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Stay of execution granted after customer 'feedback' Microsoft has indefinitely postponed the deprecation of Transport Level Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 in its IoT Hub.…

iPhone's 'budget' midget gem revival is out You have to give Apple credit for timing. It just announced the iPhone SE 2020. Priced at £419, it's the company's cheapest phone in years and lands at a time when nobody has any money, thanks to everyone's least favourite pathogen: Coronavirus.…

Another impressive (and iterative) update to smartphone lineup More of the same isn't always a bad thing, as demonstrated by the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro. These devices follow the same path as their older siblings, offering an iterative improvement at a reasonable price.…

Email ruse preying on COVID-19 fears sends data to crims, warns Mimecast Email security biz Mimecast has warned of a flight refund scam doing the rounds amid a general uptick in coronavirus-related online crime.…

Options being explored for Digital Interconnect division Enterprise software vendor SAP may jettison its SMS platform to focus on core application business.…

Deprecation of venerable protocol postponed 'in light of the current crisis' Google has switched File Transfer Protocol (FTP) back on in Chrome 81 in response to the COVID-19 situation. The change was made "via server-side configuration."…

Will someone rid us of these mast-er idiots? Vodafone CEO Nick Jeffrey has spoken out after arsonists targeted a phone mast serving the NHS Nightingale Hospital in Birmingham.…

No coincidence that new offer closely matches that from smaller rival GitHub is giving away its core services for free and has slashed the price of its paid Team plan by more than half – from $9 per user to $4.…

Starlink slips, Soyuz arrives and StriX-α sat heads to New Zealand Roundup Catching rockets by helicopter, three more 'nauts arriving at the ISS and COVID-19 causing schedule shuffles - it's been busy in the realm of rockets during this past week.…

Also: 2010 server products to survive into 2021 as overstretched admins given more breathing space Reports of the death of The Update Of The Damned (aka Windows 10 1809) appear to have been premature as Microsoft flung a lifeline to those with a little too much on their plate.…

Sub-domain on the move – you have until 29 May to pick a new one Pondering how to fill your days? Fear not – if you're still using the Demon sub-domain for your email address, you'd best start telling your contact book that changes are afoot.…

That might sound like good news, but it's not. Size isn't everything Prolonged periods in space increases brain mass by as much as 6 per cent, according to a new study, but that's not good news.…

And tosses in a new cloudy manager for good measure VMware has finally delivered on its vision to integrate Kubernetes and vSphere, by making Cloud Foundation 4.0 generally available.…

Overheating HP hardware disrupts festive ad flinging Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in The Register's series of computers getting hot under the collar and flinging bundles of bork at passersby.…

Can: Send rover to Mars and operate it from home. Can't: Remote in to mission PCs or replicate them in the cloud NASA has reverted to using old-school red and blue 3D glasses to direct the Curiosity rover around Mars.…

Welcome to the world of China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile carrier China Mobile today published its 2019 annual report, revealing the extraordinary scale of the business and its ambition to do better beyond China’s borders and in the cloud.…

Ongoing Chrome Web Store security saga deftly straddles tragedy and farce Google has ousted 49 Chrome extensions from its Chrome Web Store because they contained malicious code, a ritual that should be familiar after a decade of purges.…

But we've only done it to help governments understand that virus thing you may have heard about lately Apple has released a set of "Mobility Trends Reports" – a trove of anonymised and aggregated data that describes how people have moved around the world in the three months from 13 January to 13 April.…

Shall we call it the Termin-Acer? Or maybe the ASUS-inator? BenQ for coming – we're here all week Taiwan's going to take a shot at developing military exoskeletons.…

As Prime Minister calls on citizens to inspire adoption of contact-tracing app The Indian city of Vadodara has taken a novel technological approach to coronavirus quarantine surveillance by floating a balloon equipped with cameras and a public address system.…

The Philippine government has demanded the nation's telcos submit continuity plans by the end of this week to ensure that the country maintains uninterrupted internet service during the coronavirus lockdown.…

And help to take small business digital because of y’know that virus thing we keep hearing about The Association of South-East Asian Nations ASEAN has made a regional fake news crackdown and e-commerce enablement a part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.…

FTC tallies the cost of pandemic rip-offs Fraud related to the coronavirus has cost Americans $13m and so far counting, according to the US government.…

As online grocery shopping gets harder as Amazon moves to invite-only The big four food delivery apps - GrubHub, DoorDash, Postmates and Uber Eats - are abusing their market power to force restaurants to charge the same for online and in-person order, according to a new lawsuit.…

'The mean police, they live inside of my head, the mean police, they come to me in my bed...' Online Q&A site Stack Overflow aspires to be "a welcoming and friendly place," and to make that so, the biz has deployed sentiment-sniffing code to catch unkind commentary lest it drive members of its online community away.…

Adobe and Intel add their woes Microsoft has delivered another epic Patch Tuesday, dropping fixes for more than 100 security bugs, and Adobe and Intel have added their dose of misery and security too.…

“Repeatedly violated internal policies” means go to the door Updated Amazon has fired another three employees who have been critical of the biz, including two tech workers in Seattle and a warehouse worker in Minnesota. All three have raised concerns about the working conditions at the online giant’s warehouses during the coronavirus outbreak.…

ERP, warehousing, sales, accounts, supply chain all working together Canada's OpenText has claimed its data-integration platform can bring together information from applications both inside and outside company boundaries.…

Oh it can't be that baaa.... $16.7 BEEELLION?! One of Softbank's slogans is that it "invests in human progress." If its latest forecasts are anything to go by, the returns are disappointing, to say the least.…

'It was really a long process because it's just volunteer work' Interview Inkscape, a popular open-source vector graphics application, is heading for its 1.0 release more than 16 years after its first appearance in November 2003.…

Amazingly, contractor for massive UK TV channels differentiates himself from 'mainstream media' Sleepy ITV daytime show This Morning isn't typically the venue for conspiratorial chatter. It's more Loose Women than Loose Change. Still, that didn't prevent Eamonn Holmes* from espousing the belief that the "mainstream media" is participating in a cover-up about the dangers of 5G.…

Plus: New Edge build, more Office 365 branding snuffed Roundup Though there may be no Neo this year, a new Windows is almost upon us as The Register rounds up the emissions from Redmond that you might have missed.…

Conservative politicos including IDS voice anger over 'untimely special pleading' An open letter from Huawei about the UK's 5G strategy in light of COVID-19 has provoked outrage among several key politicians in the country's ruling Conservative Party, who have denounced it as "hubristic" and "arrogant".…

All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm? AMD is once again hoping to muscle in on Intel's bread and butter with a new line of second-generation Epyc processors aimed squarely at the HPC, cloud, and enterprise markets.…

Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront Give yourselves a pat on the back, ladies and gents – two teams made up of Register readers are in the top 1,000 out of more than 250,000 in the Folding@home distributed computing project for disease research.…

Enclave-bound service aims to be another nail in the password coffin Hoping to actually make the long foretold end of passwords happen, a startup called Beyond Identity believes it can hasten the demise of the memory-taxing access ritual by embedding a personal certificate authority into mobile devices.…

It’s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in Comment The world seems set to adopt smartphone-driven contact tracing to help detect COVID-19 carriers but regulators need to plot an exit strategy from this new form of deeply personal and intensive surveillance.…

Time to break ties with historic corporate inertia Column The suddenness and scale of the COVID-19 pandemic took many CTOs and CIOs by surprise as worries over the impact on a supply chain in China flipped, seemingly overnight, into a fight for corporate survival.…

Revealed: Oracle founder's plan for global wellness Comment Larry Ellison is not one to let anything get him down, least of all gravity. Grave though the global COVID-19 pandemic may be, the Oracle founder, CTO and chairman is a man who produces. And, as intrepid Forbes reporter Angel Au-Yeung found out, the product is "wellness".…

Google Pay is about to get really useful in India's biggest cities Google's India operation has launched a new feature that enables users to find and transact with essential stores during the novel coronavirus lockdown.…

Dell only vendor to increase shipments as debate turns to impact of pent-up demand vs shifting spending priorities Global PC sales fell markedly in Q1 2020, but that may not be an entirely bad thing.…

A rogue pulsational pair-instability nova from a heavy star measuring over 100 times the mass of the Sun Astronomers have spotted the biggest and brightest supernova explosion yet spotted and theorize it may have been sparked by two huge stars smashing together.…

Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize India's government has kicked off a competition to develop a locally-developed video conferencing platform it hopes will put the country on the product development map.…

As Microsoft gives Teams a Brady Bunch upgrade Zoom’s security catch-up sprint has seen it announce its users will soon be able to choose where their traffic goes.…

As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool Yahoo!’s Japanese offshoot has signed a deal to share analysis of its users’ locations, to help the nation’s effort to detect coronavirus clusters.…

It's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13 Part two 55 hours, 52 minutes and 58 seconds into Apollo 13's mission, capsule communicator Charlie Duke asked the crew to stir the spacecraft's cryo tanks. Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert did so, and the "boring" mission became suddenly all too interesting.…

Bluetooth, GPS, cell towers, code scanning: what’s the best way? In an effort to fend off the coronavirus while getting economies restarted, the world has hit on the same idea: a smartphone app that alerts people if they have been close to someone who has the virus.…

British mathematician checks out Mathematician John Conway has died after suffering from COVID-19.…

Data center snafu borks site because of...something The Unicode Consortium's technical documentation website went belly up on Friday, two days after the organization said the planned March 2021 release of Unicode 14.0 will be delayed six months due to COVID-19.…

Staff trying to strike a deal; Board worried about corporate shell structure With just seven days left until it has to make a decision on the $1.13bn sale of the .org registry to a private equity firm, DNS overseer ICANN appears in chaos.…