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Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

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It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

Three weeks after the Internet Society announced the controversial sale of the .org internet registry to an unknown private equity firm, the organization that has to sign off on the deal has finally spoken publicly. In a letter [PDF] titled “Transparency” from the general counsel of domain name system overseer ICANN to the …

11 Dec 2019

Things Microsoft will be glad to never see again: Windows 10 1809 and Windows Phone Office

RoundupNew builds, a prolonged farewell to old friends and a new toy (for the boss, at least). That's right, it's the past week at Microsoft brought to you in bite-sized chunks by El Reg. The October 2018 Update nightmare is coming to an end There was an audible sigh of relief from within the bowels of Redmond last week as, according …

09 Dec 2019

Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK

B.ICONIC, the parent of one of Ireland's largest Apple Premium Resellers (APRs), is buying Stormfront – the UK Apple retailer that is, rather than the Aryan social network. The Irish group owns Compu b, which operates Apple stores across the Emerald Isle, as well as a concession in London's Selfridges, along with a trio of …

06 Dec 2019

Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi

re:InventIn conjunction with its re:Invent show in Las Vegas this week, Amazon Web Services offered a preview of the next iteration of its Arm-compatible EC2 instances, which will use its customized Graviton2 processors. The first generation of Arm-based EC2 servers, dubbed A1, used AWS's Graviton1 processor line, which debuted a year …

03 Dec 2019

Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?

UpdatedThe price tag for one of the internet’s largest and most important domain-name registries has finally been revealed: $1.135bn. That is how much unknown private equity company Ethos Capital, funded by the investment vehicles of US billionaires, has offered the Internet Society (ISOC) to take over the .org registry; a move that …

03 Dec 2019

Buy Amazon's tiny $99 keyboard so you can make terrible AI music for all your friends

re:InventAmazon is releasing DeepComposer, a software package to help machine learning enthusiasts automatically generate jingles using a mini keyboard. The announcement was made by Matt Wood, VP of AI at AWS, during Amazon’s annual re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas. “Everyone has access to the type of expertise that allows …

02 Dec 2019

AWS re:Invent re:turns with re:vised robo-car and Windows Server 2008 re:vitalization plan

re:InventIn advance of its Las Vegas-based re:Invent confab this week, Amazon Web Services announced a handful of additions to a product menu that at last count included more than 165 distinctive ways to be billed. The preliminary data dump coincided with Midnight Madness, a Sunday evening event that Amazon's rent-a-server biz …

02 Dec 2019

The Register talks to Azure Data Veep about Synapse and SQL Server

You may recall that Azure SQL Data Warehouse got a blasting with the Redmond rebrandogun at the company's Ignite event earlier this month. The Reg caught up with corporate veep for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, at the recent Big Data event in London to find out more. Kumar is a Microsoft veteran, having joined at the end of the …

25 Nov 2019

Take a Big Blue cheque and go: IBM settles 281 UK age discrim cases

IBM has paid off 281 people who brought age discrimination claims against it in UK Employment Tribunals – leaving four more cases outstanding. In a judgment quietly published last week, Big Blue was said to have reached "confidential settlement terms" with 281 people out of the 285 who had raised employment law grievances …

25 Nov 2019

The Outer Worlds: Ever wished Fallout 4 was more like New Vegas? Here ya go... in spaaace

The RPGGreetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This time we're heading spacewards again, to The Outer Worlds to be exact, otherwise known as Halcyon, a corporate hellhole colony at the arse-end of the galaxy. There has been quite the buzz around The Outer Worlds (trailer) since …

01 Nov 2019

Guess who the Co-op Bank chose for £141m outsourcing deal? Can't be. Yes, it's Capita

The Co-operative Bank has renewed its mortgage servicing contract with Capita, handing the controversial outsourcer £141m over six years. Capita's existing contract with the Bank for its mortgage servicing operation was signed in August 2015 for £325m and was originally due to end in 2025. However, Capita faced potential …

31 Oct 2019

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

On Tuesday, Don HO, the developer of Notepad++, a free GPL source code editor and notepad application for Microsoft Windows, released version 7.8.1, prompting a social media firestorm and a distributed denial of service attack. Notepad++ v7.8.1 was designated "the Free Uyghur edition," in reference to the predominantly Muslim …

31 Oct 2019

Cringe as you read Horrible Histories: UK Banking Sector, sigh as MPs finger cloudy Big 3 as future risk

The Treasury Committee has told UK bank regulators they must do more to force banks to improve their woeful record on IT. Recommendations include increasing the levy paid by the banks so regulators can afford to hire better staff. But the committee also believes there is a strong case to start regulating cloud providers to …

28 Oct 2019

Now the US DoJ has charged Apple's insider trading lawyer with, er... well, it's embarrassing

Apple's head of corporate law, Gene Levoff, has been indicted on charges of (PDF) insider trading. According to statement from Department of Justice prosecutors, Levoff is alleged to have used his position as a senior Apple attorney to illegally trade shares ahead of Apple's quarterly results announcements over five years. He …

25 Oct 2019

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

HP on Tuesday won a six-year court case against suppliers that it accused of price-fixing, with a jury in Texas awarding $176m to the US computer giant. Back in October 2013, HP accused no less than seven manufacturers of optical disc drives – Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, NEC, Panasonic, TEAC, and Quanta – of colluding together in …

23 Oct 2019

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

ESTECThe European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands, opened its doors to the public last weekend, and The Register braved the rain to grill top brass on spaceships, partnerships and the "B" word. The annual event, which this year saw 9,159 visitors crawl over the European Space Agency's (ESA) …

10 Oct 2019

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

RoundupHow's your World Space Week shaping up? Baked a rocket cake or two? No? Nevermind. Take some time out to catch up with this week's roundup of space stuff. Italian Air Force going to space* with Virgin The Italian Air Force has signed up with the Bearded One's Virgin Galactic to take a jaunt into space aboard the company's …

07 Oct 2019

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

Among those learning how to program, and some more experienced software developers, it's common practice to copy and paste code snippets from Stack Overflow, a Q&A forum for asking about coding problems. There's even a faux O'Reilly-styled book of sorts, "Copying and Pasting from Stack Overflow," to highlight the practice, …

04 Oct 2019

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

CommentFor a generation we've wrung our hands and wondered why so few women have taken up careers in technology. Could it be, as Harvard President Lawrence Summers publicly mused 15 years ago, that women just don't have the brains for such analytic tasks? (That gaffe cost Summers his job.) Or perhaps those hobbyist "microcomputers", …

04 Oct 2019

Windows 10 May 2019 Update declared safe at last, which bodes well for upcoming 19H2 build

RoundupAs the faithful attempted to stir up excitement for this week's hardware event, Microsoft has continued its efforts to ship the next version of Windows while also flinging out updates for Azure and SQL Server. Windows 10 May 2019 Update certified fresh by Microsoft There's some good news for customers tempted to make the leap …

30 Sep 2019

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Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

Things Microsoft will be glad to never see again: Windows 10 1809 and Windows Phone Office

Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK

Gravitons, Neoverse... you'd be forgiven for thinking AWS's second-gen 64-core Arm server processor was a sci-fi

Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?

Buy Amazon's tiny $99 keyboard so you can make terrible AI music for all your friends

AWS re:Invent re:turns with re:vised robo-car and Windows Server 2008 re:vitalization plan

The Register talks to Azure Data Veep about Synapse and SQL Server

Take a Big Blue cheque and go: IBM settles 281 UK age discrim cases

The Outer Worlds: Ever wished Fallout 4 was more like New Vegas? Here ya go... in spaaace

Guess who the Co-op Bank chose for £141m outsourcing deal? Can't be. Yes, it's Capita

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

Cringe as you read Horrible Histories: UK Banking Sector, sigh as MPs finger cloudy Big 3 as future risk

Now the US DoJ has charged Apple's insider trading lawyer with, er... well, it's embarrassing

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

Spacecraft that told us 'you're screwed' finally gives up the ghost after doubling its shelf life

Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

Windows 10 May 2019 Update declared safe at last, which bodes well for upcoming 19H2 build

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