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Microsoft taps your shoulder Hi sorry yeah, we're still suing US govt for right to tell people when they are spied on

You gotta fight for your right to paaaartake in a legal process to inform folks of snoop orders

27 Sep 00:58 | 30

Astroboffins baffled after spotting solar system with great gas giant that shouldn't exist

Back to the drawing board folks

27 Sep 05:04 | 50

Windows 10 May 2019 Update inches toward the 50 per cent uptake as a new build drops

Microsoft gazes forlornly at the halcyon days of 2018, before that release happened

27 Sep 05:54 | 6

Behold the perils of trying to turn the family and friends support line into a sideline

That time when a professional turned out to be somewhat amateur

27 Sep 07:17 | 208

Reach out and touch fake: Hand tracking in VR? How about your own, personal, haptics?

The Reg fingers a pair of €5k sluggers from the land of clogs

27 Sep 08:28 | 8

BOFH: We must... have... beer! Only... cure... for... electromagnetic fields

Slow your roll, your typewriters will be here anon

27 Sep 08:50 | 145

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

Multitasking is a myth: It means doing lots of things equally badly

Some people just like to take the p*ss

27 Sep 09:20 | 109

Visual Studio for Mac: A bunch of new features but Xcode and VS Code are tough competition

Making sense of Microsoft's dev tool family

27 Sep 09:51 | 5

Pupil mental health monitor promises app rewrite after hardcoded login creds discovered

You Steer-ed into some potential trouble there

27 Sep 10:20 | 25

Lucas Pope: Indie games visionary makes pen-pushing feel like an exciting career choice

Ghost ship intrigue in Return of the Obra Dinn, border bureaucracy in Papers, Please

27 Sep 10:51 | 12

YouTuber charged loads of fans $199 for shoddy machine-learning course that copy-pasted other people's GitHub code

And there wasn't a refund policy until folk complained

27 Sep 11:30 | 53

Cisco helps ease blight of tourism on Orkney's Wi-Fi hotspot network thanks to £4.3m grant

*grumble* Coming over here... hogging our internets *groan*

27 Sep 12:01 | 5

We're all doooooomed: Gloomy Brit workforce really isn't coping well with impending Brexit

Cheer up, it might never happen. But it probably will

27 Sep 12:35 | 254

No Huawei: Micron hit by oversupply, US-China trade issues as DRAM sales sliced in half

But says customers at last chowing through memory stockpile

27 Sep 13:10 | 4

Baby alert! Japan Air lets passengers book seats far away from screaming abdabs

No word on rugby fans or armrest-hoggers

27 Sep 13:43 | 63

Sussex Police gives up on £790k Gatwick drone shutdown probe

No new arrests, no idea what happened

27 Sep 14:20 | 37

Mayor of London wants mobile providers to stick more network kit across Big Smoke's rooftops

But are landlords going to care about a template agreement?

27 Sep 15:00 | 4

Amazon, maker of racist and sexist facial recog, to suggest regulations for facial recog systems

Now we're really scared

27 Sep 16:00 | 16

Hey, it's Google's birthday! Remember when they were the good guys?

Reg greybeards (whispered, stage left): We remember

27 Sep 17:00 | 72

What is this, 2016? A rummage around in 7th-gen iPad innards shows repurposed tech within

Bigger case means we can use even more glue!

27 Sep 18:00 | 15

Analyse this: IBM punts off algorithm risk biz

Financial specialist picks up part of Big Blue that eyes up quants' models, trades and more

What's that smell? Perfume merchant senses the scent of a digital burglary

Fragrance Direct discovers 'malicious code' that led to leakage of customer data

27 Sep 20:18 | 10

Got a pre-A12 iPhone? Love jailbreaks? Happy Friday! 'Unpatchable tethered Boot ROM exploit' released

Coder claims iThings older than two years can be unlocked from Apple's clutches

27 Sep 22:22 | 40

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