Qualcomm gets hall pass from Uncle Sam to supply Huawei with mobile chipsets. There's just one catch: It's for 4G only
(2020/11/16)
Which is hardly a reprieve for Chinese company's throttled handset biz
Pass us a tissue: Capita CFO calls it quits, talks of 'privilege' to work at 'centre' of biz that 'touches the lives of millions'
(2020/11/16)
New interim human calculator hired, permanent replacement being hunted
Wondering how AI and 5G are set to change your world?
(2020/11/16)
Join this Intel webinar and learn how to unleash your data
Street Fighter maker says soz after ransomware hadoukens servers, puts 350,000 folks' data at risk of theft
(2020/11/16)
Capcom KO'd by 'criminal organisation that calls itself Ragnar Locker'
Facebook's Giphy slurp remains on hold after UK competition regulator demands more info
(2020/11/16)
Tribunal ruling prevents the Zuckerborg from swallowing GIF peddler until further notice
Honey, I shrunk the iPhone 12: Mini teardown reveals same components, only smaller
(2020/11/16)
And with better repairability than its big brother too
UK.gov's centralised buying agency wafts £1.2bn of taxpayer cash in return for a bevy of back-office software
(2020/11/16)
Software subscriptions and licence support a must for bidding businesses
Images of women coerced by adult companies poison dataset popularised by deepfake smut creators
(2020/11/16)
Plus: Uber to sell off its self-driving unit, and pay $200 to spy on anyone you'd like in Russia
UK West Midlands town finds five-year HR system deal is only offer on the table in pandemic-stricken procurement
(2020/11/16)
Five more years, five more years... or nothing!
Not on your Zoom, not on Teams, not Google Meet, not BlueJeans. WebEx, Skype and Houseparty make us itch. No, not FaceTime, not even Twitch
(2020/11/16)
Time to call time on video. Just NO. No interoperability, no
KDE maintainers speak on why it is worth looking beyond GNOME
(2020/11/16)
The Qt advantage? 'We're a weird by-product of coffee machines and cars'
Panic in the mailroom: The perils of an operating system too smart for its own good
(2020/11/16)
That other 1973 hit: The Dark Side of the Mainframe
International infosec rules delivered to make nations and non-state actors behave themselves online
(2020/11/16)
Don't hack, don't backdoor, don't hurt the internet … and don't expect rapid adoption because there's still a lot of multilateral work to be done
The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised
(2020/11/16)
When recommendation engines promote misinformation during a pandemic, it's a matter of life and death
This year’s biggest innovators? Hackers and cybercriminals. Again
(2020/11/16)
Learn to think like an attacker so you can start fighting back
They’ve only gone and bloody done it – yawn – again! NASA, SpaceX send four to ISS
(2020/11/16)
First certified commercial crewed spaceflight flies, but fuel heaters are acting up
The Register hiring Vultures to deliver more news from APAC for the world
(2020/11/16)
Senior technology reporter roles available across Asia
Australia to track coronavirus encounters with payment card records
(2020/11/16)
Plan calls to link government data across jurisdictions, even sharing airline records to track outbreaks and people who may be at risk of infection
30 percent of world agrees not to require onshore storage for e-commerce customer data
(2020/11/16)
New top trade bloc wants fewer barriers to business across China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and 11 more countries, but not India
Intel's SGX cloud-server security defeated by $30 chip, electrical shenanigans
(2020/11/14)
VoltPillager breaks enclave confidentiality, calls anti-rogue data-center operator promise into question
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the
programmer.
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