Challenge accepted? You can download /e/ now

/e/, a Google-free fork of Android, reached a milestone this month with its initial ROM release. It's available for download, so you can kick the tires, with nightly builds delivered via OTA (over the air) updates.…

S version set for Q2 '19 debut, but full tiling pleasure on the X delayed

Microsoft has lifted a page from its gaming playbook and split its Surface Hub 2 product into two lines: the 2S and 2X.…

Outsiders realised uni was hacked before uni did

A single account compromise at an unnamed "major university" in the UK led to a large-scale phishing attack against third parties, according to data protection outfit Barracuda Networks.…

Lower latency, better availability and Cassandra. What's not to like? Maybe the price

Microsoft today launched a wave of new features to lure punters onto its globally distributed database service, Cosmos DB.…

Investor roadshow delayed as Mick D considers alternative plan

Dell Technologies is reportedly pondering whether to hold a bog standard IPO to get the group back onto the stock markets, instead of a previous convoluted plan involving shenanigans with shares in VMware.…

CEST tool gets it wrong – for its own creators

A self-employed contractor has scooped thousands of pounds from HM Revenue and Customs after the British tax body used its controversial CEST online tool to wrongly determine her tax status.…

Chrome gets a bit less shiny with auto sign-in

Google's Chrome lost more of its shine over the weekend as the normally calm and reasoned world of Twitter erupted in indignation after users realised the search giant was automatically signing them into its browser.…

Which gets you the best deal? We did the arithmetic

By popular opinion, Apple's most accomplished product of 2018 – and maybe even in years – has been its Watch Series 4. But wait, if you live in the UK, there are some things you should know about well before you pull out your wallet.…

Treasury Committee infuriated at latest TITSUPs*

The influential Treasury Committee has demanded that banking execs at RBS Group and Barclays must explain why customers were again unable to access online services at the tail end of last week.…

Give the punters what they want until they can hardly stand or afford it

UKIP screwed its members at the weekend by doubling the price of branded condoms for sale at the party's conference as supplies started to run dry.…

'Twas the night before Ignite and the October 2018 Update is stirring

As much of the Microsoft world packed up and headed for Ignite, new builds and a surprising resurrection filled a busy week in Redmond.…

Hello Moto: Cops, ambulance, fire to get data services next year, voice to follow

The Home Office has overhauled its plans to replace the UK's emergency services radio infrastructure with a 4G network, extending the lifespan of the existing network by three years and offering users early access to some services.…

They just take a battering ram to the gates

The bots spewing out malicious login attempts by the bucketload appear to have cranked it up a notch.…

Listen up, it's the weekly network roundup

Juniper Networks this week pulled the covers off the latest in its Contrail range, a carrier edge product called Contrail Edge Cloud.…

A minute's malfunction? Mere millions

Who, Me? Good Monday morning, Reg readers, and welcome once more to Who, Me? – our regular trip down memory lane for those with something to get off their chest.…

Your dose of machine-learning medicine

Roundup Good morning – here's some machine-learning bits and bytes to kick start your week. If this sort of tech is right up your street, then perhaps check out our AI conference, M3, in London, England. OK, on with the show...…

There is no such thing as a gratis lunch, after all

Analysis Nothing super-fuels a security sales pitch like the sort of threat it’s hard to ignore.…

Plus: Gov pay sites take a dive, and more

Roundup When we weren't dealing with malware bricked-breweries, poorly-wiped servers or litigious vendors, we had a number of other security headaches to keep busy with.…

Federal price cap will undercut existing agreements, says just about every big city in America

A plan to impose a federal price cap and one-size-fits-all model for the rollout of next-generation mobile networks has been met with fury by US cities.…

We've all got a little, er, Richardinsonia in our animal family tree, it appears

Video A fossil of the earliest known animal on Earth has been discovered in cliffs along the White Sea on the northwest coast of Russia.…