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Life tastes not so good right now Coca-Cola confirmed it's probing a possible network intrusion after the Stormous cybercrime gang claimed it stole 161GB of data from the beverage giant.…

d-ream team or a d-isaster? Let's see what Microsoft's money can do Another day, another US chip startup raising tens of millions of dollars.…

The Schmidt hits the fan The USA's policy of decoupling its technology industries from China lacks a strategy, a theory of success, and an understanding of how to achieve its ill-defined goals, according to a new paper by Jon Bateman from the thinktank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP).…

Well, it's not like there's any hardware to buy at the moment Among US companies with the largest pool of investments, the biggest focus their energy around software, a report finds. …

Pandemic supply chain and war in Ukraine has potential to disrupt recovery, warns Gartner The value of semiconductors sold worldwide in 2022 is projected to reach $676 billion, although further revisions by Gartner are a distinct possibility, such is the increased market volatility.…

Ready-to-implement components that make the business easier, firm claims Red Hat Application Foundations, a set of software services for organizations developing container-based applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, is out.…

More attacks and more targeted attacks than ever before. What could have happened to cause that uptick? Kaspersky has released a report showing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks hit an all-time-high in the first quarter of 2022.…

Strap in, we're on a tour from zero trust to chatty digital assistants If you're developing software or working with anything serverless, you'll know that remote and as-a-service APIs are what make the clouds float.…

Japanese ASIC provider rolling out AI partner program to get around in-house expertise Japanese ASIC provider MegaChips is rolling out an AI partner program pitched as allowing organizations to deliver AI capabilities without requiring in-house experts. It is also expanding into the US market to sell its full ASIC design services to American tech companies.…

In addition to cloud service, Arm also puts out its fastest Cortex-M CPU design yet The belief that IoT would become Arm's main growth engine never played out as owner SoftBank Group thought it would, but the British chip designer is still doing what it can to keep IoT developers hooked with a bevy of new offerings meant to significantly speed up development.…

You thought hunting for discount vouchers took a while? That's nothing compared to Windows booting on a till A fresh Windows 11 patch slipped out overnight as an optional update, but contains an impressively long list of fixes for Microsoft's flagship operating system.…

Remember the 12-year-old who revived the Unity desktop? Both that and fellow unofficial remix Cinnamon are looking great Two unofficial Ubuntu remixes came out on the same day as the official flavors: Ubuntu Unity, a 12-year-old wunderkind's revival of what used to be the official Ubuntu desktop, and Ubuntu Cinnamon, which is Linux Mint's flagship desktop environment.…

Hare-brained. Bad Hare day. Hare no evil, say no evil ... At least it'll be a pun goldmine On Monday, software developer Drew DeVault announced a systems programming language called Hare, describing it as "simple, stable, and robust." We've all heard that before – but there may be something in this.…

Billions of subsidies in Europe and US will hardly make a dent Taiwan dominates the world's semiconductor manufacturing industry – controlling 48 per cent of the foundry market and 61 per cent of the world's capacity to build at 16nm or better - according to market intelligence firm TrendForce.…

Meanwhile, UK and India finally explain Cyber Security Partnership agreed to in May 2021 India's government and the European Union have signed up to create a "Trade and Technology Council" – an entity the EU has previously only created to enhance its relationship with the United States.…

Boffins walk into the Li-ion's den The San Diego Supercomputer Center in the US is ditching its lead-acid uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries for more environmentally friendly rechargeables – though it's avoiding lithium-ion, and going with a new form of rechargeable alkaline. …

Leaked Digital Markets Act language forbids gatekeepers from limiting Safari rivals Special report Europe's Digital Markets Act – near-finalized legislation to tame the internet's gatekeepers – contains language squarely aimed at ending Apple's iOS browser restrictions.…

Calls for accelerated adoption as local users pass 700 million China's Central Cyberspace Administration has revealed a plan for further and faster adoption of IPv6 across the nation and outlined plans to drive new developments for the protocol.…

Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog The US Army could end up wasting much as $22 billion in taxpayer cash if soldiers aren't actually interested in using, or able to use as intended, the Microsoft HoloLens headsets it said it would purchase, a government watchdog has warned. …

Worth doing a lot of heavy lifting there, we know Crooks stole non-fungible tokens (NFTs) said to be worth about $3 million after breaking into the Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram account and posting a link to a copycat website that sought to harvest marks' assets. …

To truly understand virtual reality, first you need to go outside, interact with actual people... In a move sure to reassure those pushing for an all-virtual future, Facebook-owner Meta has announced it's opening its first physical store.…

Fly to some paradise, tweeting as you go, arrive, relax under the stars only to watch those same satellites in the sky SpaceX will provide free Wi-Fi for passengers flying internationally with Hawaiian Airlines as early as next year, using its Starlink broadband satellite network.…

Financial software giant slammed for 'poor security practices' Intuit is being sued in the US after a security failure at its Mailchimp email marketing business allegedly led to the theft of cryptocurrency from one or more digital wallets.…

Pretty cool that all other problems a billionaire could reasonably tackle are solved, leaving this one It's official. Twitter's board on Monday said it has accepted an offer from Elon Musk, the world's richest man, to purchase the micro-blogging website and take it private. …

Thinking of another word for this US govt department's name The first bug bounty program by America's Homeland Security has led to the discovery and disclosure of 122 vulnerabilities, 27 of which were deemed critical.…

Prepare your 'turn it off and on' jokes as engineers get ready to flip the heaters Attempts to recover ESA's stricken Sentinel-1B satellite are continuing and one of the failure scenarios engineers are considering will be familiar to some of us: possible leakage of a ceramic capacitor.…

100 self-driving cabs will wander streets of Guangzhou Residents of Chinese metropolises Guangzhou and Beijing may be in for a surprise the next time they hail a cab – some of them are now self-driving.…

Meanwhile, Intel is catching up to TSMC in leading-edge manufacturing nodes Apple and Intel are likely to become the first customers for TSMC's advanced 2nm manufacturing process when the node goes into production in late 2025, according to new reports.…

Report says social media platform's board close to accepting $54.20-a-share offer The weeks-long saga between Elon Musk and Twitter may be drawing to a close as soon as this afternoon with the sale of Twitter to the Tesla CEO thought to be imminent.…

Check Point uncovers web vulnerability that could have led to cryptocurrency theft A flaw detected in the browser version of the Ever Surf cryptocurrency wallet could have given hackers who exploited it full control over a targeted user's wallet, say threat hunters at Check Point Research.…

A new transmission protocol can work lightning fast, but only with very thorough records to pull from Companies that move and analyze huge volumes of data are always on the lookout for faster ways to do it. One Australian company says it has created a protocol that can "transmit terabytes per minute across the globe."…

Tool relies on platform getting everything right in real time, cautions analyst A report from cloud startup CAST AI claims companies running cloud-native applications typically spend three times as much as they need on resources because of over-provisioning.…

Factories were operating in 'closed loop,' now parts are being made in 'backup' facilities Foxconn, Taiwan's largest electronics manufacturer, has suspended operations at two factories just west of Shanghai in Kunshan City Country due to onsite COVID cases.…

Fines worth 6 percent of annual turnover survived draft in provisional agreement The EU's Digital Services Act is one step closer to becoming law with a provisional political agreement reached between the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament.…

Broadcom allegedly citing supply chain issues to lock customers in exclusively Chipmaker Broadcom is reportedly back under investigation with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding complaints it is illegally forcing exclusivity agreements with customers.…

Broken your headphone jack? No problem. Want some more RAM? Er, about that... Microsoft has reminded us once again of a time when enthusiasts could get into the guts of their hardware with a teardown of its Surface Laptop Studio, all in the name of repairability.…

Experts advise caution in sharing data with Big Red – it could be used in license audits Experts in software licensing are warning users against wholly adopting new tools Oracle promises will help map and size on-prem installations in preparation for a move to the cloud.…

Convenience or purity? You can only choose one A painful issue for Linux distros that are built on free software is firmware. This especially affects Debian, as outlined by former project head Steve Mcintyre here, and it's getting worse with time.…

CWU deputy secretary demands better pay for staff amid cost-of-living crisis The Communication and Workers Union (CWU) will this week publish the timetable to run an industrial action ballot over the pay rise BT gave to members recently, with the telco's subsidiaries to vote separately.…

Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of ML? Er, nobody Opinion Machine learning's abiding weakness is verification. Is your AI telling the truth? How can you tell?…

When being helpful can mean being shown the door Who, Me? Going above and beyond in IT can sometimes lead to also going directly out of the door, as one Register reader found when discovering that sometimes efficiencies can be less than rewarding.…

Plus: IBM's CEO says we have to tackle ML ethics or intelligent systems will become monsters In brief The AI algorithms used by Google Docs to suggest edits to make writing more inclusive have been blasted for being annoying.…

Plus: Cisco Umbrella flaw patched, lid blown off TeamTNT, and ICS security folks join JCDC party In brief The BlackCat ransomware gang, said to be the first-known ransomware group to successfully break into networks with Rust-written malware, has attacked at least 60 organizations globally as of March, according to the FBI.…

Now that's a race condition The number of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild reached an all-time high last year, according to Mandiant.…

Team America: Solar System Police The US Space Force has created a unit, the 19th Space Defense Squadron, to monitor activity in the region beyond Earth's geosynchronous orbit, all the way out to the Moon and yonder.…

A fair price to get everyone to stop talking about Moore's Law for good Researchers in the US have received a $15 million National Science Foundation (NSF) award to develop superconductor chips that ought to be much faster and use significantly less energy than the hardware the world today relies on for computing.…

Not a social network or an instant-chat app used by tens of millions, so scrutiny it is, then Federal regulators are taking a closer look at Google's planned $5.4 billion acquisition of Mandiant, a deal designed to boost the web giant's public cloud's cybersecurity capabilities.…

Now you're talking our language Samsung's IT services arm and other companies are said to be testing out a processor that sports more than 1,000 general-purpose RISC-V cores to deliver what the chip's designer claims is faster and more energy-efficient AI inference performance than power-hungry specialty silicon.…

Nope, not Delta – it's a regional semi-private jet operator and service 'won't require' logins SpaceX has signed its first Starlink contract with an air carrier, and despite recent news it isn't Delta. …

26 years and only two external exploits is not to be (packet) sniffed at The OpenBSD Project has released version 7.1 of its eponymous OS for 13 different computer architectures, including Apple's M1 Macs.…