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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

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

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

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

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

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

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

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

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

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

Personal Tech

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Contesting decision of General Court that Irish set-up was kosher

25 Sep 14:31 | 13

On Call

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

MAYBE IF I PRINT EVERYTHING IN CAPS?

25 Sep 07:15 | 130

Personal Tech

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Contract would have run for up to three years, bagged $500,000, it seems

25 Sep 00:59 | 25

Personal Tech

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

So says ex-director of monetization, adding this led to 'unprecedented engagement and profits'

25 Sep 00:15 | 27

Personal Tech

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

If at first you don't succeed, fail again

24 Sep 20:06 | 46

Personal Tech

TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments

Video-sharing app appears to have had enough of presidential posturing

24 Sep 02:55 | 39

Personal Tech

Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings

Federal versus state action – the endless conundrum for the United States

24 Sep 01:49 | 39

Analysis

Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear

Proposed Section 230 overhaul shockingly free of hyperbole

23 Sep 23:52 | 18

Personal Tech

It's the year of Linux on the... ThinkPad as Lenovo extends out-of-the-box Ubuntu support to nearly 30 machines

PCs for suited penguins

23 Sep 21:02 | 18

Personal Tech

Nokia rolls out midrange 5G mobile, but will struggle to fight off Motorola and pals. Plus: New platform for suits with bulk-ordered SIMs

Also two new budget blowers including £99 MicroUSB unit

23 Sep 19:00 | 8

Personal Tech

Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition

Chucks in Xbox Live Game Pass and other 'freebies' to sweeten the £599+ deal

23 Sep 14:45 | 9

Personal Tech

Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road

Promises full autonomy and big range boost too

23 Sep 08:26 | 117

Personal Tech

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

Seemingly ignorant of the fact that Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter already operate a similar project

23 Sep 02:58 | 1

Ignite

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

Virtual commutes and touchless meetings

22 Sep 15:59 | 12

Personal Tech

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

Flexpai may have been a world-first, but it wasn't very good. The follow-up phone straps on 5G

22 Sep 15:31 | 2

Personal Tech

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

Fitness fans get more battery capacity in thinner case, and replacing it is doable for the brave

22 Sep 11:26 | 10

Review

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

Once you're over the learning curve, it's a cross-platform all-rounder

22 Sep 09:15 | 66

Personal Tech

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

Single high-level impulse noise kicked in with morning cuppa. Owner vows never to use the set again

22 Sep 07:57 | 175

Personal Tech

OnePlus to drop slightly better version of latest flagship next month ... and that's the T

Robert Downey Jr's back to tell everyone how great it is

21 Sep 16:15 | 8

Personal Tech

Ready to slip into your suitca... or not: Logitech wheels out new 'travel-sized' version of MX Master 3

Optimistically aimed at airport-bound folk

21 Sep 09:30 | 17

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

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

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

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

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

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

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'

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

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

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

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

Personal Tech

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'

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments

Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings

Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear

It's the year of Linux on the... ThinkPad as Lenovo extends out-of-the-box Ubuntu support to nearly 30 machines

Nokia rolls out midrange 5G mobile, but will struggle to fight off Motorola and pals. Plus: New platform for suits with bulk-ordered SIMs

Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition

Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

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?

Ancient telly borked broadband for entire Welsh village

OnePlus to drop slightly better version of latest flagship next month ... and that's the T

Ready to slip into your suitca... or not: Logitech wheels out new 'travel-sized' version of MX Master 3

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Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

BT cutting contractors' rates by a fifth and halving notice period because 'coronavirus'

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 debut derailed by website glitches, bots, lack of supply

Das Keyboard 4C TKL: Plucky mechanical contender strikes happy medium between typing feel and clackety-clack joy

Elecrow CrowPi2: Neat way to get your boffins-to-be hooked on Linux from an early age and tinkering in no time

iOS 14 suffers app preference amnesia: Rebooting an iThing resets browser, email client defaults back to Safari, Mail

Apple 'proud to support Indian customers and their communities' – but maybe not so much for COVID-slammed retailers

He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended

Google bans stalkerware apps from Android store. Which is cool but... why were they allowed in the first place?

Ah yes, Sony, that major player in the smartphone space, has a new flagship inbound: The Xperia 5 II

Never mind that you can run Meet on any old computer, Google unveils specialised hardware for vid-chat plat

Sounds like Spotify and Epic have been chatting: Music streamer blasts Apple One service as 'anti-competitive'

Singapore to pay its citizens to wear Apple Watches

Net neutrality lives... in Europe, anyway: Top court supports open internet rules, snubs telcos and ISPs