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We're just two chip businesses, standing in front of the regulators, asking them to love us The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published Nvidia and Arm's responses to its renewed probing of the proposed takeover of Arm by Nvidia.…

Who should your PC work for: you, or your antivirus vendor? Germany-based security biz Avira's antivirus has enabled a new feature: "Avira Crypto". It's opt-in, but if you click "yes", the AV will use your computer to mine Ethereum.…

AT&T and Verizon come to agreement with FAA on tech rollout Live close to an airport in US and have a 5G handset? The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a promised list of major American airports to be surrounded by buffer zones that won't have 5G-C band service.…

What happens when you're top of the pile and everyone wants chips TSMC looks set to beat its own revenue guidance for calendar Q4 of 2021 if the latest monthly figures are anything to go by, rounding off a year of strong growth for the semiconductor industry as a whole.…

Week 2 for new CEO, forced to report sliding sales, delayed projects to investors Atos has issued a profit warning following a "major" contract revision with a UK financial services customer, as well as wider project slippages and lower reselling revenue.…

Shock: Nobody likes whiteboard interviews either A survey of nearly 14,000 coders and recruiters has shown that 70 per cent of devs prefer remote work while some headhunters are considering dropping the curriculum vitae (CV) from the hiring process.…

The solution? Click the annoying error messages away and keep printing The ongoing semiconductor shortage has reached the point that it's affecting one of the most-hated aspects of printing – copy-protection chips on ink cartridges.…

Warning comes weeks after govt body accused subsidiary Sam’s Club of 'ulterior motive' in goods stocking spat American budget retailer Walmart was cited for 19 alleged cybersecurity breaches in China, state-sponsored media reported last week.…

Auditor IPCO flagged it up – but then approved 99.94% of state snooping Former foreign secretary Dominic Raab rebuked GCHQ for secretly halting internal compliance audits that ensured the spy agency was obeying the law, a government report has revealed – while just 0.06 per cent of spying requests made by Britain's public sector were refused by its supposed overseer.…

And you thought unfolding the table for Christmas dinner was tricky The gold-coated primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was fully unfurled this weekend, marking the end of the epic major deployments of the spacecraft, but only the beginning of months of alignment and calibration.…

Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks Surrey County Council is set to incur an additional £3.2m costs on its delayed £22m ERP project that is scheduled to replace an ageing SAP R/3 system with Unit4 software-as-a-service.…

Poetry and WINE – a heady combination The Haiku operating system has an experimental new feature, WINE. Originally a Linux subsystem, WINE can run unmodified Windows programs on other operating systems.…

How sad would you be to see AV go? Us neither Opinion Game knows game. Thus it came as little surprise that Norton's consumer security software not only sprouted a cryptominer that slurps your computer's life essence and skims a cut, but that it's hard to turn it off.…

Hardly a surprise from the team that brought you billion-pound delays to the Emergency Services Network A system designed to keep track of the UK government's ageing application portfolio promised by Joanna Davinson, who was once responsible for overseeing £1bn additional costs on the much-delayed Emergency Services Network, has — you guessed it — been delayed.…

Plug and play, 1970s style Who, Me? Sometimes a shortcut can result in a short circuit. And occasionally a shortened career if one lacks an understanding boss. Welcome to another Register reader confession from the Who, Me? archives.…

Meanwhile Deloitte says semiconductors are 'growing as fast or faster than ever before' Semiconductor sales are expected to return to a more realistic growth trajectory this year after a record-setting 2021, analyst house IC Insights said in a study released this month.…

Boffins in Vienna devise way to make software prove how it behaves Folks at Technische Universität Wien in Austria have devised a formal security framework called WebSpec to analyze browser security.…

And also an import ban America's International Trade Commission has said Google infringed five of Sonos’s patents – and has banned Google from importing into the US products that rip off Sonos’ home speaker intellectual property.…

Want fatuous stuff that treats you with contempt? Look no further Six right-to-repair advocates assembled on Friday morning to present Repair.org's second annual Worst in Show Awards, a selection of the "the least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable gadgets at CES."…

OTA-21 of mobile OS arrives While some smartphone users are pondering when their next Android or iOS update will hit, the UBports foundation has released one for the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system in the form of OTA-21.…

How to type foreign languages without looking stuff up or memorising half of Unicode Friday FOSS Fest In these globally-connected-from-the-spare-bedroom times, sometimes we all need to deal with folks from far-off lands, whose names or addresses contain exotic symbols that Anglophones rarely encounter: from François to František or maybe even ffoulkes.…

Study hopes to take the elitism out media consumption Those attempting a digital detox might settle down with a paper book in the assumption they are nurturing their well-being. But the benefits of traditional versus new media are not as clear as received wisdom leads us to believe.…

Sure, there was a collision detection bug. Turns out somebody then quietly fixed it Veteran Microsoft developer Raymond Chen has revealed a bit more about what went wrong with the 64-bit version of Space Cadet Pinball.…

You know, the browser used by 0.34% of netizens nowadays A key British border IT system used by plant and seed exporters is so ancient that it will only work with Internet Explorer – which was deprecated by Microsoft last year and is used by relatively few people.…

NGO claims staffers who resign are forced to return advance variable pay Pune-based IT labor rights nonprofit Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) has filed an official government complaint against HCL Technologies, India's third largest IT company, alleging the business has instituted a policy to claw back bonuses from resigning employees.…

Move fast and break things – with help from machine-learning algorithms Adoption of AIOps in IT departments is set to go mainstream, or so says a survey of medium and large enterprises which found 93 per cent of respondents are either already using the tech, or plan to adopt it in the near future.…

If you can't find a Pi on Earth, you could run your code on orbit instead A new batch of AstroPi computers are up and running on board the International Space Station (ISS), set-up by ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer.…

How about 'idiot goggles'? Snap has filed a complaint taking the US Patent Office (USPO) to task as it seeks to trademark the word "Spectacles."…

Investigation finds royalty and licensing fees excluded from transaction values India's Ministry of Finance has ordered Xiaomi to pay ₹6.53bn ($88m) in import taxes after discovering the local arm of the Chinese electronics company was undervaluing its transactions.…

Plan is to use the arm to finish putting the outpost together The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) says it has completed load-bearing tests on its space station's 10m robotic arm.…

Deepin shows that good things come out of Wuhan, too The newest and quite possibly shiniest Ubuntu remix has kicked a new version out the door. Yes, yet another new desktop, but it's a sign of bigger things to come.…

Recent report on IT-led change must be acted on by NHS leaders to address pandemic fallout A group of MPs in the UK Parliament have called on NHS leadership to end an approach to health service IT that allows a fifth of NHS trust to remain largely paper-based.…

Any colour you like as long as it's black. Or white Something for the Weekend, Sir? Isn't 2022 great? What do you mean, "no"? Jeez, you lot are hard to please. If you're reading this, it means you're still alive. What did you want instead?…

Yes, but are you sure? Really sure? On Call The customer is always right. Except when they're not. Here we have a story from the On Call archives concerning connectors, telephones, and a user blessed with a little too much confidence.…

Will these figures wash? The year 2021 proved to be a tough one for anyone affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, though it was awesome for crime involving cryptocurrencies.…

Neither cough nor sneeze nor gloom of coronavirus stays these chip makers from their appointed rounds Micron expects to resume normal operations at its Chinese DRAM facility in Xi'an later this month despite it being under lock down following a COVID-19 outbreak about two weeks ago.…

Jeff Wilcox led efforts to build M1 and T2 processors Apple’s top silicon lead Jeff Wilcox, who led the iGiant's push to develop homegrown chips, has left his role to start a new job at Intel.…

Maybe the days of entering lotteries for graphics cards will be over Buyers may not have to resort to treasure hunting for elusive GPUs in the second half of this year as semiconductor companies expect supply and prices to start normalizing.…

Honda probes issue, has yet to identify the cause of the problem Owners of older Acura and Honda vehicles marked the new year by revisiting 2002, a consequence of a bug affecting the cars' clock software.…

South Korea thinks they just went ballistic North Korean state media announced Wednesday that the country has completed its second reported hypersonic weapons test.…

Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021 Snowflake, that cloud-only data warehouse much loved by investors, has been named DBMS of the Year for 2021 by tracker site DB-Engines.…

It avoided Aero. Missed Modern. Now the update edges ever closer to release It is with a heavy heart we report that Microsoft's redesigned Notepad has begun to make its way to the Windows Insider Beta channel, taking one step closer to end users already reeling from the Windows 11 experience.…

COPA load of that A man who claims to be the secret inventor of Bitcoin has failed in a legal bid to throw out a High Court lawsuit saying he's talking tosh – and will be accused of forging proof he is Satoshi Nakamoto.…

Christmas is gone and so, it seems, was a chunk of Big Blue's services this morning IBM is having a torrid start to 2022, including a lengthy period of "provisioning issues" in IBM Cloud around the world this morning.…

Here in my car, I feel safest of all... The global chip shortage is likely to have an impact throughout this year and into 2023, affecting some sectors worse than others, with UK car sales likely to be one of those hit.…

But creator runs server from home – we can forgive him A young man who would have been around 10 when the plug was pulled on Ceefax has recreated the BBC's teletext information service online, replete with a digital remote control to punch in the number of your choice.…

They'll have to cough €100,000 a day if they don't fix it within 3 months... Google and Facebook have come a little unstuck in the cookie department as French watchdog Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) slapped the pair with a €150m and €60m fine respectively.…

Not going to get stuck in first gear again with supply-chain crises The battle between chip giants in the autonomous vehicle space isn't a two-horse race like it was for desktop PCs. Car makers have a somewhat wider choice of silicon vendors.…

Telco won't be gone until 2026 as Land and Property Services plans epic project timeline Northern Ireland's Land and Property Services, part of the Department of Finance, is planning an IT procurement worth up to £125m to replace an ageing BT system running since 1999.…

We all make mistakes, but we just need to solder on Still waiting for your Spectrum Next to arrive? Yeah, us too. But it's not the only modern Sinclair clone – and a quick way to get your hands on one is to build your own.…