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Yes, yet another Debian downstream, but a particularly interesting one SpiralLinux is the result of the creator of GeckoLinux turning their attention to Debian – with an interesting outcome.…

JumpCloud SME report also finds remote workers getting better at following best security practices Not many people are talking about Apple's recent WWDC from an enterprise standpoint. But identity and machine management tool maker JumpCloud says a "shim" to connect "the login to the device through to the Safari browser" is a notable development.…

'Write once, run anywhere' finally came true, thanks to APE and the Cosmopolitan libc A bunch of almost unbelievably clever tech tricks come together into something practical with redbean 2: a webserver plus content in a single file that runs on any x86-64 operating system.…

It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all Opinion The Turing test is about us, not the bots, and it has failed. …

Short sharp loss of privileges for poor sysadmin who emptied that directory Who, Me? The UK has bins, the US prefers trashcans, and computers like their /bin. How do you think today's episode of Who, Me? is going to go?…

Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’ Messaging app Telegram, which came to prominence for offering end-to-end encryption that irritated governments, has celebrated passing 700 million active monthly users with a pastel-hued announcement: a paid Premium tier of service.…

Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year The US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok has revealed that it has changed the default location used to store users' creations to Oracle Cloud's stateside operations – a day after being accused of allowing its Chinese parent company to access American users' personal data.…

Bans VPNs, Dropbox, and more India's government last week issued confidential information security guidelines that calls on the 30 million plus workers it employs to adopt better work practices – and as if to prove a point, the document quickly leaked on a government website.…

'Editing and review' teams will be required to read everything and report dissent The Cyberspace Administration of China has announced a policy requiring all comments made to websites to be approved before publication.…

Star Trek's glowing circuit boards may not be so crazy Science fiction is littered with fantastic visions of computing. One of the more pervasive is the idea that one day computers will run on light. After all, what’s faster than the speed of light?…

Keep boxes updated and protected to avoid a NAS-ty shock QNAP is warning users about another wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks against its network-attached storage (NAS) devices – and urged customers to update their devices' QTS or QuTS hero operating systems to the latest versions.…

'No one should have to endure abuse just because they are attempting to participate in society' A US task force aims to prevent online harassment and abuse, with a specific focus on protecting women, girls and LGBTQI+ individuals.…

Just cryptocurrency things A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) called Inverse Finance has been robbed of cryptocurrency somehow exchangeable for $1.2 million, just two months after being taken for $15.6 million.…

WikiLeaker-in-chief to appeal Priti Patel's decision UK Home Secretary Priti Patel today signed an order approving the extradition of Julian Assange to America, where he faces espionage charges for sharing secret government documents.…

With Supreme Court set to overturn Roe v Wade, privacy is key A group of senators wants to make it illegal for data brokers to sell sensitive location and health information of individuals' medical treatment.…

$200 a day buys you 90,000 victims A Russian operated botnet known as RSOCKS has been shut down by the US Department of Justice acting with law enforcement partners in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. It is believed to have compromised millions of computers and other devices around the globe.…

GPU giant promises big advancements with Arm-based Grace CPU, says the software is ready Interview 2023 is shaping up to become a big year for Arm-based server chips, and a significant part of this drive will come from Nvidia, which appears steadfast in its belief in the future of Arm, even if it can't own the company.…

Tangle of cables creates headaches and electronic waste, warn senators The US could implement a law similar to the EU's universal charger mandate if a trio of Senate Democrats get their way.…

Redmond's security brand extended to multiple devices without stomping on other solutions Microsoft is extending the Defender brand with a version aimed at families and individuals.…

Plus: enhancements to 3nm tech due to go into production later this year Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has revealed details of its much anticipated 2nm production process node – set to arrive in 2025 – which will use a nanosheet transistor architecture, as well as enhancements to its 3nm technology.…

I got 99 problems but a patch ain't one? Well, that is the hope anyway If Windows Autopatch arrives in July as planned, some of you will be able to say goodbye to Patch Tuesday.…

Asked for equitable treatment and a boss that doesn't embarrass them SpaceX has reportedly reacted to an open letter requesting accountability for Elon Musk by firing those involved.…

Extended 'summer season' also at fault, says software slinger as share price slides Creative software slinger Adobe booked in double-digit revenues rises in its latest quarter but lowered forecasts due to conflict in Ukraine and and currency challenges. As such, Wall Street frowned and the share price went down.…

If at first you don't succeed, change names and try again. Google Cloud's Anthos on-prem platform is getting a new home under the search giant’s recently announced Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) portfolio, where it will live on as a software-based competitor to AWS Outposts and Microsoft Azure Stack.…

Campaigners fear erosion of rights as narrowing of law proposed as well as political control over independent watchdog The UK government has published its plans for reforming local data protection law which includes removing the requirement for consent for all website cookies – akin to the situation across much of the US.…

The A321XLR assumes you're happy spending 11 hours in a single-aisle plane European aviation giant this week successfully flew a new "long, thin" passenger airplane that the world's airlines think could let them open new routes.…

Cue robot armies of whiny digital seven-year-olds complaining they're being 'cancelled' Something for the Weekend A robot is performing interpretive dance on my doorstep.…

Does your disaster recovery plan include a mysterious missive at a funeral? On Call Every disaster recovery plan needs to contain the "hit by a bus" scenario. But have you ever retrieved a password from beyond the grave? One Register reader has. Welcome to On Call.…

A tougher nut to crack than the regular flavor, some will find it very tasty Canonical's Linux distro for edge devices and the Internet of Things, Ubuntu Core 22, is out.…

Compliance with onshore data storage laws took almost a year – far longer than India has given the rest of the tech world to comply with infosec changes India’s Reserve Bank has lifted its ban on Mastercard issuing new cards within the nation.…

Six percent of revenues at risk if Code of Practice broken Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft and other tech companies and publishers have agreed to fight disinformation online in accordance with the European Commission's latest Code of Practice rules, which were published on Thursday.…

This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds The former director of the University of Arkansas’ High Density Electronics Center, a research facility that specialises in electronic packaging and multichip technology, has been jailed for a year for failing to disclose Chinese patents for his inventions.…

Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it’s completed a massive migration of its own apps to its own cloud.…

1,770 premises raided, 2,000 arrested, $50m seized Law enforcement agencies around the world have arrested about 2,000 people and seized $50 million in a sweeping operation crackdown of social engineering and other scam operations around the globe.…

Search biz hits back at 'misleading' claims, saga lifts lid on Microsoft's web tracking advice Brave CEO Brendan Eich took aim at rival DuckDuckGo on Wednesday by challenging the web search engine's efforts to brush off revelations that its Android, iOS, and macOS browsers gave, to a degree, Microsoft Bing and LinkedIn trackers a pass versus other trackers.…

Lawsuit took its time, just like your older iOS handset Another day, another legal claim against Apple for deliberately throttling the performance of its iPhones to save battery power.…

The internet giant, a doomsday religious sect, and a lawsuit in Silicon Valley A former Google video producer has sued the internet giant alleging he was unfairly fired for blowing the whistle on a religious sect that had all but taken over his business unit. …

That, and Black Hat, are about to reveal risk assessment skills of our cyber-risk experts RSA Conference Quick show of hands: who came home from this year's RSA Conference without COVID-19?…

Severe security flaw won't be fixed – as patches released this week for other bugs If you thought you were over the hump with Patch Tuesday then perhaps think again: Cisco has just released fixes for seven flaws, two of which are not great.…

We want $56 million, systems integrator tells court Oracle has been sued by Plexada System Integrators in Nigeria for alleged breach of contract and failure to pay millions of dollars said to be owed for assisting with a Lagos State Government IT contract.…

Via a cloud subscription, natch – this is the 2020s D-Wave Systems has put its next-generation Advantage2 quantum computer into the cloud, or at least some form of it.…

High unit costs and fixed capex budgets propelling enterprises cloudwards The major hyperscalers and cloud providers are forecast to spend 25 percent more on datacenter infrastructure this year to $18 billion following record investments in the opening three months of 2022.…

Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why A group of employees at SpaceX wrote an open letter to COO and president Gwynne Shotwell denouncing owner Elon Musk's public behavior and calling for the rocket company to "swiftly and explicitly separate itself" from his personal brand.…

Figure is 'value at stake' but 'not the actual value' which itself is a quantum statement In the hype-tastic world of quantum computing, consulting giant McKinsey & Company claims that the still-nascent field has the potential to create $80 billion in new revenue for businesses across industries.…

Tombstones, memes, Clippy, and probably a cat or two. The web pays its respects Internet Explorer breathed its last for many users this week, and netizens have observed its passing in their own special way.…

Plus: Non-fungible tokens for dummies Comment Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has declared that "expensive digital images of monkeys are going to improve the world immensely."…

Well you told us to rip and ... hang on, we're not getting any money? The saga of the US government's plan to rip and replace China-made communications kit from the country's networks has a new twist: following reports that applications for funding far outstripped the cash set aside, it appears two-thirds of such applications lack adequate cost estimates or sufficient supporting evidence.…

GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch The latest drone headed to Ukraine's front lines isn't getting there by air. This one powers over rough terrain, armed with a 7.62mm tank machine gun.…

Overal price-performance in Big 3 hyperscalers a dead heat, says CockroachDB research AMD's processors have come out on top in terms of cloud CPU performance across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, according to a recently published study.…

Surface Pro X users advised to dodge another Dev Channel build or risk the ultimate Dark Mode Microsoft celebrated the demise of Internet Explorer by releasing another Insider Dev Channel build of Windows 11 and no, Surface Pro X users need not apply.…