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Even the best of ideas can take their own sweet time making it into the kernel Maybe someday – maybe – Zero Trust will solve many of our network security problems. But for now, if you want to make sure you don't have an eavesdropper on your network, you need a Virtual Private Network (VPN).…

This is fine Those of us who fear future enslavement by robot overlords may have one more reason not to sleep at night: engineers have demonstrated a few of the legless, floppy variety making some serious leaps.…

Yeah, right, Chipzilla: we totally believe your line this isn’t a real plan, even though PCI supports it Intel has updated the code it says allows the implementation of “software-defined silicon” (SDSi).…

Wants Google, Meta, Netflix and locals to work harder on uptime, warn locals of outages in Korean South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT has offered Big Tech some advice on how to make their services suitably resilient, and added an obligation to notify users – in Korean - when they fail.…

Certifies hardware with malware-crimping spec, already common in PCs, for Azure Stack and Windows Server Microsoft has extended the Secured-core concept it applied to PCs in 2019 to servers, and to Windows Server and Azure Stack HCI.…

Adds fun for CTRL-Z freaks, Dark Mode, improved Find and Replace Microsoft has released an update for its venerable Notepad text editor.…

And open sources Yun on Chip IoT silicon and ecosystem Alibaba's DAMO Academy has teased a chip that stacks logic and memory in 3D, and Chinese press suggest it represents an architecture that can bust the Von Neumann bottleneck.…

Nearly 20 year-old software used to protect humanity gets an upgrade NASA has upgraded its near-Earth asteroid monitoring algorithm to model hazardous space rocks more accurately after nearly two decades, it announced on Tuesday.…

Lawsuit claims social media giant's algos helped Myanmar military crackdown on the Rohingya Meta was sued on Tuesday for a whopping $150 billion in a class-action lawsuit for allegedly amplifying hate speech and aiding the Myanmar military in the genocide of the Rohingya people.…

Couple of cents-worth of kit causing big problems for the year to come The shortage of power management chips is worsening and holding back companies from building cars, PCs and items with batteries or an on-off switch, Trendforce said in a study this week.…

Yet losses grow at NoSQL database biz NoSQL database slinger MongoDB has seen its share price bounce 15 per cent following a hefty upturn in sales for Q3 and better-than-expected forecasts for the final three months of its current financial year.…

Experimental – but good enough to start writing 'drivers and other modules' A new patch was this week submitted to the Linux Kernel mailing list, progressing the Rust for Linux Kernel project.…

'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' Updated Technical errors with the US-EAST-1 region of Amazon Web Services have caused widespread woes for customers, including difficulty accessing the management console and some other service problems.…

They went full science. Always go full science The Hubble Space Telescope team has triumphed once again and returned the veteran observatory to service.…

So says Sophos in warning about Tor2Mine Monero malware Cryptominer malware removal is a routine piece of the cybersecurity landscape these days. Yet if criminals are hijacking your compute cycles to mine cryptocurrencies, chances are there's something worse lurking on your network too.…

And the cheapest? Libya In a surprise to no bill-payers in the UK, except perhaps those huddling in homes without power for days on end, Blighty has some of the most expensive electricity in the world.…

Only one respondent 'noticeably reduced the capacity of their systems' Reg Reader Survey We decided to look at the science – or perhaps the art – of capacity management for our recent Reg Reader Survey.…

Contributed to dysfunction as diplomats and soldiers struggled to get Afghan helpers out of reach of Taliban Diplomats and soldiers were left grappling with appallingly inadequate IT and secure communications support as thousands of Afghans struggled to get help from the UK during the fall of the capital Kabul in August.…

Smartphones and consumer electronics now under one roof Samsung is splitting into two internal divisions – a semiconductor unit and one for smartphones, TVs and other consumer electronics – appointing two CEOs in what appears to be the biggest operational shake-up in years.…

Chipzilla to keep its hands on the wheel Intel will take its Mobileye tentacle public next year, five years after spending $15bn to buy the sensor company.…

£37m signed up for soon-to-be-defunct non-dept public body It may be winding down as a government unit, but NHS Digital has not stopped its tech spending, signing up suppliers for around £37m in work for the coming years.…

No good reason for vendors to play ball with each other Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss 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. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

A post-Halloween spooktacular as users face the 'Ghost in the Machine' Lenovo is about to complete a full year of customers complaining about the Trackpoint on the company's popular ThinkPad business laptops.…

Watchdog says tenders to be published by September – but HMRC procurement show that's not going to plan Documents released by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) suggest its everything-and-the-kitchen-sink re-procurement of £7.1bn in IT spending is slipping, according to a timetable set by UK.gov's major projects watchdog.…

We're faster than you. No you're not. Are too. No way! Yes way … can someone take this pair to the principal's office? Content delivery contender Fastly has come out swinging at rival Cloudflare.…

'The last time I did this, I cried' says Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Video Managing a business during the plague years has been tough for many, but one plucky CEO has found a clever and efficient way to execute such an unpleasant task: fire 900 workers at once in a Zoom meeting.…

'Nickel' back in trouble for trying to lift secrets, often by exploiting Microsoft snafus Microsoft has revealed its Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) won court approval to take control of websites a Chinese gang was using to attack targets across the world – often by exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.…

Someone just accidentally put it there, says the messaging service company Smartphone payment provider LINE Pay announced yesterday that around 133,000 users' payment details were mistakenly published on GitHub between September and November of this year.…

Officials use them for mundane matters, not big emergencies as laws intend India's Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology has slammed state governments' use of internet shutdowns.…

Fingers crossed the telescope will finally take to space on 22 December Engineers have finished pumping the James Webb Space Telescope with fuel, and are now preparing to carefully place the folded instrument inside the top of a rocket, expected to blast off later this month.…

Home-baked silicon is the way forward China is gut punching Moore's Law and the roughly one-year cadence for major chip releases adopted by the Intel, AMD, Nvidia and others.…

Tens of thousands of homeowners and hundreds of businesses were at risk, lawsuit claims The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into whether Tesla failed to tell investors and customers about the fire risks of its faulty solar panels.…

Sweary test on sale as Tesla CEO forgets where he parked his car Elon Musk fans must be all a quiver this week as they finally have the chance to buy a collectible to slide under the bust of their idol's head: papers signed by the man himself.…

Franchisees' closures also affect petrol stations The British arm of Dutch supermarket chain Spar has shut hundreds of shops after suffering an "online attack," the company has confirmed to The Register.…

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter: 'It is 34 per cent compatible, through our tests' Interview Amazon's DocumentDB database service is described by the cloud corp as "MongoDB compatible", but MongoDB CTO Mark Porter has told The Register this is not entirely the case.…

Or it might be nearer $200m. Even the amounts stolen seem to be volatile in the crypto world Cryptocurrency exchange BitMart has coughed to a large-scale security breach relating to ETH and BSC hot wallets. The company reckons that hackers made off with approximately $150m in assets.…

PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims You've collected your leaving card, novelty presents, and perhaps a bottle of wine – what's next on the list for the departing developer? For one, it's a blog rubbishing the technology he's been working on for five years.…

Free Now taxi app unlawfully registered by regulator – and Ts&Cs didn't comply with the law London taxi-hailing apps cannot dump their legal obligations on gig economy drivers, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales has ruled in a blow to Uber.…

Does anyone have the stones to revive this long-forgotten software? What is old is new again: linking open source Unix-alikes, native cluster OSes for massively parallel computers, and 1980s platform rivalries. You get all this in a somewhat dusty project hoping to "breathe new life" into Helios, a manycore OS from the '90s.…

Hancitor is at play The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says 49 organisations, including some in government, were hit by Cuba ransomware as of early November this year.…

Key to faster, more predictable cloud RE:INVENT AWS had a conviction that "modern processors were not well optimized for modern workloads," the cloud corp's senior veep of Infrastructure, Peter DeSantis, claimed at its latest annual Re:invent gathering in Las Vegas.…

Hurrah, employees can continue to work from home and take calls in pyjamas Googlers can continue working from home and will no longer be required to return to campuses on 10 January 2022 as previously expected.…

How long will we keep reinventing software wheels? Register Debate Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss 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. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you're in favour or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular.…

Questions for tenants as Ellison's gang executes its OCI strategy Oracle's datacentre in Linlithgow, Scotland is set to close over the next few months, leaving clients faced with a cloud migration or a move to an alternative hosted datacentre.…

Put crypto back in the crypt Opinion In 1960, Theodore H Maiman made the first laser.…

Fidgety fingers and boredom = trouble Who, Me? All aboard for a nautical installment of Who, Me? where the words "Don't Touch That Button!" have an altogether damper meaning.…

Despite being the 27th and 28th launched, they're the first of a dozen first-gen birds The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the successful launch of the 27th and 28th satellites in its Galileo satnav constellation on Sunday.…

Seeks world domination through 'diversified business governance' Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is splitting in two.…

Cube-shaped object is probably just a rock. Yutu will check it out anyway China's Moon rover, Yutu 2, has sent images of a strangely geometric object.…

LinkedIn adds Hindi service to target the world's third-most-spoken language Microsoft's social network LinkedIn has added a Hindi version of its service.…