Lawn care SWAT team subdues trigger-happy Texan... and other stories
(2021/07/20)
A crunchy compendium of strangeness from around the globe
Pfizer saved millions by shifting cold data into the cloud. Could you do the same?
(2021/07/20)
Head this way to find out
Good news: Jeff Bezos went to space. Bad news: He's back
(2021/07/20)
Baldly going where beardy has gone before, except a bit higher
Fortinet's security appliances hit by remote code execution vulnerability
(2021/07/20)
Cure worse than the disease for anyone with the 'fgfmsd' daemon activated
Ubuntu on a phone, anyone? UBports reaches 18th stable update, but it's still based on 16.04
(2021/07/20)
Improving the Google-free mobile OS has proven to be an uphill struggle
UK's Digital Markets Unit – the Big Tech watchdog – remains toothless for now but statutory powers due this year
(2021/07/20)
Better get a wiggle on because the work is stacking up, those potentially massive fines won't write themselves
Northern Train's ticketing system out to lunch as ransomware attack shuts down servers
(2021/07/20)
£17m on shiny new Flowbird touchscreen kiosks well spent, apparently
Verified: UK.gov launching plans for yet another digital identity scheme
(2021/07/20)
Because Verify was roaring success and cos digi ID will 'reduce cases of online fraud'. Ahem
England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time
(2021/07/20)
Doctors wrote to UK government saying they would refuse to hand over data
US legal eagles representing Apple, IBM, and more take 5 months to inform clients of ransomware data breach
(2021/07/20)
Those affected get free protection services – but only if their Social Security numbers were exposed
Our Friends Electric: A pair of alternative options for getting around town
(2021/07/20)
The Register rakes a talon over next year's battery-powered jalopies
We clock what you're trying to do here: El Reg strokes a claw across the OnePlus 9 Pro
(2021/07/20)
Some like it hot and some sweat when the heat is on
Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
(2021/07/20)
Video didn't kill the radio star – it made it stronger than ever
Booming balance sheets for India's big four outsourcers after horrible quarter at home
(2021/07/20)
Hiring sprees planned to keep up with demand across many sectors and around the world
Ad tech ruined the web – and PDF files are here to save it, allegedly
(2021/07/20)
One publisher's attempt to roll the internet back to a more innocent time
Not only is Hubble back online after outage, it's already taking photos of the cosmos
(2021/07/20)
After hundreds of hours of work, engineers called out of retirement for help
Tencent to acquire Brit games developer Sumo Group
(2021/07/20)
Pre-bid manoeuvring won 27 per cent of shareholders, £919M offer was a winning move
India IT minister denies illegal use of NSO Pegasus spyware
(2021/07/20)
Dances around the issue of whether it used NSO spyware at all as local politicians and media named as targets
Gartner dumps IBM from 2021 enterprise backup'n'recovery MQ leader corner
(2021/07/20)
Big Blue is the only leading supplier from 2020 to lose ground
Australian government in talks to buy Pacific Islands' top telco
(2021/07/20)
The other bidder is China mobile, so top Oz telco has been approached to step in