No Google Play, no problem: Huawei pinches global phone sales crown off Samsung
It almost seemed like a mission impossible but Huawei has defied all expectations – including its own – by outshipping rival handset maker Samsung to become the world's biggest shifter of smartphones.…
And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life
Perseverance, the heaviest and most complex Martian rover yet, is on its way to the Red Planet aboard an Atlas V rocket that blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday.…
IBM talks up open cloud, downplays vendor lock-in as it signs public cloud framework with UK.gov
As predicted by El Reg, IBM has joined the growing band of mostly American vendors to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK government that defines discounts for public cloud sales to public sector buyers.…
If you own one of these 45 Netgear devices, replace it: Firm won't patch vulnerable gear despite live proof-of-concept code
Netgear has quietly decided not to patch more than 40 home routers to plug a remote code execution vulnerability – despite security researchers having published proof-of-concept exploit code.…
Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)
Openreach has confirmed an intent to bring FTTP "full-fibre" connectivity to part of the so-called "final third" of the UK – representing rural and isolated areas typically underserved by network providers.…
Firefighters to UK Home Office: Yeah, maybe don't turn off emergency comms network before replacement is ready
As if the UK's emergency services didn't have enough on their plate, the troubled plan to replace their communication network appears to be hitting choppy waters once more.…
Samsung cops COVID crunch and gets run over by Huawei in handsets for first time
Samsung Electronics has reported droopy results for its second quarter and has been beaten out by Huawei in the global handset shipments stakes for the first time.…
DXC says ransomware attack disrupted customer operations at insurance services arm but barely left a scratch
DXC has recovered from a ransomware attack that hit its independent services-for-insurers operation Xchanging.…
Someone made an AI that predicted gender from email addresses, usernames. It went about as well as expected
The creators of a controversial tool that attempted to use AI to predict people's gender from their internet handle or email address have shut down their service after a huge backlash.…
Community Fibre to splash £400m on FTTP connections as it races to cover a million London properties by 2023
London-based ISP Community Fibre has said it will invest £400m to extend its 10Gbps FTTP connections to more premises in the English capital, aiming to reach one million households and businesses by 2023.…
Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line
Boeing has announced it will stop making 747s, probably in the year 2022.…
Qualcomm signs new IP licencing deal with Huawei despite US-China trade tensions
Huawei has agreed to pay US chipmaker Qualcomm $1.8bn to settle a long-standing dispute over infringement of the American firm’s patents.…
Microsoft delivers CouchOps capability with Android TV upgrade to Remote Desktop app
Microsoft’s upgraded its Remote Desktop app for Android with features that mean sysadmins can now control desktops that run just about anywhere from just about anything.…
At historic Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google CEOs hearing, congressmen ramble, congresswomen home in on tech market abuse
Analysis For six hours on Wednesday, the Western world’s most powerful tech CEOs – whose businesses have become household names and touch every part of our daily digital lives – were grilled by US lawmakers regarding their market dominance.…
HPE's Azure Stack Hub future 'in doubt' as US staff canned, SimpliVity team cut, India picks up the pieces
Over the past two weeks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has axed roughly 150 positions in the US, including Azure Stack Hub engineering roles and at least part of its SimpliVity team.…
911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way
The Milky Way galaxy ripped apart an ancient star cluster born in the early universe and stole its suns two billion years ago, according to a study published in Nature on Wednesday.…
YOU... SHA-1 NOT PASS! Microsoft magics away demonic hash algorithm from Windows updates, apps
Microsoft is preparing to once and for all drop support for the SHA-1 hash algorithm.…
This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing
On Tuesday this week, five days after Intel acknowledged that its plan to produce 7nm processors had gone off the rails, a shareholder lawsuit was filed against the chip maker.…
GRUB2, you're getting too bug for your boots: Config file buffer overflow is a boon for malware seeking to drill deeper into a system
An annoying vulnerability in the widely used GRUB2 bootloader can be potentially exploited by malware or a rogue insider already on a machine to thoroughly compromise the operating system or hypervisor while evading detection by users and security tools.…
From a trickle to an Application Stream: Red Hat opens barriers for RHEL 8.3 beta
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.3 has hit beta, with security and production stability pointed to as key goals for the update.…