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Lees meerSanta leaving coal in enthusiasts' stockings Online retailers may not be able to send you a specific Raspberry Pi 4B model even for next year's Christmas.…
Lees meerBox shifter argues it's not clear what it is supposed to change Amazon is set for an early Christmas present as a Luxembourg judge suspended a court order requiring a daily $750,000 payment towards a disputed $844m (€746m) fine.…
Lees meerIt's all open source's fault! Or is it? Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of Who, Me? in which a Register reader makes the impossible possible and actually gets Wi-Fi working on Linux.…
Lees meerGullible conspiracists find that stupid is as stupid does The Dutch Authority for Nuclear Safety and Regulation Protection has banned a list of so-called anti-5G necklaces, wristbands and eye masks because they could harm their gullible users.…
Lees meerOne to wheel out when those friend tech support calls get too much On Call IT folk don't so much give gifts as recycle old hardware. A worthy endeavour, until the inevitable call for help comes on. Our response? Depends on how evil we're feeling at…
Lees meerAlleges it and seven other Middle Kingdom tech outfits aid systematic oppression of Uyghur minority The US Treasury today banned American investment in eight entities – including prosumer drone maker DJI – that Uncle Sam claims are “part of the Chin…
Lees meerSomehow people keep buying into dodgy crypto projects that vanish with investor funds First, come up with a catchy name for a cryptocurrency project. Next, convince the credulous to buy associated digital tokens. Finally, abandon the project and kee…
Lees meerFiasco replacing fire, police and ambulance comms already costing £550m for each year of delay The UK government has extended its contract with Samsung to provide LTE handsets for the much-troubled rollout of vital emergency services communications …
Lees meerWhich isn’t a lot – a single fab can cost more than the entire subsidy pool. India wants four built soon India has unveiled a $10bn subsidy scheme designed to lure semiconductor manufacturers to its shores.…
Lees meerNon-consensual on-device image analysis perhaps was difficult to reconcile with privacy protests Apple evidently has decided against forcing customers to run its sex crime detection software on their iPhones in order to refer those stashing illegal …
Lees meerNot getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you Google has given its anti-vax workers an ultimatum: you're fired unless you comply with its COVID-19 vaccination rules.…
Lees meerShocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here The UK's antitrust regulator fears Apple and Google have a "vice-like grip" on mobile apps and browsers, which freezes out competitors and gives folks a crummy deal.…
Lees meerDaaS cleans up balance sheets, makes techies’ lives brighter Paid Feature It might have taken a couple of decades, but we’re now at a point where many tech professionals have moved away from the thinking that a server is something they have to “own…
Lees meerChinese handset maker doesn't go too hardcore, focuses on making snaps sparkle Oppo has joined the elite club of smartphone makers that design their own silicon for use in their products.…
Lees meerTokyo’s Chiyoda Ward measures ventilation quality so diners can breathe easy Chiyoda Ward, an area of central Tokyo, has created an app to help folks ascertain whether or not a restaurant is well ventilated and therefore less likely to lead to a COV…
Lees meerUK.gov talks tough: 'We will not hesitate to act if required to protect our critical national telecoms infrastructure' Billionaire telco tycoon Patrick Drahi has upped his stake in BT to 18 per cent but says he is not intending – at least not yet – …
Lees meerNovember incident led to delays in emergency service dispatches Exclusive An IT failure that led to a critical incident delaying ambulance dispatches from an NHS service in the south of England was down to network failures following routine mainten…
Lees meerMore than eighty feared dead across multiple US states hit by super storms Six people were killed on Friday night when a severe storm struck an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois, and dozens more lost their lives in nearby Arkansas, Missouri…
Lees meerPolice National Computer, customs rig and more fingered in PAC report UK government has "no clear plan" to set out how it will replace ageing legacy systems vital for the operation of the public sector, despite some systems dating back to the 1970s,…
Lees meerA little bit more QWERTY never hurty Review The mechanical keyboard space is teeming with competition. If you're a gamer, a coder, or simply type a lot, there's something for you. But asterisk, dear reader: that's only true if you're wedded to the …
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