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Constrained supply of parts like USB-C among reasons for price hikes Inflation is hitting the PC market, with prices jumping amid chip shortages and market uncertainty.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#5R9MP)
No, things were NOT better in the past, so leave them there Something for the Weekend, Sir? Video games make you healthy. Of course they do. Why would you think otherwise?…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5R9JK)
Project Astoria – which evolved into Windows Subsystem for Linux – returns with its original intent Hands on Microsoft has previewed the Subsystem for Android on Windows 11, and The Register took it for a spin.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R9GX)
The SSID 'AllYouCanEatBuffetOfPr0n' might not help either On Call Remember those halcyon days when grabbing some free Wi-Fi meant wandering down the street in search of an access point rather than making up a variant on bobuser@nospam.com for yet another interminable registration screen? Welcome to On Call.…
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No need to panic, Cupertino still pulling in a $1bn a day in revenue Apple's lost $6bn in revenue during its last financial quarter of 2021 due to chip shortages and supply constraints, and the impact will be even more severe in the coming months.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R9CQ)
Indictment reveals org behind banking trojan even had nifty jobs titles like 'Malware Manager' The US Department of Justice claims it's arrested a member of a gang that deployed the Trickbot ransomware.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5R9B8)
It's better to work for the Man than the Machine Applying AI and automation to jobs can have both positive and negative impacts on workers, according to a new study.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R99R)
Government offered to investigate itself – Court politely declined that kind suggestion India's Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of commissioning a Technical Committee to investigate whether the national government used the NSO Group's "Pegasus" spyware on its citizens.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R97W)
Use it, contribute to it, respect its licences – and plan for security emergencies it creates China has told its finance sector to embrace free and open source software (FOSS).…
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His social network has Meta-stasized Comment Facebook the company is being renamed to Meta, and the social network will be a brand within that entity, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5R968)
Game console fixes are limited – and there's no allowance for exploit tools In its latest interpretation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the US Copyright Office has relaxed the legal restrictions that deter security researchers and enthusiasts from analyzing and tinkering with protected content on digital devices.…
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Even though 5G Advanced isn't even here yet With 5G adoption on the upswing, Samsung provided a detailed glimpse as to what a 6G world would look like.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5R94Q)
Bobby Kotick vows zero tolerance on discrimination, will waive forced arbitration, and more Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is cutting his salary to $62,500 and promised to turn down bonuses and equity packages as the gaming giant continues to be investigated for sexual harassment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5R8YG)
Third time's the unlucky charm for loan outfit Decentralized finance biz Cream Finance became further decentralized on Wednesday with the theft of $130m worth of crypto assets from its Ethereum lending protocol.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5R8W8)
Single-use tokens and reusable workflows explained at Universe event GitHub Universe GitHub Actions have new security based on OpenID, along with the ability to create reusable workflows, while usage has nearly doubled year on year, according to presentations at the Universe event.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5R8RT)
Die Zeit: He's got a Beemer, a Bitcoin watch and a swimming pool German news outlets claim to have identified a member of the infamous REvil ransomware gang – who reportedly lives the life of Riley off his ill-gotten gains.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R8MA)
Next version of Windows 10 looms around the corner Microsoft's Windows 11 OS has notched up a respectable near 5 per cent of PCs surveyed by AdDuplex, as another Dev Channel build was unleashed with new features for the favoured few.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5R8HC)
Bzz. Bzz. This digital bingo BS game won't stop buzzing, can someone mute Bill McDermott? ServiceNow chief Bill McDermott has won this week's game of buzzword bingo for his address to financial analysts during last night's Q3 earnings conference call.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5R8ET)
Didn't make clear he was their dad... Why? In case CIA harmed them, suggests his barrister Julian Assange's psychiatrist misled a judge when he delivered a report stating the WikiLeaks founder would be suicidal if extradited to the US for trial, lawyers for the US government have said.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R8CD)
Microsoft is involved. What could possibly go wrong? It's been a busy week for the Eclipse Foundation, as the group unveiled a new operating system for distributed devices and cracked open the invitation list for an open-source software-defined vehicle project.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5R89G)
All thanks to Touchpad funding and a new maintainer – but X vs Wayland still a dilemma for community Version 21.1.0 of the X.Org Server has been fully rolled out, with just one fix since the release candidate, but it is still notable as the first major version for three and a half years for a project that was thought to be near-abandoned.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5R87J)
Between US sanctions on baddies and NRA claiming bankruptcy, what are the chances anyone’s getting paid? Grief ransomware gang took to a dark portal website where it typically publishes the data of victims that haven't paid up, to identify its latest target: the National Rifle Association (NRA).…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R863)
Hopefully not another half century before the next... although launchpads are pricey Today marks the 50th anniversary of the UK joining an elite club of one: nations that gained the ability to launch satellites into orbit and then discarded the skill. The one – and only – successful orbital launch of the Black Arrow took place in 1971.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R842)
Yuan 1.0 said to pass Turing test, and require many fewer GPUs than the GPT-3 Microsoft licensed from OpenAI Inspur has turned its hand to AI, and claims it has produced a text-and-code-generating machine-learning model superior to GPT-3 produced by OpenAI. And did so using significantly fewer GPUs.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5R82C)
Pandemic work patterns work in component-maker's favour, but COVID isn't all upside Samsung Electronics sees ongoing high demand for data centre products, but the firm is also worried that supply chain constraints could see sales slip, execs revealed in an earnings call on Thursday.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R80W)
Accursed semiconductor shortages to blame but it's only 15 bucks A new Raspberry Pi Zero launches today that comes loaded with speedier silicon, however, the price is roughly a third higher than its predecessor and shipments are limited.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5R80X)
Everyone else really is out to get you Those hoping for some respite from the world's ongoing woes are out of luck, apparently.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5R7ZK)
Officials have until March 2022 to approve the deal or not The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Nvidia’s $54bn bid to takeover Arm – and will decide whether to approve the merger deal or not by early 2022.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R7YK)
Third parties get some data, use it to send mails as if they were your reseller, and – phew! – you don't get calls from sales people The next time your vendor or reseller sends a mail reminding you it's time to renew your software licence, subscription, or support contract, the mail could come from a third party you've never met and never will – but which has been trusted with enough info about you to make the sale.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R7V0)
Sharding system coded in 40,000+ lines of Rust is changing the way cloud colossus ensures data durability Amazon Web Services has released a paper detailing the operations of its Simple Storage Service (S3), and in doing so revealed that the software powering the service is "being gradually deployed within our current service".…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5R7TB)
Alas, we will have to wait 70 years to confirm the sighting Astronomers have for the first time discovered what looks like a planet outside the Milky Way, judging by a study published this week in Nature.…
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From developers and Mount Evans ASICs to zettascale-by-2027 promises, the key things chip boss covered in speech this week Analysis Intel won't give up on Moore's Law, even though just about everyone has declared it dead or on its way out.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5R7RK)
We dubbed it the Antisocial Network – and it appears we were right Facebook on Wednesday was sued for allegedly violating federal securities laws in the first of what's likely to be many such claims arising from internal documents revealed by former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R7Q0)
Would you like AI with that? Big Blue has taken a bite out of McDonald's, acquiring the burger chain's automated order taking (AOT) tech – and the "McD Tech Labs" that built it, for an undisclosed consideration that may or may not include an upsold serve of fries.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5R7JX)
Subverted libraries likely intended as a prank but should be taken seriously, say security researchers Yet another NPM library has turned up infected with malware. Security firm Sonatype on Wednesday said it had spotted two related malicious NPM libraries that were named so they might be mistaken for a popular legitimate module that serves as a Roblox API wrapper.…
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CEO plans to hop into bed with the Beast of Redmond MediaTek intends to work with Microsoft on putting Windows 11 on devices powered by its Arm-based processors, the chip house's CEO said during an earnings call this week.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#5R78R)
Vercel boss Guillermo Rauch speaks to The Reg about Rust, WebAssembly, Node TypeScript, and more Interview Next.js 12 is out with a range of new features including built-in middleware and support for ECMAScript (ES) modules.…
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Venerable semi biz having to move faster to stop others eating its lunch Intel has had to significantly change its approach to chip design with Apple, Arm and AMD slowly undoing its decades-long dominance.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5R730)
Universe event reveals iterative improvements but no big bang Microsoft's GitHub social code motel begins its two-day Universe happening on Wednesday, bringing with it assorted enhancements to its developer-oriented products and services.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5R701)
Advertising engine still revving amid pandemic Google Cloud – a relative blip on parent Alphabet's balance sheet – booked in a 45 per cent year-on-year bounce in turnover for calendar Q3 but still missed the consensus estimate by Wall Street analysts.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5R6WZ)
'If he was an adult he would be going inside' – judge A "sophisticated" teenager has had £2.1m ($2.88m) in cryptocurrency confiscated after he set up a phishing site and advertised it on Google, duping consumers into handing over gift voucher redemption codes.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R6TD)
Water's wet, sky's blue, and Redmond's revenues grew in Q1 2022 Even a "stronger than expected" PC market with unprecedented demand from homebound workers couldn't lift Surface revenues in Microsoft's first quarter for fiscal 2022 - in an otherwise stellar quarter for the firm.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5R6R9)
Running Linux on a vintage box is one answer, but someone has to hold big tech's feet to fire Bringing an end to the relentless nature of annual product release cycles is something that should be top of the agenda for the soon-to-run 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5R6P1)
Horizons Europe carrot dangled amid protocol wrangling A report from the UK House of Commons' European Scrutiny Committee has blamed delays in Brussels for choking off revenue streams to British institutions and businesses.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5R6ME)
PAX Technology devices allegedly infected with malware US feds were spotted raiding a warehouse belonging to Chinese payment terminal manufacturer PAX Technology in Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday, with speculation abounding that the machines contained preinstalled malware.…
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by Larry Peterson on (#5R6JJ)
In which a little unfairness can be quite beneficial Systems Approach It’s hard not to be amazed by the amount of active research on congestion control over the past 30-plus years. From theory to practice, and with more than its fair share of flame wars, the question of how to manage congestion in the network is a technical challenge that resists an optimal solution while offering countless options for incremental improvement.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R6H7)
Working on Azure integration – but not there yet Cisco has deprecated support for some third-party management integrations for its UCS servers, and emerged unable to play nice with Microsoft's most recent offerings.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#5R6FH)
Doesn't stop local courts' surveillance orders, though Encrypted email provider Protonmail has hailed a recent Swiss legal ruling as a "victory for privacy," after winning a lawsuit that sees it exempted from data retention laws in the mountainous realm.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5R6FJ)
Local players passed over for Digital Agency’s first project Japan's Digital Agency has picked Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud for its first big reform push.…
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by Team Register on (#5R6E8)
Fancies a real-time crowdsourced content rating scheme too A Minister in the Singapore government has suggested the creation of an internet kill switch that would prevent minors from reading questionable material online – perhaps using ratings of content created in real time by crowdsourced contributors.…
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