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US finds new Huawei to hurt China with new sanctions at top chip-maker SMIC

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

TikTok wins reprieve as judge rules it can stay in app stores for now

Exercise-tracking app Strava to give away data sweated out after four billion runs, rides and rambles

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

Putin to Trump: let's collude to stop election hacking

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

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

FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth

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

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

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

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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Ex-eBay global intel staffers to admit they cyberstalked online tat bazaar's critics – who got pig heads, funeral wreath, and more in the mail

Four to plead guilty, accused senior bosses insist they weren't involved

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

Nancy is among 15 former Big Blue workers now suing the mega-corp for age discrimination

Infosec big names rally against US voting app maker's bid to outlaw unsanctioned bug hunting via T&Cs

Probing systems during a live election 'to be treated as hostile unless authorization granted,' Voatz insists

Facebook fires sueball at 'malicious' app SDK makers, accuses them of gobbling up people's personal information

Vacuuming up data? That's our job!

What legacy is IBM really shooting for? Cheating its own salespeople out of millions? Here we go again, allegedly

Big Blue insists commission 'adjustments' aren't caps

Epic Games gets itself epically banned, launches epic Fortnite death match with Apple over App Store's epic 30% cut

UpdatedGoogle yoinks smash-hit video game from Play store, too

This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing

Chipzilla faces potential class-action headache after stock price plunge

My life as a criminal cookie clearer: Register vulture writes Chrome extension, realizes it probably breaks US law

Code diveCould paywall-dodging browser aid fall foul of DMCA rules? We ask the experts

Wanted – DRAM or alive: US Feds bag arrest warrants for three Taiwanese accused of stealing Micron's mem secrets

Former employees missed court appearence, maybe because a Taiwan court already found two of them guilty

California Attorney General asks judge to force Lyft and Uber to classify drivers as employees – or else

Request for injunction raises pressure on cash-burning ride hailing apps

After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors

Lawmakers will attempt to bend the laws of mathematics to their will

Ex-CEO of fintech biz Wirecard arrested over missing money: Vanished €1.9bn may not have existed in the first place

Founder posts bail as German investigators probe accounting scandal

The girl with the dragnet tattoo: How a TV news clip, Insta snaps, a glimpse of a tat and a T-shirt sold on Etsy led FBI to alleged cop car arsonist

Woman tracked down, accused of torching patrol vehicles amid protests

ESET rushes to defend rival Malwarebytes in legal war sparked by vendor upset at 'unwanted program' labeling

AnalysisSecurity biz, academics, tech advocacy groups ask Supreme Court to review ruling that could derail antivirus industry

Infosys denies former head of diversity recruitment's accusations of racial bias and visa fraud

Rejects allegations it favours Indian workers in the USA

Forget biz insider threats for a moment – let's talk about partners turning rogue and installing spyware on phones

AnalysisLight shined on lack of privacy controls for stalkerware

Repair store faces hefty legal bill after losing David and Goliath fight with Apple over replacement iPhone screens

Top court rules iGiant's trademark infringed by components

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

AnalysisAmid political theater, Section 230 protection loss dangled

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