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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

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

Strange, it didn't show up during development, says social network

Open access journals are vanishing from the web, Internet Archive stands ready to fill in the gaps

Diamonds are forever, scholarly articles not so much, it seems

Don't want AWS training its AI systems from your pics, text, audio, code? It's now easier to opt out of the slurp

And you've told your users their info may be harvested by Amazon, right? Across regions, yeah?

Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks: Information Builders declares itself 'the new ibi', touts AI data tools

Rebrand accompanies tech launches as CEO hits 18 months in job

Franco-German cloud framework floated to protect European's data from foreign tech firms slurpage

Economy Ministers mark official launch of GAIA-X project

Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue

Grandchild Digital Picture Removal

Stripe is absolutely logging your mouse movements on websites' payment pages – for your own good, says CEO

Online transaction biz intends to clarify its analytics harvesting habit

Stop worrying – Larry Ellison and Prez Trump will have this whole coronavirus thing licked shortly with the power of data

CommentRevealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...

Super-crypto actually normal TLS, lawsuit launched over Facebook API usage, privacy policy rewritten

Marriott Hotels hacked AGAIN: Two compromised employee logins abused to siphon off 5.2m guests' personal info

UpdatedHow many customers' deets? It's not saying just yet

NHS websites will no longer burn up your mobile data allowance, say Brit telcos

Coronavirus advice to become free to view even if you're out of credit

7 years after hooking up, SAP gets much, much cosier with Ariba's supply chain and procure-to-pay software

ERP giant targets unified master data management and data model

After 1.5 million days of computer time, SETI@home heads home to probe potential signs of alien civilizations

'We're now approaching the point to do the analysis and write-up,' co-founder tells El Reg

Oh good, the FTC has discovered acqui-hires... American watchdog to probe decade of Big Tech takeovers

Hope they've got a dump truck or three to deliver paperwork covering years of acquisitions

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits' medical data

ExclusiveNine 'commercial models' to access central database mulled at hush-hush meeting

Amnesty slams Facebook, Google over 'pervasive surveillance' business model

Rights warriors want governments to actually, y'know, do something – anything

London has decent 5G availability but speeds lag behind Birmingham and Cardiff – research

Over 60% access better than anything found in US and SK

Microsoft embraces California data privacy law – don't expect Google to follow suit

Software giant promises to extend protections across US

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