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Qualcomm tells us it has permission to provide 4G-only Snapdragon 888 chip Huawei officially announced its latest flagship smartphones on Thursday, both lacking 5G capabilities due to ongoing US sanctions.…

Fewer than one-in-four staff want to be in the office for more than three days a week Less than a quarter of Cisco's 77,000-strong workforce want to spend three days or more in their office when COVID-19 restrictions lift – and so Switchzilla is embarking on a "great hybrid work experiment."…

Like FLoC, FLEDGE isn't yet ready to fly for web-based ads, judging from this proof-of-concept exploit code Google's effort to build a "Privacy Sandbox" – a set of technologies for delivering personalized ads online without the tracking problems presented by cookie-based advertising – continues to struggle with its promise of privacy.…

Turns out that Austin factory shutdown was nothing but a blip Samsung Electronics is flying high on the back of a surge in memory prices and demand expected to remain strong for the rest of 2021.…

That's 0.25 DUPs! The cost of the UK's new "national flagship" to replace the Royal Yacht Britannia has already ballooned by £50m in just two months, it was revealed yesterday.…

Elderly lab negotiates tricky docking Russia's elderly Nauka module has made it to the International Space Station (ISS), some 25 years since construction of the research module began.…

More than 120 messages caught trying to filch credentials from customers of USAA Bank, Microsoft Between July 13 and July 16, someone took over the Mailgun account owned by restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill and placed an order for login credentials using misappropriated marketing messages.…

New policies give users more control, but ad tracking still on by default Google has shared details of upcoming changes to Android including the ability to blank a device's advertising ID, and a new safety section for apps in the Play store.…

Doing both in one system might be 'somewhat elegant' but user experience remains to be seen, analyst says Couchbase, the NoSQL database beloved of modern applications developers, is trying to build a bridge to the old world with its 7.0 release.…

Former state monopoly talks up FTTP build out, as does Virgin Media BT's revenues slipped during the three months to the end of June – when French-owned Altice took a 12.1 per cent stake in the business and the telco went some way to resolving an industrial dispute.…

'We have customers saying, help us out of this pickle here, can you possibly just support RHEL running on top of AHV?' Red Hat is collaborating with Nutanix to make OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux a fully supported solution on the Nutanix native virtualization platform, AHV.…

Great, maybe the trend can FOAD now A dual-format auction of a physical and digital non-fungible token (NFT) version of a job application penned by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has come to a close – and the physical side has emerged victorious, by an order of magnitude.…

Company confirms it's investigating adding Chipzilla to multi-source vendor list, alongside TSMC and Samsung Qualcomm's strong financials for the third quarter of 2021 come with a warning. Supply shortages aren't over yet – and the fabless chip maker may be turning to Intel to help meet demand.…

Aims to heal perplexing split between Canvas and Model-driven apps Microsoft's Custom Pages, an effort to converge its two different low-code Power App platforms, are now in public preview - though it is more hybrid than truly converged.…

Now that's agile Northern Ireland's Department of Finance has awarded IT services firm Equiniti a contract worth up to £80m to build a land revenue and benefits system in a procurement four years in the making.…

Court finally hands down written ruling – and it's very bad news for UK exec Analysis Autonomy personnel were instructed to destroy hard drives at the company's offices nearly a year after the buyout of the software bz by HP, a court ruling in ex-CEO Mike Lynch's extradition battle has revealed.…

YouTuber's project already well past its goal Neil Thomas, host of the RMC vintage computing and gaming YouTube channel, is crowdfunding a colouring book of vintage computing hardware.…

Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls Around 20 million people in England are in the dark over plans to share their GP medical records with a NHS Digital database, according to a study by not-for-profit consumer watchdog Which?…

Reason for probe unknown, but CEO claims it will vindicate company's claims Israel's Ministry of Defense says the nation's government has visited spyware-for-governments developer NSO Group to investigate allegations its wares have been widely – and perhaps willingly – misused.…

And you've patched them all, haven't you, diligent readers? Western cybersecurity agencies have published a list of 30 of the most exploited vulnerabilities abused by hostile foreign states in 2020, urging infosec bods to ensure their networks and deployments are fully patched against them.…

Please shop online instead while it's safely disposed of, says branch of CCTV specialist MASCO Masco, a Hungarian chain of stores specializing in property surveillance and protection tech, has asked customers to avoid its head office because an unexploded World War II bomb has been found nearby.…

Memorandum details plans to turn that around with rapid development of security baselines, not mandates The Biden administration has issued a National Security Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems to address what it describes as a "woefully insufficient" security posture.…

Attack turned off encryption function, which made snooping rather easier Law enforcement agencies in Taiwan are investigating a cyberattack on over 100 local political figures and dignitaries who used the messaging app LINE.…

You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using 'em Comment Amazon Web Services has announced the retirement of the network structure underpinning its third cloud service, the EC2-Classic network underpinning the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.…

As web search giant stalls end to work-from-home to mid-October Google employees can continue working from home until October 18 – after the web giant pushed back the date for staff to return to its offices from mid-September.…

Legal eagles determined to overturn decision to throw out antitrust lawsuit targeting Instagram, Whatsapp acquisitions Attorneys General from 46 US states, plus Guam and Washington DC, have appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that claims the social media giant illegally acquired its competitors to maintain a monopoly.…

Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities Boffins in Finland have scanned the open-source software libraries in the Python Package Index, better known as PyPI, for security issues and found that nearly half contain potentially vulnerable code.…

Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind Microsoft will not support a semi-annual release channel in the forthcoming Windows Server 2022, and users requiring frequent updates will be directed towards Azure Stack HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure).…

Shrinking survey could signify decline of UWP Windows 11 has reared its Fluent-designed head in the latest set of usage figures for Microsoft's operating systems.…

Great, it's not like employers need more reasons to haul you back to the office Firms looking to save money by shifting to more flexible ways of working will need to think carefully about IT security and the additional cost of breaches linked to staff working from home.…

Do the browser polka Browser maker Vivaldi has introduced Accordion Tabs in version 4.1 – yet another way to deal with tab overload.…

Space is hard Two spacecraft with a lot to prove are ready for launch in the coming days.…

Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit Xero says that problems linked to its login infrastructure – not security woes – were to blame for yesterday's mega wobble that saw customers locked out of the cloud-based accounting software for almost eleven hours.…

Recognise this one? Oh dear... Iranian state-backed hackers posed as a flirty Liverpudlian aerobics instructor in order to trick defence and aerospace workers into revealing secrets, according to a newly-published study.…

Early birds really do get the worm, it would seem Browser maker Mozilla has enhanced its Virtual Private Network (VPN) service with split tunnelling and doubled the monthly pricing plan for new customers that don't want to commit to a one year contract.…

Puppet Field CTO Nigel Kersten speaks to the Reg about 10 years of studying DevOps adoption Interview On the 10th anniversary of its first survey, the multi-vendor State of Devops report concludes that DevOps is still "rarely done well at scale," and that "almost everyone is using the cloud, but most people are using it poorly."…

Cell tower acquisition faces full inquiry from Britain's Competition and Markets Authority Cellnex's efforts to buy the UK mobile infrastructure assets of CK Hutchison – including some 6,000 cell towers – have hit a regulatory snag after the competition regulator opted for a full inquiry into the deal.…

Chief exec Pichai wants to 'help people get the information they need,' even as YouTube fingered for conspiracy guff Google parent Alphabet has reported financial success across everything from artificial intelligence to video streaming – thanks in no small part to the pandemic and increased efforts from ransomware ne'er-do-wells.…

Surprisingly a real-life scenario and not a plotline from The Simpsons A reactor at Guosheng Nuclear Power Plant in Taiwan malfunctioned on Tuesday morning, triggering an auto shutdown that resulted in the loss of 985 megawatts of power – all due to the misplacement of a chair.…

Some customers have a 'unique set of needs' SaaSy vendor says Amazon has halted plans to roll out a company-wide HR system based on SaaS from Workday, highlighting the challenges of migrating to the in-vogue application model.…

'The road to recovery will be a winding one' Cook predicts Apple reported record revenue in Q3 of its fiscal 2021, but admitted it is being hit by industry-wide component shortages – and things are only going to worsen in the quarter to come, costing the company billions of dollars.…

Pandemic offers chance to change focus just four years after £10m deal UK pub and hotel chain Fuller's has bet the farm on Microsoft Dynamics to run its core finance system after it kicked out a £10m Infor system following the sell-off of its brewery business.…

Infrastructure needs to be increased tenfold before traditional motors banned in 2030, says market study The UK needs to increase the number of charging points across the country tenfold if it is to support an electric vehicle (EV) economy starting with the ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.…

Reg tiptoes through the Zulip to review open source chat and collab software Review IRC is crusty, ancient, and still far and away the best group chat system currently available. IRC is the best chat system precisely because it is a system. It is a protocol, not just an app, and even better it is a loosely federated protocol.…

Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal Column During the first and second waves of the pandemic, a certain cohort of my more paranoid friends grew increasingly alarmed at a thought balloon floated by the World Economic Forum – the billionaires' club that used to meet annually in Davos.…

May need to upgrade 'bunfight' into 'cake-flinging war' over this one Parliamentary criticism of the National Cyber Security Centre's "image over cost" London HQ is being shrugged off by the government because of the GCHQ offshoot's successful response to the WannaCry ransomware outbreak.…

Announces that it's paid out for 11,000 bugs in under eleven years Google has revealed that its bug bounty program – which it styles a "Vulnerability Reward Program" – has paid out for 11,055 bugs found in its services since 2010.…

Quito Court finds numerous irregularities in naturalization process Former couch-surfing world record contender Julian Assange has had his Ecuadorian citizenship revoked.…

Suggests incident 'of great consequence' in the real world could be a tipping point United States President Joe Biden has shared his view that a "real shooting war" could be sparked by a severe cyber attack.…

Version 2.5 adds lots of love for hybrid cloud, Linux containers, and even a COBOL/Java combo IBM has made it official: a major update to its z/OS operating system for mainframes will debut in September.…