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Smartphone shipments plummet in Q1 as users, er, lock down their spending
Coronavirus + entity lists + people not keen to upgrade = 13% dive Early forecasts of the Q1 smartphone sector made for grim reading, with appetite expected to be severely suppressed thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent analysis from Canalys shows those forecasts were bang-on, with worldwide shipments into the channel falling by 13 per cent year-on-year, to just over 272 million units.…
Browse mode: We're not goofing off on the Sidebar of Shame and online shopping sites, says UK's Ministry of Defence
Its servers merely record more HTTPS requests to Mail Online and Amazon than anywhere else Civil servants at the UK's Ministry of Defence are spending a large part of their surfing time gazing at online shopping and news websites, the red-faced government department has admitted.…
Xiaomi what you're working with: Chinese mobe-flinger proffers two Redmi Note phablets for UK market
IR blasters and headphone jacks, likely south of £350? Oh my Chinese phone-maker Xiaomi's onslaught into the UK market continues with two more phones: the MediaTek Helio G85-powered Redmi Note 9, and the more upmarket Redmi Note 9 Pro, which uses the Qualcomm 720G platform.…
Brit magistrates' courts turn to video conferencing to keep wheels of justice turning
It's not just Skype and Zoom cashing in on remote-working boom Britain's courts are moving to their own video-conferencing platform – for criminal trials rather than business meetings.…
Bezos to the Moon: Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Dynetics in a three-horse lunar lander race
NASA selects three contenders for flag-in-Moon prize With a scant few years remaining until the agency's 2024 boots-on-the-Moon goal, NASA has named the three US companies that will be dealing with the tricky human landing bit of the mission.…
$31bn spent on cloudy infrastructure in Q1 on back of employees' mass migration to home working
Digital gold rush spurred by global pandemic: Big 4 bag 62% of market Cloud infrastructure providers are making bank following the mass migration of millions of workers from their offices to their homes, with spending on services leaping by 34.5 per cent in Q1 to $31bn.…
Microsoft! Please, put down the rebrandogun. No one else needs to get hurt... But it's too late for Visual Studio Online
Now 'Visual Studio Codespaces': Prices sliced, but won't somebody think of the branded swag? Barely six months on from its grand unveiling, Microsoft is renaming its browser-based code botherer, Visual Studio Online and, more importantly, is trimming its prices.…
Ride now, ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is here at last! Kind of
Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of your partner The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. This one has been intensely anticipated by myself and thousands of others for eight long years. We had abandoned all hope, but now it's here and it's not even finished yet. So without further ado...…
Three is the magic number, unless you're Apple. That's how many million iPad shipments it was down in Q1
Cupertino hamstrung by Chinese factory closures, Samsung tabs up but wider market shrinks: IDC Under the shadow of a pandemic that forced the shutdown of Apple's production lines in parts of China, global sales of iPads are tumbling rapidly.…
The ultimate 4-wheel-drive: How ESA's keeping XMM-Newton alive after 20 years and beyond
You thought that yoghurt in the back of fridge was time-expired? Behold X-ray boffinry YEARS past its design-life Space Extenders Sure – that telescope can be serviced by Space Shuttle astronauts. But how do you keep one running for years past expiration without a prodding by spacewalkers? Behold ESA's XMM-Newton.…
Android trojan EventBot abuses accessibility services to clear out bank accounts – fortunately, it's 'in preview'
Researchers analysing samples submitted to VirusTotal find new strain Researchers have analysed a new strain of Android malware that does not yet exist in the wild.…
Extra knobs and dials for Microsoft's Productivity Score while Azure Active Directory lays on the freebies
I always feel like / somebody's watching me Microsoft is adding to its slightly worryingly named Productivity Score preview with additional granularity and categories.…
Intel is offering more 14nm Skylake desktop processors, we repeat: More 14nm Skylake desktop processors
10th-generation Core additions land with up to 10 CPU cores, 5.3GHz max Intel this week unveiled the desktop processors in its 10th-generation Core series, the headline component being the 10-core i9-10900K that can run up to 5.3GHz.…
Atlassian to offensively price itself through the post-pandemic patch
Claims to be ‘unscathed’ last quarter, will keep hiring and maybe acquiring Atlassian has re-iterated that its business model is “playing offense in stormy weather” and will use the coronavirus crisis to acquire customers with freebies and maybe make some opportunistic acquisitions.…
Square peg of modem won't fit into round hole of PC? I saw to it, bloke tells horrified mate
In praise of helpful friends and handy tools On Call Welcome to another entry in The Register's series of stories extracted from those lucky individuals that find themselves On Call.…
Uber trials fixed-price hourly rentals for visits to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker
Because if you have to go out in a plague, who wants multiple rides? Uber has started a pilot of pre-paid hourly rentals.…
Identify and act on high-risk devices – faster
Find out more at Forescout live virtual event on May 12 Promo Not so very long ago, an office network was just that – in an office, connected to a bunch of servers in the cupboard next to the team room.…
Dell to unleash hybrid server/storage boxen that can run virtual machines
Long-awaited storage consolidation to go hyperconverged lite so that workloads can run next to data Dell will next week announce a significant refresh and consolidation of its storage range and at the same time try to reinvent storage arrays as computing appliances for data-centric workloads.…
What's worse than an annoying internet filter? How about one with a pre-auth remote-command execution hole and there's no patch?
Bug can be exploited to hijack server, meddle with block lists Netsweeper's internet filter has a nasty security vulnerability that can be exploited to hijack the host server and tamper with lists of blocked websites. There are no known fixes right now.…
International space station connects 100Mbps symmetric space laser ethernet using Sony optical disc tech
As the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group launches discussion of Solar System Internet The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has achieved a 100 Mbps ethernet connection from the International Space Station to earth, using lasers!…
ICANN finally halts $1.1bn sale of .org registry, says it's 'the right thing to do' after months of controversy
Questions linger over what is going on inside DNS overseer ICANN has vetoed the proposed $1.1bn sale of the .org registry to an unknown private equity firm, saying this was “the right thing to do.”…
Back when the huge shocking thing that felt like the end of the world was Australia on fire, it turns out telcos held up alright
Or as well as they could once the power went out - yet report says reliance on electricity isn't a resilience issue Back in January when Australia was on fire and the rest of the world wasn’t, locals in the burning zones were advised that the best source of information was emergency services apps. But they were unavailable because mobile networks had gone down.…
Apple on 2020 so far: OK, so iPhone sales are a bit glum. Wearables, music, apps, vids to the rescue... almost
Hope on the horizon, says Cook, but it will take some time to get there Apple's cash cow looks to be a bit unwell, as iPhone sales took a rare hit this coronavirus-ridden quarter. On the upside, the Cupertino idiot-tax operation banked billions from folks snapping up wearables, music, apps, video and more to kill their lockdown boredom.…
Jeff Bezos tells shareholders to buckle up: Amazon to blow this quarter's profits and more on coronavirus costs
Cloud-giant-with-a-gift-shop gearing up for the long game Amazon today reported $75.5bn in revenue for the first quarter of 2020, higher than expected though eroded by exceptional expenses. And it told investors to get used to its free spending ways during the coronavirus pandemic.…
Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers
From URL to UR-Hell Short-video biz Quibi, airline JetBlue, shopping site Wish, and several other companies leaked million of people's email addresses to ad-tracking and analytics firms through HTTP request headers, it is claimed.…
Faster than reflection: Microsoft previews Source Generators for C#
.NET is getting faster but will not be as efficient as C++ or Go. Reason? Legacy code Microsoft is previewing a new C# compiler feature called a Source Generator that it said will automatically spit out new source code and compile it when you build a project.…
Couchbase goes cuckoo for Kubernetes with v2.0 release of Autonomous Operator
NoSQL or open source, databases cannot help but be drawn to Googly cloud container orchestration system The latest release from Couchbase finally includes support for Kubernetes, which is becoming something of a de facto standard among databases.…
More than one-fifth of smartphone sales evaporate in China as pandemic grips Middle Kingdom
Where's there a will, there Huawei! America's fave bogeyman does the biz at home, is the only handset maker to grow Huawei has emerged from China's COVID-19 ravaged smartphone sector in Q1 as the only handset maker to report a local sales bump - not a big one, but it's likely not complaining.…
Human intelligence may not be enough: US military turns to machine learning algos to predict food shortages
Supply chain issues will be hit hard as workers get sick Analysis The US Department of Defense is building machine learning tools to help predict critical food and medicine shortages as America grapples with the coronavirus pandemic.…
Tesla sued over Tokyo biker's death in 'dozing driver' Autopilot crash
Motorcyclist had stopped to help with a separate traffic accident, say court docs Tesla is being sued by the widow and daughter of a man killed when an allegedly dozing driver let his Model X’s Autopilot feature steer it into a group of people.…
We're not Finnished yet: Nokia chalks up €200m sales hit to 'COVID-19 issues'
Insists: It was the supply chain! We'll get the sales back later this year Nokia Oyj told the market this morning that it estimates the novel coronavirus has "had an approximately €200m negative impact" on its Q1 2020 sales, mostly due to "supply chain challenges" but insisted the sales would be "shifted to future periods", rather than being lost to the ledger entirely.…
Google is a 'publisher' says Aussie court as it hands £20k damages to gangland lawyer
Chocolate Factory held liable for words on its website An Australian court has declared that Google is a "publisher" and awarded an aggrieved lawyer £20,000 after searches on his name returned criminal allegations from his past.…
Sun shines on ServiceNow amid pandemic storm after belated spree of $1m+ deals
Always be closing, especially when the economy's in a tailspin Workflow wizard ServiceNow seems to have dodged the market glitch at the end of Q1 and secured deals sufficient to beat guidance with its results.…
Virtual meetings in Animal Crossing are so last month. Behold the virtual computer museum
Social simulation in an era of social distancing News reaches Vulture Central of more retro computing goodness courtesy of the hit game Animal Crossing and an enterprising member of staff at the currently shuttered Centre for Computing History.…
Microsoft unveils simpler, easier Windows Virtual Desktop: You no longer need to be a VDI expert to make this work
Also: what does the Windows giant have in common with the Boomtown Rats? Neither seems keen on Mondays Microsoft is having a crack at simplifying Windows Virtual Desktop while rolling out support for more operating systems.…
Process miner Celonis pushes out application tools to tighten up how they're used in anger
Better look into how users don't use software the way biz thinks they do Celonis has carved a niche by selling companies such as Siemens, 3M, Airbus and Vodafone the software and analytics techniques to "X-ray" their business processes in the hope of iroing out kinks to save time and money.…
Lars Ulrich makes veiled threats of another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff
You know what, Lars? We're OK Lars Ulrich, drummer of corporate shlock rock merchants Metallica, has threatened that the thrash metal giants could make a new album despite the coronavirus lockdown as he wagged chins with Salesforce chief Marc Benioff.…
Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now
'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions' The Salt configuration tool has patched two vulnerabilities whose combined effect was to expose Salt installations to complete control by an attacker. A patch for the issues was released last night, but systems that are not set to auto-update may still be vulnerable.…
Red Hat’s new CEO on surviving inside Blue Blue: 'We don’t participate in IBM's culture. It’s that simple'
Paul Cormier talks hybrid cloud growth and independence with El Reg Interview Red Hat’s new CEO is feeling confident. It’s a pretty good time to be the head of a company whose entire business is virtual: virtual machines, hybrid cloud, operating system support, Kubernetes containers. These are boom times.…
Facebook defers $3bn of infrastructure spend because it's hard to build bit barns when you're working from home
The Social Network™ is predictably busy but says that won't last Facebook will defer $3bn of spending on infrastructure because it's hard to build data centres while working from home.…
In the cloud, who can hear your developers scream?
Snyk wants to keep your software engineering teams safe in off-prem environments Webcast Like children flying the family nest, applications and services are leaving the on-premises corporate environment – and they’re not even coming back so you can do their washing.…
In trying times like these, it's reassuring to know you can still get pwned five different ways by Adobe Illustrator files
Make sure you update your software with these critical fixes Adobe has emitted fixes for multiple remote code execution holes in Illustrator and its Bridge code.…
Free-speech-loving Cloudflare hooks up with China’s biggest retailer JD
The spice must flow seems to be the gist of it, along with JD's cloudy ambitions Cloudflare, which has often taken a stance on freedom of speech issues, has now vastly extended its reach into China – where the government routinely censors its citizens.…
India to build contact-tracing app for feature phones that still use 2G, don't have Bluetooth and can't run apps
There's hundreds of millions in India alone The Indian government has signaled it will develop a COVID-19 contact-tracing that will work on the feature phones that comprise over half of the national mobile phone fleet.…
Past three months were a rollercoaster for Microsoft: Ad spending down, PCs and gaming flat, cloud climbing amid work-from-home demand
COVID-19 had 'minimal net impact' on sales, Windows giant claims Microsoft on Wednesday revealed its financial figures for the past three virus-addled months – and there was some up, and some down.…
Lyft dumps 17% of staff, furloughs 5%, cuts pay as people stay home, avoid rides in possibly virus-ridden cars
Uber is reportedly thinking about laying off 5,000-plus, too Lyft announced Wednesday it will lay off 17 per cent of staff, and furlough five per cent, as its business collapses amid coronavirus lockdowns and slowdowns. That amounts to roughly 980 people axed, and 290 on pause with no pay.…
Apple chucks $3 at iPhone users after killing FaceTime on iOS 6 because it didn't want to pay connectivity charges
Millions to go to lawyers after legal brouhaha ends in settlement Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by folks upset the iGiant broke FaceTime overnight on millions of iPhones. The settlement amounts to a few bucks a device, meaning the Cupertino giant almost certainly made a net profit in the process.…
Who's still using Webex? Not even Cisco: Judge orders IT giant to use rival Zoom for virtual patent trial
It would be rather awkward if Switchzilla's own video-link app fell over mid-proceedings, wouldn't it? A judge has ordered Cisco to use arch-rival Zoom rather than its own video-conference offering Webex to virtually attend a patent-infringement trial.…
Ex-Cloud Foundry boss to pull strings at Puppet as CTO, says open-source software 'evolves faster, is more mature'
Abby Kearns says she will continue to foster OSS culture in new role Former Cloud Foundry exec director Abby Kearns has rocked up at Puppet as CTO, where she will direct "the company's current and future product portfolio."…
We need you, Reg IT pros: How are you modernizing your databases in a hybrid world?
Clue us in so we can better understanding the challenges and opportunities you face Reader survey Relational database systems are in many ways the workhorses of IT. But how are they holding up in the modern age?…
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