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by Tim Anderson on (#5S1BK)
Stop the rock, can't stop the rock, we can't stop the rock Canonical may be working on introducing systemd to Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), according to a post by Ubuntu Desktop Team Technical Leader Didier Roche.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5S155)
'He went from crazy doodler to craftsman instantly' Obituary Celebrated video game artist Bernie Drummond has died. His designs were among some of the most loved on the ZX Spectrum, and some of his signature titles are among the computer's top-rated games of all time: Batman in 1986, and Head Over Heels and Match Day II in 1987.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5S12N)
How will you be able to buy things you can't afford now? Amazon has confirmed it will no longer accept payment via Visa credit cards issued in the United Kingdom after several Reg readers wrote in complaining of a cryptic message they'd been sent this morning.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5S10N)
Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price Amazon Web Services has added support for streaming Linux applications and desktops to its AppStream service, which was previously Windows-only, claiming that it will "greatly lower the total streaming cost."…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5S10P)
Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees Unit4, the ERP vendor born out of public-sector specialist Agresso, has launched a cloud service that promises out-of-the-box integration with popular application software and third-party data sources.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5S0Y6)
Lansweeper stats make grim reading for Microsoft Microsoft's Windows 11 adventure is going swimmingly. IT asset management outfit Lansweeper has published the results of a 10 million PC survey that gives the new operating system a 0.21 per cent market share.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5S0VW)
Board still recommending Vista Equity Partners SS&C Technologies Holding has bid £1.2bn to buy Blue Prism, the robot process automation specialist that agreed less than two months ago to be taken private by Vista Equity Partners in a sale valued at £1.1bn.…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#5S0VX)
Share your experiences with us and fellow readers. Let's find out together Reg Reader Survey Technology in the 2020s is very forgiving, particularly if our processing happens in the cloud. By this, we mean that if things start to perform suboptimally, the issue is usually quite easy to resolve.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5S0T4)
National Security and Investment Act 2021 give ministers power to halt M&As The UK government has published guidance describing what technologies may be caught within the National Security and Investment Act 2021, which is set to give ministers the power to halt mergers and acquisitions.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5S0QY)
Annual review boasts of fending off health org attacks Britain's National Cyber Security Centre is prepared to share its cyber defence tech and threat intel feeds with British organisations in need of extra help, it said at the launch of its annual review today.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5S0M1)
Load new commander (Y/N)? Just a fortnight under 40 years ago, the BBC Micro was released. Although it was never primarily a games machine – it was too expensive, for a start – nonetheless one of its defining programs was a video game: Elite.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5S0M2)
Top of Ofcom's table for broadband whinges? It rhymes with BorkBork TalkTalk has once again topped UK communications regulator Ofcom's complaint charts.…
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And ready to go toe-to-toe with Qualcomm's finest next year MediaTek is ready to show off its first real flagship processor that it hopes can take on Qualcomm's Snapdragon family in high-end Android smartphones.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5S0H0)
Oh look, it's the promise of multiple actuators again At last week's Open Compute Project global summit, Seagate demonstrated a mechanical hard disk drive with an NVMe interface – an interface normally reserved for SSDs. The clue is right there in the name: NVM, Non-Volatile Memory. So the first question is... why?…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#5S0H1)
Fellow reformer also chosen in critical board vote that shows at least some members still want change Nominet members have voted for further reform of the troubled dot-UK registry by electing to the board the man who effectively ousted its CEO and chairman.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5S0ED)
Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia Cloudy contender OVH will share the automation tools it developed to run its own OpenStack-based cloud, as part of a plan to grow its managed cloud business.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5S0D2)
You had one job … South Korea's privacy watchdog leaked personal information relating to participants in a case that sought to probe Facebook's leak of personal information.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5S0D3)
Analyst warns that if upgrades frustrate, users might just give phone conferences a comeback If the new normal for workplaces fails to facilitate proper human collaboration, employees may fall back to old and outdated tech, according to chief analyst Matthew Ball at the Canalys Forums APAC 2021 on Tuesday.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5S0C9)
Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred China's decision to limit minors to three hours of gaming each week has proven problematic for the nation's clouds, which find themselves with unused capacity.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5S0AS)
Britain's former deputy prime minister among execs sued on behalf of pension fund, other investors Facebook was sued by Ohio’s Attorney General Dave Yost on Tuesday for allegedly deceiving shareholders about the potential harm its social media platform inflicted on young users.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5S0AT)
Intros x64 emulation for Windows on Arm – but only on Windows 11 Microsoft has officially released the Windows 10 November 2021 Update, and revealed that the OS will henceforth only be upgraded once a year. Redmond has also made life hard for those who like to emulate x64 apps on Windows 10 for Arm. What a day.…
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Is your Apple Mac running macOS Monterey leaking memory? It may be due to mouse cursor customization
by Thomas Claburn on (#5S099)
Sleuthing leads to suspected RAM-gobbling culprit Apple's macOS Monterey, the iGiant's latest desktop operating system release, turns out to have an insatiable appetite for memory if you use certain apps.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5S07Y)
Settlement is little more than a minor cost-of-business expense Amazon will cough up $500,000 to settle a case brought by California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta for concealing from health agencies and its own staff the number of COVID-19 cases among its workers.…
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Funny how these things turn out Qualcomm saw what Apple's M1 chip could do for performance and battery life, and claims its next Arm-compatible microprocessors will do exactly that for Windows PCs.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5S06C)
Ongoing typosquatting attacks target kids as Discord drags its feet Since early September, Josh Muir and five other maintainers of the noblox.js package, have been trying to prevent cybercriminals from distributing ransomware through similarly named code libraries.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5S03P)
Nice to have nearly a year off from that malspam threat, but now it's returned The Emotet malware delivery botnet is back, almost a year after law enforcement agencies bragged about shutting it down and arresting the operators.…
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by Team Register on (#5S03Q)
If your favorite site was acting up, this might be why Updated Google Cloud suffered a brief outage, seemingly bringing down or disrupting a whole bunch of websites relying on its systems.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5S01R)
CentOS 8.5 also available ... but with only 6 weeks before end of life AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux, both of which provide community builds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), have released builds matching RHEL 8.5, with Rocky's work catching up with Alma by being signed for secure boot.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5S01S)
Caution: Story contains questionable Lego recreation Northrop Grumman has assembled a team to come up with a design for a new Lunar Rover.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5RZYY)
Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package' GitHub said it has fixed a longstanding issue with the NPM (Node Package Manager) JavaScript registry that would allow an attacker to update any package without proper authorisation.…
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I know, REIT? Two massive data centre real estate investment trusts taken over in $10bn, $15bn deals
by Jude Karabus on (#5RZW1)
Coincidentally, the same day President Biden signed the infrastructure bill Two massive real estate investment trusts (REITs) that both focus on data centre buildouts, management and financing will both be taken over in $10bn+ acquisitions.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RZRJ)
You want more than five email aliases? Sure, but it'll cost you Mozilla hopes to ramp up the monetisation machine with a paid premium version of its Firefox Relay service, upping the current limit of five email aliases to a near-unlimited number.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5RZN7)
Now's a good time to read up on Cyber Essentials Plus A government crackdown on British MSPs' security practices is drawing ever closer after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) floated plans to make Cyber Assessment Framework compliance mandatory.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5RZN8)
Digi Secretary Nadine Dorries: CMA to 'report to me' on the next steps UK government has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to do an even deeper dive into Nvidia's $40bn takeover of Arm after initial findings unearthed negative implications for chip design choice.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5RZJ6)
Cloudy analytics contender is also having a look at Amazon's Graviton silicon Cloudy data-cruncher Snowflake has added Python support to its "Snowpark" developer toolkit.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5RZFW)
Woman tells New Zealand police she was held hostage by small marsupial Though it pales in comparison to the bloodlust seen in last year's tale of "mortal wombat" – where the marsupial allegedly went berserk on a family in the Australian outback – a possum holding a woman "hostage" in New Zealand is just as absurd.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RZDW)
Another nice Nest you've got me into, Google Users of Google's Nest Hub are reporting problems with the smart screen, with some comparing its functionality to that of a brick.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5RZDX)
Some punters not happy with former Capita-owned biz, now under control of Montagu Private Equity Education Software Solutions – a one-time Capita-owned school software provider now under the control of Montagu Private Equity – is being marked down by customers for moving to minimum three-year licensing contracts.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RZBX)
Going back to the future with smaller data centres and a Patchwork Kilt British-based open source advocacy company OpenUK rounded off the COP26 summit by donating a Net Zero Data Centre Blueprint to the Eclipse Foundation.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RZA5)
Teradata also sees wings clipped in ongoing battle with German ERP giant A SAP patent was not "inventive enough" to be legally binding, according to a US judge in an intellectual property case which also saw Teradata's claim in the dispute reduced.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RZ8B)
And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary Sheffield University's failed Student Lifecycle Project went through three leaders, several changes in scope and was ultimately superseded by government policy change before the bulk of the £30m project was abandoned in what is shaping up to be a classic IT disaster.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5RZ6V)
Testing times for Chipzilla as it emits patches to protect PCs, equipment Certain Intel processors can be slipped into a test mode, granting access to low-level keys that can be used to, say, unlock encrypted data stored in a stolen laptop or some other device.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5RZ5H)
Doug Merritt thanked for service, but no explanation offered for change Analytics firm Splunk’s CEO Doug Merritt has stepped down, effective immediately, without warning.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5RZ40)
Company claims it poses no threat, yet regs want China influence out The US subsidiary of China Telecom has filed an emergency appeal it hopes will prevent the impending revocation of the company's license to operate in the USA, which the The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) terminated in October on grounds the carrier is a national security threat.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5RZ2E)
Texas and pals are back with more details of Chocolate Factory's alleged efforts to unfairly rig the online advertising world More than a dozen US states have filed yet another amended complaint against Google to include what they say is more evidence of the web giant abusing its dominant position in online advertising.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5RZ1A)
Average cloudy data stash hits 15TB and and median value tripled to over 3TB Data management software vendor Veeam has offered a snapshot (pardon the pun) of how its customers put different public clouds to work.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5RZ0G)
Moscow slammed for 'reckless, dangerous, irresponsible' weapon test In a test of its missile technology, Russia destroyed an old space satellite on Monday, littering Earth's orbit with fragments and forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to temporarily take shelter.…
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System Two takes modular, data-center-inspired approach. Plus: 127-qubit Eagle Big Blue hopes will fly Huge, monolithic quantum computers aren't in IBM's vision of the technology. Rather, the IT giant sees parallel, distributed systems made up of different kinds of quantum computing units working in unison.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5RYYJ)
Middle Kingdom floats fresh data security rules, too, with eight-hour privacy breach notification requirement China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection has expelled a communist party member for allowing cryptocurrency mining to happen, corruption, and other infractions.…
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That's year on year from a base close to zero ... but still, that makes it the fifth biggest in the Middle Kingdom right out of the blue A Chinese smartphone chip designer has come out of nowhere to take on capitalist rivals, though questions remain over whether the outfit can continue its meteoric rise amid financial troubles at its parent company.…
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