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A gentle primer on these chip giants' accelerators – and your essential guide to the conference so far VMware Explore SmartNICs have long been the domain of hyperscale and cloud datacenters, but they remain relatively uncommon in enterprise environments due in large part to the lack of software compatibility. But with official support for AMD and Nvidia's data processing units (DPUs) now baked into VMware's popular hypervisor, that may not be the case for much longer.…

Orbit Fab hopes to charge $20m for a hydrazine refill – and you thought fuel prices down here were bad! Spacecraft running low on fuel could get a refill from an orbital station by the year 2025, according to a startup named Orbit Fab that reckons it can charge $20 million to top up your tank.…

ScanBox installed after victims lured to fake Murdoch news sites with phishing emails Researchers at security company Proofpoint and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) said on Tuesday they had identified a cyber espionage campaign that delivers the ScanBox exploitation framework through a malicious fake Australian news site.…

Watt an interesting idea California is ready to try out something that could help it save water and generate electricity at the same time: solar panels over irrigation canals.…

Digital minister will drive change because, in theory, uploading info to government isn't allowed Japan's digital minister Taro Kono has pledged to rip up laws that require floppy disks and CD-ROMs to be used when sending data to the nation's government.…

And throws a copy of Mudge's allegations to the SEC, too, just in case it hasn't read them yet Elon Musk's lawyers issued a double whammy this week in the ongoing quest by the world's richest man to cancel his own proposed takeover of Twitter.…

Will Newsom sign it? With a possible presidential bid looming, take a guess California lawmakers have approved a major online safety bill to protect children – and critics worry the legislation will turn websites into identity checkpoints.…

Will it be enough to prevent the next software supply-chain attack? Google has created a bug bounty program that will reward those who find and report vulnerabilities in its open-source projects, thereby hopefully strengthening software supply-chain security.…

And so is vSphere for Arm: CEO tells Reg he’s ‘beating up’ the exec responsible for the port VMware Explore VMware is working to bring its flagship virtualization stack to all major processor architectures, CEO Raghu Raghuram said at his company’s Explore conference in San Francisco today.…

Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus Ariel Koren, a Jewish Googler, claims the internet giant pressured her into resigning in retaliation for her speaking out about Google and Amazon's $1.2 billion cloud contract with Israel's government and military.…

Snafu disrupts VMs as cloud giant offers workarounds Microsoft Azure customers running Canonical's Ubuntu 18.04 (aka Bionic Beaver) in the cloud have seen their applications fail after a flawed security update to systemd broke DNS queries.…

Going live in 10 regions, running Ampere Altra silicon Microsoft has opened up Arm-based virtual machines for general availability on its Azure cloud platform, after previewing the technology earlier this year.…

Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers A lawsuit filed against Tesla this month accuses the automaker of covering up an alleged malfunction that makes vehicles stop for nonexistent objects, sometimes in the middle of traffic, while in Autopilot mode.…

Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs Teradata has launched analytics and data lake platforms as it strives to steal the march on so-call cloud-native enterprise data warehouse companies.…

HCI platform now supports vSphere 8, vSAN 8, and VCF 4.5 VMware Explore Dell has announced its latest kit co-developed with VMware, including updated VxRail HCI systems with support for network offloading to DPUs, support for VMware's Tanzu Kubernetes Grid in its Apex subscription platform, and a turnkey platform for operating AI workloads.…

Production dips almost 7% between January and July. COVID-19 disruption also blamed Semiconductor shortages might have peaked in some sectors but the automotive industry is still reaching to secure as many chips as it can, with Toyota outlining the continued ramifications.…

Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again VMware Explore VMware has delivered on its promise to brings its flagship vSphere compute virtualization suite to SmartNICs that embed a small computer on a network interface controller and run network-centric workloads there to free servers’ CPUs from scutwork.…

City-state can’t beat them, so plans to regulate them, starting with consumer suitability tests The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday it is taking measures to reduce the harms caused by cryptocurrency, including conducting "customer suitability tests" as part of its ongoing slow-motion crackdown on the alternative tender.…

Ah, nothing like a classic Trojan horse Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches.…

Investigating the world of Chinese Linux Ubuntu's special distro for the Chinese market has a widening edge over the company's more conventional flavors.…

Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above? Opinion The International Space Station is showing its age. It's older than a third of the population, over two and a half billion people who have never known a time without humans in orbit.…

You might find copying data over a network goes at least a little quicker Microsoft this month fixed what one of its staffers called an "idiosyncrasy" in the end-to-end SMB compression functionality it began rolling out last year for Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11.…

Aerial photo scanning tool to be expanded to catch out other unreported home improvements AI software has detected more than 20,000 secret private swimming pools in aerial photography, helping French tax officials bag about €10 million (£ 8.6 million) in extra property levies.…

Indian residents will be able to buy their groceries through the chat app – for as long as the government is happy with the idea Meta's messaging service WhatsApp will launch its first end to end e-commerce service in India, through an alliance with giant conglomerate Reliance Industries’ digital business and mobile telephony subsidiary, Jio Platforms.…

Prices start at $300, but you'll also need a new motherboard, RAM, and PSU AMD has refreshed its desktop processors for the first time in nearly two years, revealing Ryzen 7000-series CPUs that boast clock speeds that can reach 5.7GHz and performance up to 29 percent better than their predecessors.…

Developers say this is not the privacy protection it's made out to be Google in November will prohibit Android VPN apps in its Play store from interfering with or blocking advertising, a change that may pose problems for some privacy applications.…

Judges just didn't buy Viasat's in-orbit prang fears Judges in the US have upheld the FCC's decision to allow SpaceX Starlink satellites to fly at a lower altitude.…

Which would be very problematic in this Post-Roe era The Federal Trade Commission has accused data broker Kochava of trampling over people's privacy by selling the "precise" whereabouts of hundreds of millions of mobile devices.…

Funnily enough, most of those hit were aged over 40, it is claimed Exclusive After announcing in January it was selling its Watson Health group to investment firm Francisco Partners, IBM assured staff left behind from the sale that they would be redeployed within Big Blue.…

Yes, we're totally doing this as a favor for partners and not because we were being sued in Europe Microsoft has announced a major overhaul to its Windows licensing regimes that make it rather easier to use its operating system in the cloud – without highlighting the reason for the change is to get the European Union off its back.…

Snapdragon giant was accused of bribing Apple not to use rival modems The European Commission has reportedly called it quits in its bid to fine Qualcomm for alleged anti-competitive payments to Apple.…

Grab and deploy this backend update if you offer even repo read access A critical command-injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could allow an unauthorized attacker to remotely execute malware, and view, change, and even delete data stored in repositories.…

Claims it has 'the world’s largest' OLED LG Electronics released a TV it is claiming is “the world’s largest” OLED.…

This science stuff is harder than it looks NASA's Space Launch System remained rooted to the pad this morning at the Kennedy Space Center on the US East Coast after its launch was scrubbed by controllers.…

Interconnect tech promises 96TB/s die-to-die communications Hot Chips As chipmakers look to scale compute to ever-greater heights, they’re increasingly turning to waferscale compute architectures to circumvent bandwidth and latency bottlenecks.…

A Reg reader comes to appreciate the value of paper Who, Me? In this modern era when massive amounts of storage can be had for pennies on the gigabyte, it's easy to forget that it was not always thus. Once upon a time, keeping business data safe was a cost- and labor-intensive process.…

Zuckerberg and Sandberg won't have to testify – worth much more than cash for Meta Meta's Platforms has reached an agreement to settle the consumer lawsuits brought as a result of Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized harvesting of user data – an outcome that means Facebook execs won't be required to testify in court.…

Something to thank Putin for … unless you’re the admin trying to implement buggy and fast-changing rules while avoiding Bork Germany has ordered overnight shutdowns for non-essential digital signage, to save its reserves of natural gas for more important purposes.…

PLUS: Trustwave's Singapore owners selling?; Pakistan's suspiciously political internet brownout; Indonesian data leaks; and more! Asia In Brief Senior execs at India's big IT outsourcers are debating whether it is appropriate for their staff to take on additional paid work outside the company.…

Plus: Changing call center workers' voices, why we need to do more to get women in ML, and more In brief A record label this week dropped an AI rapper after the biz was slammed for profiting from the virtual artist, said to be modeled on Black stereotypes.…

Why choose one when you can use them all? Hot Chips Over the past two years, AMD has steadily expanded its computing portfolio. This included the addition of FPGAs and smartNICs through the acquisition of Xilinx in 2020 and Pensando earlier this year.…

Also, Charming Kittens from Iran scrape email inboxes, France could fine Google again, and more In brief A survey of cybersecurity decision makers found 77 percent think the world is now in a perpetual state of cyberwarfare.…

Online shops sharing data about you with others qualifies as a sale in AG's book – and that means rules apply Sephora has agreed to cough up $1.2 million to settle claims it broke California's privacy law.…

On the bright side, top devs are getting hardware security keys The Python Package Index, better known among developers as PyPI, has issued a warning about a phishing attack targeting developers who use the service.…

If it ever gets built, that is US memory vendor Micron is seeking tax incentives to build a new semiconductor fab outside Austin, Texas, according to documents filed with the state.…

This same tech could someday help us discover strange, new – and habitable – worlds NASA is reporting another James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first as the orbital observatory has found clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.…

Double check who exactly you're sending your username and password to, eh? DoorDash has confirmed that "a small percentage" of its customers and delivery drivers' information, including names, email and delivery addresses, phone numbers, and order and partial credit card details, were exposed as part of a broad phishing campaign dubbed Oktapus.…

The memorial 'Enterprise Flight' later this year will also include ashes from other Star Trek alumni Late actress Nichelle Nichols, who for 25 years portrayed the USS Enterprise's communications officer Uhura, is set to be memorialized among the stars later this year.…

Chip giant aims to adapt existing processor architectures to close off vulnerabilities in memory access Hot Chips Arm used the Hot Chips conference to talk about its experimental Morello Program and how it implements the CHERI architecture, designed to address some of the memory access vulnerabilities underpinning attacks on computer systems.…

Companies claim that 'no modifications are required to the cellphone everyone has in their pocket today' T-Mobile US and SpaceX have announced plans to use satellites in low Earth orbit to provide cellphone coverage in remote locations across the US and perhaps globally using existing devices.…