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New products out as firm attempts to stay relevant in face of US sanctions Marketing strategies have taken an interesting turn for Huawei this week as it launched a wireless noise-cancelling earbud in the Chinese market that is designed to look like a lipstick.…

French hosting outfit not keen on status quo, leaving to spend more time with its servers French cloud hosting outfit Scaleway is to depart the EU's data sovereignty project, Gaia-X, with CEO Yann Lechelle worrying that what began with splendid ideals is getting increasingly mired in the status quo.…

ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector The UK government is advising schools in England to press pause before signing up to a three-year licensing agreement with Education Software Solutions (ESS).…

But won't be looking into pay deal Updated Troubled .uk registry operator Nominet has named a new CEO to replace the one fired by members earlier this year.…

It's not quite a Jag-you-arr Something for the Weekend, Sir? Turn left. Turn right. At the roundabout, take the fourth exit.…

And while we're here, a quick look at why the language is taking off The Rust Foundation – the US non-profit behind the programming language since Mozilla let the team go – has picked a new CEO: Rebecca Rumbul, formerly director of research and engagement at digital democracy charity mySociety, and before that the Privacy Collective.…

Also: Funding for Jamstack startups, and why Twilio adopted the architecture Interview Netlify has acquired OneGraph, which provides a GraphQL API that wraps the APIs of third-party services, as well as launching a new Jamstack innovation fund for startups.…

Google Assistant? More like Google Insistent Review Honor, once the value brand of Huawei but sold last year to Shenzhen Zhixin New Information Technology, has released the Honor 50 and 50 Lite smartphones, and we're taking a look at the latter.…

Throwing light onto a frozen bit of big iron On Call The weekend is almost upon us – a time for adult beverages and ill-judged foodstuffs. Unless, that is, you're one of the unfortunates on the other end of the phone. Welcome to On Call.…

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt India's PC market has achieved new sales records, according to analyst firm IDC.…

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more Beijing's tech regulation blitz has bitten Alibaba on the bottom line, as the tech giant reported net profit has sunk cut and lowered revenue guidance for the year.…

Definitely building two more, may add another pair Everything's bigger and better in Texas, as the saying goes. Texas Instruments (TI) has announced it's fixin' to build two silicon wafer fabrication plants there – and maybe another pair after that.…

We bet the Chinese comms giant just LOVED that description The UK Telecommunications (Security) Act has received Royal Assent, giving the government more control over the use of "high risk" vendors in networks as well as fines that could hit £100k per day for telcos that fail to toe the line.…

Health secretary signals shack-up could be on the cards UK health secretary Sajid Javid has strongly indicated that the individual health bodies responsible for IT spending in the NHS will be reorganised.…

US Federal Trade Commission latest to 'express concerns' The US is a new obstacle for Nvidia to overcome in its $40bn purchase of Arm with the Federal Trade Commission voicing unease with deal – just days after a UK competition regulator launched a deeper probe into the sale.…

It was not good YouTuber tech whizz Jeff Geerling has found it is possible to spend $5,000 on a Raspberry Pi build.…

Tech promises to support boom in small satellites Scientists are trying to support the boom in miniaturised satellites with the development of a plasma engine using an iodine propellant — rather than the commonly used xenon — for the first time.…

UK GM says company wants a 'direct connect to multiple clouds' As Dell launches its latest self-commissioned study, UK senior veep and GM Dayne Turbitt is highlighting storage as one of the challenges faced by an increasingly multicloud world.…

What do we want? Licences not lock-in! Where do we want to use them? Anywhere! Industry bodies representing thousands of CIOs and tech leaders across Europe have thrown their weight behind calls to rein in some of the iffier software licensing practices of the cloud giants.…

Could this be Dot-co The Sequel? Analysis One of the internet’s most lucrative and high-profile registry contracts is up for grabs – and once again the bidding process appears to be highly problematic.…

Tired of reading about AI? Why not give it a go yourself! Event You want to know more about the ins and outs of machine learning, but can’t figure out where to start? Our AI practitioners' conference MCubed and The Register regular Mark Whitehorn have got you covered.…

Supply chain pain will persist deep into 2022, so it's not like you have a choice if you're in Switchzilla's world Cisco has warned buyers and investors that supply chain pain is likely to persist for another few months.…

Similar mistakes have been made in the past, after all Scientists should remain skeptical if they study rock samples drilled by NASA’s Perseverance rover for evidence of alien life lest they be fooled by fake fossils, academics in the UK have warned.…

All your apps – or a percentage of revenue – are belong to us South Korean has again imposed new regulations on app stores, this time with a regime that will see operators fined up to two per cent of revenue if they force their proprietary in-app payment systems on developers.…

Narendra Modi positions India as a place democracies should come to build tech – and diplomatic ties India's prime minister has called for international co-operation to regulate cryptocurrency.…

RedDoorz.com left red-faced after leaving AWS access key in an APK Singapore's Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has issued a fine of SG$74,000 ($54,456) on travel company Commeasure, which operates a travel booking website named RedDoorz that exposed 5.9 million customers' data – the largest data breach handled by the Commission since its inception.…

China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall" The Open Infrastructure Foundation, home to OpenStack, has a new project: an open source multi-cloud management platform called Taibai.…

vSphere 7 Update 3b was supposed to fix a high availability glitch, crashing hosts, and more So this is awkward for VMware. The virtualization giant has pulled an update to its flagship vSphere suite because it didn't fix the problems it was released to address, and may have made them worse.…

Plus workers stage walk out in protest against games giant's big cheese A group of Activision Blizzard investors called for CEO Bobby Kotick to resign on Wednesday, claiming he knew about sexual harassment and assault claims made against his staff for years and failed to adequately address them.…

Have fun with those Cupertino-set prices, friends Apple, having long stood in the way of customers who want to fix their own devices, now says it wants to help those who feel they have the right to repair their own products.…

Coding JS in your PJs here to stay Developers, like many other tech professionals, are still opting to work at home even though they way they perform some of those functions has returned to pre-pandemic norms.…

Stop the rock, can't stop the rock, we can't stop the rock Canonical may be working on introducing systemd to Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), according to a post by Ubuntu Desktop Team Technical Leader Didier Roche.…

'He went from crazy doodler to craftsman instantly' Obituary Celebrated video game artist Bernie Drummond has died. His designs were among some of the most loved on the ZX Spectrum, and some of his signature titles are among the computer's top-rated games of all time: Batman in 1986, and Head Over Heels and Match Day II in 1987.…

How will you be able to buy things you can't afford now? Amazon has confirmed it will no longer accept payment via Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom after several Reg readers wrote in complaining of a cryptic message they'd been sent this morning.…

Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price Amazon Web Services has added support for streaming Linux applications and desktops to its AppStream service, which was previously Windows-only, claiming that it will "greatly lower the total streaming cost."…

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees Unit4, the ERP vendor born out of public-sector specialist Agresso, has launched a cloud service that promises out-of-the-box integration with popular application software and third-party data sources.…

Lansweeper stats make grim reading for Microsoft Microsoft's Windows 11 adventure is going swimmingly. IT asset management outfit Lansweeper has published the results of a 10 million PC survey that gives the new operating system a 0.21 per cent market share.…

Board still recommending Vista Equity Partners SS&C Technologies Holding has bid £1.2bn to buy Blue Prism, the robot process automation specialist that agreed less than two months ago to be taken private by Vista Equity Partners in a sale valued at £1.1bn.…

Share your experiences with us and fellow readers. Let's find out together Reg Reader Survey Technology in the 2020s is very forgiving, particularly if our processing happens in the cloud. By this, we mean that if things start to perform suboptimally, the issue is usually quite easy to resolve.…

National Security and Investment Act 2021 give ministers power to halt M&As The UK government has published guidance describing what technologies may be caught within the National Security and Investment Act 2021, which is set to give ministers the power to halt mergers and acquisitions.…

Annual review boasts of fending off health org attacks Britain's National Cyber Security Centre is prepared to share its cyber defence tech and threat intel feeds with British organisations in need of extra help, it said at the launch of its annual review today.…

Load new commander (Y/N)? Just a fortnight under 40 years ago, the BBC Micro was released. Although it was never primarily a games machine – it was too expensive, for a start – nonetheless one of its defining programs was a video game: Elite.…

Top of Ofcom's table for broadband whinges? It rhymes with BorkBork TalkTalk has once again topped UK communications regulator Ofcom's complaint charts.…

And ready to go toe-to-toe with Qualcomm's finest next year MediaTek is ready to show off its first real flagship processor that it hopes can take on Qualcomm's Snapdragon family in high-end Android smartphones.…

Oh look, it's the promise of multiple actuators again At last week's Open Compute Project global summit, Seagate demonstrated a mechanical hard disk drive with an NVMe interface – an interface normally reserved for SSDs. The clue is right there in the name: NVM, Non-Volatile Memory. So the first question is... why?…

Fellow reformer also chosen in critical board vote that shows at least some members still want change Nominet members have voted for further reform of the troubled dot-UK registry by electing to the board the man who effectively ousted its CEO and chairman.…

Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia Cloudy contender OVH will share the automation tools it developed to run its own OpenStack-based cloud, as part of a plan to grow its managed cloud business.…

You had one job … South Korea's privacy watchdog leaked personal information relating to participants in a case that sought to probe Facebook's leak of personal information.…

Analyst warns that if upgrades frustrate, users might just give phone conferences a comeback If the new normal for workplaces fails to facilitate proper human collaboration, employees may fall back to old and outdated tech, according to chief analyst Matthew Ball at the Canalys Forums APAC 2021 on Tuesday.…

Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred China's decision to limit minors to three hours of gaming each week has proven problematic for the nation's clouds, which find themselves with unused capacity.…