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Friday June 21, 2019. 04:31 PM
acirc Summer's here, where's Windows 10 19H2? For Microsoft, spring ends whenever the heck it says so stop asking
IF (DateTime.Now > Spring) { WHILE (Windows!= Done) Spring++; } Microsoft enlivened an otherwise deadly dull Windows 10 Insider build by revealing the corporation now defines its own seasons.…
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its Welsh chip slinger IQE's shares drop by a third after blaming Huawei ban for falling revenues
Chief points to strain on global supply chains as earnings miss analyst estimates Welsh chip and wafer maker IQE's shares fell by almost a third this morning when it warned that the impact of the United States' Huawei ban is likely to be worse than expected.…
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security Bloody vultures! Cheeky Spanish paraglider firm pinched El Reg's mascot
Dios mío, eso es nuestro buitre! An, er, eagle-eyed Reg reader holidaying in Spain has spotted an uncanny resemblance between this organ's beloved mascot and an equally vulturine logo being used by a peninsular paragliding concern.…
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call Red Hat signs off last set of numbers before it is likely gobbled by IBM
Only the Chinese now to OK $34.5bn slurp With the EU tipped to approve IBM's $34bn slurp of Red Hat next week, the open-source software house started Q1 of fiscal '20 with double-digit hikes in sales and profit, though its top line fell short of analyst estimates.…
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are Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig
More delays ahead for troubled programme The UK Home Office has extended its Emergency Services Network contract with Motorola, intended to shift blue-light services to 4G.…
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spend Hot desk hell: Staff spend 2 weeks a year looking for open-plan seats
Cough. I believe you have my stapler People spend an average of two bloody weeks a year just looking for a frigging desk to work at, thanks to hot-desking.…
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windows Hot desk hell: Staff spend two weeks a year looking for seats in open-plan offices
Cough. I believe you have my stapler People spend an average of two bloody weeks a year just looking for a frigging desk to work at, thanks to hot-desking.…
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desk NVMe. We've written about it. You know all about it. But are you using it? We'd love to hear your thoughts
Are you deploying this storage tech – or is it barely on your radar? We want to hear from you either way, please Reg survey We've all seen more than enough marketing hype in IT by now, and probably more enough to last several lifetimes.…
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computer Good old British 'fair play' is the answer to vexed Huawei question, claims security minister
He then doubled down on spies' 'ghost user' backdoor plan Solving the Huawei 5G security problem is a question of convincing the Chinese to embrace British 'fair play', security minister Ben Wallace said yesterday without the slightest hint of irony.…
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geek Queue baa, Libra: People will buy what Facebook's selling. They shouldn't, but they will
God money I’ll do anything for you Something for the Weekend, Sir? 'People love being sold to.'…
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news Alexa, am I having a heart attack? Here's how smart speakers could detect their masters spluttering to death
Urgh, OK Google, call 9... Can you hear me?! CALL 9...arghgh Digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home may be able to automatically detect when someone is having a heart attack, and call for medical help, one day, according to this latest research.…
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pc DXC: We've told UK government that up to 2,150 heads could roll in latest job cuts
'Expect actual number to go to be much less' says firm, as 1k put hand up for voluntary redundancy Exclusive DXC Technology has told UK government and Unite that – in a worst case scenario – more than 2,000 locals could be made redundant in the latest round of expense...
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technology Comms room, comms room, comms room is on fire – we don't need no water, let the engineer burn
Figuratively, of course On Call As you shut down and wait for Windows or macOS to spend the usual hour installing updates before your weekend can begin, spare a thought for those on the other end of the phone in The Register's weekly On Call column.…
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internet Bollocks or brutal truth: Do smart-mobes make us grow skull horns? We take a closer look at boffins' startling claims
Phone bone grown from shoddy body tone, it's shown Young people are developing 'horn-like' bone spurs, it's claimed, and smartphone-induced posture problems are apparently to blame.…
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technologies Look, we've tried, but we just can't write this headline without saying boffins have probed Uranus's cold ring
Cluster of rock and ice a sweltering 77K, we're told Astronomers have measured the temperature of one of Uranus’s rings, dubbed Epsilon, for the first time. The result: the cluster of ice and rock is a nippy 77 kelvin.…
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computers Shameless Facebook treats its poor human moderators like absolute dirt. But y'know what it does treat right? Robots
If you've dreamed of advancing human obsolescence, your time is at hand Facebook's software can't catch all the vile content uploaded to its servers by its addicts, which is why the multibollion-dollar antisocial network relies on relatively poorly paid contractors, who work ...
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pc news Millions of Windows Dell PCs need patching: Give-me-admin security gremlin found lurking in bundled support tool
Can't spell SupportAssist without 'ass' and 'u' – other makers may be hit, too Updated Dell's troubleshooting software SupportAssist, bundled with the US tech titan's home and business computers, has a security flaw that can be exploited by malware and rogue logged-in...
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Thursday June 20, 2019. 11:50 PM
pc news headlines A $4bn biz without a live product just broke the record for the amount paid for a domain name. WTF is going on?
Goodbye Sex.com: Voice.com now #1 at $30m Comment This week saw the greatest sum ever paid for a domain name: Voice.com was sold in an all-cash deal for $30m to a company called Block.one, more than doubling the previous, longstanding record of $13m for Sex.com.…
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geek news It's now officially the WhackBook Pro: If the keyboards weren't bad enough, now MacBook Pro batts are a fire risk
Apple issues voluntary recall for godforsaken laptops, again Apple has urged its fans to stop using certain MacBook Pro models, and has issued a voluntary recall of the notebooks, after they were found to be prone to battery blazes.…
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technology news Digi-dosh exchange Coinbase: Someone tried to pwn our staff via this week's Firefox zero-day security hole
Patch released after crypto-currency biz sounded alarm The development and release of a critical Firefox security patch this week was, in part, triggered by an attempted cyber-heist of crypto-coin exchange Coinbase.…
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