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Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere

By the beard of Zeus! Arm takes another tilt at serious servers with SVE-capable 96-core Neoverse V1

Cisco bets on real-world events with overseas audiences resuming in late 2021

India orders 180-day sprint to wire 46,000 villages

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

GNOME alone: FOSS desktop folk to start counting in whole numbers again

Won't somebody think of the Oracle execs? No pay rises, bonuses, equity awards for top brass until 2022 at earliest

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

This year’s biggest security flaws – coming soon to a screen near you

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Contractor convicted of pinching supercomputer cycles to mine cryptocurrency

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

You can add comms API merchant Twilio to the list of tech firms that have seen biz booming thanks to lockdown

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

It's IPO week and one of Wall Street's own is raising the spectre of a stock market crash

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

Royole's no chicken: Chinese firm goes in for another round with sequel to panned foldable

Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward

Happy Hacking Professional Hybrid mechanical keyboard: Weird, powerful, comfortable ... and did we mention weird?

Geek's Guide

Initialism or acronym? GSaaS wept, your guess is as good as ours: Microsoft gazes upwards with Azure Orbital

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests

Coding unit tests is boring. Wouldn't it be cool if an AI could do it for you? That's where Diffblue comes in

Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind

Verity Stob

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

Behold the Bloo Screen of Death: Bathroom borkage stops spray play

As we stand on the precipice of science fiction into science fact, people say: Hell yeah, I want to augment my eyesight!

Strap in for the wild ride that is invest.com: A failed legal battle, millions of dollars on the line... and that Yo! app

Articles about Broadband

AT&T’s CEO has a solution to US broadband woes despite billions sunk into the problem. You’ll never guess what it is

CommentThere is no good money after bad if you’re the person receiving it

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

Meanwhile, UK languishes in 47th according to Cable.co.uk rankings

India to run optic fibre to 450,000 villages in 1,000 days and give 1.3bn a digital Health ID

Which may be why PM Narendra Modi has also announced a cyber security policy

Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled

More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive

Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31%

You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster

Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)

Full-fibre connections coming to (some of) the UK's 'final third' by 2026

Community Fibre to splash £400m on FTTP connections as it races to cover a million London properties by 2023

10Gbps upgrade from challenger ISP backed by private equity

As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are

Spoiler alert: Cable companies are ripping Americans off

Customers of Brit ISP Virgin Media have downloaded an extra 325GB since March, though we can't think why

That's a lot of... Netflix. Yes, that's it

Readers of a certain age will remember GPRS: Old insecure tech from turn of millennium still haunts 5G networks

Positive Technologies analysts less than positive about GTP

Some Brits reckon broadband got worse after lockdown – but that's just what happens when you're online 12 hours straight

You perceive more faults, and they may not be faults in the first place

Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip

Tech is perhaps five years away from actual deployment, we're told

Coronavirus didn't hurt UK broadband speeds in March. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, on the other hand...

Virgin Media users' download speeds did dip a bit, though

Outages batter UK's Virgin Media into wee hours as broadband failures spike 77% globally

'Not caused by a spike in usage or a lack of network capacity,' says Brit ISP

This hurts a ton-80: British darts champ knocked out of home tourney by lousy internet connection

Bet you thought the rural internet gap wouldn't cause this kind of disruption

Who's going to pay for Britain's Aunty Beeb to carry on? Broadband users, broadcaster suggests to government

With licence fee under threat, where can corporation get the money from?

You get fibre, you get fibre, you all get fibre: UK Ministry of Fun promises new rules to make all new homes gigabit capable

Come on, builders - who doesn't like subsidies?

Data surge as more Brits work from home? Not as hard on the network as their nightly Netflix binges, claims BT

We'll be OK, says former incumbent telco

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