Let’s check in with that 30,000-job $10bn Trump-Foxconn Wisconsin plant. Wow, way worse than we'd imagined Surreal tales from the Midwest Science20 Oct 2020 | 181
Pakistan restores TikTok, says it needs to crack down on video nasties, and anything else outside 'societal norms' App promises to curb behaviour but this might be about control than morals Personal Tech20 Oct 2020 | 1
Intel offloads NAND business to South Korea's SK Hynix for a cool $9bn Deal sees $7bn paid now, $2bn in 2025 when Intel hands over key IP and FAB workers Storage20 Oct 2020 | 11
Toshiba to sell off-the-shelf quantum key distribution kit, eventually offer it as-a-service Wait until the ‘we need backdoors’ crowd hears about this Science20 Oct 2020 | 11
Arm gets edgier with faster machine-learning accelerator to slot alongside Cortex, Neoverse CPU cores Ethos-U65 sounds like an industrial techno band from the 1990s but, well, it isn't AI + ML20 Oct 2020 | 2
IBM still not offering future revenue guidance, suffers yet another quarter of falling sales Plus $2.3bn of restructuring coming due to NewCo split, cloud humming along, Red Hat roaring On-Prem20 Oct 2020 | 11
Cisco warns VMware vCenter bug puts hyperconverged tin in ‘unrecoverable’ state Whatever you do, don’t run vCenter Server 7.0 U1 on HyperFlex. Just don’t go there unless you want horrible pain. Clear enough warning? On-Prem20 Oct 2020 | 7
Everybody's going to the Moon (and Mars): The Reg chats to ESA about 10-year plans and sending Tim back to space Agency's 'nauts to ride in US commercial crew capsules 'going forward' Science20 Oct 2020 | 14
Transport for London data pilot: We want to keep tabs on dockless bikes and e-bikes Peddling hard to swerve a pavement pile-up of leased 'mobile assets causing obstructions in the public realm' On-Prem20 Oct 2020 | 61
GSM gateways: Parliament obviously cocked up, so let minister issue 'ignore the law' decree, UK.gov barrister urges court Something something national security, right? Legal20 Oct 2020 | 37
Oh Mi: Xiaomi shows off 80W wireless charging, claims battery fully fat again in under 20 minutes Commercially available? Er.... not yet Personal Tech20 Oct 2020 | 58
Microsoft unleashes production-ready Edge Runtime. WebView2: This time it's Chromium Distributes it in self-updating Evergreen flavour and Fixed for people who hate surprises Software20 Oct 2020 | 12
Adobe updates Creative Cloud: Pushes out Illustrator for iPad and full sky replacement in Photoshop Adobe MAX Plus: Is it real or is it Photoshop? First preview of Content Authenticity tool SaaS20 Oct 2020 | 16
We'll know what we node, we'll grok what we've graphed: Neo4j nails graph machine learning to data science workbench Can help build more efficient recommendation algos, amongst other stuff it hopes users want AI + ML20 Oct 2020 | 2
Remember insider threat? Old news now. Focus on malware detection, says EU infosec agency ENISA annual report also calls for better use of threat intel by frontline bods Security20 Oct 2020 | 8
Beloved US telco Verizon puts arm around Nokia, Microsoft, preps enterprise 5G for Europe, APAC Lucky old us. Plus: Azure Edge biz service software bundled in Networks20 Oct 2020 | 5
MongoDB rolls out pick 'n' mix multi-cloud DBaaS, hopes to win over footdraggers by playing well with AWS, Google, Microsoft Falls short as a generalist database playa, though, says analyst Databases20 Oct 2020 | 6
Azure in Spaaaaaaaaace: Microsoft signs up with SpaceX's satellite net constellation Starlink In space, no one can hear you scream, 'Office 365 is down again!' If only there was a way to minimize outages on Earth... SaaS20 Oct 2020 | 2
Google screwed rivals to protect monopoly, says Uncle Sam in antitrust lawsuit: We go inside the Sherman parked on a Silicon Valley lawn Analysis Search engine giant has officially become 1990s Microsoft Personal Tech20 Oct 2020 | 105
VMware patches, among other things, ESXi flaw that can be abused by miscreants on the network to hijack hosts Adobe issues out-of-band patches, too, for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, etc Security20 Oct 2020 |
Microsoft takes Kubernetes right to the edge with release of Akri for IoT devices Beware Greeks bearing gifts Devops20 Oct 2020 |
What does everyone make of today's Google antitrust action? Only the stock market is happy with the status quo Analysis Some state AGs feel US govt lawsuit is limited, tech groups worry about implications Personal Tech20 Oct 2020 | 48
Top tip, everyone: Chinese hackers are hitting these 25 vulns, so make sure you patch them ASAP, says NSA Plus this Chrome one being exploited in the wild, we note Security20 Oct 2020 | 13