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British spreadsheet wizard will take mad skillz to Vegas after taking national Excel crown
The inaugural finals of the UK Excel Championship have come and gone, and there is now one spreadsheet wrangler to rule them all, at least in the United Kingdom.…
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
On Call Welcome to another installment of On Call, The Register's Friday frolic through your tales of delightful tech support encounters.…
MI6 reveals 'Silent Courier' dark web portal upgrade it hopes will help it recruit new spies
The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has created a dark web portal called “Silent Courier” that it hopes would-be foreign informants will find a suitably secure means of sharing secrets.…
Slack threatened to delete nonprofit coding club’s data if it didn’t pay $50k in a week
Slack sent a nonprofit hacking club for teens a demand for $50,000, payable within a week, and threatened to delete the club’s message archive if it did not pay.…
Pigs will fly: Uber Eats to trial drone delivery
Flying pigs may soon be on their way to some US households, after rideshare and food delivery behemoth Uber teamed with drone operator Flytrex for food delivery services.…
Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided to abandon its Akatsuki Venus orbiter, after losing contact with the craft last year.…
Microsoft boasts about humongous datacenter on abandoned Foxconn site in Wisconsin
Microsoft's CEO has claimed the operating system-slinger is building the "world's largest datacenter."…
Intel and Nvidia sitting in a tree, NVLink-I-N-G
Nvidia is set to become one of Intel's largest shareholders after the GPU giant announced on Thursday it would invest $5 billion in the struggling chipmaker under a co-development agreement targeting PCs and datacenter infrastructure.…