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VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS

Apple faces further iPhone 12 supply chain woes, per famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Geek's Guide

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Verity Stob

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

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Hate speech row: Fine or jail anyone who calls people boffins, geeks or eggheads, psychology nerd demands

'Divisive and humiliating' terms are bad as the N-word, uni lecturer argues

Boffin the boffin and his boffinry pals in double dwarf super-prang alert

PicsSupernova, huge bang, yes, yes. But have we reached Peak Boffin?

So, what exactly defines a 'boffin'? Speak your brains...

Engineer? Computer scientist? Biologist? You tell us

Russian boffins race to meteorite crash lake as shard prices go sky-high

Space rock hunters flog fragments at $10,000 a piece

Pret-a-porter: LG boffins' bendy battery can be worn as PANTS

But keep that fire extinguisher close

New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car

Pitch-black Aerographite could juice batteries of the future-ture-ture

Watch out for the GIGANTIC ALIEN JELLYFISH, warns space boffin

Floating horror blobominations roam ice-moon skies

CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson

Answer to life, the universe and everything coming soon

Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory

Student goes looking for water, finds yet more rock

Mega squid use HUMONGOUS eyes to spot ravenous sperm whales

Boffins float theory on colossal creatures' eyesight

Super-boffin Stephen Hawking to star in Big Bang Theory

UK prof to drop in on Dr Sheldon Cooper

Kung-fu tweeting Carl Douglas wins El Reg prize - with expert timing

Beardie computer scientist was fast as lightning

Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet

'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaurs

Boffins one step closer to invisible shed

Successfully cloak 3D object from microwaves

Exotic Russian rock CAME FROM OUTER SPACE

Alien quasicrystal find sheds light on solar system birth

Bumblebee boffins rediscover long-vanished species

Rare US insect had not been seen since 1956

Dyson sinks £1.4m into Cambridge engineering chair

Intellectual vacuum

New 'plasma lamps' to replace fluorescent bulbs, LEDs

Boffins bid for spinout riches on flat, bendy glow-sheets

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