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IBM says 'blame Canada' after $5.7m IT contract balloons to $185m

Nothing to see here, folks, literally... Citrix mysteriously pulls NetScaler downloads

Data-wranglers Trifacta go public with Google Cloud collaboration

Chief digital officer and sales director leave O2 amid ongoing shake-up

Ah, good ol' Windows update cycles... Wait, before anything else, check your hardware

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

More are paying to stream music, but YouTube still holds the value gap

Google Cloud's API knows the sort of thing you like to look at

Slain: Unions' US OPM mega-hack lawsuit against Uncle Sam

SEC 'fesses to security breach, says swiped info likely used for dodgy stock-market trading

Researchers claim ISPs are 'complicit' in latest FinSpy snooping rounds

Equifax fooled again! Blundering credit biz directs hack attack victims to parody site

HMRC scoops up Microsoft veep for CIO role

So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth

A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you

So much data, so little time: How to not flip your wig processing it

Puppet plays puppet master, gobbles up automation firm Distelli

GitLab freezes GraphQL project amid looming Facebook patent fears

Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

The developers vs enterprise architects showdown: You shall know us by our trail of diagrams

Facebook, Twitter sucked into US Senate's Russian meddling probe

Hi Facebook, Google, we think we might tax your ads instead – lots of love, Europe x

Outgoing Cisco exec chair John Chambers joins Sprinklr board

Google's Big Hardware Bet: Is this what a sane business would do?

Attention adults working in the real world: Do not upgrade to iOS 11 if you use Outlook, Exchange

Android slingers tout mobes with customized baked-in big-biz configs

Falling apart at the seamless: Inside Apple's LTE Watch fiasco

Register Lectures tackle war and power... in the digital world at least

Geek's Guide

Ducks ding dongs in face of stiff competition

Boffins discover tightest black hole binary system – and it's supermassive

NASA Earthonauts emerge from eight-month isolation in simulated Mars visit

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Has science gone too far, part 97: Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks, rate them on their violence

Chatbots: A load of hype or fancy lifehack for the lazy IT person?

Baidu-backed fund has a BEEELLION quid for 100 self-driving projects

From the Dept of the Bleedin' Obvious... yes, drones hurt when they hit you in the head

Verity Stob

Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban

Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers

RIP Stanislav Petrov: Russian colonel who saved world from all-out nuclear war

Jon Hamm of Mad Men to lend his lungs to bounty hunter Boba Fett

Personal Tech

Attention adults working in the real world: Do not upgrade to iOS 11 if you use Outlook, Exchange

Apple's latest version of iOS, namely version 11, struggles or flat-out fails to connect to Microsoft Office and Exchange mailboxes. That's a rather annoying pain for anyone working in a typical Windows-based work environment.

Shaun Nichols, 21 Sep 2017

Android slingers tout mobes with customized baked-in big-biz configs

Google has said it will begin allowing its enterprise customers to purchase pre-configured Android smartphones and other devices that will ship with corporate policies and settings already in place.

Shaun Nichols, 21 Sep 2017

Falling apart at the seamless: Inside Apple's LTE Watch fiasco

AnalysisKludge takes shine off ever-improving Watch

Andy Stanford-Clark lecture

Register Lectures tackle war and power... in the digital world at least

LecturesMists? Mellowness? Not at these talks...

Librem 5 smartphone mockup

GNOME Foundation backs 'freedom-oriented' smartphone

Librem 5 will run only open-source code, PureOS and feature radio kill switch

Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time

Gives two-fingered salute to IBM designers for forcing us to use three-fingered salute

Mobe reception grief turns LTE Apple Watch 3 into – er, a dull watch

Plus: You can't switch off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on iOS 11

Amazon wants to be king of the nerd goggles

Glasshole Bezos sees no shame

Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

Apps are gonna break. Plus of course, Apple always screws up the first iteration

Sprint, T-Mobile US reignite mega-merger talks (again)

You want more competition, America? Here's another all-powerful telco monolith

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is hot, but not much more than the S8+

First fondleIt's stylish, but the stylus doesn't add a lot

What do you call an all-in-one PC that isn't? 'Upgradeable', says HP

Screens-on-a-stalk and replaceable HDD and RAM may not a revolution make

Noise-canceling headphones with a DO NOT DISTURB light can't silence your critics

Ears-on testJabra's Evolve 80 will hush your office, but the red warning ring is mere bling

Google sued by Gab over Play Store booting

'Free speech' Twitter alternative alleges antitrust foul

Essential's Rubin coy on mysterious Plan to Take Over the Universe

One home at a time

Why the Apple Watch with LTE means a very Apple-y sort of freedom

Caveat emptor: It's not what you think

'All-screen display'? But surely every display is all-screen... or is a screen not a display?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Sounds like a good idea but looks can be deceptive

Shkreli

Facebook posts put Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli in prison as a danger to society

Nope, not over the securities fraud, or the drug price hike

Apple Beats headphones

Apple's 'shoddy' Beats headphones get slammed in lawsuit

Claims of sweat resistance and durability are lies, litigious customers contend

Sacre bleu! Apple's high price, marginal gain iPhone strategy leaves it stuck in the mud

CommentSamsung has little to fear

Opinion

News

Samsung mobile launches bug bounty program

Crack a Galaxy or bash Bixby and score US$20K to $200K

Apple: Our stores are your 'town square' and a $1,000 iPhone is your 'future'

Steve Jobs Theater fittingly opens with cult-like showcasing of overpriced gear

Mobile industry begrudgingly accepts impacts of Apple, Google et al

Mobile World CongressBut holds out hope that self-driving cars, smart homes and VR can change that

Five ways Apple can fix the iPhone, but won't

We've got a little listicle... of missing, must-have features

Massive iPhone X leak trashes Apple's 10th anniversary circus

Any point turning up? Not now

The new, new Psion is getting near production. Here's what it looks like

World ExclusiveClamshell QWERTY has a few unique tricks

RIP wireless laptop docks as Intel bins WiGig parts

Chipzilla thinks fast short-range wireless is good for VR, where desks are always tidy

London Tube tracking trial may make commuting less miserable

Fascinating detail on how people move around the system

我的天啊! China gives Weibo users a week to use their real names

Nothing at all wrong with this

Stuff the movement of celestial spheres, let's sit down and watch Bonnie Tyler on TV

Something for the Weekend, Sir?If someone filmed it, it must be real

Google rushes to curb Oreo's massive appetite for your 4G mobile data

Android 8.0 bug runs internet traffic over LTE rather than Wi-Fi

We don't need another hero: Huawei overtakes Apple – even without a big-hitter

All we want is life beyond the iPhoneDome…

FCC taps the brakes on fudging US broadband speed amid senator fury

Tell me again why slower internet is a good thing?

Twitter is just randomly deleting people's lists – and no one knows why

UpdatedExciting new problem for microblogging giant to completely ignore

cockroach is invited into hotel/motel

Facebook's music plans mean you'll never leave Facebook

AnalysisRoach motel

surface laptop

Microsoft extends free Windows 10 S to Win 10 Pro upgrade offer

That Windows-Store-apps-only plan doesn't seem to be going down well with Surface buyers

Phone landfill

Stealth, lightweight Android breaks cover

Google's new landfill strategy

Retro ThinkPad

It's happening! Official retro Thinkpad lappy spotted in the wild

Anniversary special brings back much-loved features

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