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UK comms watchdog mulls 5G tweaks: Operators want moooooar power

Strong-willed field support op holds it together during painful customer call

We reveal what's inside Microsoft's Azure Govt Secret regions... wait, is that a black helico–

Cloud Atlas: Huawei's homegrown AI hardware hits shelves. Oh, and it's working on DNA storage

Hands off Brock! EFF pleads with Google not to kill its Privacy Badger with its Manifest destiny

Disco Dingo fever: Ubuntu 19.04 has an infrastructure bent, snappier GNOME and another stupid name

Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

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

Old-school cruel: Dodgy PDF email attachments enjoying a renaissance

DevOps grandpa Electric Cloud absorbed into youthful CloudBees

We can help you get on top of DevOps, CI/CD and containers, all in one month's time...

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

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

Europe's home PC buyers reach for their collective smartphone, sigh: We don't need a new desktop. This is a computer, right?

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

Let 15 July forever be known as P-Day: When UK's smut fans started being asked for their age

Why Qualcomm won – and why Tim Cook had to eat humble Apple pie

Geek's Guide

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

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

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

Speak your brains on AI platforms: They have been hyped to death... but what's your practical reality?

Microsoft president: We said no to Cali cops' face-recog tech – and we won't craft killer robots

We know you all want to shove AI where the sun doesn't shine. And that's exactly where it's going – detecting prostate cancer

Verity Stob

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

Canadian woman fined for not holding escalator handrail finally reaches the top after 10 years

So how'd this go again... A sea goddess told you in a dream to run for president of Taiwan? OK, Mr Foxconn boss

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Hands off Brock! EFF pleads with Google not to kill its Privacy Badger with its Manifest destiny

It's not hard, we just need some coding tweaks to make sure Privacy Badger stays sane

19 Apr 08:31 | 14

Disco Dingo fever: Ubuntu 19.04 has an infrastructure bent, snappier GNOME and another stupid name

New Linux kernel, new build

18 Apr 09:37 | 38

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Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

InterviewHere's that regularized programming you wanted. Bish, bash, er, Bosque

18 Apr 07:04 | 176

Hey criminals, need a getaway vehicle? There's an app for that... Car share tool halts ops amid crime wave, arrests

You wouldn't download a car – oh actually...

18 Apr 00:58 | 31

App-y now? UK health secretary spammed with pics of flowers that look like ladies' private parts

Social media hits back at suggestion women are too shy to get a smear test

15 Apr 12:51 | 22

Firefox arrives for Snapdragon Windows and Slack sidles up to Office 365

RoundupAlso: Azure goes big in Britain, Bletchley Park to teach tech and Skype shares some more

15 Apr 10:03 | 20

Motion detectors: say hello, wave goodbye and… flushhhhhh

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Some things are better left without a video greeting

12 Apr 08:07 | 165

My HPE-funded lawyer wrote my witness statement, reseller boss tells High Court

Autonomy trialAutonomy helped Capax Discovery repay its own contracts, he added

11 Apr 18:30 | 47

Be wary, traveller: There is no going back if you step over the Windows 10 20H1 threshold

Insiders play 'Where's 19H2?' and every day is an Edge day

11 Apr 12:10 | 20

Salesforce Tower and Oracle Park, SF

Do you want salt with that? Salesforce phallus 'shopped out' of Oracle Park calendar cover

Nah, it's just an old photo, claims spokesborg

10 Apr 18:01 | 16

Wapping docks viewed from the Shadwell Basin

Jamf Nation Roadshow aims to cure your Apple device management headaches

PromoSoftware provider tackles growing market sector

RIP: Microsoft finally pulls plug on last XP survivor... POSReady 2009

Welcome to Day One of the post NT 5.1 era

10 Apr 12:41 | 147

Penguin, photo via Shutterstock

Windows Subsystem for Linux distro gets a preening, updated version waddles into Microsoft's app store

If you're feeling a little bit Linux, p-p-p-pick up a p-p-p-Pengwin...1.2

10 Apr 11:31 | 71

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Rust never sleeps: C++-alike language tops Stack Overflow survey for fourth year in a row

Python still popular. Visual Basic for Applications liked about as much as meetings

09 Apr 19:00 | 100

Microsoft realises more testing wouldn't hurt and plonks Windows 10 May update into Preview ring

You can take the plunge a bit early... if you dare

09 Apr 15:15 | 9

The Reg takes a trip over the New Edge. Mmmm... New Coke with extra fizz

The Vulture hooks a talon into Microsoft's Edge-y take on Chromium

09 Apr 11:40 | 28

Karma chameleon: Reg hack takes SUSE mascot plushy right in the kisser

InterviewThen talks cloud, devs and Functions as a Service with engineering boss

09 Apr 10:14 | 8

It's alive! Hands on with Microsoft's Chromium Edge browser

Hands onYou say Edgium, they say Chredge, we say Chrexplorer – let's call the whole thing off

08 Apr 18:46 | 91

Microsoft buffs its rings, emits Code and goes global with Kaizala

For those moments when four rings just aren't quite enough

08 Apr 10:00 | 11

One step forward and one step back for Apple's privacy campaign with latest Safari build

Intelligent Tracking protection arrives as off switch for website tattling trait is removed

06 Apr 17:47 | 30

Raise some horns: Red Hat's MetalKube aims to make Kubernetes on bare machines simple

OpenInfra Days UK 2019Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack

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Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

Nine inch iPad Pro and Smart Keyboard

iOS 13 leaks suggest Apple is finally about to unleash the iPad as a computer for grownups

A British Army Watchkeeper drone lands at Parc Aberporth. Crown copyright

Brit Watchkeeper drone fell in the sea because blocked sensor made algorithms flip out

Dundee Antenna

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

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Prepare yourselves for Windows 10 May-hem. Or is it June, no, July?

Microsoft's latest update for its ageing OS due to hit Soon™

05 Apr 10:49 | 77

Xen 4.12 shrinks code, beefs up security, rethinks x86 support

Plus, it’s now actually two hypervisors in one

Google pholds! Just kidding. But Android Q Beta 2 drop supports those cool bendy mobes

Toying with UI, burstin' bubbles

04 Apr 16:58 | 21

Google faces antitrust charges in the European Union

No Widevine DRM for you! Developer left with two years of work stymied by Google snub

Take your media viewing ideas somewhere else

03 Apr 06:04 | 58

NPM clings to its cuddly image – as senior staff vote with their feet: Now longtime product boss quits JS package biz

npm uninstall iarna

03 Apr 00:49 | 8

Australia in a frame

GA'day, mate: Open the plonk, turn up a banger, Visual Studio 2019 is officially here (don't get too excited, Mac devs)

Striding into its third decade, dev suite is now ready to Share

02 Apr 21:37 | 21

Boeing 737-Max 9 on Shutterstock

We don't know whether 737 Max MCAS update is coming or Boeing: Anti-stall safety fix delayed

Airlines will have to wait few more weeks to get new code as engineers need more time

02 Apr 20:22 | 107

Amazon consumer biz celebrates ridding itself of last Oracle database with tame staff party... and a Big Red piñata

Fulfilment promise fulfilled

02 Apr 13:05 | 55

Autonomy was a 'pure-play software company', testifies former HP chief exec Léo Apotheker

Autonomy TrialAnd that's a quote from its 2010 accounts

02 Apr 10:10 | 36

Nice People Matter? NPM may stand for Not Politely Managed – job cuts leave staff sore

Layoffs at JavaScript package registry raise questions about fate of community resource

01 Apr 20:45 | 42

Azure giveth and Azure taketh away while the Windows 10 19H1 issue list keeps a-shrinking

Also: Microsoft publishes an analysis into a third party vulnerability. Which third party? Hint: it rhymes with "My Way"

01 Apr 11:01 | 1

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Metro Bank enjoys an early Friday tipple and topples over

Mobile app down, website 'may be working slowly or unavailable'

29 Mar 13:56 | 13

Scared looking office consultant hides under desk

Microsoft reckons the accursed Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally fit for business

Only took five months, and look, 19H1's almost here

29 Mar 13:04 | 32

The One Ring from Lord of the Rings

Mozilla tries to do Java as it should have been – with a WASI spec for all devices, computers, operating systems

One binary to rule them all

29 Mar 07:03 | 73

An RAF F-35B taxies in from its transatlantic delivery flight. Pic: Crown copyright/MoD

Easy-to-hack combat systems, years-old flaws and a massive bill – yup, that's America's F-35

POGO says no-go on money-pit jet fighter

28 Mar 23:37 | 84

Microsoft's corporate veep for enterprise puts the boot into boot times

InterviewBrad Anderson talks going native and attaching electrodes to journalists

28 Mar 18:00 | 39

Take a dip in our joint data lake, 'seamlessly' hoover up intel on customers – Microsoft, SAP and Adobe

Tech trio put Accenture, EY, WPP on advisory council for 'Open Data Initiative'

28 Mar 13:55 | 2

Data-slurping biz Palantir scoops US Army contract worth up to $800m – reports

Peter Thiel's firm said to have won face-off against Raytheon

28 Mar 12:03 | 5

Oracle asks Supremes to snub Google's Java API copyright protest – and have a nice cuppa tea, instead

Big Red makes its case to America's highest court that... there's no case to hear

28 Mar 01:30 | 44

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