Facebook-style hands shake

Qualcomm readies 60GHz goodies for Facebook's Terragraph

Couple of slow-coach snails

IPv6 growth is slowing and no one knows why. Let's see if El Reg can address what's going on

Woman singing her heart out

NAND I... will always love you, says Micron as it emits 7.68TB QLC SSD

Reduxio gets head transplant as co-founder and other execs hit highway

Smartphone showing Chinese flag

Apple tells app makers to strip VoIP toolkit from iOS software in China

Photo by Kaspars Grinvalds / Shutterstock

Tesla inches toward GPL compliance in low gear: Source code forcibly ejected into public

Neon sign says 'Open'

I got 257 problems, and they're all open source: Report shines light on Wild West of software

Meet Asteroid, a drop-in Linux upgrade for your unloved smartwatch

DDOS

Summoners of web tsunamis have moved to layer 7, says Cloudflare

Dunce

Victoria's educational apps-for-students let creeps contact kids

A blowtorch burning a computer board

Microsoft, Google: We've found a fourth data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre CPU hole

vulnerability

Penetration tester pokes six holes in Dell EMC's RecoverPoint products

OpenStack

OpenStack makes Zuul continuous delivery tool its second indie project

Nikki Bailey, Illumina

No root for you, or how to stop worrying and love AWS China

IT worker with head in hands

Git push origin undo-my-last-disaster

Continuous Lifecycle London 2018

Agile development exposed as techie superstition

EU considers baking new norms of cyber-war into security policies

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Adobe acquires Magento to go B2B2C and beyond

On 20th anniversary of Microsoft antitrust, US Treasury Sec calls for Google monopoly probe

Brit reseller Aria PC mounts appeal against £750k taxman VAT fiddle ruling

iPhone 6S battery

Good news: It's still legal for Apple to keep its MacBook, iPhone batteries from melting

Big bill

Fella gets 2.5 years in the clink for coughing up cell numbers in $50m junk text message scam

Xiaomi the way: Hyped Chinese giant begins its battle for Britain

Altair 8800 -

Now that's old-school cool: Microsoft techies slap Azure Sphere IoT chip in an Altair 8800

Geek's Guide

Undocumented alien caught stealing orbits in our Solar System

hurricane_patricia

Boffins detect antimatter thundering down from Hurricane Patricia

Dan Dare

RAF Air Command to take on UK military space ops

Cygnus CRS-9 (pic: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)

Orbital ATK launches another Cygnus without anything blowing up

Cortana

Your parents love you, Cortana. That's why we bought you an upgrade

frog peers around plant... pic by shutterstock

How Google's Smart Compose for Gmail works – and did it fake its robo-caller demo?

Insitu's Scaneagle 3 unmanned aircraft

Eye in the sea skies: Insitu flies Scaneagle 3 UAV in first public demo

batteries

Boffins bash out bonkers boost for batteries

Verity Stob

verity stob portrait

The harbingers of Doomwatch: Quist is quite the quasi-Quatermass

gun

Blood spilled from another US high school shooting has yet to dry – and video games are already being blamed

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Flamin' Nora! Brit firefighters tackle blazing fly-tipped boat

A man holds in his poo while looking at the toilet

Want to know what an organisation is really like? Visit the restroom

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