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Switching to edge computing needn't be a gamble. We've got some aces up our sleeves to help you make the move

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs secretly want folk to barter for broadband

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn

Oracle OKs Oracle investors to sue Oracle: Put NetSuite suit before a judge – board panel

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

Devs invited to bake 'Run on Google Cloud' button into git repos... By Google, of course

How Lego, Bayer and iRobot use serverless tech to get ahead – find out with us this autumn

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector

Leaked EU doc plots €100bn fund to protect European firms against international tech giants

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

Geek's Guide

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Got a burning desire for a Hololens 2.0? Microsoft insists its math coprocessor won't be too hot for headgear

Join us at MCubed to find out how machine learning can fight fraudsters, cut pager noise, and much more

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

Verity Stob

Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts

Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant

Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations'

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

Science

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

VideoWhat could possibly go wrong?

23 Aug 05:03 | 53

Science

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

US sends up another GPS III spacecraft while Blighty ponders the Brexit Satellite

22 Aug 16:30 | 18

Science

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

InterviewEl Reg speaks to small-sat upstart in Edinburgh

22 Aug 10:02 | 16

Science

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Now, about those parachutes...

21 Aug 17:00 | 10

Science

Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there

Forget Mars, Jupiter’s moon could be where life’s at

20 Aug 23:58 | 23

Science

Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon

Round UpAlso: Rocket Lab launches eighth Electron, good and bad news for China

20 Aug 10:45 | 15

Science

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Back to the drawing board thanks to SN2016iet

16 Aug 10:00 | 62

Science

Don't let your dreams be dreams! Itty-bitty space shuttle to ride into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur

That's a rocket by the way, not half-horse, half-Spock

15 Aug 14:07 | 44

Science

Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth

Jumpin' Jupiter smash, it's a gas, gas, gas

15 Aug 09:01 | 29

Science

Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin

A few weeks until 'soft landing' achievement unlocked (maybe)

14 Aug 16:17 | 16

Science

SpaceX Falcon 9, Atlas V and Ariane 5 soar while Vector returns to Earth with a bump

RoundupAnd it's goodbye from Jim as smallsat launcher takes a 'pause' from operations

14 Aug 08:02 | 3

Science

Oh chute. Doubts cast on ExoMars lander's 2020 red planet jaunt after another failed test

Two more chances to get it right or we could be looking at 2022

13 Aug 11:29 | 36

Science

It's a God-awful smell affair.... is there life on Mars? Rocks ruled out as source of mystery methane on Red Planet

(Yes, pedants, we know natural methane is odorless. Don't get in the way of a Bowie headline)

13 Aug 06:54 | 57

Science

Mysterious 'glitch' in neutron stars may be down to an itch under the body's surface

Nature isn't perfect either, eh

13 Aug 05:07 | 30

Science

Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities

This is fine

12 Aug 11:33 | 219

Science

Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords

STEM subjects already lose universities £1,400 per student

08 Aug 15:04 | 82

Science

Relax, satellite hacking is unlikely to lead to Earth-blinding Kessler effect – at least not yet

Bsides LVBut this hardware is surprisingly easy to pwn, block and control

07 Aug 16:59 | 21

Science

Rocket Lab CEO tucks into hat as company shares plans to reuse Electron first stage

InterviewThe Register talks to Peter Beck about parachutes, elephants and helicopters

07 Aug 14:14 | 11

Science

Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

BSides LVLarry Niven's wireheads aren't far off

07 Aug 10:04 | 144

Science

Rival rocketeers SpaceX and ULA make oblations to weather gods ahead of double-launch action

A busy week for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

06 Aug 13:37 | 13

Science

Waiting for Amos: SpaceX delays satellite launch as it tries hard not to blow this one up

RoundupAlso: ISS traffic, Intelsat results, India swings ever closer to Moon

05 Aug 15:59 | 6

Switching to edge computing needn't be a gamble. We've got some aces up our sleeves to help you make the move

Wait a minute, we're supposed to haggle! ISPs secretly want folk to barter for broadband

I couldn't possibly tell you the computer's ID over the phone, I've been on A Course™

A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn

Oracle OKs Oracle investors to sue Oracle: Put NetSuite suit before a judge – board panel

The story so far: How's that Autonomy High Court battle with HPE looking at half-time?

Latest sneak peek at PowerShell 7 ups the telemetry but... hey... is that an off switch?

Shiny new toys take backseat in Android Studio 3.5 for now as '600 bugs' squished

Security gone in 600 seconds: Make-me-admin hole found in Lenovo Windows laptop crapware. Delete it now

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

Devs invited to bake 'Run on Google Cloud' button into git repos... By Google, of course

How Lego, Bayer and iRobot use serverless tech to get ahead – find out with us this autumn

There once was a biz called Bitbucket, that told Mercurial to suck it. Now devs are dejected, their code soon ejected

Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service

Google bans politics, aka embarrassing stuff that gets leaked, from internal message boards

Uncle Sam is asking Americans if they could refrain from slapping guns on their drones

Contractor association blasts UK.gov guidance on hated IR35 tax law's arrival in private sector

Leaked EU doc plots €100bn fund to protect European firms against international tech giants

Dion? He off: HP Inc CEO Weisler quits over 'family health matter', Lores will be High-res

Samsung Note10+ torn apart to expose three 5G antennas: One has to pick up something

Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Got a burning desire for a Hololens 2.0? Microsoft insists its math coprocessor won't be too hot for headgear

Join us at MCubed to find out how machine learning can fight fraudsters, cut pager noise, and much more

Electric vehicles won't help UK meet emissions targets: Time to get out and walk, warn MPs

Don't trust Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency, boffins warn: Zuck & Co know that hash is king

Pokemon Go becomes Pokemon No as games biz Niantic agrees to curb trespassing addicts

Overstock dot-gone: Surplus biz CEO now surplus to requirements, ejects after Russian spy fling, deep state rant

Eighty-year-old US 'web scam man' on the run after pocketing $250,000 in Dem 'donations'

US soldier cleared of taking armoured vehicle out for joyride – because he's insane, court says

Science

My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station

End of an era for ULA as the last Delta IV Medium rocket leaves launch pad

Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball

Brit-built trundlebot eyeing up a July 2020 launch as cams fitted to ExoMars mission rover

Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there

Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Don't let your dreams be dreams! Itty-bitty space shuttle to ride into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur

Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth

Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin

SpaceX Falcon 9, Atlas V and Ariane 5 soar while Vector returns to Earth with a bump

Oh chute. Doubts cast on ExoMars lander's 2020 red planet jaunt after another failed test

It's a God-awful smell affair.... is there life on Mars? Rocks ruled out as source of mystery methane on Red Planet

Mysterious 'glitch' in neutron stars may be down to an itch under the body's surface

Science and engineering hit worst as Euroboffins do a little Brexit of their own from British universities

Y'know how everyone hated it when tuition fees went up? Cutting them now could harm science, say UK Lords

Relax, satellite hacking is unlikely to lead to Earth-blinding Kessler effect – at least not yet

Rocket Lab CEO tucks into hat as company shares plans to reuse Electron first stage

Neuroscientist used brainhack. It's super effective! Oh, and disturbingly easy

Rival rocketeers SpaceX and ULA make oblations to weather gods ahead of double-launch action

Waiting for Amos: SpaceX delays satellite launch as it tries hard not to blow this one up

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Buying a Chromebook? Don't forget to check that best-before date

Disgruntled bug-hunter drops Steam zero-day to get back at Valve for refusing him a bounty

Cali court backs ex-Apple engineer who says he invented Find My iPhone and Passbook

Finally. Thanks so much, nerds. Google, Apple, Mozilla end government* internet spying for good

Researchers find development and conservation aren't mutually exclusive

Pi in the sky as ESA starts testing encrypted comms on International Space Station

Will someone plz dump our shizz on the Moon, NASA begs as one of the space biz vendors drops out

NASA trumpets Orion completion as India heads to the Moon

Satellites with lasers and machine guns coming! China's new plans? Trump's Space Force? Nope, the French

For heaven's sake: Japan boffins fail to release paper planes in space after rice wine added to rocket fuel

City-obliterating asteroid screamed past Earth the other night – and boffins only clocked it just 26 hours beforehand

SpaceX Dragon flies British science into orbit, while stubby 'watertower' hops around Texas

The Register taps a foot with boffins under the Lovell Telescope at Bluedot Festival

Meet the super-speedy white dwarf binary system that's going to grav-wave our world

LightSail 2 successfully unfurls its silvery solar sails, prepares to become a truly solar-powered satellite

Houston, we've had a legend: Boffin behind NASA Mission Control signs off for final time

Revealed: Milky Way's shocking cannibalistic dark past – it gobbled a whole dwarf eons ago

Apollo 11 @ 50: The long shadow of the flag

Guess who reserved their seat on the first Moon flight? My mum, that's who

Turning it off and on again IN SPAAACE! ISS animal-tracker kit needs oldest trick in the book

Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost