Surely it must realize regulators aren't going to go for this? With its telecoms and consumer electronics businesses prevented from addressing rich overseas markets, Huawei has set itself on the road to a new industry: electric cars.…
Lees meerCause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose – but not on their mind On-Call The week, and indeed the year, may be ebbing away to their respective conclusions, but The Register continues to toil away at On-Call, our weekly reader-contribu…
Lees meerRedmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator Australia's e-safety commissioner, a government agency charged with keeping citizens safe online, has delivered a report on seven tech platforms' mechanisms to prot…
Lees meerSome are suspected of helping other banned suppliers get around sanctions The United States Department of Commerce has added 36 Chinese companies or subsidiaries to its list of companies that cannot import certain US technologies without a license, …
Lees meerMore ways to boot, with less overhead – just what's needed in the embedded market Version 4.17 of the Xen project's eponymous hypervisor has debuted, bringing with it the first look at Hyperlaunch capabilities that allow the creation of multipole VM…
Lees meerHow about right now? Right now is good The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) says it's time to retire Secure Hash Algorithm-1 (SHA-1), a 27-year-old weak algorithm used in security applications.…
Lees meerFree speech? Or 'roving internet censors' An internet trade association whose members include Amazon, Google, Meta, TikTok and Twitter has sued the state of California to block a recently signed law that aims to protect kids online by requiring webs…
Lees meerPutin it into operation will take a while at this rate The debut of Bill Gates' advanced nuclear power plant will be delayed for at least two years because the only company that makes its fuel in sufficient quantities to make it work is located in R…
Lees meerWe sure do love those government subsidies says industry cheerleader This year's shaky economy has tripped up a some semiconductor companies, although plenty of them apparently feel excited enough that they are spending hundreds of billions of dolla…
Lees meerIt's a Jersey thing, and the $26,000 can be filed under business expenses The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Wednesday that it reached a settlement with Secureapp Technologies LLC, an IT recruiting firm based in New Jersey, to resolve the de…
Lees meerCops give denial-of-service sites an extra special denial of service Police around the globe have seized as many as 50 internet domains said to be involved in tens of millions of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks worldwide. Seven people w…
Lees meerFrankly my dear, I do give a DAAML A bipartisan bill introduced in the US Senate could finally bring the cryptocurrency industry to heel by, among other things, extending existing banking regulations to cover digital currencies and designating crypt…
Lees meerIf electric car ownership keeps going up, they’ll be coining it Microsoft is one of the investors contributing to the latest funding round for Group14 Technologies, a company developing silicon battery technology for applications including electric …
Lees meerSay what you want – until Elon decides it affects him, too Twitter has suspended an account dedicated to tracking Elon Musk's private jet trips using public flight data – a month after the world's second-richest man said his "commitment to free spee…
Lees meerCross-platform so you can run it on a Windows box, too Two of the leading open source video editing programs got new versions in the same week… and they're both cross-platform, so you don't need to be a penguin-botherer to try them.…
Lees meerWhen putting software on trial is a good thing An AI application that aids early stage breast cancer screening has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for commercialization, software developer MedCognetics announced this week.…
Lees meerPitches storage, cloudy software compliance to twitchy EU customers thinking about GDPR Microsoft has confirmed that from the beginning of 2023, it will introduce an EU Data Boundary solution designed to help customers in the European Union and the …
Lees meerTransfers group of employees to new owners, makes 400 other local staff redundant Swedish network system maker Ericsson is the latest tech business to offload its remaining operations in Russia to local management, months after saying it was going t…
Lees meerDefendants allegedly 'discussed their scheme’ in recorded chats on Discord and Twitter that ‘they believed were private’ Eight braggadocious social media influencers fond of posing next to sportscars are facing charges from the US Securities and Exc…
Lees meerBut the 'push to higher frequencies is driven by engineers, not end users,' says analyst The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has unveiled a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) to undertake preliminary work on the potential …
Lees meerSees opportunity on one side, dictatorial control on the other Comment As Qualcomm tries to fight off a lawsuit from Arm demanding Qualcomm destroy its custom cores, the Snapdragon giant has signaled it may have a bigger future with RISC-V.…
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