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by Tim Anderson on (#5REJF)
Plus: Why the distro isn't in the Microsoft Store for WSL The Fedora project has released version 35, complete with GNOME 41 desktop and easy installation of proprietary software like Teams, Zoom, and Spotify.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5REFD)
Social network is going to sit this one out until clear rules are formulated Having last week sidelined the tarnished brand Facebook to conduct business under the name Meta, the social ad biz intends to deactivate its Facial Recognition system in a few weeks.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5RECF)
Software upgrade hits snack production for over a week Potato snack maker Walkers has seen the semiconductor chip shortage and raised it a deep fried crisp* between two oily fingers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5REAT)
Common format and license floated to foster greater exchange of info for ML The non-profit Linux Foundation on Tuesday said it has teamed up with dataset management platform Graviti to develop Project OpenBytes, an initiative to make open data less legally risky through the development of data standards and formats.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RE93)
The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards Ignite Be afraid, be very afraid. The "most Azure-enabled" release yet of Microsoft's flagship database has arrived in preview form at the company's Ignite shindig. Welcome to SQL Server 2022.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5RE3W)
Vid chat app gets 3D virtual meetings while users hope for more reliable connections Ignite Microsoft's virtual Ignite event, aimed at IT admins, kicked off today with a focus on Office and Teams, among other cloudy news. Office is getting a new application called Loop, while Teams users get mixed reality meetings based on Microsoft Mesh.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#5RE3X)
惊叹号 Yahoo! has confirmed it is quitting China due to the "increasingly challenging" business and legal environment just as the country's new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) comes into effect.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RE0B)
We say GMT, you say BST, let's call the whole thing off Sky+ set-top boxes have failed to set themselves back an hour after the UK stumbled from British Summer Time to Greenwich Mean Time at the weekend.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5RDXQ)
Resellers: Cupertino is doing OK compared to PC makers A component shortfall is reportedly forcing Apple to divert supplies of essential innards to the iPhone 13 at the expense of the iPad – though European suppliers are not yet seeing elongated lead times for buyers in all but the basic models.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RDXR)
Indian service provider tasked with getting authority from SAP R/3 to Oracle Fusion Infosys has won a long-awaited contract worth around £22m to swap out SAP R/3 systems with Oracle Fusion for East Sussex County Council (ESCC), a local authority on the south coast of England.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RDTD)
Science suspended as engineers study synchronisation issue Attempts to restore NASA's stricken Hubble Space Telescope by turning it off and on again appear to have failed.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5RDRF)
Xi Jinping announces to G20 he wants in on 3-nation agreement China's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday the country has officially applied for entry into the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA).…
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by Dave Cartwright on (#5RDM7)
Even if we kept the business moving during the pandemic, it's all forgotten by the next service ticket 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.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5RDJB)
Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server Canonical is offering joint support with Microsoft for SQL Server on Ubuntu running on Azure, all while Amazon is nudging users towards PostgreSQL with general availability of the Babelfish compatibility extension, now open source.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RDGF)
Deloitte already has the deal to guide organisational structure and strategy The UK's Foreign Office has entered the market for IT hardware, software, and specialist services with up to £40m on the table.…
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Homegrown processor looks like RISC-V-MIPS fan fiction Comment China is slowly achieving its long-term goal of semiconductor self-sufficiency – homegrown chips for its computing devices, in other words.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5RDE1)
Meanwhile, SpaceX already has 1,000+ orbiting Starlink birds Amazon hopes to launch two prototype satellites into low Earth orbit by the end of 2022 as part of Project Kuiper – its $10bn effort to provide a commercial satellite broadband service that will compete with SpaceX’s Starlink constellation.…
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by Team Register on (#5RDE2)
Think explainability and accuracy are mutually exclusive? Think again! Special series You have collected all the data, trained the best possible model, and built the most brilliant application, yet your potential users' distrust of AI means uptake is falling short of expectations.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5RDD2)
It's not COVID-19 and it's not an emergency, insists NASA Four astronauts will not begin their journey to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday as planned after NASA revealed an unspecified medical problem with the crew.…
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VMware's divorce from Dell is complete: Virtualization giant now a separate biz with $64bn valuation
Wants to be the 'Switzerland' of cloud VMware completed its divorce from Dell on Monday – and immediately signaled its intent to go out find more partners and acquire companies.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5RD6M)
You've got just over a couple of months to get your compensation requests filed The FCC is now accepting reimbursement requests from companies in the US that are ripping out and replacing their now-unwelcome Chinese Huawei and ZTE networking equipment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5RD56)
Reports of bricked computers suggest it may be worth waiting for better-behaving code Apple's latest desktop operating system, macOS Monterey, has downgraded some users' machines to the equivalent of a brick, according to multiple complaints posted to social media.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RD2K)
What's that, the world's tiniest violin playing? In a move bound to incite a collective "diddums" from industry watchers, Apple's decision to change the privacy settings on iPhones has left an estimated $9.85bn crater in the revenues of Facebook, Snap, Twitter, and YouTube.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5RCZ8)
Bidirectional character attack – simple and nightmarish Updated The way Unicode's UTF-8 text encoding handles different languages could be misused to write malicious code that says one thing to humans and another to compilers, academics are warning.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5RCXG)
US Government Audit Office upholds Redmond's protest The US Government Accountability Office has agreed Microsoft was right to contest the award of the National Security Agency's $10bn cloud computing contact, saying it found parts of NSA's evaluation to be "unreasonable".…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5RCTJ)
Now exec talk turns to defence against corporate takeovers and where next for efficiency gains BT is said to be mulling whether to widen the multibillion-pound cost savings initiative that began in 2018 after meeting financial goals well ahead of the deadline.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5RCRG)
Also SMB3 server in the kernel, and new DAMON memory monitor Linus Torvalds released version 5.15 of the Linux kernel yesterday with a new NTFS driver, an SMB3 server and an advanced memory monitor among the features. 5.15 is likely to be an LTS release unless 5.16 squeezes in before year end.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5RCRH)
When we say 'way easier,' you better have a steady hand and nerves of steel The fearless iFixit website has taken its tools to the M1-powered 2021 MacBook Pro and come away with a repairability score that will be of no surprise to followers of Apple's pricey hardware.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#5RCPW)
Plus Microsoft funding community security to fill US skills gap In Brief A new and dangerous form of malware for rooting Android phones has been spotted in 19 apps on Google's Play store, as well as in several in the Amazon Appstore, the Samsung Galaxy Store, and other third-party sites.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RCNF)
From Tatooine to Earth Star Wars-style moisture farming could provide safe drinking water for approximately 1 billion people here on Earth, according to research from a Google-owned research lab.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5RCKX)
Two months late is better than never in a supply chain challenged-world, and means it is out in time for Diwali After an approximate two-month delay but in time for India's biggest holiday, Diwali*, Google and giant Indian telco Jio are finally making good on their promise to offer an India-exclusive budget 4G Android.…
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This (still) applies to British businesses too... for now Lightning does not strike twice – except, it would seem, in the land of data privacy. Having struck down Safe Harbor – the agreement governing EU-US data transfers – in 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) went on to condemn its replacement, the beleaguered EU-US Privacy Shield, to a similar fate just over a year ago.…
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by Dominic Connor on (#5RCKZ)
Yes, the tech dept was elevated in these trying times – we just need to keep reminding everyone why 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.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5RCJG)
Creates category to control what we call a superapp for antitrust behavior and more China's antitrust watchdog, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has issued new draft rules for internet platforms the organization considers "super-large" – including vague directives forbidding anticompetitive behavior and more.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5RCH0)
I've read this stuff, says one dev. 'Either Google is screwed, or society is screwed' Opinion Ten days ago, a New York judge revealed the full prosecution filings in a multi-state antitrust lawsuit against Google – one of many against the company, and of many more against the ad tech giants.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5RCFX)
Look on my works and despair. After you've emptied the trash Who, Me? Sometimes, IT professionals can appear as gods to users. Sometimes their mere presence can cause problems to miraculously disappear. In today's Java-based tale, a reader recalls the all-too-brief moment when he became a database deity. Welcome to Who, Me?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5RCEK)
Still loves Ceph. Now also loved by government buyers, which are funding its factories so they can access more secure servers UK server-maker SoftIron has stumbled into a fast-growing niche for servers that include verifiably secure firmware and components with known provenance.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5RAYQ)
Plus: Microsoft acquires an AI content moderation startup to prevent hate speech on the Xbox and more In brief Twitter’s algorithms are more likely to amplify right-wing politicians than left-wing ones because their tweets generate more outrage, according to a trio of researchers from New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics.…
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by Richard Currie on (#5RAXG)
Goddamn it, Jeff Bezos' lot can make a passable MMORPG after all The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our (sometimes) monthly gaming column. At long last, New World is out and we've been diligently grinding our faces off to answer the question: Can Jeff "mountains of cash" Bezos make a decent MMO?…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5RAKX)
NYU boffins find the crowd is not all that wise when it comes to spotting misinformation Social media companies have proposed enlisting their respective audiences to catch the misinformation they distribute, or are already doing so.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5RAGW)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a warning of a geomagnetic storm An aurora may light up the dark skies over the US Northeast, upper Midwest, and could even stretch as far as the state of Washington, potentially giving skywatchers a rare treat this Halloween weekend.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5RAC8)
iBiz sunk by scarce chips and Microsoft's Azure cloud cash faucet Microsoft on Friday surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company in the world after the iPhone maker reported underwhelming earnings on Thursday.…
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The data must flow Intel is diversifying its GPUs to work with architectures other than x86 chips, which could be a step toward making the chip maker a manufacturing-first company.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5RA79)
Flaw could have let miscreants slide rootkits onto your iDesktop A vulnerability in MacOS that could let a malicious person install rootkits on Apple Macs has been patched, following its discovery and disclosure by Microsoft.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RA7A)
Double-decker database raises $188m from hungry VCs Distributed relational database vendor Yugabyte has raised $188m in a Series C funding round which values the firm at around $1.3bn.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5RA54)
Now it's Quest for Business. Don't all rush at once Facebook – sorry, "Meta" – has used the week of its much-derided rebranding exercise to quietly retire Oculus for Business.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5RA1S)
Viscount still helms new firm – while since-deleted posts on firm's Facebook page enrage users A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5R9YK)
Then backtracks and tells El Reg: 'It's not a formal opinion' Britain's new Information Commissioner has called for video conferencing companies to enable end-to-end encryption on their products – even as police managers and politicians condemn the technology and demand its removal.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5R9VT)
Boffins release treasure trove of findings from NASA probe, including weird cyclones around the poles Revelations that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is much deeper than believed and details on the planet's famous banded structures below its cloud layer were among the atmospheric insights collected by NASA's Juno probe and published in science journals today.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5R9RQ)
CFO warns of $4bn in extra costs in the Christmas quarter Amazon says inflationary pressures caused by labour shortages and the pandemic-struck supply chain will add $4bn in overheads to its business in the Christmas quarter.…
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