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Snap-happy sorts will still support the One mobe Iconic camera company Red has upped sticks and quit the smartphone biz following the retirement of its founder Jim Jannard and mobe-fondlers' dismal reception of the firm's first effort, the Hydrogen One.…

Never mind the AI, Hancock. I just want to turn my sodding computer on, mutters another Fancy a new job and a pay packet of upwards of £131k per year? Well, if you don't mind working with the ever-beaming Matt Hancock, the health service's newly formed digital quango, NHSX, is looking for a full-time chief technology officer.…

He's got the key, he's got the secret – allegedly Apple's head of corporate law, Gene Levoff, has been indicted on charges of (PDF) insider trading.…

Our speakers are here to help, whatever your platform Event Whatever platform you rely on for your serverless strategy, you can guarantee the speakers at Serverless Computing London will help you get the most out of it.…

Finally, a government decision we can all get behind We're not getting an extra bank holiday for the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day, but we will get a couple of extra hours in the pub.…

Coverage in the back of beyond The UK's mobile operators have pledged to stump up half the cash for a £1bn "Shared Rural Network" (SRN) to tackle 4G notspots.…

Postmortem report emerges for last week's partial downtime Microsoft says last week's multi-factor authentication (MFA) partial outage, which hit its cloud-based services, was due to a dodgy network route between its servers and Apple's backend.…

All we know is hate and machinery Something for the Weekend, Sir? My pants are on fire. Would you like to take a look?…

Also: a few surprise chips and a lot of adhesive Google's Pixel 4XL may still be wet behind its ears, but it couldn't escape the indignity of a teardown by spudger-brandishing folk at iFixit, who came away unimpressed after some tinkering with the screwdrivers.…

Another piece of kit for youngsters to tussle over in the form of Robo Wunderkind As the global focus on computing curricula intensifies and parents continue to push their kids towards STEM subjects in the hopes that leads to better opportunities later on in life, the proliferation of "coding kits" aimed at kids is keeping pace.…

Everybody's gone quaffin', quaffin' USA On Call Welcome back to On Call, The Register's weekly womble into the sometimes sticky situations readers find themselves in when responding to a user's plea for help.…

Grab your favorite browser, tune in from the comfort of your desk, cafe, bar... Promo As the workforce becomes increasingly mobile, and business applications proliferate across devices and locations, the soaring volume of internet traffic puts pressure on organisations' security systems and policies – and introduces new risks.…

Boffins pour, er, cold liquid on theories of melting water The mountains and ridges on Mars – which some believe are carved from melting ice – can also be formed by landslides, according to a paper published in Nature Communications on Thursday.…

But the damage is already done Plans to prevent UK citizens from owning .eu domains are on ice following the latest Brexit madness from the British Parliament.…

Profit crunch looks to carry on into the holiday season Amazon, a cloud giant with a supplementary online souk, saw a rare drop in profits in its latest financial results, published Thursday.…

Device, server... something with electricity in it, possibly, blamed by US cellular giant Some AT&T customers are locked out of their voicemails due to a buggy software upgrade.…

And tears wraps off yet another alleged Arm killer: this time, low-power x86 Tremont cores Intel on Thursday reported $19.2bn in sales for its third quarter 2019 earnings, a quarterly record for the company.…

Web giant insists 'small number' of voice-controlled gizmos killed by firmware bug Google has somehow managed to brick some of its own smart Home and Home Mini devices, leaving an unknown number completely unresponsive after an automated update.…

Dev may not have known code was being used for scam traffic The iOS App Store is 18 applications lighter today after the software was caught harboring malware that secretly clicked on ads, signed up punters for premium services, or deliberately overloaded websites.…

Amazon dismisses duo as opportunistic publicity hounds On Thursday, US Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) asked the US Federal Trade Commission to examine whether Amazon Web Services may have broken the law by renting defective servers.…

Revenue up 6% on the quarter ... down 40% on a year ago South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix suffered a fall in profits despite a small improvement in sales during its third quarter, which ended 30 September.…

'More changes than any version since years' in Tor-touting OS Tails has released version 4.0 of the privacy-focused Linux distro, based on Debian 10, with numerous feature and usability improvements.…

Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft? As well as a fresh PowerShell peek, Microsoft sent an update of its Windows Terminal out into the world last night.…

Soft-shoe shuffle Bill McDermott is joining cloud-wrangler ServiceNow as president and CEO in the new year following his handover period at SAP.…

Detailed info wound up in quarantine Just one of Britain's 43 police forces treats online crime as a priority – while the Action Fraud organisation managed to withhold 9,000 so-called cyber-crime reports from cops thanks to badly configured antivirus on its reporting portal, according to a government watchdog.…

Plus a class action sueball – it's been a busy 24 hours for Indian outsourcer India-based outsourcer Infosys has confirmed it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, which will probe recent allegations of fiscal impropriety made by employees.…

I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex The National Trust, one of the UK's largest charities and beloved of many a middle-class day-tripper, has handed a £46m contract to everyone's favourite outsourcer, Capita.…

You'll have to tag those for cross-site use from February Google is asking developers to get ready for more secure cookie settings to be implemented in Chrome 80 that is planned for release in February 2020.…

Soz shareholders, no dividend for you Nokia – one of the so-called "Big Three" 5G kitmakers – has downgraded profit forecasts for the year and cancelled dividends, saying investments in next-generation services have not yet yielded expected returns.…

Remains exhumed and relocated to Madrid The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have been exhumed from the civil war monument Valle de los Caídos and are being transported to a cemetery just north of Madrid.…

Can it run Crysi... we mean, er, Fortnite? Yes, kids Hands On This morning, at a launch event in Amsterdam, Honor formally unveiled its latest handset: the 9X. Typically, the release of a mid-range handset from an explicitly youth-focused brand wouldn't elicit much attention from these pages, but this is different.…

Commands in (conditional) Chains – the latest Seattle rock sensation? Preview 5 of Microsoft's PowerShell 7 dropped last night, which means that final release is lumbering ever closer.…

Shares jump by a fifth Tesla shares are up almost a fifth in after-hours trading after the 'leccy car maker posted a surprising profit for the third quarter.…

Censor-dodging news for those sat in ban-happy countries The BBC has launched a .onion version of its news website on the Tor anonymising network aimed at readers based in countries that ban its services.…

Microsoft's new baby takes big step forward in servicing stakes Microsoft has made much of its return to the days when hardware could be upgraded, but it still has a little way to go – as screwdriver-botherers at iFixit appear to have discovered with the Surface Laptop 3.…

Plus: Its plans on the security market Elastic presented Elasticsearch for Kubernetes at an event in London this week, as well as explaining why it has acquired Endgame, an endpoint security specialist.…

Director's account hijacked in what biz believes to be an attempted ransomware attack GP online services app Evergreen Life has been the target of a cyber-attack attempting to access the firm's corporate email accounts.…

Inside 629k machines, up from 355k last year AMD is dramatically beefing up its share of PCs sold via distributors in Western Europe as Intel continues to flounder amid protracted production issues that are still limiting availability.…

The call-for-papers closes soon – and we'd love to hear from you Event The call for papers for our Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 conference closes this Friday – and we’re waiting to hear how you’ve transformed your organisation’s software development and deployment pipeline.…

Join colleagues and peers at CloudBees' conference in Portugal this December Promo Executives, continuous delivery practitioners, and Jenkins users are set to descend on DevOps World | Jenkins World, the essential annual gathering for IT leaders wanting to learn, network, and help shape the next evolution of CloudBees Jenkins solutions for DevOps.…

First time heavy elements spotted in neutron star collision For the first time astroboffins have discovered strontium, a heavy element nestled near the bottom left hand side of the periodic table, being created in space by the collision of two neutron stars.…

Nadella says 'accelerating our innovation', we say... Microsoft on Wednesday reported $33.1bn in revenue for its fiscal 2020 Q1, representing a 14 per cent increase over the same period last year, and profits of $10.7bn, up 21 per cent.…

Who wants to stop Russians from hacking Americans' votes? Not us, thank you The US Senate on Wednesday blocked a trio of law bills that aimed to make America's elections more secure and transparent.…

Quanta was the last one standing... and now kneeling HP on Tuesday won a six-year court case against suppliers that it accused of price-fixing, with a jury in Texas awarding $176m to the US computer giant.…

Delivery may be slow: US lawmakers, NIST still figuring it all out Assuming US lawmakers can set aside differences long enough to vote on actual legislation – not at all a foregone conclusion – users of large online communications platforms may be able to look forward better data portability and interoperability between services, eventually.…

Whois to become Whoisn't Like a bad horror movie in which the vampire keeps coming back from certain death, the Whois protocol – which provides information on who owns specific internet addresses – has endured far longer than anyone wanted or expected. But the final act is nigh and the wooden stake is being sharpened.…

Hey, growth is still growth Gartner analysts at its annual IT Symposium/Xpo shindig in Florida reckon IT spending is on the way up next year, despite dire predictions for the rest of this year.…

Move to bin? Or cancel? There are more options on this version of macOS, but it's still a PITA Users who download and attempt to run LibreOffice on the new macOS Catalina are presented with two options – "Move to bin" or "Cancel".…

The US could do more, but it's like pulling teeth The European Commission's (EC) third review of Privacy Shield – the legal fig leaf through which EU citizens' data can be sent to US companies for storage and processing – has found some improvements since last year, but deems the whole agreement as still resoundingly "adequate".…

Roomba for improvement? 2,000 pascals' worth is the claim from vacuum-maker Eufy If you've ever bought a phone charger or cable from Amazon, there's a decent chance it came from Anker, a fast-growing Chinese consumer electronics firm whose products regularly occupy the top-selling spots in their respective categories.…