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Snapdragon 850 is latest attempt to lure PC makers, buyers from the x86 realm Like a lawman in an old-timey Western movie running while firing his pistol at escaping bandits, Qualcomm is running through PC land shooting out Snapdragon system-on-chips at computer manufacturers.…

How to expand a cloud platform without building data centres? Get partners to run 'em Microsoft has doubled the number of countries in which its Azure Stack hybrid cloud kit will operate, effectively extending Azure's reach with minimal capital expenditure .…

Phone makers agreed to behave when we handed them your friend lists, social info dispensary sniffs Facebook on Sunday said an arrangement that gave some 60 mobile device makers access to data about device users' Facebook friends is not at all like the deal it made with app developers that gave rise to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…

Dodgy outer orbits all down to asteroids and gravity The mysterious, so-called Planet Nine, may not be a planet after all but just gravitational trickery, according to a new study.…

American broadband bossman's ban plan panned Chinese telco giant Huawei is hitting back at America's comms watchdog, the FCC, over its proposal to ban the telco from key US markets.…

Using your service as advertised? How dare you! Gamers are the enemy of fixed wireless connections on Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).…

Patent battle looms again for iGiant in wake of ruling Apple has been pulled back into a patent-infringement lawsuit in the US over its touchscreen iPhones – after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling, and complained about its sloppy analysis.…

Panel slaps down colleague for buying Cupertino arguments Apple has been pulled back into a patent-infringement lawsuit in the US over its touchscreen iPhones – after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling and complained about its sloppy analysis.…

We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality Video Machine-learning experts have built a neural network that can manipulate facial movements in videos to create fake footage – in which people appear to say something they never actually said.…

We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality Video A group of researchers have built a neural network that can control the facial movements in a video to create fake footage.…

But try running these iThing apps now on your Mac Apple held its annual developer prep rally in San Jose, California, on Monday to discuss additions and improvements to its software but not its hardware.…

Everything will remain open, along with lots of Microsoft 'opportunities' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is at pains to reassure developers that its $7.5bn purchase of GitHub won't turn the code repository into an Azure-only space.…

Not enough time to even call Bruce Willis and Armageddonoutofhere Video Scientists at NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office have made a rare sighting – an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.…

Worker time-keeping system at center of biometric privacy legal battle in the US A former employee at a nursing home is alleging the company and its equipment provider violated the US state of Illinois' biometric privacy laws with a fingerprint-scanning time clock system.…

Hip-hip, array! Analysis Artificial Intelligence (AI) is assuredly one of the hot topics of the moment, even rather overhyped, some might add.…

Server/networking revenues receive a 41% bump Dell revenues grew almost 20 per cent in its first fiscal 2019 quarter, with losses down two-thirds and server income leaping 41 per cent.…

People are suffering in Amazon... I mean THE Amazon UK Foreign Secretary and Beano* character wrought in flesh, Boris Johnson, put tech boffins and conservationists in a room together today and asked them to come up with a way of combating illegal wildlife trade.…

Let's praise the cosy mobile duopoly working so hard to make things so much better Comment When several "leaked" reports appear to show that Apple is focusing on quality, not features, it's reasonable to conclude that Apple is concerned the world perceives a quality problem.…

Pure Storage's AIRI reference architecture probably a bit jelly NetApp and Nvidia have introduced a combined AI reference architecture system to rival the Pure Storage-Nvidia AIRI system.…

GitHub 365, anyone? Guys? Microsoft has agreed to acquire development platform GitHub in a deal worth $7.5bn, sending developers scurrying for cover.…

More opportunities to get to punters in crowded market Mobile operator Three is launching an MVNO with health and beauty business Superdrug – the latest such deal aimed at boosting operators' presence in an increasingly challenging market.…

Download our strange-smelling storage broth here Exudence of Toshiba, scrapings of Sphere3D and essence of NGD make a foul-smelling storage broth this week. We invite you to dip in a ladle and get a taste of what the storage industry got up to in the past week.…

All the info, none of the food and drink If you didn’t get along to Continuous Lifecycle London last month, we’ve got the next best thing: most of the conference sessions are now available to view at your leisure.…

Meanwhile, Russia brings three ISS crew safely home yet again SpaceX finally got the SES-12 comms satellite into orbit this morning while a trio of International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned in a trusty Soyuz capsule after 168 days in the black.…

Trio says their V2X flavour totally dunks on 802.11p radio Qualcomm, amid all of its corporate wranglings with Broadcom, is branching out into silicon for connected cars thanks to a three-way tie-up with Panasonic and Ford.…

It's about an impeached commander-in-chief... and infosec. Get your popcorn Pop murder mystery scribe James Patterson has teamed up with former US President Bill Clinton to co-author novel about a commander-in-chief going undercover to prevent a catastrophic cyber attack.…

Cambridge Uni powwow broods on Facebook, Wannacry Privacy of medical data and the machinations of surveillance capitalism were under the spotlight at a Cambridge University symposium last week.…

Thankfully, now there are data integration platforms for that Data integration has been an IT challenge for decades. Long before cloud, even before client server. Back then, though, it was relatively simple – you were working with systems of record, desktop databases and business systems.…

In Putin's Russia, battery life outlive YOU Russian boffins at the Moscow Institute of Physics (MIPT) have emitted a prototype nuclear battery packing 3,300 milliwatt hours of energy per gram.…

When everything's smart, the potential for dumb mistakes becomes enormous Earlier this year I lamented the inevitable death of Moore's Law - crushed between process node failures and exploits attacking execution efficiencies. Yet that top line failure of Moore's Law hides the fact that chips in general are now cheap.…

Crossed wires, a Commodore 64 clone and bankruptcy beckoning Who, me? Welcome again to “Who, me?”, The Register’s Monday mess – because it tells readers tales of breaking things.…

The manual is confusing, to be fair, but a third of users read it wrong and are dangling data If you're sysadmin of an organisation using Google Groups and G Suite, you need to revisit your configuration to make sure you aren't leaking internal information.…

What a time to be alive Brace yourself, world: the Unicode Consortium unleashes version 11.0 of its Emoji and general standard on Tuesday June 5th, and will right the terrible wrong that is the absence of red-headed emoji.…

Crypto chat Cooks an update Under attack from Russian regulators, embattled encrypted chat app Telegram has apparently resolved a side-spat with Apple.…

Virtualisation is creating traffic handoffs that don't depend on physical ports Virtualization changes everything – and in the case of the routers that keep the Internet working, it's not always in a good way.…

Authorities start rounding up ride share drivers, passengers Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that Uber is “finished” in the nation and not long afterwards local authorities started finding ride-sharing operators.…

Champagne on ice, but MiniBooNE's 15-year hunt has produced promising results It needs more sigmas, but Fermilab boffins are carefully speculating that they may have seen evidence of a new fundamental particle, the sterile neutrino.…

But he’s released a new kernel anyway and called it 4.17 Linus Torvalds has decided the world’s not ready for version 5.0 of the Linux Kernel, so he’s given us version 4.17 instead.…

Network news covering cloud, a breach at Netgear's spin-out, plus Red Hat wraps Ribbon and more ROUNDUP FireEye has borrowed from the credit card industry to try and detect malicious logins.…

Plus: Those neural network stock photos... Roundup Here's a quick roundup of all the important announcements in AI this week.…

Not to forget, moans about bad AI photos. AI roundup Here's a quick roundup of all the important announcements in AI this week.…

Reg vulture gets its claws on Reolink's Argus 2 Review One of the interesting side effects of being asked to test smart-home technology is that you get grumpier about it.…

And the internet says... Redmond, keep your forking hands off our favorite website Poll Microsoft has held talks with GitHub with a mind to potentially buy the popular source-code warehouse, folks closely familiar with the discussions have claimed.…

Also, the SEC takes aim at another shady ICO Roundup While we were busy chasing SpamCannibals, jailing Yahoo hackers, and blaming North Korea for everything else, there was some interesting security news going on.…

Machine-learning conference organizers warn someone is trying to get boffins into bed A cheeky website is pretending to take attendee registrations and hotel bookings for folks heading to the upcoming Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Montreal, Canada, at the end of this year.…

Machine-learning conference organizers warn miscreants are trying to get boffins into bed A dodgy website is providing fake registrations and hotel deals for the upcoming Neural Information Processing Systems conference happening in Montreal at the end of this year.…

Second worst stingray in history (RIP Steve Irwin) Someone may have spied on smartphones in or near the White House using a fake cellphone tower – and miscreants are said to have abused SS7 weaknesses to swipe US citizens' private information, it emerged this week.…

Second worst stingray in history (RIP Steve Irwin) The US government has confirmed someone spied on smartphones in America's capital using a fake cellphone tower – and miscreants abused SS7 weaknesses to swipe citizens' personal information from a major wireless carrier.…

Which bright spark should we blame after this illuminating revelation of current affairs? Philips' Hue smart-home lighting has had an embarrassing outage with its API going offline for four hours on Thursday, preventing customers from accessing the system remotely.…

Banishment comes after bias investigation that found nothing Facebook's controversial Trending section has fallen out of fashion and will be removed next week, along with products and third-party partner integrations that rely on the Trends API.…