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by Paul Kunert on (#4GE43)
Analyst clips 2019 shipments, reckons 3.1% market shrinkage Huawei may have reassessed its ambitions to summit the global smartphone market by 2020 due to political and economic uncertainty between the US and China.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GDQD)
To a fellow China-based firm, mind you Huawei is reportedly flogging off part of its undersea telecoms cable business, barely six weeks after Australia blocked its attempts to win a major cable contract.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDQE)
In abstentia ruling would have been first step to extradition A Swedish court has ruled against detaining WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or seeking his extradition over an allegation of rape.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDQF)
Another regulator lines up to have a kick Google shares took more than a 6 per cent tumble this morning as twitchy investors heard reports the US Department of Justice was about to launch a major investigation into the ad giant's business practices.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GDJA)
Major content wrangler adopts Wrangler as the official CLI Ever-present content delivery network operator Cloudflare has rolled out a bunch of goodies for developers working with its serverless platform.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GDD8)
6 weeks after board approves pension fund offer, private equity biz trumps bid Hull-based fibre flinger KCOM has thrown its lot behind a £563m bid from private equity investor Macquarie, dropping the previously accepted £504m offer from one of the UK's largest pension funds.…
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by John Oates on (#4GDD9)
High street's online killer appears on actual high street, again The British High Street has a very unlikely saviour in the shape of Amazon following news that physical retail outlets are set to er, pop-up across the UK this year.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4GD7C)
Academic outfit U-turns on blacklisting Chinese bogeyman The US-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has lifted its sanctions on Huawei-linked academic reviewers.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4GD3N)
Meet Network Cloud – Brit telco's latest infrastructure play BT will be using software-defined networking (SDN) tools from Juniper Networks to breathe new life into its ageing infrastructure and prepare it for the deluge of data expected when 5G goes mainstream.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GD3Q)
Also: Excel gets OCR smarts and Win 10 Oct 2018 Update hits 30% Roundup The Redmond gang enjoyed a busy week, emitting a new build, shovelling new toys into old apps and (temporarily) making insiders look elsewhere for kitten videos.…
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by Team Register on (#4GD3R)
Agenda revealed, blind bird tickets about to take flight Events We're pleased as punch to announce the first speakers for MCubed London 2019, our three-day dive into machine learning, AI and data science, and what they mean for real-world companies and organisations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4GD07)
Three words to ruin an Apple engineer's day: 'Patrick Wardle disclosure' Malware can bypass protections in macOS Mojave, and potentially access user data as well as the webcam and mic – by exploiting a hole in Apple's legacy app support.…
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by John Oates on (#4GD09)
Childish prank for childish visitor Here's hoping Trump spotted the welcome willy at the Essex village of Hatfield Heath when he flew into London Stansted Airport this morning for his UK state visit.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4GCWJ)
No data nicked in weekend attack but systems and server pulled to contain infection Bio-analytical testing biz Eurofins Scientific today admitted it was the subject of a ransomware attack at the weekend.…
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by John Oates on (#4GCWK)
Service will split into separate apps for music, TV, podcasts Apple is expected to confirm the imminent death of its iTunes service to be replaced with separate apps for music, video and podcasts.…
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by John Oates on (#4GCSZ)
Mega-chips ahoy: German chip biz takes over piece of US real estate Munich-based Infineon has said it will cough €9bn for California's Cypress Semiconductor.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4GCT1)
Plus machine systems can trounce humans at Quake III flag captures Roundup Let's get right to it: here's your latest roundup of recent machine-learning related news beyond what we've already reported.…
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by John Oates on (#4GCQQ)
Heaven forfend, someone had to use their actual TV speakers Owners of Bose kit are filling support forums with moans that a recent firmware update has introduced a deeply irritating crackling noise to "the world's best performing soundbar".…
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by John Oates on (#4GCP2)
Plus a punched card reader and some extra manuals Big congratulations to Adam Bradley and Chris Blackburn, who have raised enough cash to get their rescued IBM 360s back from Nuremberg.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4GCMB)
Hey – watch where you're pointing that code! Who, Me? A fresh week means a fresh story to add to The Register's regular hall of shame where hapless techies tell tales of in-the-field slip-ups: welcome to Who, Me?…
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Nginx nJS will need patches, hotels exposed via security systems, Docker containers dinged, and more
by Shaun Nichols on (#4GCHQ)
Another week of security mishaps is in the books Roundup Here's a quick summary of news in the world of information security beyond everything we've already covered.…
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by Team Register on (#4GC5W)
Unlucky netizens struggle to connect to web giant suffering from 'network congestion' Google is right now recovering from a multi-hour outage that knocked several of its internet services offline for unlucky netizens on Sunday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4G97P)
Server hoster apologizes, undoes system slaying after washing away AI org Nicolas Beauvais, the CTO of a two-person AI startup called Raisup, raised a ruckus on Twitter on Friday to revive his company and it worked.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4G8YT)
What a radical idea Maine is about to become the latest US state to – and get this – mandate that ISPs obtain subscribers' permission before selling their data to advertisers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4G8VA)
Popular admin tool shifts to .Net Core 3.0 amid talk of future features Microsoft on Thursday released a preview version of PowerShell 7, its command-line shell and scripting language for administrators. The software was once was limited to Windows but opened up to Linux (including arm64) and macOS three years ago.…
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by John Oates on (#4G8QB)
Nothing to see here, pervs – it is all in your mind Attempts by the US Air Force to keep up with its Navy pilot rivals in the fine art of contrail cock drawing is nothing of the sort, according to service flacks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4G8M3)
Mad dash stalled growth and screwed revenue targets Subscriptions is the nirvana that tech vendors are trying to journey towards since investors love predictability. For hyperconverged bigwig Nutanix, it has proved to be something of a challenge but for all the wrong reasons.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G8FS)
Deadline for offers is June 14 MapR Technologies, once a shining star of the emerging big data analytics set with a valuation of more than $1 billion, has two weeks to find an investor. Failure to do will see the software developer shutter its HQ and terminate 122 staff, including founder and CEO John Schroeder.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G8FV)
Hot in that waistcoat, innit, Gareth Southgate? RotM The Football Association - which governs competitive football in England - has fallen prey to the rise of the player analytics machines, having thrown its lot in with Google's public cloud and associated tools.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4G8BJ)
Let's not talk about the $48bn debt pile Sagging server market demand, protracted chip shortages and the US’ tariff shenanigans with China are among the things Dell Tech is watching with interest after lowering fiscal ’20 revenue targets.…
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by John Oates on (#4G86K)
Plus market's slow to swallow gear, especially storage. Hmmf. At least Huawei 'ban' won't hurt too much Storage and semiconductor maker Marvell Technology Group played down the impact of the effective ban on selling chips to Huawei as it filed losses of $21m for the quarter ended 4 May.…
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by John Oates on (#4G86M)
Show us what you knew and when, shareholders demand A court in Delaware has backed investors who want to see internal emails and other documents relating to how Facebook handed data on 50 million users to Cambridge Analytica.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4G81G)
Case being heard in US, but disties in Middle East, Europe warn delays will go on till at least August Exclusive A courtroom showdown over a patent infringement allegation that Fujifilm brought against Sony is crippling supply of LTO-8 tape media stateside and further afield, and a resolution doesn't appear to be imminent.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G7XH)
Sorry, wrong Eton – the power distribution specialist says rent out battery capacity to the grid Power distribution specialist Eaton has kicked off a pilot project in Ireland that uses data centre UPS systems to help power the grid in periods of peak demand, to avoid grid-level outages.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4G7SH)
Now they're withdrawing co-operation too Following disquiet over the IEEE's decision to block Huawei-linked researchers from doing various academic tasks, a Chinese computer research body has reportedly severed ties with the IEEE in retaliation.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4G7SK)
If you've bought a Foxes shirt lately, check your statements Leicester City Football Club has quietly told people who bought stuff from its website that their financial details have been stolen by hackers – and those details include credit card numbers and CVVs.…
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by John Oates on (#4G7PF)
Stock prices take predictable battering Minicab disruptor Uber burned a billion dollars in the quarter ended 31 March 2019, its first since going public.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4G7K3)
Impressive indie is an emergent gameplay goldmine The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome to The Register Plays Games, henceforth known as The RPG, a column that will run on the last Friday of each month. All genres, AAA studios, indie devs, just out or decades old – nothing is off-limits, but it'll likely have to be something fun and hopefully even new to you.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#4G7GR)
One for the money, two for the blow Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Thirty years ago people couldn't imagine online porn."…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G7GS)
Hyperscalers now leasing 81 per cent of new colo space in FLAP markets Cloud slingers are leasing larger chunks of third-party colocation facilities as they can’t build their own data centres fast enough in locations they need, and nowhere is this trend more pronounced than Europe.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#4G7EP)
Repeat after me, better software costs less... Interview ThoughtWorks chief scientist Martin Fowler has written about the curious inverse relationship between quality and cost in the field of software development.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4G7CB)
Top tip for when no one knows which rack you need to look at On Call As the week draws to a close and we bite our collective knuckles at all the things that went a bit wrong, take solace in another tale about those brave souls charged with fixing stuff when it all goes squiffy: On Call.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4G79E)
Sadly no HD video back in 1900 but restoration has worked wonders Video The first ever film of a solar eclipse, created in 1900 and once thought lost forever, has been found and restored by the British Film Institute and the UK's Royal Astronomical Society.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4G76X)
Are you tired of being lonely? Do you want to find REAL love? Catfishing, the act of pretending to be someone you're not to deceive people over the internet, can be caught early on by machine learning systems to prevent fake online romance scams.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4G6XS)
Chrome extension creators and Drive app makers face pending API and policy limitations Google on Thursday announced plans to tighten its requirements for developers of Chrome extensions and apps that utilize the Drive API as part of a previously announced re-evaluation of third-party access to Google user data.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4G6JZ)
Ad giant's site slurping tech complicates web security model, could give more power to search engines and social networks, Firefox maker warns Mozilla has published a series of objections to web packaging, a content distribution scheme proposed by engineers at Google that the Firefox maker considers harmful to the web in its current form.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#4G6K0)
No policy to stop use of dodgy foreign network providers. You'd hope common sense would prevail, but... US government workers may be placing America's national security at risk as there is no official policy banning them from running their smartphones' personal and official internet traffic through untrustworthy foreign-hosted VPN services.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4G6DX)
Those stellar financial results last week. Yes ignore them Lenovo is eliminating 500 staff worldwide, including some in its US headquarters at Research Triangle Park in Morrisville, North Carolina.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4G64Q)
Oversupply blues set to continue into the second too Oversupply is a pain in the collective rear for flash suppliers – a price crash caused market revenues to slump by almost a fifth to $10.792bn in calendar Q1 compared to the prior quarter.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4G5ZV)
Which then deleted all evidence – except this article Pics Today marked the launch of Britain's first 5G network – and also, as the BBC joyously informed us, the first telly broadcast made over 5G. But guess which company made the antenna that the Beeb used to beam its tech correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones into your bedroom this morning?…
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