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Firm hoping its all-cloud network and 5G kit will make it rain... Chinese smartphone maker and telecoms flinger Huawei announced its first-half revenues for 2018 today and it's clear the days of blockbuster growth are behind it.…

Close encounters of the civil service kind UK.gov bods have been stripped of access to services for the emerging non-terrestrial standard XTML, beamed in by little grey vendors A51 Technologies, following an El Reg probe.…

£275m credit-check borg must wait for watchdog approval Experian's bid to slurp up fellow credit-check biz ClearScore is to be assessed by the UK's competition watchdog.…

First-quarter loss hardly a surprise, and there's more where that came from Chinese phone and network maker ZTE has outlined the extent of the damage it suffered due to the early 2018 trade ban imposed by the US – a first quarter net loss of ¥5.4bn ($790m, £602m).…

But run it on our EU guinea pigs first, hm? A planned ID scheme for EU citizens after Brexit should be rolled out nationwide, a UK think tank has said, citing the Windrush* scandal as justification.…

Retailer says probe found 10m records hit – but no evidence of fraud Dixons Carphone today admitted that the data breach it discovered last month affected nine times as many people as first believed.…

Microsoft wants everyone to be Fluent in this week's round-up In a week where Outlook went dark, prices crept up and Office Server 2019 emerged, blinking, into the light, here are some tales from Redmond you may have missed.…

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The latest out of WD, Datrium and many, many more Over the past week in storage, Gartner shifted the disaster recovery goalposts, Datrium realised its salespeople were in the wrong places, JetStream pressed eject and was spun out of Western Digital, there were some needful updates and refreshes ... and more. A heck of a lot more. So buckle up.…

Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets An analysis of hibonite, thought to be among the oldest minerals in the Solar System, has shown the turbulent and violent early history of our sun.…

Thought having your call center in India was a good idea? Maybe not so much now India is following Europe down the data protection path, with draft legislation criticized as a mixed bag of good and bad laws being proposed on Friday.…

OAIC releases data breach notification report Take a bow, Australians: we may have had 242 breaches sent to the information commissioner this quarter, but almost nobody fell victim to ransomware attacks.…

Turns out replacing humans isn't that easy after all Vid Human hands are surprisingly dexterous: they can knit clothes, stuff delivery packages with things, play the piano, and so on, albeit with practice.…

Your files are someone else's files, too, thanks to storage bug SoftNAS has plugged a serious vulnerability in its cloud storage management tool that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a victim's server.…

ICANN holds .islam, .halal in limbo despite losing case Internet overseer ICANN has insisted it has the authority to maintain a six-year online Muslim ban, despite being told otherwise by its own independent oversight panel.…

Yes, let's try to force the social media genie back in the bottle US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has a plan to save democracy from technology, including making social media platforms liable for what their users post.…

Protect and survive, or old-fashioned protectionism – we'll let you decide The US military is drawing up a list of overseas organizations – primarily in Russia and China, funnily enough – that the Pentagon and its contractors shouldn't buy software from, citing security concerns.…

Protect and survive, or old-fashioned protectionism – we'll let you decide The US military is drawing up a list of overseas organizations – primarily in Russia and China, funnily enough – that the Pentagon and its contractors shouldn't buy software from, citing security concerns.…

Breaking news: President sticks oar into complicated saga Controversy over a proposed $4bn merger of Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media in the US has blown up again – after a commissioner on America's media watchdog, the FCC, blasted President Trump's public backing of the deal.…

Plus: Splashes profits on dividends and share buy-backs, according to latest figures It's a good time to be in the enterprise drive-pushing business, judging by Seagate's solid sales and profit uptick.…

Customers will just have to grin and Paddington Bear it (sorry) Updated Cinema chain Vue's wobbly website frustrated customers for a second day today as would-be film-goers found themselves dumped into a queuing system in order to buy tickets.…

Crooks exploited legit web ad ecosystem – researchers Security researchers at Check Point have lifted the lid on the infrastructure and methods of an enormous "malvertising" and banking trojan campaign.…

Social media firms neither publisher nor platform, we need new term – MPs British lawmakers have been told to create tougher rules for social media giants claiming to be neutral platforms, establish a code of ethics for tech firms, and plump up the UK's self-styled "data sheriff"*.…

Absurd hardware requirements and compatibility problems aplenty. Sound familiar? Windows NT has hit an important milestone. Its launch is now closer to the first Moon landing than it is to today.…

Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the British telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…

Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…

Jury rules voucher biz wilfully infringed patents from pre-internet era IBM has won $82.5m in a legal battle against Groupon over e-commerce patent infringement.…

Still the biggest, despite the massive losses ... Even in its darkest hours, Capita still clung to its status as the top UK supplier of software and IT services (SITS) for 2017 – though largely because its next nearest rivals played a stinker.…

Calls? Check. Texts? Check. Internet? Check. Notch? Mostly. Camera? Check I call it the "Phone Season". It's the glut of new smartphones that begins with splashy launches at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ends in late spring. Phone Season defines what phones look like each year.…

'So if I pressed Send now, it would go to all of them?' asks trigger-happy tech Who, me? It's Monday morning and we've all been buried under the avalanche of emails we abandoned at pub o'clock last week. Take solace in the latest instalment of Who, Me?, where Reg readers confess their past blunders.…

Server and cloud outfit aims to float by October if tech market evades Brexit jitters UKFast, a British web hosting provider and bringer of clouds, is planning to float on the London Stock Exchange with the aim of raising a £350m war chest, The Register can exclusively reveal.…

Machines aren't really better than us at much Roundup Hello, here's a short roundup of this week's news and announcements in AI, including worrying news for cancer sufferers, good news for human linguists and some new job opportunities.…

The good, the bad, and the ugly from infosec Roundup There has been a bumper crop of security news this week, including another shipping giant getting taken down by ransomware, Russian hackers apparently completely pwning US power grids and a sane request from Senator Wyden (D-OR) for the US government to dump Flash. But there has been other news bubbling under.…

But uh-oh! Is that NetApp creeping up on Pure? How is everyone doing in the all-flash array-flinging stakes? Well, you can call Pure Storage Mr Hugo because it's still the victor. Gartner's box-fillers have once again jammed seven of the makers into the top right-hand square in its yearly analysis.…

AWS load balancer gets redirects, CableLabs SNAPs to Kubernetes, and more Security just got a little easier for AWS Elastic Load Balancing customers: the platform now supports redirects and fixed responses.…

We must sell more! Western Digital's final fiscal 2018 quarter delivered strong results that were let down by disappointing enterprise SSD sales.…

Has never spoken to WikiLeaker, apparently It would appear that the president of Ecuador is not a fan of Julian Assange.…

Perfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really Silicon design startup Tachyum has appointed the original designer of the Arm CPU to its advisory board and chucked its hat in the ring to be the domestic exascale supercomputer chip inside the EU's home-grown super.…

Hackers clone supplier's cloud servers to push tainted MSI files Crooks mounted a crypto-mining scam after hacking into a supplier of an unnamed PDF editor software vendor.…

And doesn't get a look-in on top 10 most cyber-conscious nations The UK has fallen off its perch at the top of the UN’s biennial e-government ranking, dropping three places.…

On-premises and cloud users, prepare to be adjusted Microsoft has announced tweaks to its Volume Licensing programmes from 1 October, under which existing plans will be renamed, discounts removed and prices "changed".…

Pre-tax loss of £107m pinned on meltdown IT meltdown bank TSB has today admitted that the week-long outage and its aftermath have cost it almost £200m.…

The sun is sunny and the dark fibre access is virtual Openreach claims it is now more independent of BT than ever before, adding that the UK's fibre rollout is going just fine and all ISPs are now very happy with the BT-owned telecoms infrastructure company.…

Single-award contract could run for up to a decade, worth a possible $10bn The Pentagon has finally opened the bidding for its major cloud contract, which could be worth some $10bn – and is to be awarded to one vendor.…

Secondhand owners who didn't sell at JLR dealer can call us, says firm Both data and the online controls on "connected cars" from Jaguar Land Rover remain available to previous owners, according to security experts and owners of the upmarket vehicles. The car maker has defended its privacy safeguards and security of its InControl tech.…

It's been three months and 16% have their heels firmly planted The charge of the Windows 10 April 2018 Update continued into July with 84 per cent of lucky, lucky users seeing their desktops upgraded, according to AdDuplex.…

$1.2bn revs beat guidance, routers lumpy, software, security strong Juniper Networks' Q3 revenue is 8 per cent lower than last year, but at $1.2bn it came in ahead of the company's previous guidance, and CEO Rami Rahim now expects Juniper to return to year-on-year growth by the December quarter.…

Take it off! Cover it up! I don't know what I want any more! Something for the Weekend, Sir? If I give you some money, would you take your clothes off? Now that's what I call premium service.…

Branding, real estate need sorting out Analysis Western Digital is chewing on agglomeration antacids as it continues to digest the 14 acquisitions made by the firm itself and its various business unit family members over the past decade or so.…

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