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Lees meerIndian vice-president calls for ‘dismal’ situation to change India's Vice-President Shri Venkaiah Naidu has called on his nation to sort out gender imbalance in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and to ensure tha…
Lees meerIt’s hard to kill off a trusted, stable technology that works Verizon has delayed plans to shutdown its 3G network for a third time.…
Lees meerAmerican goliath vows to overturn ruling at Middle Kingdom's Supreme People’s Court Amazon hopes to overturn a ruling in China that not only banned it from using its AWS acronym and logo in the Middle Kingdom but also ordered the US giant to pay Chi…
Lees meerBut hasn't said why The New York Stock Exchange has reversed an earlier decision to delist China's three largest telecommunications companies.…
Lees meer'Unexpected spike in user traffic' causes Tuesday tumble The outfits might be arch-rivals in the messaging space, but Microsoft 365 showed a bit of solidarity with Slack this afternoon as its administration portal fell over for users in the UK and s…
Lees meerFCC won't mull law reform this month Section 230 – the liability shield that more or less prevents websites, such as Twitter and Facebook, from being sued in the US for their users’ content – is going to survive the Trump era despite furious last-di…
Lees meerJio blames rivals for vandalising infrastructure in rural areas during protests Top India telco Reliance Jio Infocomm has taken the unusual step of vigorously denying it wants to diversify into farming.…
Lees meerAfter years of waffle, potentially thousands of web addresses suspended Tens of thousands of .eu domains have been officially suspended due to Brexit.…
Lees meerA new year, another, er, billionaire goes missing? Former CEO and founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Jack Ma has vanished from public view, fueling fears Beijing is punishing the cloud mogul for speaking out against the Chinese government.…
Lees meerWhat do we want? That whole 'don't be evil' thing. When do we want it? As soon as 30% agree to and election and then... Hundreds of Googlers have started forming a labor union at the internet giant and its Alphabet stablemates.…
Lees meerBut DMCA claims about circumventing security protections still stand A federal judge has ruled against Apple in its copyright battle with Corellium, a Florida startup that offers virtualized iOS instances for security researchers.…
Lees meerThe new internets of Iran, China, and Russia are nothing like the original Feature Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Gilmore said that the internet routed around censorship. But what if the net stopped being one big, connected thing? N…
Lees meerEverything is Windows' fault. Even when it really isn't Who, Me? The perils of dusty old kit, a cashing-in of brownie points and if in doubt, blame Microsoft! Start the week with another Register reader Who, Me? confession.…
Lees meerLegal geniuses behind case ask for extra time to convert between Google Docs and MS Word The legal minds behind a so-far-failed attempt to sue United States vice-president Mike Pence so he can challenge the result of the nation’s presidential electi…
Lees meerFor whom the return key tolls 12BoC Ah, Christmas dos. Remember them? A chance to humiliate oneself in front of colleagues and make the odd drunken confession or two*. Welcome to the tenth whoopsie of our Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC) series*…
Lees meerBrute force and ignorance a happy VAX does not make On Call The world of IT and hard physical labour are unlikely bedfellows, but a troublesome VAX installation brought the two together in today's On Call.…
Lees meerModem life is rubbish 12BoC On the third day of Christmas, the bork gods sent to me: petty angry user, flightless Windows signage, and a server they said had ceased to be. Welcome to the Twelve Borks of Christmas (12BoC): a collection of Register r…
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