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Say what you see: Four-letter fun on a late-night support call

It's on a computer screen. It must be some sort of technical jargon, right?

 
 

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Netflix shows South Korea a rerun of 'We Won't Pay Your Telcos For Bandwidth'

Season Two looks like it'll be a courtroom drama

Amazon hasn't launched one internet satellite yet, but it's now planning a fleet of 7,774

Low Earth orbit is going to be chockablock with broadband-beaming birds

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Oregon city courting Google data centers fights to keep their water usage secret

Chocolate Factory thirst hidden behind non-disclosure agreement claims

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The return of the turbo button: New Intel hotness causes an old friend to reappear

Finally – a purpose for the least-used key on your keyboard

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Nothing to see here, says IBM, Redbooks are still a thing. Move along please

That thing about discontinuing technical content was all a 'misunderstanding'

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Xiaomi has developed a mini heat pipe so your smartphone doesn't get too hot to handle

Just like NASA did in spacecraft... and Fujitsu did for mobiles in 2015

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Reg debate asks readers about their post pandemic status. Half ask, 'What status?'

Some get a halo from the boss. Others barely get a hello

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Starry starry night? No, it's just more low Earth orbit satellites as BT and OneWeb ink deal

Brit telco to test out broadband tech in UK labs before customer trials next year

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Say what you see: Four-letter fun on a late-night support call

It's on a computer screen. It must be some sort of technical jargon, right?

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Chip makers aren't all-in on metaverse hardware yet – we should know, we asked them

Nvidia, though, expects this virtual-reality world to be as vast as the internet

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Close but no cigar: Lenovo infrastructure group narrowly falls short of a profit

When IBM sold it back in 2014, it was a breakeven proposition. Seven years later not much has changed

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Why your email encryption solution is doomed

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Reg reader returns Samsung TV after finding giant ads splattered everywhere

Even your telly is now a moneymaking gadget for someone else

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No day in court: US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rulings will stay a secret

Eight years after Snowden, you'll never know how much they spy on you…

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Reward! Uncle Sam promises $10m for info about DarkSide ransomware gang chiefs

Plus: Interpol boasts of infosec companies' help nabbing Cl0p suspects

Labour Party supplier ransomware attack: Who holds ex-members' data and on what legal basis?

'Anon firm lost your data, don't worry' just makes people more fearful

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Beijing fingers foreign spies for data mischief, with help from consulting firm

Chinese media wonders why it hasn't been reported in the West - hang on, you're reading this ...

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AI algorithms can help erase bright streaks of internet satellites – but they cannot save astronomy

'We are absolutely losing some science'

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NASA advised to study up on what open source, free software, and permissive licenses actually mean

Turns out making code public with the right fine-print is harder than rocket science

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Microsoft issues patch to Insiders to undo carnage caused by expired digital certificate in Windows 11

Beta and Release Preview Channels receive a fix while Dev gets Windows Subsystem for Android

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140 million Chinese punters adopt Digital Yuan and spend up big

But central bank worries about security, usability – and business continuity

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Designing an Efficient Distributed Storage System with Intel® DAOS and Supermicro Hardware System

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Slapped wrists at Broadcom as FTC approves order against 'anticompetitive' conduct

No more loyalty deals or spanking customers for going elsewhere

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Hibernating instrument on Hubble roused as engineers ponder message problem

A software workaround for an iffy component looms. Sound familiar?

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One click, one goal, one mission: To get a one-touch flush solution

Gimme gimme gimme fried chicken

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So it is possible for Jeff Bezos to lose: Court dismisses Blue Origin complaint about Moon contract award to Elon Musk

NASA and SpaceX to resume working on the next lunar lander

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