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UK's Competition Watchdog Gives £31bn Virgin Media And O2 Merger The Seal Of Approval

Minimal risk to MVNO or backhaul customers, probe finds The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has greenlit t... Read more

Elon Musk UK Visit Drives Tesla Factory Rumours

A two-day stop in the UK has ignited speculation that the tech mogul is looking for factory sites. Read more

UK.gov Puts Feelers Into Tech Market Over £650m Mobile Voice And Data Shopping List

Crown Commercial Service not wedded to plans until it has had a nice chat with suppliers The UK government is slapping ... Read more

Amber List Travel Is Legal, Says EasyJet Boss

Government guidance on travel to amber list countries is "very confusing", says Johan Lundgren. Read more

Unihertz Titan Pocket: Like Asking Mum For A BlackBerry And She Tells You 'but We've Got A BlackBerry At Home'

Caters to those desperate for a physical keyboard but nothing about it is intuitive Review  The Unihertz Titan Pocket ... Read more

Ampere Teases Arm-compliant Homebrew Cores That Deprecate Instructions Clouds Dont Need

Altra Max revealed with smaller core counts than previously disclosed Ampere says it has developed its own “Arm-compl... Read more

India Ponders Why Just Three Per Cent Of Its Broadband Services Are Wired

Telcos behaving badly? Lack of subsidies? Whatever the cause, nation wants it fixed to handle flood of video India is r... Read more

Cisco Discloses Self-sabotaging SSD Bug That Causes Rolling Outages For Some Firepower Appliances

Boxes stop working, admins may be locked out after 28,224 hours – and then every 1,008 hours after that Cisco has det... Read more

Frontier Sued By FTC, Six States For Allegedly Over-promising, Under-delivering Broadband

ISP denies wrongdoing, notes how difficult it is to get wires to rural areas ISP Frontier Communications was sued on We... Read more

Why Video Calls Might Be Behind A Rise In Male Cosmetic Surgery

A third of UK plastic surgeons say they have seen a jump in enquiries from men over the past year. Read more

Qualcomm Promises 5G 6nm Snapdragon 778G Chip In Mid-range Phones By Summer

Honor, iQOO, OPPO, Realme, Xiaomi, Motorola onboard so far Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon 778G 5G system-on-chip for... Read more

That Salesforce Outage: Global DNS Downfall Started By One Engineer Trying A Quick Fix

'We feel bad about what happened' The sound of rumbling rubber could be heard today as Salesforce threw an engineer res... Read more

Should Encryption Be Curbed To Combat Child Abuse?

Cyber-security experts, tech firms and lawyers weigh in on the end-to-end encryption debate. Read more

To What Do We Owe The Honor? Huawei Spinout Breaks Silence With Two Pro Ultraportables

New MagicBook 14 and 15 include 11th-gen Intel chippery, Xe graphics The Reg hasn't heard much from Honor since it brok... Read more

IFixit Slams Samsung's Phone 'upcycling' Scheme For Falling Short Of What Was Promised

Dude, where's my unlocked bootloader? It's a sad, pointless, and frankly wasteful cycle. You buy a phone. Two years lat... Read more