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Samsung pushes out single console all-in-one RAN kit for cramped European markets
Smaller physical footprint to tempt carriers needing to build out 5G Space may be the final frontier, but for telecoms operators it is a pressing concern, particularly those based in countries where land comes at a premium, most notably the UK. Enter Samsung, which has introduced its first all-in-one antenna and radio unit for the European market.…
Intrepid squid mission may help in kraken riddle of why zero-g makes astronauts sick
Boffins looking for changes to cephalopods' symbiotic relationship with bioluminescent bacteria on ISS Immunology boffins in the US are hoping to learn the secret of how to keep humans well enough for long enough to live on the Moon or travel to Mars by sending some tiny squid into space.…
Spacey McSpaceface: Artemis takes shape ahead of '2021' launch – but first you need to name the crash-test dummy
Next up, the rocket stage to send mannequin to the Moon The stacking of NASA's monster Moon rocket is continuing in Florida with the launch vehicle stage adapter placed atop the newly vertical core stage.…
Campaigners warn of an 'algorithm-driven censorship' future if UK Online Safety Bill gets through Parliament
MPs and activists join forces to fight 'dangerous' legal threat MPs and anti-censorship campaigners have warned that the British government's Online Safety Bill "mistakes the medium for the message" and will result in algorithms censoring anyone who posts something on social media that could get a Silicon Valley company into trouble.…
Price of Microsoft's Surface Duo plummets to better represent middling hardware ... but only if you're in the US
The Special Relationship in the form of Android foldables Microsoft's latest foray into the world of mobile phones is going so well that its US store has lopped an eye-watering $800 off the price of the fancy Surface Duo.…
Boffins promise protection and perfect performance with new ZeRØ, No-FAT memory safety techniques
Fast, easy to implement, and knocks attacks like Spectre on the head – what's the catch? Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have showcased two new approaches to providing computers with memory protection without sacrificing performance – and they're being implemented in silicon by the US Air Force Research Lab.…
Syria and Sudan turn off the internet to suppress ... cheating by kids sitting exams
Access Now #KeepItOn campaign thinks that’s a very bad idea The governments of Syria and Sudan have shut down the internet across their nations, apparently to prevent cheating during school exams.…
Containers make life easier for the software vendors you buy from, and that's why they'll win
Once you can only buy the apps you need as containers, it’s game over Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday.…
Pyjama bottoms crew, listen up: In 2022 we'll still be at home
Huge shift in working patterns continues into next year, according to the all-seeing eye of... Gartner The omniscient overlord of IT forecasting otherwise known as Gartner is predicting around a two-thirds increase in working from home compared with pre-pandemic levels.…
Pub landlords on notice as 'Internet of Beer' firm not only pulls pints, but can also clean the lines
El Reg hacks selflessly volunteer to taste-test before and after Pubbino, the San Francisco biz that believes there simply isn't enough tech involved in pulling pints, is talking up another entry in its "Internet of Beer" range: a line-cleaning system powered, it claims, by AI.…
Amazing. Staff count up just 2% and Microsoft adds more than £1bn to its UK financials
It managed to pay a bit more tax too, which is nice Microsoft's UK tentacle, Microsoft Limited, has continued to generate impressive amounts of cash, according to the company's latest accounts.…
Nominet is back to 'the same old sh*t' says Public Benefit campaign chief as EGM actions grind to halt
Second public meeting threatened unless dot-UK registry plays ball The founder of a campaign to return dot-UK registry Nominet to its public benefit roots has raised the threat of a second EGM if Nominet doesn't “heed the will of [its] members."…
£1bn lawsuit by Google Shopping rival staggers back to feet in London High Court
Judge rules in Chocolate Factory's favour during prelims of 2015-era case Google has won a legal bid to keep its “crown jewel” search ranking algorithms secret in a long-running £1bn competition lawsuit against rival shopping search engine Kelkoo.…
Facebook granted patent for 'artificial reality' baseball cap. Repeat, an 'artificial reality' baseball cap
Yeah, y'know, Google Glass wasn't nearly obnoxious enough Facebook has been awarded a US patent titled "Artificial reality hat," which consists of a display screen that hangs from the brim of a cap, as if it were a havelock worn backward.…
Oracle introduces frequent clouding points loyalty scheme
For every buck you spend in the Big Red cloud, Larry gives you 25c to spend on support Oracle has introduced frequent clouding points that can be redeemed for support services.…
Indian Competition Commission launches antitrust probe into Google’s smart tellies
Pre-installation of Play Store and other apps on Smart TVs and Androids amounts to leveraging dominance, says watchdog India’s Competition Commission has ordered an investigation into Google over the advertising giant’s use of the Android operating system in its smart televisions.…
Nutanix is finally happy to mention its name and ‘profit’ in the same sentence
Give it a year or two, but it will happen, says CEO, as COVID-crushed industries start spending again Nutanix has told investors it has a “clear path to profitability” and predicted it could post black ink in just two years.…
Indian mega-corp Tata unveils surprise 5G networking business
Local carrier Airtel will adopt it — next comes world domination Indian mega-conglomerate the Tata Group has revealed it’s created a 5G networking kit business.…
Algorithm used to predict sepsis infections in hundreds of US hospitals isn’t as good as maker claims — study
Developer hits back at researchers’ ‘hypothetical approach’ An algorithm used by hundreds of US hospitals to predict whether or not patients with infections have contracted sepsis is less accurate than its maker claims, according to a published study.…
Google cans engineering diversity training scheme after alumni complain of abysmal pay packages
New approach coming next year ... when complaints have died down Google has scrapped a scheme designed to train and hire engineers from diverse backgrounds – after people who made it through the program to become Googlers complained they were screwed over in pay.…
Sure looks like someone's pirating the REvil ransomware, tweaking the binary in a hex editor for their own crimes
It's a crook-eat-crook world out there It appears someone is pirating the infamous REvil ransomware by tweaking its files for their own purposes.…
Dozens of Iranian media websites devoured by the Great Satan, apparently
Anonymous US intelligence sources: Yes, we did it Updated Nearly three dozen Iranian media websites have been taken down apparently by the US government.…
SEC still digging into SolarWinds fallout, nudges undeclared victims
US markets watchdog sniffs around potential insider trading, data violations relating to hack US markets watchdog the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has begun a probe into last year's SolarWinds cyberattack, in a bid to find out who else might have been compromised.…
Your data is too valuable not to embrace database-as-a-service
Unlock its potential at The Nutanix Database Summit Promo How much value could you unlock from your database? The fact is too many databases are still tied into complex legacy systems. Not only are these difficult to manage, but they prevent many organisations embarking on a full cloud transformation, with all the benefits that brings in terms of efficiency, agility and scalability.…
Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group
Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs Navin Shenoy, who leads Intel's data center chip business, will leave the semiconductor titan on July 6 amid a significant corporate restructuring, it was announced today.…
'Set it and forget it' attitude to open-source software has become a major security problem, says Veracode
Study finds a whole sea of outdated third-party libraries There's a minefield of security problems bubbling under the surface of modern software, Veracode has claimed in its latest report, thanks to developers pulling third-party open-source libraries into their code bases – then never bothering to update them again.…
GlobalFoundries breaks ground on new Singapore semi facility targeting automotive, 5G chips
I node what you'll do in summer 2023 The surge in semiconductor investment continues to accelerate, with New York-based GlobalFoundries breaking ground on a new $4bn Singapore facility that will produce chips for legacy nodes.…
From I'm feeling lucky to I'm feeling Brave: Browser maker erects web search engine beta
Even just to remind the world there's life beyond Google and DuckDuckGo Having rebelled against Google's web hegemony with a privacy-focused browser and a crypto token-based monetization system, Brave Software opened a second competitive front on Tuesday with the beta launch of Brave Search.…
There's no 'Skype' in Teams: Microsoft lets signing key for its Debian Skype repository slip gently into the night
Summer Solstice: A time for dancing, druids, and certificate errors Microsoft's inattentive approach to Linux has continued unabated, with reports that the signing key for its Debian Skype repository has expired.…
'Google is present at almost all levels of the supply chain' for online ads: It's time for a competition probe, says EU
French regulator can probably help having already fined megacorp €220m The European Commission (EC) reckons it's zeroing in on long-running concerns that Google may have an unfair advantage when it comes to online advertising.…
SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband constellation to achieve full global coverage by September, boss claims
Astronomers and amateur star gazers will be delighted The dream of ubiquitous satellite broadband is nearing reality, according to Starlink president Gwynne Shotwell.…
US Navy starts an earthquake to see how its newest carrier withstands combat conditions
Who are they expecting to fight? Thor? Godzilla? Sea snails? Following the recent decision by the United States Air Force to assassinate four snails and 90 giant clams in the name of missile research, the US Navy obviously felt that it, too, should be doing something faintly bizarre with its shiny, expensive equipment.…
USA's efforts to stop relying on Russian-built rocket engines derailed by issues with Blue Origin's BE-4
Government Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays Things aren't looking too good for a certain American-produced rocket engine, according to the US Government Accountability Office - and it isn't SpaceX's Merlin.…
Intel sponsors report on tech's role in decarbonisation and the irony isn't lost on us
Making computer components is a dirty business Intel has sponsored a report by nonprofit Resilience First highlighting the role of tech in efforts to reach net-zero carbon emission goals – though Chipzilla's own environmental impact can't be downplayed.…
What knocked out Brit cloud slinger Memset for the night? A busted fibre cable upstream of its data centre, apparently
Multi-hour outage and customers left in the dark Updated UK cloud hosting outfit Memset has blamed yesterday's lengthy outage on some iffy fibre infrastructure.…
Have you tried turning server cores off and on again? HPE wants to do it for you from GreenLake
For those times when you run software on a box bigger than your license HPE Discover HPE has given its GreenLake cloud the power to control the numbers of cores that are active on servers and pay for usage depending on the number of cores a customer presses into service.…
Mind the gap(ing mouth): London's Underground to get ubiquitous mobile phone coverage
That's. Just. Great Mobile phone coverage is to be extended across the whole of the London Underground – including every station and every tunnel - by 2024, it was confirmed today.…
UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives'
As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists Following UK government's U-turn on the deadline for grabbing GP patient data, under-fire Health Secretary Matt Hancock is launching a policy paper to convince the public of the benefits of sharing their medical data.…
Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V
Horse Creek platform to 'showcase' new 64-bit P550 processor engine SiFive says it has designed its most powerful RISC-V CPU core yet, and Intel is going to put it under the noses of customers to gauge their interest.…
Zephyr OS Bluetooth vulnerabilities left smart devices open to attack
The 'S' in 'IoT' stands for 'security' Vulnerabilities in the Zephyr real-time operating system's Bluetooth stack have been identified, leaving a wide variety of Internet of Things devices open to attack – unless upgraded to a patched version of the OS.…
Containers have security problems and flexibility issues. VMs will make them viable
Never bet against a technology that has matured over decades Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday.…
Post-lunch snooze plans dashed as the UK tests its Emergency Alerts... again
Maybe turn your phone off if you don't fancy a 'loud, siren-like noise' Mobile networks across the UK are once again set to panic their users this afternoon as part of a test of the government's Emergency Alerts system – causing selected mobiles to "make a loud, siren-like sound."…
UK set for 'adequacy' status on data sharing with EU, but it all depends on how much post-Brexit law diverges
TIGRR threatens to bounce through unacceptable changes to the rules The European Union has formally voted for proposals to give the UK "adequate" status in its data protection laws, allowing data sharing to continue in the post-Brexit world.…
MI5 still risks breaking the law on surveillance data through poor controls – years after it was first warned
Yet spy agency overseer IPCO seems to be working as the public hoped Exclusive MI5's storage of personal data on espionage subjects is still facing "legal compliance risk" issues despite years of warnings from spy agency regulator IPCO, a Home Office report has revealed.…
Flexispot Deskcise Pro V9: Half desk, half exercise bike, and you're all sweaty. How much does it cost again?
Not ideal for when you rejoin colleagues in the office Review Tech journalists don't exactly file copy from the front lines, testing software while dodging AK-47 fire. The major risk to our health - like millions of office workers - comes from dozens of Mars Bars or other snacks eaten while tapping away on the keyboard at home.…
Monitoring is simple enough – green means everything's fine. But getting to that point can be a whole other ball game
Don’t take no for an answer, but be prepared to give it. Feature Monitoring seems easy in principle. There is nothing particularly complex about the software or the protocols it uses to interrogate systems and deliver alerts, nor is deciding what to monitor or the act of setting up your chosen product.…
US Air Force announces plan to assassinate molluscs with hypersonic missile
No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission The United States Air Force (USAF) has issued a strangely specific threat to certain mollusc species living in the area of an upcoming weapons test.…
To CAPTCHA or not to CAPTCHA? Gartner analyst says OK — but don’t be robotic about it
Picking street signs from a matrix of images is out, cleverer challenges are OK Poll Analyst firm Gartner has advised in favour of the use of CAPTCHAs — but recommends using the least-annoying CAPTCHAs you can find.…
Made it onto the cloud? Congratulations. The real work starts now
Join this webinar and take control of your multi-cloud future Promo Making the leap onto the cloud is no simple task, but once you’re there, you can pause for breath. Can’t you?…
SFX house Weta goes into the SaaS business with cloudy pipeline and its in-house animation tools
Code behind LoTR, Planet of the Apes and other flicks wrapped around Autodesk Maya Famed special effects house Weta Digital will offer the tools it uses to make movies as a cloud service.…
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