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Temporary General License buys time for Chinese tech giant, customers, suppliers…

Cyber-cabbies bag more dosh from fares by gaming demand versus supply Analysis Drivers for ride-hailing apps Lyft and Uber have organized for better pay through collective action – and not by unionizing.…

Republican Senator preps proposed legislation ahead of hearing Analysis New legislation that would put teeth into the web's Do Not Track option for internet users, by fining companies that ignore it, will be introduced this week in the US Senate.…

American tech regulation reduced to: If the telcos want it, it must be a good thing…

El Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize Three days on, Salesforce.com has yet to fully recover from an outage that began on Friday.…

But what is the significance of lower clock speeds? Benchmarks of engineering samples of AMD's second-generation Zen-based server processor silicon, codenamed Rome, have once again found their way online.…

Obscure legal doc catapulted to prominence by Home Sec UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid has announced an Espionage Bill, charging ahead with new laws intended to criminalise any British copycats of Edward Snowden – and allowing a future crackdown on Huawei.…

Yes, the one with the critical security fixes Brit security software slinger Sophos has advised its customers to uninstall Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday run – the same patches that protect servers against the latest Intel cockups.…

Turning off trim control software in training wouldn't give realistic results – report Boeing has admitted that pilot training simulators for the controversial 737 Max did not accurately reproduce what happened if the infamous MCAS system went gaga.…

Court rules regulator should cough for 'wrongful' increase Vodafone, O2, Three and EE have won a case against Ofcom claiming that the UK comms regulator's increase in spectrum fees was unfair.…

FPGAs bring sweet relief to overworked CPUs Open-source storage enthusiasts at SoftIron have trotted out a low-cost hardware accelerator designed to take over from the CPU on erasure coding duties.…

Let's lift again, like we did last summer, let's shift again, like we did last year From the department of "and about time too" comes news that Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) now supports Windows Server containers, in preview form at least.…

Swedes' EAW could be a starter or a main Sweden's deputy director of public prosecution Eva-Marie Persson has asked a district court for a detention order for Julian Assange on suspicion of rape.…

China adds to Beidou constellation while India preps radar-imaging satellite…

UK head honcho swap follows European shakeup Following a substantive restructure across EMEA, NetApp has hired Chris Greenwood - its now former director of north east Europe, Russia and Turkey - to head up operations in the UK and Ireland.…

Plus: Azure galore, and Your Phone app can now munch through mobile data Roundup Monday is here once again, an excuse to take a look at the news from Redmond that you might have missed in the past seven days.…

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then...…

The spiritual successor to the Windows GUI Microsoft has made numerous updates to its Azure Portal, partly to accommodate new features announced at its Build developer conference, and partly in an attempt to improve the user interface.…

Plus: AI-generated whisky – I'm sorry Dave, I can't drink that Roundup Let's get you up to speed on the latest AI news, beyond what we've already covered lately.…

Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face Updated Google will pull Play Store and other services from future shipments of Huawei mobile phones.…

It was the nerd, with the wallpaper, in the .ini file Who, Me? With the copious behind of the weekend waddling off into the sunset, and only the leaner pickings of the working week to look forward, welcome to our weekly dose of Monday prevarication: Who, Me?…

Ah yes, maybe generative adversarial models can be useful after all Spinning up dark matter simulations is computationally expensive so a team of cosmologists are turning to AI models instead.…

Chinese sex company wants to (wire)tap that... A class-action lawsuit against a Chinese sex toy company accused of storing intimate data from its internet-connected dildo can move ahead, a California judge has decided.…

...And more from the world of infosec this week Roundup Here's a quick catch-up of all things infosec beyond what we've already reported this week.…

Charlie Brown and Snoopy go to the Moon Part One Today marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 10, the mission that would do pretty much everything except land on the Moon.…

Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info Updated Unlucky Salesforce customers have been unable to reach the service since 0956 PDT (1656 UTC) on Friday, thanks to a ham-handed database deployment.…

Explosives activated by wireless networking signals discovered amid election Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police claimed this week.…

Don't worry, it'll shut itself down if someone hits it hard enough French tech services biz Atos has squeezed out its first edgy server box to be deployed outside of the data centre.…

Six-week investigation delay shrank payment by 13%…

Also: Accidental explosion in TypeScript type-checking de-borked in version 3.5 Microsoft kept up the cadence of its Visual Studio Code emissions with a shrivelled April update due to the altogether more exciting arrival of Remote Development.…