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Packet hauls microservers out of dusty grave: Whoa! Necromancy is really edgy

Cloudflare hits the deck, websites sink from sight after the internet springs yet another BGP leak

Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

'Bulls%^t! Complete bull$h*t!' Reset the clock on the last time woke Linus Torvalds exploded at a Linux kernel dev

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Out of Steam, Wine draining away? Ubuntu's 64-bit only decision is causing problems

The Windows Terminal turns up in the Microsoft Store

Summer's here, where's Windows 10 19H2? For Microsoft, spring ends whenever the heck it says so stop asking

Cisco cleans up critical flaws, Florida city forks out $600k to ransomware scumbags, and more from infosec land

Driving Xtreme Cuts: DXC Technology waves bye bye to 45% of Americas Security divison

Good old British 'fair play' is the answer to vexed Huawei question, claims security minister

Millions of Windows Dell PCs need patching: Give-me-admin security gremlin found lurking in bundled support tool

Get a grip on Lambda, Kubernetes, Azure Functions, and more, at Serverless Computing London – save £100s today with blind bird tix

Kubernetes goes in for nip and tuck, comes out with 25 'enhancements': We take a look at v1.15

With speakers from iRobot, BBC, Lego, the worlds of Google, AWS and Azure, and more, do not miss Serverless Computing London 2019

Dev darling Docker embraces Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

EE-k, a hundred grand! BT's mobile arm slapped for sending 2.5m+ unwanted texts

Remember the Nominet £100m dot-uk windfall it claims doesn't exist? Well, it's already begun

There's that phrase again: JP Morgan CIO told Autonomy's first HP boss it was 'a shit show'

UK.gov must sort out its crap data and legacy IT, warns spending watchdog

Apple sued over fondleslab death blaze: iPad battery blamed for deadly New Jersey apartment fire

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

Chrome ad-blocker crackdown preview due late July. Here's a half-dozen reasons why add-on devs are still upset

It's now officially the WhackBook Pro: If the keyboards weren't bad enough, now MacBook Pro batts are a fire risk

Geek's Guide

One goes up, one stays on the ground and one gets ready: It's a week in space

Curioser and curioser: Little Mars rover sniffs out highest ever levels of methane

Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims

Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring

Yay, for AI: Autonomous pizza-delivery robots. Nay for AI: Big Brother is real and it's powered by neural networks

Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will

Alexa, am I having a heart attack? Here's how smart speakers could detect their masters spluttering to death

Shameless Facebook treats its poor human moderators like absolute dirt. But y'know what it does treat right? Robots

Verity Stob

Bloody vultures! Cheeky Spanish paraglider firm pinched El Reg's mascot

Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices

UK.gov whacks export ban on 'grotesque' crab made by famous Brit potter bros

You gotta be kitten me: Pakistan politicos feline silly after filter farce hits purrrfect conference

Personal Tech

Apple sued over fondleslab death blaze: iPad battery blamed for deadly New Jersey apartment fire

Insurers and family fling sueballs at Cupertino giant

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

...And more, including dual 4K monitor outputs that you'll need new cables for

24 Jun 06:00 | 112

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Chrome ad-blocker crackdown preview due late July. Here's a half-dozen reasons why add-on devs are still upset

AnalysisCanary channel will let programmers experience tough new limits on extensions

21 Jun 23:26 | 64

It's now officially the WhackBook Pro: If the keyboards weren't bad enough, now MacBook Pro batts are a fire risk

Apple issues voluntary recall for godforsaken laptops, again

20 Jun 20:57 | 50

The latest FCC plan to boost US broadband? Prevent competition in apartment blocks

Ajit Pai turns logic on its head while doing Big Cable's bidding

19 Jun 21:02 | 34

It's all in the wrist: Your fitness tracker could be as much about data warfare as your welfare

ColumnTick, tick, boom?

19 Jun 09:15 | 100

FYI: Your Venmo transfers with those edgy emojis aren't private by default. And someone's put 7m of them into a public DB

Payment biz shrugs, says users are fine with sharing

17 Jun 20:40 | 37

Stiff penalty: Prenda Law copyright troll gets 14 years of hard time for blue view 'n sue scam

That's a wrap for the file-sharing skin flick shakedown

14 Jun 23:45 | 70

Atari finally launches its VCS console. Again.

You can now pre-order this underpowered, over-priced, untested, over-complicated toy. What are you waiting for?

14 Jun 19:47 | 68

Fairey Swordfish Mk.2 LS326 of the Royal Navy Historic Flight. Crown copyright

Flight Simulator 2020: Exciting new ride or a doomed tailspin in a crowded market?

CommentArmchair aviation geeks, assemble!

14 Jun 16:56 | 92

Man possibly shocked at what he's seeing on computer screen

Those darn users don't know what they're doing (not like us, of course)

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Click on the toothbrush, toggle the flange and press 'Harp'. It's obvious

14 Jun 10:23 | 167

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook won't nuke deepfakes? OK, let's tear up those precious legal protections from user-posted content, then

Lawmakers threaten to rewrite rules that shield sites from netizens' dodgy uploads

13 Jun 20:32 | 45

Own goal: $280,000 GDPR fine for soccer app that snooped on fans' phone mics to snare pub telly pirates

La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree

12 Jun 22:15 | 49

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Enemy of the Matebook: Huawei shuts up laptop shop. When is it back? Depends on America's Entity List

They've got us on the list

12 Jun 11:53 | 26

Nope, we're stuffed, shrieks Apple channel as iPhone shipments enter a double-digit spiral

Think different? In Europe, they definitely are: Huawei, the lads!

12 Jun 09:06 | 117

If your broadband bill is too high consider moving to Idaho, they get the internet for free

Municipal fiber half the price of Comcast, AT&T etc

07 Jun 00:52 | 52

The FCC has finally, finally approved a half-decent plan to destroy the robocall scourge... but there's a catch

Customers get to pay for it!

06 Jun 20:19 | 60

Apple strips clips of WWDC devs booing that $999 monitor stand from the web using copyright claims. Fear not, you can listen again here...

UpdatedYouTube happy to spare iGiant embarrassment but won't take down 'slur' vids

05 Jun 20:57 | 210

Amazon Alexa: 'Pre-wakeword' patent application suggests plans to process more of your speech

Speaker identification and more listening in: welcome to the future of voice assistants

05 Jun 09:54 | 73

What's in store for Microsoft's US pop-up shops? Not much, they're being closed

Hello London! Buh-bye kiosks

04 Jun 21:46 | 17

Pull up your SoCs: Samsung smartphones to get AMD Radeon graphics

Like a childhood dream come true

04 Jun 12:10 | 8

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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B

Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...

what the f$%k have I just done? Man winces on phone as he realises implications of his stuffup

Having bank problems? I feel bad for you son: I've got 25 million problems, but a bulk upload ain't one

Ethernet cable rises up like a snake (artist's impression). Image via shutterstock

Cloudflare hits the deck, websites sink from sight after the internet springs yet another BGP leak

scissors cut rope as business suited guy climbs it - conceptual illustration on losing job

Driving Xtreme Cuts: DXC Technology waves bye bye to 45% of Americas Security divison

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Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

We sat through 150 minutes of WWDC keynote so you didn't have to suffer

03 Jun 23:22 | 251

US-China tariff tiff has got in Huawei of beating Samsung in smartphone stakes, top brass sigh

Analyst clips 2019 shipments, reckons 3.1% market shrinkage

03 Jun 18:19 | 7

Apple iPrunes iTunes: Moldering platform's death expected to be announced at WWDC

Service will split into separate apps for music, TV, podcasts

03 Jun 10:24 | 42

Firmware update borks Bose boxes: Owners report crackles on Lex-i of the soundbar world

Heaven forfend, someone had to use their actual TV speakers

03 Jun 08:45 | 37

Annapolis in Maine

Wow, talk about a Maine-wave: US state says ISPs need permission to flog netizens' personal data

What a radical idea

31 May 21:10 | 69

iPad styluses

Cooksie is bam-bam iGlad all over: Folk are actually buying Apple's fondleslabs again

EMEA shipments for calendar Q1 up 16.7% on last year. As for the rest of the market....

30 May 15:03 | 15

Shouting down a megaphone

In the living room, can Google Home hear you SCREAM? Well, that's what you'll need to do

Folks reported non-functioning volume control in February, still no firmware fix in sight

30 May 08:02 | 50

Apple's privacy schtick is just an act, say folks suing the iGiant: iTunes 'purchase histories sold' to data slurpers

Class-action lawsuit accuses Cupertino of breaking the law by flogging personal info

29 May 23:13 | 45

Intel unveils Project Athena: Chipzilla tells lappy makers how to build their own kit

OEMs toe the line for that sweet, sweet marketing moolah

29 May 19:26 | 18

Quick maths refresher: Intel CPU shortages + consumer stock bottleneck = no computer sales growth in EMEA for 2019

Back 2 school and retail spending slows, but there's hope for commercial market as Microsoft turns off Win7 support taps

29 May 13:17 | 12

It's the curious case of the vanishing iPhone sales as Huawei grabs second place off Apple in smartmobe stakes

Price cuts? Tick. More price cuts? Tick. Damn, where to next for Tim Cook and co?

28 May 12:30 | 119

A mobe with obnoxious teen karaoke app TikTok built in?! Wow, thanks ByteDance, sign us up

Chinese app titan switches course, but it's a risky one

28 May 10:15 | 3

Someone taking a photo on a smartphone in the countryside

It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs

That's enough body language puns

27 May 04:00 | 19

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

iFixit ters dwn ew Macbook Pro wth utterfl eyoard atst fixs

24 May 21:00 | 121

Zuck

Activist shareholders to target Zuck with giant angry emoji inflatable at Facebook AGM

Eight total resolutions seek to make antisocial network more accountable (the US tech giant opposes them all)

24 May 19:37 | 45

HP: Based on our Intel, don't hold your breath waiting for Chipzilla's CPU shortage to end

PC maker's chief bean counter warns Wall Street moneymen of 'constraints' until at least calendar Q3

24 May 09:46 | 7

Facebook removes about as many fake accounts as it has actual monthly users (yes, billions) in effort to clean up online

AnalysisSocial ad biz details effort to cleanse community

23 May 22:18 | 32

Minecraft's my Nirvana. I found it hard, it's hard to find. Oh well, whatever... Never Mined

ColumnWhat on Earth are you playing at, Microsoft?

23 May 08:06 | 49

Koh-MG: Qualcomm guilty of abusing chip patent monopoly, biz promises to appeal

Snapdragon giant 'strangled competition' and forced others to pay unfair fees

22 May 19:26 | 8

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