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Google pulls RISC-V support from generic Android kernel ( www.theregister.com )

Xubuntu 24.04: A minimal install that really means it ( www.theregister.com )

Google layoffs hit Python and Flutter teams ( www.theregister.com )

Updated Google's latest round of layoffs have hit engineers working on its Flutter and Python teams....

Huawei's Pura 70 contains SMIC 7 nm process node ( www.theregister.com )

If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? ( www.theregister.com )

At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims....

Huawei and partners reportedly plan to produce high bandwidth memory by 2026 ( www.theregister.com )

Fedora 40 boasts more spins and flavors than ever ( www.theregister.com )

Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show there's room to innovate ( www.theregister.com )

The beta versions of Lubuntu and Kubuntu 24.04 are out, showing that there's room to improve on the standard Ubuntu formula. The beta announcements for Lubuntu 24.04 and Kubuntu 24.04 don't reveal quite as much information as the Lubuntu's alpha-test announcement did. The Reg FOSS desk looked at the two Qt-centric remixes, and...

24% of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones: UK watchdog ( www.theregister.com )

The UK's telecoms regulator has found that nearly a quarter of children between the ages of five and seven own a smartphone while a similar percentage use social media unsupervised....

Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color ( www.theregister.com )

British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts ( www.theregister.com )

The UK's competition watchdog sniffed around the AI industry with a bit more interest than usual on Thursday at an antitrust event in the US....

Global taxi software vendor exposes details of nearly 300K across UK and Ireland ( www.theregister.com )

Taxi software biz iCabbi recently fixed an issue that exposed the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals via an unprotected database....

China orders telcos to rip out American chips by 2027 ( www.theregister.com )

Loongson CPU makes its way to Chinese mini PCs ( www.theregister.com )

Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its AWS bills ( www.theregister.com )

China's Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center ( www.theregister.com )

Construction of a £30 million ($37.8 million) facility that will house the Lenovo supercomputer began last February....

Alibaba's research arm promises server-class RISC-V processor due this year ( www.theregister.com )

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Linux kernel 4.14 gets a life extension, thanks to OpenELA ( www.theregister.com )

Brave, Mozilla, Vivaldi see browser installs rise on iOS ( www.theregister.com )

UK network operators ask govt to fend off attacks on fiber ( www.theregister.com )

Jones told The Register that attacks range from simply chopping through fiber-optic cables in an underground duct, to lifting the cover of an access chamber, pouring in petrol, and setting the whole lot alight....

Deputy PM: AI can fix Civil Service's bureaucratic bungling ( www.theregister.com )

Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner [The Register] ( www.theregister.com )

IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS ( www.theregister.com )

AWS could rake in between $400 million and $1 billion a year from charging customers for public IPv4 addresses while migration to IPv6 remains slow....