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Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

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It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

Geek's Guide to BritainOf all the monuments to Great Britain's efforts to maintain its pre-war status as a global superpower in the post-war world, the remnants of the Blue Streak intermediate-range ballistic missile project are among the most bathetic. Traces of Blue Streak and related rocket projects can be found in the Australian desert, on an …

27 Nov 2019

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

If you bought an ebook through Microsoft's online store, now's the time to give it a read, or reread, because it will stop working early July. That's right, the books you paid for will be literally removed from your electronic bookshelf because, um, Microsoft decided in April it no longer wanted to sell books. It will turn off …

28 Jun 2019

Git it girl! Academy tries to tempt women into coding with free course

The Makers Academy has emitted a free programming guide and launched an apprenticeship scheme that it hopes will convince women to consider a career change as the tech sector's gender gap widens. To mark the start of National Coding Week, the school, based in East London, England, also warned today that a decline in female …

17 Sep 2018

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

Book ReviewIt has been 14 years since Google IPO'd, and nine since Donald Trump burst onto Twitter. It’s five years since both the Snowden NSA disclosures and the birth of Cambridge Analytica. Over this period we’ve had a series of major data breaches, media organisations disrupted out of existence, and the emergence of hacktivists and the …

20 Aug 2018

Hoping for Microsoft's mythical Andromeda in your Xmas stocking? Don't hold your breath

Finding a new form factor for personal computing is harder than Microsoft thought. Reports suggest Redmond has gone back to the drawing board for its "Andromeda" handheld device due to incomplete software. So the mythical computer looks like the victim of another Redmond reorg. In March, the Windows and Devices Group (WDG) was …

05 Jul 2018

Presto chango, crypto buyo: You're travelling like El Reg's gang of nerds

You were with us when we chucked our backpacks in the boot and drove up the M6 to Jodrell Bank in 2013 and five years on, you're still reading our travel series on UK locations that are covered in scientific or engineering glory. Now we'd like you to join us again, as The Reg takes Geek’s Guide to Britain on its next great …

22 May 2018

Hansa down, this is cool: How Dutch cops snatched the wheel of dark web charabanc

The takedown of the Hansa dark web marketplace, done live on national TV by Dutch police, was possible because officers had been running the site themselves – and on Thursday they detailed how they did it. In 2016, security shop Bitdefender tipped off the Dutch plod that Hansa, one of the most popular dark web markets, was …

08 Mar 2018

Zuckerborg, Microsoft, Amazon letting the side down for green energy among hyperscalers

Data centre operators are going green because renewable energy costs less, receives tax subsidies and customers like the idea, according to a report by analysts at IHS Markit. The research notes that Apple has been using fully renewable energy in its data centres since 2013. Google reached the 100 per cent point last year, …

15 Feb 2018

Up close with the 'New Psion' Gemini: Specs, pics, and genesis of this QWERTY pocketbook

MWCBill Clinton was still US President when the last pocket computer that you could touch type on came out. Back then, almost everyone accessed the internet at home on a dialup modem, not broadband, and no phone yet sported a colour screen or a camera. It was a different era. But after 17 years, a Psion 5-style machine is back, …

28 Feb 2017

Bookish hacker finds holes in Amazon, Apple, Google epub services

Bug hunter Craig Arendt has reported vulnerabilities in major eBook readers including those from Apple, Google, and Amazon. The similar but separate XML external entity (XXE) flaws also impact all online epub ebook services that use the popular epubcheck library that ensures good format conversions into the universal epub book …

27 Jan 2017

The rise, fall, and rise (again) of Microsoft's killer People feature

Microsoft has removed the much-anticipated "People Experience" from current beta builds of Windows 10, and will release it later this year instead of this spring. News of the postponement accompanied the latest bleeding edge code drop, build 15014, which appeared yesterday. Released into the "Fast Ring" of the Windows Insider …

20 Jan 2017

Apple, Amazon smash audiobook cabal after European pressure

Apple and Amazon have agreed to end the exclusivity deal that gave Audible sole access to the iBooks store. The European Commission said on Thursday the two tech giants have agreed to open up the iOS book service to audiobooks distributed by other publishers. According to the EU, Amazon has had the exclusive rights to provide …

20 Jan 2017

Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens

A marketing campaign by O2 that sent customers USB-embedded pens backfired last week – after it transpired a number of devices contained a "Windows-specific virus." The UK cellphone network sent out the USB pens to its business customers followed by a marketing email encouraging them to download a free eBook. That was then …

08 Aug 2016

175-year-old in storage deal

The UK’s Westminster University is using Arkivum Perpetua to safeguard global access to its 175-year-old collection of digital and digitised records. Arkivum offers archive as a service (AaaS) based on escrow-based guaranteed IBM LTO tape storage in its cloud. Three copies of the data are stored, backed up by indemnity …

08 Jul 2016

Apple ebook payouts start

Apple iBooks Store customers will soon begin receiving their share of a $400m antitrust settlement. Law firm Hagens Berman said that starting on Tuesday, it will be distributing credits to customers who purchased certain e-book titles related to the case. Apple agreed to the $400m settlement in 2014 after it was charged that …

20 Jun 2016

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Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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Talking a Blue Streak: The ambitious, quiet waste of the Spadeadam Rocket Establishment

This weekend you better read those ebooks you bought from Microsoft – because they'll be dead come early July

Git it girl! Academy tries to tempt women into coding with free course

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

Hoping for Microsoft's mythical Andromeda in your Xmas stocking? Don't hold your breath

Presto chango, crypto buyo: You're travelling like El Reg's gang of nerds

Hansa down, this is cool: How Dutch cops snatched the wheel of dark web charabanc

Zuckerborg, Microsoft, Amazon letting the side down for green energy among hyperscalers

Why you can't boycott the Mail: Google makes a mint from 'fake news'

Detox from your weekend kebabs with a healthy storage golubtsy

Confessions of an ebook eater

Ten new tech terms I learnt this summer: Do you know them all?

Amazon tweaks so-called 'assisted suicide' publishing contracts to ink EU deal

Up close with the 'New Psion' Gemini: Specs, pics, and genesis of this QWERTY pocketbook

Bookish hacker finds holes in Amazon, Apple, Google epub services

The rise, fall, and rise (again) of Microsoft's killer People feature

Apple, Amazon smash audiobook cabal after European pressure

Brit network O2 hands out free Windows virus with USB pens

175-year-old in storage deal

Apple ebook payouts start

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When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Don't pay off Ryuk ransomware, warn infoseccers: Its creators borked the decryptor

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