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US cities react in fury to FCC's $2bn break for 5G telcos: We'll be picking up the tab, say officials

HPE UK shunts cloud biz into London hipster shack amid rebrand

Adobe forks out $4.75bn for Marketo in massive marketing mashup move

ball chain

In a race to 5G, Trump has stuck a ball-and-chain on America's leg

Skeleton at computer

Still using Skype? Good news! After HOURS of meetings, Microsoft reckons it knows when you're Not Active

The revised Start menu in Build 14328

You're alone in a room with the Windows 10 out-of-the-box apps. What do you do?

weeping techie with crumpled coffee cups

I want to buy a coffee with an app – how hard can it be?

staffer props head on pile of books as he clicks a mouse and fights sleep

Spent your week box-ticking? It can't be as bad as the folk at this firm

Insider Threat

Spectre graphic

Virus screener goes down, Intel patches more chips, Pegasus government spying code spreads across globe

panic

Twitter: Don't panic, but we may have leaked your DMs to rando devs

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Couldn't give a fsck about patching? Well, that's your WordPress website pwned, then

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Enigma message crack honours pioneering Polish codebreakers

Windows Admin Center gets an update, just in time for Server 2019

Nice looking nice in France

Head for sunny Nice to catch up with the fast-moving world of software development

Your deep dive into AWS Lambda, FaaS and more – at our Serverless conference in November

Stack of cash

GitLab gets it, grabs $100m to become $1bn firm

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HP Ink should cough up $1.5m for bricking printers using unofficial cartridges – lawsuit

natwest atms

Fallover Friday: NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank go TITSUP*

Tech to solve post-Brexit customs woes doesn't exist yet, peers say

Wine photo via Shutterstock

Intel co-founder's Silicon Valley pad goes on the market for $22m

iPhone XS teardown (credit: iFixit)

iFixit engineers have an L of a time pulling apart Apple's iPhone XS

yelling

Remember when Apple's FaceTime stopped working years ago? Yeah, that was deliberate

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

Geek's Guide

dickinsonia

Fat chance: Cholesterol leads boffins to discover world's oldest animal fossil – 558m years old

his low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called "Buckskin." The MAHLI camera on Curiosity's robotic arm took multiple images on Aug. 5, 2015, that were stitched together into this selfie. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Curiosity's computer silent on science, baffling boffins

octopus

Got any ecsta-sea? Boffins get octopuses high on MDMA – for science, duh

JAXA_rover

Bouncing robots land on asteroid 180m miles away amid mission to fetch sample for Earth

genie lamp

Buried in the hype, one little detail: Amazon's Alexa-on-a-chip could steal smart home market

Police image via Shutterstock

UK cops run machine learning trials on live police operations. Unregulated. What could go wrong? – report

China keyboard, image via Shutterstock

Alibaba wants to ship its own neural network silicon by H2 2019

cody

Renegade 3D-printing gunsmith Cody Wilson on the run in Taipei from child sex allegations

Verity Stob

nigel farage

UKIP flogs latex love gloves: Because Brexit means Brexit

OK, I've got a smoothie for Alistair, one organic orange for Dave and a whole pineapple for Dante. Dante?

Deliveroo to bike food to hungry fanbois queuing to buy iPhones

Verity Stob gloved with pearls

30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days

Huawei P8

Man cuffed for testing fruit with bum cheek pre-purchase

Personal Tech

iPhone XS teardown (credit: iFixit)

iFixit engineers have an L of a time pulling apart Apple's iPhone XS

The screwdriver fiddlers at iFixit have inflicted their usual brand of affection upon Apple’s pricey new phones and found a battery of a most unusual shape.

Richard Speed, 21 Sep 2018

yelling

Remember when Apple's FaceTime stopped working years ago? Yeah, that was deliberate

Apple is accused of deliberately shafting people who didn't upgrade their iPhones and iOS, in a class action lawsuit over its FaceTime video-conferencing software.

Kieren McCarthy, 20 Sep 2018

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

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

4 million people keep paying for contracts that include handset charges

Amazon Fire

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

Game over for gaming strategy that seems to be on Fire, literally

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

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

Cat B35

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

Opinion

News

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

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?

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

The Brooklyn Bridge

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

UpdateMapbox acts quickly to wipe hate speech attack from site

HTC U12 Life three view in 'Moonlight Blue'

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 ...

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