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If at first you don't succeed... Rackspace files IPO papers to go public once again, hopefully with better timing

Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?

Smile? Not bloody likely: Day 6 of wobbly services and still no hint to UK online bank's customers about what's actually wrong

Where do you stand on self-service and automation? Tell us the pros and cons from your viewpoint

Android 11 will let users stop device-makers from killing background apps, says Google

So Darned Kind of you, Facebook: SDK bug sends popular iOS apps crashing earthwards

Microsoft to pull support for PHP: Version 8? Exterminate, more like...

The reluctant log trawler: The buck stops with the back-end

An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn't mean it – Amazon

Tony Blair tells Russian infosec conference that cross-border infosec policies need more gov intervention

TomTom bill bomb: Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year, rages Reg reader

Digicert will shovel some 50,000 EV HTTPS certificates into the furnace this Saturday after audit bungle

Continuous Lifecycle Online is this Thursday: Get your ticket while you can, and tune into these fantastic sessions

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Software biz Advanced set to lay off 6% of its workforce, blames that virus

South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club

Tata Consultancy Services says pandemic's most powerful punches landed in Q1 - and it's still dancing

Philippines government tech agency seeks 750 percent budget boost for COVIDigital transformation

Soft press keys for locked-down devs: Three new models of old school 60-key Happy Hacking 'board out next month

Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards

A volt from the blue: Samsung reportedly ditches wall-wart from future phones

Lovely new dongles and lusciously lengthy cables are Intel's new offerings

Geek's Guide

The world's nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet

Spotted the ISS in the sky yet? How about pulling out some spare kit and giving it a listen?

If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?

Mars InSight to stretch its arm and look around as mole-mashing ops are paused

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

FYI: You do all know that America's tech giants, even Google, supply IT to the US military, right?

Verity Stob

Hungry? Please enjoy this delicious NaN, courtesy of British Gas and Sainsbury's

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

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Micro Focus COVID-19 costs: Carry the one, decimal 9 places to the right... hmm. Holy cow, it's a $1bn+ loss

Customers' decision to hit pause on spending compounds HP Software indigestion woes

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

It's only downloaded 26.5m times a week, NBD

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Special reportIs that listed phone number going direct to a professional or a call center?

After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass

So much for preventing malicious software from peeking at sensitive files

You wait ages for a mid-air collision spoofing attack and along come two at once: More boffins take a crack at hoodwinking TCAS

Easy to fool safety system, in theory – in practice, well...

Apple: We're defending your privacy by nixing 16 browser APIs. Rivals: You mean defending your bottom line

iGiant accused of holding back web progress to protect its 30% app cut

Macs, iPhones, iPads to get encrypted DNS – how'd you like them Apples?

WWDCCupertino idiot-tax corp is fashionably late to the party

Apple gives Boot Camp the boot, banishes native Windows support from Arm-compatible Macs

Virtualization an option, Rosetta x86 Windows emulation doubtful

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

Apple says if developers are unhappy with its App Store decisions, it will entertain appeals against its rulings – and even its own rules

WWDCThe Lord of the iThings will see you now

Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps

WWDCWe take a look at Cupertino's one-Arm bandit gambit

Boffins find that over nine out of ten 'ethical' hackers are being a bit naughty when it comes to cloud services

Then again, cloud providers aren't exactly playing the smart game either

Top tip, devs – your Chrome extension doesn't have to suck: 'A few hours can result in big improvements for millions of users'

Coder urges peers to spend more time tuning plugins for performance

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

DevOps to DevOops: Docker Hub proves so secure that 430 Docker images out of 2,500 have no vulnerabilities

As for the rest, you're on your own

Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it

Water filter system requires RFID-chipped part

Facebook boffins bake robo-code converter to take the pain out of shifting between C++, Java, Python

Using machine learning to get rid of those awkward code breaks

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

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