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NVMe? You should. Mangstor hauls in $7.1m for array development shop

The rice of cloud, avocado of virtualization and salmon of doubt: Let's eat storage sushi

HPE memory options rising by double digits... from today

NVMe fabrics could shuffle traditional arrays off to the graveyard

Facebook won't change React.js license despite Apache developer pain

Oracle caves, promises to crack open Java EE as v8 crawls ever closer

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway

Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find

Foxit PDF Reader is well and truly foxed up, but vendor won't patch

Bitcoin-accepting sites leave cookie trail that crumbles anonymity

US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher

Berners-Lee and the open-data bunch: £60k for your best collab dataset register ideas

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...

How are you improving software development and deployment?

Malware? In my Docker container? It's more common than you think

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

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

The sky is blue, water is wet and UK PC shipments are down

UK.gov to treat online abuse as seriously as IRL hate crime

Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls

GitHub's CEO resigns. Again. Without scandal, after fixing messes

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

FTC wants AT&T to kick in $4bn to help balance US budget. Why? Some dodgy ads or something

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

Geek's Guide

Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

Ten spacecraft – from Venus Express to Voyager 2 – all tracked same solar flare

Space boffins competing for $20m Moon robot X-Prize are told: Be there by March 31 – or bust

How to build your own DIY makeshift levitation machine at home

Elon Musk among 116 AI types calling on UN to nobble robo-weapons before they go all Skynet

Qualcomm slurps Uni of Amsterdam AI spinoff Scyfer

Smyte might brighten fraud plight: How machine-learning can be used to thwart crooks

Not another Linux desktop! Robots cross the Uncanny Valley

Verity Stob

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

Personal Tech

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

Europeans, once so smug about the global success of GSM, have had to get used to advanced mobile networks and devices arriving in the US first.

Andrew Orlowski, 21 Aug 2017

FTC wants AT&T to kick in $4bn to help balance US budget. Why? Some dodgy ads or something

America's trade watchdog is seeking $3.95bn in damages from AT&T over allegations of dodgy marketing by its DirecTV wing.

Shaun Nichols, 18 Aug 2017

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

Gaming star strikes

77 Comments

18 Aug 12:55

So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

InterviewHMD chiefs explain their cunning comeback plan

50 Comments

18 Aug 11:23

Where there's smoke there's a Galaxy Note: Refurbished Model 4 batteries recalled

Phablets sent to AT&T customers with batteries from FedEx are at risk

10 Comments

18 Aug 02:55

Sigh. Big Cable execs dominate FCC panel overseeing Big Cable's broadband upgrades

Deployment committee stacked with industry bods, says report

14 Aug 19:35

Surfacegate: Microsoft execs 'misled Nadella', claims report

Specs, lies and Skylake

108 Comments

14 Aug 11:25

Chinese stealth outfit reckons the smartwatch isn’t quite dead

Tic, tic, tic...

11 Comments

14 Aug 08:26

Alibaba: We're no haven for pirates – we'll yank fake goods from our web bazaars within 24 hours

China's Amazon steps up efforts after stinging criticism

11 Aug 19:29

Hey America! Your internet is going to be so much better this January

Special reportBut probably not in the way you'd hoped

62 Comments

10 Aug 22:27

Don't buy Microsoft Surface gear: 25% will break after 2 years, says Consumer Reports

Reviewers retract up-turned thumbs

96 Comments

10 Aug 18:06

We'll deliver 'in a few weeks' says troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm

New deadline for retro kit

38 Comments

10 Aug 15:34

Fire and fury in Korea: Samsung burns Note 7 owners in lawsuit

Class action from hot-and-bothered compensation-seekers flames out

11 Comments

10 Aug 04:27

Opinion

News

Uber bros kill car leasing program after losing nine grand per vehicle

Money-pit taxi app maker can't even rent out rides without burning bags of bucks

32 Comments

09 Aug 20:44

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...

Review... as in Veblen Good

62 Comments

09 Aug 11:28

No, Apple. A 4G Watch is a really bad idea

CommentAdding fail to fail

110 Comments

09 Aug 09:01

New Amiga to go on sale in late 2017

Apollo Accelerators to let FPGA-powered 'Vampire V4' see the light of day

92 Comments

09 Aug 07:26

Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future

You can trivially DoS Puma 5 and 7-powered boxes, too

24 Comments

09 Aug 06:31

US trade watchdog puts down the phone to Qualcomm, reaches for probe, sticks it in Apple

Investigation may lead to iPhone, iPad ban in US

15 Comments

08 Aug 22:30

US military gets authority to shoot down citizens' small drones

Meanwhile, DJI says it had no idea army was using its kit

35 Comments

08 Aug 13:52

Can the last person watching desktop video please turn out the light?

OTT Boxes are killing the Video Star - and about time too

48 Comments

08 Aug 11:12

Tech giants warp eco standards to greenwash electronics, rake in cash

AnalysisHow IT titans hijack manufacturing standards to put sales before planet

65 Comments

08 Aug 06:27

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

Core i7 users will tell you they're faster, but forget about the >$250 premium you'll pay

97 Comments

08 Aug 02:57

Dems fightin' words! FCC's net neutrality murder plot torn apart

Illegal, ill-conceived, flawed. You eejit, Ajit

36 Comments

07 Aug 19:39

It's official: Outages are only the second-worst thing about Comcast

Customers gripe more about their bills than bad connections

07 Aug 19:06

Mid-flight jumbo font smartphone text shock sparks kid abuse arrests

Quick-thinking preschool teacher clocks, reports fellow passenger's 'vile' messages

73 Comments

04 Aug 21:14

Canadian ISPs do not Canuck around: Bloke accused of piracy grilled in his home for hours

And not by the cops – but by pushy company reps

55 Comments

03 Aug 06:03

Apple celebrates soaring iPad sales: Put it on my tab, says CEO Tim Cook

Get it? Put the drinks on my tab? Haha, ah. What a wild ride life is

23 Comments

02 Aug 00:29

No, just stop. Nope. photo by shutterstock

Charter sprints from rinky-dink Sprint hints

US comms giant denies buyout rumors, says it prefers Verizon for the time being

01 Aug 21:44

Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement?

ReviewJailbreak it the official way, kids...

120 Comments

01 Aug 09:02

HP Inc reveals dockable, wearable VR workstation for the office

Backpack PC aimed at designers who move between metaphorical mice and VR

17 Comments

01 Aug 07:30

Spotlight

Tech giants warp eco standards to greenwash electronics, rake in cash

Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement?

Pre-order your early-bird pre-sale product today! (Oh did we mention the shipping date has slipped AGAIN?)

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

The future of Python: Concurrency devoured, Node.js next on menu

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NVMe? You should. Mangstor hauls in $7.1m for array development shop

The rice of cloud, avocado of virtualization and salmon of doubt: Let's eat storage sushi

HPE memory options rising by double digits... from today

NVMe fabrics could shuffle traditional arrays off to the graveyard

Facebook won't change React.js license despite Apache developer pain

Oracle caves, promises to crack open Java EE as v8 crawls ever closer

UK.gov is hiring IT bods with skills in ... Windows Vista?!

Virtual assistant backlash imminent so buy them anyway

Mirai copycats fired the IoT-cannon at game hosts, researchers find

Foxit PDF Reader is well and truly foxed up, but vendor won't patch

Bitcoin-accepting sites leave cookie trail that crumbles anonymity

US DoD, Brit ISP BT reverse proxies can be abused to frisk internal systems – researcher

Berners-Lee and the open-data bunch: £60k for your best collab dataset register ideas

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...

How are you improving software development and deployment?

Malware? In my Docker container? It's more common than you think

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

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

The sky is blue, water is wet and UK PC shipments are down

UK.gov to treat online abuse as seriously as IRL hate crime

Energy firm slapped with £50k fine for making 1.5 million nuisance calls

GitHub's CEO resigns. Again. Without scandal, after fixing messes

LG schtum over whether Europeans can get the powerhouse phablet V30

FTC wants AT&T to kick in $4bn to help balance US budget. Why? Some dodgy ads or something

Atari shoots sueball at KitKat maker over use of 'Breakout' in ad

So, Nokia. What makes you think the world wants your phones?

Voyager antenna operator: 'I was the first human to see images from Neptune'

Ten spacecraft – from Venus Express to Voyager 2 – all tracked same solar flare

Space boffins competing for $20m Moon robot X-Prize are told: Be there by March 31 – or bust

How to build your own DIY makeshift levitation machine at home

Elon Musk among 116 AI types calling on UN to nobble robo-weapons before they go all Skynet

Qualcomm slurps Uni of Amsterdam AI spinoff Scyfer

Smyte might brighten fraud plight: How machine-learning can be used to thwart crooks

Not another Linux desktop! Robots cross the Uncanny Valley

75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2

Drive-thru drive-by at McDs after ice cream no-show, say cops

British Airways waves Bing dong: At least it's not a tech cockup

I say, BING DONG! Microsoft's search engine literally cocks up on front page for hours

Personal Tech

Judge yanks plug out of AT&T's latest attack on Google Fiber

Apple bag-search class action sueball moves to Cali supreme court

Celeb-backed music gambit rebrands as 'Roxi', prays for IPO

Intel's 8th-gen CPUs are called Ice Lake. And so are the 9th-gen

10 minutes of silence storms iTunes charts thanks to awful Apple UI

Nokia's comeback is on: The flagship 8 emerges

Oh no, EE! More UK mobile customers face sluggish roaming abroad

Sigh. Big Cable execs dominate FCC panel overseeing Big Cable's broadband upgrades

Surfacegate: Microsoft execs 'misled Nadella', claims report

Chinese stealth outfit reckons the smartwatch isn’t quite dead

Alibaba: We're no haven for pirates – we'll yank fake goods from our web bazaars within 24 hours

Hey America! Your internet is going to be so much better this January

Don't buy Microsoft Surface gear: 25% will break after 2 years, says Consumer Reports

We'll deliver 'in a few weeks' says troubled ZX Spectrum reboot firm

Fire and fury in Korea: Samsung burns Note 7 owners in lawsuit

Opinion

No, Apple. A 4G Watch is a really bad idea

Pre-order your early-bird pre-sale product today! (Oh did we mention the shipping date has slipped AGAIN?)

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

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

News

Uber bros kill car leasing program after losing nine grand per vehicle

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2017, unhinged: Luxury fondleslab that's good...

No, Apple. A 4G Watch is a really bad idea

New Amiga to go on sale in late 2017

Intel Pumageddon: Broadband chip bug haunts Chipzilla's past, present and future

US trade watchdog puts down the phone to Qualcomm, reaches for probe, sticks it in Apple

US military gets authority to shoot down citizens' small drones

Can the last person watching desktop video please turn out the light?

Tech giants warp eco standards to greenwash electronics, rake in cash

Core-blimey! Intel's Core i9 18-core monster – the numbers

Dems fightin' words! FCC's net neutrality murder plot torn apart

It's official: Outages are only the second-worst thing about Comcast

Mid-flight jumbo font smartphone text shock sparks kid abuse arrests

Canadian ISPs do not Canuck around: Bloke accused of piracy grilled in his home for hours

Apple celebrates soaring iPad sales: Put it on my tab, says CEO Tim Cook

Charter sprints from rinky-dink Sprint hints

Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement?

HP Inc reveals dockable, wearable VR workstation for the office