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Huawei rotating CEO: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'

Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG

Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

Pandemic impact: Two-thirds of polled Reg readers say it's business as usual in the IT dept, one in ten panicking

Microsoft expands AI features in Office, but are they any good? Mixed, according to our vulture

If you've ever wished Visual Studio Code could be more open source, the Eclipse Foundation would like a word

What's the difference between Windows 7 and a bin lorry? One is full of garbage, and the other… oh dear

Oracle makes some certifications and cloudy content free, in case you have time on your hands

Epic Games floats $1m bounty to ID source of 'commercial smear' claiming Houseparty chat app has been hacked

Marriott Hotels hacked AGAIN: Two compromised employee logins abused to siphon off guests' personal info

Poured your info out on a call to 118 118 Money? Bad luck. Credit provider 'fesses up that hacker nabbed customer service phone recordings

You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

SAP's locked-down offshore project managers develop remote work plans for clients

UK civil service has a new boss: Alex Chisholm dubbed permanent secretary for the Cabinet Office

BT providing free meals to coax its healthy customer support staff back into office as calls rocket amid pandemic

Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

Xiaomi, phone home: Chinese everything shop currently making most sales on smartphones

Uncle Sam turns the screws on VoIP providers allegedly used by coronavirus, tax, bogus tech support scammers

Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Geek's Guide

16 years and counting: How ESA squeezed oodles of bonus science out of plucky Mars Express probe

Are you extracting the urine, ESA? Why, yes it is, from Moon dwellers to build homes out of lunar regolith. Possibly

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Relax, breaking a website's fine-print doesn't make you a criminal hacker, says judge in US cyber-law legal row

Sunday: Australia is shocked UK would consider tracking mobile data to beat pandemic. Monday: Australia to deploy drone intimidation squads

Sucks to be you, ICANN. We can go our own way: Opera to support sites using renegade top-level domain .crypto

Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI

Verity Stob

Astroboffin gets magnets stuck up his schnozz trying and failing to invent anti-face-touching coronavirus gizmo

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Networks

Huawei rotating CEO: Chinese government will not 'just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered'

Gotta find Huawei to handle 2020: Despite rosy 2019 figures, Chinese comms giant sees trouble ahead

31 Mar 15:03 | 7

Cloudflare is over the moon because its pro-privacy 1.1.1.1 DNS service got a clean bill of health from everyone's favorite auditor – KPMG

Proved for all sites, proved for all sites, there is nothing else we can do

31 Mar 13:00 | 13

Watch your MANRS: Akamai, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and pals join internet routing security effort

Filtering, anti-spoofing, coordination, validation to prevent crooks, spies hijacking victims' connections

31 Mar 12:00 | 8

Dot-com price rises on their way over the next four years: ICANN approves Verisign contract, walks off with $20m

You thought thousands of complaints would make a difference?

30 Mar 20:59 | 12

BT reopens £90m UK High Court case over 1970s VAT 'overpayments'

Couldn't have come at a better time with COVID-19 economic shutdown

30 Mar 14:10 | 20

UK big five carriers bin wired broadband download quotas for as long as we're all stuck indoors

Keep Calm And Stream Video, on generous new discount plans and payment terms

30 Mar 06:29 | 27

What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion

Remember landlines? Cisco service wants you to remember them too, to make dial-in part of your isolation arsenal

30 Mar 01:30 | 10

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

UK volumes quieter than mix of Call of Duty and Merseyside derby streamers, says Openreach

27 Mar 17:21 | 25

India’s networking market collapsed … in Q4 2019!

The nation is already well and truly routed, and telcos have new taxes to pay

Microsoft buys Affirmed Networks to provide cloudy services for 5G network operators

Vodafone, Orange, AT&T, and Softbank are already users, will soon have Azure option

ISP Monkeybrains cries foul over coronavirus fees after requesting more bandwidth. Zayo says it was all a mistake

AnalysisPresumed pandemic profiteering may be just confused staff

26 Mar 23:31 | 7

Switch this: Multi-gigabit for the enterprise generation

Taking it from the core to the edge

Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity

Special reportAlternative headline: Jun Murai remembers he has a /8 under the fridge

26 Mar 00:06 | 63

BT Openreach prepares to declare UK MBORCed* as all new phone line installations halted over coronavirus

Updated*Not a new backcronym, but 'Matters Beyond Our Reasonable Control'

25 Mar 13:24 | 25

Well, Zuckerberg did promise India it hadn't seen the last of Facebook. How do you say they're BAAACK in Hindi?

Social network reportedly looking to buy a slice of country's biggest mobile provider

25 Mar 12:23 | 4

Hypochondriacs – are your eyes all blurry? It's just YouTube trying to cut video-stream quality worldwide amid the coronavirus pandemic

You can still watch in HD, but, please, maybe not?

25 Mar 00:14 | 17

Whoa, someone actually texted you in 2020? Oh, nvm, it's just Boris Johnson, telling you to stay the f**k at home

UK lacks formal emergency messaging system, so Big 4 carriers helped out

24 Mar 17:02 | 85

Computacenter looking to buy a nice little place in France, by which we mean most of BT's French network real estate

Brit telco and reseller giant in talks... presumably over a very long desk

Freed from the office, home workers roam sunlit uplands of IPv6... 2 metres apart

Clouds, silver linings etc.

23 Mar 22:20 | 33

Forget toilet roll, bandwidth is the new ration: Amazon, YouTube also degrade video in Europe to keep 'net running amid coronavirus crunch

Pair join Netflix to turn it down for what? Connectivity stability

20 Mar 19:57 | 65

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Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support

Folds up just like a smartphone – if you ignore the size and weight

Official: Office 365 Personal, Home axed next month... and replaced by Microsoft 365 cloud subscriptions

Plus: Edge sharpened, Teams upgrades promised

UK Information Commissioner OKs use of phone data to track coronavirus spread

But Australia's PM declares it doesn't align with national values

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Doesn’t anticipate slowdown because ‘I suspect a lot of us work from home even normally’

Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

CommentO'Reilly has quit the events game, and it might not be the only one

Lost in translation and adrift in cloud storage

Who, Me?I like to move it, move it / You like to move it, move it

Official tailored Swift for Windows support promised in 5.3

Swift on more platforms – provided you do not need a GUI

Tech's big names start to disclose possible bottom-line coronavirus impacts

Warnings to investors from Dell, DocuSign, Cloudera and MongoDB reveal not all are completely terrified

What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion

Remember landlines? Cisco service wants you to remember them too, to make dial-in part of your isolation arsenal

Delivery drones: Where are they when we really need them?

Amazon promised. Google trialled. UPS got a licence. But only 1% of retailers are interested because they're still mostly rubbish

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Netflix starts 30-day video data diet at EU's request to ensure network availability during coronavirus crisis

Looks like you'll have to stream Derry Girls in lower resolution for a bit

20 Mar 07:09 | 110

BT's Wi-Fi Disc ads banned because there's no evidence the things work

UpdatedAd watchdog puts telco on the naughty step over range extender promotion

18 Mar 09:15 | 109

You get fibre, you get fibre, you all get fibre: UK Ministry of Fun promises new rules to make all new homes gigabit capable

Come on, builders - who doesn't like subsidies?

17 Mar 09:15 | 21

Data surge as more Brits work from home? Not as hard on the network as their nightly Netflix binges, claims BT

We'll be OK, says former incumbent telco

16 Mar 17:31 | 24

BT CEO tests positive for coronavirus, goes into self-isolation after meeting fellow bosses from Vodafone UK, Three, O2 plus govt officials

We can't even go to the pub and wait for this to all blow over

13 Mar 06:02 | 56

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

What could go wrong?

11 Mar 16:23 | 45

US telcos tossed yet another extension to keep going with Huawei kit despite America's 'security threat' concerns

It's clearly not a pressing issue – this is the fourth time now

11 Mar 10:54 | 21

Core blimey, that's edgy: HPE makes a play for next-gen 5G market

No need to be an also-RAN

10 Mar 23:55 | 3

UK.gov tells rebel MPs to go Huawei – but 5G Telecoms Security Bill was the price

Narrow House of Commons victory sees fresh wave of counter-Chinese comms pledges

10 Mar 16:44 | 17

Xilinx's high-end Versal FPGA is like a designer handbag. If you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it

Premium chip is 7nm, 4 Arm CPU cores, up to 7.4 million logic cells, multi-Tbps networking and crypto

10 Mar 13:00 | 18

Four months, $1bn... and ICANN still hasn’t decided whether to approve .org sale with just 11 days left to go

Internet community expresses frustration during virtual conference

10 Mar 01:56 | 17

UK.gov sits down with mobile big four to formalise plans for rural shared 4G network

£1bn boon to improve coverage across the home nations

09 Mar 12:25 | 24

Hackers? Leap day? Nope, just plain old internet hysteria took down stock-trading-for-noobs app RobinHood

DNS overload, as usual, blamed for two-day outage

05 Mar 05:13 | 15

Brit MPs, US senators ramp up pressure on UK.gov to switch off that green-light for Huawei 5G gear

Fears grow that letting Chinese giant into Blighty has left it 'utterly friendless'

04 Mar 21:01 | 64

You. Drop and give me 20... per cent IPv6 by 2023, 80% by 2025, Uncle Sam tells its IT admins after years of slacking

And policies and teams in place – on the double

03 Mar 21:42 | 57

New Jersey beats New York – and then the rest of America – on broadband access. How does your state fare?

National survey of ISPs sparks familiar recommendations for better internet

03 Mar 20:41 | 22

Broadband providers can now flog Openreach's new IP voice network in bid to ditch UK's copper phone lines by 2025

Needing a landline will soon be a thing of the past

03 Mar 14:30 | 117

Mirantis gros fromage quits to start new 'private LTE' biz on open-access spectrum

InterviewOpen-source chap Boris Renski chats to El Reg about the near future

03 Mar 09:15 | 3

We're Finnished: Nokia replaces CEO Rajeev Suri in industry Lundmark decision

Man who steered firm from burning platform now steps away: 'I want to do something different'

02 Mar 15:45 | 3

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