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So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all
by Richard Speed on (#5SJ67)
That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years What a difference two years makes. Knative has applied to become a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) incubating project.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5SJ2M)
Can we just postpone these changes to next year? The mixture of performance and efficiency CPUs in Intel's 12th-gen Core processors, code-named Alder Lake, hasn't just caused problems for some Windows gamers – it's led to complications for Linux.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5SHZR)
Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage Singapore and the UK signed three memorandums of understanding (MoUs) this week, hoping to strengthen digital connectivity between the two island nations.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5SHZS)
EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls EB Associates, a London-based financial advisory business, is facing a £140,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after it instigated 107,000 illegal cold calls to people about their pensions.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SHX4)
Median pay gap reporting found less favour Microsoft shareholders have voted for a report into the effectiveness of the company's sexual harassment policies while rejecting another on median pay gaps across race and gender.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5SHV0)
Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems The Linux Foundation has launched a group called the QIR Alliance to make quantum computing applications more portable across hardware architectures and simulators.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5SHV1)
Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange The board of Brit robotic process automation specialist Blue Prism is recommending a £1.243bn cash bid by Bolt Bidco, the subsidiary of tech holdings SS&C that trumped a £1.1bn offer from Vista Equity Partners (VEP).…
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by Billy MacInnes on (#5SHPG)
Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SHPH)
See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over ESA's Solar Orbiter has completed its flyby of Earth, collecting science data as it did so, and appears to be headed back into deep space without any close encounters with orbiting debris.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SHMR)
2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch It's that time of year again, when all good little developers count down to the festive season with the Advent of Code.…
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by Team Register on (#5SHKJ)
December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out Event On December 9, at 0900 GMT, Register regular Mark Whitehorn and the people behind our machine-learning conference MCubed will bring an online workshop about the foundations of AI straight to your desk.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SHKK)
Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM Samsung has wheeled out three new slabs of silicon for automotive applications.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5SHJC)
Is this what they call light-touch regulation? Blackbaud was given a private slap on the wrist by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after paying off criminals who stole users' financial data from the cloud CRM biz's servers.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5SHJD)
Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years China's software industry is underperforming internationally and needs to lean into open source technology to improve, the nation's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on Tuesday.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5SHH6)
Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun Not only is comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein the largest of its kind known, it’s also one of the most active, distant comets, likely spewing plumes of gas further out from the Sun than expected.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SHH7)
Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning SaaS sultan Salesforce has announced a new CEO: Bret Taylor, previously the company's president and chief operating officer.…
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Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6 Qualcomm has distanced itself from Apple, and took a veiled shot at its rival as it tried to clear the air on its relationship with Google.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SHEG)
China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help The head of the UK's secretive Military Intelligence Section 6 agency – popularly known as MI6 – has delivered a rare speech in which he has warned that China, Iran, and Russia use information technology to destabilise rivals, and that the agency he leads can no longer rely on in-house innovation to develop the technologies the UK needs to defend itself.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SHA1)
Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in Cisco has warned owners of its UCS servers that they may have a screw loose. In the UCS X9508 chassis that houses their servers, that is.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5SH90)
CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers Re:Invent Adam Selipsky gave his first Re:Invent keynote as AWS CEO on Tuesday, introducing a range of services, and hinting that the cloud giant may move toward more packaged solutions rather than primarily offering infrastructure-as-a-service.…
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Do you want a smartphone to know you that well? Qualcomm today will unveil its latest flagship chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a greatest-hits compilation of the US giant's fastest CPU, GPU, camera, and modem technology.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5SH50)
US watchdog tosses previous result in the trash after election fairness slammed America's labor watchdog has given workers at Amazon’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, another crack at voting for unionization after their first attempt failed earlier this year.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5SH3D)
And a bunch of bank-account-raiding trojans also identified FluBot, a family of Android malware, is circulating again via SMS messaging, according to authorities in Finland.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5SH0Q)
Assemblers unite Ruby developer and internet japester Aaron Patterson has published a REPL for 64-bit x86 assembly language, enabling interactive coding in the lowest-level language of all.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SGW6)
There's always Use Another Browser As the festive season approaches, Microsoft has decided to add "Buy Now, Pay Later" financing options to its Edge browser in the US.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5SGSE)
Patches available for 150 affected products Tricking users into visiting a malicious webpage could allow malicious people to compromise 150 models of HP multi-function printers, according to F-Secure researchers.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5SGPK)
Parachute snagged on ship's bows Video Video footage has emerged of a British F-35B fighter jet falling off the front of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth after a botched takeoff.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5SGKY)
And they might attribute cyber attacks if governments won't Lloyd’s of London may no longer extend insurance cover to companies affected by acts of war, and new clauses drafted for providers of so-called "cyber" insurance are raising the spectre of organisations caught in tit-for-tat nation state-backed attacks being left high and dry.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5SGHB)
CMA finds that deal would be bad for consumers and tighten Zuck's grip on almost half of £7bn digital ad spend The UK competition watchdog has ordered Meta, the owner of Facebook, to sell Giphy after deciding purchase of the animated GIF creator platform will damage rivals, consumers and advertisers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SGEX)
Broken antenna will have to wait as warning comes in less than 24 hours before airlock opening NASA has delayed a spacewalk scheduled today from the International Space Station amid concerns about debris.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5SGBW)
The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity Re:Invent Here at a depleted AWS Re:invent in Las Vegas, Rust Foundation chairwoman Shane Miller and Tokio project lead Carl Lerche made the case for using Rust to minimize environmental impact, though said its steep learning curve made the task challenging.…
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by Anne Currie on (#5SG9X)
From the data centre to the desktop, here is the green solution Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you the reader choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5SG9Y)
All thanks to CPython, WebAssembly, and some clever developers (And yes, there's Pyodide, too) Python, one of the world's most popular programming languages, may soon become even more ubiquitous as it finds a home within web browsers.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SG86)
Mods to the design of EDSAC were 'considerable' says boffin Seventy years ago this week, LEO, the world's first computer for business, ran one of the first enterprise applications after several experimental test runs.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5SG6V)
Regulator's 'assertions are factually and legally incorrect' biz tells El Reg Clearview AI, the controversial startup known for scraping billions of selfies from people's public social network profiles to train a facial-recognition system, may be fined just over £17m ($22.6m) by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5SG6W)
IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter Don't rush to convert your analog computing skills into the quantum realm – analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) reckons that in 2027 the annual market for quantum computing globally will still only be worth $8.6 billion. Which sounds like a lot, but really isn't.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SG5J)
Work continues on code to make the observatory operate happily when control unit message sync glitches out NASA has successfully restored another instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SG4B)
Aka 'rebalancing global technology giants and the European digital ecosystem' The European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) has published a letter signed by ten telco CEOs that calls for, among other things, Big Tech to pay for their network builds.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5SG32)
Xenobots scoop up loose cells to make more of themselves. We welcome our new overlords In January of 2020, scientists from the University of Vermont announced they had built the first living robots; this week they have published reports that those robots, made from frog cells and called Xenobots, can reproduce and have found a new way to do so.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SG2B)
Spotted the crack after it ended – still not sure what was lost Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has admitted it's been popped, and badly.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5SFZT)
In the dark about how New H3C chip org ended up on USA’s naughty list HPE has said it sees “no indication” its technology has been sold to China’s military…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5SFX8)
Will it fly by Christmas? Betteridge's law probably applies The very-much-delayed James Webb Space Telescope is being pumped with fuel and prepared for liftoff after an anomaly knocked back its launch date to no earlier than December 22.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5SFTY)
That's so Meta Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned on Monday, anointing CTO Parag Agrawal as the social network company's new chief executive and announcing the elevation of board member Bret Taylor, former CTO of Facebook, to Independent Chair of the Board.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5SFRR)
Performance-critical tasks scheduled on efficiency cores, fix emerges The mixture of performance and efficiency CPUs in Intel's 12th-gen Core processors, code-named Alder Lake, hasn't just been causing problems for some Windows gamers – it almost introduced complications for Linux.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5SFJW)
Could be a Christmas surprise in store from Priti Patel Autonomy Trial Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's pending extradition to the US has been kicked into the long grass again by the UK Home Office.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SFHA)
A British success story... what happens next? Industry talk is continuing to circulate regarding a possible public listing of the UK makers of the diminutive Raspberry Pi computer.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5SFFK)
Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently JetBrains has introduced remote development for its range of IDEs as well as previewing a new IDE called Fleet, which will form the basis for fresh tools covering all major programming languages.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5SFCY)
No, it isn't the limited levels of storage that have irked European businesses EU software and cloud businesses have joined Nextcloud in filing a complaint with the European Commission regarding Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive behaviour over the bundling of its OS with online services.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5SFB5)
10 days after attack 'almost all systems' up and running, refuses to say if ransom was paid Wind turbine maker Vestas says "almost all" of its IT systems are finally up and running 10 days after a security attack by criminals, confirming that it had indeed fallen victim to ransomware.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5SF9J)
User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade UK SAP users stuck with their migrations to S/4HANA during COVID-19 lockdowns this year, according to fresh figures released today. But skills among partners and SAP technical resources are still a worry.…
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