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Cloud colossus accounts for lion's share of Amazonian profits Amazon will run its servers and networking kit for an extra year – for both its own operations and for Amazon Web Services – and expects to save a billion dollars next quarter as a result.…

RV family of routers is in trouble, and fixed software is yet to arrive for some models Cisco has revealed five critical bugs, three of them rated 10/10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System, that impact four of its router families aimed at small businesses. And it only has patches available for two of the affected ranges.…

Contracts fit automakers and other manufacturers with 'very sticky products, very long life cycles' – CEO Chip shortages are so bad that customers are willing to sign multiyear non-cancellable, non-returnable (NCNR) contracts to secure supplies, according to semiconductor supplier NXP.…

This is news to the rest of the world Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has offered some more details about the nation’s newly revealed plan to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the next year.…

Google's take on cross-platform development arrives on Microsoft's desktop Google's cross-platform app framework Flutter has hit version 2.1 and added production support for apps on Windows.…

Failure to validate input in DeFi code let attacker mint money Wormhole, a protocol for connecting different blockchains, lost about $320m worth of Ether (ETH), thanks to poorly crafted code.…

Billions in profits at stake for Apple and Google's money-making machines The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to pass the Open App Markets Act, despite intense lobbying from Apple and Google.…

Are we nearly there yet? Officials from the EU and US are nearing a solution in long-running negotiations over transatlantic data sharing.…

Spoof site looks real because it is... but you're not talking to who you think In the beginning we had passwords. Their hackability made a lot of people very angry and passwords were widely regarded as a bad move. Then we had two-factor authentication – and now Proofpoint reckons criminals online are able to start bypassing them with transparent reverse proxies.…

Now you just need a compatible device... The Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially released the 64-bit version of the Linux-based OS Formerly Known As Raspbian.…

Linux and mobile coming soon Cloud directory specialist JumpCloud is moving into the crowded patch management market with an extension to its platform to automate patch updates.…

Firm doesn't know when it'll restart salty goodness deliveries Some of Britain's favourite pub munch could end up in short supply after KP Snacks, makers of nuts and crisps, suffered a ransomware attack.…

One-time head of Hampshire Police IT gets six years A pro-outsourcing CIO whose first act at a new employer was to set up a £475,000 backhander scheme has been jailed for six years.…

Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10 StarlingX, an open-source platform for edge computing based on OpenStack, has hit release 6.0 with a Linux Kernel upgrade plus security and deployment enhancements to make it easier to manage systems.…

Distributed in-memory system more efficient than other cloud data warehouses, vendor claims Distributed in-memory analytics specialist Exasol has launched a database-as-a-service claiming its approach to parallel processing could help reduce nasty shocks in cloud fees.…

Rotterdam can't get over it When buying a 40m-tall, three-mast luxury yacht is like you or I popping to the corner shop for a Freddo, what does it matter if a 144-year-old bridge has to be dismantled to get the thing out of the shipyard?…

Oh what a problem to have Fresh from years of complaining about underfunding and not having enough staff to deal with problems, infosec bods are now complaining that corporate execs merely firehose cash at them without getting their own hands dirty or engaging with the problem.…

Redmond's quality control shines once more Updated Microsoft's legendary approach to quality was demonstrated this morning as the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal fell over.…

ICO says Home2Sense showed 'complete disregard for people's privacy' Home2Sense Ltd, a home improvement biz, is nursing a £200,000 financial penalty from the UK's data watchdog for making well over half a million marketing calls to people that registered to opt out of such botheration.…

But some staffers fared better than others Arm has agreed a pay increase for employees following the scrapping of a wellbeing allowance last year, yet it appears that while engineers were offered an 8 per cent jump, other types of worker fared less well.…

Blame it on the metaverse, Apple, TikTok, inflation, and higher data charges in India For the first time in its history, Facebook has reported a decline in user numbers. Investors hammered the share price of Meta – Facebook's parent company – after the market closed, with scrip slumping from around $323 to $249.…

Currently investigating over 2,000 attacks on US targets – new file every 12 hours US Federal Bureau of Investigation director Christopher Wray has named China as the source of more cyber-attacks on the USA than all other nations combined.…

Gulp! Code that codes displays some critical thinking capabilities Alphabet-owned AI outfit DeepMind claims it has created an AI that can write programming code, find novel solutions to interesting problems, and do it at the level of the mid-ranking human entrants in coding contests.…

Oh, yeah, and Windows on Arm. Who could forget that? No Apple as a modem customer for much longer? Not too much of a problem for Qualcomm, which is now relying more than ever on Android and China, and to some extent, Windows, to make up for the lost revenue.…

WhiteSource says it spotted 1,300 malicious JavaScript packages in 2021 alone Malware gets spotted in GitHub's npm registry every few months, elevating concerns about the software supply chain until attention gets diverted and worries recede until the next fire drill.…

America focuses on AI and emerging tech, China on the gaps left by US sanctions Chip startups raked in a record $19.4bn in funding last year in a boom market driven by semiconductor shortages and trade wars.…

Bills seek to legalize digital lock breaking when mending stuff, ensure farmers can fix their machines American farmers may soon be able to repair their agricultural equipment without paying the maker of their machinery for the privilege. And owners of other products may also see fewer repair barriers, depending upon how two new pieces of federal legislation are received.…

Patented plastic-free tech from Choose Packaging Paragon of packetry HP has acquired Choose Packaging, inventor of a zero-plastic paper bottle.…

Semiconductor giant sees growth across the board AMD has hailed 2021 as an "outstanding" year with each of its business units growing significantly, thanks to strong sales of its Epyc server chips and data centre GPUs. The firm is hoping to continue this with its Genoa chips this year and Bergamo in 2023.…

Patch now An exploit in Samba 4 allowed remote code as root due to a bug in its support for Mac clients. It's fixed in 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5, and in case you can't update, there are patches.…

Big Blue wants to 'bring edge and 5G to life for enterprises' IBM has acquired Sentaca, a telecoms consulting services and solutions provider, with the aim of boosting its own hybrid cloud consulting business in the communications service provider space.…

Terror watchdog is a bad model to follow, though Even think tanks with close links to the UK's Conservative government are now criticising the Online Safety Bill, with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) describing it today as "a significant threat to freedom of speech, privacy and innovation."…

Decision to affect Google's, Amazon's and Microsoft's online ads biz All data collected through the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) must now be deleted by the 1,000+ firms that pay international digital marketing and advertising association IAB Europe to use it. This includes Google's, Amazon's and Microsoft's online advertising businesses.…

Solved today's in two? Now try and exit Vim We are delighted to note that a version of the word game the New York Times bought for seven figures can now be played via a 50-line Bash script.…

Plumber's right did not lapse 'but carried over and accumulated until termination of the contract' A former worker for Pimlico Plumbers has won a case in the Court of Appeal over the right for backdated holiday pay in a case set to help employees of umbrella companies in all sectors, including information technology.…

But what of the domestic launchers? Updated The UK government is to spend an extra £1.4bn on space defence on top of the £5bn allocated to upgrade the Skynet satellite communication system.…

'Global benefit' chief: Broadcom buyout means pay your own way Brocade sacked a former Sales Manager of the Year who was suffering from cancer when the company was bought by Broadcom – a decision that led to the man's health insurance being cancelled.…

And better compatibility with some more proprietary word processors Six months after LibreOffice 7.2, version 7.3 is out with faster and more accurate file importing and rendering for improved compatibility with Microsoft Office.…

Researcher tells world after being stonewalled There is a live cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in takedowns website DMCA-dot-com's user interface. It's existed for more than a year and the site's operators don't appear to be interested in fixing it.…

Good candidate for fly-by, say scientists, and we’ve got 4,000 years to do it Scientists have confirmed the discovery of Earth's second Trojan asteroid leading the planet in its orbit around its nearest star.…

A familiar face in an unfamiliar place On the last day of January, Oracle Linux 8.5, the current version of Big Red's RHEL-alike, quietly appeared on the Windows Store.…

Take part in this short survey and let's find out together Reg Reader Survey Like many concepts in cyber-security, Zero Trust (hereafter "ZT") has come to prominence recently. The concept is reckoned to have first been used in the mid-1990s, though it came to prominence around 2010 and has really started to take off in the past three years or so.…

Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B Google Cloud has racked up another 12 months of losses, despite extending the life of its hardware by a year.…

China's slow signoff didn't help matters one bit A deal that would have brought a German silicon wafer manufacturer under Taiwanese control has been scuppered by German regulators – with help from China.…

Designates data centres as infrastructure to attract more outside investment India's government has ordered its Reserve Bank to have a digital rupee into circulation by next year, and outlined plans to raise revenue with a 30 per cent income tax on cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens.…

Legislation to punish online services for users' illegal content would damage speech and encryption, it's claimed The EARN IT Act, a legislative bill intended "to encourage the tech industry to take online child sexual exploitation seriously" has been revived in the US Senate after it died in committee back in 2020.…

Snoopware maker suggests remarks made 'in jest' as congressman refers allegations to prosecutors A whistleblower's allegations about spyware maker NSO Group should be investigated by American prosecutors, US House Rep Ted Lieu (D-CA) has said.…

How do you sell a product like Maria? How do you cash out within the cloud? MariaDB Corporation Ab, which sells the popular open source database by the same name, said on Tuesday that it intends to become a public company with the help of Angel Pond Holdings Corporation.…

Slowing to a crawl like a human not actually allowed Tesla will switch off a feature in its Full Self-Driving software, present in more than 50,000 vehicles in the US, that allowed the cars and SUVs to roll past stop signs at junctions without coming to a halt.…

Forget the Blue Screen of Death. How about the Red Lines of Discovery? Although the majority of Microsoft's desktop trumpeting is about Windows 11, the company's PowerToys project has quietly become a very handy addition to the user's toolbox.…