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It's what The Chef would want Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork is taking a trip back to its spiritual home with yet another warning for administrators who fail to attend to their flock of Windows PCs.…

Usernames and passwords could be read (and abused) by anyone in since fixed flaw An email marketing company claiming to hold details on a million UK teachers and school admin personnel was potentially exposing those to the public internet thanks to a misconfigured error page on its website.…

Outsourcing giant Wipro secures a spot among others Wipro is among the tech suppliers on a £500m housing association framework agreement which is expected to flex to meet the needs of legislation resulting from the tragic Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in a high rise London block.…

Turkeys on tables, petrol in cars, chips in 'puters, etc... or that's the idea, anyway The UK has appointed Sir David Lewis, formerly the CEO of Tesco, as the government's supply chain adviser.…

WSL will still be baked in if you want it – but Redmond wants you to get it from the Store Microsoft has revealed a new version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) – in the form of an app you acquire from the Microsoft Store. And the software giant will steer WSL users to this new version in future.…

Policies pushing local vendors help, as does huge investment in AI Chines buyers are spending up big on storage, servers, and security, according to reports by International Data Corporation (IDC) released this week.…

PC-and-server-slinger planned to invest in R&D and bolster capital, says everything's fine without that boost The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) has withdrawn approval for Lenovo's listing on the bourse.…

Big Tech's Australian lobby responds with more governance for its disinformation suppression code Big Tech's Australian lobby has "bolstered the governance" of The Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation, after the nation's Prime Minister and Deputy PM both lashed Facebook and Twitter for doing too little to prevent anonymous trolls.…

It could help us find more exoplanets far out in the universe Astronomers may have stumbled upon four exoplanets when surveying distant red dwarf stars using only low-frequency radio waves.…

MT-NLG is a beast that fed on over 4,000 GPUs Nvidia and Microsoft announced their largest monolithic transformer language model to date, an AI model with a whopping 530 billion parameters they developed together, named the Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model.…

Cybersecurity Advisors Network gets backing from Bugcrowd, infosec luminaries, even the OECD Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN), the Paris-based body that represents infosec pros, has created a new working group to advocate for legislation that stops vendors from suing when security researchers show them zero-day bugs in their kit.…

Chocolate Factory says its fingerprinting spec is unfinished Google's Privacy Budget, a plan to reduce the amount of information available in Chrome as a defense against browser fingerprinting, runs the risk of performing poorly, of breaking websites, and of creating a new tracking mechanism.…

Figma dominating Adobe XD in UIs A survey of Jamstack developers shows rising use and popularity for cloud functions and the TypeScript programming language - along with a warning for entrenched content management system WordPress.…

Chatham House speech targets non-state baddies as well as grey zone and nation states A new national cyber strategy will be launched by year-end, the National Cyber Security Centre's chief exec has promised – while calling out spyware vendor NSO Group as a "red flag" for the UK infosec community.…

Or should that be the community's issues with Microsoft? Analysis .NET Foundation executive director Claire Novotny resigned last week, but board member Shawn Wildermuth said that this did not solve "issues with the community" on which the foundation will now focus.…

Ok, time to call death to PC again? No, definitely not. Did we mention prices due to go up again? Global PC shipments are still expanding but the pace was more moderate in calendar Q3 following a US slowdown in spending caused by the gridlock in the supply chain.…

'Oxidizer and moisture interactions' blamed for iffy spaceship valves NASA and Boeing have put a brave face on things following the choice to send a pair of 'nauts to the ISS with SpaceX's Crew Dragon instead of Starliner, and are insisting Boeing's capsule will launch in the first half of next year.…

Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare England's National Data Guardian has warned that government plans to allow data sharing between NHS bodies and the police could "erode trust and confidence" in doctors and other healthcare providers.…

Plus two failings this week at Apache and Twitch and nostalgia for Flash fans In brief Hipster beer maker Brewdog has been caught out by a basic, but potentially very expensive, security problem, and the team that discovered it says the Scottish tipple-merchant's response was hardly encouraging.…

If assumed consent is informed consent, it’s individuals who benefit 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.…

Zucks to lose your #HugOps Opinion At the time of writing, it has been exactly 100 hours since Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp crept back out of the void onto the internet*. They'd been gone for six hours – or seven billion dollars, if you measure out your life by Zuck's net worth, which we don't recommend.…

Pen-testers, rogue developers, dodgy hosters, etc. etc. Feature This summer, Abnormal Security discovered that some of its customers' staff were receiving emails inviting them to install ransomware on a company computer in return for a $1m share of the "profits".…

Yet another things that was really not better in the old days Who, Me? Facebook went down and Twitch flashed its privates last week thanks to alleged config cockups. However, who among us has not suffered the stomach-dropping fear that follows the ill-advised submission of a seemingly innocuous command?…

Working to have vSphere provide a memory service that tiers pages, claims hardware TCO boost of 30 to 50 per cent VMware is working on a software-defined memory effort and thinks it could lead to the creation of "memory servers" – boxes full of memory that can be shared across a cluster.…

DRAM drama or pricing karma? Whatever your view, kinked supply chains aren't helping The world's fourth-largest memory maker, Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corporation, has predicted a price "correction" in late 2021.…

Judge ordered Cupertino to stop steering users to its payments platform and Apple wants that paused, then erased Apple has appealed one of its disputes against Epic Games, despite having mostly won the case.…

Docs were smuggled past security and sold for $110K of Monero after ProtonMail exchanges between 'Alice and 'Bob' The United States Department of Justice has announced a leak of information pertaining to the design of the nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarine, and the arrest of the alleged leakers.…

Plus: DeepMind makes its first profit... by selling to its stablemates In brief Clearview AI says it has scraped more than 10 billion photographs from people’s public social media accounts for its controversial facial-recognition tool.…

'We don’t host the content of the websites at issue' Cloudflare is not liable for any copyright infringement for content hosted on websites its content-delivery network supports, a US federal judge ruled this week.…

Let's see how the world's largest companies wriggle out of this one The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has finalized a plan on global tax laws that could lead to Big Tech paying more in taxes no matter where they operate.…

Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week The Facebook empire on Friday experienced some aftershocks after its massive Monday outage, leaving some netizens unable to use its apps and websites as expected.…

Definitely not another sub, oh no sir A US nuclear submarine has "struck an object" while submerged in the South China Sea – and the US Navy is insisting that it wasn't a Chinese submarine.…

Now they just have to make it work... Venture capital firms are pouring billions into quantum computing companies, hedging bets that the technology will pay off big time some day.…

Weird all Jorvik Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork – our column of reader-submitted unhappy displays – is celebrating 30 years of Microsoft Money this month with an example of why Windows, .NET and ATMs do not make good bedfellows.…

2 new building-block rack and 3 small footprint towers in DC-optional refresh Dell revealed its latest refresh for its Dell EMC Poweredge servers yesterday, emphasizing their small size and reduced latency for uses in places like hospitals, retail space or offices.…

It isn't just the big dogs preparing to bite, warns Redmond Iran, Turkey and both North and South Korea are bases for nation-state cyber attacks, Microsoft has claimed – as well as old favourite Russia.…

Aims to take kids from Instagram to integration with gamified approach The developers behind popular language education app Duolingo are setting their sights on maths education.…

Outage prompts customer ire, again A British VoIP firm has staggered back to its feet after being smacked with a series of apparent DDoSes a month after suffering a series of sustained attacks it said were delivered by the REvil ransomware gang.…

Senedd Cymru ICT crowd have earned their Friday beers Citizens in Wales are set to be required to comply with COVID-19 passport rules to attend mass events, partly because of an apparent technical glitch in the UK nation's Parliament or Senedd Cymru, in Welsh.…

When you need to do audio, voice or image processing at the network edge or on a battery budget RISC-V looks set to be extended to bring more computing power to applications on smaller devices.…

Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location with advertisers Mozilla is trialling personalised advertising in its Firefox Suggest feature, along with sponsored search results, with users told that it "helps fund Firefox development."…

My next column will be written in spaaaaaace Something for the Weekend, Sir? Look deep into my soil. Hold it, feel it, smell my soil.…

Remember those days when OSes were the be-all and end-all? Canalys Forums With minds fixed on PC shortages and the next looming round of price hikes, there was nary a mention of Microsoft's freshly laid OS by the biggest vendors and resellers at this year's Canalys Forums EMEA 2021 gabfest.…

Your PC is not a fridge On Call Friday brings the promise of a weekend free from the work laptop but likely shackled to the personal laptop instead. Kick off your two days of downtime with another tale from those brave enough to be On Call.…

OECD close to finalising implementation plan hoped to secure a share of revenue from digital multinationals The Republic of Ireland has signed on to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's plans to create harmonised tax laws that stop Big Tech companies reducing their bills by officially conducting their business in low-tax jurisdictions.…

All invited to comment about how operating systems have screwed them Japan's Fair Trade Commission on Wednesday launched an investigation into potential antitrust behavior by mobile OS providers – with Apple and Google at the top of the list.…

Calls for anything connected to the Internet to live in a room controlled by the CISO India has announced a new security policy for its power sector and specified a grade of isolation it says exceeds that offered by air gaps.…

Publishers won't get ads, advertisers won't get a voice, nobody will be spared weeks of tedious culture wars Google has decided not to run any ads alongside content that "contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change".…

Spare parts, repair manuals more easily available in victory for right to repair ... when it happens Microsoft has pledged to help folks independently repair their own broken Surface laptops and Xbox consoles by making spare parts and information more easily available by the end of 2022.…

Next chapter in AI Dungeon saga: Banning gamers for what the bot said Feature Let this be a warning to all AI developers: check your data before you train your model.…