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Lightbits? More like Latebits amirite? Israeli outfit finally swings by the all-flash array party

'Fake 5G' feud falters as Sprint, AT&T settle suit over 'misleading' label

Whose cloud is it anyway? Apple sinks $30m a month into rival Amazon's AWS – report

Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp

Node.js version 12 is now out: Let's pop the hood and see what's inside this JS runtime

Microsoft fans celebrate the Easter weekend with some Sets-based upsets

Fed up with 72-hour, six-day working weeks, IT workers emit cries for help via GitHub repo

Like that other bloke who rose from the grave, the El Reg security desk is back this week...

Wannacry-slayer Marcus Hutchins pleads guilty to two counts of banking malware creation

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

Not one of the 12 steps: Rehab patients' details exposed in publicly visible database

DevOps grandpa Electric Cloud absorbed into youthful CloudBees

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What exactly is everyone doing with DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes and Serverless?

Chaos? We’ll show you how to make it work for your software org

High Court confirms the way UK banned GSM gateways was illegal

Double trouble for Lyft after share price drop sparks class action lawsuits claiming hype

Yes, I may have advised 'some' investors to flog their Autonomy shares, analyst tells High Court

Supreme Court of UK gives Morrisons the go-ahead for mega data leak liability appeal

California's politicians rush to gut internet privacy law with pro-tech giant amendments

Now here's a Galaxy far, far away: Samsung stalls Fold rollout after fold-able screens break in hands of reviewers

Google rolls out Android Easter Egg for Europe – a Microsoft antitrust-style browser, search engine choice box

Surprising absolutely no one at all, Samsung's folding-screen phones knackered within days

Geek's Guide

It was that gosh-darn anomaly again, says SpaceX as smoke billows from Crew Dragon test site

Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans)

Three planets and two stars adds up to one research team made very happy by Kepler's unique discovery

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Baffling tale of Apple shops' 'non-facial' 'facial recognition', a stolen ID, and a $1bn lawsuit after a wrongful arrest

FYI: Get ready for face scans on leaving the US because 1.2% of visitors overstayed their visas

Tesla touts totally safe, not at all worrying self-driving cars – this time using custom chips

IBM Watson Health cuts back Drug Discovery 'artificial intelligence' after lackluster sales

Verity Stob

Not another pro-Brexit demo... though easy to confuse: Each Union Jack marks a pile of poo

Bloke faces up to 20 years in the clink after gun held to dot-com owner's head in robbery

Aussies, Yanks may think they're big drinkers – but Brits easily booze them under the table

Idiot admits destroying scores of college PCs using USB Killer gizmo, filming himself doing it

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SpaceX Demo-1 Recovery (credit: NASA/Isaac Watson)

It was that gosh-darn anomaly again, says SpaceX as smoke billows from Crew Dragon test site

RoundupNASA schedules walloped, Cynus launches, and Owen Garriott's final voyage

23 Apr 15:30 | 11

Terminator head

Absolute mad lads are teaching physics to AI because how else will it learn to solve real-world problems (like humans)

Can't take over the galaxy if you don't know how it works, innit?

17 Apr 12:41 | 24

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Three planets and two stars adds up to one research team made very happy by Kepler's unique discovery

Dead telescope keeps on giving

17 Apr 10:10 | 32

So, that's cheerio the nou to Dundee Satellite Receiving Station: Over 40 years of service axed for the sake of £338,000

Put that on the side of a bus

17 Apr 09:46 | 51

Last week in space: Giant aircraft, asteroid impacts and exploding satellites

RoundupAlso, Boeing's Starliner is tickety boo. No, really

16 Apr 09:12 | 27

Yay, you lose weight and get rad hardened in space! Nay, your genes go awry and your brain slows down when you return to Earth!

NASA Twin Study explores space and Earth poop in twins

12 Apr 22:53 | 24

Astronomer slams sexists trying to tear down black hole researcher's rep

Misogynists sniping at Caltech's Kate Bouman get an earful

12 Apr 19:24 | 166

Hey kids! Want to send teacher on a Zero-G flight? Unleash those mad cool video skillz

Get students in creative mood and ride on the Vomit Comet beckons

12 Apr 09:15 | 3

Welcome your new ancestor to the Homo family tree; boffins have discovered a new tiny species of human

Homo luzonensis spotted underneath layers and layers of clay in a Filipino cave

11 Apr 11:37 | 40

Black Hole

Humanity gazes into the abyss to get its first glimpse of a black hole

Sadly, USS Cygnus still missing

10 Apr 14:30 | 61

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Are brown dwarfs stars or planets? Boffins find evidence for proto-suns in a solar system

Finding a twin brown dwarfs around a giant star just adds to the confusion

10 Apr 07:01 | 33

Two Soyuz launches, Starhopper hops, sats play chicken with Indian weapons test fallout

RoundupLunar Trump and other news from the rocket world

09 Apr 08:59 | 20

Reaction Engines' precooler test article. Supplied photo

Brit rocket boffins Reaction Engines notch up first supersonic precooler test

SABRE sucks up ex-Phantom back-end gases, chills them delightfully

08 Apr 11:44 | 119

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Plasma bubbles 500 times the size of earth, ultra-hot rain - let's face it, the Sun's not a place to hang out nearby

Long-dead Helios probes' data still opening up new science

06 Apr 00:25 | 36

Edinburgh-based rocket botherer seeks UK or overseas launch location for fun times, maybe more

Skyrora seeks spaceport operators for its next three rocket tests

05 Apr 14:57 | 29

Probe-on-asteroid violence as Japan's Hayabusa2 chucks screaming chunk of base metal at Ryugu

Meanwhile, Israeli spacecraft Beresheet scooped by Moon

05 Apr 13:00 | 15

Boffins baffled by planet nugget whizzing round white dwarf that should have killed it

Solid small satellite where a year lasts for just two hours

05 Apr 05:30 | 34

Astroboffins may have cracked the mystery of where the photons from weird gamma ray bursts come from

A quick flash can light up the observable universe

04 Apr 05:01 | 29

Phew... Oi, was that you, Curiosity? Euro Mars sat inhaled mega methane blast, boffins baffled

Sad news: It's probably not down to alien microbes

03 Apr 05:03 | 24

Pull! Rocket Lab fires off another potential target as India joins exclusive satellite shooting club

RoundupChina's OneSpace smiles through explosion and 'nauts change out ISS batteries

01 Apr 11:38 | 15

Searching for Skylab: Even the most casual astro-nerd will revel in this respectful elegy to unsung space history

Film reviewRemember the space station so big you could fly a jet-pack inside?

29 Mar 11:54 | 20

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Now here's a Galaxy far, far away: Samsung stalls Fold rollout after fold-able screens break in hands of reviewers

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Bloke faces up to 20 years in the clink after gun held to dot-com owner's head in robbery

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Boffins may have found something more salty than Brexit Brits' tears this week: Underground pools of water on Mars

After all these political shenanigans, a one-way trip to the Red Planet doesn't sound so bad

29 Mar 07:36 | 32

You spin me right round, baby, right round like an exploding asteroid, baby, right round round round

PicDying space rock spurts out twin streams of debris

29 Mar 06:01 | 18

VP Mike Pence: I want Americans back on the Moon by 2024 (or before the Chinese get there)

'We're also racing against our worst enemy' says President Trump's straight man – but who could that be?

27 Mar 01:08 | 136

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There are pictures all over the internet of a big dark spot on Uranu... Oh no, wait, it's Neptune

Astroboffins find and probe a new planetary wonder

26 Mar 08:04 | 53

NASA astronaut Christina Koch (center) assists fellow astronauts Nick Hague (left) and Anne McClain

NASA's first all-woman spacewalk outside ISS cancelled – due to lack of spacesuits that fit

In space, no one can hear you scream... with frustration

26 Mar 02:37 | 69

Dead battery

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

Also: Boeing delays, and InSight to try diagnostic hammering to catch glitch in act

25 Mar 09:07 | 69

Boeing 737 Max

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

Airline maker accused of not realising what controversial MCAS system could do

19 Mar 12:58 | 209

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

Panto season comes early as the commercial threat focuses the minds of managers

19 Mar 11:03 | 36

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

Geek's Guide to BritainForget the scones and gardens, Cragside house is engineery

18 Mar 09:05 | 99

'Naut trio successfully dock at ISS after Soyuz rocket goes all the way

Hague, Ovchinin, Koch arrived at their new home this morning

15 Mar 11:41 | 14

Yes! Pack your bags! Blossoming planetary system strikingly similar to ours found by boffins

It may have an asteroid belt, worlds similar to Earth and Neptune – and only 470 light years away

15 Mar 06:04 | 54

rock

Forget that rare-earth element crunch – we can now just extract them from industrial waste

It's a match made in heaven for erm, glucunobacter and phosphogypsum

15 Mar 05:02 | 50

Reaction Engines' SABRE Core Team

Brit rocket wranglers get Reaction they wanted after rattling SABRE

Euro space agencies approve air-breathing engine testing

14 Mar 17:15 | 22

NASA admin: What if we switched one delayed SLS for two commercial launchers?

Bridenstine reckons the agency should try sticking to its dates

14 Mar 11:19 | 30

Bennu

Never thought we'd ever utter these words, but... can anyone recommend a spin doctor for NASA?

Boffins baffled by Bennu: We're due to visit asteroid but it's whirling faster and faster

14 Mar 07:29 | 43

Boffins discover new dust clouds in the Solar System, Mercury has a surprisingly filthy ring

Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners

13 Mar 07:52 | 32

Crew Dragon returns to dry land as NASA promises new space station for the Moon

Upgrades postponed for NASA's big rocket budget request in this week's round-up

12 Mar 18:00 | 55

Astroboffins spot hefty pair swinging together. What? Um, we're talking about record-breaking massive binary stars...

What did you think we meant?

12 Mar 06:59 | 28

'It's like painting with atoms'... Watch how boffins form armies of simple micron-sized bots from a silicon wafer

VideoAnd they may be injected into your body one day

10 Mar 11:09 | 54

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