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But warns things probably aren’t great long term, which HPE has just done too Broadcom has told investors that its second quarter looks good, for reasons that may well be bad news in the longer term.…

Government and local business told to buy local, but slum it with Google or Microsoft if you must A parliamentary order issued yesterday says the nation’s Department of Cyber Security (DCS) has decided that when government agencies, and some private entities, use videoconferencing: “The underlying video software to be used should not have associated security or privacy concerns, such as the Zoom video communication service.”…

The spicy memes must flow even under new ‘circuit breaker’ corona-crackdown Singapore has explicitly singled out social media workers as essential contributors to the city state’s economy as it goes into a new phase of coronavirus-crimping precautions.…

Speedier license applications possible, uncertainty remains for many The White House has issued an executive order establishing a committee to help the Federal Communications Commission review the participation of foreign companies in US telecommunication services.…

Office 365 will finally get DNSSEC-based protection later this year Microsoft will add DNSSEC and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) to its email systems by the end of the year, the software giant has announced. That'll be a big thumbs up for the pair of internet security technologies.…

Japanese giant defends decision, says trendy office rental biz didn't meet its terms WeWork sued SoftBank on Tuesday after the Tokyo-based holding company nixed its plan to purchase $3bn in shares of the struggling office-leasing biz from existing shareholders.…

iPhone 6S killer is no longer supported Four years after it hit shelves, Samsung is discontinuing security updates for the venerable Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge phones.…

After claims of dodgy deals and rigged procedures, the contract is finally inked After a controversial rebidding process that provoked industry outrage, accusations of corruption, and resignation calls for a government minister, Colombia's .co contract has been returned to its current operator, Neustar.…

Jan and Feb contained bumper load of fake invoice emails Business email compromise (BEC) attempts were globally up by a quarter in the first two months of this year alone, according to research from threat intel firm Trend Micro.…

The project 'got kind of gangly and awkward for a while' dev relations veep tells The Reg Distributed NoSQL database slinger DataStax has launched an upgrade to its flagship product, DataStax Enterprise, adding new features aimed at improving speed, control and graph analytics.…

Bug that let malicious site snoop on users squashed, so make sure you're on the most recent version Independent security researcher Ryan Pickren has revealed how a malicious website could hack Apple's Safari browser on iOS and macOS to spy on the user through the computer's camera without prompting for permission.…

Meanwhile, the Xbox gang spreads cloudy joystick joy to more countries Roundup Amid mutterings from the peanut gallery that at least a year's worth of events were ripe for "reimagining", it also looks like any musical numbers from 2020's batch of Microsoft interns will be strictly virtual.…

Don't get comfortable, Sammy Samsung has published its earnings guidance for Q1 2020, and it's looking fairly sunny for the South Korean tech conglomerate, with revenue and profit both expected to show year-on-year growth.…

Being under the Linux Foundation umbrella is a good way to get that done The team behind the seL4 secure microkernel has created a foundation to help build a wider ecosystem.…

Blighty's wage bill tops £1bn as more staffers are added Google's UK tentacle booked a jump in revenues for the year ended 30 June 2019 while still managing to cut its tax bill by more than £21m.…

BlackBerry says Winnti-derived group is playing it quiet with rootkit attacks A group of hackers operating as an offshoot of China's Winnti group managed to stay undetected for more than a decade by going open source.…

A reflight beckons for Starliner as rival SpaceX admits: 'Rockets are hard' Roundup Boeing is to repeat December's CST-100 test while Russia prepares for what might be the last launch of its space station taxi monopoly in this week's wrangling of rocket news.…

Asked to verify the identity of medics using video chat apps Zoom and Facetime Exclusive The Register can reveal Capita gave 60 minutes of training to staff it tasked with screening recently retired doctors and nurses that were urged by the NHS to return to active duty during the crisis.…

But hey, maybe a Google-free experience is a selling point for you Hands On Smartphone manufacturers love to use the word "pro" in their branding. Perhaps at one point it meant something, conveying a level of power you wouldn't get with cheaper kit. That isn't the case in 2020, with the term awkwardly slapped on sub-£250 devices, like the subject of this review: the Honor 9X Pro.…

$310.8m revenue? That's adorable Enterprise software is known for its grand global players with multibillion-dollar revenues – namely SAP and Oracle. But not all vendors are like that.…

Official stats reach Vulture Towers Tech distributors' sales jumped 9.5 per cent to €5.9bn in Western Europe for the four weeks ended 22 March with a raft of lines including virtualization and database software helping to swell their coffers, as well as kit needed to help employers switch their workforce to homeworking.…

For women, anyway. Guys can get away with boxer shorts and socks under the desk The fashion industry has carved itself a new niche – outfits and accessories for video chats – but kept all its old double standards about what different people need to look their best.…

Alarm sounded after orgs open up internal platforms for work-from-home staff As companies move their staff to remote working amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, some IT teams have made internal platforms, such as tech support desks, face the public internet.…

Well, when we say we, we mean... we read a paper some others wrote Machine-learning software can predict the remaining useful lifetime of a lithium-ion battery by seeing how it reacts when a rapidly oscillating voltage is briefly applied across it, according to a study published in Nature Communications.…

First day letter to staff calls for ‘maniacal focus’, OpenShift dominance and client love IBM’s new CEO Arvind Krishna has revealed the letter he sent to staff on his first day in the job, and it’s big on hybrid cloud as a new platform for IBM’s future.…

Farewell, 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium. Arise, Ethernet Technology Consortium The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium has decided to ditch its name as it heads off in search of serious speed.…

Australia just wants to get supplies in and keep people moving safely The novel coronavirus is yet to reach Antarctica’s small human population, but will impact science on the frozen continent next southern summer.…

Over 90 percent of nation’s IT services sector now works from home Senior execs from Infosys and Accenture India have taken the reins of India’s influential National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), just as the industry is reconfiguring itself in light of the country's coronavirus stay-at-home shutdown.…

Tightening privacy and security may cause pain for add-on makers Google is testing a user-interface change that will hide Chrome extensions by default, which is not going down well with developers.…

Could takeover actually not shaft internet web address holders? The world’s largest seller of domain names, GoDaddy, is making a bid for market domination with the purchase of hundreds of registries, including .biz, .co, .nyc, and .us, from Neustar.…

And you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet The manufacturer that claimed its Bluetooth-connected fingerprint-reading smart lock was “unbreakable,” only to find it being opened in seconds by someone armed with nothing more than a mount and a screwdriver, has been slapped down by a US watchdog.…

Update now before it's too late Mozilla has released security updates for its Firefox browser in conjunction with a US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) advisory warning that critical vulnerabilities in the browser are being actively exploited.…

Also: Skype goes attention-seeking and Edge shares its scrolling smarts with Chromium Roundup Got time on your hands and an enterprise running on Microsoft 365? The Windows giant wants to hear from you in this week's quick 'n' dirty rundown of Redmond news.…

Flaw variety hipper with snoops than cash-hungry crooks right now Zero-day vulns are increasingly likely to be bought and sold by malware vendors targeting the Middle East with their dodgy wares, according to FireEye.…

No stethoscope needed – but you don't get to know the results A team at the UK's Cambridge University has created an application to collect the speaking, breathing and coughing sounds of participants in the hope of building predictive models to "contribute to the early diagnosis of COVID-19".…

Gov.UK to ask social networks to do their part... Comment Amanda Holden is not an epidemiologist. She holds no degree in electrical engineering or physics. Her time is spent judging the (often self-contradictory) Britain's Got Talent, or sitting next to Phil Schofield on the couch of This Morning, where she earned notoriety by asking Brit astronaut Tim Peake if he stole any moon rocks on his mission to the International Space Station.…

From managing during unprecedented times to dealing with wider digital change, these are the sessions you need Promo Business continuity, cyber security, and maintaining customer experience are the order of the day as we all bed in to work from home for the near (or mid) future. The Edge Live | Virtual Summit 2020 has these topics covered.…

Long-term release with upgraded QEMU virtualization Canonical has dropped a final beta of Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal Fossa", set for full release on 23 April.…

20-year veteran takes over as Jim Whitehurst becomes Big Blue prez Long-serving Red Hatter Paul Cormier has been named president and chief exec as his predecessor, Jim Whitehurst, sets off for fields Big and Blue.…

Because this Office branding shake-up isn't confusing at all Microsoft is adding a full Azure Active Directory Premium P1 licence to its Microsoft 365 business subscription even as it aims the rebrandogun at its product line.…

If you're almost finished with the ordeal, there's no looking back now Although most organisations would probably put ERP upgrade plans on ice amid a global pandemic, SAP users are likely to press ahead with existing projects to upgrade to S/4HANA, Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) says.…

Plus: SystemD has a privilege escalation flaw that needs patching, and more bits and bytes Roundup Kaspersky has detailed its takedown of a massive so-called watering-hole attack appearing to target dissidents in China, in the top story in The Reg's infosec roundup that looks at issues of the past week beyond our own detailed coverage.…

Plus more news from the world of machine learning Roundup Here's your quick-fire summary of recent artificial intelligence news.…

Though Statcounter puts Moz's finest second. Chrome still top dog It's official that Edge is number two. At least according to NetMarketShare.…

Remember when we went outside and used cash machines? Haha, good times Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft Windows is everywhere. Everywhere. And sometimes it can catch out the unwary, as the administrator behind this ATM has hopefully discovered.…

May and June are new due dates and neither firm is going down quietly The UK Information Commissioner's Office has yet again postponed its £280m in fines against British Airways and Marriott Hotels for data leaks.…

Commanding & Conquering when nobody is looking Who, Me? Another week is upon us, and while April continues to be an uncertain beast, we will always have Who, Me?, and another story from the more sinful niche of The Register's readership.…

Looks like Michael Gove has decided to listen to the experts for a change UK Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove has used a daily briefing to slam those advancing baseless theories that 5G radios are in some way responsible for the coronavirus.…

But reverses its policy on downgrades anyway, to quiet noisome critics Bose has hit back at critics who say that the firm's latest headphone firmware intentionally broke its active noise cancellation feature.…

The Perseverance rover gets its grousers ahead of planned July/August launch NASA has revealed the wheels it’s just bolted onto the Perseverance Rover, the new Mars assault robot it plans to send to the red planet in July as part of the Mars 2020 mission.…