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Stormy clouds ahead? Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT, with all its promises and shortcomings, to world-plus-dog as a cloud service in Azure.…

If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies The US is tightening the net on Chinese server maker Inspur after its addition to the entity list of proscribed businesses, taking aim at the company's affiliates that may not be explicitly covered by the ban.…

Times have changed and unwanted software on Windows is a rarity (unless you count Windows itself) Google is bidding adieu to an application that enabled Chrome users on Windows systems to get rid of unwanted software.…

Your boss owns you AND your home – is this Texas utopia? Comment Remember Elon Musk's "extremely hardcore" edict for staff who hoped to stay on at Twitter after his takeover? To some, this extended to sleeping on the office floor – and even then it didn't save their jobs.…

Building a watertight SoC? You'll have to go through IP-slinger now Rambus, perhaps best known for its patent litigation, has acquired the CryptoCell and CryptoIsland Root of Trust technology from Arm, and will be offering these as part of its own security IP portfolio in future.…

File under cost of doing business Blackbaud has agreed to pay $3 million to settle charges that it made misleading disclosures about a 2020 ransomware infection in which crooks stole more than a million files on around 13,000 of the cloud software slinger's customers.…

2023, just like 2008 Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was shut down on Friday by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation because it ran out of money.…

Gotta go fast! The growing popularity of generative AI and availability of smart features in virtualization platforms like VMware's vSphere will help to drive faster networking into enterprise servers in 2023.…

Singapore's central bank has a gloomy vision of the future According to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), trade barriers between US and China have resulted in geoeconomic fragmentation and will likely result in slower global growth and higher inflation.…

No DUV for you The Dutch government has formally joined US efforts to deny China access to equipment and software essential to expanding the Middle Kingdom's semiconductor manufacturing capabilities.…

That's equivalent to 271 Big Blue workers IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna's 2022 financial package was a healthy $16.58 million – equivalent to the median pay for 271 of his employees.…

IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023 Plunging demand for semiconductors is taking an obvious toll on the chip sector, and Brit compound semiconductor wafer maker IQE is warning of a serious dent in sales.…

Is Lenovo's fastest, thinnest, lightest flagship good at this sort of thing? Hands-on The Reg FOSS desk took Lenovo's new Alder Lake-powered executive laptop for a spin. It's a lovely machine… but with some significant limitations.…

Industry upstart preferred... for now Register Debate This week, Register readers debated the motion Graph databases do not provide a significant advantage over well-architected relational databases for most of the same use cases.…

Like so many of his promises, it's probably one he can't keep Opinion On February 21, Twitter god-king Elon Musk proclaimed "our algorithm is made open source next week." He added it wouldn't work well at first, "but it will improve rapidly!" That hasn't happened.…

Even a hundred-volt jolt couldn’t convince one of them that hardware was the problem On Call As Friday rolls around it's natural to feel a little low on energy. But this week's On-Call – The Register's weekly tale of tech support trauma – is positively crackling with electricity to pep you up before the weekend!…

Now drink your space juice It looks likely that the water on Earth is older than the Sun and the stuff we drink today probably isn't all that different than it was over 4.6 billion years ago when our star formed.…

It’s red, it’s fast, it packs 4th-gen Xeons and Nvidia RTX 6000s, and it looks like it’s been run over by a sports car Lenovo has updated its range of desktop workstations, given them fourth-gen Xeon CPUs, the ability to handle four Nvidia GPUs, and a grille designed by Aston Martin.…

Local clouds reportedly offering surprisingly cheap access to their banned comrades Chinese companies named by the US as prohibited from acquiring certain technologies are reportedly renting them instead from local cloud providers.…

Silicon Valley Bank sold billions in bonds as startups struggle, crypto-centric Silvergate Bank just gave up Two tech-centric financial services operations have hit trouble, giving confidence in the sector another kicking.…

Company CISO acknowledges compromise of a single customer's creds, says incident is contained The CISO of Swiss cybersecurity firm Acronis has acknowledged a breach of the company’s systems but stated the incident only impacted a single customer and that all other data remains safe.…

Religious non-profit allegedly hoovered up location data from dating apps to ID clerics A Catholic clergy conformance organization has reportedly been buying mobile app tracking data to identify gay priests, and providing that information to bishops around the US.…

Malware-seekers were diverted to the Feds, severing a Croatian connection International law enforcement agencies have claimed another victory over cyber criminals, after seizing the website, and taking down the infrastructure operated by crims linked to the NetWire remote access trojan (RAT).…

Inclusion is good business Microsoft offers an enormous portfolio of software and services, used by billions of people – a substantial proportion of the world's population. As a substantial number of people have accessibility needs, so too do Microsoft's customers. That's the impetus behind the software behemoth's Ability Summit – held this week for its 13th year.…

Engineers who contribute to public projects told to enroll Microsoft's GitHub code hosting biz plans to begin requiring developers who contribute to public projects secure their accounts using two-factor authentication (2FA) by Monday, March 13.…

Tells folks not to worry, it was very old and boring data AT&T has confirmed that miscreants had access to nine million of its wireless customers' account details after one of its vendor's networks suffered a security failure in January.…

Data for sale via dark web, Senate in line of fire, too Health data and other personal information of members of Congress and staff were stolen during a breach of servers run by DC Health Care Link and are now up for sale on the dark web.…

Cheap as chips? Not in this case Intel is looking to balance investments in technology with cost cutting to offset reduced revenue as it prepares to introduce a number of new production nodes over the next few years.…

It could be worse, at least Autopilot is ... oh If you needed another reminder that Tesla vehicles might not have the highest of quality control standards, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it is investigating steering wheels falling off of two low-mileage 2023 Tesla Model Ys. …

Notorious botnet starts spamming again after a three-month pause Emotet is back. After another months-long lull since a spate of attacks in November 2022, the notorious malware operation that has already survived a law enforcement takedown and various periods of inactivity began sending out malicious emails on Tuesday morning.…

In theory, this should reduce the number of servers needed to package apps VMware has turned to containerization to improve the performance of virtual desktops and apps.…

CTO warns chips and process technology must be designed together more closely thanks to Moore's Law AMD is talking up internal engineering advances as it looks forward to the introduction of its first hybrid CPU-GPU datacenter chip and more Epyc products, just as rival Intel confirms delays to its own GPU lineup.…

Piggybacking on the hwcaps tunable in glibc, it's shipping platform-optimized libraries SUSE, and the openSUSE project it sponsors, has a way around the issue of optimizing its distro for specific versions of the x86-64 architecture.…

This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket case The fall of Ye – the artist formerly known as Yeezus, Saint Pablo, Yeezy, Louis Vuitton Don, and Kanye West – was one of 2022's more eyebrow-raising stories. Now Adidas has been left one of the biggest losers because it is sitting on $1.3 billion worth of Yeezy sneakers made in collaboration with the rapper.…

Would be a shame if anything happened to it Huawei accounts for nearly 60 percent of Germany's 5G network equipment, according to a spokesperson from the Chinese embassy.…

Revenue guidance cut from $24m to $9m after discovery of 'potentially fraudulent irregularities' WANdisco has suspended trading on the AIM, the sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, following its discovery of "potentially fraudulent irregularities" in reporting its sales.…

The people can eat turnips, Sunak wants a super... computer. Analysis This week British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled his Science and Technology Framework, and one of the first projects could be a massive supercomputer to rival the US's top ranked Frontier system — assuming he can find the money to pay for it.…

Even ISO committee that delivered SQL thinks graphs are different enough to warrant a full query language Register Debate Welcome back to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument.…

And not even a tentative date for a system go-live either By the end of this month, the UK Home Office will have spent just under £2 billion ($2.4 billion) on a new critical communications network for the country's police, fire and ambulance services – with nothing to show for it, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO).…

Oh, and pay boatloads for the privilege Microsoft believes that solving the world's most intractable problems – reversing climate change, for instance – will ultimately require combining supercomputers, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.…

Ten-year deal to put Call of Duty on PlayStation shot down Microsoft has once again proposed a ten-year licensing deal with Sony to appease British watchdog concerns over the Windows giant's proposed $69 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard – but the PlayStation maker isn't having any of it.…

It looks like sanctions – and economic chills – are biting as total trade with EU, US and Japan declines China's imports of semiconductors and integrated circuits plunged year-on-year for the first two months of 2023, at a time when the country is exiting COVID restrictions and the US is enforcing industry sanctions.…

Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts NASA is ready to fly a crew of astronauts to the Moon next year after the success of the first test flight of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule. …

Minister wants to protect Samsung, SK hynix, from having to give up the crown jewels to score subsidies The US government's plan to lure more chipmakers to the home of the brave has hit a snag in South Korea. That nation's trade minster is on his way to Washington with a message that some of the program's requirements don't sit well with the likes of Samsung and SK hynix.…

Island nation reworks digital infrastructure found to have slowed down pandemic response The Singapore prime minister's office admitted on Wednesday that it should have "been clearer" on plans to use data collected by its COVID tracking program from the onset, and that allowing the data to be used in police investigations had affected public trust.…

They've been lurking in networks since at least 2021 Suspected Chinese cyber criminals have zeroed in on unpatched SonicWall gateways and are infecting the devices with credential-stealing malware that persists through firmware upgrades, according to Mandiant.…

Clock is ticking for TikTok and other foreign natter-ware On Tuesday a bipartisan group of a dozen US senators introduced a bill to authorize the Commerce Department to ban information and communications technology products and services deemed threats to national security.…

Relativity Space relatively grounded The inaugural launch of Terran-1, built by aerospace startup Relativity Space from 90 percent 3D-printed parts, was cancelled Wednesday.…

Don't say you weren't warned Last year, around the Thanksgiving holiday, Ohio businessman Michael Larkin received a request for video from his Amazon Ring security system from Hamilton city police.…

Talk about off the back of a lorry Four men accused of stealing more than $1 million worth of products from Microsoft's cargo trucks in the US have been charged with multiple counts including felony grand theft. California state police arrested two of the suspects on February 2, and the other two remain at large.…