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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.…

It might enable activation of entirely new features on existing Xeon CPUs … or, you know, not Intel has teased a new tech it calls "Software Defined Silicon" (SDSi) but is saying almost nothing about it – and has told The Register it could amount to nothing.…

Where we're going, we don't need 5nm Analysis Cars are gaining momentum as computers on wheels, though chip manufacturers' auto focus isn't on making components using the latest and greatest fabrication nodes.…

Also plans to open-source current XuanTie RISC-V cores and future designs Alibaba Cloud has revealed a home-grown CPU for servers, based on the Arm architecture, that it has already deployed powering its cloud services.…

Sent user data to China without once thinking Beijing might decide to snoop, lied about server location Line, the Japan-based messaging and payments app with millions of users around Southeast Asia, has conceded that its data protection regimes had multiple shortcomings, and therefore put users' personal information at risk.…

We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this Canon USA has been accused of forcing customers to buy ink cartridges when they only want to scan and fax documents using the manufacturer's so-called All-In-One multi-function printers.…

x86 is an eighty-sixed ex Apple on Monday announced 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models armed with Arm-compatible Apple Silicon chips, extending its platform architecture transition, and Intel exodus, for its high-end notebooks.…

This better be a Prime delivery US House representatives say they are ready to call upon the Department of Justice to investigate whether Amazon executives, including ex-CEO Jeff Bezos, lied to Congress about whether the internet giant unfairly uses customer data to create and market its own products.…

Spacecraft otherwise stable and working well NASA's Lucy is on its way to the Trojan asteroids, but engineers have already spotted a problem with one of the probe's 7.3-metre solar arrays.…

Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years' Microsoft has been branded as "the world's best malware hoster for about a decade," thanks to abuse of the Office 365 and Live platform, as well as its slow response to reports by security researchers.…

Plus: Australian telescope precursor finds weird waves in the middle of the galaxy The governments of South Africa and Australia have signed agreements formalizing the construction and operation of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) telescopes by the Observatory's governing body.…

Which it isn't, as illustrated by exec director of the F# Foundation The troubled .NET Foundation was intended to "borrow as much as possible from the GNOME Foundation," according to Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of GNOME and now at Microsoft, who was involved in its original design.…

Developers, start your engines Arm is putting virtual models of its chip designs in the cloud so developers can write and test applications before the physical hardware gets into their hands.…

Announcement uses the phrase 'world-leading' without referring to UK once Brit political has-been and Facebook global affairs veep Nick Clegg fired off a missive over the weekend announcing that the antisocial network would be hiring 10,000 people from across the European Union to help "BUILD THE METAVERSE" (VERSE-VERSE-VERSE-VERSE).…