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'A combination of losing Huawei and slower than anticipated ramp in 5G' A small round of layoffs at Silicon Valley's Xilinx was the result of the US government's ongoing war on Huawei, one of the FPGA designer's top customers.…

Ah, bless Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison is planning to hold a fundraiser at his California estate in Rancho Mirage on February 19 to help re-elect US President Donald Trump.…

Who will join the IT giant in staying away from San Francisco?…

Malvertising campaign makes big bucks for online criminals…

Techies quit to go it alone, iGiant tries to lure away their staff – then sues – court told…

Also: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 eyes its operating system shackles Microsoft flung out fresh updates to its cross-platform data wrangler Azure Data Studio, the Windows Terminal and continued to tease a standalone Windows Subsystem for Linux last night.…

Does this mean things are looking up for the industry? Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's board of directors has approved a $6.74bn budget for expanding its factories.…

That's phone, broadband and pay TV Starting from tomorrow, telcos who fail to offer their customers their best deals will find themselves on Ofcom's naughty step, potentially helping millions of customers in Britain.…

Russia denies claims from well-informed broadcaster that it was homegrown Turla malware baddies…

Buy to boost cloud, automation and visibility chops Arista has beaten several rival suitors to snap up software-defined networking (SDN) specialist Big Switch after months of negotiations.…

As 1809 is nudged toward the darkness, the Baron of Bork has plans for 1903 and 1909…

Sold out in China, no word when it arrives in the West Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi just peeled the wraps off its latest flagship smartphones – MWC or no MWC.…

Productivity or performance? Hey, why not both? Analysis On this day 25 years ago, Borland Software trotted out version 1.0 of the Delphi application development product, making the announcement at the Software Development '95 event in San Francisco.…

Maybe stick to walking the beat instead of infosec advice, eh? The UK's National Crime Agency has publicly distanced itself from a poster urging parents to call police if their child has installed Kali Linux, Tor or – brace yourself – Discord.…

The days of spinning rust in lappies looks numbered and deskops will be next, says analyst…

The Reg talks to Carolyn Porco, Garry Hunt, Alan Stern about the picture that almost wasn't…

The ball's in your park and I'm just happy for the team Something for the Weekend, Sir? Call me paranoid, call me suspicious, call me an ambulance [slaps thigh], but I'm not sure I'm seeing things in the way I'm supposed to.…

Windows XP – the gift that keeps on giving (until you need it to actually do something)…

Come, let us gaze into the black pit of desktop support On Call Hurrah! It's Friday, which means it's time for another recollection from readers lucky enough to have support tickets assigned to them. Welcome to On Call.…

Final bill for My Online Business Education? More than £230m…

Monster telco says it's working to resolve whatever's going on…

Now that's toke'n ring networking: Code of America happy to pass around its tools to scrub cases under US state law More than 60,000 cannabis convictions in Los Angeles County are set to be overturned, thanks to computer algorithms.…

The past twelve months have not been good for GPU giant Nvidia talked up its data center AI sales and strong just-past quarter to keep everyone's eyes distracted from an otherwise lukewarm financial year.…

Pentagon's $10bn winner-takes-all cloud super-contract in stasis as Starship Bezos opens fire A US federal court today slammed the brakes on the Pentagon's decision to award Microsoft the JEDI cloud mega-contract.…

California Supreme Court skewers iGiant for stiffing loyal drones…

Shoddy code allegations are just FUD, software maker insists Only a week after the mobile app meltdown in Iowa's Democratic Caucus, computer scientists at MIT have revealed their analysis of the Voatz app used in West Virginia's 2018 midterm election.…

CFO – and daughter of founder Ren Zhengfei – Meng Wanzhou named in fresh criminal indictment Updated Huawei has been charged by the US government with 16 counts ranging from fraud to conspiring to launder money and steal trade secrets to racketeering.…

Limited functionality and cloud only, but improvements are on the way A beta of GitHub's command-line interface for managing issues and pull requests is available to download for macOS, Windows and Linux.…

Apparently the UK's CMA has never heard of Amazon Google Cloud has completed its $2.6bn acquisition of data analytics and machine learning outfit Looker after getting the thumbs-up from the UK's competition authorities.…

Repairs require complete disassembly…