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Tune in this month: El Reg's Chris Mellor talks storage, cloud and much more with Qumulo – and you're all invited

Vodafone UK links arms with Openreach to build out its full-fibre network

Double downtime: Azure DevOps, Google cloud users put the kettle on

Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy?

Microsoft's phrase of the week was 'tech intensity' and, no, we're not sure what it means either

Google throws new version of Dart at the desktop, will be hoping it sticks with app devs

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

BlueKeep freakout had little to no impact on patching, say experts

Back-2-school hacking: Kaspersky blames pesky script kiddies for rash of DDoS cyber hooliganism

If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is: Nobody can decrypt the Dharma ransomware

Hate hub hacked, Cisco bugs squished, Bluekeep attacks begin, and much, much more

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

Smack-talking overflow: Mining developer sentiment to understand the most popular APIs

Skills Matter... sadly, so does cash flow: 15-year-old London dev events biz enters administration

GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security'

Microsoft embraces California data privacy law, but don't expect Google to follow suit

Uber CEO compares pedestrian death to murder of Saudi journalist, saying all should be forgiven

Any promises to extend rights of self-employed might win an election, hint Brit freelancer orgs

237 UK police force staff punished for misusing IT systems in last 2 years

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

Apple's credit card probed over sexism claims after women getting stiffed on limits

Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?

Ex from Hell gets six years for online stalking and revenge pics rampage at two women

Geek's Guide

SpaceX flings another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in firm's heaviest payload to date

'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad

Bloodhound rocket car target of 550mph put on ice after engine overheat

To avoid that Titanic feeling, boffins create an unsinkable hydrophobic metal with laser power

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

They say lightning never strikes twice, but boffins have built an AI to show where it'll come next

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe’s Galileo satellites going dark

Robotics mastermind admits: I pushed over my 1-year-old daughter to understand balance

Verity Stob

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

Personal Tech

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

UpdatedRemember the UK DeepMind scandal? No?

12 Nov 00:28 | 5

Personal Tech

Apple's credit card probed over sexism claims after women getting stiffed on limits

Blame the algorithms - it's the new 'dog ate my homework'

11 Nov 22:27 | 14

Personal Tech

Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?

iGiant paid for Irish educators to attend events abroad – report

11 Nov 11:54 | 81

Personal Tech

Ex from Hell gets six years for online stalking and revenge pics rampage at two women

Rare sign of criminal justice system actually working for these kinds of cases

08 Nov 23:54 | 46

Personal Tech

Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data?

Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats not happy with Ajit Pai

08 Nov 22:41 | 42

Personal Tech

ZTE Nubia Z20: It's £499. It's a great phone. Buy it. Or don't. We don't care

It's got another display on the back and everything

08 Nov 09:02 | 59

Personal Tech

Microsoft has made a Surface slab that mere mortals can dismantle

A swappable battery would be icing on the cake, though

07 Nov 17:15 | 22

Personal Tech

OPPO's Reno 2, aka 'Baby Shark', joins the deepening pool of high-spec midranger mobes

Don't spend a thousand quid before you fish around, folks

07 Nov 09:17 | 48

Personal Tech

California’s Attorney General joins the long list of people who have had it with Facebook

As thousands of internal files leak revealing antisocial biz's pressure on app makers

06 Nov 23:32 | 40

Personal Tech

Huawei. It's the patriotic choice: Mobe behemoth predicts 20% sales spike despite US sanctions

But analyst reckons that's 'ambitious' given dependence on Chinese punters

06 Nov 10:58 | 13

Personal Tech

Phew! All that competition in the US mobile industry was exhausting. Thank God for the FCC, am I right?

AnalysisRegulator OKs Sprint-T-Mobile US merger because... 5G? Higher prices?

05 Nov 21:13 | 20

Personal Tech

AT&T: We did nothing wrong in promising unlimited data that wasn't. We're just giving the FTC $60m for fun

CommentWatchdog agrees one day of profit ought to be enough after 5 years of arguing

05 Nov 19:37 | 35

Personal Tech

The .amazon argy-bargy is STILL going on – and Uncle Sam has had enough with ICANN

AnalysisWill Amazon finally get hold of its internet namesake?

04 Nov 21:56 | 29

Personal Tech

Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget

Register readers confirm unseen hardware took bank cards on a joyride

04 Nov 21:08 | 59

Personal Tech

Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)

Purchase another sign of mass consolidation by tech giants

01 Nov 19:56 | 58

Personal Tech

Not just adhesive, but alcohol-resistant adhesive: Well done, Apple. Airpods Pro repairability is a zero

Professional wireless buds pack interesting features, though

01 Nov 14:15 | 180

Personal Tech

WTF? Apple iPhones shrank by more than $22bn in fiscal '19

Proud CEO Cook hails a 'remarkable year'... perhaps for all the wrong reasons

31 Oct 16:31 | 47

Personal Tech

Xiaomi the way to go phone: That would be with a 108MP camera by the looks of things

Snap-happy handset also packs massive 5,170mAh battery

31 Oct 07:02 | 30

Personal Tech

FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network

CommentIt’s almost as if social media giant has ill-considered, naive, spectacularly stupid policies

30 Oct 19:37 | 42

Personal Tech

Weird Flex but OK: New Samsung laptop lines haul QLED monitor tech squinting into the sun

Two Books, 600 nits – another is first to feature Intel's Lakefield chippery (Soz, Microsoft)

30 Oct 15:14 | 6

Personal Tech

Facebook ends appeal against ICO micro-fine: Admit liability? Never. But you can have £500k

Antisocial network accepts Cambridge Analytica wrist slap

30 Oct 14:09 | 13

Tune in this month: El Reg's Chris Mellor talks storage, cloud and much more with Qumulo – and you're all invited

Vodafone UK links arms with Openreach to build out its full-fibre network

Double downtime: Azure DevOps, Google cloud users put the kettle on

Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy?

Microsoft's phrase of the week was 'tech intensity' and, no, we're not sure what it means either

Google throws new version of Dart at the desktop, will be hoping it sticks with app devs

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

BlueKeep freakout had little to no impact on patching, say experts

Back-2-school hacking: Kaspersky blames pesky script kiddies for rash of DDoS cyber hooliganism

If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is: Nobody can decrypt the Dharma ransomware

Hate hub hacked, Cisco bugs squished, Bluekeep attacks begin, and much, much more

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

Smack-talking overflow: Mining developer sentiment to understand the most popular APIs

Skills Matter... sadly, so does cash flow: 15-year-old London dev events biz enters administration

GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security'

Microsoft embraces California data privacy law, but don't expect Google to follow suit

Uber CEO compares pedestrian death to murder of Saudi journalist, saying all should be forgiven

Any promises to extend rights of self-employed might win an election, hint Brit freelancer orgs

237 UK police force staff punished for misusing IT systems in last 2 years

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

Apple's credit card probed over sexism claims after women getting stiffed on limits

Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?

Ex from Hell gets six years for online stalking and revenge pics rampage at two women

SpaceX flings another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in firm's heaviest payload to date

'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad

Bloodhound rocket car target of 550mph put on ice after engine overheat

To avoid that Titanic feeling, boffins create an unsinkable hydrophobic metal with laser power

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

They say lightning never strikes twice, but boffins have built an AI to show where it'll come next

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe’s Galileo satellites going dark

Robotics mastermind admits: I pushed over my 1-year-old daughter to understand balance

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction

Blood, snot and fear: Why the travelling lone tech reporter should always knock twice

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

Personal Tech

Google brings its secret health data stockpiling systems to the US

Apple's credit card probed over sexism claims after women getting stiffed on limits

Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?

Ex from Hell gets six years for online stalking and revenge pics rampage at two women

Congress to FCC: Where’s the damn report on mobile companies selling location data?

ZTE Nubia Z20: It's £499. It's a great phone. Buy it. Or don't. We don't care

Microsoft has made a Surface slab that mere mortals can dismantle

OPPO's Reno 2, aka 'Baby Shark', joins the deepening pool of high-spec midranger mobes

California’s Attorney General joins the long list of people who have had it with Facebook

Huawei. It's the patriotic choice: Mobe behemoth predicts 20% sales spike despite US sanctions

Phew! All that competition in the US mobile industry was exhausting. Thank God for the FCC, am I right?

AT&T: We did nothing wrong in promising unlimited data that wasn't. We're just giving the FTC $60m for fun

The .amazon argy-bargy is STILL going on – and Uncle Sam has had enough with ICANN

Baffled by bogus charges on your Amazon account? It may be the work of a crook's phantom gadget

Google forks out $2.1bn for Fitbit – and promises not to exploit all that delicious health data to sling ads (honest)

Not just adhesive, but alcohol-resistant adhesive: Well done, Apple. Airpods Pro repairability is a zero

WTF? Apple iPhones shrank by more than $22bn in fiscal '19

Xiaomi the way to go phone: That would be with a 108MP camera by the looks of things

FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network

Weird Flex but OK: New Samsung laptop lines haul QLED monitor tech squinting into the sun

Facebook ends appeal against ICO micro-fine: Admit liability? Never. But you can have £500k

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Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is: Nobody can decrypt the Dharma ransomware

'That roar is terrific... look at that rocket go!' It's been 52 years since first Saturn V left the pad

What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy?

Double downtime: Azure DevOps, Google cloud users put the kettle on

Teachers: Make your pupils' parents buy them an iPad to use at school. Oh and did you pack sunglasses for the Apple-funded jolly?

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

Hate hub hacked, Cisco bugs squished, Bluekeep attacks begin, and much, much more

SpaceX flings another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in firm's heaviest payload to date

237 UK police force staff punished for misusing IT systems in last 2 years

Google goes full Anti-Flash-ist, boots Adobe's insecure monstrosity out of web search index

It's back: The mercifully normal-looking Moto 360 smartwatch

Samsung SpaceSelfie Galaxy-bearing balloon photobombs Michigan home the hard way

Red hangs up the Hydrogen phone as firm exits handset business

Teardown gurus plunge screwdrivers into Google Pixel 4XL: Check out the speedy display from, er, Samsung

Remember the 1980s? Oversized shoulder pads, Metal Mickey and... sticky keyboards?

Play Huawei... for now: Firm aims Googletastic Honor 9X at young 'uns

Repairability fiends crack open a Surface Laptop 3: Nice SSD, but shame about the battery

AMD sees Ryzen PCs sold with its CPUs in Europe as Intel shortages persist

The Great Data Takeout: Facebook, Google etc may be forced to hand over control of your info via an API (for a fee)

Chinese customers to unfold their Huawei Mate X on 15 November