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UK grocer suffers IT issues with clothing orders, self-scanning, and store picker app The UK's third-largest grocery retailer continues to see its IT operations beset with problems as it struggles with its fraught divorce from US retail giant Walmart....

As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive Part 2: The 16-bit era Welcome back to The Reg FOSS desk's roundup of the slip-ups and missteps from the dawn of the microcomputer industry onward - at least those that are most memorable to us....

Space boffins want pollution from the likes of Starlink regulated Astronomy researchers from several US universities have joined a campaign coordinated by US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG) to pause low Earth satellite launches and convince the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reconsider exempting swarms of small satellites from environmental review requirements....

Rules on cross border data transfers have European businesses scratching their heads The European Union and China have launched an initiative aimed at addressing issues faced by European companies in the Middle Kingdom related to the transfer of non-personal data....

Still growing in China, ramping Hopper prods and predicting Blackwell billions soon Nvidia has again achieved triple-digit year-over-year growth, but its expansion is slowing....

Total revenue for Q2 grew 32 percent CrowdStrike's major meltdown a month ago doesn't look like affecting the cyber security vendor's market dominance anytime soon, based on its earnings reported Wednesday....

Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle VMware Explore Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has told members of VMware's user group that public clouds are not entirely happy with his private cloud push....

Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced US telco giant AT&T has reached a settlement with the Federal Communications Commission and will pay nearly $1 million after shutting down 911 emergency calls in four states last year....

CrowdStrike, other vendors, friendly govt reps...but not anyone would can tell you what happened op-ed Microsoft will host a security summit next month with CrowdStrike and other "key" endpoint security partners joining the fun - and during which the CrowdStrike-induced outage that borked millions of Windows machines will undoubtedly be a top-line agenda item....

If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do Windows users who haven't yet installed the latest fixes to their operating systems will need to get a move on, as code now exists to exploit a critical Microsoft vulnerability announced by Redmond two weeks ago....

Financial research org labels server-maker a serial recidivist', alleges quality product problems Server-maker Super Micro Computer has warned investors it's not able to meet deadlines for its annual report due to issues with its internal financial reporting....

The proof of concept shows promise despite big limitations A team from Google and Tel Aviv University have developed a generative AI game engine capable of simulating the cult classic DOOM at more than 20 frames per second because research....

Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in US auto insurer GEICO has decided to migrate from VMware to OpenStack....

The government-backed crew also enjoys ransomware as a side hustle Iranian government-backed cybercriminals have been hacking into US and foreign networks as recently as this month to steal sensitive data and deploy ransomware, and they're breaking in via vulnerable VPN and firewall devices from Check Point, Citrix, Palo Alto Networks and other manufacturers, according to Uncle Sam....

Because who needs yet another lawsuit? Elon Musk's X has caved to requests from several US Secretaries of State and updated Grok AI to no longer push out misinformation about the 2024 presidential election....

Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no A US appeals court has issued an opinion that could have wide-ranging implications for social media platforms, finding that content selected for users by TikTok's algorithms doesn't qualify for Section 230 protection....

Authorities probing unwanted intrusion; hard questions ahead Dick's Sporting Goods, America's largest retail chain for outdoorsy types, has admitted that it suffered a cyberattack last week....

Major funding backs printer giant's microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover HP Inc is in line for $50 million from the US CHIPS Act fund for a microfluidics facility it operates to develop technology for applications such as cell research and pharmaceutical development....

Stop us if you've heard this one before NASA is receiving yet another Moon-related kicking. This time, it is over the Mobile Launcher 2 (ML-2) project, on which the agency plans to assemble and launch the beefier versions of its Space Launch System....

Significant improvements to Microsoft's in-house Linux may follow Microsoft's in-house professional networking site is moving to Microsoft's in-house Linux. This could mean that big changes are coming for the former CBL-Mariner distro....

Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future Microsoft is to discontinue the Microsoft Action Pack and Microsoft Learning Pack on January 21, 2025, sending partners off to potentially pricier and cloudier options....

Prompt injection, ASCII smuggling, and other swashbuckling attacks on the horizon Microsoft has fixed flaws in Copilot that allowed attackers to steal users' emails and other personal data by chaining together a series of LLM-specific attacks, beginning with prompt injection....

Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away Fujitsu this week announced 16 new business notebooks, desktops, tablets, and workstations....

This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path There is an even split for large enterprise customers of SAP ERP systems between on-prem and the public cloud - the German vendor's preferred upgrade path - according to NTT Data, a major global SI and partner....

Forget wrist acrobatics, we need smarter wake word detection and on-device voice recognition Opinion Apple is gearing up for its annual fall event, where new iPhone and Apple Watch models traditionally make their debut. This year marks a significant milestone: It's been 10 years since the launch of the original Apple Watch. To commemorate this anniversary, the tech giant is expected to unveil a special edition, unofficially named the Apple Watch X....

A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles Part 1: The eight-bit era You'll find below an informal roundup of the slip-ups and missteps that stick in the mind of The Reg FOSS desk, from the dawn of the microcomputer industry onwards. We are certain that we've missed plenty - let us know your favorites....

'Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate' With impressive speed and candor, Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has provided an update on the anomaly that caused last week's rocket firing at SaxaVord in Shetland, Scotland, to end explosively....

Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking Theft of packages is an ongoing problem, so one California woman tried a high tech solution to the problem - and her use of Apple's consumer-grade AirTags tracking devices led to two arrests....

Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty Analyst firm Gartner has advised customers of Omnissa - the company spun out from VMware's end-user compute business - that they need to take stock because the new org isn't yet able to offer a strong roadmap....

Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old 'You'll scare away investors' line - a week after AWS opened a region The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), a lobby group whose members include Google, Meta, Amazon, Twitter (aka X), LinkedIn, Apple, and other Big Tech players, has called on the prime minister of Malaysia to rethink laws requiring social media and instant messaging providers to secure operating licenses....

Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant The multiple constellations of broadband-beaming satellites planned by Chinese companies could conceivably run the nation's "Great Firewall" content censorship system, according to think tank The Australian Strategic Policy Institute. And if they do, using the services will be dangerous....

What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack? In modern AI systems, using PCIe to stitch together accelerators is already too slow. Nvidia and AMD use specialized interconnects like NVLink and Infinity Fabric for this reason - but at the 900-plus GB/sec these links push, copper will only carry you so far....

Frances Haugen says navigating the digital world requires a North Star Frances Haugen, a transparency and accountability advocate known for blowing the whistle on Facebook, believes the tech industry needs to find a North Star to navigate through ethical and privacy risks....

Shove 32 of 'em in a box and you've got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf Hot Chips RISC-V champion Tenstorrent offered the closest look yet at its upcoming Blackhole AI accelerators at Hot Chips this week, which they claim can outperform an Nvidia A100 in raw compute and scalability....

More of a storm in a teacup Today's news that Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) security system is open to abuse may be overstated....

A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds The Living Computers museum's tech collection is set for auction. Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took a last look and mused on the theme of donor's remorse....

DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft Google's plans to expand its Dublin datacenter presence have been derailed by Irish county officials who say the project isn't sustainable enough....

While datacenter silos have left you so screwed' VMware Explore Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has opened the VMware Explore conference by saying CEOs' decisions to push their companies into public clouds have left their IT departments with post-traumatic stress disorder, while silos of datacenter tech have left tech teams screwed"....

The same Beijing-backed cyber spy crew the feds say burrowed into US critical infrastructure It looks like China's Volt Typhoon has found a new way into American networks as Versa has disclosed a nation-state backed attacker has exploited a high-severity bug affecting all of its SD-WAN customers using Versa Director....

Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity IBM has unveiled a more powerful processor for its famed mainframe systems, promising enhanced on-chip AI acceleration for inferencing plus integrated data processing unit (DPU) to boost IO handling....

Faster than you can read? More like blink and you'll miss the hallucination Hot Chips Inference performance in many modern generative AI workloads is usually a function of memory bandwidth rather than compute. The faster you can shuttle bits in and out of a high-bandwidth memory (HBM) the faster the model can generate a response....

Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator Aircraft biz Boom Supersonic completed the second test flight of its XB-1 demonstrator vehicle on Monday, during which the landing gear was retracted and extended for the first time and its new roll damper was tested....

'The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,' says Facebook founder Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is giving ammunition to conspiracy theorists with a letter to the House Judiciary Committee in which he claims the Biden administration pressured his company on multiple occasions to censor posts related to COVID-19....

Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects Software designed to address legitimate business concerns about cyber security and compliance treats employees as threats, normalizing intrusive surveillance in the workplace, according to a report by Cracked Labs....

Claims just two management consoles will emerge VMware Explore VMware by Broadcom has opened its annual user conference by teasing version nine of its flagship Cloud Foundation (VCF) suite - a major upgrade touted as delivering on past promises of an easy-to-consume hybrid cloud suite - but hasn't said when it will arrive....

As users wail, Microsoft tweaks its text to drop the word 'deprecated' Microsoft has updated its Windows system configuration tools document and excised all references to deprecating the venerable Control Panel in the wake of an outcry from Reg readers....

Teaming up with Sage Geosystems, house of Facbook plans to tap into Earth's fiery underbelly Meta and Sage Geosystems are striking a deal under which geothermal energy provided by Sage will be used to deliver renewable power for Meta's US datacenters, intended to help reduce their carbon dioxide footprint....

Must launch to catch the red planet alignment window despite occasional testing 'anomalies' Jeff Bezos's rocket venture, Blue Origin, has set a date of no earlier than October 13 for the inaugural mission of the New Glenn rocket, with a payload set for Mars....

Despite early promises, moving between providers remains a complex and costly endeavor Analysis One of the promises of the public cloud was that customers would be able to migrate workloads if they wished, taking advantage of market freedom to switch to a different provider if it offered lower costs or some other advantage. What happened to that dream?...

The return of Windows Recall is more than a bad flashback Opinion Companies love to use familiar words in unorthodox ways. "We value your privacy" is really the digital equivalent of a mugger admiring your phone. And "partnering"? Usually, it means "The one with more money is bribing the one with more cred."...