Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the rhythm of the project’s development cycle will clash with Christmas, so developers need to make sure they ready their work before the holiday season. The warning came in Torvalds’s weekly kernel development update in which he announced release candidate 7 […]
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US effectively bans imports of Chinese telecoms products • The Register
The United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has barred itself from authorizing the import or sale of Chinese telecoms and video surveillance products from Huawei, ZTE, Hytera Communications, Hikvision, and Dahua, on national security grounds. As it is not legal to offer such products in the US without FCC approval, […]
Germany clears Meta VR headsets after unlinking from FB • The Register
Germany’s Federal Cartel Office is claiming a win after Meta unhooked the VR glasses formerly known as Oculus from a Facebook login. Users can now sign into a separate “Meta” account after the original requirement to connect the VR gear to a Facebook login prompted an official competition complaint against […]
Yandex plans to break up with its Russian motherland • The Register
Russia’s most prominent tech company, Yandex, has announced steps to move some of its intellectual property out of Putin country and dispose of the rest to local interests. Yandex is a sprawling conglomerate often characterized as Russia’s Google. It started as a search company, then moved into advertising, maps, e-commerce, […]
Doctors call for greater scrutiny of NHS bidders • The Register
A family doctors’ conference has called on the UK’s medics union to help scrutinize bidders for the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) contract to ensure they have a positive track record on security, privacy and ethics. In London yesterday the BMA’s GPs Committee hosted a conference of representatives from England’s […]