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Gone in a flash: Oracle lays off hundreds as the biz formerly known as Pillar Data is shuttered

Alibaba: There's a trade war going on? Could've fooled us – just check out these swollen digits

Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security

Fancy a career exposing cloud data leaks? Great news, companies are still largely clueless

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Apple fires legal salvo at Corellium claiming the virtual iPhone flinger is infringing copyright

Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Kaspersky and Trend Micro get patch bonanza after ID flaw and password manager holes spotted

Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it

NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down

Top tip: Don't upload your confidential biz files to free malware-scanning websites – everything is public

And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites

How long does it take to get up and running with serverless? A day with us should do the trick

Now CI/CD can get a better piece of the Actions: GitHub expands automation service to build, test, deploy tools

They're climbing through the Windows: CircleCI goes native on Microsoft's OS

Captain, we've detected a disturbance in space-time. It's coming from Earth. Someone audited the Kubernetes source

Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'

Now you see them... IBM made over 800 UK jobs vanish in 2018 despite improving fortunes

Simons says don't push us: FTC boss warns regulator could totally break up big tech companies if it wanted

Got room for another probe up there, Google? Jobs sites ask EU anti-trust tsar to look at how search giant ranks them

Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

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Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Don't let your dreams be dreams! Itty-bitty space shuttle to ride into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur

Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth

Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin

UK.gov has £12m to help kick-start quantum techs that could be 'adopted at scale' – which is pretty niche, if we're honest

Just dying to get into neural networks? Need a start in deep learning? We can workshop it out

'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha

Truckers, prepare to lose your jobs as UPS buys into self-driving tech

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Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

UK.gov opens £250k competition to tackle first-world problem of crap conference Wi-Fi

Criminal mastermind signed name as 'Thief' on receipts after buying stuff with stolen card

Quick question, what the Hull? City khazi is a top UK tourist destination

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Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

400MHz ought to be enough for anyone?

16 Aug 19:00 | 37

Personal Tech

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

The chaebol tightens its vice-like grip on Europe

14 Aug 14:42 | 9

Personal Tech

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Models recalled for faulty batts banned from air over fire risk

14 Aug 13:43 | 32

Personal Tech

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

UpdatedYou've got until Dec 15 to panic buy gear before 10% rise hits

13 Aug 19:57 | 61

Personal Tech

Researchers peer into crystal ball to see future where everyone's ID is tied to their smartphone

Big Brother rang...

13 Aug 09:02 | 83

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Hey dudes, we need to start living together in Harmony: Huawei puffs up new distributed OS

Not quite an Android replacement then?

09 Aug 15:23 | 65

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Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

UpdatedYour wondrous Amazon smart speaker may be tainted with the paw prints of child labour

09 Aug 11:35 | 97

Personal Tech

Ohm my God: If you let anyone other than Apple replace your recent iPhone's battery, expect to be nagged by iOS

Shocking current-affairs news: Cupertino idiot-tax operation hits resistance over harsh repair policy

08 Aug 23:04 | 172

Personal Tech

Chap uncovers privilege escalation vuln in Steam only to be told by Valve that bug 'not applicable'

Exploit allows any app to run with full local admin rights on Windows

08 Aug 16:10 | 36

Personal Tech

Top 5 greatest anime crossovers: Samsung deploys Microsoft at Note 10 hootenanny

No headphone jack, a 5G model and a whole lotta dollars

08 Aug 12:30 | 34

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Brit couch potatoes increasingly switching off telly boxes in favour of YouTube and Netflix

But still care about catching bent cops

07 Aug 12:44 | 99

Personal Tech

Side-splitting bulging batts, borked Wi-Fi... So, how's that Surface slab working out for you?

Reg reader finds a use for the new London store while others struggle with fubar wireless

07 Aug 06:48 | 58

Personal Tech

Lyft pulls its e-bike fleet from San Francisco Bay Area after exploding batteries make them the hottest seat in town

Super Cali 'leccy bikes are proving quite atrocious, even though the biz insists they really quite precocious

01 Aug 19:23 | 84

Personal Tech

You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers

Harnessing container tech to ease the Agones of laaaaaggg

01 Aug 15:41 | 8

Personal Tech

And we're back live with the state of the smartphone market in 2019. Any hope? Yeah, nah

First ever year of sales drop pinned on long lifecycles, lack of innovation

01 Aug 10:43 | 50

Personal Tech

US gives Chinese smuggler 37 months in the slammer for selling knock-off Apple kit

Moved more than 40,000 fake iStuffs while on student visa

31 Jul 21:35 | 13

Personal Tech

Microsoft snubs Hololens loyalists by already ending feature updates – even though version 2 isn't out yet

That $5,000 headset you splashed out on, it's done in terms of non-security tweaks

30 Jul 19:40 | 14

Personal Tech

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

Might go limp as Linux orphans controller driver for ancient removable media

30 Jul 13:53 | 196

Personal Tech

OK, Google. We've got just the gesture for you: Hand-tracking Project Soli coming to Pixel 4

Mobe will watch, er, fingers as well as listen for commands

30 Jul 10:57 | 23

Personal Tech

Spri-Mobile? T-Print? Time to think of a nickname: The Sprint/T-Mobile US merger is go

Uncle Sam's legal eagles sign off on $26bn mega-mashup – multiple states still not happy with biz deal

26 Jul 20:09 | 33

Personal Tech

If at first you don't succeed, Fold? Nope. Samsung redesigns bendy screen for fresh launch in September

Infinity Display Flex extended 'beyond bezel' so users know not to peel it off

25 Jul 12:20 | 96

Gone in a flash: Oracle lays off hundreds as the biz formerly known as Pillar Data is shuttered

Alibaba: There's a trade war going on? Could've fooled us – just check out these swollen digits

Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security

Fancy a career exposing cloud data leaks? Great news, companies are still largely clueless

Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android

Apple fires legal salvo at Corellium claiming the virtual iPhone flinger is infringing copyright

Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue

Kaspersky and Trend Micro get patch bonanza after ID flaw and password manager holes spotted

Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it

NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down

Top tip: Don't upload your confidential biz files to free malware-scanning websites – everything is public

And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites

How long does it take to get up and running with serverless? A day with us should do the trick

Now CI/CD can get a better piece of the Actions: GitHub expands automation service to build, test, deploy tools

They're climbing through the Windows: CircleCI goes native on Microsoft's OS

Captain, we've detected a disturbance in space-time. It's coming from Earth. Someone audited the Kubernetes source

Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'

Now you see them... IBM made over 800 UK jobs vanish in 2018 despite improving fortunes

Simons says don't push us: FTC boss warns regulator could totally break up big tech companies if it wanted

Got room for another probe up there, Google? Jobs sites ask EU anti-trust tsar to look at how search giant ranks them

Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Don't let your dreams be dreams! Itty-bitty space shuttle to ride into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur

Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth

Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin

UK.gov has £12m to help kick-start quantum techs that could be 'adopted at scale' – which is pretty niche, if we're honest

Just dying to get into neural networks? Need a start in deep learning? We can workshop it out

'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha

Truckers, prepare to lose your jobs as UPS buys into self-driving tech

Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...

UK.gov opens £250k competition to tackle first-world problem of crap conference Wi-Fi

Criminal mastermind signed name as 'Thief' on receipts after buying stuff with stolen card

Quick question, what the Hull? City khazi is a top UK tourist destination

Personal Tech

Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out

While US ban hit Huawei and inventory overload clipped Apple, Samsung quietly stole smartphone market share back in Q2

Stuffing your MacBook Pro in a ziplock bag before a flight ain't gonna cut it, say Feds

Donald Trump blinks in his one-man trade war with China: US govt stalls import tariff hike on Chinese phones, laptops, electronics

Researchers peer into crystal ball to see future where everyone's ID is tied to their smartphone

Hey dudes, we need to start living together in Harmony: Huawei puffs up new distributed OS

Alexa, can you tell me how many Chinese kids were forced into working nights to build this unit?

Ohm my God: If you let anyone other than Apple replace your recent iPhone's battery, expect to be nagged by iOS

Chap uncovers privilege escalation vuln in Steam only to be told by Valve that bug 'not applicable'

Top 5 greatest anime crossovers: Samsung deploys Microsoft at Note 10 hootenanny

Brit couch potatoes increasingly switching off telly boxes in favour of YouTube and Netflix

Side-splitting bulging batts, borked Wi-Fi... So, how's that Surface slab working out for you?

Lyft pulls its e-bike fleet from San Francisco Bay Area after exploding batteries make them the hottest seat in town

You'll soon be fragging noobs on Kubernetes with Google's cloudy take on game servers

And we're back live with the state of the smartphone market in 2019. Any hope? Yeah, nah

US gives Chinese smuggler 37 months in the slammer for selling knock-off Apple kit

Microsoft snubs Hololens loyalists by already ending feature updates – even though version 2 isn't out yet

He's coming for your floppy: Linus Torvalds is killing off support for legacy disk drive tech

OK, Google. We've got just the gesture for you: Hand-tracking Project Soli coming to Pixel 4

Spri-Mobile? T-Print? Time to think of a nickname: The Sprint/T-Mobile US merger is go

If at first you don't succeed, Fold? Nope. Samsung redesigns bendy screen for fresh launch in September

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World recoils in horror as smartphone maker accused of helping government snoops read encrypted texts, track device whereabouts

We checked and yup, it's no longer 2001. And yet you can pwn a Windows box via Notepad.exe

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision

An Army Watchkeeper drone tried to land. Then meatbags took over from the computers

Privacy? Watchdogs? Fines? Whatever, nerds, more people than ever are using Facebook and filling its deep coffers

Too hot to handle? Raspberry Pi 4 fans left wondering if kit should come with a heatsink

When you play the game of Big Spendy Thrones, nobody wins – your crap chair just goes missing

British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings

The pro-privacy Browser Act has re-appeared in US Congress. But why does everyone except right-wing trolls hate it?

Li-ion battery 'price-fixing' case settled with bonus fury over lawyers pocketing eight-figures

2019 set to be the worst year yet for smartphone market as lack of worthy upgrades dents demand

Brit consumers still holding off on buying new PCs until that Brexit thing is over and done with

Google nuked tech support ads to kill off scammers. OK. It also blew away legit repair shops. Not OK at all

Cough up, like, 1% of your valuation and keep up the good work, says FTC: In draft privacy deal, Facebook won't have to change a thing

US border cops' secret racist Facebook group a total disgrace, says patrol chief. She should know, she was a member

Farewell to function keys and swappable SSDs in the new two-port MacBook Pro

PC shipments back in black: Desktops to the rescue, aided by Win10

At $1k a page, take care when RTFM: Apple-1 documentation sells for nearly $13,000 at auction

Facebook: The future is private! So private, we designed some handy new fingercams for y'all!

IBM torches Big Tech's get-out-of-jail-free card, says websites should be held responsible for netizen-posted content

Oh no, Twitter's gone down. How can we get the word out? Ah yeah, that's right. We have a website that works