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Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin Arm has teased an upcoming graphics processor unit, due to be unveiled next year, and said it is tuned heavily for running artificial intelligence code.…

Beijing's recent crackdowns on internet behaviour have spawned rebellious entrepreneurs, because of course they have. China's National Internet Information Office has revisited some of the government's recent internet crackdowns, to put a stop to workarounds such as renting or selling accounts for online games to minors in order to circumvent the three-hours-per-week play time imposed by Beijing.…

Panorama appliance packs Nvidia Jetson Xavier AGX and will be sold – not rented like other AWS on-prem kit Amazon Web Services, the outfit famous for pioneering pay-as-you-go cloud computing, has produced a bit of on-prem hardware that it will sell for a once-off fee.…

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it Analysis Dell and VMware have named the day they'll break up: November 1.…

Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged Theranos blood-testing machines, which US prosecutors claim failed over 51 per cent of the time, provided no indication if things went awry during demonstrations for visitors, a court has heard.…

Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton The price of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer is going up $10, and its supply is expected to be capped at seven million devices this year due to the ongoing global chip shortage.…

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations More than six years after proposing export restrictions on "intrusion software," the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has formulated a rule that it believes balances the latitude required to investigate cyber threats with the need to limit dangerous code.…

The future's bright, and expensive Corporate technology soothsayer Gartner is forecasting worldwide IT spending will hit $4.5tr in 2022, up 5.5 per cent from 2021.…

AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D Chip giant Micron has announced a $150bn global investment plan designed to support manufacturing and research over the next decade.…

Foreign ownership capped at 50% After years of restricting the use and ownership of VPNs, Beijing has agreed to let foreign entities hold up to a 50 per cent stake in domestic VPN companies.…

If you want to know the solution, join this Regcast Sponsored We know for sure that ransomware attackers and sundry dark forces want to break into critical infrastructure. Ransomware attacks on industrial environments have increased by 500 per cent since 2018.…

Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android Microsoft has further teased the arrival of the Windows Subsystem for Android by detailing how the platform will work via a newly published document for Windows Insiders.…

Companies using GPL software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit which supports and defends free software, has taken legal action against Californian TV manufacturer Vizio Inc, claiming "repeated failures to fulfill even the basic requirements of the General Public License (GPL)."…

Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest Korean DRAM fabber SK hynix has developed an HBM3 DRAM chip operating at 819GB/sec.…

DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government Updated The UK's efforts to copy US government and military innovation outfit DARPA are stalling, according to a leading figure in research and development.…

That rebrand can't come soon enough Updated The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has smacked Facebook with a £50m ($68.7m) fine for "deliberately" not giving it the full picture about its ongoing $400m acquisition of gif-slinger Giphy.…

A death by a thousand cuts The Chromium team has finally done it – File Transfer Protocol (FTP) support is not just deprecated, but stripped from the codebase in the latest stable build of the Chrome browser, version 95.…

Ad-free now but not forever The Brave browser will now default to the company's own search engine, claimed to preserve privacy, while a new Web Discovery Project aims to collect search data again with privacy protection.…

It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day NHS Digital has scored a classic Mail All own-goal by dispatching not one, not two, not three, but four emails concerning an infosec breakfast briefing, each time copying the entirety of the invite list in on the messages.…

Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register The UK government has awarded management consultancy Atkins a £23m contract to help it get to grips with accidental damage to underground pipes and cables, which is costing £2.4bn a year.…

* Just a couple of billion years The Moon remained volcanically active much later than previously thought, judging from fragments of rocks dating back two billion years that were collected by China's Chang’e 5 spacecraft.…

Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed Updated The Centre for Computing History (CCH) in Cambridge, England, has apologised for an "embarrassing" breach in its online customer datafile, though thankfully no payment card information was exposed.…

Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course Boatnotes II The art of not driving your warship into the coast or the seabed is a curious blend of the ancient and the very modern, as The Reg discovered while observing the Royal Navy's Fleet Navigating Officers' (FNO) course.…

Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue The European Space Agency (ESA) revealed on Monday that its 19-year-old International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) had a near-death experience last month when failure of a small yet significant part caused it to spin uncontrollably and prevented its solar panels from generating power.…

We've kicked things off with the most splendidly evil fictional corporations, feel free to share your ideas POLL Consumer tech outlet The Verge today reports that Facebook may soon reveal a new name.…

But of course chief exec's first computer was an Acorn Like so many of us in tech, Arm CEO Simon Segars has his own computing origins story, which he shared during a speech on Tuesday at the Arm DevSummit developer conference.…

CrowdStrike says 'LightBasin' gang avoids Windows, and knows that telco networks run on badly-secured *nix A mysterious criminal gang is targeting telcos' Linux and Solaris boxes, because it perceives they aren't being watched by infosec teams that have focussed their efforts on securing Windows.…

Gang says it grabbed internal info, could do the same to Acer elsewhere Taiwanese PC maker Acer has not only admitted servers it operates in India and and Taiwan were compromised but that only those systems in India contained customer data.…

With high enough vax rates, HCL, Infosys and Wipro say hybrid work environment is the way of the future, while TCS is going to want you to come right on in. India's big four IT services providers – HCL, Infosys, Tata Consulting Services, and Wipro – have all highlighted increasing staff attrition rates in their most recently completed quarters.…

Intel duo propose fresh use of, yes, SGX but also Arm's TrustZone and similar TEEs Two Intel staffers believe web services can be made more secure by not only carrying out computations in remote trusted execution environments, or TEEs, but by also verifying for clients that this was done so.…

And that $14.25m is supposed to be some kind of record Facebook will hand over $14.25m to the US government and American workers to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring practices.…

Chocolate Factory talks up Tensor mobile SoC, Titan M2 security ... for those who can get them Google held a virtual event on Tuesday to introduce its latest Android phones, the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, which are based on a Google-designed Tensor system-on-a-chip (SoC).…

What was that about hackable tractors? The US CISA cybersecurity agency has warned that the Darkside ransomware gang, aka BlackMatter, has been targeting American food and agriculture businesses – and urges security pros to be on the lookout for indicators of compromise.…

EcmaScript 6 modules will not stop growing use of Node, claims chair of Technical Steering Committee Node.js 17 is out, loaded with OpenSSL 3 and other new features, but it is not intended for use in production – and the promotion for Node.js 16 to an LTS release, expected soon, may be more important to most developers.…

It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst NetSuite, the ERP software aimed at medium-sized businesses, has launched new product features addressing integration with banking systems and business-facing analytics.…

And they're packing a new dirty RAT as well A prolific email phishing threat actor – TA505 – is back from the dead, according to enterprise security software slinger Proofpoint.…

Cloud directory start-up valued at $2.65bn JumpCloud, a provider of cloud directory services, has sucked up $66m from investors including Jira developer Atlassian.…

Treat customers fairly when it comes to auto-renewal. Or else The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has unveiled compliance principles to curb locally some of the sharper auto-renewal practices of antivirus software firms.…

Decides switches need help performing network functions, just like servers need their CPUs free for core workloads HPE's networking subsidiary Aruba has added data processing units to a switch.…

New iconography, minimalism, less text – and at least it is not Paint 3D Microsoft's redesigned user interface for Paint in Windows 11 is prettier but perhaps a little less useable than the previous version.…

Got a Disaster Recovery plan? Ever tested it? You probably should... Confusion continues to reign in the world of television, including UK national broadcaster Channel 4, weeks after a broadcast centre cockup wrought havoc upon servers.…

Cloud data market heats up as company lures $60m in Series C funding Finnish open-source-as-a-service provider Aiven has attracted a $60m extension to its Series C funding which now values the firm at $2bn.…

Watchdog is getting comfortable with its new digital remit The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said this morning it would be carrying out a market study into the music streaming industry.…

Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system Utility provider Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has set aside £28m to replace its current Oracle E-business Suite with a new HR and finance system.…

Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska' Come Sunday, October 24, 2021, those using applications that rely on gpsd for handling time data may find that they're living 1,024 weeks – 19.6 years – in the past.…

The answer is rarely obvious. Take part in our short poll and we'll find out together Reg Reader Survey The introduction of new systems into an organization is essential. If we stay still, if we continue to rely on legacy systems, if we fail to innovate – well, we (or, in reality, the company) will die. As business guru Sir John Harvey-Jones once put it: “If you are doing things the same way as two years ago, you are almost certainly doing them wrong.”…

And they're almost certainly better than a laptop jowel-cam Review It has been a long 20 months since Lockdown 1.0, and despite the best efforts of Google and Zoom et al to filter out the worst effects of built-in laptop webcams, a replacement might be in order for the long haul ahead.…

Google won the patent battle against ART+COM, but we were left with little more than a toy Column I used to think technology could change the world. Google's vision is different: it just wants you to sort of play with the world. That's fun, but it's not as powerful as it could be.…

Sneaking in programming under the guise of plastic bricks There is good news for the intersection of Lego and Raspberry Pi fans today, as a new HAT (the delightfully named Hardware Attached on Top) will be unveiled for the diminutive computer to control Technic motors and sensors.…

Home quarantine week was the price for an overseas trip, ongoing observation is the price of COVID-19 Feature My family and I recently returned to Singapore after an overseas trip that, for the first time in over a year, did not require the ordeal of two weeks of quarantine in a hotel room.…