Advocacy group claims Verizon and co should be stopped as the practice hurts competition, consumers A public interest group has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to look at whether the wireless industry's voluntary phone unlocking co…
Lees meerExtinct media still in demand in some industries, and Floppydisk.com is happy to oblige Floppy disks may have gone the way of the dodo and joined other extinct media such as punched cards and paper tape, but some people are apparently still using th…
Lees meerLearn how to lose the hypervisor lock-in with Nutanix Webinar There's never any let up in the shifting tectonic plates of the digital world. And the impact on business can be profound, not least in provoking a rethink on multi-vendor/multi-cloud st…
Lees meerRen Kai, vice president of Sino IC Capital, is also on the board of SMIC A non-executive director for Shanghai-based chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and "Big Fund" vice president is under investigation in China…
Lees meerNeeds to be autonomous, interoperable, and capable of scaling to 100,000 nodes The Internet Society’s Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) has called for the development of “a common, interoperable, autonomous and scalable routi…
Lees meerOr was forced into a rethink by legislation Video The iPhone 14 harbors a secret that's a pretty big deal: The internals have been redesigned to make it more repairable, says iFixit. …
Lees meerThat is, if the driver and/or car has very quick reflexes and a clear signal Future Ford vehicles could be equipped with technology that lets drivers know if a pedestrian is dangerously close - even if they can't be seen.…
Lees meerIn Cisco's world this makes a $125 Wi-Fi AP 'easier to buy' – maybe easier than its own Meraki kit? Cisco has revealed new hardware it is willing to sell to small businesses outright – no subscription, but still with support and warranty! Such innov…
Lees meerRules, it turns out, are not meant to be broken. Especially by the person who wrote the rule about how to protect data Who, Me? When designing a procedure for the operation of any system, the first and most important rule should always be: follow t…
Lees meerCompetition is good for everyone. Just keep it friendly, folks Analysis Arm executives this week tried to play down the threat of RISC-V to the silicon architect's business.…
Lees meerAs President Biden rolls out a blueprint for future regulations The US Department of Justice has tapped more than 150 federal prosecutors to form a team keenly focused on cracking down on cryptocurrency-related crimes, it announced on Friday.…
Lees meerBig Tech forbidden from taking down 'viewpoint-based' posts no matter how awful but lawful The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday said social media platforms are obligated to carry lawful but awful speech, rejecting the entreaties of tech t…
Lees meerIf only the US government had, like, a Dept of Labor or something The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday fired its first warning shot at companies that exploit gig workers.…
Lees meerTotally not confusing Logowatch Pour one out for Pentium and another for Celeron. After more than two decades, Intel has scrapped the brands in favor of a new moniker.…
Lees meerCan UK Prime Minister Liz Truss do for tech what she did for cheese and pork markets? theregister.com…
Lees meerAfter extensive coverage of .uk missteps, Kieren McCarthy now vows to fix registry from the inside Though it's been 18 months since the CEO and chairman was ejected from Nominet, the entity that runs the .uk top-level domain still requires dramatic …
Lees meerIn the 1970s, everything was carpeted. Even, rather problematically, the storage array's air filter On Call Welcome once more to the Friday frolic that is On Call, The Register's forum for your tales of heroic rescues achieved against the odds.…
Lees meerNot aimed specifically at China … just nations that behave a lot like China President Biden has issued an executive order that prohibits certain entities from investing in US organizations if it will give the investor access to certain information t…
Lees meerRequires five years of patching, 24 hour incident reporting, and proper security … for starters The European Commission has revealed a Cyber Resilience Act that will require manufacturers of connected devices to secure them properly before shipping,…
Lees meerTexts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight, says senator US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "routinely conducts warrantless searches" of Americans' phones every year, in a number of cases d…
Lees meerGet ready for face scans, expanded surveillance, violated rights, and more, say critics California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed AB 2273, legislation designed to protect children's online privacy by demanding information from everyone.…
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