Medellín in the foldable phone biz, sniffing out new markets

EFF warns of 'one-way mirror' of web surveillance by tech giants – led by Google

Apple completes $1bn amputation of Intel's 5G modem biz, Chipzilla out of mobiles for good

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Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia

We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory

Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station

Things Microsoft will be glad to never see again: Windows 10 1809 and Windows Phone Office

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

Managing the Linux kernel at AWS: 'A large team of security experts' dealing with fallout from Spectre, Meltdown flaws

Tesla has a smashing weekend: Model 3 on Autopilot whacks cop cars, Elon's Cybertruck demolishes part of LA

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack

We strained our eyes with Lenovo's monster monitor: 43.4 inches for price of five 24" screens

Stand back, we're going in: The Register rips a 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon apart. Literally

Let's learn from drone cockups: Confidential reports service opens up to unmanned fliers

Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC: Howdy buck do you get a solid 60FPS in Rockstar's masterpiece?

High-resolution display output or Wi-Fi: It seems you can only choose one on Raspberry Pi 4

HP Inc: Don't ask us about Xerox. Just get a load of our, er, flat as a pancake sales growth

It's 2019 so, of course, there's alleged ad fraud to the tune of $1bn in tech pushed to doctors

Xerox: Prepare to say cyan-ara, HP Inc. We're no paper tiger. We're really very serious about that hostile takeover

Here's a starter for 10 on smartphones: Who grew in Q3? A) Everyone. B) Asian vendors. C) Apple

Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update

European smartphone market rallies but Apple didn't get the memo

From July, you better be Putin these Kremlin-approved apps on gadgets sold in Russia