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Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red

Brit broadband giants slammed as folk whinge about crap connections, underwhelming speeds

Get in the zone, SK Hynix tells data as it drops veil on ZNS SSD

Techies take turns at shut-down top trumps

Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use when 737 Max 8 crashed

Autonomy paid its own customers to pump up revenues, claims HPE

Builds aplenty, taking calls from the pub with Teams, and Edgy leaks: It's the week at Microsoft

US prosecutors whack another three charges on list against ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch over $11bn HP biz gobble

Huge news from Apple: No, not mags, games or TV – more than 50 security bugs to patch

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

Get trained to turn the tables on your computer adversaries at SANS Bucharest

Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y'know

Atlassian bats eyelashes at the enterprise with AgileCraft acquisition

Hey, DevOps fans. We've got another TLA for you to write down: CDF

From on-prem to serverless, here’s how to transform your software ops

Wanna improve your software ops? Need to cut through container hype? Like saving cash?

HPE lawyers claim Autonomy chief Lynch knew all about 'revenue-pumping' carousel

Max Schrems schreds another 'blockade' to challenging Facebook data transfers in Austria

International investors gobble up Brit satellite specialist Inmarsat

The tech lawsuit of the year: HPE v Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain

NexDock 2: Electric Boogaloo. Crowdfunded laptop shell sequel touts less plastic, more pixels

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Geek's Guide

NASA 'nauts do what flagship smartphone fans can only dream of: Change the batteries

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

NASA: We need commercial rockets! SLS: Oh no you don't!

What made a super high-tech home in Victorian England? Hydroelectric witchery, for starters

What could your biz achieve with machine learning? Find out at our 2019 MCubed AI conf

Dodgy US government facial data grab, self-nannying cars, and a chance for non-techies to learn about AI

Our amazing industry-leading AI was too dumb to detect the New Zealand massacre live vid, Facebook shrugs

Autopilot engineer drove off to Chinese rival with our top-secret blueprints in the glovebox, Tesla claims in sueball

Verity Stob

Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress

Google sparks online outcry after its currency converter goes haywire for third time this year

Not quite the Bake Off they were expecting: Canadian seniors served weed-infused brownies

Russian sailors maroon themselves in Bristol Channel after drunken dinghy ride goes awry

Personal Tech

NexDock 2

NexDock 2: Electric Boogaloo. Crowdfunded laptop shell sequel touts less plastic, more pixels

Hoping for an Empire Strikes Back rather than a Big Momma's House 2

25 Mar 10:28 | 26

A man with mad hair turns the page in a book

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

Asks judge to toss sueball from branching-plot book publisher

22 Mar 19:29 | 57

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We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Hands-OnRift S adds some technology... but not enough

22 Mar 06:03 | 54

Who pressured WHO to put gaming on a par with drug addiction to help silence political dissent? Oh hi there, China

Devs point finger at Beijing for framing pastime as an illness – and how the West could follow

21 Mar 06:54 | 29

Stop us if you're getting deja-vu: Uber used spyware to nobble dial-a-ride rival, this time Down Under, allegedly

Aussie media claims Silicon Valley giant used surveillance tool to torpedo competitor

21 Mar 00:40 | 14

Mobes 'n' mattresses flinger Xiaomi growing like the clappers – outside China, at least

The Last Emporium

20 Mar 17:15 | 12

Apple's revamped iPad beams a workhorse in from Planet Ludicrous

AnalysisPro features trickle down to the rest of us

20 Mar 09:16 | 51

In a humiliating climbdown, Facebook agrees to follow US laws

Ad targeting system overhaul to stop landlords from discriminating based on race

19 Mar 21:48 | 45

Super Cali optimistic right-to-repair's negotious, even though Apple thought it was something quite atrocious

US state joins others mulling laws allowing folks to freely fix their kit

19 Mar 19:48 | 86

atarivcs

So about that Atari reboot console... you might want to sit down. It's going to be late, OK?

But it'll be cooler, faster and just all-round betterer! Honest!

19 Mar 15:59 | 33

US govt handout of mushroom cloud from Ivy Mike thermonuclear test

Qualcomm wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case, wins Apple patent case, loses Apple patent case...

AnalysisTime to revisit the idea of patent portfolio as nuclear deterrence?

18 Mar 20:36 | 13

A freshly dead hand rises from grave

Apple bestows first hardware upgrades in years upon neglected iPad Mini and Air lines

And a stylus! But goes without saying that it ain't cheap

18 Mar 16:05 | 74

karven_648

How many Reg columnists does it take to turn off a lightbulb?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?'New technology baffles pissed old hack' (© Private Eye)

15 Mar 09:03 | 175

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Bombs Huawei... Smartphone exploded in my daughter's pocket, seriously burning her, claims dad in lawsuit

Yet another legal brouhaha for Chinese giant, this time nothing to do with equipment bans

15 Mar 07:02 | 47

We'll help you get your next fix... maybe, we'll think about it, says FTC: 'Right to repair' mulled

Federal Trade Commission will turn Fault-finder, Tinker, Customize this summer

14 Mar 23:59 | 48

Samsung slings the skinny on its 12GB GötterDRAMmerung for next-gen smartmobes

Get ready for handhelds with notebook-beating RAM chips

14 Mar 19:59 | 11

The HeirPod? Samsung Galaxy Buds teardown finds tiny wireless cans 'surprisingly repairable'

It is easy to make itsy-bitsy tech without spaffing glue all over the place

14 Mar 01:58 | 42

What today links Gmail, Google Drive, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram – apart from being run by monopolistic personal data harvesters?

UpdatedThey all fell over, fears of massive DDoS denied

13 Mar 20:56 | 62

China still doesn't want iPhones despite Apple slashing prices, say market watchers

Wanted: A cheap model?

13 Mar 16:07 | 38

At last! A solution for those unable to wrench their gaze from Windows 10... Er, it's Your Phone

No, not your phone. It's 2019, for heaven's sake. The app

13 Mar 12:23 | 6

There was yet another net neutrality hearing today in America, and it was all straightened out amicably and smoothly

No, of course it wasn't

12 Mar 21:36 | 19

MOST READ

Slack slings crypto-keys at big biz, union gets worked over, VPN owners probed, trolls trouble vets, and more

power down lights out people working in the dark on battery powered laptops

Techies take turns at shut-down top trumps

Geiger counters are so last summer. Lasers can detect radioactive material too, y'know

Dead battery

NASA 'nauts do what flagship smartphone fans can only dream of: Change the batteries

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Uber driver drove sleeping woman miles away from home to 'up the fare'. Now he's facing years in the clink for kidnapping, fraud

Victim says she woke to feel dial-a-ride creep groping her in back seat, phone missing

12 Mar 00:21 | 75

Tired of smashing your face into the brick wall that is US net neutrality? Too bad. There's a long way to go yet, friends

AnalysisDemocrats launch new legislation that won't pass, but will cause months of argument

07 Mar 23:15 | 11

God DRAM, that's a big price drop: Memory down 30 per cent, claim industry watchers

Plummeting chip prices are collateral damage from ongoing Intel CPU shortage

07 Mar 20:46 | 26

thinking emoji scratches chin

Meizu ditched hole-free phone because it was 'just the marketing team messing about', not because no one really gave a toss

OK, whatever you say

07 Mar 15:13 | 42

Galaxy S10 Teardown

Galaxy S10's under-glass fingerprint reader, quelle surprise, makes mobe a right pain to fix

Who'da thunk it? 3 out of 10 for repairability, must try harder

06 Mar 17:34 | 25

You'll never guess who's giving Google a right shoeing lately. Talking about barring Chrome, Search as defaults... any other nations watching?

Throw another regulation on the barbie, says Australia

06 Mar 07:03 | 27

ZX Spectrum Prototype

The first ZX Spectrum prototype laid bare... (What? It was acceptable in the '80s)

Clear! Museum hopes to bring silicon back to life over next few weeks

05 Mar 12:45 | 73

Haha! Conformist 'Droids! Yep, that's what's most profitable these days, says Nokia

♫ We were always being boring

05 Mar 11:40 | 13

Cheap as chips: There's no such thing as a free lunch any Moore

ColumnIndustry faces down Spectre of performance optimisation

05 Mar 10:06 | 44

USB4: Based on Thunderbolt 3. Two times the data rate, at 40Gbps. One fewer space. Zero confusing versions

We live in hope – you'll have to wait until 2020 at the earliest

05 Mar 00:16 | 105

Good news: Congress has solutions to end net neutrality brouhaha. Bad news: Two competing sets of solutions...

AnalysisWe're gonna save America's internet, scream both sides in different ways

04 Mar 21:25 | 12

It's not your imagination: Ticket scalper bots are flooding the internet according this 'ere study

'40 per cent' of purchases are automated – but do gig organizers care when a sale is a sale?

01 Mar 22:49 | 101

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

AnalysisWhen it said 5 per cent of banned slurp app users were kids, it actually meant much, much more than that

01 Mar 22:14 | 135

Dirty men's underwear

Why are there never free power sockets when my Y-fronts need charging?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?If I had my way, I'd have sparks flying from your underwear

01 Mar 11:00 | 136

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

But this moneybags web giant is not a publisher, got that?

28 Feb 23:01 | 125

Another way to look at Amazon's counterfeit-busting Project Zero: Making merchants cough up protection money

AnalysisIt's up to you to stop fake stuff going on sale in our cyber-bazaar, says multibillion-dollar biz

28 Feb 22:13 | 30

Lenovo kicks down door of MWC, dumps a stack of sexy new ThinkPads

MWCThey're ThinkPads, but a bit better than before

27 Feb 09:15 | 56

LG's new gesture UI for mobes, while technically interesting, is still a little hand-wavy at the mo

MWC Hands OnAnd it makes you look silly

26 Feb 17:11 | 14

Long phone is loooong: Sony swipes at flagship fatigue with 21:9 tall boy

MWC Hands OnThis one gets everything right

26 Feb 11:38 | 66

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