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Boffins say their real-world tests show developers can make more of a difference than switching transport protocols Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), the alternative to Transmission Control Protocol advanced as a fine way to speed up web traffic, struggles to deliver that outcome without considerable customisation.…

State Administration of Market Supervision warns it's going after collusion to cash in on shortages Chinese antitrust watchdog, State Administration of Market Supervision (SAMR), announced Tuesday it has started investigating price gouging in the automotive chip market.…

Says digi-bucks are 'rife with fraud, scams, and abuse' that have created a 'Wild West' of speculation and naughtiness US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler has described cryptocurrency as "rife with fraud, scams, and abuse in certain applications" and called for more government regulation to protect investors in the assets.…

Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product VMware has offered its customers the chance to use its flagship ESXi hypervisor running on SmartNICs.…

Tencent shares dive and company restricts hours of play China's government has again expressed its severe dislike of gaming, and one of the nation's major purveyors of such entertainment has reacted by limiting the time that can be spent on the pastime.…

Unless your doctor or god says you can't have the jab Not for the first time, Microsoft has followed Apple's lead and will not bring staff back to its offices until October at the earliest.…

Lawsuit, employee walkout elicit reform promises from Diablo goliath Activision Blizzard on Tuesday announced new leadership for Blizzard Entertainment group following a recent sex discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by California's Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and an employee walkout demanding better working conditions.…

540 degrees total, not just 45, NASA tells El Reg The International Space Station actually spun one and a half times last week after the just-docked Russian Nauka module unexpectedly fired its thrusters.…

And said entirely with a straight face, too Russia has put forward a draft convention to the United Nations ostensibly to fight cyber-crime.…

Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure Stack Overflow has published its latest developer survey, revealing widespread deployment of Microsoft's development tools as well as Google Cloud Platform and Azure jockeying behind AWS.…

Learn how to manage the risks of cloud native environments with Aqua and AWS Promo There’s no doubt that adopting DevOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines, and extending cloud native technologies like containerization can massively accelerate your application development and deployment.…

Campus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected Semiconductor lead times are running at up to 60 weeks or twice the pre-pandemic norms, according to networking biz Arista.…

'This project is a big deal to me' says protocol's creator WireGuard, a high performance and easily configured VPN protocol, is getting a native port from Linux to the Windows kernel, and the code has been published as experimental work in progress.…

Small steps could lead to bigger strides The Ministry of Defence has paid out the first bug bounties to ethical computer hackers who probed web-accessible systems for vulnerabilities, according to a cheery missive from HackerOne.…

Replacing swivel-chair integration is not a market that independent vendors will get to themselves Salesforce-owned application integration biz Mulesoft has gobbled up Servicetrace, a robotic process automation vendor.…

Look at what hanging around the water cooler did for me, says son-in-law of billionaire Infosys founder Getting back into the office after a pandemic spent home working and on video calls would be "really beneficial" to young people's careers, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer has said.…

Top three no surprise but users offer some sharp comments Gartner has published its latest Magic Quadrant report on public cloud providers, reporting that customers are facing "unexpected pressure from AWS Sales" and that Microsoft still has reliability challenges.…

Head techie for Chocolate Factory's search ad biz departs Mountain View Identity-as-a-service slinger Okta has poached Google veep of engineering Sagnik Nandy to become its president and chief tech officer.…

The kid went on to work for IBM. Awks Wealthy people continue to assign inordinate value to items associated with the rich and/or famous so here's yet another auction of relics touched by our lord and saviour Steve Jobs (peace be upon him).…

When do we get avant-garde ERP? Leeds City Council is huntig down a replacement for its SAP HR and finance system in a bid to leap onto the SaaSy bandwagon.…

We reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera Review As England made it way to the final of the Euro 2020 footie tournament, fans of the beautiful game could hardly have failed to notice adverts for Vivo flashing up during matches. The company's X60 Pro phone is in play but is it any good?…

Big tech gets busy in New Zealand as LoTR TV show wraps filming the same day Google opens Auckland office Amazon Studios, Jeff Bezos' filmed entertainment outfit, said its much-anticipated Lord of the Rings television series will debut on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, September 2, 2022.…

Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool The fire in a large battery using Tesla kit in Australia is out – four days after it started.…

Similar problem hit over the weekend, and Google has also had severe recent wobbles IBM cloud has experienced a significant Severity One outage – the rating Big Blue uses to denote the most serious incidents that make resources in its cloud unavailable to customers.…

Reports record Q1 sales and advances plans for SPAC-ulative IPO Singapore-based mega-app Grab has revealed that it generates 40TB of data a day, meaning each of its 23.8 million users can put their names to around 1.7MB every 24 hours. All that data is clearly valuable: Grab has also announced record profits.…

Handy way to keep tabs on 'activists, politicians, business leaders, and more' Attack protection specialist Cybereason has fingered threat actors working on behalf of "Chinese state interests" as being behind attacks on telcos operating in Southeast Asia – with some having been prowling the penetrated networks for information on high-value targets since 2017.…

We tried 'em on Windows, iOS and Android, and can't say they're very exciting First Look Microsoft has revealed the full range of options and pricing for its Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and The Register is not impressed – on price or performance.…

Hit us up next time you're free, though SpaceX is clear to build a lander with NASA to put the first woman and another man on the Moon – after Uncle Sam dismissed complaints that the $2.94bn contract was awarded unfairly.…

For now, tedious Apple-grade teasing Google today said the latest iteration of its Android smartphones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, are coming this fall.…

Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more In brief Malicious libraries capable of lifting credit card numbers and opening backdoors on infected machines have been found in PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python.…

Cast off your chains with this webcast Webcast Even the smallest organisation knows its data is precious. Unlocking the value of your data is crucial to future growth, while protecting it is central to your very survival.…

Also: Why new OS looks this way, and easier install for Linux subsystem Microsoft has added Windows 11 to the Beta channel of its Insider preview scheme and issued a new build which replaces flashing taskbar icons - indicating attention is required - with what it calls a "red pill."…

Irony, thy name is Yes Consumer Solutions Ltd A firm that sells nuisance call-blocking systems is itself nursing a £170,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog, ironically for cold calling almost 200,000 people registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).…

Colour us surprised PC makers are starting to prioritise production lines in favour of more profitable Windows PCs at the expense of Chromebooks, or so warns IDC.…

Also: 5.14 rc4 is out, with Linus saying 'nothing to see here' Paragon Software, in response to a nudge from Linux Torvalds, said it will submit a pull request for its NTFS driver for Linux.…

Hardcoded passwords, unencrypted connections and unauthenticated firmware updates... patches released Security specialist Armis has discovered vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed PwnedPiper, in pneumatic tube control systems used in thousands of hospitals worldwide – including 80 per cent of the major hospitals found in the US.…

Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog NHS England has missed the latest deadline in the procurement of a £200m replacement ERP system responsible for managing the UK's annual health spending of £110bn and is now more than two years late.…

Gatekeeper capitalism at its most odious Column There is much that people of breeding and taste can and should despise in gaming. Some of it comes from the angry undertow of sullen boyish aggression that pervades the over-muscled, over-weaponised first-person-shooter end of the market, where it is impossible to pick up the controller without hearing your mother tell you to tidy your room. Then there's the regrettable aesthetics of the custom gaming PC sector, a curious amalgam of macho metal vibe and sugar-rush amphetamine-acid LED colour cycling.…

Two little letters is all it takes Who, Me? Welcome to another edition of Who, Me? where this week a typo manages to send a hub of rampant capitalism into meltdown.…

Claims it's the first algorithmic bias bounty competition Twitter's saliency algorithm – otherwise known as its automated image cropping tool – has a problem with gender and race bias. The micro-blogging service is hoping to fix it by offering what it reckons is the industry's first algorithmic bias bounty competition.…

IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls An Australian Court has decided that an artificial intelligence can be recognised as an inventor in a patent submission.…

Slams Biden's Executive Order on improving infosec, calls for multilateral trust framework Huawei has decided to school America on cyber-security, and its lesson is to co-operate with China so its vendors – including Huawei – can be trusted around the world.…

Zoombombing class action offers US$85m in payments, meaning even free accounts get a few bucks US-based Zoom users may have a little cash coming their way after the video meeting outfit lodged a preliminary settlement in a class action related to some of its less-than-brilliant security and data protection practices.…

Microsoft's Windows 365 will do much the same when it launches Amazon Web Services has stolen a march on Microsoft's cloud desktop plans by adding browser access to its WorkSpaces desktop-as-a-service offering.…

Plus: Software-detected gunshot withdrawn as evidence from trial In brief If you’ve always wanted to program your Nvidia GPU to accelerate machine learning, image processing, and other workloads, but find Nv's CUDA too daunting or too much of a faff to learn, you’re in luck.…

Plans to make partial payments for almost anything the new normal Square, the credit card processing company run by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, has announced plans to acquire Australian buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) outfit Afterpay for $29 billion.…

Open letter drafted against what's seen as unjustified profiteering Many of the almost 24,000 technical standards maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO) are subject to copyright restrictions and are not freely available.…

Just 'validate third-party code before using it', says Euro body Half of publicly reported supply chain attacks were carried out by "well known APT groups", according to an analysis by EU infosec agency ENISA, which warned such digital assaults need to drive "new protective methods."…

You miss every shot you don't take, we guess Amazon says a European Union privacy watchdog has mustered the temerity to demand a $885m fine for failing to comply with data privacy rules.…

You call this a glitch? Russia said a "software failure" caused its Nauka module to suddenly and unexpectedly fire its thrusters after docking with the International Space Station this week.…