3rd September 2020 Archive • The Register

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Homeland Security demands a 911 for reporting security holes in federal networks: 'Vulns in internet systems cause real-world impacts'

Great – and who will be the first responders?

03 Sep 00:58 | 10

India bans a further 118 Chinese apps as physical and online tensions escalate

PUBG, Alipay, Baidu and more exiled

03 Sep 02:20 | 4

There’s no new normal coming for PC sales, just the boring old normal of a long, slow decline

IDC says 2020 will be a unique and beautiful snowflake as shipments pop three percent because you can't go to the movies

03 Sep 03:57 | 15

Everything's falling apart. The Moon is slowly rusting up – and it's probably Earth's fault

We're not talking about the programming language, either

03 Sep 06:04 | 45

What the world needs now is socially-distant robots, says Japan

Takes its domestic standard for human/robot interactions to the ISO to get moving machines working with humans in hospitals and beyond

03 Sep 06:27 | 6

With a million unwanted .uk domains expiring this week, Nominet again sends punters pushy emails to pay up

No one wants them – including all of Britain’s top brands

03 Sep 07:02 | 65

Five Eyes nations start new club for competition regulators and paint target on digital giants

Joint investigations imagined, complete with sharing of confidential info gleaned from local probes

03 Sep 07:29 | 11

Anyone else noticed that the top countries for broadband speeds are well-known tax havens? No? Just us then?

Meanwhile, UK languishes in 47th according to Cable.co.uk rankings

03 Sep 08:07 | 96

Why cloud costs get out of control: Too much lift and shift, and pricing that is 'screwy and broken'

The Reg talks to the experts about how to manage spend

03 Sep 09:04 | 61

Here comes an AI that can predict hurricane strength. Don't worry, NASA made it so it probably actually works

And if it does, chalk a win for IBM Watson at last

03 Sep 10:08 | 14

TCL's latest e-ink tech looks good on paper, but Chinese giant will have to back up extraordinary claims

Concept demo fast enough to show movies and games apparently

03 Sep 11:25 | 47

When low-balled projects go bad: Scottish pensions agency starts £10m procurement to buy the system Capita could not

Cancelled contract saw outsourcing giant paying back £700k

03 Sep 12:10 | 30

Better dictation in latest Dev Channel build will faithfully convert your spittle-flecked Windows 10 rantings to text

With auto-punctuation and all! Plus: Emojis... and more Edge-y nagging

03 Sep 13:09 | 3

Unexpected victory in bagging area: Apple must pay shop workers for time they spend waiting to get frisked

Yes, Cupertino appealed last time. It has been 7 years now

03 Sep 14:00 | 60

Snowden was right: US court deems NSA bulk phone-call snooping illegal, possibly unconstitutional, and probably pointless anyway

Privacy campaigners cheer ruling 7 years in the making

03 Sep 15:02 | 45

VMware supremo Pat Gelsinger makes peace with Microsoft, and Virtzilla pitches Tanzu to the Spring crowd

We talk to VMware VP and Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie: 'Our ambition was to disrupt' - but not just for Google

Under fire for 30% cut, Apple really isn't giving anything away with introduction of subscription offer codes

Digital services tax? You'll be paying that on top of VAT, developers told

03 Sep 16:41 | 9

Qualcomm flexes latest Arm chipset for laptops: Snappy performance and battery life if you can put off your upgrade long enough

Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G will first appear on the Acer Spin 7

03 Sep 17:30 | 14

Apple: Yeah, about those ground-breaking privacy features in iOS 14 – don't expect them until next year

'Fundamental right to privacy' can wait – Facebook and others are annoyed

03 Sep 19:48 | 19

Google declares Maps COVID-19-ready after retraining it on pandemic traffic – or the lack of it in some areas

50 per cent decrease in worldwide traffic when lockdowns started

03 Sep 21:25 | 9

Sigh. Another day, another reason for WordPress users to get patching: Hackers abuse bug in popular plugin

Sites with WP File Manager should update ASAP – exploits in the wild

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