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Seagate offloads ClusterStor data-nomming plaything on Cray

Cisco bugs leave network automation vulnerable to attack

Meg Whitman OUT at HP ...Inc

Cloud-stitching startup pitches NVMe FPGAs for SSDs

Flash... Nu-uh! Tech folk champing at the bit to switch off life support

Microsoft previews Azure Container Instances – with per-second billing

GitHub wants more new contributors, because that's what GitHub is for

Tired: Java. Desired: Node.js. Retired: The suggestion a JavaScript runtime is bonkers

Hackers can turn web-connected car washes into horrible death traps

The opsec blunders that landed a Russian politician's fraudster son in the clink for 27 years

Strong and stable, my arse. UK wobbles when coping with ransomware

'SambaCry' malware scum return with a Windows encore

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

HPE PointNext globo boss grilled by El Reg

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

Twitter's twits turned troll's tech taunt into thought-provoking tonic

I want to break free! Kubernetes has a life beyond containers

Contain(er) your enthusiasm, nerds: Docker-backed OCI runtime spec hits 1.0

Redis releases respectable revision, tiptoes through tricky political terminology

UK.gov: You can't have our drone test results because... er, security

Mainframes, PCs, mobes tickle Fujitsu revenues in the right direction

Wawaweewa! Huawei shifted 73m handsets in first half of year

You know what’s not so throttled at O2? UK sales. They're up 2.6%

OnePlus cash equals 5: Rebel flagship joins upmarket Android crew

Wisconsin badgers Apple to cough up half a BEEELLION dollars for ripping off chip designs

Three: No fixed date yet for 4G services abroad

AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m

Geek's Guide

NASA lights humongous rocket that goes nowhere ... until 2019

Astroboffins discover that half of the Milky Way's matter comes from other galaxies

Amazing new algorithm makes fusion power slightly less incredibly inefficient

Science sugar daddy extends data-sharing policy to software

You need to assemble a crack AI team: Where do you even start?

Sensor-rich traffic info shows how far Silly Valley has to drive

A vendor that doesn’t think AI and ML will fix security? We found one!

An 'AI' that can diagnose schizophrenia from a brain scan – here's how it works (or doesn't)

Verity Stob

Bezos' bonkers bank of bucks beats big Bill's brilliant billionaire bundle

Valley VC sues blogger after sex pest claims, discovers writer is a male tech biz rival

US vending machine firm plans employee chip implant scheme

Fan of FBI cosplay? Enjoy freaking out your neighbors? Have we got the eBay auction for you

Personal Tech

OnePlus cash equals 5: Rebel flagship joins upmarket Android crew

ReviewIn a little over three years, the Chinese giant BBK Electronics has made a big impact on the market using OnePlus as a guerilla operation.

Andrew Orlowski, 27 Jul 2017

Wisconsin badgers Apple to cough up half a BEEELLION dollars for ripping off chip designs

AnalysisApple has been hit with a $506m bill for infringing CPU design patents belonging to the University of Wisconsin.

Shaun Nichols, 26 Jul 2017

Three: No fixed date yet for 4G services abroad

Customers whinge it's 'roaming at home like 2012'

18 Comments

26 Jul 13:39

AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m

Ryzen gets desktops back in the black

28 Comments

25 Jul 23:13

People fight in cartoon cloud. photo by Shutterstock

For one night only: Net neutrality punch-up between Big Cable, Big Web this September

Move over, Mayweather and McGregor

25 Jul 22:35

Intel is upset that Qualcomm is treating it like Intel treated AMD for years and years

Chipzilla takes number, joins queue to kick Snapdragon biz in the ball arrays

40 Comments

21 Jul 21:55

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

AnalysisThat's the bad news. The good news is they've banned Bieber, too

56 Comments

21 Jul 20:29

Andy Rubin's overhyped and underdelivered Essential phone out 'in a few weeks'

At this point does anyone still care?

26 Comments

21 Jul 19:38

I've got a verbal govt contract for Hyperloop, claims His Muskiness

World+dog: Oh no you haven't!

70 Comments

21 Jul 12:04

Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on

Promises firmware fix for superhub 3/Intel's Puma 6 'shortly'

45 Comments

21 Jul 09:58

This is why old Windows Phones won't run PC apps

The Tale of the Left Behind

29 Comments

20 Jul 12:53

'We hold the high ground' says Qualcomm boss as profits crater

Apple's royalties and licensing boycott taking a heavy toll

20 Jul 00:32

Factories counter-punch Qualcomm in the gut as Apple eggs them on

UpdatediGiant bankrolls manufacturers' legal battle royale over patent license fees

19 Jul 18:12

Reborn Nokia phones biz loses its head

More time to play Snake

31 Comments

19 Jul 15:04

Opinion

News

Guess who's here to tell us we're all totally wrong about net neutrality? Of course, it's Comcast

AnalysisCable giant shares its thoughts on costs, freedom

15 Comments

18 Jul 22:37

Stop this crazy crusade! Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon scold FCC over net neutrality

Lengthy filing by Internet Association highlights value of today's rules

19 Comments

17 Jul 21:21

Ew! HTC jams pop-up adverts into people's smartphone keyboards

Is there nowhere corps won't try and sell you stuff?

18 Comments

17 Jul 20:25

The Atari retro games box is real… sort of

Here are some pictures. And, er, that's all we've got for you

27 Comments

17 Jul 18:59

Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release

Unclear if code was first mistaken for avant garde instrumental

91 Comments

17 Jul 07:27

Funnily enough, charging ££££s for trashy bling-phones wasn't a great idea

Et tu, Vertu? Then fall, geezers

69 Comments

14 Jul 22:34

All hail AT&T! Champion of the open internet and users' privacy!

Also a bald-faced liar

31 Comments

14 Jul 20:05

All your bass are belong to us: Soundcloud fans raid site for music amid fears of total collapse

You have no chance to survive make your time

36 Comments

13 Jul 22:26

Sleuths unearth 'Panic Mode' in Android, set off by mashing back button

Great... if you could use it

49 Comments

13 Jul 13:42

€100 'typewriter' turns out to be €45,000 Enigma machine

1941 German army crypto machine found in Romanian flea market

79 Comments

13 Jul 07:21

Broadcasters, advocacy groups and nonprofits weigh in on Microsoft's magical broadband

AnalysisThe good, the bad and the ugly parts of Redmond's white space internet

13 Jul 00:58

Brickbat unwraps in lap of crap Snapchat yap app technocrat brats after stock splat mishap

Have we just reached Peak Register?

14 Comments

12 Jul 20:07

BlackBerry taking action to fix 'pop-out' screen – namely more glue

KEYone flagship crumbles under pressure

14 Comments

12 Jul 11:37

The life and times of Surface, Microsoft's odds-defying fondleslab

A hard-won hit at five

73 Comments

12 Jul 09:19

Nokia inks wide-ranging deal with Xiaomi: Not just IP and handsets

Oh Mi goodness

12 Jul 08:01

Dell gives world its first wireless-charging laptop if you buy $580 extra kit

Or you could buy two of the cheaper battery-pack keyboards for less than the wireless kit

31 Comments

12 Jul 04:58

Got a Windows Phone 8 mobe? It's now officially obsolete. Here's why...

Microsoft pulls the plug on support for dedicated smartphone OS

66 Comments

11 Jul 22:06

The great phone squeeze wheeze: Getting squidgy with HTC's U11

ReviewGlassy, glossy, sassy... but smudgy

18 Comments

11 Jul 15:00

Spotlight

Dead serious: How to haunt people after you've gone... using your smartphone

Thanks, I suppose. Woman contemplates unwanted gift. Photo by Shutterstock

My unpopular career in writing computer reviews? It's a gift

When can real-world laws invade augmented reality fantasies? A trial in Milwaukee will decide

Defend yourself against ISP tracking in an Trump-era free-for-all

Facebook may print money but thirsty Wall Street wants more

You need to assemble a crack AI team: Where do you even start?

Confessions of an ebook eater

Firefox doesn't need to be No 1 – and that's OK, 'cos it's falling off a cliff

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Seagate offloads ClusterStor data-nomming plaything on Cray

Cisco bugs leave network automation vulnerable to attack

Meg Whitman OUT at HP ...Inc

Cloud-stitching startup pitches NVMe FPGAs for SSDs

Flash... Nu-uh! Tech folk champing at the bit to switch off life support

Microsoft previews Azure Container Instances – with per-second billing

GitHub wants more new contributors, because that's what GitHub is for

Tired: Java. Desired: Node.js. Retired: The suggestion a JavaScript runtime is bonkers

Hackers can turn web-connected car washes into horrible death traps

The opsec blunders that landed a Russian politician's fraudster son in the clink for 27 years

Strong and stable, my arse. UK wobbles when coping with ransomware

'SambaCry' malware scum return with a Windows encore

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

HPE PointNext globo boss grilled by El Reg

Reg Radicals lecture encompasses far right, libertarians, and mushrooms...

So despite all the cash ploughed into big data, no one knows how to make it profitable

Twitter's twits turned troll's tech taunt into thought-provoking tonic

I want to break free! Kubernetes has a life beyond containers

Contain(er) your enthusiasm, nerds: Docker-backed OCI runtime spec hits 1.0

Redis releases respectable revision, tiptoes through tricky political terminology

UK.gov: You can't have our drone test results because... er, security

Mainframes, PCs, mobes tickle Fujitsu revenues in the right direction

Wawaweewa! Huawei shifted 73m handsets in first half of year

You know what’s not so throttled at O2? UK sales. They're up 2.6%

OnePlus cash equals 5: Rebel flagship joins upmarket Android crew

Wisconsin badgers Apple to cough up half a BEEELLION dollars for ripping off chip designs

Three: No fixed date yet for 4G services abroad

AMD shocks the world by only losing $16m

NASA lights humongous rocket that goes nowhere ... until 2019

Astroboffins discover that half of the Milky Way's matter comes from other galaxies

Amazing new algorithm makes fusion power slightly less incredibly inefficient

Science sugar daddy extends data-sharing policy to software

You need to assemble a crack AI team: Where do you even start?

Sensor-rich traffic info shows how far Silly Valley has to drive

A vendor that doesn’t think AI and ML will fix security? We found one!

An 'AI' that can diagnose schizophrenia from a brain scan – here's how it works (or doesn't)

Bezos' bonkers bank of bucks beats big Bill's brilliant billionaire bundle

Valley VC sues blogger after sex pest claims, discovers writer is a male tech biz rival

US vending machine firm plans employee chip implant scheme

Fan of FBI cosplay? Enjoy freaking out your neighbors? Have we got the eBay auction for you

Personal Tech

The Reg chats to Ordnance Survey's chief data wrangler

Expect the Note 8 to break the bank (and your wallet)

Virgin Mobile has in-continent data roaming problems – peeved customers

Repairable-by-design Fairphone runs out of spare parts

Judge uses 1st Amendment on Pokemon Go park ban. It's super effective!

The Italian Jobs: Bloke thrown in the cooler for touting Apple knockoffs

Intel is upset that Qualcomm is treating it like Intel treated AMD for years and years

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

Andy Rubin's overhyped and underdelivered Essential phone out 'in a few weeks'

I've got a verbal govt contract for Hyperloop, claims His Muskiness

Virgin Media broadband latency headaches still not fixed six months on

This is why old Windows Phones won't run PC apps

'We hold the high ground' says Qualcomm boss as profits crater

Factories counter-punch Qualcomm in the gut as Apple eggs them on

Reborn Nokia phones biz loses its head

Opinion

Dead serious: How to haunt people after you've gone... using your smartphone

Despite high-profile hires, Apple's TV plans are doomed

Google may follow Apple, design mobile chips in-house

My unpopular career in writing computer reviews? It's a gift

News

Guess who's here to tell us we're all totally wrong about net neutrality? Of course, it's Comcast

Stop this crazy crusade! Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon scold FCC over net neutrality

Ew! HTC jams pop-up adverts into people's smartphone keyboards

The Atari retro games box is real… sort of

Radiohead hides ZX Spectrum proggie in OK Computer re-release

Funnily enough, charging ££££s for trashy bling-phones wasn't a great idea

All hail AT&T! Champion of the open internet and users' privacy!

All your bass are belong to us: Soundcloud fans raid site for music amid fears of total collapse

Sleuths unearth 'Panic Mode' in Android, set off by mashing back button

€100 'typewriter' turns out to be €45,000 Enigma machine

Broadcasters, advocacy groups and nonprofits weigh in on Microsoft's magical broadband

Brickbat unwraps in lap of crap Snapchat yap app technocrat brats after stock splat mishap

BlackBerry taking action to fix 'pop-out' screen – namely more glue

The life and times of Surface, Microsoft's odds-defying fondleslab

Nokia inks wide-ranging deal with Xiaomi: Not just IP and handsets

Dell gives world its first wireless-charging laptop if you buy $580 extra kit

Got a Windows Phone 8 mobe? It's now officially obsolete. Here's why...

The great phone squeeze wheeze: Getting squidgy with HTC's U11