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Submissions must create a 'sense of pride.' What could possibly go wrong? Good news for those in the UK with primary school-aged kids and wondering what to do when the next bout of home-schooling hits: design a logo for the first UK satellite launches.…

3D Investments said plan will result in 'three underperforming companies' A fund that holds around 7 per cent of Toshiba stock – making it the company's second-largest shareholder – has opposed the Japanese industrial giant's proposed split into three companies, and called for a review of alternative strategies.…

We're back with another debate you can vote on as we argue back and forth – this time over cloud computing Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day Microsoft released the Windows App SDK 1.0 earlier this month, the first full release of "Project Reunion", but there is some confusion about what it is and whether developers need it.…

IoT still needs its lightbulb moment Opinion Tech is a great leveller. You can drop £50k on a shiny Tesla and £1k+ on the latest iPhone 13 Max Grunt to unlock it. But if some netops drone located half the globe away misconfigured a server, you're walking home just like a peon with a scratched-up Android and a battered Peugeot who dropped their keys down a drain.…

'Keep it running a few weeks.' Fast-forward 5 years. 'Why'd it break, man!?' Who, Me? We've all heard the phrase that "best is the enemy of good", but we've all also shoved in that "temporary" solution that ended up being a bit more permanent than we'd hoped. Welcome to the home of duct tape and prayers: Who, Me?…

Oh-em-gee, it's only another free web lecture from our MCubed team Special series An old truism of machine learning states that the more complex and larger a model is, the more accurate the outcome of its predictions – up to a point.…

For those of you who virtualise Microsoft’s finest and struggle with the pointer, this developer has an answer Two thousand and twenty-one might not seem the obvious year – or century – to give the world a new mouse driver for Windows 3.1, but a developer named Calvin Buckley has written one nonetheless. His motivation apparently is to ensure rapid and reliable rodent operations when Microsoft's venerable OS runs as a virtual machine.…

Meanwhile, the Middle Kingdom’s military plans an AI offensive – in the labs and on the field of combat Tech consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton has warned that China will soon plan the theft of high value data, so it can decrypt it once quantum computers break classical encryption.…

If you are going to sell satellite internet subscriptions in India, you Musk get a license, says regulator The government of India has advised locals not to subscribe to SpaceX’s Starlink Internet service, revealing that it does not have a valid license to operate on the subcontinent.…

The cloudy concern is a prodigy, but early promise is no guarantee of dominance re:Invent 2021 Heading into Christmas 2005, could you have imagined that 16 years later a new player would have rewritten the rules of how business tech is delivered?…

At the same time, will overrule court decision that traditional publishers are liable for comments on social media Australia's government has announced it will compel social media companies to reveal the identities of users who post material considered defamatory.…

Send an iMessage to Facebook, and we'll talk The European Parliament's new Digital Markets Act, adopted as a draft law this week, could compel big platforms owned by large firms including Apple, Google, and Facebook to make their tech interoperable.…

Lighting and warming homes in winter, or ransoming encrypted files and buying drugs? Hmmm The directors general of Sweden's Financial Supervisory Authority and Environmental Protection Agency have called upon both the EU and Sweden's government to ban cryptocurrency mining.…

Let's be real: Everyone is trying to catch up with Apple Analysis Linux cross-platform packaging format Flatpak has come under the spotlight this week, with the "fundamental problems inherent in [its] design" criticised in a withering post by Canadian software dev Nicholas Fraser.…

Skills gap needs filling somehow The EU needs more cybersecurity graduates to plug the political bloc's shortage of skilled infosec bods, according to a report from the ENISA online security agency.…

A win in the rocketry world: 'Flames came out of the right end' UK nuclear fusion outfit Pulsar Fusion has fired up a chemical rocket engine running on a combination of nitrous oxide oxidiser, high-density polyethylene fuel and oxygen.…

Middle Kingdom's internet giant: It's a switch to enterprise apps. Try ours? Managers of large Chinese state-run companies have told employees to delete, shutdown and discontinue use of Tencent messaging app Weixin for work purposes, citing potential security breaches, according to the Wall Street Journal.…

Roll up, roll up. Come and be the CMA-approved trustee to keep an eye on the Chocolate Factory's antics The torrid tale of Google's Privacy Sandbox took another turn today with the UK's Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) saying it has "secured improved commitments" from the ad giant over the cookie crushing tech.…

Might want to rethink that 'digital to the core' slogan For three days this week, Singapore bank DBS suffered an intermittent outage, preventing customers accessing online accounts and triggering potential punitive measures by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.…

Redesigned SafeToNet feature highlights tech law mess A company repeatedly endorsed by ministers backing the UK's Online Safety Bill was warned by its lawyers that its technology could breach the Investigatory Powers Act's ban on unlawful interception of communications, The Register can reveal.…

When vendors don't update old models, someone must step up The range of Thinkpads you can modernise is getting wider. XyTech is trying to crowdfund a new mainboard for the 2008 T60/T61 so fans can upgrade the much-loved noughties laptop.…

'Just take the meds, Mr Sloper, and enjoy your holiday' Something for the Weekend, Sir? I could just do with some popcorn right now.…

Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3 On Call Sometimes you're the one on the phone, and other times you're the one that issued the cry for help. Welcome to a story from the On Call archive where a Register reader turns the tables and claims the glory.…

Will keep taxing, but consider payments as credits for future global tax regime India has agreed to wind back the two per cent Equalisation Levy it charges foreign e-commerce companies, and the USA has withdrawn sanctions it imposed to protest the levy.…

M&A department elevated in importance, gets more resources LG Electronics has named its new CEO: William Cho.…

It's a bit pricey, though Fancy a Raspberry Pi 4 in a desktop ITX form factor with 11 PCIe slots? The new Seaberry carrier board may make your wish come true – but for a fairly hefty price.…

Only affects Windows Server Core, so that's alright then A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has had to reset the "Days since we last shot ourselves in the foot" counter at the company's HQ after a security update broke Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Windows Server Core.…

LTS Linux kernel – check. Once proud RISC contender? Nope The compact Linux distribution Alpine has gained the latest LTS Linux kernel with the update to version 3.15, but fans must say goodbye to support for the MIPS64 architecture.…

Just $8,300! Here's one for those with their heads crammed so far up Elon Musk's arse they see the light when he yawns – a desktop bust and custom iPhone 13 Pro design dedicated to the centibillionaire meme machine, both allegedly made from the molten body parts of a Tesla car.…

Customer: 'I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks' AWS has improved its free tier for data transfer, from 1GB to 100GB per month for transfer to the internet, and from 50GB to 1TB for CloudFront, its content delivery network.…

It's seldom subject to the same rigour as conventional apparatus Brit MPs are being encouraged to pay attention to the role software plays as they prepare a report on reproducibility in the science and technology industry, which adds around £36bn to the economy.…

Recent legal wranglings sliced, diced, and dished up for your reading pleasure As the US government targets Darktrace personnel as witnesses for Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's forthcoming criminal trial, it's also seeking extra evidence from internal Autonomy whistleblowers.…

Oh wait Interview ESA's Solar Orbiter is to undertake a flyby of Earth, requiring a careful assessment of debris as it dips close to the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of its main science mission.…

Mandatory vuln reporting, hefty fines for non-compliance A new British IoT product security law is racing through the House of Commons, with the government boasting it will outlaw default admin passwords and more.…

Baidu's Apollo tech exits testing phase, so punters must now pay the machine for a ride. Would you? Poll Sixty square kilometres in Beijing's Economic and Technological Development Zone have been approved for commercial operation of Chinese web giant Baidu's autonomous taxi service.…

Ad giant's first stab at providing the 'world's premier security advisory' starts with the obvious Google's Cybersecurity Action Team has released its first "threat horizon" report on the scary things it's found on the internet.…

Central bank and government to observe effort run by railways, telcos, industrial titans, and private banks A group of over 70 Japanese organisations have decided to create their own blockchain-backed digital currency.…

Cynos.7 trojan found its way into 9.3 million downloads Cybersecurity researchers at anti-virus software company Dr Web have discovered a treasure trove of malware-laced Android games on Huawei's AppGallery.…

Other additions to Entity List are accused of helping Pakistan, North Korea make nukes, missiles The US Dept of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security has added 27 companies to its list of entities prohibited from doing business with the USA on grounds they threaten national security – and one of the firms is associated with HPE’s Chinese joint venture H3C.…

Nice employees you have, be a shame if something were to happen to them The Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor has told 13 foreign businesses, predominantly US tech firms, they must set up and/or maintain offices in Russia if they want to keep doing business in the country.…

'I wish I had done it differently' she tells jury in fraud trial Theranos boss Elizabeth Holmes admitted in court this week she personally added Pfizer and Schering-Plough logos to her startup's presentations while trying to seal a deal with Walgreens.…

Where this technology grew from, and what it offers you Systems Approach The recent announcements from Intel about Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) have prompted us to revisit the topic of how functionality is partitioned in a computing system.…

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture Microsoft hopes to improve the resilience of its cloud services by extending an "outage mode" for Azure Active Directory to cover web as well as desktop applications.…

10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain AWS customers can now create IPv6-only virtual private cloud (VPC) networks, with the company claiming it is a "monumental step forward" towards the enablement of IPv6 on its cloud.…

Over at rival HP, the story is more about building too many Chromebooks and watching demand for them ebb away The humble PC continues to bring home the bacon for Dell, with shipments to corporate customers going through the roof, in spite of previous worries about shortages and price hikes. But things are less rosy at HP, which has been caught out by the recent collapse in Chromebook orders.…

Hardware supply chain issues? Somebody else's problem, guv Hyperconverged infrastructure software outfit Nutanix has almost, but not quite, stopped burning cash as its cash flow neared positivity in its latest set of results.…

Watchdog argues 'fairness' in process should keep some documents confidential Data privacy campaign group noyb, founded by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems, has filed a complaint with the Austrian Office for the Prosecution of Corruption (WKStA) for a potential violation of Austrian criminal laws by the Irish Data Protection Commission.…

Customers accuse Redmond of making standard functionality a pricey extra Microsoft is restoring first-party support for Remote Assistance, logging onto a user's PC to troubleshoot, but "at a price above the existing licensing options."…

Regional exec says Apple wants offensive researchers out of the field because they are harmful to the reputation of the company Kaspersky's APAC director of Global Research and Analysis, Vitaly Kamlyuk, has called Apple's lawsuit against Pegasus maker NSO a "declaration of war against software developers."…