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Give it a year or two, but it will happen, says CEO, as COVID-crushed industries start spending again Nutanix has told investors it has a “clear path to profitability” and predicted it could post black ink in just two years.…

Local carrier Airtel will adopt it — next comes world domination Indian mega-conglomerate the Tata Group has revealed it’s created a 5G networking kit business.…

Developer hits back at researchers’ ‘hypothetical approach’ An algorithm used by hundreds of US hospitals to predict whether or not patients with infections have contracted sepsis is less accurate than its maker claims, according to a published study.…

New approach coming next year ... when complaints have died down Google has scrapped a scheme designed to train and hire engineers from diverse backgrounds – after people who made it through the program to become Googlers complained they were screwed over in pay.…

It's a crook-eat-crook world out there It appears someone is pirating the infamous REvil ransomware by tweaking its files for their own purposes.…

Anonymous US intelligence sources: Yes, we did it Updated Nearly three dozen Iranian media websites have been taken down apparently by the US government.…

US markets watchdog sniffs around potential insider trading, data violations relating to hack US markets watchdog the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has begun a probe into last year's SolarWinds cyberattack, in a bid to find out who else might have been compromised.…

Unlock its potential at The Nutanix Database Summit Promo How much value could you unlock from your database? The fact is too many databases are still tied into complex legacy systems. Not only are these difficult to manage, but they prevent many organisations embarking on a full cloud transformation, with all the benefits that brings in terms of efficiency, agility and scalability.…

Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs Navin Shenoy, who leads Intel's data center chip business, will leave the semiconductor titan on July 6 amid a significant corporate restructuring, it was announced today.…

Study finds a whole sea of outdated third-party libraries There's a minefield of security problems bubbling under the surface of modern software, Veracode has claimed in its latest report, thanks to developers pulling third-party open-source libraries into their code bases – then never bothering to update them again.…

I node what you'll do in summer 2023 The surge in semiconductor investment continues to accelerate, with New York-based GlobalFoundries breaking ground on a new $4bn Singapore facility that will produce chips for legacy nodes.…

Even just to remind the world there's life beyond Google and DuckDuckGo Having rebelled against Google's web hegemony with a privacy-focused browser and a crypto token-based monetization system, Brave Software opened a second competitive front on Tuesday with the beta launch of Brave Search.…

Summer Solstice: A time for dancing, druids, and certificate errors Microsoft's inattentive approach to Linux has continued unabated, with reports that the signing key for its Debian Skype repository has expired.…

French regulator can probably help having already fined megacorp €220m The European Commission (EC) reckons it's zeroing in on long-running concerns that Google may have an unfair advantage when it comes to online advertising.…

Astronomers and amateur star gazers will be delighted The dream of ubiquitous satellite broadband is nearing reality, according to Starlink president Gwynne Shotwell.…

Who are they expecting to fight? Thor? Godzilla? Sea snails? Following the recent decision by the United States Air Force to assassinate four snails and 90 giant clams in the name of missile research, the US Navy obviously felt that it, too, should be doing something faintly bizarre with its shiny, expensive equipment.…

Government Accountability Office warns of build-your-own-booster delays Things aren't looking too good for a certain American-produced rocket engine, according to the US Government Accountability Office - and it isn't SpaceX's Merlin.…

Making computer components is a dirty business Intel has sponsored a report by nonprofit Resilience First highlighting the role of tech in efforts to reach net-zero carbon emission goals – though Chipzilla's own environmental impact can't be downplayed.…

Multi-hour outage and customers left in the dark Updated UK cloud hosting outfit Memset has blamed yesterday's lengthy outage on some iffy fibre infrastructure.…

For those times when you run software on a box bigger than your license HPE Discover HPE has given its GreenLake cloud the power to control the numbers of cores that are active on servers and pay for usage depending on the number of cores a customer presses into service.…

That's. Just. Great Mobile phone coverage is to be extended across the whole of the London Underground – including every station and every tunnel - by 2024, it was confirmed today.…

As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists Following UK government's U-turn on the deadline for grabbing GP patient data, under-fire Health Secretary Matt Hancock is launching a policy paper to convince the public of the benefits of sharing their medical data.…

Horse Creek platform to 'showcase' new 64-bit P550 processor engine SiFive says it has designed its most powerful RISC-V CPU core yet, and Intel is going to put it under the noses of customers to gauge their interest.…

The 'S' in 'IoT' stands for 'security' Vulnerabilities in the Zephyr real-time operating system's Bluetooth stack have been identified, leaving a wide variety of Internet of Things devices open to attack – unless upgraded to a patched version of the OS.…

Never bet against a technology that has matured over decades 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.…

Maybe turn your phone off if you don't fancy a 'loud, siren-like noise' Mobile networks across the UK are once again set to panic their users this afternoon as part of a test of the government's Emergency Alerts system – causing selected mobiles to "make a loud, siren-like sound."…

TIGRR threatens to bounce through unacceptable changes to the rules The European Union has formally voted for proposals to give the UK "adequate" status in its data protection laws, allowing data sharing to continue in the post-Brexit world.…

Yet spy agency overseer IPCO seems to be working as the public hoped Exclusive MI5's storage of personal data on espionage subjects is still facing "legal compliance risk" issues despite years of warnings from spy agency regulator IPCO, a Home Office report has revealed.…

Not ideal for when you rejoin colleagues in the office Review Tech journalists don't exactly file copy from the front lines, testing software while dodging AK-47 fire. The major risk to our health - like millions of office workers - comes from dozens of Mars Bars or other snacks eaten while tapping away on the keyboard at home.…

Don’t take no for an answer, but be prepared to give it. Feature Monitoring seems easy in principle. There is nothing particularly complex about the software or the protocols it uses to interrogate systems and deliver alerts, nor is deciding what to monitor or the act of setting up your chosen product.…

No word on whether top brass considered just shelling them into submission The United States Air Force (USAF) has issued a strangely specific threat to certain mollusc species living in the area of an upcoming weapons test.…

Picking street signs from a matrix of images is out, cleverer challenges are OK Poll Analyst firm Gartner has advised in favour of the use of CAPTCHAs — but recommends using the least-annoying CAPTCHAs you can find.…

Join this webinar and take control of your multi-cloud future Promo Making the leap onto the cloud is no simple task, but once you’re there, you can pause for breath. Can’t you?…

Code behind LoTR, Planet of the Apes and other flicks wrapped around Autodesk Maya Famed special effects house Weta Digital will offer the tools it uses to make movies as a cloud service.…

Korean giant sees bots as helping it become ‘Smart Mobility Solutions Provider’ Hyundai has acquired a controlling interest in US robotics company Boston Dynamics from Softbank for US$880M.…

Crackdown on global giants comes as UN criticises content takedown rules India’s government has revealed new rules it is proposing to curtail the market power of big e-commerce players.…

All depends on whether your workload is making a lot of system calls or not The mitigations applied to exorcise Spectre, the family of data-leaking processor vulnerabilities, from computers hinders performance enough that disabling protection for the sake of speed may be preferable for some.…

Let's just check BTC-USD, oh yeah, waaay down Prices for graphics processors in China have plummeted following the nation's crackdown on cryptocurrency mining, ownership, and trading.…

File was supposed to be private. It was not. And it was out in the open for months The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the internet registry for the region, has admitted it left at least a portion of its Whois SQL database, which contains sensitive information, facing the public internet for three months.…

Hope no one's created guest networks called '%Free %Coffee at %Starbucks' Joining a Wi-Fi network with a specific sequence of characters in its SSID name will break wireless connectivity for iOS devices. Thankfully the bug looks to be little more than an embarrassment and inconvenience.…

Plus: Impact of ransomware payments, CVS database not secured In brief Chris Inglis was last week appointed America’s national cyber director, responsible for coordinating the government’s computer security strategy and defending its networks. The former deputy director at the NSA, who spent nearly three decades at the agency, was approved by the Senate on Thursday.…

Belgian firm must produce the IP addresses of BitTorrent users Europe’s top court has ruled ISPs can be forced to hand over the details of customers who are alleged to have downloaded material illegally online - but only if they meet certain criteria.…

Ragnarök and roll: Release Candidate boasts significant improvements on 0.3 Version 0.4 of the Yggdrasil networking platform is imminent, bringing with it improved performance and routing.…

Joins queue of regulators peeking into iOS walled garden model Germany's competition watchdog, the Bundeskartellamt, today said it has opened a preliminary investigation into Apple's grip on the market and its walled garden ecosystem.…

It needs 'resources, mentors, and programs ... at scale, anywhere' The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed another casualty: Google Campus, the flash Shoreditch startup hub launched in 2012 to grow London's tech scene.…

We're looking at you, Uncle Sam The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has finalised its guidance to businesses in how they should proceed following the Schrems II ruling which struck down the Privacy Shield data-sharing arrangement between the EU and the US.…

It's the longest day of the year Its work with the UK government has once again proven a boon to troubled outsourcer Capita. The business said today it would sell Axelos – the joint venture set up with the Cabinet Office in 2013 – to assessment and certification outfit PeopleCert for £380m.…

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No more managing operating systems and monolithic apps? Where do I sign! 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.…

Have you tried turning it off and on again? Updated The Hubble Space Telescope has continued to resist efforts by NASA last week to bring its payload computer back online.…