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Analysts reckon extension of 2016 deal will be good for industry - as long there are no gotchas Huawei and Ericsson have signed a long-term cross-licensing agreement that includes patents relating to a broad range of technology areas, including those covering 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular networks....

Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out Customers and sellers of virtual desktop infrastructure remain frustrated that Microsoft continues to lock out Google and Alibaba from running Office 365 Windows Apps on their cloud platforms, weeks after Redmond made concessions for AWS....

Was this source-generating model used to bang out Threads in a week or something? Meta has released yet another sort-of-open machine learning model, this time tuned for generating software source code....

It'll replace the old one, also built by BAE, on a very tight schedule: The old junk's due to be ripped out in 2026 The UK military is set to get a new tactical wide-area network from BAE Systems just in time for the decommissioning of the old one from BAE Systems, for which BAE Systems will bank 89 million ($113 million) for its efforts....

A Love Boat story that almost didn't have a happy ending On Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register's Friday morning forum for sharing readers' tales of tech support mishaps and near misses....

Google says it is. Amazon's swerves the rules, for now. And tests suggest consumer protections aren't yet strong The European Union's Digital Services Act comes into effect today, August 25, and it's unclear if the hoped-for consumer protections are going to have their desired impact....

Semiconductor Industry Association downplays the intel Huawei is building a network of secret semiconductor fabs in China, according to recent media reports. Or maybe it isn't....

JAXA's SLIM scheduled to arrive after Chandrayaan-3 says goodnight India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission continues to achieve its goals, but Japan will have to wait a little longer for its attempts to land on Luna to succeed....

Realistically you're going to look stuff up anyway, so you might as well learn how to do it right Microsoft has made some of its certification exams open book affairs, allowing access to its learning portal while candidates sit tests....

Joins in the chorus of advice to bin the gear instead of trying for a fix The FBI has warned owners of Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances the devices are likely undergoing attack by snoops linked to China, and removing the machines from service remains the safest course of action....

Upstart now valued at $4B after Salesforce, Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and pals dish out dosh Hugging Face, which maintains a huge repository of open and non-open source AI models and training data, just closed a $235 million funding round backed by top tech players and a Hollywood heavyweight....

Diplomats debate Russia-backed rules on what can be said online An international treaty on countering cybercrime is in danger of becoming an "expansive global surveillance pact" that will trample data privacy and human rights, activists warned UN delegates as they meet in New York City this week to hammer out an updated proposal....

One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this Dropbox has decided it's time to limit its unlimited Advanced plan. Rather than giving people as much space as needed," as it did previously, now users are capped, starting at 15TB....

'It feels like the Berlin Wall of tech repair monopolies is starting to crumble, brick by brick' Apple has endorsed, with caveats, California's proposed Right to Repair law after spending years opposing DIY fixes....

Pay particular attention if you're MSI and Intel powered Microsoft is probing reports of dreaded blue screens of death from users who installed a recent Windows 11 update. Some folks suggest it's a particular problem for machines equipped with Intel chips and MSI motherboards....

Don't get too excited: We're purely in the 'is this possible' stage right now The legendary supersonic Concorde jet used to ferry passengers across the Atlantic in just three and a half hours at twice the speed of sound. Impressive, for sure, but NASA now says it's exploring the possibility of doubling that....

What do you mean, you 'haven't updated yet'? A leaked Intel document seems to suggest that Intel will only support Windows 11 and later on its next-gen Wi-Fi chipset....

So those 218,000 enterprise customers are wrong to hold meetings on web? Opinion Zoom subscribers have some food for thought after the company's CEO inadvertently kicked a massive hole in the entire premise of its flagship product....

Ex-prison officer raised $600K+, flushed some of it down fresh bowl, SEC claims Somewhere in New Jersey, glistening new tile sits on fresh grouting, but it was paid for via misappropriated funds from a fraudulent stock and crypto asset investment scheme, or so the US Securities and Exchange Commission claims....

The Qiming is impeccable China is looking to hire engineers from other nations to bolster local chip production in the face of crippling US sanctions, with Huawei - one of the country's largest tech giants - said to be creating a network of covert semiconductor plants across the country....

Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs A recently unsealed lawsuit filed in the US by HPC software provider Sylabs accuses rival outfit Ctrl IQ (CIQ) and its founder Greg Kurtzer of violating Sylab's trade secrets in order to start its business, and of filing its own patents based on that technology....

Four-year deal set to start next summer The UK's National Health Service is on the hunt for tech suppliers to become part of a commercial agreement that could be worth up to 1.5 billion over four years....

Clean, simple, quick, and an example of how less can give you more There are legions of Ubuntu and Debian remixes out there, but most try to add stuff to the basic distro. Xebian is a refreshing change because it's simpler than its progenitor....

Message brokering software blamed for dumping backed-up print jobs on idle devices On August 15, 2023, 3D printer maker Bambu Lab experienced a service outage caused by what it's described as "abnormal network traffic" that caused some customers' cloud-connected printers to start creating plastic objects without user intervention....

From BT and Nvidia to Grand Theft Auto 6, pair were on a total tear Two teenage members of the chaotic Lapsus$ cyber-crime gang helped compromise computer systems of Uber and Nvidia, and also blackmailed Grand Theft Auto maker Rockstar Games among other high-profile victims, a jury has decided....

vSphere to also add support for PCIe cards packed with CXL RAM to give boxes a boost, faster vCenter upgrades, and more Explore Buyers have not rushed to adopt SmartNICs in their VMware environments, but the virtualization giant will soon support their use in more servers - a move it hopes will spur a new wave of adoption....

US, Japan, and South Korea are well and truly over this sham North Korea's Thursday attempt to launch a "military reconnaissance satellite" failed, state media has reported....

400km range after 10 minutes charging sounds great. Shame the details are thin The world's top battery maker for electric vehicles, China's Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL), claimed last week that it had developed a battery that can power a car for a distance of 400km after just ten minutes of charging. But one of the world's most respected battery tech scientists, Dr Richard Yazami - inventor of the graphite anode - is skeptical of the claim....

Proposed trade rules offer substantial pay rises in the hope they halt writers' strike The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has offered not to credit generative AI as a co-author of scripts in its negotiations with the Writers Guild of America (WGA)....

Some of it will go to get you upgrading more often, other cash might smooth internal dev conflict Explore VMware intends to use the billion dollars a year Broadcom has promised to add to its R&D budget to simplify and extend its platform, to ease upgrades, and encourage users to adopt more of its stack....

When there's a machine-learning gold rush, make sure you're the one selling the shovels Unrelenting demand for AI accelerators fueled an 843 percent year-over-year surge in profit for Nvidia in the three months to July 30....

Founder Roman Storm cuffed on conspiracy, sanctions busting charges Two founders of Tornado Cash were formally accused by US prosecutors today of laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds through their cryptocurrency mixer....

Way to go, ISRO. Congrats on getting your rover rolling, too Video with update India successfully put its Chandrayaan-3 lander on the Moon today, making the nation's space agency the first organization of its kind to touch down on the lunar south pole....

I was screwed out my cut, alleges exec in fraud, discrimination lawsuit NetApp and its executive team were sued on Tuesday by a former sales exec who claims the enterprise storage-and-everything-else biz conspired to deny contracted commission payments and discriminated against him....

Comment Arm's much-anticipated SEC filing this week did more than detail an impending IPO: it revealed just how worried the British chip designer is at the prospect of getting locked out of China....

Play your originals for less than what last year's nonfunctional Lego replica cost Hotly anticipated video games like Starfield not your cup of tea? Crave something a bit more retro? You're in luck: Atari has just teased a "faithful recreation" of the 2600 console model launched in 1980....

Those weapons programs aren't going to fund themselves Lazarus Group, the infamous cryptocurrency thieves backed by North Korea, may try to liquidate a stash of stolen Bitcoin worth more than $40 million, according to the FBI....

Prosecutors wanted 2 years, but former OpenSea employee got 3 months The first sentence in a non-fungible token (NFT) insider trading case has been handed down, and at three months it's even shorter than the brief period in which NFTs were actually relevant....

Critics wondering if SoftBank's being realistic While there are doubts over how much cash Arm will attract for its public offering, execs at the Brit chip designer stand to benefit dramatically once the sale goes through....

5G mobile and satellite operator accuses Musk firm of making 'elementary errors' in its calculations Satellite constellation operator Omnispace has written to the FCC's newly minted Space Bureau about its concerns that SpaceX and T-Mobile US's planned hybrid space-terrestrial phone service will "constantly" interfere with its own system....

Subscribers told to opt in for chance at 10 coasters you can keep forever Would you believe us if we said Netflix is still sending out rental DVDs to people's homes some 25 years later? Not for much longer, mind....

What comes next, and what the end of the 7.x release series really means LibreOffice 7.6 is the latest - and last - fresh version in the 7.x release series of the FOSS office suite. From next year, the organization is moving to a date-based release cycle....

Unless you're a woman in a clerical position, in which case your role might never come into existence Generative AI will probably not replace most current workers, with its impact instead confined to automating some tasks for a minority, according to a report released on Monday by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations agency that develops standards for the world of work....

Distinguish tech pros from tech poseurs with this one weird trick Feature The Reg FOSS Desk, as you might imagine, gets a lot of mail from companies keen to promote their wares. How someone emails instantly betrays real techies, who probably know their stuff, from the marketing types....

IT outfit says it can't - and won't - pay the ransom demand CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the large Danish cloud provider's servers and "paralyzed CloudNordic completely," according to the IT outfit's online confession....

Internal memos detail discontinued Dad-joke products It turns out IBM, the elder statesman of global IT and a paragon of corporate seriousness, has a sense of humor - but the real joke may be on its customers....

Of all the spacecraft in all the orbits around the world, it slams into mine On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that a decade-old piece of space junk it had targeted for removal in a future space debris cleanup has been whacked by another piece of stray kit, thereby increasing the amount of trash in orbit around Earth....

x86 still gets you to where the useful action is, even on the edge Explore For years, VMware's strategy has been to run any app in any environment....

Everything in 2023 is about AI, which this silicon is said to speed South Korean chipmaker SK hynix has shipped samples of HBM3E DRAM, claiming it should be able to process 1.15 terabytes of data in a second....

And work out cheaper than top-end model Developers can now fine-tune OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo model to improve its performance on specific tasks - making it potentially more effective and cheaper to run that OpenAI's ostensibly more-advanced GPT-4 model....