Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
Huawei's share of China's smartphone market fell by 68 per cent year over year, and Apple took advantage to become the Middle Kingdom's most ubiquitous smartphone vendor in 2021's final quarter.…
Posted on 27 January 2022 | 4:45 am
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has shared its spring-cleaning plans with the world – and suggested it's time to make the Middle Kingdom's web sites sparkle with wholesome content.…
Posted on 27 January 2022 | 3:01 am
India's minister of state for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has revealed the nation's government intends to develop a policy that will encourage development of an "indigenous mobile operating system".…
Posted on 27 January 2022 | 1:19 am
Internet garment slinger Fashion Nova will cough up $4.2m to shut down accusations that it censored negative reviews left by customers on its website.…
Posted on 27 January 2022 | 12:28 am
Texas Instruments is focusing its fabrication efforts on analog chips and embedded processors – and seeing growing revenue from the components – amid an insatiable demand for the electronics by automakers, industrial system manufacturers, and others.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 11:32 pm
Let's Encrypt, a non-profit organization that helps people obtain free SSL/TLS certificates for websites, plans to revoke a non-trivial number of its certs on Friday because they were improperly issued.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 9:26 pm
In the wake of Microsoft's latest set of financial results, Windows boss Panos Panay today gave an update on what he's dubbed a "new era of the PC."…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 8:21 pm
The artist formerly know as F5 Networks – it moved to plain old F5 in November – is clipping revenue forecasts for fiscal '22 by $30m to $90m because it can't source enough specialised chips to produce systems.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 6:45 pm
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter followed up its whizz past Earth as 2021 drew to a close by passing through the tail of a comet. Again.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 5:59 pm
US President Joe Biden has weighed into the Right to Repair furore once more as sueballs fly over some alleged monopolistic practises by a well-known farming equipment manufacturer.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 5:04 pm
As Microsoft toasts another quarter of soaring profits, The Reg can't help but wonder if the bottom line is being ever so gently assisted by something that seems to be blighting its staff: difficulty claiming expenses.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 4:17 pm
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MIST) has earmarked ₩9 trillion ($7.5bn/ £5.55bn) for projects including AI and the development of a K-metaverse as part of its Digital New Deal programme.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 3:32 pm
SCC, a UK-based tech services and reselling dynasty, has won a five-year contract extension with UK tax collector HMRC worth £91m for IT software and services.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 2:45 pm
Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has lost a bid to delay his extradition to the US after a High Court judge ruled there was no reason to impose a months-long delay on the case.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 2:21 pm
There is a very preliminary FOSS Start menu replacement for Windows 11 – but it's not quite there yet.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 1:17 pm
Fancy a fusion power plant in your back yard? The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is looking for comments from five locations shortlisted as potential hosts for its Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 12:33 pm
Big industry players have praised the latest cybersecurity strategy emitted by the British government, rubbing their hands with glee at its promises of lucrative public contracts for the rest of the 2020s.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 11:55 am
The blockbuster quarters just keep on rolling for Microsoft after its latest set of financials surpassed analysts' forecasts, thanks to a thriving cloud and PC market in the pandemic-driven new digital age.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 11:29 am
UK government is on the hunt for an expert to help shape relations with the likes of AWS, Microsoft and Google, a role that includes a remit to "fulfil partnership opportunities" with the megacorps and "deliver against their needs and demands."…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 10:15 am
The majority of contractors see the UK's IR35 changes to the way employment status is judged as the biggest threat to their business in 2022, according to recent research.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 9:30 am
A security bod scored a $100,500 bug bounty from Apple after discovering a vulnerability in Safari on macOS that could have been exploited by a malicious website to potentially access victims' logged-in online accounts – and even their webcams.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 8:32 am
Google has given up on Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a categorization system for serving interest-based ads, and replaced it with Topics, a categorization system for serving interest-based ads.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 7:34 am
Nine out of ten of America's commercial aircraft can land in low visibility using radio altimeters at US airports that have nearby 5G C-band masts, the country's aviation watchdog said this week.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 3:34 am
Linux vendors on Tuesday issued patches for a memory corruption vulnerability in a component called polkit that allows an unprivileged logged-in user to gain full root access on a system in its default configuration.…
Posted on 26 January 2022 | 1:02 am
Hardware manufacturers hit hardest by the global semiconductor shortage had less than five days of chips in their inventories last year – and should expect supply chain issues to continue throughout 2022 – the US Department of Commerce said this week.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 11:49 pm
Baidu Research's AI-centric "Top 10 Tech Trends in 2022" report has outlined the Middle Kingdom megacorp's predictions for technology over the coming year.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 9:14 pm
Nvidia is quietly preparing to give up on the purchase of Arm, according to Bloomberg, after repeatedly butting heads with competition regulators amid a wave of opposition from the tech industry.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 8:04 pm
Google last month announced plans to prevent customer files stored in Google Drive from being shared when the web giant's automated scanning system finds files that violate its abuse prevention rules.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 6:04 pm
A Brit accused of taking part in a $8.5m SIM-swapping conspiracy has escaped extradition to the US after a judge agreed he was at high risk of suicide.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 5:02 pm
The Ministry of Justice in England and Wales has launched what it sees as the biggest recruitment drive in the magistrate system's 650-year history, to address the backlog in cases partly caused by the pandemic.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 4:16 pm
Anti-malware outfit Sophos has weighed in on Log4Shell, saying that the galvanization of the IT world to avert disaster would be familiar to those who lived through the Y2K era.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 3:32 pm
Vodafone is to begin retirement of its 3G network next year, saying this will free up frequencies to improve 4G and 5G services.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 2:46 pm
For some, an MD5 checksum is the sequence of letters and numbers that shows up next to the file they want to download. For others, it's a handy pointer that the file you've downloaded is the one you were expecting.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 2:01 pm
Remember how in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 you could produce anti-ship dolphin units with some sort of sonic cannon strapped to their backs? How we laughed.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 1:16 pm
A group of former Oracle executives with roles across its software compliance teams have described the close links between Big Red's auditing process and its drive to increase revenue.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 12:32 pm
Digital transformation projects are being held back by a lack of skills, according to a new survey, which finds that while many employers believe they are doing well at training up existing staff to meet the requirements, their employees beg to differ.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 11:47 am
Former Microsoft veep Brad Silverberg has paid tribute to Bill Gates for saving Windows 95.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 11:01 am
Frustrated at lack of activity from the "standard setting" UK Cyber Security Council, the government wants to pass new laws making it into the statutory regulator of the UK infosec trade.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 10:14 am
Review Visual Studio goes back a long way. Microsoft always had its own programming languages and tools, beginning with Microsoft Basic in 1975 and Microsoft C 1.0 in 1983.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 9:25 am
The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most complex space observatory built by NASA, has reached its final destination: L2, the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, an orbit located about a million miles away.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 8:35 am
As the right to repair movement gathers pace, Korea’s LG has decided to make sure that its whitegoods can be upgraded.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 6:58 am
IBM has confirmed that a new model of its Z Series mainframes will arrive “late in the first half” of 2022 and emphasised the equipment's debut as a source of improved revenue for the company’s infrastructure business.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 6:01 am
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake that hit southwestern Japan around 1:00 AM last Saturday has led to the closing of Toshiba’s Oita semiconductor plant.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 4:30 am
Pakistan’s minister for IT and Telecom, Syed Aminul Haque, has floated the idea of a ten-year tax holiday for freelancers, suggesting the move could improve the nation’s services exports.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 3:01 am
Facebook owner Meta is building the world's largest AI supercomputer to power machine-learning research that will bring the metaverse to life in the future, it claimed on Monday.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 1:53 am
Two lawsuits have been filed in the past two weeks against farm equipment maker Deere & Company for allegedly violating antitrust laws by unlawfully monopolizing the tractor repair market.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 12:18 am
In brief Twitter's head of security and CISO both ejected from the social media biz this month.…
Posted on 25 January 2022 | 12:05 am
The Attorneys General of Indiana, Texas, Washington state, and Washington DC on Monday each filed lawsuits against Google alleging that the search giant uses deceptive user interface designs known as "dark patterns" to obtain customer location data without adequate consent.…
Posted on 24 January 2022 | 10:12 pm
Julian Assange has won a technical victory in his ongoing battle against extradition from the UK to the United States, buying him a few more months in the relative safety of Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh.…
Posted on 24 January 2022 | 9:08 pm
Most distros haven't got to 5.15 yet, but openSUSE's downstream project GeckoLinux boasts 5.16 of the Linux kernel and the latest Cinnamon desktop environment.…
Posted on 24 January 2022 | 6:32 pm