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Huawei claims its alternative ecosystem to Google Mobile Services has 1.6 million devs, 73 million Euro users
Could it be? Something approaching, dare we say, viability? Huawei has highlighted growing adoption figures for its Android software ecosystem - Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) and the Huawei AppGallery - following the imposition of US government sanctions.…
Two large flightless birds walk into a bar... The pub's owner was not emused *ba-dum tsh*
Carol and Kevin banned from outback establishment for 'bad behaviour' Heads up, folks. Australia's at it again. From the country that brought you "mortal wombat" comes news that two emus have been barred from an outback pub for "bad behaviour".…
It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?
Most of the things Microsoft said would be great were not Windows 10 was made generally available on 29 July 2015, introducing the concept of Windows-as-a-Service, a digital assistant called Cortana, a Universal Windows Platform for developers, Continuum to enable "a Windows Phone to become like a PC", and not forgetting the revival of the Start menu.…
Have you ever wondered whether your public cloud security should be software-defined? Ah-ha, we knew it!
You'll wanna tune into this chat about SD-WAN, then Webcast Research from Vanson Bourne found that more than half of surveyed businesses wished their SD-WAN – their software-defined wide area networking – was provided straight from their cloud vendor as opposed to a third party.…
BT: 'Because of the existing underlying supply of the 4G equipment, most of our 5G (NSA) so far is with Huawei'
Vodafone not happy either as telcos complain to defence sub-committee about Huawei removal woes Stripping Huawei from the UK's telecommunications network presents a daunting challenge, executives from Vodafone and BT told the House of Commons Defence Sub-Committee yesterday afternoon.…
Once considered lost, ESA and NASA's SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before
Almost 25 years and counting, here's to the luckiest spacecraft off Earth Space Extenders Welcome to the final episode in The Register's series on engineering longevity in space. We conclude with the joint ESA and NASA project, more than 24 years into a two-year mission: the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).…
No wonder Brit universities report hacks so often: Half of staff have had zero infosec training, apparently
Plus: Don't worry, students. The attackers told us they destroyed your data Nearly half of British university staff say they have received no cybersecurity training, according to a recent survey.…
Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus
Passengers will be able to watch themselves float while bathed in Earthlight and surrounded by tasteful colours Passengers that go into space aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo won't just experience weightlessness: they'll also get to watch themselves float in a giant mirror and enjoy decor designed to remind them of Earth's oceans and deserts.…
Japan starts work on global quantum crypto network
Toshiba leads effort that aspires to run 100 quantum cryptographic devices for 10,000 users by 2024 Japan is poised to start work on global quantum key distribution service and associated infrastructure.…
Amazon and Google: Trust us, our smart-speaker apps are carefully policed. Boffins: Yes, well, about that...
Who can you trust these days? The voice applications people use with their Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant smart speaker devices have privacy policies, but most users don't read them and neither device maker has shown much concern about policy problems or inconsistencies.…
GitHub starts publishing roadmap of future features
Microsoft’s trashing the place, clearly. Or is it? Poll GitHub has announced it will henceforth publish a public roadmap of current features.…
Reply-All storm flares as email announcing privacy policy puts 500 addresses in the 'To' field, not 'BCC'
Newsletter-as-a-service outfit Substack does the usual apologising Some advice from The Register: when announcing a new privacy policy don’t do so with emails that reveal 500 addresses in the “To” field of the message.…
Arm China says it's a 'strategic asset' and calls for Beijing's help in boardroom dispute with HQ
'We just wanna design chips without distractions', say staff in open letter British chip designer Arm’s Chinese outpost has called in the Chinese government to “protect” it in an ongoing boardroom dispute with its parent company.…
Philippines president threatens local telcos with expropriation
Calls for e-commerce surge and keeps schools closed due to certain virus that's made news lately Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has threatened a pair of local telcos with expropriation if they don’t improve services.…
AMD is now following More's Law: More chips, more money, more pressure on Intel, more competition in the x86 space
Chipzooky's fortunes are Ryzen Epyc-ly AMD on Tuesday said it had made it through a healthy second quarter of 2020 during which its Ryzen and Epyc microprocessor lines doubled their revenues.…
With the US election coming up, when better to petition regulators for a controversial way to chill online speech?
Guess what? Literally everyone thinks this is a terrible idea The US Department of Commerce (DoC) has formally asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to review a critical law that provides blanket liability to online platforms such as Google and Facebook.…
What goes up, Musk come down... and up and down and up and down: NASA details followup Dragon pod trips to orbiting station
Assuming this weekend's return journey goes well, natch Ahead of a Dragon capsule bringing home a pair of astronauts from the International Space Station this weekend, NASA shared more details of followup crewed missions to and from the orbiting science lab using the SpaceX pod.…
'I think the police are here...' Feds reveal Skype, text chats of Canadian trio charged with $8m crypto-coin fraud
Boyfriend-girlfriend and housemate indicted in US on PlexCoin rap Two Canadian lovers and their housemate have been charged with fraud after allegedly netting $8m by selling a made-up cryptocurrency called PlexCoin to victims.…
We're suing Google for harvesting our personal info even though we opted out of Chrome sync – netizens
Browser quitters say they'll return if web goliath lives up to privacy promises A handful of Chrome users have sued Google, accusing the browser maker of collecting personal information despite their decision not to sync data stored in Chrome with a Google Account.…
Irony isn't dead... Facebook sues EU on data privacy grounds for requesting too much personal data
'Exceptionally broad' demands reveal too much about our staff! American tech giants have enjoyed a reversal of their EU legal fortunes over the past fortnight as Euro nation courts issued rulings in their favor – and now Facebook has even sued the European Union itself, alleging the political bloc’s agencies broke their own data protection rules.…
How Bude: Google's sole-financed private undersea pipe to make a landing in Cornwall
Cable named for compsci legend Grace Hopper to link US, UK, Spain Cloud and ads behemoth Google is building a subsea internet cable linking the US to the UK and Spain.…
Get ready to try virtual-reality goggles, er, virtually: Another in-person event bites the dust as CES 2021 hauled online
Put away your Hawaiian shirts, no post-lockdown Vegas January for you The global pandemic just claimed another in-person tech conference – the 2021 edition of CES will be an "all-digital experience".…
UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)
'Equity-backed' DB-'n'-services biz hooks up tenants with vetted local repair shops A group of UK housing associations has awarded a framework contract worth up to £400m to property technology company Plentific, in part to help build a trading platform for folks to come in and do repairs and maintenance in people's homes.…
IDE like an update, please: JetBrains freshens IntelliJ, adds improved GitHub integration, Java support
Issues? Visit the website or use Visual Studio Code JetBrains has released IntelliJ IDEA 2020.2, a big mid-year update that adds support for Java 15 and Jakarta EE9 as well as improving its GitHub integration.…
It must have been love, but it's over now: Rockset tries to break up storage and compute, meet transactional, data-warehouse systems in middle
Propositions database land with a 'real-time' system Rockset has upgraded its main database engine for more efficient scaling and performance gains by separating storage and compute. The outfit said it also separates the cloud compute resources used for ingesting and querying data.…
Spending on 5G to double despite the pandemic while legacy network infrastructure sector suffers – Gartner
Also, half of the world's 5G investment currently is spent by China Worldwide spending on 5G is set to double in 2020, according to analyst house Gartner, in stark contrast to the wider cellular infrastructure sector, which will see revenues plummet overall.…
MI6 tried to intervene in independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers – but they said sorry, so it's OK
Just another day for the Investigatory Powers Tribunal The UK's Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has been accused of trying to tamper with a court that is supposed to oversee and regulate it after an extraordinary tale emerged yesterday.…
Face masks hamper the spread of coronavirus. Know what else they hamper? Facial-recognition systems (except China's)
Uncle Sam tests AI models with pics of immigrants, travelers. Wait, what? Face masks worn to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus typically decrease the accuracy of commercial facial recognition algorithms by up to 50 per cent, according to an investigation by America's technical standards watchdog, NIST.…
Find out this week: How to build a cyber threat intelligence program while cutting through the noise
Tune in online to get a handle on separating good data from clutter Webcast The advantages of having decent threat intelligence in place are many and various, as the threat landscape continues to widen year-on-year.…
Google allowed to remember search results to news articles it was asked to forget. Good
Top court won't nix links to accurate, fair journalism about director of financially rocked charity Germany's high court has sided with Google by upholding lower court rulings that rejected a right-to-be-forgotten privacy claim, and it delayed another case to seek clarification from top Euro judges.…
Rackspace reveals retirement plan behind decision to go public by selling 17% of itself
We can't call it an initial public offering given this is its second time around on the share market Rackspace Technology has revealed the terms of its planned return to the stock market.…
Brave takes step closer to sensible business model by building subscription VPN into the iOS version of its browser
Relying on ads in software designed to block ads is an uphill struggle Privacy-centric startup Brave has included a subscription VPN service in its iOS browser.…
Gone in 15 minutes: Qualcomm claims new chargers will fill your smartmobe in a flash
Not so fast - Quick Charge 5 does its best when using new dual-battery tech Qualcomm has unveiled the fifth generation of its Quick Charge battery-charging technology and boasts it can fully recharge a smartphone in 15 minutes.…
Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest
Rust enters the top 20, and yes, JavaScript is still number one Python surpassed Java in Redmonk's latest biannual programming language ranking to take second place... by not doing anything.…
Microsoft runs a data centre on hydrogen for 48 whole hours, reckons it could kick hydrocarbon habit by 2030
Now to figure out how to make and store the gas, and fit fuel cells into bit barns Microsoft has revealed that it ran racks full of servers for 48 hours using electricity generated by hydrogen fuel cells, but the company's aspiration to use the tech again needs careful scrutiny.…
Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current
Holy sheet... One of our Sun's large, recent solar flares was formed from the release of 10 to 100 billion trillion joules per second of magnetic energy through gigantic sheets of near-light-speed electrons, scientists say.…
Green with NVMe: AWS adds more Arm-powered instance types
Local SSD block-level storage comes to EC2 instances powered by home-brew Graviton2 CPUs Amazon Web Services has created three more EC2 instance types that run its home-grown Graviton2 Arm-compatible processors.…
Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor
Half a billion users for $3.5bn - bargain! WeChat owner Tencent Holdings wants to acquire China's second-largest search engine Sogou for around $3.5bn.…
New Zealand government to explain its algorithms to stop robo-bias warping policy
But won’t reveal the actual algorithms – or even define what an algorithm is New Zealand has created what it claims is the world’s first “Algorithm Charter” that sets out how government agencies should devise algorithms and explain their workings.…
Google extends homeworking until this time next year – as Microsoft finds WFH is terrific... for Microsoft
You see, there is a COVID-19 silver lining. For employers. For the rest of us, welcome to the machine Google has gone all-in on its work-from-home policy, telling techies they don’t need to return to the office until July 2021 at the earliest.…
Battle for 6GHz heats up in America: Broadcasters sue FCC to kill effort to open spectrum for private Wi-Fi
Big Tech pushes back, says band use Hertz no one The argument over opening up the 6GHz spectrum range, allowing it to be used for things like private indoor Wi-Fi, is heating up with TV broadcasters now suing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).…
Intel couldn't shrink to 7nm on time – but it was able to reduce one thing: Its chief engineer's employment
What, or rather, who's that going under wheels of Chipzilla's bus? Intel on Monday shook up its engineering management ranks after not only admitting its 7nm manufacturing pipeline had stalled due to defects but also that it is considering asking rival factories for help.…
Tune in this week to learn all about an identity-centric approach to zero-trust security
It's time to think beyond simple perimeter defenses Webcast The adoption of mobile and cloud, and the coronavirus pandemic forcing people to work from home, shows you can no longer rely on computer security based on a simple network perimeter.…
Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware Qsnatch reaches 62,000 infections
If you're still using a vulnerable box, you ought to factory reset it before patching The number of QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) boxes infected with the data-stealing QSnatch malware has reached 62,000, the US and UK governments warned today.…
US IT staffing biz accused of abusing student visa program now forced to stop advertising only to immigrants
DoJ unhappy with ASTA CRS but not as much as former employees An American IT staffing'n'consultancy company has been banned from running job ads that say only temporary work visa holders need apply.…
SAP takes a punch to its software licensing revenue but Ellison's promise of customer exodus to Oracle seemingly fails to materialise
Nothing to say, Larry? Makes a change SAP took a gut-punch in the form of an 18 per cent dive in software licensing revenue to €0.77bn for its Q2 ended June 30, but it also chalked up a 20 per cent jump in contractually committed cloud revenue to €6.65bn.…
Named arguments squeak into PHP 8.0, 7 years after first RFC
How about inheritance? 'One of the bigger open questions' says author of proposal The next major version of the PHP language will support named arguments after 76 per cent of lead developers voted to include it.…
EU orders Airbus A350 operators to install anti-coffee spillage covers in airliner cockpits
Wouldn't a child's sippy cup be cheaper? Airbus has solved the ongoing problem of cack-handed airline pilots spilling coffee over vital cockpit electronics – with a plastic cover.…
Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon
Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice Researchers have built a 2.4g robot that could be capable of eye surgery, inspired by the ancient paper-folding art of origami.…
Garmin staggers back to its feet: Aviation systems seem to be lagging, though. Here's why
Somebody light that pilot light Updated Garmin services appear to be in the process of being restored after the company was reportedly hit with ransomware, though its aviation services remain offline at the time of writing.…
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