You're not getting Huawei that easily

Sorry, fraud is a crime in both our countries | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Software bug made Bombardier planes turn the wrong way

Cold weather missed approaches went left instead of right - and vice versa | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Juniper upbeat about prospects for Rich Communication Services

A viable alternative to the platforms with billions of active users between them? There's still work to be done | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Uber Considers Moving APAC HQ from Singapore to Hong Kong

Ride-sharing monster doesn't operate in current home, is illegal in special administrative region | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Microsoft banishes Trend Micro driver from Windows 10

Infosec's Drivergate scandal deepens | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

India open-sources its contact-tracing app

As the legalese changes to extend data retention period | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps

The look and feel of UWP without all the baggage | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Analysts see China cloud as potential doorway to large market

Yes, especially for consumer-facing workloads. But don’t expect a comfortable ride | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on his PC

‘My 'allmodconfig' test builds are now three times faster than they used to be’ says Linux overlord | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Microsoft: Official Windows package manager. Users: Not a package manager

Linux envy? And why not use existing ones like Chocolatey? | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff

IBM isn't the only IT giant said to be unfairly binning elders | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

UK govt to cut Huawei 5G kit use 'to zero by 2023'

Whoa, no Huawei?! | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Gnome Foundation settles lawsuit with patent troll

Shotwell case ends with Rothschild Patent Imaging backing off for good | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Microsoft set to axe 27 languages in iOS Outlook

Moenie die hoender ruk nie | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Gitlab phished its own work-from-home staff. 1 in 5 fell for it

Welp, at least that's better than industry averages, says code-hosting biz | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods

We tested it and found a naval officer's partner and kids - they're not kidding | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Power lines' magnetic field caused commercial drone crash

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Zoom outlines more about its efforts to improve its security

Sigh. How many users did it have before it started this stuff? | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

MIT releases ScrAPIr API data tool for non-colders

A simpler alternative to site slurping | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Ex-Apple contractor says Siri still recording private conversations

I’m sorry, I will continue ignoring that question | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

SD cards hop on the PCIe 4.0 bus to hit 4GB/s with version 8.0 of storage spec

Even microSD will hit nearly 2GB/s, which will make for mighty fine rPis | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Google rolls out DNS-over-HTTPS support in Chrome 83

Plus: Web giant hears developers' extension concerns, ignores them | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Rogue ADT tech spied on hundreds of customers in their homes via CCTV

Lawsuits filed after alarm biz admits worker snooped on victims | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

BBC builds tool for synchronised onine watching with friends

Media Player add-on lets you and your mates watch shows in sync | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Office 365 admins alerted to search results leak

Only in 'extremely rare circumstances.' So that's OK | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette

Old treaties don't mention space mining and a new one could take forever the sign off. Enter the new 'Artemis Accords' | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War

Five Eyes-style Euro intel alliance Maximator tipped UK off about Crypto AG machines | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Testing Torpedos with Civilians in the Water?

Row, row, row your boat, gently down the... BOOM | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Singapore’s Temasek joins Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency effort

To facilitate global payments, which is surely of interest to an investor in Alibaba | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Nvidia accused of concealing $1bn in coin-mining GPU sales as gaming revenue

Lawsuit filed by shareholders who thought chip biz was onto something long-term rather than serving a fad | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Everything OK with Microsoft?

Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Algol 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used

Back to the time when tape was king | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Swedish data centre offers rack-scale dielectric immersion cooling

And reckons it can crack 100kw per rack with help from Yorkshire company Iceotope | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Stop tracking me: Austrian citizen files complaint over Android Advertising ID

Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free – but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Patriot Act ammendment needing a warrant for browsing history fails

Thanks for nothing, Bernie Sanders | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Gartner slashes pre-pandemic IT spending forecast by $500bn

Gartner slashes pre-pandemic spending forecast | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Congress urged to inject taxpayer dollars into open anti-Huawei 5G radio tech

How about a little stimulus... for anyone-but-China research? | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

British research supercomputer ARCHER hit with SSH-nixing cyber attack

Assault on TOP500-listed machine may have hit Euro HPC too, warn sysops | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Lawyers hail 'superb result' in Facebook biometric privacy battle

Sure, they should have got more, but let’s not get greedy here | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Scientists highlight potential pitfalls in AI medical imaging enhancement

Now is not the time for Hollywood 'zoom and enhance' fantasies | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

AWS unleashes custom Arm processor – Graviton2 – in new EC2 M6g instance type

Xeon, shmeon: Netflix loves ‘em and AWS has more instance types using it coming soon | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Source code for seminal adventure game Zork on dead mainframe placed on GitHub

Revisit what it’s like to run a PDP-10 and be eaten by a grue | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Aussie contact-tracing app sent no data and is in breach of privacy policy

Doesn't play well on iPhones, but bureaucrats rushed it out rather than wait months for perfection. Meanwhile serious bug reports have emerged | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

The iMac at 22: How the computer 'too odd to succeed' changed everything

Very '90s kit was everywhere – and it saved Apple's ass too | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Non-human Microsoft Office users get their own special licences

Automated operators can pay up like anyone – or anything – else | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Open-source vector graphics editor Inkscape now works properly on macOS

Happy 1.0 to the fruits of volunteer labour | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down nation's skies

Please phone us if you see our missing 26kg aircraft, say authorities | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago

UK centralised contact-tracing app probably won't work well, may be illegal

Herd immunity all over again | Continue reading

@theregister.co.uk | 3 years ago