Legal
US ponders tech export ban on SMIC, China's biggest chipmaker
Company reacts with 'complete shock and perplexity' and says it's a law-abiding citizen
07 Sep 02:37 | 43
7th > September > 2020 Archive
OSes
Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel
Patch chap wants Linux, classic AmigaOS to coexist peacefully
07 Sep 03:10 | 41
Personal Tech
Nintendo revives Game & Watch portable proto-console, adds color to 2.36-inch screen
Retro-Mario brought to life for a few short months
07 Sep 04:57 | 24
In Brief
Darknet market's peacemaker sentenced to 11 years in prison
Sealed with an XSS: Flaw in Go lang library could cause app issues
07 Sep 06:01 | 7
Science
China launches and lands its first re-usable spacecraft
And it might just have been a spaceplane to rival the USA’s X-37
07 Sep 06:45 | 22
Who, Me?
Competitive techies almost bring distributed disaster upon themselves – and they didn't even find any aliens
Idle hands are SETI's workshop
07 Sep 07:15 | 42
Networks
No Huawei, America: Samsung scores $6.6bn for 5G at US giant Verizon
Remember how established carrier vendors were going to clean up after Huawei bans? Not so much, maybe ...
07 Sep 07:51 | 12
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Ghost of Windows past spotted haunting Yorkshire railway station
WoOoO! Log me iiiin... Press CTRL-ALT-DELEeEeTE
07 Sep 08:30 | 20
Review
The Honor MagicBook Pro looks nice, runs like a dream, and isn't too expensive either. What more could you want?
An English keyboard maybe
07 Sep 09:17 | 94
Register Debate
AI in the enterprise: Prepare to be disappointed – oversold but under appreciated, it can help... just not too much
Today we launch our Register Debates in which we spar over hot topics and YOU decide which side is right – by reader vote
07 Sep 10:00 | 38
On-Prem
SMEs to UK.gov: We need vouchers for tech and training ahead of final Brexit curtain falling
'Still no clear sense of what we'll be transitioning to' warns Fed of Small Biz
07 Sep 10:51 | 18
Software
There can be only one: Visual Studio Codespaces 'consolidating' into GitHub Codespaces
You have until 17 February 2021 to shift off - or it all gets deleted, says Microsoft
07 Sep 11:32 | 9
SaaS
The Wrath of Amazon: JEDI wars rage on after US Department of Defense affirms Microsoft contract
AWS claims 'blatant political interference'
07 Sep 12:26 | 34
Software
UK Home Office seeks suppliers: £25m up for grabs to build database to keep track of crimelords' ill-gotten gains
Seized assets system is 15 years old, counts cash of fraud dept, tax bods, courts, cops and more
07 Sep 13:24 | 29
In Brief
One button to mute them all: PowerToys brings forth kill button for the conferencing generation
Also: Organisational tools everywhere and mobile commenting in OneDrive
07 Sep 15:07 | 5
Personal Tech
Putting the B's in bargain basement, Xiaomi staggers into sunlight clutching Poco X3
Yo Poco! Latest cheap-o blower has no 5G frills or long-lens skills. But it retails at £199
07 Sep 16:19 | 15
Register Debate
AI in the enterprise: AI may as well stand for automatic idiot – but that doesn't mean all machine learning is bad
Is AI just a rebrand of yesterday's dumb algorithms? We present the argument against this motion – and don't forget to vote
07 Sep 17:00 | 27
Devops
Classy move: C++ 20 wins final approval in ISO technical ballot, formal publication expected by end of year
'Best approximation of C++ ideals so far,' says Stroustrup - but is it too big and complex?
07 Sep 17:45 | 181
In brief
Rocket Lab deploys Photon, er, in-house built satellite on Flight 14
Also: More Starlink and hopping fun for SpaceX and Northrop Grumman lights the blue touchpaper for SLS
07 Sep 18:33 | 15
Biting the hand that feeds IT
