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Zuck admits biz recruited too hard during pandemic and decline in advertising forced his hand Meta is making more than of 11,000 employees redundant following the dramatic decline in profits and the subsequent share price dive at the end of last month.…

Thousands behind Airbus and Boeing, but the backlogs of western airliners might sweeten the deal Commercial Aircraft Corp of China (Comac), the maker of China's domestically made single-aisle passenger jet – the C919 – has secured orders for 300 of the recently certified aircraft.…

Reg FOSS desk chats with one of the core architects Ubuntu Summit Canonical remains committed to its Snap format as the coverage at its first public gathering in a few years shows.…

Whatever's happening with Qualcomm, server chip outfit says it knows of no tweaks to model Interview Arm-based server chip outfit Ampere's chief product officer says its licensing with Arm is not changing, as the company prepares to launch the latest processors built with its own fully custom core design.…

Officials are concerned acquisition could reduce competition and lock gamers to Xbox and Microsoft PCs The European Commission launched an antitrust investigation examining Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of computer games maker Activision Blizzard on Tuesday.…

Ah, so now we know who to blame for all of this Scientists taking a look at the second-most distant observed quasar believe it's actually the remnants of one of the universe's earliest stars – the so-called Population III stars that seeded the early universe with material that eventually formed life. …

Crisis mode led to more formal meetings and lists, which just make more useless work Researchers from Germany's Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik have studied how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the way systems administrators work, and found the profession was negatively impacted.…

CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field A trade group representing 24 cloud infrastructure providers in Europe is filing a formal competition complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft's licensing of software in the cloud.…

The world may never be free of unsmashable ads LG Display has shown off a thin, lightweight, stretchable and twistable micro-LED screen – an innovation South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) hopes will boost the nation's electronics industry.…

Big Blue tries the Domino's approach IBM is so confident in its hardware supply chain that it's promised to ship storage arrays by the end of 2022 – and if it's late you get free software as compensation.…

Also teams up with cinema chain AMC to let you Zoom at the movies Zoom has decided to take on the software world's most dangerous mission: attempting to offer productivity tools that rival those bundled into Microsoft Office 365.…

Anyone can pretend to be your Windows IT support and take command of staff devices VMware has revealed a terrible trio of critical-rated flaws in Workspace ONE Assist for Windows – a product used by IT and help desk staff to remotely take over and manage employees' devices.…

Plus: Fixes from Intel, AMD, Citrix and more Patch Tuesday November's Patch Tuesday also falls on election day in the US, so let's hope that democracy fares better than Microsoft, which reported six of today's bugs are already being exploited in the wild by miscreants.…

Just call it the Sad Launch System NASA's plans to launch its Space Launch System (SLS) super rocket this November from the Kennedy Space Center may be foiled yet again if a tropical storm continues gaining strength on its predicted path toward Florida.…

The chipmaker's Prestera DX1500 family brings Ethernet to OT networks At a rather pedestrian 10Gbps, Marvell's latest networking silicon isn't going to win any races. But then again the chipmaker's Prestera DX1500-series switch chips and Alaska E1781 PHYs aren't destined for your typical enterprise or campus network.…

Stay warm this winter by fragging some baddies Intel wants to put a small form factor space heater — err PC — on your desk with the launch of its 13th-Gen NUC Extreme platform, codenamed Raptor Canyon.…

Giant forecasts premiums rising to $23b by 2025 As insurance companies struggle to stay afloat amid rising cyber claims, Swiss Re has recommended a public-private partnership insurance scheme with one option being a government-backed fund to help fill the coverage gap.…

Frankly, it's the least of Musk's problems right now Tesla has initiated a voluntary recall of more than 40,000 Model S and Model X vehicles thanks to a bad firmware update that could cause the cars to lose power steering "due to forces from external road dynamics," also known as bumps.…

Germany blocks sale of fab to Chinese firm, Taiwan's investments challenged in Lithuania China is at the center of two conflicts in Europe as the continent strives to shore up domestic chip manufacturing capabilities.…

Phishing-as-a-service group's toolset now includes ways to get around MFA Robin Banks, the phishing-as-a-service (PHaaS) platform that was kicked off Cloudflare for malicious activity, is back in action with a Russian service provider and new tools to make it easier to bypass security measures.…

Two breaches: one in 2012, another in 2015 – saw 18m folks' records stolen Experian and T-Mobile US have reached separate settlements with 40 states in America following a pair of data security breaches in 2012 and 2015. The settlement will net authorities $16 million, along with assurances it won't happen again.…

Advertising? 'Anything for that sweet sweet KPI' Windows appears to be testing ads in the user session flyout menu (where you sign out, lock, or change settings) of Windows 11 preview builds, with clearly annoyed Windows Insider, Albacore, sharing screenshots on Twitter.…

Nvidia’s A800 is the new A100, but slower; and Biren’s A100 now 64GBps slower Systems that once contained Nvidia and TSMC chips, which are now restricted by the US government, are popping up this week with slower specs to meet US export controls to China and evade the hassles of obtaining special licenses.…

Maybe they can use more renewable energy – oh crap, that needs semiconductors too A newly created semiconductor industry body is attending the COP27 climate conference this week to talk about members’ aims to hit net zero emissions by 2050 – and hopefully clean up the chip industry's act.…

Pilot project in Geneva ends potential danger to welfare of the birds Yet another squadron of anti-drone eagles is being grounded after officials in Geneva, Switzerland decided advances in the technology made success rates uncertain and even dangerous for the birds to manage.…

If Eliyan’s designs work, this could lower reliance on Asia for chip manufacturing Silicon Valley startup Eliyan thinks its technology for enabling chiplet-based designs can best those from semiconductor giants Intel and TSMC by providing better performance, higher efficiency, fewer manufacturing issues, and more supply chain options.…

Need Another Special Artisan? The US space agency does NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to launch the Psyche asteroid-visiting mission originally scheduled later this year due to an "imbalance between the workload and the available workforce," it admitted in an independent report released late last week.…

Apparently, you can still get laptops with good keyboard feel Review Tuxedo Computers offers an unusual machine: a Linux-based laptop with, of all things, a mechanical keyboard.…

Reveals closer ties to Equinix and Wipro as Broadcom finds new ways to promise peace VMware has used the European edition of its Explore conference to outline a plan to package software for consumption as SaaS while keeping it out of the reach of the extraterritorial jurisdiction enabled by the USA’s Cloud Act.…

Holiday property landlords' vacation from regulation is coming to an end The EU proposed rules this week requiring Airbnb and similar companies to share with officials the identities of hosts renting houses and apartments to tourists.…

Pay is middling, hours are long, but millions of jobs are out there Chinese employers have recently advertised for nearly a million employees with technical AI skills, according to an analysis from US think tank the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).…

Other than that, results are some of the least bad news about hardware sales we've read in weeks Electronics manufacturing giant Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd – better known as Foxconn – has reported strong growth in plenty of product categories but warned its Chinese operations may drag it down during Q4.…

$40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone Databases remain the largest single driver of enterprise hardware purchases, according to analyst outfit IDC.…

Asking really good questions about what data can describe matters more than collecting more info Data scientists are important, but what the world needs now is data artists, according to analysts at Gartner's Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney, Australia.…

OK, so you've got a botnet. That don't impress me much Pro-Russia hacktivists' recent spate of network-flooding bot traffic aimed at US critical infrastructure targets, while annoying, have had "limited success," according to the FBI.…

Robots aren't hard. 5G in a room full of metal is. So is explaining why you need a bot to look at blinkenlights Fujitsu Japan will trial a local 5G network as the sole connectivity option for a robot charged with inspecting a datacenter and reporting on any anomalies it finds.…

AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack With AI and HPC workloads becoming the norm, we can expect a broader push toward high-end power and cooling technologies inside colo facilities.…

Meanwhile, India workers in reported 90% purge In a sign that laying off half the company may not have been the best idea, "dozens" of Twitter employees given notice on Friday were reportedly asked to return over the weekend.…

Uncle Sam follows the money ... all the way to a single-board computer A crook who stole more than 50,000 Bitcoins from the dark web souk Silk Road in 2012 has pleaded guilty and lost the lot, with a stretch behind bars likely ahead of him. …

Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged Misinformation related to tomorrow's US midterm elections hasn't slowed, according to security researchers. …

US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead The Biden administration has carved off a supercomputer’s worth of cash from the Inflation Reduction Act to upgrade the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) national laboratories.…

Just in time for the holidays, a bunch of firing talk to worry Facebook crew More Silicon Valley layoff rumors are swirling and this time it's Meta that might be planning the first broad reduction in the company's history.…

The UK chip designer is suing another firm that has an interest, so IPO it is? Remember when Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK hynix were floated as potential buyers of UK chip designer Arm? Well, it seems that we can now count them out, which means Arm's owner, SoftBank Group, will likely have to move forward with its planned initial public offering.…

No more MF phish on this MFA cellphone as Azure AD CBA + YubiKey hits preview Microsoft is rolling out another way for smartphone and tablet users to protect themselves from phishing attacks as post-pandemic hybrid work pulls more and more workers under bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies.…

This is no laughing matter, says very stable genius, as Kathy Griffin forced to tweet from dead mom's account Elon Musk, the self-affirmed bastion of free speech, says that anyone setting up a parody Twitter account that isn’t marked as such will be permanently banned from the social network.…

Also, US media hit with JavaScript supply chain attack, while half of govt employees use out-of-date mobile OSes in brief A quartet of malware-laden Android apps from a single developer have been caught with malicious code more than once, yet the infected apps remain on Google Play and have collectively been downloaded more than one million times. …

The two not explicitly linked together but USA still working hard to hurt China semiconductor imports As Washington tries to persuade allies to join its China chip technology export ban, Japan is preparing for a joint research project with the US on the development of next generation advanced semiconductors.…

Tech giants and startups rush into the next big thing in security The theft of billions of dollars in cryptocurrency over recent months could have been prevented, and confidential computing is a key to the security fix.…

Plus: City of Edinburgh promises to scrap Chinese AI Hikvision cameras, and more In brief OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub have been named in a class-action lawsuit claiming its AI-code generating software Copilot violates copyright laws.…

Already red-teaming and blue teaming in the international Locked Shields contest every year Japan’s Ministry of Defence (JMOD) announced on Friday that it has formally joined NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).…