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Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further David Heinemeier Hansson, CTO of 37Signals – which operates project management platform Basecamp and other products – has detailed the colossal cloud bills that saw the outfit quit the cloud in October 2022.…

Optimistically suggests international collaboration – including on standards – will help it get there China's government has declared the nation's information security industry needs to grow – fast.…

PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more Asia In Brief Singapore-based superapp Grab has a client for its maps-as-a-service venture, GrabMaps: Amazon Web Services.…

Also: That Pokemon is actually a RAT, Uncle Sam fails a password audit In brief A US intelligence boss has asked Congress to reauthorize a controversial set of powers that give snoops warrantless authorization to surveil electronic communications in the name of fighting terrorism and so forth.…

And Windows updates from Microsoft, too People in Russia can reportedly once again download drivers and some other software from Intel and Microsoft, which both withdrew from the nation after its invasion of Ukraine.…

Sorry, when exactly are you going to sod off to Mars, mate? Numerous third-party Twitter clients stopped working on Thursday evening, Pacific Time, and as of Friday morning, they remained non-functional.…

Something something shareholders unhappy with the heft of CEO's package Apple CEO Tim Cook's 2023 compensation package has been slashed by 40 percent, Apple said, after the iBoss okayed the move in response to shareholder criticism of executive pay. …

The hope? To grease the security skids for internet-connected devices – and they need all the help they can get Developers can now use the Rust programming language when creating applications on Azure Sphere platform for internet-connected devices.…

She hoped to score thousands but laptop app had other ideas A woman in Canada failed in her claim for wrongful dismissal due to evidence from software designed to track her work time activity.…

Oh, great – another source of carbon fumes we forgot to factor in If widely adopted, self-driving cars are going to introduce another source of unaccounted-for carbon emissions that could surpass those of the world's current complement of datacenters: The computer brains that power them.…

We know it's an influential film but that doesn't mean it's an instruction manual Theft charges brought against a Washington state software engineer claim he took inspiration from the cult movie Office Space when he allegedly diddled his former employer out of more than $300,000.…

Agrees measures to prevent streaks of light across the night sky in time-lapse observations SpaceX has entered into a coordination agreement with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to attempt to mitigate some of the negative effects its Starlink satellite network is having on ground-based astronomy observations.…

Draft paper calls out businesses for vagueness Around half of environmental claims made about advertised products are "vague, misleading or unfounded information about products' environmental characteristics," says research from the European Commission.…

Happy Friday 13th sysadmins! Techies find workarounds but Redmond still 'investigating' Techies are reporting that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint attack surface reduction (ASR) rules have gone haywire and are removing icons and applications shortcuts from the Taskbar and Start Menu.…

How to conduct a UK redundancy process: Not the way the US social media company is doing it, say sacked employees UK Twitter employees included among the thousands fired when Elon Musk took control of the company have challenged their dismissal, claiming a collective consultation redundancy process currently under way isn't conforming to British law.…

As Meta reels from €390 million EU fine, the 'personalized ads' case might not be over, Max Schrem’s legal group says Lengthy privacy notices included in a social media platform's terms of service can do little to help it comply with transparency requirements under European law, according to recently revealed documents from a case in which Meta was fined €390 million ($414 million).…

Failed to persuade a judge to ditch legal spat this week HPE looks set to face a lawsuit claiming it misled investors about employee layoffs relating to the spin-off of its enterprise services business, after a judge declined to dismiss the case.…

DragonFly designed to land and taxi when the pilot is incapacitated, or just busy UpNext, Airbus's future technology-focused subsidiary, reported on Thursday that it has entered the final three months of testing tech it hopes will automate the process of getting a plane from the air to the gate.…

Security was nonetheless very, very, interested in hearing this comms engineer tell his tale On-Call Welcome once again to On-Call, The Register's weekly compendium of tales from readers who were asked to deal with IT oddities and mostly emerged unscathed.…

If the investment opportunity sounds too good to be true … European cops arrested 15 suspected scammers and shut down a multi-country network of call centers selling fake cryptocurrency that law enforcement said stole upwards of hundreds of million euros from victims.…

Enhanced access privileges for partners choke on double-byte characters, contribute to global delays Microsoft has messed up a zero trust upgrade its service provider partners have been asked to implement for customers.…

This time last year the plan was for lots more hires. Then came Elon Twitter's Singapore landlord says the social network is still a tenant at its swank Asia Pacific (APAC) headquarters, as rumors suggest the company was evicted for non-payment of rent.…

Software support ended in 2021, so we’re relying on SMBs knowing how to block ports Cisco "has not and will not release software updates" to address a critical flaw in four small business routers, despite having spotted proof of concept code for an exploit.…

Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties NASA is rubbish at software asset management, has not implemented federal government guidance on how to address it, and as a result is spending too much on code it doesn't use – including $15 million on unused Oracle software alone, under a twelve-year-old license the space agency was afraid to examine.…

It'll do 8GHz when overclocked, if Chipzilla is to be believed Intel delivered on its promise of a 6GHz Raptor Lake chip this week with the launch of its Core i9 13900KS.…

Wouldn't it be a terrible shame if other warehouses now followed JFK8's footsteps The US National Labor Relations Board squashed Amazon's attempt to overturn the first-ever successful union formed against the internet goliath at a warehouse in Staten Island, New York, this week.…

Mozilla-incubated systems language should make Chrome shine Google plans to support the use of third-party Rust libraries in its open source browser project Chromium, a significant endorsement of the programming language and its security characteristics.…

Nausea and headaches do not a fit fighting force make, so back to the lab for version 1.2 Congress is putting its foot down on funding the US Army's experiments with Microsoft HoloLens headsets, eliminating program funding in fiscal year 2023 for all but research into newer, less nauseating hardware.…

Not a 'whiff of wrongdoing' here, says attorney now fighting off Uncle Sam The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued international law firm Covington & Burling for details about 298 of the biz's clients whose information was accessed by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group in November 2020.…

Is there a weight watchers for Hummers? As the popularity of electric vehicles grows, safety leaders are concerned that road injuries could increase due to how much heavier battery-powered cars are over their gas-guzzling predecessors.…

This may show a future direction for Linux desktops Endless Computers is preparing a new version of its Endless OS distro, an easy-to-use OS for computing novices of all ages. It's a unique distro which shows how desktop OSes may evolve.…

LHS 475 b same size as Earth, rocky, but hotter, and so close to its star it orbits in 2 days NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed its first exoplanet: a rocky, hot world with a diameter 99 percent the size of Earth that completes an orbit around its star in just two days. …

CEO 'disappointed' by prelim top and bottom lines for latest full quarter With PC makers cutting prices to spur demand and reduce inventory holdings in the channel, peripherals maker Logitech is facing its own share of commercial problems.…

One Hacker Band is a guitar, bass and drums that play themselves We all love a good engineering passion project here at The Register and hopefully guitar-oriented music too. With One Hacker Band, these realms collide with surprising tunefulness.…

Incoming corporate policy may lead to stress and burnout for staff, reduced costs for Redmond Microsoft is to allow US staff to take unlimited time off in a policy change that is supposed to give them more flexibility but, unsurprisingly, will also have a cost benefit to Redmond.…

Advanced chipmaking lifts world's biggest chipmaker, but softer demand, US trade issues lie ahead TSMC beat market estimates to turn-in higher than expected revenue for calendar Q4, however, its forecast for the start of 2023 is less optimistic and it expects to hold down capital investment spending in response.…

CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund The exodus of senior execs from Salesforce has continued with chief technology officer of security Taher Elgamal using LinkedIn to announce his departure.…

All traffic is equal but some traffic is more equal than others The European Commission could issue draft legislation calling for cloud providers and hyperscalers to offset traffic generated by their services by directly funding telco infrastructure as early as March.…

A $17,000 Xeon chip for less than a third of competing players Analysis After countless delays, Intel's long awaited Sapphire Rapids Xeon Scalable processors are finally here, but who are they for?…

Worldwide expansion reliant on delayed Microsoft Dynamics project as Amazon deal beckons UK tabletop wargames maker Games Workshop's seemingly neverending battle with its own ERP implementation has entered another chapter, as global projects are delayed owing to the difficulty integrating the new system.…

Are flow sensors such a big deal? In any case, MP invokes National Security and Investment Act A UK Member of Parliament has called on government to review the purchase of a Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor biz which turns out to have been taken over by a Chinese organization with links to the state.…

Novel use of waste heat by UK company – but it's still in trial Heata has developed a novel way to use the waste heat generated by servers: mounting them on domestic hot water tanks to cut energy bills for homeowners.…

Are you really saying what I’m hearing? Microsoft researchers are working on a text-to-speech (TTS) model that can mimic a person's voice – complete with emotion and intonation – after a mere three seconds of training.…

Second time this week a satellite-ferrying vehicle has failed ABL Space Systems, a US rocket startup, failed to launch its RS1 payload during the startup's first-ever flight attempt this week.…

And that’s why aviation authorities don’t allow power banks in checked luggage A passenger's USB power bank caught fire as a plane taxied towards the runway on a flight from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport to Singapore's Changi Airport on Tuesday, causing the airplane to return to its gate.…

It's not the anthem – it's the algorithm After several failed attempts to get Google to stop referring people to a protest song when they search for Hong Kong's national anthem, the Special Administrative Region of China has decided to take measures into its own hands by improving its search engine optimization.…

Digital transformation is still a thing and Japanese giant wants to buy anyone that can do it Japanese tech giant Fujitsu has revealed a plan to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on acquisitions.…

CEO of Citrix/TIBCO mashup says company has 'strong foundation' and rolls out the Broadcom playbook of focusing on 'top customers' The Cloud Software Group, the mashup of Citrix and TIBCO, has confirmed it made at least one thousand staff redundant yesterday.…

But even a short conflict would wreck the economy, which would be bad news for semiconductor supplies Three years from now, hypothetically, China launches an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. It does not go well, according to a top Washington think tank report.…

Around 80 positions moved to another continent, Big Blue stays silent The Register has learned that IBM has shifted the roles of US IBM Systems employees developing AIX over to the Indian office.…