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Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Take it off! Cover it up! I don't know what I want any more!

What's holding you back from Google Cloud? Oh, OK... it was hoping you'd say 'lack of hardware security modules'

Igneous Systems says bye-bye to proprietary hardware, hello to data management services

Newcomer StorCentric gobbles array flinger Nexsan and prosumer storage vendor Drobo

Apple tipped to revive forgotten Macbook Air and Mac mini – report

.NET Core 2.1 – huh, yeah – what is it good for? Bing, apparently

Microsoft takes another whack at killing off Windows Phone 8.x

Apple shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find gambling in its Chinese App Store

Python wriggles onward without its head

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

Microsoft: We busted Russian Fancy Bear disinfo websites

TLS developers should ditch 'pseudo constant time' crypto processing

Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

Your Twitter app stopped working? Here's why

Serverless? It doesn’t have to be all or nothing

Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up

Thinking of saying goodbye to your servers? We'll show you how

Bloke hurls sueball over Google's 'is it off yet?' location data slurping

US tech circles wagons as India reviews data protection proposals

Internet overseer continues wall-punching legal campaign

Mozilla accuses FCC of abdicating its role, ignoring comments in net neutrality lawsuit

Big Tech turns saboteur to cripple new California privacy law in private

Miss America 'scholarship program' adds Microsoft Azure developer to lineup

Apple web design violates law, claims blind person

Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

UK.gov agencies told to drop fancy tech or risk 'reinventing the wheel'

As it turns out, no, you can't just run an unlicensed Bitcoin money exchange

Gartner's Great Vanishing: Some of 2017's emerging techs just disappeared

Nvidia shrugs off crypto-mining crash, touts live ray-tracing GPUs, etc

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever

Want to raise cash for Action for Children’s Byte Night? The clock is ticking

Personal Tech

Google responds to location-stalking outcry by… tweaking words on its BS support page

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal biz gets £35k legal costs delayed

Go Zuck Yourself: Facebook destroys patent suit over timeline

Arm debuts CPU roadmap for the first time, sort of

EU wants one phone plug to rule them all. But we've got a better idea.

If you drop a tablet in a forest of smartphones, will anyone hear it fall?

CADs and boffins get some ThinkPad love

Samsung Galaxy Watch: A tough and classy activity tracker

Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay

Why is my cheapo Android red hot and switching off Wi-Fi?

You won't believe this but... everyone hates their cable company: Bombshell study lands

The last phablet? 6.4in Samsung Galaxy Note 9 leaves you $1k lighter, needs 'water cooling'

Android ain't done until Samsung won't run? 9.0 Pie borks Gear watch app

Time to party like it's 2005! Palm is coming BAAAA-ACK

ZX Spectrum Vega+ blows a FUSE: It runs open-source emulator

Opinion

ZX Spectrum Vega+ blows a FUSE: It runs open-source emulator

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

You know what your problem is, Apple? Complacency

News

Surprise, surprise. Here comes Big Cable to slay another rule that helps small ISPs compete

It's a phone with a peel, but you'll have to wait a bit more for retro Nokia

Facebook insists it has 'no plans' to exploit your personal banking info for ads – just as we have 'no plans' to trust it

Sur-Pies! Google shocks world with sudden Android 9 Pixel push

Motorola strap-on packs a 2,000mAh battery to appease the 5G gods

ZX Spectrum reboot latest: Some Vega+s arrive, Sky pulls plug, Clive drops ball

Microsoft's cheapo Surface: Like a netbook you can't upgrade

Game over for Google: Fortnite snubs Play Store, keeps its 30%, sparks security fears

Probe Brit police phone-peeking plans, privacy peeps plead

Grad sends warning to manager: Be nice to our kit and it'll be nice to you

Apple laughing all the way to the bank – with profits of $5.3m per hour

Qualcomm demands blueprints to Intel chips used in Apple iPhones

Facebook deletes 17 accounts, dusts off hands, beams: We've saved the 2018 elections

US trade ban hammers Chinese telco giant ZTE to the tune of $790m

Make Facebook, Twitter, Google et al liable for daft garbage netizens post online – US Senator

Trump 'not normal' FCC commish reveals amid Sinclair-Tribune mega-media-merger meltdown

Mamma Mia! UK film fans forced to Q as Vue's website craps itself

You want to know which is the best smartphone this season? Tbh, it's tricky to tell 'em apart

Nah, it won't install: The return of the ad-blocker-blocker

BBC websites down tools and head outside into the sun for a while

Prof claims Lyft did a hit-and-run on his ride-sharing tech patent

You can take off the shades, squinting Outlook.com users. It has gone dark. Very dark