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Alibaba and Tencent racked up more than ten cases – each China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has fined tech giants 43 times – with Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent told to pay up for failing to declare deals deemed to violate anti-monopoly legislation.…

Interoperability issues with Ethernet controller sends vSphere 7 Update 3 back to the drawing board VMware has removed its latest major vSphere release – Version 7, Update 3 – from its download service, citing driver interoperability problems that could cause failures during upgrades.…

Video app promises not to let naughty content cross the border, and to ban those who try Pakistan has allowed TikTok to resume operations on its soil.…

Ganja believe it? Seller claimed to sell 'Stevia leaves', but shifted a tonne of wacky 'baccy before being busted Updated Police in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have charged Amazon India executives under narcotics laws, after uncovering a marijuana smuggling operation centered around the e-commerce website.…

If you want more memory or internal storage, ordering before April 2022 is wise IBM has warned owners of POWER8 servers that their upgrade options are about to become limited.…

CEO blames 'Increased verbosity of network traffic' Some Tesla drivers who fancied going for a spin on Saturday were unable to do so after an update to the cars' companion app produced server errors.…

Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI In brief Contract lawyers are increasingly working under the thumb of facial-recognition software as they continue to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

There's not enough evidence, judge ruled A federal judge dismissed the proposed class-action lawsuit accusing retail brokerage biz Robinhood of colluding with trading firm Citadel Securities to prevent people from purchasing GameStop and other so-called meme stocks, earlier this year.…

And lo, it was foretold, punter shall speak unto punter from a single app Most modern chat systems are entirely proprietary: proprietary clients, talking proprietary protocols to proprietary servers. There's no need for this: there are free open standards for one-to-one and one-to-many comms for precisely this sort of system, and some venerable clients are still a lot more capable than you might remember.…

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy After cancelling its contentious Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud contract solicitation in July, the US Department of Defense (DoD) promised a followup request for proposals to provide cloud services for national defense under a less catchy acronym, the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC).…

It's moving on up now Mediatek rolled out what could be the first chip based on the Armv9, which is the ARM's first architectural upgrade in a decade.…

Known issues list continues to grow Windows 11 has continued to notch up known issues as Microsoft admitted to problems in the Intel Smart Sound department and Microsoft Installer following a security update.…

SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition Workday has swallowed vendor management SaaS type VNDLY for over half a billion dollars, just as 9 per cent of the company's value was wiped off after moderately positive financial results failed to impress investors.…

Who’d have thought that there could be so many approaches to putting new stuff in? Reg Reader Survey Our recent survey into how we go about introducing new systems threw up a set of responses that were positively multifarious. Who’d have thought that there could be so many approaches to putting new stuff in? Thank-you to everyone who participated. Now let's take a gander at the results.…

New products out as firm attempts to stay relevant in face of US sanctions Marketing strategies have taken an interesting turn for Huawei this week as it launched a wireless noise-cancelling earbud in the Chinese market that is designed to look like a lipstick.…

French hosting outfit not keen on status quo, leaving to spend more time with its servers French cloud hosting outfit Scaleway is to depart the EU's data sovereignty project, Gaia-X, with CEO Yann Lechelle worrying that what began with splendid ideals is getting increasingly mired in the status quo.…

ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector The UK government is advising schools in England to press pause before signing up to a three-year licensing agreement with Education Software Solutions (ESS).…

But won't be looking into pay deal Updated Troubled .uk registry operator Nominet has named a new CEO to replace the one fired by members earlier this year.…

It's not quite a Jag-you-arr Something for the Weekend, Sir? Turn left. Turn right. At the roundabout, take the fourth exit.…

And while we're here, a quick look at why the language is taking off The Rust Foundation – the US non-profit behind the programming language since Mozilla let the team go – has picked a new CEO: Rebecca Rumbul, formerly director of research and engagement at digital democracy charity mySociety, and before that the Privacy Collective.…

Also: Funding for Jamstack startups, and why Twilio adopted the architecture Interview Netlify has acquired OneGraph, which provides a GraphQL API that wraps the APIs of third-party services, as well as launching a new Jamstack innovation fund for startups.…

Google Assistant? More like Google Insistent Review Honor, once the value brand of Huawei but sold last year to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology, has released the Honor 50 and 50 Lite smartphones, and we're taking a look at the latter.…

Throwing light onto a frozen bit of big iron On Call The weekend is almost upon us – a time for adult beverages and ill-judged foodstuffs. Unless, that is, you're one of the unfortunates on the other end of the phone. Welcome to On Call.…

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt India's PC market has achieved new sales records, according to analyst firm IDC.…

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more Beijing's tech regulation blitz has bitten Alibaba on the bottom line, as the tech giant reported net profit has sunk cut and lowered revenue guidance for the year.…

Definitely building two more, may add another pair Everything's bigger and better in Texas, as the saying goes. Texas Instruments (TI) has announced it's fixin' to build two silicon wafer fabrication plants there – and maybe another pair after that.…

We bet the Chinese comms giant just LOVED that description The UK Telecommunications (Security) Act has received Royal Assent, giving the government more control over the use of "high risk" vendors in networks as well as fines that could hit £100k per day for telcos that fail to toe the line.…

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards UK health secretary Sajid Javid has strongly indicated that the individual health bodies responsible for IT spending in the NHS will be reorganised.…

US Federal Trade Commission latest to 'express concerns' The US is a new obstacle for Nvidia to overcome in its $40bn purchase of Arm with the Federal Trade Commission voicing unease with deal – just days after a UK competition regulator launched a deeper probe into the sale.…

It was not good YouTuber tech whizz Jeff Geerling has found it is possible to spend $5,000 on a Raspberry Pi build.…

Tech promises to support boom in small satellites Scientists are trying to support the boom in miniaturised satellites with the development of a plasma engine using an iodine propellant — rather than the commonly used xenon — for the first time.…

UK GM says company wants a 'direct connect to multiple clouds' As Dell launches its latest self-commissioned study, UK senior veep and GM Dayne Turbitt is highlighting storage as one of the challenges faced by an increasingly multicloud world.…

What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere! Industry bodies representing thousands of CIOs and tech leaders across Europe have thrown their weight behind calls to rein in some of the iffier software licensing practices of the cloud giants.…

Could this be Dot-co The Sequel? Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic.…

Tired of reading about AI? Why not give it a go yourself! Event You want to know more about the ins and outs of machine learning, but can’t figure out where to start? Our AI practitioners' conference MCubed and The Register regular Mark Whitehorn have got you covered.…

Supply chain pain will persist deep into 2022, so it's not like you have a choice if you're in Switchzilla's world Cisco has warned buyers and investors that supply chain pain is likely to persist for another few months.…

Similar mistakes have been made in the past, after all Scientists should remain skeptical if they study rock samples drilled by NASA’s Perseverance rover for evidence of alien life lest they be fooled by fake fossils, academics in the UK have warned.…

All your apps – or a percentage of revenue – are belong to us South Korean has again imposed new regulations on app stores, this time with a regime that will see operators fined up to two per cent of revenue if they force their proprietary in-app payment systems on developers.…

Narendra Modi positions India as a place democracies should come to build tech – and diplomatic ties India's prime minister has called for international co-operation to regulate cryptocurrency.…

RedDoorz.com left red-faced after leaving AWS access key in an APK Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has issued a fine of SG$74,000 ($54,456) on travel company Commeasure, which operates a travel booking website named RedDoorz that exposed 5.9 million customers' data – the largest data breach handled by the Commission since its inception.…

China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall" The Open Infrastructure Foundation, home to OpenStack, has a new project: an open source multi-cloud management platform called Taibai.…

vSphere 7 Update 3b was supposed to fix a high availability glitch, crashing hosts, and more So this is awkward for VMware. The virtualization giant has pulled an update to its flagship vSphere suite because it didn't fix the problems it was released to address, and may have made them worse.…

Plus workers stage walk out in protest against games giant's big cheese A group of Activision Blizzard investors called for CEO Bobby Kotick to resign on Wednesday, claiming he knew about sexual harassment and assault claims made against his staff for years and failed to adequately address them.…

Have fun with those Cupertino-set prices, friends Apple, having long stood in the way of customers who want to fix their own devices, now says it wants to help those who feel they have the right to repair their own products.…

Coding JS in your PJs here to stay Developers, like many other tech professionals, are still opting to work at home even though they way they perform some of those functions has returned to pre-pandemic norms.…

Stop the rock, can't stop the rock, we can't stop the rock Canonical may be working on introducing systemd to Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), according to a post by Ubuntu Desktop Team Technical Leader Didier Roche.…

'He went from crazy doodler to craftsman instantly' Obituary Celebrated video game artist Bernie Drummond has died. His designs were among some of the most loved on the ZX Spectrum, and some of his signature titles are among the computer's top-rated games of all time: Batman in 1986, and Head Over Heels and Match Day II in 1987.…

How will you be able to buy things you can't afford now? Amazon has confirmed it will no longer accept payment via Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom after several Reg readers wrote in complaining of a cryptic message they'd been sent this morning.…

Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price Amazon Web Services has added support for streaming Linux applications and desktops to its AppStream service, which was previously Windows-only, claiming that it will "greatly lower the total streaming cost."…

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees Unit4, the ERP vendor born out of public-sector specialist Agresso, has launched a cloud service that promises out-of-the-box integration with popular application software and third-party data sources.…