Roundup Homeland Security backs off on scanning US citizens, Amazon ups AI ante, and more And why China might not be as big as first thought in AI spending 09 Dec 07:01 | 35
Who, Me? Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent It only took colleagues an hour to notice our hero was missing 09 Dec 08:12 | 206
Servers Here's a bit of Intel for you: Neri a day goes by that HPE doesn't feel CPU shortage pinch Not just server pain, PC industry feeling it too, says CEO 09 Dec 09:10 | 22
Software Gee, S/4HANA. Just what I always wanted: Customers are wary of what's in SAP's sack So the decades we invested in the last platform mean nothing? 09 Dec 10:00 | 27
Roundup Things Microsoft will be glad to never see again: Windows 10 1809 and Windows Phone Office New builds, Project Scarlett and much more 09 Dec 11:18 | 26
Obit David Phillips, godfather of UK tech distribution industry, dies aged 74 Northamber founder passes after 'short illness' 09 Dec 12:00 | 1
Legal Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software Who needs who more? 09 Dec 12:40 | 126
Bootnotes Behuld – zee-a internet ouff tuilet tissuoe at Meecrusufft Sveden. Bork bork bork! Windows giant shows off smart-metered, connected office in Stockholm 09 Dec 13:20 | 38
Black Hat Europe Metasploit for drones? Best of luck with that, muses veteran tinkerer Been down this path and it ain't that easy, says man who knows 09 Dec 14:00 | 10
Software Kiwi tax probe squeezed $25m out of Microsoft – now it's Oracle's turn New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department has questions about transfer pricing 09 Dec 14:30 | 19
re:Invent Outposts, Local Zone, Wavelength: It's a new era of distributed cloud, says AWS architect Adrian Cockcroft talks to El Reg about cloud architecture – and why we need more chaos in our systems 09 Dec 15:08 | 8
Security Ad network ransomware crook to flog £5k Rolex after court confiscates £270k in ill-gotten gains Next thing she's wearing my Casio 09 Dec 15:44 | 23
Networks Ericsson throws $1bn at US authorities to make bribery probe go away Swedish comms flinger enters agreement with DoJ and SEC 09 Dec 16:20 | 21
Legal Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released But it's all anonymised data so who cares, right? 09 Dec 17:00 | 54
Personal Tech Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack They can live in my new world or they can die in their old one 09 Dec 18:30 | 89
Round Up Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station Plus: Commercial crew news and NASA publishes what ISRO won't 09 Dec 19:30 | 46
Personal Tech Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger Let's strap these bricks together and maybe we'll make a boat 09 Dec 20:07 | 27
Personal Tech Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership And thus the age of the Glasshole passes into history 09 Dec 20:38 | 14
SaaS Amazon: Trump photon-torpedoed our $10bn JEDI dream because he hates CEO Jeff Bezos 'Blatant and sustained effort' to deny AWS Pentagon IT mega-contract, cloud giant claims 09 Dec 21:22 | 71
Security Advertisers want exemption from web privacy rules that, you know, enforce privacy They also want a ban on interfering with their cookies 09 Dec 22:41 | 49
Servers Apple sues iPhone CPU design ace after he quits to run data-center chip upstart Nuvia CEO accused of breaching contract with Cupertino, fires back in court 09 Dec 23:16 | 95