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The UK shows us how not to run an opt-out approach Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers and experts go head to head on 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.…

'There's a misconception in the industry that hyperscalers are cheap' Interview Civo, a cloud provider based in Hertfordshire, has made its flavour of K3s Kubernetes generally available, with the claim that a usable cluster can be fired up in 90 seconds.…

Thanks Windows! Now this is the kind of hospital data-sharing we like to see... Bork!Bork!Bork! There may be no better place for Windows to seek comfort in desperate times than the UK's National Health Service (NHS) – and sure enough a good old fashioned blue screen of death has popped up an A&E waiting room.…

What's a long length of electrical wire? A transmitter, of course An Israeli researcher has demonstrated that LAN cables' radio frequency emissions can be read by using a $30 off-the-shelf setup, potentially opening the door to fully developed cable-sniffing attacks.…

VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos Google has added support for workloads running in virtual machines to its Anthos hybrid Kubernetes platform.…

Because digital viruses aren't the only ones we're worried about right now With both Windows 11 and a new generation of Intel silicon upon us, big PC-makers are unveiling this year's models.…

Perps not welcome at anti-ransomware gabfest that Biden admin would rather portray as bold infosec alliance The United States has kicked off meetings attended by representatives of nations that all hope to address the scourge of ransomware – without Russia or China in the room.…

Oi, Google: how did this get past your review process? And Imperva: why does your web page offer to install software? Security vendor Imperva’s research labs have found a browser extension that claims to block ads, but actually injects them into Chrome or Opera.…

What could possibly go wrong on a project with vast scope, many stakeholders with different agendas, and an assumption of prompt data sharing? India's government yesterday announced a massive new wave of infrastructure investment, and a portal it says will ensure co-ordination among multiple government departments so that new builds avoid overlap with other plans and contribute to a national modernisation drive.…

Opening the iOS ecosystem to competition would harm security and privacy, company says Analysis Apple, besieged by regulators and rivals challenging its exclusive control over its iOS App Store, has published a 31-page defense of its ostensibly benevolent monopoly that warns of disastrous consequences if Cupertino is forced to allow competition.…

MosaicMLdelving into the details A former head of artificial intelligence products at Intel has started a company to help companies cut overhead costs on AI systems.…

Broadcomm,Texas Instruments, and more buckling under supply crisis Apple may be short of hitting its annual iPhone 13 handset production target by ten million units due to current global chip shortages.…

Report claims documents show employees abusing access When asked in July, 2020, by US Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) whether Amazon ever mined data from its third-party vendors to launch competing products, founder and then CEO Jeff Bezos said he couldn't answer "yes" or "no," but insisted Amazon had rules disallowing the practice.…

Close ties with CloudLinux remain, including former chair as 'guest attendee' at board meetings Igor Seletskiy, the founder of the AlmaLinux distro created in December 2020 as an alternative to CentOS, has explained that he stepped down as chair of the AlmaLinux Foundation in an effort to strengthen its community status - though his company still dominates the board.…

Gives classic monologue upon landing Four travelers successfully flew to the edge of space and back on Blue Origin’s second commercial spaceflight including William Shatner, making the 90-year-old Star Trek actor the oldest person to leave Earth yet.…

Relax, this isn't a binding precedent - but it puts down a marker A judge in England has ruled that an Amazon Ring doorbell's functions broke the Data Protection Act after a neighbour dispute, over claims of a gang of armed robbers trying to steal an Audi, ended up in court.…

It's better to get lithium from used batteries than from the ground, says Elon Musk Car makers are electrifying fleets at such a pace that battery makers can't keep up. So Tesla, GM, Ford and others are investing in battery recycling to cut costs and mitigate risks posed by an erratic international supply chain.…

Only a million or so miles to go The multinational James Webb Space Telescope – named after a former NASA administrator – has arrived in French Guiana, home to Europe's Spaceport, with launch finally in sight.…

US market – where 70% Chromies are sold – nears saturation The march of the Chromebook looks to be over for now, at least in the United States, as consumers and students had their fill during the pandemic and are now buying far fewer machines.…

Is it really hyperconverged if it has vSphere but not VSAN? Big Mike says 'yes' Dell has made a play for the edge, with pretty much the same stuff it offers in most other places.…

Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round A year after outlining horrific calendar Q3 financials that caused the share price to crash by €28bn, SAP had no nasty surprises up its sleeves this time.…

Just don't mention WPF Microsoft has come up with its usual monthly splurge of .NET news, including the ability to compile native dependencies into Blazor WebAssembly, and a release date of 8 November for Visual Studio 2022.…

Plus: Extortionist gang threatens victims who talk to the press Olympus, the Japanese company once known for making cameras, is investigating "suspicious" activity on its networks again – a month after those same networks were ravaged by ransomware.…

Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to reverse this delta Microsoft is boasting of how it reckons to have reduced the size of Windows 11 updates. Surprisingly "cutting hardware support" didn't feature.…

Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected It is shaping up to be a Black Wednesday for providers of online services after Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines users suffered lingering near-global glitches that prevented them from spinning up new Windows-based systems.…

Christie's 'Science and Natural History' collection isn't joking when it says it's 'a journey in time' Is the NFT craze dead yet? Right, good, then we can return to a cool auction world where the well-heeled can get their mitts on rather more tangible relics from tech history.…

You want my medical records? Good, take them – now find me a cure Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers and experts go head to head on 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.…

'No impact expected' then pop – and weren't they in the process of an IPO? Hosting provider OVH reckons that its servers are "gradually returning" following a worldwide outage that lasted for around an hour.…

Microsoft's New Technology File System has been with us for decades and at long, long last it's going to be fully supported for penguins Opinion Love it or hate it, Linux users in a Windows world must deal with Microsoft's New Technology File System (NTFS). This has always been a pain in the rump. Even after Microsoft finally gave up on its anti-Linux rhetoric and released its patents to the open-source community and expressively opened up its exFAT patents, we still couldn't get into NTFS.…

Award delayed nine months due to pandemic Oracle has won a deal to supply ERP software to East Sussex County Council, on England's south coast, in a delayed £25m project to replace the authority's ageing SAP R/3 system.…

Investigation to continue into early 2022 Nvidia’s $54 billion bid to takeover British chip designer Arm is reportedly facing more hurdles than expected as the EU Commission extends its antitrust investigation of the deal.…

Much of the 2.4Tbit/sec came from across Asia and targeted a single Euro-customer Microsoft claims its Azure cloud has fended off the largest DDOS attack it's detected, which clocked in at 2.4Tbit/sec.…

Canadian woman's lovely floral linen besmirched by recently-arrived space rock It was almost midnight in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, a Rocky Mountain city near the border with Alberta, when a meteorite crashed through the roof and landed next to the head of 66-year-old grandma Ruth Hamilton.…

Mashes the Sorry button, offers to reverse forced code migration, and promises not to ever mess with projects again The beleaguered .NET Foundation has apologised, again, and reversed one of the policies that saw its members revolt.…

Now with an extra layer of extreme ultraviolet Samsung has announced it's fired up mass production of DDR5 DRAM built using five-layer extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV).…

Study finds privacy gaps in Android implementations from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, and LineageOS Google Android devices transmit telemetry data while idle, even when users have opted out, according to study conducted earlier this year by Trinity College Dublin computer scientist Douglas Leith.…

Astronomers will be searching for clues on how the Solar System formed NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is set to embark on its 12-year tour, traveling almost four billion miles, to visit eight asteroids near Jupiter during its mission to reveal the Solar System’s origins.…

Two faults, around $2bn to pay LG Electronics will pay a minimum of $1.9bn to General Motors after defective batteries it supplied for the car maker's Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles caused car fires.…

With 71 new CVEs, there are patches enough for everyone Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday has arrived with fixes for 71 new CVEs, two patch revisions to address bugs from previous months that just won't die, and three CVEs tied to OpenSSL flaws. That's in addition to eight Edge-Chromium CVEs dealt with earlier this month.…

'So sorry' says Microsoft Identity VP – but its unhelpful support systems will be hard to fix Interview Konstantin Gizdov, an IT professional, was locked out of his Microsoft account by a bug in the company's Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), but says support refused to acknowledge the bug or recover his account.…

Chip crunch pulls focus AI chip startups are thinking more about bang-for-the-buck on their processors amid a historic semiconductor shortage and rising prices of silicon.…

Reg reader sighs at 'Orwellian gig economy' sums Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch has responded to last week's breach of its source code by increasing bug bounty pay-outs from $3,000 to $5,000, sources have told The Register.…

Tech breakdown and proof-of-concept code is already out there If you're using an iPhone, install the iOS 15.0.2 update immediately: Apple has warned that the latest OS upgrade patches an "actively exploited" zero-day.…

Legal action aims to give players a say in how data about them is traded A group of footballers – soccer players for US readers – are set to launch legal action over what they consider to be the unauthorised use of their personal and performance data.…

And warehouse staff, data centre engineers, retail staffers? 'Thanks for your dedication' but no flexible work for you Amazon says team leaders will determine when white collar workers return to the office and how many days they’ll be expected to be in.…

Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat Mega conglomerate Emerson will buy a majority stake in asset optimisation software biz AspenTech and merge its software units with the firm in an $11bn deal.…

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says Baroness Dido Harding's tenure as head of NHS Test and Trace – a vital plank of the UK's COVID-19 pandemic response – has been given a damning verdict by a committee of MPs.…

Google Cloud Next '21 brings Distributed Edge, emissions metrics, and a Cybersecurity Action Team Google is taking its cloud platform to the network's edge while aiming to arm customers with data about the damage their compute workloads are doing to the Earth's atmosphere.…

Have you tried reading books? Facebook-owned Instagram is to start testing a new feature which informs users they may not be able to post or view snaps of dinner, memes, selfies, or whatever it is people are interested in showing off to others because the service is broken.…

Who really benefits from 'secondary use' of your medical data? Register debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers and experts go head to head on 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.…