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It's Magic! The MacBook keyboard nightmare is over – Apple's latest attempt reverts back to something remarkably similar to the key design it was using up until 2016. The one that worked.…

You have four days left to nab what you need Intel is removing drivers and BIOS for its old desktop boards so anyone running an old Pentium-based PC has four days to get hold of anything they might need.…

High Court throws out Nathan Wyatt's extradition appeal A Briton once suspected of hacking Pippa Middleton's iCloud account – although he was cleared after a police probe in 2016 – now faces deportation to America.…

Plus: That time the first American in space gave 'nauts an on-air telling off…

Lexus of speakers fails to address months of complaints, say users Firmware updates to Bose TV soundbars don't seem to have fixed the problems for everyone and have even managed to add some new issues.…

Today you toil. Who knows what tomorrow brings?…

Continues big old offload of 'non-core' assets UK accounting software biz Sage is flogging its payments arm to US firm Elavon for £230m, the latest asset offload of its "non-core" businesses in favour of those with a cloudier flavour.…

Missed your deadlines? Here, have some more taxpayer dosh Auditors minced no words in their assessment (PDF) of NASA's Commercial Crew providers: overdue, overbudget and overpaid.…

Supersonic air detected Bloodhound LSR hit 628mph (1,010kph) in high-speed testing over the weekend, as fast as its current rocket will propel it.…

All the Microsoft excitement you missed while installing 19H2 Roundup As Microsoft luxuriated in the Ignite afterglow, the hardworking Reg gnomes deep within the Windows mines managed to unearth a nugget or two of news you may have missed.…

You didn't work 2 weeks straight so you couldn't have been whistleblowing, tribunal rules A Capita accountant who turned down a £10,000 bung to leave the firm only to be sacked anyway has lost her appeal against a rejected Employment Tribunal case.…

... thanks to today's entrant in the Who, Me? hall of shame Who, Me? Bid farewell to the weekend and a cheery hello to the week with another seepage from The Register's confessional in the form of our Who, Me? column.…

Plus, 1Password gets a boatload of cash It's time for another Register security roundup of the week's smaller stories you may have missed.…

Plus a deepfake video that will freak you out Roundup Here's this week's collection of AI-related news that we found interesting. Read on to find out more about a new chip coming to Microsoft Azure and how Twitter hopes to deal with deepfakes.…

Board keeps door open... HPOX not a total impossibility, at least not if Carl Icahn has his way HP’s board has spurned the advances of Xerox, saying the $33.5bn opening bid “significantly undervalues” the business.…

If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again SC19 Intel today confirmed the identity of the GPU-based math-accelerator chip it will offer to supercomputer builders.…

The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating…

Trust your hardware? Pah, you oughta trust nobody…

Tanks of nitrous oxide needed for, erm, science eh? A team of researchers have built a terahertz laser that might one day see through clothes, book covers, and even skin, using laughing gas, according to a paper in Science.…

The case that just won't die The US Supreme Court has agreed to once and for all decide the copyright case between Oracle and Google after nine years of legal wrangling.…

Illinois man gets more than a year in the slammer for $550K DDoS scheme A US court has sentenced the operator of a massive DDoS service to 13 months in prison.…

Meanwhile, his co-defendant has troubles getting into land of the free The US State Department has until 1 December to get its paperwork in order and show how it wishes to proceed in attempting to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch to face charges.…

Though not much detail on said list, except security and privacy Some 14 years after it was founded and with no external funding taken in during that time, 1Password has finally succumbed to the charms - and $200m in cash - of venture cap biz Accel.…

Just goes to show, stick with what you know The ill-conceived and costly error of doubling down on the crypto-market is almost a distant memory for Nvidia as the GPU maker reported results that indicate an upward turn in fortunes.…

Change rolled back, but it's not a good look…

Admits open-source API bigger than any one company, but it is not letting go Google's Cloud Run service, which lets you run containers on Kubernetes (K8s) using a serverless model, has hit general availability, and El Reg has taken it for quick spin.…

'The news overnight ... making everybody in the sector pause and consider' TalkTalk has yet to find a buyer for its infrastructure investment vehicle Fibre Nation, the business revealed in its results for the half year to 30 September.…

Still a better love story than Twilight NSFW In what is certainly a crowded field, step forward the Doncaster Free Press and take a bow for the best local news headline of 2019: "Doncaster traffic bollard used by man for sex 'killed' in road smash".…

Bezos' empire strikes back claiming 'unmistakable bias', self-recused defense chief denies it Amazon is headed for court to contest the surprise decision to hand Microsoft the $10bn US Department of Defense JEDI IT supply contract.…

Mate 30 Pro's modular innards praised, but glue still abundant The good geeks of iFixit have ripped open Huawei's first Google-free handset, the Mate 30 Pro, to find a serious battery powering the big screen and sophisticated camera setup.…