Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker Markets outside China are doing better, but at home vendors have huge component stockpiles Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 19
Toshiba says it's talking to 10 suitors about possible sale Hires external advisors to bolster decision making capacity and hints it could consider multiple buyout plans Legal16 May 2022 | 7
China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform Is state-approved Ubuntu distro how the Middle Kingdom will replace PCs with home-grown kit? OSes16 May 2022 | 5
Arm CPU ran on electricity generated by algae for over six months AA-battery-sized biological photovoltaic cell touted as ideal for IoT applications Edge + IoT16 May 2022 | 91
Ad-tech firms grab email addresses from forms before they're even submitted Researchers find widespread harvesting of info without consent Personal Tech16 May 2022 | 89
(Our) hardware is still key in a multicloud world, Dell ISG chief insists Analysis IT giant may be shifting its focus to software and services, but systems remain the foundation Systems16 May 2022 | 3
September 16, 1992, was not a good day to be overly enthusiastic about your job Who, Me? If I get in early and work hard, everyone will notice, right? Columnists16 May 2022 | 63
Lawyers say changes to UK data law will make life harder for international businesses Concerns raised over government drive to implement distinct post-Brexit policy Legal16 May 2022 | 69
San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance In brief Plus: Tech giants commit $30m to open-source security, miscreants breach DEA portal, and US signs cybercrime treaty Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 18
How CXL may change the datacenter as we know it Interview Bye-bye bottlenecks. Hello composable infrastructure? Systems16 May 2022 | 6
You can keep your old ERP system, but you'll still need ServiceNow, CEO tells The Reg Interview Bill McDermott thinks companies need workflow on top of enterprise apps, whether they replace them or not SaaS16 May 2022 | 17
RISC-V needs more than an open architecture to compete Opinion Arm shows us that even total domination doesn't always make stupid levels of money Columnists16 May 2022 | 56
US cops kick back against facial recognition bans In brief Plus: DeepMind launches new generalist AI system, and Apple boffin quits over return-to-work policy AI + ML16 May 2022 | 9
EU-US Trade and Technology Council meets to coordinate on supply chains Agenda includes warning system for disruptions, and avoiding 'subsidy race' for chip investments Systems16 May 2022 | 3
Python is getting faster: Major performance tweaks on horizon Instagram, Microsoft responsible for lifts coming in version 3.11 and beyond Software16 May 2022 | 20
Elon Musk 'violated' Twitter NDA over bot-check sample size Updated <5% figure was based on 100 accounts, if you're wondering Networks16 May 2022 | 87
Financial giant Santander: 80% of our IT infrastructure in cloud 'Most challenging element of migration likely remains' warns analyst PaaS + IaaS16 May 2022 | 10
Kasten by Veeam adds ransomware detection to K10 data management platform Kubecon Catching compromise attempts before kicking off that recovery plan Storage16 May 2022 |
Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests Still think we're ready for that autonomous future? AI + ML16 May 2022 | 205
Lithium production needs investment to keep pace with battery demand Report says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade Science16 May 2022 | 17
Meta hires network chip guru from Intel: What does this mean for future silicon? Analysis Why be a customer when you can develop your own custom semiconductors Networks16 May 2022 | 1
US brings first-of-its-kind criminal charges of Bitcoin-based sanctions-busting Citizen allegedly moved $10m-plus in BTC into banned nation Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 5
GPL legal battle: Vizio told by judge it will have to answer breach-of-contract claims Fine-print crucially deemed contractual agreement as well as copyright license in smartTV source-code case Applications16 May 2022 | 54