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Chip outfit reportedly afraid it would have to report any transaction with a SoftBank company to UK regulator Arm's decision not to list on the London Stock Exchange for its public offering is being blamed by some on financial rules, or rather on the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) not being sufficiently flexible in waiving those rules.…

And a choice of ways to get the latest KDE too, if that's your thing For significant subcomponents of Ubuntu – and its derivatives – you don't need to wait for the next release to appear. You can upgrade major parts on the fly.…

When you need something reliable that won't drop out of support, open is the way to go Energy grid operators could increase the reliability of their networks by adopting software designed to manage nuclear fusion experiments, claims the UK's Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).…

Plus: Drops 'carbon-neutral' hints on successor processor with the moniker MONAKA Fujitsu's Arm-based A64FX processor may have driven the most powerful supercomputer in the world, but it looks like its successor will be a more general-purpose chip that will focus on energy efficiency.…

Two experts go head-to-head – then you decide Register Debate Welcome to the latest in our series of Register Debates, in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favor or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

Wake up and smell the cortex Opinion In Hollywood, brains in jars mean three things. Mad scientists at work, we are tampering with forces we cannot control, and something monstrous is coming. We are now making brains in jars for real: the mad scientists are at Johns Hopkins University and the forces they are tampering with include video gaming. Yes, there will be new monsters, but some old ones will be slain along the way.…

Fat-fingered admin escaped because the last false alarm was caused by a frozen pizza and a toaster oven who, me? Welcome once again, gentle reader, to the quiet corner of The Register we call Who, Me? in which readers unburden themselves by confessing tales of work-related mishaps and narrow escapes.…

Falcon Shore will be late. Rialto Bridge and Lancaster Sound cancelled. Will Chipzilla ever nail its XPU plan? Intel has used a quiet Friday announcement to reveal delays and deletions to its GPU and high-performance computing roadmap.…

Then they plunged properly like all other client devices PC sales may have slumped during 2022, but a record number of workstations – 7.7 million – were snapped up by buyers, delivering 2.1 percent year-on-year growth.…

Plus: OpenAI says it won't train on customer data, and Microsoft rolls out new Bing AI modes In brief Elon Musk is reportedly trying to recruit developers to build a large language model that will be less restrictive and politically correct than OpenAI's ChatGPT.…

Also, Royal ransomware metastasizes to other critical sectors, and this week's critical vulnerabilities In Brief If you can't join them, then you may as well try to beat them – at least if you're a talented security engineer looking for a job and you happen to be a woman. …

Loongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list The US Department of Commerce last week added Inspur Group to its entity list of Chinese businesses that US orgs can only work with after securing a licence – a move with the potential to cause significant strife for US tech giants.…

PLUS: Grab's custom GitOps; Alipay's RISC-V payments push; NTT Data's solar wrap plan; and more Asia In Brief The full session of China's National People’s Congress – the annual meeting of the nation's supreme legislative body – has seen officials announce accelerated plans to achieve scientific self-sufficiency.…

Know the ingredients before mixing the code. Oh and pay open source maintainers for goodness' sake... SCSW The common analogy when talking about software bills of materials (SBOMs) is the list of ingredients found on food packages that lets consumers know what is in the potato chips they're about to eat.…

Whatever happened to small government that stays out of our lives A proposed Texas state law would make it a criminal offense for internet service providers (ISPs) to provide access to websites that sell abortion pills or provide information about the procedure.…

Good thing we've got a great rapport with Tehran, no? Lithium, sometimes hyped as white gold, has been highly sought after for its role in battery production, and other things.…

Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe The US Secret Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies have failed to follow the law and official policy regarding the use of cell-site simulators, according to a government audit.…

'Understanding your inventory is absolutely No. 1' he tells The Reg SCSW On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the highest risk, Snap Chief Information Security Officer Jim Higgins rates software supply chain risk "about 9.9"…

Record number of gripes from suppliers vying for slice of this procurement pie The US government's efforts to spend $50 billion on IT services continues to be hit by challenges owning to the size and complexity of the procurement.…

Feds propose $7.8M payment and ban on revealing 'sensitive' data to settle complaint Even if you don't know anyone who has used BetterHelp's services, podcast fans will recognize it from its annoying adverts for its online therapists. American regulators, however, allege the company's relationship with the advertising industry is more perverse than a mere irritating jingle, claiming it betrayed loyalties that should lie with customers by passing on their mental health info to Facebook, Snapchat and others.…

Big brains worry investment explosion could hit astronomy Research published this week shows increasing interference with astronomical images caused by commercial satellites, adding to concern over the effects of the private space industry on science.…

Crime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client A malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) is the latest example of what threat hunters from Kroll called the continued "democratization of cybercrime," with the bad guys creating malware variants from the code of others.…

Beware, it only has 3GB free and may go up to – yikes! – $23 A Chinese vendor is offering a pocket calculator that runs a full copy of Android 9 – complete with Wi-Fi. It costs ¥69, about 10 bucks.…

Vid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues Pandemic work communications darling Zoom has unceremoniously axed the president it hired less than a year ago "without cause," the company has confirmed in a regulatory filing.…

Server sector still challenging and storage sales cycles lengthening again There’s some life in the enterprise datacenter industry judging by the financials reported by Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the problem for Dell is that its group growth is being weighed down by crappy PC sales.…

Foreign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now Arm has confirmed its shares will be listed only in New York following its initial public offering (IPO), dashing hopes of the UK government and others - for now at least - of a dual list on the London Stock Exchange.…

Industry hasn't 'improved much at all' SCSW Back in 2020, Eric Scales led the incident response team investigating a nation-state hack that compromised his company's servers along with those at federal agencies and tech giants including Microsoft and Intel.…

Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament's (Bundestag) Digital Affairs Committee on Wednesday.…

Something something £100M cost savings, something something staying competitive Exclusive BT is launching a voluntary redundancy program for the merging Enterprise and Global divisions – something of an inevitability since the £100 million cost-cutting move was confirmed in December.…

Maybe he shouldn’t have built a naughtily-named website where users could get the fix? On Call Welcome, dear reader, to yet another instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly column featuring readers' tales of being asked to show up and save the day.…

Probe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball Websites often provide visitors with the opportunity to opt out of data collection. This is not out of their abundant concern for your privacy – it's the law and they're forced to do it. But according to a trio of privacy researchers, opting out doesn't always work – visitor data still gets collected.…

Robot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to keep connected To explore the subterranean lava tubes and caverns of the Moon or Mars we ought to consider the lessons learned by Hansel and Gretel, boffins have suggested, albeit with mesh networking technology the pair of unfortunate children didn't have.…

US comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries Think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has published an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, and asserted that China has taken the lead in research on 37 of 44 critical or emerging technologies.…

$206 million for breaching 2019 settlement – and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again The US Department of Justice has slapped Ericsson with a $206 million fine for breaching terms of the deferred prosecution deal it struck in 2019 when the Swedish outfit was found to have spent years using illegal business practices.…

US isn't the only country splashing out the cash for fabs Embattled memory vendor YMTC is getting a 49 billion yuan ($7 billion) infusion of funds from Chinese state-backed investors in the wake of sweeping trade restrictions against the company by the US and its allies.…

SpaceX overcomes ground systems issue that halted previous launch attempt SpaceX successfully launched four astronauts from the US, Russia, and United Arab Emirates on Thursday, on a mission to the International Space Station.…

Security features in AMD Epyc chips push confidential computing effort Microsoft is taking advantage of hardware-based security features in AMD's Epyc processors for its confidential containers running in Azure, as part of its push into confidential computing.…

Intros 'universal licenses' that can be deployed anywhere and include extra support sweeteners Citrix has announced a licensing scheme that's bad news for holders of so-called perpetual licenses because the vendor will stop maintaining products sold to "larger customers" under that scheme.…

Just-revealed US cybersecurity strategy 'has fangs' for catching crafty criminals and crummy coders Analysis Technology providers can expect more regulations, while cyber criminals can look for US law enforcement to step up their efforts to disrupt ransomware gangs and other illicit activities, under the Biden administration's computer security plan announced on Thursday.…

With great speed comes great insecurity SCSW CI/CD over the past decade has become the cornerstone of modern software development.…

It's still coming soon ... just like it was in 2019, and 2020, and 2021, and 2022 Despite years of proclamations by Elon Musk that human tests were just around the corner, it turns out his Neuralink brain-implant startup has already asked the US Food and Drug Administration for permission to conduct human tests – and been rejected.…

Fifth of server warehouse operators polled didn't employ a single female worker Datacenter operators' investments in inclusion and diversity have done little to shift the balance of workers in the historically male-dominated field, an Uptime Institute report found.…

It not only told everyone I died but tried to fake my obit. Are we ready for this machine-driven future? Comment “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”…

No new cars, unanswered questions, and FSD goals still looming in distance may be why stock is tanking Yesterday's four-hour Tesla PR marathon, rather than exciting investors as it was supposed to, ended up a snoozefest.…

Lack of route to domestic semiconductor supply best of British stuffup, says Urquhart Another of Arm's founders has criticized the UK government over its technology strategy, or rather the lack of it, as the country's long-awaited semiconductor blueprint has still yet to be published.…

Along with better integration for all three editions Linux Mint project lead Clement Lefebvre has shared some more details about the forthcoming version 21.2, including new versions of both Cinnamon and Xfce.…

Oi! Organoid Intelligence could be more data- and power-efficient than AI A new field of research dubbed "organoid intelligence" is emerging as scientists look to build computers from lumps of brain cells grown in a petri dish.…

'Toxic' environment requires reboot to restore confidence following failed satellite launch Regulatory delays – rather than technical failures – are set to threaten the UK commercial space launch industry, a committee of MPs heard yesterday, as the industry described a "toxic" environment for investment.…

Neat! Everything's gonna be just like Call of Duty! As the arch-nerd hangout of the web, we love a bit of sci-fi here at The Register, so imagine our surprise when we heard that the UK Ministry of Defence has tapped the writing talents of sometime collaborators PW Singer and August Cole.…