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Huawei counts cost of Western bans as UK business withers

Tue, 2025-09-02 10:01
Brit limb books just £188M in revenue – down 85% since 2019

Huawei's business in Britain has dwindled in the half-decade since the UK acquiesced to demands from the US to ban the Chinese networking giant from local telco networks.…

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Frostbyte10 bugs put thousands of refrigerators at major grocery chains at risk

Tue, 2025-09-02 09:00
Major flaws uncovered in Copeland controllers: Patch now

Ten vulnerabilities in Copeland controllers, which are found in thousands of devices used by the world's largest supermarket chains and cold storage companies, could have allowed miscreants to manipulate temperatures and spoil food and medicine, leading to massive supply-chain disruptions.…

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Reg readers have spoken: 93% back move away from Microsoft in UK public sector

Tue, 2025-09-02 08:31
As government says £9B could end up in Redmond, poll says it's time for new thinking

Register debate series Register readers are backing a shift away from Microsoft software as a default across the UK public sector after the government confirmed it expects to spend £9 billion with the software giant over five years.…

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Europe Putin the blame on Russia after GPS jamming disrupts president’s plane

Tue, 2025-09-02 06:45
Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help

A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…

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In the rush to adopt hot new tech, security is often forgotten. AI is no exception

Tue, 2025-09-02 05:15
Cisco finds hundreds of Ollama servers open to unauthorized access, creating various nasty risks

Cisco’s Talos security research team has found over 1,100 Ollama servers exposed to the public internet, where miscreants can use them to do nasty things.…

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Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins

Tue, 2025-09-02 01:36
eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs

Chinese web giant Alibaba has reduced network outages by 92 percent, cut load balancing costs by 18.9 percent, and found ways to improve SmartNIC performance by offloading workloads to idle infrastructure.…

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Laravel inventor tells devs to quit writing 'cathedrals of complexity'

Mon, 2025-09-01 15:45
Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple

Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.…

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Microsoft-backed boffins show mega speed boost with hollow-core fiber

Mon, 2025-09-01 15:00
Could dramatically reduce latency between datacenters and on mobile nets

A team of networking boffins has published fresh research on hollow fiber cables that it claims could offer the lowest ever recorded optical loss for a fiber – meaning the signal would weaken less as it travels, leading to faster speeds and lower latencies.…

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