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Wi-Fi arrives. As does a $2 price increase... but it's a worthwhile update A year and a half after the debut of the $4 RP2040-powered Raspberry Pi Pico, the company is shipping a wireless-enabled version: the $6 Pico W.…

Using Pixar-derived tech to make digital twins immersive Siemens and Nvidia don’t want manufacturers to imagine what the future will hold – they want to build a fancy digital twin that helps them to make predictions about whatever comes next.…

Big tech asked to be more transparent by logging what it took down and why Taiwan's concentration of tech manufacturing capability worries almost all stakeholders in the technology industry – if China reclaims the island, it would kick a colossal hole in global supply chains. Now the country has given Big Tech another reason to worry: transparency regulations of a kind social networks and surveillance capitalists detest.…

Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies Chinese tech giant Alibaba has spun out a business called Lingyang Intelligent Service Company that aims to deliver "data-as-a-service."…

Data sovereignty is more important than Ukrainian sovereignty A Moscow court has fined Airbnb, Twitch, UPS, and Pinterest for not storing Russian user data locally, according to Russian regulator Roskomnadzor.…

Already has 'Iron Dome' – does it need another hero? The new head of Israel's National Cyber Directorate (INCD) has announced the nation intends to build a "Cyber-Dome" – a national defense system to fend off digital attacks.…

End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition As Intel gets ready to build fabs in Arizona and Ohio, the x86 giant is planning to offload a 149-acre historic research and development site in Massachusetts that was once home to the company's only chip manufacturing plant in New England.…

Before Microsoft shutters basic logins in a few months The US government is pushing federal agencies and private corporations to adopt the Modern Authentication method in Exchange Online before Microsoft starts shutting down Basic Authentication from the first day of October.…

Developer interactions sometimes contain their own kind of poison Analysis Toxic discussions on open-source GitHub projects tend to involve entitlement, subtle insults, and arrogance, according to an academic study. That contrasts with the toxic behavior – typically bad language, hate speech, and harassment – found on other corners of the web.…

Silicon supremo warns he could prioritize expansion in Europe if Congress doesn’t approve subsidies Comment How serious is Intel about delaying the build-out of its planned $20 billion mega-fab site in Ohio?…

Canadian stole $21.5m from dozens of companies worldwide A former Canadian government employee has pleaded guilty in a US court to several charges related to his involvement with the NetWalker ransomware gang.…

ESA ruins our day with some bad news An asteroid predicted to hit Earth in 2052 has, for now, been removed from the European Space Agency's list of rocks to be worried about.…

Tech body pushes reliability, cost savings of next-gen wireless comms for IIoT – not a typo Wi-Fi 6 and 6E are being promoted as technologies for enabling industrial automation and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) thanks to features that provide more reliable communications and reduced costs compared with wired network alternatives, at least according to the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).…

'Combating tech bro culture' on the agenda this week for US House committee A US congressional hearing on "combating tech bro culture" in the venture capital world is will take place this week, with some of the biggest names in startup funding under the spotlight.…

Or move to Apache Pulsar for efficiency gains, says NoSQL vendor DataStax, the database company built around open-source wide-column Apache Cassandra, has launched a streaming platform as a service with backwards compatibility for messaging standards JMS, MQ, and Kafka.…

ERP vendor had promised containerized options, but looks set to focus on the cloud ERP vendor Infor is to end development of on-premises and containerized versions of its core product for customers running on IBM iSeries mid-range systems.…

Next stop – on-chip optical interconnects? Intel is claiming a significant advancement in its photonics research with an eight-wavelength laser array that is integrated on a silicon wafer, marking another step on the road to on-chip optical interconnects.…

Company execs and their lawyers are paying close attention to this one A US judge yesterday threw out an attempt to dismiss wire fraud charges against a former Uber employee accused of trying to cover up a computer crime.…

Not trying to spin this as a Linux security hole, surely? Microsoft is flagging up a security hole in its Service Fabric technology when using containerized Linux workloads, and urged customers to upgrade their clusters to the most recent release.…

China claims to have 10 in the pipeline and may pull ahead in HPC arms race The US Department of Energy is looking to vendors that will help build supercomputers up to 10 times faster than the recently inaugurated Frontier exascale system to come on stream between 2025 and 2030, and even more powerful systems than that for the 2030s.…

The Reg FOSS deck takes the latest release, 22.6, for a spin EndeavourOS is a rolling-release Linux distro based on Arch Linux. Although the project is relatively new, having started in 2019, it's the successor to an earlier Arch-based distro called Antergos, so it's not quite as immature as its youth might imply. It's a little more vanilla than Antergos was – for instance, it uses the Calamares cross-distro installer.…

Delays risk accounting and government compliance, documents reveal Swansea City Council has been forced to extend an IT service provider contract to keep its unsupported and unpatched ERP system up and running because its replacement is running two years behind.…

Consumer-grade camera was refitted with custom housing and software to survive in the vacuum NanoAvionics has unveiled a 4K satellite selfie taken by a GoPro Hero 7 as the company's MP42 microsatellite flew 550km above the Coral Sea and Great Barrier Reef.…

'If you ever were rooting for somebody, please do him a favor and go tell him' Jeffrey Snover's lengthy and occasionally controversial term at Microsoft is to come to an end this week, as the PowerShell inventor sets off for pastures new after more than two decades at the Windows giant.…

Gets a grip on tech from Japanese startup to make it work The Japanese outpost of Indian services giant Tata Consultancy Services has revealed it is working on the "Internet of Actions" – an effort to bring the sense of touch to the internet.…

All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together, use them in peace Scientists at top universities in China propose sending a spacecraft powered by nuclear fission to orbit Neptune – the outermost planet in our solar system – in 2030.…

The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger Microsoft has indefinitely postponed the date on which its Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) will be required to sell software and services licences on new terms.…

Yes. Of course I human. Why asking? Also, when you give passwords to database? The US FBI issued a warning on Tuesday that it was has received increasing numbers of complaints relating to the use of deepfake videos during interviews for tech jobs that involve access to sensitive systems and information.…

Hyperscalers have ordered more than they need, and the ripples are nasty The world's server market will grow in 2022 – but more slowly than in the past – and could dip further, according to analyst firm TrendForce.…

Rogue insider generated keys, resold them to blow the cash on gold, crypto, and more, prosecutors say Three people accused of selling pirate software licenses worth more than $88 million have been charged with fraud.…

It’s not IaaS, it's reserved for test and dev – and will feed the golden goose that is the z/OS ecosystem IBM has quietly announced its first-ever cloudy mainframes will go live on June 30.…

Store giant brands watchdog's lawsuit 'factually misguided, legally flawed' America's Federal Trade Commission has sued Walmart, claiming it turned a blind eye to fraudsters using its money transfer services to con folks out of "hundreds of millions of dollars."…

Looks like it went with Ampere – which means a certain Reg writer lost a bet Arm has a champion in the shape of HPE, which has added a server powered by the British chip designer's CPU cores to its ProLiant portfolio, aimed at cloud-native workloads for service providers and enterprise customers alike.…

NOAA makes it rain for General Dynamics IT, HPE, AMD Predicting the weather is a notoriously tricky enterprise, but that’s never held back America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).…

Just after Big Tech comes under fire for left and right-leaning message filters Google has reportedly asked the US Federal Election Commission for its blessing to exempt political campaign solicitations from spam filtering.…

Beijing-linked Dragonbridge flames biz building Texas plant for Uncle Sam The US Department of Defense said it's investigating Chinese disinformation campaigns against rare earth mining and processing companies — including one targeting Lynas Rare Earths, which has a $30 million contract with the Pentagon to build a plant in Texas.…

Websites may be forced to verify ages of visitors unless changes made California lawmakers met in Sacramento today to discuss, among other things, proposed legislation to protect children online. The bill, AB2273, known as The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, would require websites to verify the ages of visitors.…

Gun-detecting AI outfits want to help while root causes need tackling Comment More than 250 mass shootings have occurred in the US so far this year, and AI advocates think they have the solution. Not gun control, but better tech, unsurprisingly.…

Chip design house reveals brains of what might be your next ultralight notebook Arm has at least one of Intel's more capable mainstream laptop processors in mind with its Cortex-X3 CPU design.…

What's your contingency plan? OPINION Broadcom has yet to close the deal on taking over VMware, but the industry is already awash with speculation and analysis as to how the event could impact the cloud giant's product availability and pricing.…

Epic copyright saga rumbles on as US giant vows to keep fighting UK data analytics firm The long-running battle between software giant SAS and British data analytics outfit World Programming (WPL) appears to be almost over – after a US court lifted an injunction on sales of the latter's products.…

Plus: IT giant expands relationship with Red Hat and SUSE, tackles hybrid data fabrics Extending a public-cloud-like experience to on-prem datacenters has long been a promise of HPE's GreenLake anything-as-a-service (XaaS) platform. At HPE Discover this week, the company made good on that promise with the launch of GreenLake for Private Cloud.…

Inertia of embedded BI and analytics a limiting factor, however Databricks, the company born out of the Apache Spark boom, has let loose a raft of updates at its San Francisco conference, including an elastic compute option for analytics.…

Just one more wafer-thin feature to pop in Microsoft's swelling dev suite Microsoft has added the ability to edit code while in Visual Studio's All-In-One Search user interface.…

Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds… for now VMware today revealed details about Project Arctic, the vSphere-as-a-service offering it teased in late 2021, though it won't discuss pricing for another month.…

British chip designer’s reveal comes months after mobile RT moves by AMD, Imagination Arm is beefing up its role in the rapidly-evolving (yet long-standing) hardware-based real-time ray tracing arena.…

Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too A piece of Soviet-era physics equipment may be the key to worldwide geothermal energy.…

Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz's data If claims hold true, AMD has been targeted by the extortion group RansomHouse, which says it is sitting on a trove of data stolen from the processor designer following an alleged security breach earlier this year.…

Meanwhile, CEO wants to vacuum up engineering talent amid return to stock market Updated Arm today told The Reg its restructuring ahead of its return to the stock market is focused on cutting "non-engineering" jobs.…

It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup YugabyteDB, the self-styled double-decker distributed relational database, has introduced a read-committed isolation level, allowing for more flexibility for devs and bringing it into step with its more established RDBMS rivals.…