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Linus Torvalds pulls pin, tosses in grenade: x86 won, forget about Arm in server CPUs, says Linux kernel supremo
Channeling the late Steve Jobs, Linux kernel king Linus Torvalds this week dismissed cross-platform efforts to support his contention that Arm-compatible processors will never dominate the server market.…
Decoding the President, because someone has to: Did Trump just blow up concerted US effort to ban Chinese 5G kit?
Comment President Donald Trump appears to have undermined an increasingly aggressive push by the US government and telcos to pressure the world to shun Chinese equipment in next-generation 5G networks.…
How politics works, part 97: Telecoms industry throws a fundraiser for US senator night before he oversees, er, a telecoms privacy hearing
The chairman of a US Senate commerce committee looking at fresh online privacy laws will be thrown a reelection fundraiser by the telecoms industry literally the day before a key hearing.…
Now you've read about the bonkers world of Elizabeth Holmes, own some Theranos history: Upstart's IT gear for sale
Fancy owning a piece of Silicon Valley history? Hundreds of PCs, notebooks, and monitors used by infamous biotech cluster-fuck-up Theranos are set to be sold off following the $10bn-peak-valued biz's collapse.…
Entrust Datacard lined up to unburden Thales of nCipher biz as price for Gemalto buyout
French defence tech conglomerate Thales has flogged off its hardware security module biz nCipher Security, a sale demanded by competition regulators over Thales' buyout of Gemalto.…
Redis kills Modules' Commons Clause licensing... and replaces it with one of their own
Redis Labs has jettisoned the Commons Clause software licence introduced last year for its Redis Modules, saying the earlier change had left some users "confused."…
Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has got the horn for space rock Ryugu – a sampling horn, that is
Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has successfully collected a sample from the surface of asteroid Ryugu following a careful descent last night.…
ZX Spectrum Vega+ 'backer'? Nope, you're now a creditor – and should probably act fast
People who paid for one of the infamous ZX Spectrum Vega+ handheld game consoles are being urged to register themselves as creditors of the company before a liquidator is appointed.…
CI/CD outfit Shippable shipped off to adopt the green tinge of JFrog
DevOps darling JFrog has snapped up cloud-based Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) outfit Shippable.…
Trust the public cloud Big Three to make non-volatile storage volatile
AWS and Google Cloud virtual machine instances – and as of this month, Azure's – have NVMe flash drive performance, but user be warned: drive contents are wiped when the VMs are killed.…
Infosec in spaaace! NCC and Surrey Uni to pore over satellite security
NCC Group and the University of Surrey have set up a "Space Cyber Security Research Partnership" to investigate the security issues faced by satellites.…
Google: Hmm, this government regulation stuff looks important. Let's stick some more lobbyists on that
Facing down an increased interest in tech regulation, Google is said to be rejigging its global lobbying efforts and upping its focus on privacy and competition.…
HPE's cold storage digit: 2% growth better than a kick in the teeth – but it's no Dell EMC
HPE storage revenues – like NetApp's – grew just 2 per cent year-on-year in the firm's first 2019 quarter, with Nimble all-flash arrays leading the charge amble.…
Huawei exec says firm will start tackling GCHQ security fears from June
Stinging from British criticism over its slow pace, Huawei has promised to start addressing security fears from the country's spy agency, GCHQ, by June.…
Sueballs at the ready? Google promises end to forced arbitration after wave of staff protests
Google has said it will end forced arbitration next month and lift a ban on class-action suits after intense pressure from staffers.…
Lunar lander's brief jaunt will place Israel as fourth country to make soft landing on Moon
SpaceX has sent the first privately funded lunar lander on its way to the Moon following an evening launch from Canaveral Air Force station.…
Artificial Intelligence: You know it isn't real, yeah?
Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Where's the intelligence?" cried a voice from the back.…
Not so smart after all: A techie's tale of toilet noise horror
Ah the perils of a connected society were evidenced once again this week when some techies we know took on a pimply faced, smartwatch clad youth as an apprentice.…
OK, team, we've got the big demo tomorrow and we're feeling confident. Let's reboot the servers
On Call After a long, hard week, what better way to start Friday than with a dose of On Call, El Reg's weekly column for tech traumas, mishaps and eureka moments.…
What's the frequency, KeNNeth? Neural nets trained to tune in on radar signals to boost future mobe broadband
Neural networks have proven surprisingly adept at detect radar signals – and could help the US Navy and civilian mobile networks better share their overlapping radio spectrum.…