Long-distance Asian internet hookups are now faster then ever

We're talking about the new Facebook-funded APG submarine cable. Not that If you fancy a long-distance Asian internet hookups now available, we have good news: the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) submarine cable has been completed and brings 100Gbps of c…

'Post-truth' beats 'chatbot' to Word of the Year Crown

Oxford Dictionaries' 2016 choice should make 'at-right' 'Brexiteers' feel 'hygge' Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” is the Word of the Year for 2016.…

Telecoms Ombudsman praises nbn™ for growing connections faster than complaints

But nbn™ is now the most complained-about-telco, as a percentage of connections Australia's Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman has praised nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), for an increasing num…

Qualcomm asks for US ban on 'infringing' smartmobes

Cheap-and-cheerful Chinese vendors aren't paying their dues Qualcomm's trade troubles have taken a new twist, with the company launching a trade complaint to get some Chinese vendors banned from the USA.…

Facebook stops collecting WhatsApp user data in Europe after government pressure

Antivirus tools are a useless box-ticking exercise says Google security chap

Advocates whitelists and other tools that 'genuinely help' security Kiwicon  Google senior security engineer Darren Bilby has asked fellow hackers to expend less effort on tools like antivirus and intrusion detection to instead research more meaning…

Physicists have built the world's fastest quantum simulator

The world’s fastest quantum simulator models an interaction between a many-body system of more than 40 atoms within one billionths of a second, according to research published on Wednesday.…

Nest Cam: A compelling piece of hardware-software

The smart home Spotify has arrived Review  It was only a few years ago that everyone was scoffing at futurists who claimed that we would all be streaming our music rather than buying digital or physical copies.…

Google's neural network learns to translate languages it hasn't been trained on

First time machine translation has used true transfer learning The gap between human and machine translators could be narrowing as researchers find a new way to improve the learning capabilities of Google Translate’s neural network.…

Cisco: Revenues are flat, profits are down, and we're not changing our plan

Switchzilla vows to stay the course in cloud n' security push Cisco says it will continue its push into the services space as its revenues were once again down slightly.…

Ned Flanders-themed hardcore band Okilly Dokilly turns the nice neighbor nasty

AWS looks to add 'bill collector' to its list of cloud offerings

Amazon offers to handle payments for third-party SaaS devs Amazon Web Services has opened a store that will allow customers to purchase additional software-as-a-service products and pay with their monthly AWS bill.…

Experts to Congress: You must act on IoT security. Congress: Encourage industry to develop best practices, you say?

Schneier crap-storm warning falls on deaf ears Congress provided a masterclass in selective hearing Wednesday when urged by experts to do something about the increasing risk posed by poor IoT security.…

AWS looks to add 'bill collector' to its list of cloud offerings

Amazon offers to handle payments for third-party SaaS devs Amazon Web Services has opened a store that will allow customers to purchase additional software-as-a-service products and pay with their monthly AWS bill.…

After Microsoft joins Linux, Google Cloud joins .NET Foundation

Next up, dogs and cats living together It has been a day for software surprises – first Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, and now Google is joining the Technical Steering Group of the .NET Foundation.…

Telstra's answers El Reg's Smart Home security questions

It's not quite an Internet of S**t, but nor does it come up smelling of roses Telstra has managed to emit a response to The Register's questions about the soundness of its Smart Home service strategy, which we received at 5:10 PM yesterday.…

Android 7-update Mate 8-smartphone verschijnt op servers Huawei

De update naar Android Nougat voor de Huawei Mate 8-smartphone is te downloaden vanaf servers van Huawei. De fabrikant pusht de update evengoed nog niet naar toestellen, maar gebruikers hebben al een manier gevonden om hem te installeren.

Microsoft sweet-talks EC antitrust bods over LinkedIn buy

Massive $26bn bid may go ahead – but we won't know why Microsoft has offered "concessions" in return for letting its $26bn dollar acquisition of LinkedIn move ahead, according to officials from the European Commission.…

British politicians sign off on surveillance law, now it's over to the Queen

Monarch's rubber stamp expected to turn bill into law within weeks The UK's Investigatory Powers Bill has completed its passage through parliament and now only awaits Her Majesty's stamp of approval before becoming law.…

And with one stroke, Trump killed the Era of Slacktivism

Tech policy under the Donald: He's got a pen and a phone, too Comment  No wonder America’s biggest lobbyist, Google, has been so frantic to drive through its agenda this year.…

And with one stroke, Trump killed the Era of Slacktivism

Tech policy under the Donald: He's got a pen and a phone, too Comment  No wonder America’s biggest lobbyist, Google, has been so frantic to drive through its agenda this year.…