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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

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

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

ExclusiveTalks to package millions of British medical records into a vast, commercially valuable database that may then be sold on are already underway between NHS England bosses and global giants, documents exclusively obtained by The Register show. This comes as Brits today go to the polls in a general election dominated by …

12 Dec 2019

It’s been two years since net neutrality was killed in the US. Let’s celebrate by having another fight over it

CommentMaking it clear that the issue of net neutrality has become an entrenched partisan battle, Democratic Senators used the two-year anniversary of its death on Tuesday to push for a vote that would reverse the decision. The vote was denied by the Republican majority, making it the third time that Congress has used the issue as a …

11 Dec 2019

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

Google Glass Explorer Edition was an ambitious but ultimately doomed look at a possible next frontier of human-computer interaction. Almost seven years after its initial release, Mountain View is finally putting it to pasture with one last update. The new update effectively disconnects Google Glass from all official back-end …

09 Dec 2019

Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station

Round UpSpaceX landed another Falcon 9, Rocket Lab took a first step toward reuse, and it was handbags at dawn for lunar boffins in this week's curation of all things space. SpaceX sends a malting kit to the ISS, sadly not for thirsty 'nauts After a delay caused by pesky upper-altitude winds, SpaceX successfully launched the CRS-19 …

09 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

FTC kicks feet through ash pile that once was Cambridge Analytica with belated verdict

The US Federal Trade Commission has issued what looks to be a largely symbolic ruling against the remnants of data-harvesting marketers Cambridge Analytica. In a unanimous 5-0 ruling (PDF) issued on Friday, the trade body declared that the defunct British marketing intelligence operation ran afoul of laws against deceptive …

07 Dec 2019

BOFH: I'd like introduce you to a groovy little web log I call 'That's Boss'

Episode 12 BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns "We'd like to Twitter our information to the world," the Boss gasps happily – in much the same excited tones as one would expect upon the discovery of a cure for cancer, a path to world peace, or a piece of "free" software that doesn't inject a toolbar into your browser the moment you …

06 Dec 2019

Larry leaves, Sergey splits: Google lads hand over Alphabet reins to Sundar Pichai

The co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have announced they are stepping down from their respective CEO and president roles of parent company Alphabet – and handing over to Google's current CEO Sundar Pichai. “We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the …

03 Dec 2019

US Embassy in London files extradition request for ex-Autonomy boss over HPE fraud charges

The United States Embassy in London has filed a request to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch to face charges of wire fraud. A spokesman for Lynch confirmed the reports but said no paperwork had yet been received. Lynch continues to deny all charges. He is currently in the UK, where HPE is suing Lynch along with Autonomy …

02 Dec 2019

Google fell for a real Looker, but now Brit competition watchdog's probing data biz slurp

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is considering whether Google's takeover of Looker Data Sciences is likely to have a negative impact on the market. The CMA said today that it is asking for comments from interested parties. But anyone concerned about the deal better act fast – the deadline for submissions is 20 …

02 Dec 2019

UK political parties fall over themselves to win tech contractor vote by pledging to review IR35

UpdatedControversial UK tax legislation IR35, coming to a private sector near you from the spring, is the latest tool being used to curry favour and win votes in the upcoming General Election in Britain. IR35 shifts liability for determining a contractor's employment status to the employer, meaning organisations that use freelancers …

28 Nov 2019

Xerox: Prepare to say cyan-ara, HP Inc. We're no paper tiger. We're really very serious about that hostile takeover

Xerox has vowed, again, to launch a hostile takeover of HP Inc by sidestepping the board and going directly to shareholders. The will-they-won’t-they-saga started in the first week of this month when Xerox confirmed it wanted to wed HP at the altar of acquisitions for $33.5bn, a move that received the seal of approval from …

26 Nov 2019

You live where you live ... and ex-SAP boss Bill McDermott lives in a house like this

While moving house and changing job remain among the most stressful things in life for mere mortals, Bill McDermott is swapping Palm Beach for Silicon Valley weeks after leaving SAP to run ServiceNow. The industry mogul has dipped into his fortune to spend $21.75m on a 11,000-square-foot abode in the ritzy enclave of Atherton …

26 Nov 2019

BOFH: Trying to go after IT's budget again?

Episode 11 BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns "So let me get this straight," the PFY says, shaking his head a little to clear his thoughts "Global warming is... our fault." "I didn't say that," the Director blurts. "Anyway, it's called climate change." "You implied it was our fault," the PFY says. "No I didn't!" "Yes you did …

22 Nov 2019

That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman

On CallWelcome back to On Call, The Register's weekly peer into the dungeon of despair inhabited by those who twitch uncontrollably at the trill of a telephone. Today's tale comes from a reader we'll call "Theo" and should serve as a warning for anyone ever tempted to insert witty error messages into their code. The story takes us …

22 Nov 2019

WinUI and WinRT: Official modern Windows API now universal thanks to WebAssembly

At Microsoft's recent Ignite conference, the company promoted WinUI as the best path for desktop developers, and pointed towards the third-party Uno platform as an option for Windows 7 or web deployment. "WinUI 3.0 is the future of native UX development on Windows," said Microsoft's principal program manager, James Clarke, at …

20 Nov 2019

Royal Bank of Scotland IT contractor ban sparks murmurs of legal action

ExclusiveIT contractors with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are mulling legal action following a decision to get rid of all freelancers ahead of controversial changes to UK off-payroll worker tax legislation next year. RBS confirmed to The Register that contractors will be allowed to continue to operate through their limited …

19 Nov 2019

From humble Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka

A former Unix sysadmin has been elected the new president of Sri Lanka, giving hope to all those IT workers who fear they are trapped in a role where the smallest of decisions can have catastrophic consequences if it goes wrong. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, younger brother of former president Mahindra, won the popular vote in an …

18 Nov 2019

Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK

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. According to the federal court filing system, at a 15-minute hearing on 13 November in a San Francisco court, Judge Charles Breyer told lawyers "to …

15 Nov 2019

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

Two men from Massachusetts have been arrested and charged with 11 criminal counts stemming from a string of account takeovers and cryptocurrency thefts. 21 year-old Eric Meiggs and 20 year-old Declan Harrington each face charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, computer fraud and abuse, and aggravated identity theft for their …

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

It’s been two years since net neutrality was killed in the US. Let’s celebrate by having another fight over it

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

Brewing in spaaaaace: SpaceX sends a malting kit to the International Space Station

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

FTC kicks feet through ash pile that once was Cambridge Analytica with belated verdict

BOFH: I'd like introduce you to a groovy little web log I call 'That's Boss'

Larry leaves, Sergey splits: Google lads hand over Alphabet reins to Sundar Pichai

US Embassy in London files extradition request for ex-Autonomy boss over HPE fraud charges

Google fell for a real Looker, but now Brit competition watchdog's probing data biz slurp

UK political parties fall over themselves to win tech contractor vote by pledging to review IR35

Xerox: Prepare to say cyan-ara, HP Inc. We're no paper tiger. We're really very serious about that hostile takeover

You live where you live ... and ex-SAP boss Bill McDermott lives in a house like this

BOFH: Trying to go after IT's budget again?

That code that could never run? Well, guess what. Now Windows thinks it's Batman

WinUI and WinRT: Official modern Windows API now universal thanks to WebAssembly

Royal Bank of Scotland IT contractor ban sparks murmurs of legal action

From humble Unix sysadmin to brutal separatist suppressor to president of Sri Lanka

Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

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