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5G auction to go ahead in April Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…

5G auction to go ahead in April Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction is to go ahead in April after mobile operator Three lost its final legal challenge to force the regulator to change the bidding rules.…

Think of it as a Version 1.0... Real World Test Last year Apple transformed the fortunes of its iPad. In the spring the iconic fondleslab looked so neglected, it was declared "done". Sales were half of what they had been at the iPad's peak.…

The future of transport looks like a sensor-riddled computer Discussions about the future of cars quickly turn to the pros and cons of autonomous vehicles. But the acronym of choice in such discussions is CAVs – connected and autonomous vehicles – and the "connected" part is already with us. While there are only a handful of fully autonomous vehicles trundling about public roads, most cars already gather data and many exchange it with their makers.…

Chipmaker names 18 carriers who'll get real with 5G real soon now, promise Qualcomm has fleshed out the details of what's going to land in the hands of the 18 carriers who last week signed on for “standards-compliant” 5G trials.…

Jury awards Redmond some pocket change in patent dustup Microsoft has been awarded just over a quarter of a million dollars in its patent infringement case against Corel.…

It's slipped a disk, though, because services supremo admits new services plan is very much a work in progress IBM believes it is "the backbone of the world's economy" and has told its services staff to hold their heads high and behave accordingly as the company rolls out new services offerings it hopes will let it dodge the implosion of outsourcing.…

Y'think we're stretching this Valentine's date thing too far? A pair of academics have reproduced part of a moth's brain as an artificial neural network – and taught it to recognize numbers to a fairly high accuracy with just a few training examples.…

Someone's got to get it scaling! Microsoft's wanted a really good federated identity scheme ever since the early 2000s, when it gave the world Project Hailstorm, aka ".Net My Services", to let a web of online services know a little about you and the information you are happy to share with others.…

Shambling corpse of ancient, shoddy, buggy, crypto shoved towards the grave Developers working with OpenSSL can finally start to work with TLS 1.3, thanks to the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that landed yesterday.…

NASA to take Mars meteor from London and use it for target practise ahead of 2020 mission NASA has decided to use fragments of Martian meteorites for target practice ahead of the Mars 2020 mission, then send one back to Mars.…

After flubbing its early responses, Microsoft's thrown sysadmins a bone Microsoft's added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to Windows Analytics, the company's telemetry analysis tool for sysadmins.…

After flubbing its early responses, Microsoft's thrown sysadmins a bone Microsoft's added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to Windows Analytics, the company's telemetry analysis tool for sysadmins.…

Nobody wants slow SaaS or cross-cloud comms, but Citrix wants you to cough up to stop it Citrix has bought traffic optimisation company Cedexis for an undisclosed sum.…

Version 6.7 should land in Q2, may end support for older CPUs VMware's still trying to encourage upgrades to version 6.0 and 6.5 of its vSphere platform, but that hasn't stopped it from working on a new version too.…

Grouchy Grupe gets a year and a day behind bars after going loco on network hardware A former IT administrator at the Canadian Pacific Railway has been jailed for 366 days for sabotaging the organization's computer network.…

Here's a bumper crop of security fixes you do not want to miss Patch Tuesday Serious security flaws in Outlook and Edge are headlining a busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday.…

House Dems send snotagram to watchdog boss Analysis US lawmakers have weighed in on the FCC's controversial vote to scrap America's net neutrality rules, demanding information on the millions of fake comments submitted to the watchdog's public consultation on the decision – and asking pointed questions about how the federal regulator handled them.…

Y'all loved AMP for the web, now get it in your inboxes Having last year axed its scanning of Gmail messages after years of withering privacy criticism, Google has decided to court controversy again in this area.…

Outside storage outfit blamed for data leak blunder Western Union has confirmed one of its IT suppliers was hacked, and that customer information was exposed to miscreants.…

US telco reveals bright idea in response to robberies, ID theft Analysis An FCC commissioner has come under fire for seemingly suggesting that Verizon should be granted a legal waiver from his own agency's rules.…

Unicode clumsiness allowed months of malware installations Telegram has fixed a security flaw in its desktop app that hackers spent several months exploiting to install remote-control malware and cryptocurrency miners on vulnerable Windows PCs.…

Victory for web biz after law troll claimed CDN ripped off designs An US court has trashed a patent at the center of Cloudflare's legal war with patent troll Blackbird Technologies – and thrown out the latter's case against the web biz.…

Need faster storage? Box slinger claims updated software boosts SMB kit performance Lenovo has refreshed its line of storage-area-network boxes for small and medium businesses with improved software.…

Claims stealthy tech will cut costs and power consumption Silicon design startup Tachyum, founded by ex-Skyera top brass after they sold out to Western Digital, has bagged funding to continue developing cloudy chips.…

WikiLeaker 'considers himself above the normal rule of law' says Chief Magistrate Infamous cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange has failed yet again to get his arrest warrant for jumping bail quashed by an English judge.…

WikiLeaker 'considers himself above the normal rule of law' says Chief Magistrate Infamous cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange has failed yet again to get his arrest warrant for jumping bail quashed by an English judge.…

Yes, I need an 8K livestream in every room Alternative network provider Hyperoptic today tested speeds of 10Gbps at the former Olympic village in east London.…

Advises punters to move to 123 Reg... no, you heard that right Web-hosting outfit Hotchilli has told punters the best way it can continue to serve their needs is by, er, shutting up shop.…

Composable infrastructure kit doubles down on Cisco servers Dell EMC has smushed its three-product VxBlock range into a single, more scalable composable infrastructure – the VxBlock 1000.…

Me? Single biggest shareholder? Kneel before my portfolio Activist investor Carl Icahn is ranting that Fujifilm's zero-sum acquisition of photocopier biz Xerox leaves him as a "passive minority owner of a Fuji subsidiary".…

Review of job ads pins average salary at £47k The average salary offered to data scientists in the past year was £47,000, with Python being the most desirable programming language, according to an analysis of job ads.…

NHS most trusted with our info, survey says, social media isn't The British public are much more likely to hand over personal data to an organisation they know than one they don't, and are willing to accept a trade-off if it will help science – or themselves.…

(In)Essential device shipped just 88,000 units last year Essential's much-hyped debut phone failed to reach six-figure sales last year, despite heavy discounts.…

Brought to you by those who 'understand necessary hashtags' UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has announced a tool that purports to detect and block jihadist content online, and tech companies may end up being legally required to use it.…

Selfie-satisfied to augment reality with their mugs On the November 3, 2017, Brad Dwyer set to work unearthing the mysteries of Apple’s released-that-day iPhone X and its strange new TrueDepth camera. The engineer and entrepreneur wanted to create an app to leverage that new forward-facing face-scanning camera - to build one of the in a first generation of "face-driven games - but how?…

Campaign to move a Bombe into historic Block H The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) has organised a whip-round to move a historic code-breaking computer into a new location at Bletchley Park.…

ScaleFlux and NGD aim to wrangle data at drive-level Part 2 Bringing compute to data aims to knock stored data access latency on its head by not moving masses of data across networks to host servers. Bringing compute to disk drives is facing an uphill struggle, but flash drives, with their much faster access, might have an easier time of it.…

Your security is only as good as your partners' ability to fix messes and flush caches A couple of weeks ago Jeff quit his job at the Singaporean branch of a major enterprise technology vendor that is, if not quite a household name, certainly known to most IT professionals.…

Don't touch that AI – model fiddling can skew algorithm output, study shows Bit boffins from universities in China and the US have devised a way to tamper with deep learning models so they produce misleading results.…

Even with a representative data set to learn from, software gets worse the darker your skin Commercial AI is great at recognising the gender of white men, but not so good at doing the same job for black women.…

Welcome to Planet Frustration, which sounds lovely but won't play nice with others A teardown of Apple's HomePod, the company's answer to Amazon’s Echo and Google's Home devices, confirms suggestions that Cupertino was working on advanced audio technology before semi-sentient speakers took off.…

Flowering fleet will still leave trail Azure and AWS Oracle has announced plans to build a dozen new cloud data centres.…

Seeks $4bn to build glorious workers palaces and diversify beyond boring old iPhones Foxconn wants to spin out part of itself, perhaps including a facilities used to build either iPhones or chips for smartmobes, so it can diversify into cloudy and 5G products.…

Microsoft hired her, but Big Blue sues to stop her exporting its succession planning secrets Microsoft has named Lindsay-Rae McIntyre as its Chief Diversity Officer and IBM has sued to stop it happening.…

Pwned credit-score biz quietly admits more info lost Last year, Equifax admitted hackers stole sensitive personal records on 145 million Americans and hundreds of thousands in the UK and Canada.…

Sleepless in Seattle after shakeup Amazon has confirmed a round of job cuts are taking place at its headquarters in Seattle, USA.…

The numbers, not the spin, from nbn™'s half-year presentation and corporate plan nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network, is the subject of endless controversy.…

Demands blanket rather than specific repo shutdowns Apple's fruitless attempts to remove its leaked iBoot source code from the internet have escalated into requests to have community code site GitHub disable all downstream forks made from identified infringing repositories.…

Cheer up – by 2030, we'll have flying cars, too President Trump's administration has handed down a budget for 2019 to NASA – and it effectively kills off key projects in exchange for a vague promise to go back to the Moon.…