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5G was meant to top a billion subs globally this year – China may have done it single-handed China's big three mobile carriers have posted customer data for September 2022 that reveals they collectively operate over a billion subscriptions to 5G services.…

Windows Dev Kit 2023 packs Qualcomm's AI toys and an all-Arm environment for Windows coding Microsoft has delivered on its May 2022 promise to give devs a cheap piece of Arm-powered hardware on which to run AI-accelerated workloads for Windows, by revealing the Windows Dev Kit 2023 and placing it on sale at $599.…

Demand for consulting eases and that's often – gulp – the canary in the economic coalmine Despite economic uncertainty, India's four major IT outsourcers – Infosys, HCL, Wipro and TCS – have reported strong growth and a healthy pipeline of new contracts, but also warned of likely future slowdowns.…

Shuttling sensor data all the way into the cloud is so 2014 Red Hat and Intel today agreed to take their relationship to the next level – out of the datacenter and out to the edge.…

RealPage's algorithm screwed tenants by inflating costs, it is claimed The maker of an algorithm that calculates the optimum rent to charge for homes has been accused of causing an unfair and artificial hike in costs for tenants.…

Interference in case against Huawei, recruitment of academics and officials, and more claimed American prosecutors on Monday accused 13 people of committing espionage-linked crimes in the US on behalf of the Chinese government.…

With shops leaving VNC and RDP open, quelle surprise Cybercriminals have used two strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware to steal the details of more than 167,000 credit cards from payment terminals. If sold on underground forums, the haul could net the thieves upwards of $3.3 million.…

Don't thank Elon Iranians are reportedly smuggling SpaceX Starlink broadband satellite terminals into their country as Tehran restricts internet access amid an ongoing uprising.…

Start with dumping a fifth of staff, capping that VR capex, firm urges In a sternly-worded letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Meta stockholders have urge the mega-corporation to "get fit and focused" by cutting 20 percent of staff and shaving $5 billion off annual capital expenses and metaverse investments.…

With Microsoft and LinkedIn close on shipping giant's heels DHL is the most spoofed brand when it comes to phishing emails, according to Check Point.…

Told no by SpaceX, uni eggheads went ahead by themselves Researchers rebuffed by SpaceX have taken matters into their own hands and reverse-engineered Starlink's satellite signal for potential use as a GPS alternative. …

Gang was behind the attack on OakBend Medical Center Federal agencies are warning of a threat group called Daixin Team that is using ransomware and data extortion tactics to target US healthcare organizations.…

But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison canceled its first cloud after an internal struggle, he told investors gathering at the company's CloudWorld event.…

That's 6.7 billion fewer chips than was delivered in September 2021 The chip wars appear to be biting in China, as the country’s semiconductor imports dropped 12.4 percent in the month of September, according to official customs data published by the country.…

Economics dictate decisions even as resignations remain high The great resignation has ceased to be a talking point despite continued high quit rates and what appears to be a shift in worker motivation away from finding jobs with purpose toward finding one that simply pays enough to combat inflation.…

New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest Intel's DAOS is a distributed parallel filesystem for supercomputers, while Stratis is Red Hat's answer to ZFS – new versions of each were released today.…

Company won't stop until you need an iPhone to operate every facet of your life Apple devotees now have another reason to dump hundreds of dollars into the iGiant's ecosystem with the release of the Level Lock+, an exterior door lock that can be operated by an iPhone or Apple Watch.…

And what about a madman with a truck-mounted junkyard EMP? The devastating potential posed by solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather are well publicized. These storms have been known to snipe satellites and disrupt power grids, but the risk to datacenters isn't as well understood. …

Server farm power concerns as winter nears and fears of blackouts grow Amazon has applied to have 105 diesel generators installed at a new datacenter site in Dublin amid concerns over the impact on electricity networks and the potential for energy shortages across the sector this winter.…

Now, who talked up that market to begin with? Canalys Channels Forum HP Inc. CEO Enrique Lores says orders for 3D printers are falling short of early promise, with some analysts saying the tech has failed to cross into the mainstream despite a relative boom during the pandemic.…

Also: Iranian election hackers are back, the TSA gets regulatory on train cybersecurity, and more In brief Google has released a new open source software tool to help businesses better understand the risks to their software supply chains by aggregating security metadata into a queryable, standardized database.…

Big Blue now claims upsides to EU exit that others have failed to see IBM has extolled the benefits of the UK's departure from the world's richest trade bloc in an apparent U-turn on its earlier Brexit stance.…

The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still Comment It's not sexy but it is good. Mozilla deserves our love for implementing a better PDF reader in the new Firefox browser, 106. It takes away the pain, just a bit, by doing in-browser renderings that can be annotated, decreasing the chance you'll have to find a third-party reader that does what you need.…

McKinsey forecasts market value of $5 trillion by 2030, Citi says up to $13 trillion, but Canalys doesn't agree Canalys Channels Forum The metaverse is a solution looking for a B2B problem – that problem being how to help Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg drum up billions of dollars in revenues – and it's going to fail in the not-too-distant future.…

CWU also planning to re-ballot entire workforce, claims stoppages are delaying fiber and network builds Exclusive The union behind the protracted strike action at BT is today scheduled to meet with the British telecoms giant's shareholders – one of the screws it is turning to press for pay talks to be reopened.…

Your IT storage may go from terabytes to Exbytes At least one affiliate of the high-profile ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group BlackByte is using a custom tool to exfiltrate files from a victim's network, a key step in the fast-growing business of double-extortion.…

When switches really were switches, one reader managed to avert a potential disaster Who, Me? Welcome, gentle readers, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which citizens of the Reg universe (Regizens?) recount their tales of technological near-misses.…

The truth is out there and 16 people have been tasked to find it NASA has announced the names of 16 individuals who will be a part of its unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) research group that begins work today.…

Yet more nagware to use the Edge browser, plus some usefully re-imagined tools liberated from the maze of the Settings menu Something interesting has popped up in a Chinese language corner of Microsoft's website: a tool called PC Manager that provides easier access to utilities that dwell somewhere in Windows' Settings menus.…

The black hole information paradox and quantum error correction codes overlap almost completely It's hard for professor Brian Cox to hide his enthusiasm for black holes, and he didn't really try as he explained to The Register how progress in understanding the celestial phenomena contributes to the development of quantum computing.…

Tehran laughs it off as foreign psyop or media stunt. Just don't remind them about Stuxnet, OK? Iran's Atomic Energy Organization has laughed off claims that the email systems of a subsidiary were compromised, revealing important operational data about a nuclear power plant.…

PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more Asia In Brief South Korean police have reportedly raided the premises of SK C&C, the operator of the datacenter that caught fire on the weekend of October 15 and disrupted the operations of local web giants Naver and Kakao.…

Plus: Meta builds speech-to-speech system to translate Hokkien, Waymo expands to LA, and more In brief Stability AI and Jasper – two startups that make AI software that auto-generates images, text, and other stuff – have each reached so-called unicorn status (valued at over $1 billion) after bagging $101 million and $125 million in funding, respectively.…

At least they didn't call it another DPU Toyota’s research and development wing is giving Fujitsu’s "Digital Annealer" a spin to see just how well this pretend quantum computer can help vehicle production systems adapt faster to changing conditions.…

Anyone got the technical reference manual for this simulation we're living in? Physicists in America have confirmed a strange measurement that was first discovered by scientists probing the internal structure of protons two decades ago. …

'Completely new approaches should be developed to prevent the influence of this propaganda' As a hybrid offline and online war wages on in Ukraine, Viktor Zhora, who leads the country's cybersecurity agency, has had a front-row seat of it all.…

Long live the King's English or something like that Hands On The Register began life in London in 1994 and today has journalists and other staff all over the world, which is to say San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, Berlin, and beyond.…

Er, did Joe forget who runs Starlink? The Biden administration apparently wants SpaceX to support the anti-government protests in Iran – by providing Starlink satellite broadband to the Mid-East nation after its religious rulers restricted internet access.…

China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial TikTok has been accused of preparing to keep covert tabs on the physical whereabouts of certain US citizens using its app.…

Software giant is already in deep, giving the startup $1 billion in 2019 Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI to invest more in the seven-year-old research company.…

One laser + one optical chip = more than the traffic of the entire internet European scientists claim to have achieved a data transmission speed of 1.8 petabits per second, all with a single laser and an optical chip. …

Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets OpenBSD 7.2 is here, spanning an impressive 14 different computer platforms, including FOSS fans who have the newest Apple Arm-based Mac models.…

Can expensive tech save this reporter's ugly mug? Not likely It's not just Reg readers who recognize the less than satisfactory quality of built-in computer webcams. Appparently, the world's biggest PC maker does too.…

But the solution may need more than a really big database Comment During the keynote of Oracle's annual sales jamboree in Las Vegas, founder and CTO Larry Ellison took the opportunity to offer some profound insight into the state of healthcare in the US and Europe.…

Twitter tells staff it knows of no plans, though. Plus: billionaire's ventures could take heat from Committee on Foreign Investment Elon Musk has reportedly told investors in his Twitter buyout that he will gut the workforce by 75 percent once his court-ordered takeover concludes.…

We didn't have a time unit. That... is... a... disgrace Reg Standards Bureau She may have lost to an iceberg lettuce in the longevity stakes, but Liz Truss managed to win one thing yesterday: serving 44 days before resigning, she is now Shortest-lived Prime Minister in UK History.…

Former staff describe threat as a 'heist' and 'outright attack' on pension scheme IBM intends to withhold tens of thousands of dollars each from certain retiring staff unless they agree to the IT giant's demands.…

And one designed to slip ransomware and data-stealing code onto infected machines URSNIF, the malware also known as Gozi that attempts to steal online banking credentials from victims' Windows PCs, is evolving to support extortionware.…

Ongoing COVID concerns inspire 'cMaSK' tech to monitor breathing, temperature, and fit Scientists in Canada have developed an electronic device to fit inside a surgical mask which they claim helps monitor the wearer's health and how well the mask is fitted.…