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Whoever tripped over the cable, plug it back in, please Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud, and possibly some other online services suffered technical breakdowns today, preventing netizens from using them as expected.…

Affected OPPO owners due an OTA update. OnePlus and Realme to follow Microsoft this week issued advice for smartphone users cast adrift from Intune following an update to Android 12.…

Complexity and scale of the internet hold back our ability to tackle disaster Analysis In a report published this week addressing "systemic" cybersecurity risks, several infosec experts noted that as the number of significant network intrusions rises, an understanding of the problem and the ability to address the larger issues remain lacking.…

Workarounds today and fixes coming soon for fTPM tech AMD has confirmed there is a performance problem with some of its Zen-family processors and Microsoft's operating systems.…

Don't Panic! Out in the uncharted end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun The Dent Project has released version 2.0 of its open source network operating system, carving out features designed to make it easier for small or mid-sized enterprises to support edge deployments.…

Nvidia, Cisco, and others throw weight behind new manufacturing platform GlobalFoundries believes data traveling at the speed of light is the future, and it's pointing to support from Nvidia, Cisco Systems, and others as evidence that its silicon photonics manufacturing tech is mainstream-ready.…

Artist formerly known as FireEye to boost security for Alphabet's cloudy arm Google is buying preeminent threat intel firm Mandiant for $5.4bn, the two companies announced this morning.…

Shares multi-cluster lessons from DBaaS in Kubernetes project DataStax has released a new open-source Kubernetes operator for Cassandra, the wide-column store distributed database about to work across multiple clusters for the first time.…

Plus: Law changes in Germany mean robo taxis might be on their way there soon Autonomous vehicles in the US are showing a declining rate of improvement in one key safety metric, according to research outfit IDTechEx. Despite this, the industry is making progress and may be nearing early commercialisation of technology such as robotic taxis.…

Special discounts bring number down to the old price until next Tuesday Customers staring down the barrel of Microsoft's price increases for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites from the start of this month have been given a reprieve but only until 15 March.…

Prepare the IDE of March: Apache emits fragrant burst of beany Java goodness The Apache Software Foundation has released version 13 of its NetBeans open-source IDE for Java, PHP, Javascript and other languages.…

NAO also sees a lack of digital knowledge at top of civil service The UK government can be prone to signing contracts for major IT projects before it has a good understanding of the requirements, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) director.…

We're promised less science fiction, more contemporary hardware Startup PsiQuantum has a rough vision of what its one-million-qubit quantum computer could look like.…

More digitization, more R&D, and more provocation of tech-producing neighbours China is this week staging its annual "Two Sessions" meetings, which see its pair of top decision-making bodies meet to set the agenda for the coming year. As usual there is plenty of material that touches on tech.…

GalaxySpace plans 144 birds for small-footprint high-surveillance service Chinese satellite broadband outfit GalaxySpace has launched the first satellites in a planned low Earth orbit constellation that will eventually offer a wireless internet service.…

AutoWarp security hole wasn't exploited – though researchers saw a way into a bank and a telco Microsoft has acknowledged the existence of a flaw in its Azure cloud computing service that allowed users full access to other users' accounts.…

Plus: Adafruit customer data leak fallout, infosec burnout, and more In brief A Linux local privilege escalation flaw dubbed Dirty Pipe has been discovered and disclosed along with proof-of-concept exploit code.…

Rule rethink would apply only to those in countries that support sanctions Russia is considering handing out licenses to use foreign software, database, and chip design patents, and legalizing software copyright violations, in response to sanctions imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.…

Yanking connectivity would do more harm than good, they say Though Cloudflare and Akamai have voiced their opposition to President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, they have stopped short of pulling completely out of Russia despite mounting pressure to do so.…

You forgot about this social network? A small army of lawyers haven't On Monday the US Supreme Court turned down Alphabet's request to hear it argue for the dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit that claimed Google quietly covered up a security issue that could have exposed almost 500,000 Google+ accounts.…

The M is for memory bandwidth, not Meme-coins Intel said its new Agilex M-Series FPGAs offer the highest memory bandwidth in the industry, and it expects a wide range of applications to benefit, from cryptocurrency mining to network virtualization.…

But uncertainty, supply, power woes could cause trouble ahead Even without Russia's small drums, the tech investment beat goes on…

Farming groups demand some kind of actual action from US watchdog Twelve farm labor, advocacy, and repair groups filed a complaint last week with the US Federal Trade Commission claiming that agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company has unlawfully refused to provide the software and technical data necessary to repair its machinery.…

US, EU, human-rights bods say proposal would allow more nation-state abuses As Russia's invasion of Ukraine rolls through its second week, a United Nations committee has begun hearings on a proposed new cybercrime treaty Russia has been pushing. The proposal has been heavily criticized by the United States, the European Union and other Western countries.…

Investors hope to take resolution to shareholder meeting Amazon is under pressure from investors to be more transparent about how and where it pays tax around the world.…

x86 giant will keep majority ownership of autonomous car tech wing Intel has confidentially submitted for an initial public offering of its Mobileye automotive business, a move that CEO Pat Gelsinger has said will help fund the chipmaker's multibillion-dollar comeback plan.…

190GB worth of internal files include 'some source codes relating to the operation of Galaxy devices' but Chaebol says customer data is safe Updated Samsung has acknowledged its data was stolen after the Lapsus$ extortion gang deposited what appears to be 190GB of the company's stolen internal files online.…

Case relates to alleged conspiracy to illegally bring over Chinese nationals Chinese telecoms kit maker ZTE is being summoned to court in the US for a hearing over possible revocation of probation after it pleaded guilty in 2017 to violating trade sanctions by illegally shipping US tech to Iran.…

Packing app tech fans asked to huddle under the Windows umbrella Microsoft is "realigning" the MSIX tech community and cramming all the existing discussion spaces into a single place within the Windows Tech Community.…

Oracle and Microsoft remain silent on involvement in existing installations SAP is continuing to support Russian businesses and government-owned organisations as war rages in Ukraine.…

Plus: You can now turn photos of your dead relatives into talking, blinking deepfakes In brief Conversations with chatbots are still pretty clumsy today, but they're improving – especially in customer service – and could be worth big money.…

Joins Xiaomi and Huawei in making EVs, but IM L7s not available on e-commerce sites yet Chinese multinational Alibaba has begun mass production of smart electric vehicles (EVs), the latest addition to a product portfolio that includes e-commerce sites, internet services, media ventures, and more.…

Cloud giant will spread its largesse more widely – and thinly – amongst non-profits Exclusive Amazon has cut in half the amount of credit it offers to charities in order for them to access IT services operated by Amazon Web Services, sources have told The Reg.…

Delayed system 'vital component' of Brexit govt's enactment of the Northern Ireland Protocol Capgemini has won a contract worth a maximum of £30m to integrate the UK tax collector's much-delayed customs platform with its other systems.…

Where in the stack should sanctions start? Opinion Trade embargoes are powerful weapons, especially in wartime. They used to be very visible: naval blockades had huge impacts against the Confederacy in the American Civil War and, 50 years later, Germany in the First World War.…

Walls? Check. Windows? Check. Did we forget something? Yes, but just feel the carpet Who, Me? The weekend is over. Distract yourself with another tale of messenger termination in today's Register reader confession.…

Cloud migrations can therefore be cost-effective, even with Big Red’s nasty licenses Microsoft thinks it has cracked the code for cost-effective Oracle-to-cloud migrations.…

KPMG and PwC follow DXC and Accenture, leaving 14,500 staff – probably – without a gig Four top global consultancies, all with big IT practices, have quit Russia.…

Digital karma at its finest A datacenter fire resulted in internet outages across Iran for around three hours last Friday, and it appears the cause was the nation's surveillance apparatus.…

Cuts taxes, offers subsidies, defers military service for developers – and preps for internet isolation Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has acknowledged that sanctions may send its tech businesses to the wall, and announced a raft of measures designed to stop that happening – among them ending dependency on internet infrastructure hosted offshore and disconnecting from the global internet.…

TikTok, Netflix and major games houses also quit, but Ukraine wants more help from Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Google More big technology industry players have cut off services to Russia, in protest at its illegal invasion of Ukraine and a new media law imposed to stop the flow of news from the war zone.…

Switching demand high as new speeds filter down faster than expected The rising tide of pandemic-driven digitization has lifted all datacenter boats.…

70k staff email addresses and NTLM password hashes also dumped online An Nvidia code-signing certificate was among the mountain of files stolen and leaked online by criminals who ransacked the GPU giant's internal systems.…

Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech Luminous Computing, a startup using photonics to drive artificial intelligence, has raised venture capital backing, pulling in $105m in Series A funding from a range of investors that includes Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.…

Critical infrastructure, federal agencies must report intrusions, ransomware payments within hours, draft rules state Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the possibility that the Kremlin may escalate its cyberespionage against the West after being heavily sanctioned, has convinced the US Senate to unanimously pass a bipartisan cybersecurity bill.…

Details still up in the air, unlike whatever hit our natural satellite A chunk of Chinese space junk today crashed into the far side of the Moon, according to a maker of astrometry software.…

Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... also crippling sanctions Cogent Communications will pull the plug on its connectivity to customers in Russia in response to President Putin's invasion of Ukraine.…

Departure follows GitHub CEO exit Just months after Nat Friedman quit as CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub, his Xamarin co-founder has also ejected from the Windows giant.…

Middle Kingdom gets another Azure region, Putin gets the middle finger Microsoft has opened a fifth Azure region in China with one hand while putting a stop to new sales in Russia with the other.…

Don't send a mobile chip to do a high-end CPU, GPU job. Unless you have no choice. With the largest data center chipmakers locking Russia out of next-generation devices, not to mention the withdrawal of mobile and software makers from that market, it is no surprise Russian researchers are on the fast track to develop ways around the new technologies that will drive the rest of the world.…