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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?

Trust the public cloud Big Three to make non-volatile storage volatile

HPE's cold storage digit: 2% growth better than a kick in the teeth – but it's no Dell EMC

Redis kills Modules' Commons Clause licensing... and replaces it with one of their own

OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers

Oracle sued for $4.5m after ERP system delivery date 'moved from 2015 to 2016, then 2017, then... er, never'

Linux love hits Windows 10 19H1 amid a second round of zombie slaying

Entrust Datacard lined up to unburden Thales of nCipher biz as price for Gemalto buyout

Infosec in spaaace! NCC and Surrey Uni to pore over satellite security

WTF PDF: If at first you don't succeed, you may be Adobe re-patching its Acrobat, Reader patches

Black-hat sextortionists required: Competitive salary and dental plan

CI/CD outfit Shippable shipped off to adopt the green tinge of JFrog

Fancy a .dev domain? They were $12,500 a pop from Google. Now, $1,000. Soon, $17.50. And you may want one

Software development and deployment? Yeah, we can help you with that...

Git money, git paid: GitHub waves larger wads of dollar bills to tempt bug hunters

How politics works, part 97: Telecoms industry throws a fundraiser for US senator night before he oversees, er, a telecoms privacy hearing

Google: Hmm, this government regulation stuff looks important. Let's stick some more lobbyists on that

Sueballs at the ready? Google promises end to forced arbitration after wave of staff protests

Northern UK smart meter rollout is too slow, snarls MPs' committee

ZX Spectrum Vega+ 'backer'? Nope, you're now a creditor – and should probably act fast

Oracle: Major ad scam 'DrainerBot' is rinsing Android users of their battery life and data

Samsung pulls sheets off costly phone-cum-fondleslab Galaxy Fold – and a hefty 5G monster

The bigger they are, the harder they fall: Peak smartphone hits Apple, Samsung the worst

Geek's Guide

Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has got the horn for space rock Ryugu – a sampling horn, that is

Lunar lander's brief jaunt will place Israel as fourth country to make soft landing on Moon

Eggheads want YOU to name Jupiter's five newly found moons ‒ and yeah, not so fast with Moony McMoonface

Deton-8. Blastobox-3. Demo-1... One of these is the name of a SpaceX crew capsule test now due to launch in March

Now you've read about the bonkers world of Elizabeth Holmes, own some Theranos history: Upstart's IT gear for sale

Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?

What's the frequency, KeNNeth? Neural nets trained to tune in on radar signals to boost future mobe broadband

EPIC demand: It's time for Google to fly the Nest after 'forgetting' to mention home alarm hub has built-in mic

Verity Stob

Not so smart after all: A techie's tale of toilet noise horror

No yoke: 'Bored' Aussie test pilot passes time in the cockpit by drawing massive knobs in the air

'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin

You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly

Personal Tech

A ZX Spectrum Vega Plus V2 by Retro Computers Ltd

ZX Spectrum Vega+ 'backer'? Nope, you're now a creditor – and should probably act fast

Speak up and you might recover some of that £513k

22 Feb 16:48 | 12

Dead battery

Oracle: Major ad scam 'DrainerBot' is rinsing Android users of their battery life and data

App piracy fighter Tapcore strenuously denies involvement

21 Feb 14:46 | 22

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Samsung pulls sheets off costly phone-cum-fondleslab Galaxy Fold – and a hefty 5G monster

Innovation? In my smartphone market? It's more likely than you think

21 Feb 11:25 | 70

The bigger they are, the harder they fall: Peak smartphone hits Apple, Samsung the worst

Chinese upstarts fill in the gaps

21 Feb 09:33 | 29

Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone

+CommentWhoops! Oh gosh

20 Feb 13:59 | 148

U wot, m8? OMG SMS is back from dead

Not exactly... But we might be seeing a toe twitching

20 Feb 11:58 | 88

AGM X3: Swoon at this rugged interloper mobe then throw it on the floor to impress your mates

Hands OnBecause it'll be fiiiiine... probably

20 Feb 09:46 | 22

Turn on, tune in, drop out: Apple's whizz-bang T2 security chips hit a bum note for Mac audio

Sm... ck m... glitch up: Coprocess... has nasty... USB ...oun... outp... rruption... roblem

19 Feb 22:43 | 26

LG folds at prospect of launching bendy phone while Samsung flaunts its upcoming kit on telly

We need to get our house in order first, prez tells press

19 Feb 11:23 | 26

Alias Undressed

Solder and Lego required: The Register builds glorious Project Alias gizmo to deafen Alexa

Second time lucky?

18 Feb 11:48 | 48

The hit augmented reality smartphone app "Pokemon GO" shows a Pokemon encounter overlain on a real world trail in the forest in Santa Cruz, California. Photo by Matthew Corley for Shutterstock. EDITORIAL USE ONLY!.

Pokemon No! Good news: You can now ban the virtual pests, er, pets to stop nerds wandering around your property

Lawyers clean up after games biz settles with homeowners sick of zombie players

15 Feb 22:15 | 58

A man gives a reluctant thumbs up

Banking in 2019: Sure, we'd recommend TSB's online, mobe banking say cowed customers

TITSUP* bank gets thumbs up from personal banking users

15 Feb 15:05 | 26

Surface Studio Hands-On

Surface Studio 2: The Vulture rakes a talon over Microsoft's latest box of desktop delight

Hands OnLovely screen, shame about the price

15 Feb 12:01 | 51

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Roses are red, Facebook will pay, to make Uncle Sam go away: Zuck, FTC in $bn settlement rumor

Antisocial network may shell out billions to end watchdog's privacy probe, it is reported

15 Feb 00:38 | 11

White House and FCC announce big, broken solutions to America's pitiful broadband

Why fight an oligopoly when you can subsidize it?

14 Feb 23:50 | 23

How do you like them Apples? Tim Cook's iPhones sitting in the tree, feeling unloved by the Chinese

Sales of Jesus mobe slump by double digits in Middle Kingdom

14 Feb 15:15 | 35

Is Oppo short for Opportunistic? BBK opens UK doors

A dubious slider and a bargain midranger. Forgotten the chocolates? We'll warn you now: Danger!

14 Feb 12:38 | 12

Roses are red, we've received about fifty. Google's next trick? Pixels for the thrifty

Cheap Google mobes this year, at least according to Nikkei

14 Feb 11:28 | 16

Lenovo ThinkPad P1: Sumptuous pro PC that gets a tad warm

Long Term TestBattery could be improved, we charge

14 Feb 09:05 | 26

Take your pick: Linux on Windows 10 hardware, or Windows 10 on Linux hardware

We can't see the Arm in having a little tinker

13 Feb 16:16 | 61

Granddaddy of the DIY repair generation John Haynes has loosened his last nut

ObitiFixit pays tribute to 'beacon of light' for the fixers of the world

13 Feb 12:57 | 100

MOST READ

Oracle sued for $4.5m after ERP system delivery date 'moved from 2015 to 2016, then 2017, then... er, never'

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Fancy a .dev domain? They were $12,500 a pop from Google. Now, $1,000. Soon, $17.50. And you may want one

Linus Torvalds with toy penguins

Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo

Mike Pompeo

You're on a Huawei to Hell, US Sec State Pompeo warns allies: Buy Beijing's boxes, no more intelligence for you

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Samsung Galaxy's flagship leaks ... don't matter much. Here's why

Hole puncher, hole puncher... where's headphone jack? Leave out the notch, add hole for snap flash...

13 Feb 11:21 | 59

I am just a mapper: Solar drones take to the skies above Blighty

90 days without a refuel

12 Feb 12:17 | 75

RIP Dr Peuto, Zilog and Sun's bright SPARC

ObitWe bid farewell to the best kind of 16-bit hustler...

12 Feb 10:47 | 57

Raspberry Pi Store

Mini computer flingers go after a slice of the high street retail Pi

Eben Upton talks to El Reg about hopes, dreams and solid starts

11 Feb 12:00 | 74

Music kid image via Shutterstock

OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn't what it was, but Play nice, will ya?

Bug appears to hate tunes released this year

08 Feb 09:50 | 56

Lovely website you got there. Would be a shame if we, er, someone were to sink it: Google warns EU link tax will magnify media monetary misery

Let us copy your snippets, or say goodbye to revenue

08 Feb 06:03 | 93

Surface Studio 2

Almost £5k for a deskslab: Microsoft's Surface Studio 2 hits UK

Eye-pleasing graphics to match eye-watering pricing

07 Feb 13:10 | 30

Apple hands keys for retail to HR boss amid flagging iPhone sales

Deirdre O'Brien to take reins from Angela Ahrendts

06 Feb 12:04 | 21

Is this a wind-up? Planet Computers boss calls time on ZX Spectrum reboot firm

Lots of unanswered questions remain – and nobody's talking

05 Feb 09:20 | 28

Siri, how do you wipe that smug smile from Qualcomm's face? Apple wins patent skirmish with chip nemesis

Four of eight lawsuits brought by Qualy against iGiant booted out of German court

01 Feb 06:53 | 16

iPhone price cuts are coming, teases Apple CEO. Bring-bring Hello, Apple UK? It's El Reg. You free to chat?

Snow joke, we really want to know if they'll land in the UK

30 Jan 13:29 | 105

Hiker free falling from cliff

Even Windows 10 can't save the PC market as chip shortages, Brexit uncertainties bite

Consumers pinch pennies while Brit biz tries to get the budget spent before you-know-what

30 Jan 10:28 | 31

Tim Cook

Apple: Good news, everyone – sales are less bad than we thought. Not amazing but not bad. $84bn is $84bn, tho

Cook and co get a boost after topping their own low bar

30 Jan 01:58 | 23

fed up

Apple files yet another appeal against $503m FaceTime patent payout

Claims it redesigned around VirnetX IP. That obviously worked well then...

29 Jan 20:31 | 14

Tim Cook, photo2 by JStone via Shutterstock

Ouch, Apple! Plenty of iPhones stuck in tech channel. How many? That's a 'wild card'

Plus: Chinese buyers may turn on firm, warns analyst

29 Jan 11:09 | 65

Apple: You can't sue us for slowing down your iPhones because you, er, invited us into, uh, your home... we can explain

We're like a building contractor, explains Cupertino. More like vampires, thinks rest of world

28 Jan 22:19 | 175

Raspberry Pi Foundation says its final farewells to 40nm with release of Compute Module 3+

Flash storage embiggened, CPU clock speed less so

28 Jan 16:55 | 53

The Apple Mac is 35 years old. Behold the beige box of the future

Want expansion? Tough. You're using it wrong.

25 Jan 13:12 | 113

Sprint subscribers: What do your updated iPhone and Tonga have in common? Both are cut off from the world

Dash it all... Fix rushed out after iOS 12.1.3 security patch collides with US telco

24 Jan 20:45 | 15

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