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New markets harder to convince, says analyst OpenStack is "alive and well", according to the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), claiming deployments grew 60 percent this year compared with 2021. However, much of the growth appears to come from a small number of existing users, many of which are telcos.…

Staff locked out as hundreds appear to say no to Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum Twitter chaos continued overnight as employees were locked out of its offices following reports that hundreds have chosen to opt out of the ultimatum set by CEO Elon Musk to become "extremely hardcore."…

Antitrust scrutiny into one of the biggest deals for a private software developer The Department of Justice is closely inspecting Adobe's eye-wateringly expensive purchase of web-first collaboration design startup Figma after making a second request for information from the pair.…

Move for consumer welfare and preventable e-waste as nation seeks to ramp up electronics production India is on a path to require USB-C charging ports in almost all smart devices following actions taken by an inter-ministerial task force.…

Guarantees fixed monthly price – but staffers will have to leg it to the City Network operator Vorboss is offering London businesses a 100Gbit/sec service with a fixed monthly price set for the length of the contract, claiming it removes bandwidth constraints for the city's most data-hungry firms.…

There's a legal line between book borrowing and piracy Two Russian nationals accused of operating Z-Library – one of the largest online book piracy websites – have been charged with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering.…

Amazon and Cisco even managed to sneak Alexa and Webex on board After several delays, NASA's Artemis I mission has finally launched and the Orion spacecraft is on its way to an orbital date with the Moon. There aren't any human passengers aboard, but that doesn't mean the mission is only about stress testing a new crew capsule.…

Products tend to work best once removed from their packaging History, it is said, is told by the victors. Which is why The Register each week presents On-Call – tales of readers triumphing when delivering tech support to the clueless, unreasonable or just plain ignorant.…

Military says they'll save lives on both sides as tensions escalate Israeli fortifications in the West Bank are becoming a bit more faceless, as the military has reportedly deployed robotic turrets capable of firing stun grenades, less-than-lethal bullets, and tear gas at Palestinians protesting their presence.…

Corporate funds bought employee homes, no accounting department, uncertainty about who's an employee, and other baffling behavior John Ray III, CEO of FTX Trading Ltd, who succeeded disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried following the collapse of the once notionally valued $32 billion cryptocurrency exchange, told a Delaware bankruptcy court on Thursday that the company is a disaster unlike anything he has ever seen.…

Employee management tech raises eyebrows in the Big Apple Private security firms in New York City have co-opted public resources – specifically trees – to track their guards as they make their rounds.…

Solitaire and Minesweeper coming to Windows giant's software When a movie or TV director wants to show people wasting time at work, it invariably has them playing computer games. See Peter Gibbons in "Office Space" or the Dunder Mifflin employees in "The Office."…

In this race it's all about flops per watts SC22 There’s a new energy-efficiency king at the top of this fall’s Green500 ranking of the most green supercomputers in the world, and it's a tiny 31-kilowatt cluster powered by Nvidia’s H100 GPUs.…

Class-action lawsuit seeks $1 in nominal damages The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users' devices without their knowledge and without obtaining warrants, according to a class-action lawsuit filed this week by the New Civil Liberties Alliance.…

If your device is becoming unresponsive, there's a workaround Microsoft has fixed yet another problem in some versions of Windows 10, a bug that makes the taskbar and desktop temporarily vanish or causes the system to ignore you.…

Comment comes as CEO testifies in suit questioning $65b Tesla pay Elon Musk, disruptor extraordinaire of the social media platform he bought for $44 billion isn't planning to run Twitter permanently on a full-time basis and says a CEO will be hired.…

Is it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required Microsoft and Nvidia say they are teaming up to build an "AI supercomputer" using Azure infrastructure combined with Nvidia's GPU accelerators, network kit, and its software stack.…

But users still need to wait years for business benefits of migration from older systems TechEd Global ERP slinger SAP has relaunched its developer platform with a new name, and bundled it with its S/4HANA, its current generation in-memory application platform.…

Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a 'willful campaign... to mislead the court' A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the "Glupteba" botnet, sold fraudulent credit card information, and generated cryptocurrency using the network.…

Nightly and Developer Edition users will be able to test the new cruelty Mozilla plans to add support for Manifest v3 browser extensions to its online store – addons.mozilla.org – so developers can have them cryptographically signed for distribution.…

Profit down in latest quarter but forecast for 2023 raised Cisco is forging ahead with restructuring that involves cutting jobs, moving headcount to priority divisions and consolidating real estate, despite raising its revenue forecast for the current financial year.…

Ming-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst with the uncanny ability to predict all things Apple, has said that while the iPhone 15 will ditch its Lightning ports for USB-C next year, only the two high-end models, the Pro and Pro Max, will support higher wired transfer speeds.…

Former BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB Interview In analytical database systems, the story of the last ten years or more has been about building out. Only databases distributed over multiple nodes could cope with the scale required by so-called Big Data. Web and mobile data were driving demand for systems which scale out, rather than rely on more and more powerful single instances.…

Move over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos Cast your minds back to the Before Times and you may recall that Matt Hancock was not the UK's disgraced health secretary, but head of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. You may also remember that he took his portfolio so seriously that he had his own mobile app developed: "Matt Hancock MP".…

And it's been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day The Emotet malware-delivery botnet is back after a short hiatus, quickly ramping up the number of malicious emails it's sending and sporting additional capabilities, including changes to its binary and delivering a new version of the IcedID malware dropper.…

Scientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered Astronomers have long known how planets form, but the when of it has always been unclear. If a Cambridge University team's conclusion from a study of white dwarf stars proves correct, that question has been answered.…

Frustrate enough users and your product will fall. Hint, hint, Elon Note-taking app Evernote, once a darling of busy tech aficionados, announced the end of its 14-year run as an independent company today with its sale to Italian mobile app company Bending Spoons.…

Owner 'shocked' to find itself in Dutch over national security concerns, promises to appeal The UK's secretary of state for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has ordered that the Chinese owner of the Newport Wafer Fab sell off its interest in the facility on grounds of national security.…

Distributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has paused its multi-year effort to replace its core trading systems with a blockchain-powered platform, written off up to AU$255 million ($171m) of work, and been advised to reconsider whether distributed ledger technology has a role in the project.…

CEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues Remember when we said a growing supply of graphics cards was worrisome because it portended a weakening economy and not just declining interest in crypto-mining?…

Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years Qualcomm intends to ship processors within the next two years using custom Arm-compatible CPU cores designed in house by its acquired Nuvia team.…

DRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20% Micron Technology is making deeper production cuts for 2023 over concerns that the economy is getting worse, continuing a significant reversal from the high demand that made chip shortages the norm during the first two years of the COVID pandemic.…

It's the gift to cybercriminals that keeps on giving Iranian state-sponsored cyber criminals used an unpatched Log4j flaw to break into a US government network, illegally mine for cryptocurrency, steal credentials and change passwords, and then snoop around undetected for several months, according to CISA.…

Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected VLSI Technology, a patent holding company affiliated with Softbank's Fortress Investment Group, has been awarded $948.8 million in a patent infringement claim against Intel Corporation.…

Norway, France also sound data privacy alarms World Cup apps from the Qatari government collect more personal information than they need to, according to Germany's data protection agency, which this week warned football fans to only install the two apps "if it is absolutely necessary." Also: consider using a burner phone.…

Linux Foundation presents IT and help to key volunteers – and some wonder if this is a deal with the Devil Special report The free and open source software (FOSS) community is caught in a love triangle of sorts.…

Info-stealing trojan hides in malicious PyPI packages on GitHub Malware dubbed WASP is using steganography and polymorphism to evade detection, with its malicious Python packages designed to steal credentials, personal information, and cryptocurrency.…

Not a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert Tesla's automated driver assistance system (ADAS) is coming under fire again, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reporting two new fatal Tesla accidents in its monthly ADAS crash report.…

Drawing a line under the share swap drama of 2018, or trying to... Dell has agreed to pay shareholders $1 billion to settle claims it didn't give them the full picture when using their allegedly undervalued shares to finance the $67 billion purchase of EMC in 2016.…

If antitrust regulators aren't happy, the deal won't go through Broadcom has begun the process of getting European Union approval for its proposed $61 billion takeover of cloud and virtualization biz VMware, which the company hopes to close within its current fiscal year.…

Divisive CEO becomes a prisoner of his own device Comment Following a public engineering spat and multiple firings, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has issued an ultimatum to his employees: get hardcore or get out of my way.…

Crypto winter also attributed to semiconductor slumps in recent quarters Canalys Forums APAC Canalys CEO Steve Brazier has proposed that cloud vendors should have similar accountability to credit card companies when accounts are hacked and used to mine cryptocurrency.…

No atmosphere to pollute, but who's going to go up and change that failed drive? The European Commission is to carry out a feasibility study on putting datacenters into orbit as part of its wide-ranging Horizon Europe research program, and has now announced companies taking part in the project.…

Also wants Alphabet to slash losses in Waymo division, buy back shares, lots of them Activist investor TCI Fund Management is calling on Google's parent Alphabet to pursue aggressive cost cutting on the back of a hiring spree during the pandemic, claiming the business could be more efficiently run.…

Tiangong, ISS, and SpaceX satellites will not be affected, according to China's Foreign Ministry The spent Long 6A rocket launching China's Yunhai-3 satellite has broken up, scattering over 50 different chunks into low-Earth orbit after it failed to disintegrate completely upon reentry in the atmosphere.…

Company claims to have emailed customers repeatedly, but many say they didn't receive any Exclusive UK hosting outfit tsoHost has shut down its Gridhost platform amid stinging criticism from customers about the 45-day notice period and general way it was handled.…

Outgoing CEO of NHS Digital says merger with NHS England is needed to 'provide clarity' in tech leadership An outgoing NHS tech chief has defended the decision to merge his organization with a UK government-run unit, arguably diluting the statuary protection of patient data.…

Human scientists can't agree, but computers … uh … find a way Palaeontologists believe they have shed new light on a debate over what kind of dinosaur may have created the ancient tracks at the Lark Quarry Conservation Park in Australia – by analyzing the footprints using AI.…

Little fish lured into the market help whales cash out Somewhere between 73 and 81 percent of retail Bitcoin buyers are likely to be into the negative on their investment, according to research published Monday by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS).…

You can go (nearly) that fast too, if you have a spare €2 million lying around Croatian electric car maker Rimac says it has set a new EV speed record, and it's nothing to balk at. The Nevera, its second production vehicle, was just clocked in Germany going a blistering 412 kilometers per hour (258mph).…