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Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages

IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

Looking for a new tech job? Just browsing? This week's list includes roles for devs, engineers, and Perl maestros

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

WeWork Won’tWork in China, at least not as majority owner

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

Geek's Guide

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

First they came for chess, then Go... and now, oh for crying out loud, AI systems can beat us at curling

SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents

All those ‘teleworking is the new normal’ predictions? Not so much, say bosses

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

Verity Stob

First-world problems: The pumpkin spice latte is here, but the Starbucks loyalty card app has wiped my balance

Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Articles about Automation

With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action

IgniteRedmond to take baby steps on desktop while established vendors turn gaze to enterprise deployments

DevOps pilgrim Progress forks out $220m for automation crew Chef

It's our fourth chapter, says CEO Crist

AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances

Automation tool RDS can now push MySQL and PostgreSQL onto Arm, MariaDB coming soon

Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020

Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working

More automation to suddenly look like a jolly good idea as businesses struggle through coronavirus crisis, say analysts

I, for one, welcome our robot replacements... Wait, no I don't

Non-human Microsoft Office users get their own special licences

Automated operators can pay up like anyone – or anything – else

Nutanix issues solid Q3 preview but also yanks mid-term targets

'A new company will emerge from this pandemic' says CEO

Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger

Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do

Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now

'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions'

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Puppetize PDX 2019Bigwigs on containers, consulting and the path ahead

If Syria pioneered grain processing by watermill in 350BC, the UK in 2019 can do better... right?

Wrong: Biz committee bemoans lack of automation strategy

Complex automation won't make fleshbags obsolete, not when the end result is this dumb

ColumnWe're messy, expensive, lazy, difficult – and entirely necessary

Software engineer fired, shut out of office for three weeks by machine

HAL 9000 is here – and it's plugged into your HR system

Automation won’t take your job until the next recession threatens it

Economics boffin says we’re just playing with AI now and the payoff is years away

Is automation going to put you out of a job? Probably not, but…

ResearchYou've got to use your time much more wisely if you want to stay employed

Don’t fight automation software for control, just turn it off. FAST

Report into fatal air accident shows machines can't be trusted to negotiate a crisis

UK web grocer Ocado takes £500k hit after robo-warehouse tech splurge

£36m sunk on developing proprietary software

No wonder Marvin the robot was miserable: AI will make the rich richer – and the poor poorer

I think you ought to know why I’m feeling very depressed

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