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Less than half of next gen networking users say it has improved speed or reliability for them Fewer than half of 5G users say they've experienced improvements in speed or reliability over 4G according to a new survey, but that is not going to stop some in telecoms pushing ahead with efforts to deliver an enhanced version branded 5.5G.…

We appreciate power but sometimes it's about getting up and running sooner Column The fact that I like the Linux desktop will come as no surprise to anyone who reads my work. I mean, I was once the lead writer and editor for a long-gone publication called Linux Desktop. So why is it as I sit at Kubecon North America in Detroit that I'm writing this on an HP Chromebook x360?…

Just because the client touches a computer doesn’t make a mess their fault On Call As the holiday season nears, prepare for the smaller celebration that is the end of the week with another edition of On-Call, The Register's weekly walk through the worst of the world of work.…

If not for Apple, this addition to this week's orgy of bad economic indicators would be even less pleasant Sorry to bring you another item of news focusing on indicators of poor economic conditions, but analyst outfit Counterpoint Research has just revealed data that finds sales of smartphones have dipped to levels not seen since 2014.…

As progress revealed on Android port to the open ISA Canonical has brought its Ubuntu Linux operating system to another RISC-V system: this week, Sipeed's LicheeRV single board computer.…

We've spotted the massive ice-hole it left behind Data collected from two Mars missions has been combined to explain why the red planet shook on Christmas Eve 2021.…

Amazon shares pummelled, but cloud operation thinks Graviton CPUs can save the day Amazon has joined other major tech players in offering a gloomy view of its financial future, earning itself a massive share price cut – and even its booming cloud business is not immune.…

It worked for Lee Jae-yong, who now gets to handle a nasty profit plunge Here's an unconventional career plan for you to consider:…

Staff, products on the chopping block to save billions annually Intel plans to lay off a "meaningful number" of employees and dump some products as part of a massive reduction in spending the chipmaker expects will reach up to $10 billion annually by 2025.…

Surely staff organizing is Bias for Action and Think Big on those blasted leadership principles? Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has been accused of breaking US labor laws by spouting anti-union comments in the media.…

Control panels facing the internet? Data stolen? You gotta keep an ion this stuff The White House is adding the chemical sector to a program launched last year to improve cybersecurity capabilities within America's critical infrastructure industries.…

'No, no, they're shoppers, not employees' ain't gonna fly with DC AG Shipt, a delivery service owned by Target, has been sued by the Attorney General of Washington DC for allegedly unlawfully misclassifying employees as independent contractors to avoid paying for worker benefits.…

Won't somebody please think of the Cyberquad children? Tesla's Cyberquad for Kids – a $1,900 mini-ATV that's the closest most people will get to a Cybertruck – has been recalled by US watchdogs over numerous safety issues.…

It has a workaround. Plus: Software giant also has a round of tweaks to Windows 11 22H2 Microsoft has cooked up a workaround for a newly disclosed problem: losing data when you try to reset virtual disks using the vendor's Server Manager console in some versions of Windows Server.…

Troubled space capsule cost $195 million this quarter, bringing total losses on it since 2020 to $883m The Starliner losses just keep adding up for Boeing, whose troubled crew capsule spacecraft is closing in on $900 million in cumulative losses for the aerospace giant.…

It's worth it, though. And it's easy to install the latest KDE on the latest Kubuntu KDE 5.26.2 is out with an emergency fix for a memory leak – so if you already have the new version, you should update. If you don't have 5.26, we're here to tell you how.…

Still trying to recover from massive blow to its handset business After three years spent languishing on the US Entity list, Huawei insists that while the decline in its device business is ongoing, it is "slowing", and would give only the profit margin figure for its carrier arm, which grew modestly.…

Sure you have a choice. You could abandon the European market Apple exec Greg "Joz" Joswiak has confirmed that the company will follow the European Union's requirement for mobile devices to use USB-C by 2024, which was signed into law on Monday.…

Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott used part of his conference call with analysts last night to troll his rival and former employer SAP but only after he'd walked listeners through the latest events in enterprise wares.…

Purported real-world Iron Man sinks to lame prank Instead of delivering Tesla's expected quarterly revenue, CEO Elon Musk decided to take a bathroom sink to the headquarters of Twitter, the social media platform he bid for in April.…

This is despite weakening demand and operating profit down by 49% in semiconductor division While other memory chipmakers have slashed investment in production capacity, Samsung plans to forge ahead on the expectation that the fall off in demand will rebound next year, especially in the datacenter.…

One foot firmly in the mainframe for pre-loved system dating back to the 1970s IBM plans to launch a database-as-a-service version of its Db2 database on hyperscaler clouds as it attempts to execute a "cloud-first" strategy with the relational behemoth.…

Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project's GNU Mailman instance - which relies on Python 2 - and a lack of moderators.…

It's not through Intel, which remains quiet on plans to enable chip features via code Want to enable custom features on a chip? That will cost you … and keep sending the message to chipmakers that this can be the new standard for future software-driven tweaks to pricing models.…

Ground crew heightened orbit and carried on like a boss NASA says the International Space Station (ISS) this week transitioned to a higher orbit to dodge debris from a Russian satellite. The agency spotted the junk and calculated it would fly within three miles of the ISS, a proximity that was too close for comfort.…

You might catch a whiff of it in Slack or Teams next year, but otherwise normal human life goes on Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse push is getting a bit sad. One only has to look at the ads pumped into Facebook by parent company Meta, forcing the concept down people's throats. The comments left on each strongly imply next to no appetite for the hypothetical techn in neither business nor leisure.…

This is why we can't have nice things A stealthy cryptocurrency mining operation has been spotted using thousands of free accounts on GitHub, Heroku and other DevOps outfits to craft digital tokens. GitHub, for one, forbids the mining of coins using its cloud resources.…

They're tidy, speedy, small – and wall off your working life Desktop Tourism I was recently gifted a desktop computer, and the modest machine is the most fun I've had during my year of Desktop Tourism – the project that's seen me trial a different client device each month since March 2022.…

Local boss wants workers to indulge in their passions … so long as it doesn't conflict with Big Blue's activities An email appears to have come from the desk of IBM India's managing director informing Big Blue's worker bees they must secure approval for tech-related activities they undertake on their own time, as the company becomes the latest to have its say on the controversial-in-India topic of moonlighting.…

Even as the ad market chills and share price slumps Meta's share price has taken a twenty percent dive after investors marked down the social media company's datacenter infrastructure spending, as well as weakness in the ad market.…

Ad and search giant protests even though it's already made the same changes in other countries Fresh from fining Google $162 million for abusing its Android monopoly, India's Competition Commission has announced it will fine Google another ₹936.44 crore ($114 million) for anti-competitive practices in relation to its Play store.…

Risk of death is certainly one way to get the populace on board Japan's plan to phase out public health insurance cards in favor of linking the services to a digital ID card could compel those who oppose the digitization to sign up.…

CEO claims no pushback from customers OVHCloud's strategy for maintaining its double-digit revenue growth rate amid rapidly rising energy prices is to pass the cost straight onto customers, the French cloud provider said in a Wednesday earnings call.…

Commits to containerized Tanzu portfolio too – perhaps heading off chatter it could be sold Broadcom president and CEO Hock Tan has penned a blog post in which he declares that increasing the prices of VMware products is not his strategy.…

Plus: Robo-car upstart Argo AI shuts down after automakers pull plug on funding The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched a criminal investigation into Tesla and its boasts about its self-driving car technology.…

Hey, Xi, 滚开 The prolific pro-Beijing Dragonbridge crew has apparently stepped up its activity ahead of the US 2022 midterms by trying to discourage Americans from voting as well as pinning the Nord Stream pipeline explosion on Uncle Sam.…

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, is being held in the Netherlands while he awaits extradition to America on cybercrime charges, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.…

While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives Seagate intends to cut its global headcount by roughly 3,000, or roughly eight percent. While announcing its fiscal Q1 2023 financial results on Wednesday, the biz said declining storage demand forced it to lay off staff.…

If there's been an accounting blunder, execs may have to return incentives Corporate executive officers who receive "erroneously awarded" incentive-based compensation will have to return those funds under newly confirmed securities rules.…

Make sure you're patched – and update VMware Cloud Foundation, too, by the way Cisco says miscreants are exploiting two vulnerabilities in its AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows, which is supposed to ensure safe VPN access for remote workers.…

Hope no one was relying on that to block threats, er, yeah? Microsoft appears to have woken up and realized it may have left certain Windows Server and Windows 10 systems exposed to exploitable drivers for years.…

Search giant says changes already made since prosecutors showed up with a warrant years ago After six years of wrangling, the US Department of Justice and Google have reached an agreement to resolve a dispute over the ad giant's inability to turn over records requested in a warrant. The problem? That data was lost before the case could be settled. …

Building your own initial RAMdisk? That's insecure! Lennart Poettering's latest blog post proposes moving the Linux boot process into a "Brave New Trusted Boot World" of cryptographically signed Unified Kernel Images.…

Anyone that agrees has been 'smoking dope' says one of world's largest resellers Lenovo is boasting that customer demand for subscription-based services is growing after updating its TruScale IT-as-a-service portfolio.…

Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies Mouthpieces for an investment fund co-founded by Bill Gates say their teams have decided to refocus strategy on adapting to climate change.…

Well, these distros are all about continual reinvention, after all Rolling Rhino, a project that turned Ubuntu into a rolling-release distribution, is restarting development under a new name: Rhino Linux.…

Bad news for Apple maybe; bad news for China's tech sector definitely Foxconn's Zhengzhou campus, the Chinese company's largest iPhone production facility, has admitted it's facing another COVID-19 outbreak, but made assurances it has had minimal impact on operations.…

Fly, little birds: Damning internal research emerges just before Elon Musk buy With just days to go before Elon Musk closes his acquisition of Twitter, internal research has revealed an exodus of the social media platform's most valuable users.…

Headcount swelled by almost 37,000 heads in a year, now investors want CEO Pichai to show them the money Google parent Alphabet is preparing to slog it out with rivals in a slowing economy by committing to evaluate every project being undertaken.…

Volvo temporarily shuts one factory while Toyota downgrades production forecast Demand for semiconductors may be falling, but automobile manufacturers still face chip shortages and supply issues to the extent that some are halting or cutting production.…