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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

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

EventWe've brought together experts across the DevOps field to bring you practical advice and answer your Qs

11 Jul 10:00 |

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

At 65 million miles away, that's what we call social distancing

11 Jul 08:26 | 17

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

Shock TikTok block clocked, unblocked as poppycock amid media aftershock

11 Jul 00:20 | 19

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

Private equity looks to cash in on managed cloud services biz

10 Jul 20:30 | 1

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

ESA emits a guide to picking up Slow Scan TV from the orbiting outpost

10 Jul 18:10 | 7

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

Users will be able to 'override ... restrictions' on phones and other kit, says engineering team

10 Jul 17:22 | 26

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'?

AnalysisNot sure they spent that much on 'high risk' kit from ZTE and Huawei, coughs analyst

10 Jul 16:20 | 47

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

Just what Vladimir Putin's favourite bank wanted to hear, no doubt

10 Jul 15:30 | 24

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

You're unlikely to hear someone inflicting their iOS Spotify playlist on the bus today

10 Jul 14:54 | 18

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

Good news if you're a fan of Topre switches

10 Jul 13:56 | 27

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

No support 'in any capacity' for PHP for Windows for v8 and beyond, but Windows users not to worry, says release manager

10 Jul 12:42 | 34

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

The artist formerly known as Advanced Computer Software Group confirms redundancies

10 Jul 11:28 | 2

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

Mazda shrugs off ex-owner's bizarre involuntary data retention story

10 Jul 10:25 | 152

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

Tech team still 'investigating,' no ETA of fix

10 Jul 09:29 | 81

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

Nationwide network operator gets into tizzy with chimney owners

10 Jul 08:30 | 40

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

President chooses chip factory to expands program aimed at reducing dependence on Japan

10 Jul 08:02 | 11

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

Supply chains are working again

10 Jul 07:32 | 17

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

On CallHope for web success, but plan for every possible (and impossible) failure

10 Jul 07:03 | 68

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

Revenue fell eight percent but company thinks it can win on new virus-scoured terrain

10 Jul 06:37 | 4

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

Reader surveyThe us-versus-them mentality between dev and ops is still alive and well, we see

10 Jul 06:00 |

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

There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop

10 Jul 05:14 | 89

China’s preferred Linux distro trumpets Arm benchmark results

Which sounds just like what you’d do if future x86 supply looked a bit iffy

10 Jul 04:02 | 50

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

Most of it to go on new internet infrastructure to keep citizens working and learning remotely

10 Jul 02:03 | 4

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

You've got less than 42 hours to regenerate your certs

10 Jul 00:29 | 38

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

Investigation follows Canada's decision to give image-scraping biz the boot

09 Jul 22:28 | 13

FYI: Someone's scanning gateways, looking for those security holes Citrix told you not to worry too much about

VIdeoHackers hit honeypots hours after CISO downplays risk, proof-of-concept exploit code emerges

09 Jul 20:32 | 9

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

Tap-tap-tapping on lander's scoop

09 Jul 17:45 | 6

Show a little spine? Nokia whips out SR Linux, a new routing network OS for cloud clients

Finnish firm might do best with telco clouds, says analyst

09 Jul 17:00 |

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

What's in the box? Not mains charger, sources say

09 Jul 16:30 | 68

How to build a cyber threat intelligence program while cutting through the noise

WebcastTune in this month to hear from Anomali – and get a handle on separating good data from clutter

09 Jul 16:00 |

Commons cause: IBM, Oracle, CNCF protest over Google's handling of Istio governance

Deep upset at what is perceived as broken commitments

09 Jul 15:15 | 2

Email seems lost in the post? You might be a Tsohost customer

Print it out, pop a stamp on it, stick it in a pillar box. Might have been quicker

09 Jul 14:34 | 16

Knock-Nokia... who's there? Also-vRAN Samsung with new open virtualized network antenna kit

Are these the O-RAN-compliant goods you were looking for?

09 Jul 13:54 | 1

MariaDB inhales $25m. 'People tried to get away with simpler' but now there's a 'relational renaissance,' says open-source biz chief

Oracle nemesis will be focusing on SkySQL cloud product

09 Jul 13:05 | 20

SAP rolls out early Q2 numbers, says 18% decline in licensing revenue is an 'improvement'

CEO reckons team 'navigated a very challenging environment'

09 Jul 12:25 | 1

Never mind rail and ports, let's help DPD... and, er, Amazon: UK gov and ESA call for ways to slap logistics with 5G stick

Sorry we missed you. Been binging on Netflix in the delivery van

09 Jul 11:06 | 14

If you haven't potentially exposed 1000s of customers once again with networking vulns, step forward... Not so fast, Palo Alto Networks

Getting to be a real PAN in the OS

09 Jul 10:12 | 6

.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing despite more than five years open source

CommentMaking .NET cross-platform was a radical step but not enough for broad appeal

09 Jul 09:13 | 143

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

Bork!Bork!Bork!Served up with a steaming side of buttered Bork

09 Jul 08:30 | 39

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

Thunderbolt 4.0 is nearly upon us and those are apparently its big selling points

09 Jul 08:02 | 9

Heir-to-Concorde demo model to debut in October

With air travel in a horrible hole it’s ahead of its time in a weirdly viral way

09 Jul 07:32 | 131

Road trip on Mars: Thrill as Curiosity rover races up to 0.06 miles per hour. Marvel as it takes a mile-long detour

Trundle bot must dodge sand dunes in quest to find evidence of life on Red Planet

09 Jul 07:07 | 19

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

OpenShift and Tanzu get a familiar-looking competitor

09 Jul 06:29 | 2

CEO of motherboard maker MSI dies after plunging from headquarters' seventh-floor

Foul play not suspected

09 Jul 06:04 | 52

Indonesia slaps 10 percent tax on three Googles

But only on one AWS, one Spotify and one Netflix - and zero Microsofts

09 Jul 05:28 | 5

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

They're more than happy to take Uncle Sam's coin no matter the protests from some corners of Silicon Valley

09 Jul 05:07 | 19

Asia’s internet registry APNIC finds about 50 million unused IPv4 addresses behind the sofa

About three /8’s worth is a decent chunk of the total pool and locals unready to go all-in on IPv6 are hungry

09 Jul 04:01 | 20

Google Cloud cancels planned Chinese venture

Doesn't want to follow Azure and AWS by working with locals

09 Jul 02:57 | 5

Civil-rights probe: Facebook has completely failed to… Zuck: Look over here! We’ve banned four groups! Go me!

Report slams antisocial network's 'vexing and heartbreaking decisions'

08 Jul 23:46 | 30

Microsoft sues coronavirus phishing spammers to seize their domains amid web app attacks against Office 354.5

A very busy six months for Redmond's Digital Crimes Unit

08 Jul 22:07 | 21

Keep it Together, Microsoft: New mode for vid-chat app Teams reminds everyone why Zoom rules the roost

VideoIf you have to play by Redmond's strict rules, people are likely to go elsewhere

08 Jul 20:54 | 108

Google forges Open Usage Commons to manage open-source project trademarks, lobs hot-potato Istio at it

Marks for Angular and Gerrit also handled by org designed to provide 'guidance' to industry

08 Jul 20:12 | 2

Oracle tempts users to run its cloud in their own data centres – for a mere '$6 million' commitment

UpdatedNot for your titchy workloads, Reg sources say

08 Jul 19:00 | 18

One surefire way to get the boss's attention on network security is to get hacked. But there must be a better way?

Reader surveyAnd there is – check out our latest survey findings

08 Jul 18:00 |

Criminals auction off stolen domain admin credentials for up to £95k. Your bank account details? Barely get £50

Dark web dwellers can pick and choose from billions - billions - of logins

08 Jul 17:26 | 7

No more Genius Bar bottlenecks for you, Mr Customer? Apple exports independent repair provider program to Europe and Canada

iPhone right-to-repair movements blows in from US

08 Jul 16:15 | 11

Go on, devs, have a Flutter on Linux desktop apps: Google and Canonical launch alpha SDK

App framework extends its reach to Canonical's Snap Store

08 Jul 15:35 | 7

Don't make any sudden moves: Huawei urges UK government to wait before declaring it 'unreliable'

Claims 'restrictions by the US will take months to fully understand'

08 Jul 14:30 | 14

UK advertising watchdog raps ruler on O2's hand over misleading ads for iPad and Surface Pro deals

£9 a month mumble mumble, terms and conditions apply

08 Jul 13:54 | 6

You know what would look great on our database? Your machine learning model: GPUs and unstructured data on the menu for Exasol as it tries to unify BI and ML

Keeping up in performance stakes vital as data science sector explodes, says analyst

08 Jul 12:55 |

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

End of milk-based monstrosity... or overpriced harmless fun? You be the judge

08 Jul 11:58 | 36

Citrix tells everyone not to worry too much about its latest security patches. NSA's former top hacker disagrees

Eleven flaws cleaned up including one that may be exploited to sling malware downloads

08 Jul 10:55 | 6

GCHQ's cyber arm report on Huawei said to be burning hole through UK.gov desks

Ban, no ban, trade war, 'useful idiots'... it's a big pie and everyone's grabbing a slice

08 Jul 10:01 | 67

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

Bork!Bork!Bork!Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost

08 Jul 09:13 | 20

Leaving Las Salesforce: Paul Smith fashions a new role at ServiceNow

No, not the Nottingham-born designer of natty suits, the former Proctor & Gamble chap who also spent time in the channel

08 Jul 08:30 | 2

Captain, the computer has identified 250 alien stars that infiltrated our galaxy – actual science, not science-fiction

Neural network trained to spot emigrated suns in our Milky Way uncovers mysterious Nyx collective

08 Jul 07:18 | 28

Achieve your financial services digital transformation with advice and insight brought to you by Workday

WebcastWatch live online this week – and turn that existential threat into a competitive advantage

08 Jul 06:00 |

High-flying Microsoft exec jumps to Magic Leap as CEO. No, we haven't got that the wrong way round

Peggy Johnson will take over after she approached ailing upstart

08 Jul 05:02 | 32

NASA trusted 'traditional' Boeing to program its Starliner without close supervision... It failed to dock due to bugs

All eyes were instead on SpaceX and its newer programming techniques

08 Jul 02:57 | 95

Trump's bright idea of kicking out foreign students unless unis resume in-person classes stuns tech, science world

The last thing America needs right now is a brain drain

08 Jul 00:29 | 111

Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart

Jeepers, Keeper

07 Jul 23:35 | 44

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

UpdatedExec admits launching racist tirade at family in restaurant

07 Jul 22:30 | 119

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Microprocessor core designer says it just wants to focus on designing microprocessor cores

07 Jul 21:08 | 1

LibreOffice community protests at promotion of paid-for editions, board says: 'LibreOffice will always be free software'

UpdatedEnterprise edition ahoy as project tries to puzzle out its business model

07 Jul 18:19 | 151

Fast as a motorbike, subtle as a brick: Motorola pushes out new Moto G 5G Plus mid-ranger

First 'affordable' 5G phone for the budget blower brand

07 Jul 17:26 | 8

Fret not, Linux fans, Microsoft's Project Freta is here to peer deep into your memory... to spot malware

Shining a Rust-based forensic light into the darker corners of images

07 Jul 16:32 | 10

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

07 Jul 15:45 | 6

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

It's all about Kubernetes, Program Manager Jeff Hollan tells The Reg

07 Jul 15:01 |

We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence

British military continues push for new autonomous tech

07 Jul 14:15 | 23

That's infotainment, that's infotainment: Android Automotive OS goes virtual with new reference platform

The screech of brakes and lamplights blinking... Google and pals tackle heterogeneous hardware subsystems

07 Jul 13:30 | 13

Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions

Contract could be repurposed kit and services to support 'other uses' besides clean air...

07 Jul 12:45 | 33

Microsoft? AWS? Nein und nein. Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for its latest crack at digital transformation

5 months after request for proposal, Satya and Jeff left to languish on sidelines

07 Jul 12:00 | 8

Psst: Want to know who else has their snout in the Copernicus trough? (spoiler: it's not the UK)

In BriefPlus: SpaceX launches another GPS satellite, the next Mission Extension Vehicle arrives in French Guiana and.... come ON, Tim!

07 Jul 11:20 | 12

Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law

Plus: US govt says it's 'looking at' banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok

07 Jul 10:45 | 45

Microsoft to take a break from Edge releases: Hits pause button to align with Chromium

In BriefPlus: A release candidate for Azure DevOps, Pylance gallops into VS Code and hairdressing in Teams

07 Jul 10:00 | 6

Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150

ReviewSeems to be great for productivity

07 Jul 09:15 | 64

Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing

ColumnSlower than an iPhone, faster than a 2019 MacBook Air: It's an iBook that's over a decade old

07 Jul 08:30 | 109

University ordered to stop running women-only job ads

Experiment to diversify academic workforce falls foul of human-rights watchdog

07 Jul 07:14 | 85

Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers

ExclusiveDNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief

07 Jul 06:35 | 20

Want to kill all the weak passwords? This may be the tool for you

SponsoredSpecops tames password resets in Windows environments

07 Jul 05:00 |

When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint

Antisocial network accused of unfairly snubbing Black people when it comes to jobs, promotions

06 Jul 23:58 | 44

Your 2.3m Instagram fans won't stop the FBI... Web star accused of plotting to launder millions from cyber-crime

Bloke calling himself Hushpuppi extradited, allegedly conspired to steal $100m from English Premier League soccer club among others

06 Jul 22:35 | 12

You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

Proposed Section 230 shake-up passes committee stage with amendments

06 Jul 20:42 | 70

Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

Some of them will be feeling very ill and won’t pick up the phone and return the call. Ahem...

06 Jul 17:15 | 54

Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'

Asks that at least three Board members give up their seats for diverse replacements

06 Jul 16:30 | 12

You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Fujitsu tells 80,000 of its Japan employees: From now on, you work remotely

Announces plans to close 50% of its Japanese office space by close of 2022

06 Jul 15:55 | 38

Think of a number: A tale of iffy discount codes, supermarket loyalty cards and Hotels.com

Points-powered getaways could cost booking site dear

06 Jul 15:15 | 9

A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure

'Pics or It Didn't Happen' won't be sending back any pics any time soon

06 Jul 14:22 | 12

Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'

Move won't fix 'brutal system of human misery' but aims to encourage participation

06 Jul 13:30 | 298

July? British government could decide to boot Chinese giant Huawei from the UK's networks by this month

NCSC will make the call, says UK digital secretary

06 Jul 12:45 | 54

£40m wasna enough for ink and toner cartridges in public sector, says Scottish government

Like most other things these days, COVID-19 blamed for extension to framework agreement

06 Jul 12:00 | 17

Things can't go on like this. You need to get fit for the sake of your health. I'm going to write you a prescription for... an e-bike

Sheffield's doctors given tools to save residents from BIKE FITNESS HORROR

06 Jul 11:20 | 37

Three UK: We're sending you this SMS to warn you not to pay attention to unsolicited texts

So ... CLICK HERE to find out more!

06 Jul 10:45 | 39

ITAM Forum asks software giants to stop browbeating customers onto their clouds with threats of licence audits

Pressuring clients into products they're not ready for doesn't benefit anyone, says new chair

06 Jul 10:01 | 5

Make sure you've patched your F5 BIG-IP gear. Exploit code for scary bug pair is so trivial, it fits in a tweet

In BriefPlus: What? No. No way. People would just do that? Go on Tor and use it to commit crimes?

06 Jul 09:15 | 2

If there's a lesson to be learned in these torrid times, it's that civilisation is fleeting – but Windows XP is eternal

Bork!Bork!Bork!Airport antics for a Microsoft OS well past its prime

06 Jul 08:30 | 32

When a deleted primary device file only takes 20 mins out of your maintenance window, but a whole year off your lifespan

Who, Me?In praise of UNIX and knowing when to deliberately drive a server off a cliff

06 Jul 07:15 | 130

How New Relic takes the guesswork out of IT fixes

SponsoredObservability is everything

06 Jul 06:00 |