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Looking for super speed from Optane? It's doable but quite difficult

Falling NAND prices to drive NVMe SSD uptake, say industry watchers

Debate around Huawei espionage fears in UK about as clear as those darn Brexit negotiations

Children of Wales to be prepped for the vibrant world of work with free Office 365 ProPlus

US prosecutors whack another three charges on list against ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch over $11bn HP biz gobble

Oracle spaffed $30bn on buybacks over the past 9 months, but analysts warn it can't last forever

Android clampdown on calls and texts access trashes bunch of apps

Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored

Slack slings crypto-keys at big biz, union gets worked over, VPN owners probed, trolls trouble vets, and more

Uncle Sam's disaster agency FEMA creates disaster of its own: 2.3 million survivors' personal records spilled

Security storm brewing for Oracle Java-powered smart cards: More than a dirty dozen flaws found, fixes... er, any fixes?

Hey, what's Mandarin for 'WTF is going on?' Nokia phones caught spewing device IDs to China, software blunder blamed

Atlassian bats eyelashes at the enterprise with AgileCraft acquisition

Hey, DevOps fans. We've got another TLA for you to write down: CDF

From on-prem to serverless, here’s how to transform your software ops

Wanna improve your software ops? Need to cut through container hype? Like saving cash?

Facebook's at it again: Internal emails show it knew about Cambridge Analytica abuse 'months' before news broke

Campaigners cry foul over NHS Digital plans to grant policy wonks and researchers access to patient-level data

TV piracy ring walks the plank after Euro cops launch 14 raids and shutter 11 data centres

Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

Geek's Guide

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't!

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

'Naut trio successfully dock at ISS after Soyuz rocket goes all the way

Our amazing industry-leading AI was too dumb to detect the New Zealand massacre live vid, Facebook shrugs

Autopilot engineer drove off to Chinese rival with our top-secret blueprints in the glovebox, Tesla claims in sueball

New phone who dis? Facial recognition models more farcical despite progress

Our Skyborg (actual US govt program) will be just like IBM Watson, beams Air Force bod

Verity Stob

Google sparks online outcry after its currency converter goes haywire for third time this year

Not quite the Bake Off they were expecting: Canadian seniors served weed-infused brownies

Russian sailors maroon themselves in Bristol Channel after drunken dinghy ride goes awry

'It's full of beer!' Miracle fridge reveals itself to pals tuckered out from cleaning flooded cabin

Personal Tech

A man with mad hair turns the page in a book

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher

22 Mar 19:29 | 41

QUIZZICAL LOOK

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Hands-OnRift S adds some technology... but not enough

22 Mar 06:03 | 52

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Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow

21 Mar 06:54 | 29

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

Aussie media claims Silicon Valley giant used surveillance tool to torpedo competitor

21 Mar 00:40 | 14

Mobes 'n' mattresses flinger Xiaomi growing like the clappers – outside China, at least

The Last Emporium

20 Mar 17:15 | 12

Apple's revamped iPad beams a workhorse in from Planet Ludicrous

AnalysisPro features trickle down to the rest of us

20 Mar 09:16 | 50

In a humiliating climbdown, Facebook agrees to follow US laws

Ad targeting system overhaul to stop landlords from discriminating based on race

19 Mar 21:48 | 44

Super Cali optimistic right-to-repair's negotious, even though Apple thought it was something quite atrocious

US state joins others mulling laws allowing folks to freely fix their kit

19 Mar 19:48 | 86

So about that Atari reboot console... you might want to sit down. It's going to be late, OK?

But it'll be cooler, faster and just all-round betterer! Honest!

19 Mar 15:59 | 33

US govt handout of mushroom cloud from Ivy Mike thermonuclear test

Qualcomm wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case, wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case...

AnalysisTime to revisit the idea of patent portfolio as nuclear deterrence?

18 Mar 20:36 | 13

A freshly dead hand rises from grave

Apple bestows first hardware upgrades in years upon neglected iPad Mini and Air lines

And a stylus! But goes without saying that it ain't cheap

18 Mar 16:05 | 74

karven_648

How many Reg columnists does it take to turn off a lightbulb?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?'New technology baffles pissed old hack' (© Private Eye)

15 Mar 09:03 | 175

Someone holding a pretend stick of dynamite

Bombs Huawei... Smartphone exploded in my daughter's pocket, seriously burning her, claims dad in lawsuit

Yet another legal brouhaha for Chinese giant, this time nothing to do with equipment bans

15 Mar 07:02 | 47

Advertisement

We'll help you get your next fix... maybe, we'll think about it, says FTC: 'Right to repair' mulled

Federal Trade Commission will turn Fault-finder, Tinker, Customize this summer

14 Mar 23:59 | 48

Samsung slings the skinny on its 12GB GötterDRAMmerung for next-gen smartmobes

Get ready for handhelds with notebook-beating RAM chips

14 Mar 19:59 | 11

The HeirPod? Samsung Galaxy Buds teardown finds tiny wireless cans 'surprisingly repairable'

It is easy to make itsy-bitsy tech without spaffing glue all over the place

14 Mar 01:58 | 42

What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

UpdatedThey all fell over, fears of massive DDoS denied

13 Mar 20:56 | 62

China still doesn't want iPhones despite Apple slashing prices, say market watchers

Wanted: A cheap model?

13 Mar 16:07 | 38

At last! A solution for those unable to wrench their gaze from Windows 10... Er, it's Your Phone

No, not your phone. It's 2019, for heaven's sake. The app

13 Mar 12:23 | 6

There was yet another net neutrality hearing today in America, and it was all straightened out amicably and smoothly

No, of course it wasn't

12 Mar 21:36 | 19

Uber driver drove sleeping woman miles away from home to 'up the fare'. Now he's facing years in the clink for kidnapping, fraud

Victim says she woke to feel dial-a-ride creep groping her in back seat, phone missing

12 Mar 00:21 | 75

MOST READ

Pre-checked cookie boxes don't count as valid consent, says adviser to top EU court

web cookie illustration

Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report

prison

Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink

PuTTY in your hands: SSH client gets patched after RSA key exchange memory vuln spotted

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Tired of smashing your face into the brick wall that is US net neutrality? Too bad. There's a long way to go yet, friends

AnalysisDemocrats launch new legislation that won't pass, but will cause months of argument

07 Mar 23:15 | 11

God DRAM, that's a big price drop: Memory down 30 per cent, claim industry watchers

Plummeting chip prices are collateral damage from ongoing Intel CPU shortage

07 Mar 20:46 | 26

Meizu ditched hole-free phone because it was 'just the marketing team messing about', not because no one really gave a toss

OK, whatever you say

07 Mar 15:13 | 42

Galaxy S10 Teardown

Galaxy S10's under-glass fingerprint reader, quelle surprise, makes mobe a right pain to fix

Who'da thunk it? 3 out of 10 for repairability, must try harder

06 Mar 17:34 | 25

You'll never guess who's giving Google a right shoeing lately. Talking about barring Chrome, Search as defaults... any other nations watching?

Throw another regulation on the barbie, says Australia

06 Mar 07:03 | 27

ZX Spectrum Prototype

The first ZX Spectrum prototype laid bare... (What? It was acceptable in the '80s)

Clear! Museum hopes to bring silicon back to life over next few weeks

05 Mar 12:45 | 73

Obey text on a board

Haha! Conformist 'Droids! Yep, that's what's most profitable these days, says Nokia

♫ We were always being boring

05 Mar 11:40 | 13

Cheap as chips: There's no such thing as a free lunch any Moore

ColumnIndustry faces down Spectre of performance optimisation

05 Mar 10:06 | 44

USB4: Based on Thunderbolt 3. Two times the data rate, at 40Gbps. One fewer space. Zero confusing versions

We live in hope – you'll have to wait until 2020 at the earliest

05 Mar 00:16 | 105

Good news: Congress has solutions to end net neutrality brouhaha. Bad news: Two competing sets of solutions...

AnalysisWe're gonna save America's internet, scream both sides in different ways

04 Mar 21:25 | 12

It's not your imagination: Ticket scalper bots are flooding the internet according this 'ere study

'40 per cent' of purchases are automated – but do gig organizers care when a sale is a sale?

01 Mar 22:49 | 101

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

AnalysisWhen it said 5 per cent of banned slurp app users were kids, it actually meant much, much more than that

01 Mar 22:14 | 135

Dirty men's underwear

Why are there never free power sockets when my Y-fronts need charging?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?If I had my way, I'd have sparks flying from your underwear

01 Mar 11:00 | 136

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

But this moneybags web giant is not a publisher, got that?

28 Feb 23:01 | 125

Man selling counterfeit goods

Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money

AnalysisIt's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz

28 Feb 22:13 | 30

Lenovo kicks down door of MWC, dumps a stack of sexy new ThinkPads

MWCThey're ThinkPads, but a bit better than before

27 Feb 09:15 | 56

LG's new gesture UI for mobes, while technically interesting, is still a little hand-wavy at the mo

MWC Hands OnAnd it makes you look silly

26 Feb 17:11 | 14

Long phone is loooong: Sony swipes at flagship fatigue with 21:9 tall boy

MWC Hands OnThis one gets everything right

26 Feb 11:38 | 67

'God, Send Mobiles,' the industry prayed back in the '90s. This time, 5G actually has it covered

MWC AnalysisNetworks may be late, but handsets are here

26 Feb 05:59 | 17

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